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EPISODE · Jan 13, 2018 · 9 MIN

Hour 2, Segment 2 - Callers

from The Roy Green Show · host Global News / Curiouscast

Roy asks callers what they think of the prime minister's performance so far during his town hall tours.(Photo: Ken Mann/900 CHML) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So your reaction to what you heard from the Prime Minister when Bill Kelly asked him those two particular questions. We have another question to answer. We're going to play back for you a little later. Don is in Vancouver.

Hey, Don. Thank you for the call. Please go ahead. Hi, Roy.

Yes, sir. I have a question connected to this commentary about Omar Khadar. Yes. I've heard in the environs of the Canadian Legion this comment being made.

Now, I don't personally know this is true, but I've heard it on two different occasions. What I've heard is that in July 2002, when Omar Khadar uncorked their grenade, prior to that, Canadian special forces were in Afghanistan. And that, in theory, they could have been there with the Americans. In other words, Canadian-born Omar Khadar could have been uncorking their grenade in the direction of Canadian soldiers.

Well, definitely. If the Canadians had been there instead of the Americans, it would have been a firefight with Canadians. Similarly, the ISIS terrorists he's allowing back into the country, Trudeau, without any real investigation or going after a prison sentence if they violated Canadian law by joining a terrorist group, which is, by the way, a violation of the criminal code. So, yeah, no question that Canadians could have been involved in a firefight with ISIS and with Cotter.

And the other commentary connected to that is that the apparent Canadian government, this is supposed to be a secret. They're not supposed to be talking about that the Canadian forces were there that early. Oh, well. No, I don't know.

I mean, this to me is something I've heard indirect. I don't personally know this. Well, maybe we should stick with things we know. It's probably not more than we know.

It's a good conversation, but when we should stick with things we know, it's a good conversation. But it's not unusual or not impossible for special forces units to be in before the regular forces units come in. I think that's probably reasonably standard. Lisa Paleski is a news reporter, news anchor on 900 CHML and Hamilton.

She also flies this airplane during this program. And Lisa attended Mr. Trudeau's town hall on Wednesday at the University. Lisa, what stood out to you?

What are you going to take away from that? I mean, he was certainly really good at shutting down those hecklers. I don't know if he was prepared for that because we have seen hecklers at every one of these town halls, I believe, so far. But he took a fair, I thought he took a fair balance of questions.

There were people who were certainly critical. But you obviously did see more of a young crowd there because it's a university. So I guess some people who are maybe critical of Trudeau would say he didn't take enough critical questions. Did you get a sense that, were you satisfied with what you got?

Were you satisfied with the overall experience? I was a little disappointed he didn't take more questions. The event did start late because it took a long time to get everyone seated. So I don't know if that was an issue.

I would have liked to hear a wider variety of questions. I am interested in the environment, so I was hoping someone would maybe ask about that. Normally we did. And it was kind of a shame that the hecklers got in there and really took time away from important questions.

There was a question about the handling of indigenous rights, and someone was screaming over that, so I didn't really get to hear what his response was. Well, sometimes people want a question answered, and they're going to get it in one way or another. Oh, that's true. I don't know that, you know, I think heckling is when you're insulting somebody.

But I might be inclined to jump in and ask a question out of turn. But it's more important how you feel, what you came away with, and what your level of satisfaction was. But it just seemed to be a little bit too narrow a range of issues and questions. I would agree with that, yeah.

And I wish he had allotted more time for it because I think there were people disappointed that they didn't get to be heard from. Yeah, that's too bad, yeah. Yeah, he's supposed to be hearing from as many Canadians as he can on these tours, so I think maybe he should have allowed for a little more time. Yeah, most politicians have an agenda when they do these kinds of things.

They're in the door, they do what they do when they leave. Thank you, Lisa. Oh, thanks very much. I remember when Jean Catien was in it.

I said that, eh? Jean Catien? When he was in this studio in 1993 before the election. And he looked at the clock, and we were 20 seconds away from the top of the hour.

And he knew that I had to break at the top of the hour. And he looked at the clock, and he looked at me, and he talked all the way right up to where the second hand hit the 12, and the minute hand hit the 12, and the hour hand hit the 12, and I had to break. And then he looked at me when the mics were off, and he said, not bad, eh? And I had been manipulated.

Bill is in Toronto. Bill, thank you for the call. Hey, my great show, as always. Thank you, sir.

What's with the hotter, hotter, the way he pronounces that? Like, has he met privately with Omar Khadar to get the proper pronunciation done? Is that like code speak to the... No, I suspect, I noticed that, too, but I suspect that he was told or he knows that's the proper pronunciation for the name, and so that's what he used.

I knew that people would jump on that. I did, too, right? Well, that's the correct way to say it, but that's not how it's normally set in conversation or even in media. Well, it's kind of a dog whistle thing for me, but this guy strikes me, you know, he's the Prime Minister.

He's Benedict Arnold, is what he is. He seems to be in the terrorist, extremist Muslim side. All right, thank you, Bill. We spoke last weekend with Tom Quiggin, who wrote the book Submission, and Mr.

Quiggin did not for a moment suggest that Mr. Trudeau was in cahoots with anyone. But there are some interesting questions I'd like to ask Mr. Trudeau, based on Tom Quiggin's book.

Also, it's very disturbing the fact that when he talked about ISIS individuals' terrorists coming to Canada, Trudeau rattled on about that Canada's well-protected and that nobody in the auditorium was in any danger. Nobody, nobody at that auditorium was unaware of the atrocities and the genocidal acts of ISIS. And yet, Trudeau made this light-hearted defense of his allowing ISIS individuals into the country, and then he got a round of applause, and that really troubled me. Anything that has to do with ISIS, you applaud them?

You've been under a rock for a while. Jonathan Calgary, how are you, John? Meanwhile, Roy, I just wanted to make a couple quick comments in regards to the Omar Khadar... Yeah, I've got 30 seconds.

Go ahead, please. I was pretty disappointed as a Canadian that this happened, but in order to prevent this in the future, the government needs to make changes so that if one chooses to go and fight overseas for a terrorist organization or an extremist group, you automatically lose your rights as a Canadian. We need to focus on protecting Canadians' rights and making sure Canadians are safe, and by promoting him and helping him, that does not help Canadians. All right, John, I appreciate the call.

Mr. Trudeau, remember, changed the government of Bill C-24 and passed Bill C-6, which no longer allows a convicted terrorist to lose his or her Canadian citizenship if they are dual citizens. When we come back, Spencer Fernando will be called as well in the next half hour, but we'll speak with Spencer Fernando about something he posted, which has to do with a liberal MP in St. Catharines, Ontario.

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