Singh Snaps: Was Jagmeet Wrong to Confront Hecklers?

[@dwaynewladyka577]

It was the Alberta PCs, under premier Ralph Klein, who failed to properly come after oil companies in Alberta to remediate their messes, leaving Albertans with a mammoth bill of $260 billion to deal with this. The UCP have compounded this problem by doing the $20 billion R-Star debacle. The UCP also didn't use the federal government money given to them to address this issue, and they had to return the money. In addition, the First Nations are suing the UCP and the AER for their negligence with the tailings pond leaks in northern Alberta.

[@RealTalkRJ]

It's a mess on a number of fronts... -rpj

[@monkeytime9851]

The Hecklers should have stood their ground. When he came to confront them, they should have started asking him hard questions.

[@bearhug7335]

They did hold there ground. The one guy even took off his glasses, looked nutcase in his raging eyes and said his peace.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

The first ever carbon tax in Canada, came here in Alberta, under premier Ed Stelmach, in 2007. Ed Stelmach was a supporter of the CPC, and he is a good friend of Stephen Harper, who praised Ed Stelmach for his carbon tax. Stephen Harper also said that there has to be a price put on carbon, at around $65 per ton. Former CPC leaders, Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole, also said that they support the carbon tax, but they won't call it that. Preston Manning, who was behind Danielle Smith and a bunch of her Wildrose MLAs crossing the floor to join Jim Prentice's Alberta PC party, is also a longtime supporter of the carbon tax. The oil companies in Alberta have said that they supported the carbon tax for many years, way before Justin Trudeau was in power. The UCP also didn't get rid of Alberta's carbon tax, like they said they would, but they increased it exponentially, to outdo the federal Liberals, with their own carbon tax. In Canada, the carbon tax is a Conservative idea to begin with.

[@ellenmoore7282]

Drives me nuts that people don’t know this or even listen when they’re told. It’s like they have no concept of facts.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@ellenmoore7282 I hope this link can be seen. It confirms what I said. This is Erin O'Toole supporting a carbon tax. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnvRhIyIZsp-iMUsi=bl0Vk6EXc9X-p11M

[@dwaynewladyka577]

​@@ellenmoore7282There are videos on these things, and other links, but for some reason they can't be posted.

[@savedrotex]

Carbon taxes are a foolish policy.

[@traviscutler9912]

Don't let facts get in the way of a good rant!

[@savedrotex]

I am no fan of Jagmeet, but I think he was right to confront the guy. I wish whoever said was bold enough to own up and let's see how things would have proceeded from there. Jagmeet was right to turn back and confront the guy he saw

[@lorimasse8492]

Great show today!

[@RealTalkRJ]

Thanks for watching, Lori! -rpj

[@gillianessien7417]

Poilievre would be viewed as a hero in the same situation except he’s not brave enough. He only speaks to people who agree with him or argue with journalists who can’t cross certain lines. Poilievre would never engage with a protestor with nothing to lose. Singh exposed a coward. Singh exposed someone who’s online brave online.

[@RealTalkRJ]

"Exposed" is exactly the right word. -rpj

[@abhaipaulsingh6334]

People should be allowed to call out crooked politicians, and take a stand against dubious elected officials !

[@JonathanSicoli]

Like you would allow me doing this to Smith. Get over yourself.

[@sherm7107]

@@JonathanSicoli Smith is liked and doing her job for Albertans

[@JonathanSicoli]

@@sherm7107 Still, if someone did the exact thing to Smith you people would be calling for blood. I've met people who act like this. Like, in real life. Some folks just want to pick fights. Societally, there's not much you can do to appease them.

[@RealTalkRJ]

They *are* allowed. This is free speech in action. -rpj

[@Therap1ssed]

I didn't always agree with Ryan's politics on CHED, but you've always been rational and willing to call out BS when you see it and I was disappointed when you got let go for the tame and much deserved name calling on Nickel. The irony of the twice censured councillor being outraged was at least entertaining if that's worth anything. This is the first I've come across your show and it's nice to see you landed on your feet. Keep up the good discussions!

[@traviscutler9912]

"I'm a small government guy" but I want to end free speech on the internet?!?!?

[@Arbormurr]

He didn’t say he wants to remove “free speech”, he said he wants to remove the anonymity on Twitter. That’s completely different.

[@traviscutler9912]

@@Arbormurr anonymity is free speech. If you're forced to say who you are by the government, then you are set up for reprisals by the government and or private interest that may not like what you have to say.

[@Arbormurr]

@@traviscutler9912 no, anonymity is not required for free speech. Free speech simply means protection to say what you think.

[@Bryan-dn1nx]

Singh had every right to confront a protester (far right), Poilievre uses the same language and mocks other politicians the same way , wander how he would react if Singh got in his face

[@GuyWilliamson-z9q]

The guy Jag confronted was and is a coward. Instead of telling Jag the truth in what he said and put and hand on me and I will will be very sorry, That's assault. Instead the coward lied. Personally, I would have said .. yes I did and go 4 it, u will be very very sorry.

[@ivnarc6430]

Calm down tough guy

[@JonathanSicoli]

@@ivnarc6430 I thought you guys loved tough guys?

[@taradeleeuw2344]

What community becomes priority! Who would think

[@twin2uision703]

Singh is a horrible person, he has no credibility whatsoever and is now showing a complete lack of professionalism attempting to physically intimidate a protester while surrounded by security.

[@DarcyHale-cp4hg]

Tax is 30% income tax. Property tax around 4000. 6% on 80k fuel liqueur and other tax puts it very close to 40% more if you have sales tax. I'd be happier abought the tax rate if service wasn't so bad and so much waisted money. Total incompetence at best. Kline era cuts were too much but waist needs to stop. It will take generations to pay off waist. At the rate they are going 60% of tax will be going to bank for interest in a few years it already 40%.

[@Kari-w5v]

She was onto things in July 24.

[@onemob]

Hitting the table, horrible 'plosives. It's like the audio gets worse every week. is there a producer that has undamaged hearing?

[@RealTalkRJ]

If pristine audio is your thing (and that's great!), you could always line up our KZbin video with our podcast audio. -rpj

[@onemob]

​@@RealTalkRJ The audio podcasts don't have better audio, what are you even talking about? They have the same artifacts from people hitting the table and no pop filters, so 'plosives are still bad. Can y'all not hear this?

[@paladancray7242]

Ahh MR.SING has a big ISSUE when under PRESSURE! Typical ROOKY MISTAKE! Ain’t FIT to SERVE till he Grows up a WEEE bit MORE! HUH!

[@JonathanSicoli]

*Rookie Honestly I'm not a big fan of how often we're expected to be the bigger man in this province where we're (allegedly) all working together. This was bound to happen.

[@lucillestack474]

😅😅 I call BS on this the government has wasted so much of our taxpayers money and it's it's just ridiculous maybe if they were decent human beings and did the right thing in Canada and Canadians not suffering so much people wouldn't be out there calling them out in on their their BS lies and don't trust the government or anything like that maybe you guys should think about that do not do a much better job and respect the Canadians for who we are that pay your salary😅😅

[@jolanda9947]

if your not going to stand by what you say then shhhhhhh i would of like to see sing fall as he confronts heckler bohoo

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Bot with very bad grammar is trying to say something.

[@kashmirsingh7860]

Good on you.go get A job

[@Garth_LaBeach]

What the hell was singhbgonna do it would be a dream to have a politician put hands on me solely for exercising my freedom of speech. Shows how he deals with pressure. I bet he wouldn't pull thatbin Quebec

[@melissawhite218]

Jagmeet was also exercising his freedom of speech.

[@mikearchibald744]

Freedom of speech, like all freedoms in canada, have limits. Singh has done martial arts his entire life. He showed pretty moderate restraint considering these guys have been shouting obscenities wherever politicians go. And yet the PROVINCES are far worse dictators with far worse policies and yet we see NO interest in challenging them.

[@ivnarc6430]

Who knows. But that guy was too much of a coward to find out

[@Garth_LaBeach]

@mikearchibald744 so you saying Singh should have punched the guy for calling him a corrupt bastard. ?

[@mikearchibald744]

@@Garth_LaBeach If I was saying that the actual words would have been in my comment.

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Tried that

[@nemesis196304]

Betcha Singh's gonna have cameras in his turbans now giving him 360° view around him, but does he really need technology to find out how people really see him. Me thinks not.

[@JonathanSicoli]

@@nemesis196304 I mean he seemed to handle one Maple Maga with no trouble. Why would he need more cameras?

[@justinventela]

13:18 we almost had shawinigan handshake 2.0!!!!, Canadian politicians have balls. Not quite Statemans like tho, more trumpish. And i think Sighn is playing it up on the socails, rightly so, but feeds into the divisions too.

[@JonathanSicoli]

@@justinventela It isn't the NDP playing up fear and anger so that they can burn Alberta down. This is what happens when we compromise compromise compromise and the right balks at every opportunity.

[@justinventela]

@@JonathanSicoli just wait lol the NDP just went into campaign mode with the ndp/liberals breakup the mud slinging is coming. Not sure why now tho, they are not ready for an election. Trudeau should call his bluff and decimate the NDP by making them fight an election in BC while fighting him at the same time. Trudeau will lose to Peire but at least not the NDP lol.

[@justinventela]

@@JonathanSicoli what are your talking about? if Peirre wins he's going to "Privatize health care" "take your pension" "cut your kids education". This all said just this afternoon in one scrum from jagmeet. And it's fair game!!! on both sides. Do you ever call a strike for your side? Like, isn't it fair to say objectively that Jagmeet although tough in the moment wasn't Stateman or Priministerial either.

[@JonathanSicoli]

@@justinventela As an Albertan, Smith has attempted to do all of these things. Pierre has gone on record as wanting to do some real "dictator for a day" stuff. Is it fearmongering if the UCP has stated their aims in an easily googlable document for you to read?

[@justinventela]

@JonathanSicoli So that is a no i take it for calling strikes on your own side lol. As a Canadian and Albertan I feels 99% of political rhetoric is fair game, from the left or the right. If Nenshi calls Smith stupid or evil, it's fair, crude but fair game. If you want to say Peirre will be a dictator for a day, its fair, sounds like you watch to much American politics, but it's fair.

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Shannon

[@almcrae9551]

Jagmeet was the only one here showing a tendency toward violence. Wagging your finger directly in someones' face and calling them a coward is assault. The fact that you and your pundits are sitting behind your desks and condoning Singh's behavior is contemptable. Singh is the coward for physically threatening a protestor with two bodyguards backing him up, for what was a pretty mild comment, which almost certainly was not made by either of the two people he accosted.

[@mikearchibald744]

A finger wave and calling coward is not assault. These clowns have been doing this for two years now and screaming like lunatics not just at politicians but regular canadians. What goes around comes around. Pollievre is ruder than that to journalists on a regular basis. Shouting obscenities at politicians has never been considered acceptable. Once you cross that line, you certainly have no grounds for public sympathy.

[@ivnarc6430]

Lmao. That is not assault snowflake. The other guy is a coward as you probably are too

[@RealTalkRJ]

"Assault". Waaaaaah! -rpj