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I am thrilled to announce my second book, a biography of Conservative leader
@PierrePoilievre
.
Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life is coming out in May, published by
@sutherlandbooks
.
It's available for preorder here:
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Canada's Liberal government wants to regulate internet content and deputize social media companies to enforce "hate speech" bans (with a low and murky threshold for what "hate speech" is). I hope
@elonmusk
takes a stand against this.
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At her inaugural press conference, Alberta Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
says the unvaccinated are "the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."
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I've decided I'm going to start answering questions my wife asks me like a politician.
"Did you empty the dishwasher?"
"Let me be clear. I support clean dishes. I have always supported clean dishes. It is imperative that the dishes off of which we eat are clean."
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One thing to note is that the mask mandate in Ottawa is basically dead this weekend. Virtually no masks worn in hotels, food places and stores, and staff have either given up trying to enforce or don't actually care.
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Amusing sidebar: hotel at which I’m staying in Ottawa is full for first time in two years. Trucker convoy is doing more for the economy than most governments!
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As more provinces do away with vaccine passports, I'm seeing people tweet that they won't be comfortable going to restaurants without them. Great – you can choose to stay home. You can't impose your fear on others who are ready to get back to normal.
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I'm in my hotel room listening to the freedom convoy outside, which is now blasting "Mambo No. 5" for the third time in an hour.
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Remember when Twitter banned anyone sharing the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story because of its "hacked materials" policy? Odd that no one seems to mind journalists tweeting about donors to the Freedom Convoy – information they have because of hacked materials.
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“They think we’re going to be out of here in a couple of days? No no no no. This is just starting,” convoy spokesperson Benjamin Dichter says.
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Convoy critics point to high vaccination rates as evidence the truckers and their supporters are a fringe minority. The fact that 90% of Canadians have been vaccinated and we're still in lockdown with myriad restrictions is why people – including the vaccinated – are protesting.
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Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans boasts at the World Economic Forum about the development of an "individual carbon footprint tracker" to monitor what you buy, what you eat, and where/how you travel.
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BREAKING: Judge orders Freedom Convoy fundraiser and organizer Tamara Lich should be released on bail, overturning previous judge's decision to keep her in custody.
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This is a hilarious self-own. On a Davos energy transition panel, the moderator asked World Economic Forum guests to raise their hands if they had an electric vehicle. JUST FOUR of them did.
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Clan mother Noreen from Yellowknife offers blessing to convoy.
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"The border cannot and will not remain closed," Justin Trudeau says, after closing Canada's border for a year and a half. (Not justifying the blockade – just think the line is rather tone deaf).
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Once more for the people at the back: Opposing vaccine mandates is not the same as opposing vaccines.
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Justin Trudeau has given Erin O'Toole a gift. The convoy has motivated and inspired people all over the country – far beyond conservative political circles. Yet Trudeau wants to demonize them all. O'Toole needs to hold a press conference on the flatbed in front of Centre Block.
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I asked the World Economic Forum's head of climate about the Davos meeting's carbon footprint, and if the WEF asks attendees to not come by private jet.
She said she didn't have time to answer.
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The carnage at the trucker convoy site in Ottawa has definitely reached emergency proportions. Just this morning, a four year old tripped in the bouncy castle and two Quebecers bumped into each other on the dance floor.
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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland refuses to answer my question about whether her trustee role with the World Economic Forum puts her in a conflict of interest as a cabinet minister.
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2018: "No one is ever going to jail for 'misgendering' so stop fear mongering."
2019: "Mother, 38, is arrested in front of her children and locked in a cell for seven HOURS after calling a transgender woman a man on Twitter"
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Former American president Donald Trump: "A line has been crossed. You're either with the peaceful truckers or you're with the left-wing fascists."
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"Enough with the woke shit." Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner throws down the gauntlet to the Liberals. (Immediately after she swapped it out for "woke stuff," but the sentiment stands).
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Convoy leader Tom Marazzo declined to take questions from legacy media outlets after testifying before Public Order Emergency Commission.
“You guys have been lying for three years. I don’t want to talk to you.”
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Pierre Poilievre’s office has confirmed to me that no Conservative members of parliament will be at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos next week.
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The Freedom Convoy did what Trudeau failed to do – unite people. That’s why it was so threatening to the government.
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Remember when you banned me from covering your campaign? How about when you authorized police to arrest independent journalists in Ottawa covering your crackdown on civil liberties?
To journalists across the country and around the world: Thank you for your relentless pursuit of the truth, and for your commitment to sharing those truths. Today, we celebrate your work – and we pay tribute to your colleagues who have been injured or lost their lives on the job.
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At 0:09, you can see a police officer standing where he knows David Menzies is walking. You can see Menzies pivot away from the pole and officer, who then puts out an arm to stop him. Same officer arrests Menzies for assaulting a police officer. This is an egregious overreach.
BREAKING: Rebel News reporter David Menzies (
@TheMenzoid
) was brutally arrested by police after he tried to ask Chrystia Freeland questions.
Visit Rebel News for more on this story:
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"This is what democracy is all about." Conservative MP and former leadership candidate
@LeslynLewis
speaks with me at the freedom convoy rally.
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Just as Ottawa police start ticketing trucker convoy protesters, the lawyers show up. Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is on the ground representing the demonstrators.
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Everyone at the World Economic Forum annual meeting — including journalists and participants — has to take a PCR test upon arrival. If you don’t take a test, the chip in your ID badge is deactivated. If you test positive for Covid the badge is also deactivated.
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I’ve never seen so many people protesting road conditions in my life.
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Quebec is abandoning its plan to tax the unvaccinated. Not saying the convoy was responsible for this, but worth noting the huge show of support on the weekend from Quebecers, in large part because of this policy.
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Police just pepper sprayed me. I was several feet away from their front line and had obeyed every order to move back.
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Jagmeet Singh tweeting about how bad the Liberal government is will never stop being hilarious to me.
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A few thoughts about the freedom convoy rally in Ottawa having been walking around for the last six hours:
The tone is not anger, but excitement. This is a huge block party. There's music, dancing, beer, pot, cheering, hugging, honking. People are just having a good time.
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"We're not limiting freedom of peaceful assembly," Justin Trudeau said this morning in the House of Commons.
Meanwhile, Ottawa police are telling people they can be arrested and charged if they don't leave Parliament Hill, where they are peacefully assembling.
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland met with the heads of Canadian banks before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act. Those executives should be called before the Public Order Emergencies Commission to testify on what was discussed in those meetings.
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Never forget that the Canadian government froze people's bank accounts and declared a state of emergency over this.
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Lich shouts out "Hold the line" as she's walked away in handcuffs.
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"I have the tears of thousands of Canadians on my shoulder, who every day told me that we were bringing them hope."
Tamara Lich emotionally explains why Covid restrictions and mandates triggered her to get involved in the Freedom Convoy.
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Justin Trudeau isn't even in the House of Commons to face MPs as they vote on his fake emergency.
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Here's the manipulative ad pushing vaccination on children that the City of Toronto published then deleted today.
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To those cheering the deplatforming of the freedom convoy: You have screwed yourselves too. You've normalized police and politicians colluding with Big Tech to shut down funding to protest movements they don't like. Good luck.
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Justin Trudeau claimed the House of Commons vote on his invocation of the Emergencies Act had to be a confidence vote given the significance of the circumstances. If the Public Order Emergencies Commission finds the act unjustified, Trudeau must resign by his own standards.
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"We have to work together in order to ensure that journalists can carry out their work in all safety and without any kind of worry for reprisals." -Chrystia Freeland
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My best attempt at a panoramic to show how big the convoy crowd is. One big party here. Where’s the racism and violence we were promised?
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"When Ottawa announces policies and laws that attack our economy or violate the rights of our people...our UCP government will not enforce those laws and policies in this province, period."
Standing ovation for Alberta Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
over Sovereignty Act pledge.
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So we're cool with democracy dying this way?
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"The prime minister has put on blackface so many times.... He literally put a banana in his pants. And you have the audacity to stand and look at me, as a black woman, and ask about my meeting with another member of the European parliament."
@LeslynLewis
is spitting fire today.
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Man who invoked Emergencies Act to criminalize peaceful protest claims he supports right to protest.
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I've resisted the crypto trend mainly based on a lack of understanding of how it all works. The last week has certainly motivated me to combat that lack of understanding, so I have a bitcoin wallet now.
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Funny how when buildings are literally on fire in the background it's "mostly peaceful," but when people are milling about doing nothing it's "an increasing mob-like scene."
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It's cute hearing the people who told us they would only lock us down for two weeks tell us they don't intend to use the really bad sections of the emergency powers they're giving themselves.
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This is both painful and hilarious to listen to. A reporter who clearly doesn't know what they're asking about but is nonetheless trying to outargue Pierre Poilievre.
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Jews are indigenous to Israel. Anyone who calls them "settlers" is an antisemite or an idiot (or both).
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Any government that shuts down sectors in which a vaccine passport was previously mandated is admitting the vaccine passports did nothing.
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Conservative MP
@PierrePoilievre
says it's not fair to call all Liberals racist because Justin Trudeau does blackface, so why are the Liberals maligning all trucker convoyers based on the conduct of a few outliers?
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BREAKING: The Ontario government says it has effectively frozen all donations made to the trucker convoy through GiveSendGo. It is now a criminal offence to have any "dealing" with money from donations through this platform.
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Toronto is stripping Henry Dundas' name from Yonge-Dundas Square over his 'connection' to slavery – even though he was an abolitionist.
But get this, the city is renaming it "Sankofa Square," a word from the Akan tribe in Ghana.
The Akan "exchanged their gold for...slaves."
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BREAKING: Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will be attending the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos next week.
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My parents’ Muslim neighbors just put up their Christmas lights this week. They get joy from seeing other people’s lights and wanted to do it too.
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Convoy supporter going around picking up garbage. There’s not much of it though.
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Just imagine the volume of mainstream media coverage and political condemnations if one of the truckers in the convoy rammed into counterprotesters. One of the counterprotesters rammed into four convoy supporters and there's hardly been a peep. Police haven't even named him.
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What the convoy's critics don't get is that if all restrictions were lifted right now, nothing would stop anyone from wearing a mask, getting triple vaxxed, and going to businesses who opt to require vaccine passports. The convoy is about choice. The status quo is about coercion.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says protests are part of a robust democracy but can't be used to demand "changes to public policy." He then says protests can be used to demand changes to public policy.
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It's 8:35am in Ottawa, and the Truckers for Freedom Convoy is rolling into town today. The honking and cheering has already started. Not quite as loud as it was last night, but getting there.
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If, after two years of Covid, the hospital system is still facing an existential threat, perhaps we should stop listening to the people in charge of that system.
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I spent the last week in Switzerland, where I didn't need to show proof of vaccination or wear a mask once. On the flight home, the flight attendant woke up a sleeping passenger because his mask wasn't fully covering his nose. Welcome to Canada.
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If you have to tell people you're not trampling on their civil liberties, you're trampling on their civil liberties.
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Convoy haters say the people protesting couldn't have been real truckers because they were in Ottawa for three weeks instead of working. They forget what sparked this whole thing was a vaccine mandate that put many of them out of work.
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Donors and prospective donors are exempt from Western University's three-dose vaccine mandate. Turns out if you're cutting the university a cheque, science says Covid passes you by.
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“Canadians were protesting all over this country and not one single politician heard those concerns.” Convoy organizer Tom Marazzo discusses the lack of political leadership.
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Former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford is launching Charter challenge against federal government's air travel vaccine mandate. Peckford is the last surviving first minister involved in negotiating and adopting the Charter in 1982.
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Justin Trudeau is invoking the Emergencies Act because of the trucker convoy. Canada is not in an emergency – the politicians who want to push mandates on an unwilling population are.
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Dudes, a reporter was just arrested for questioning your deputy leader. Why don't you sit this one out?
Here’s how Pierre Poilievre treats Canada’s free press.
Remind you of anyone?
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BREAKING: Conservatives pass policy resolution opposing gender transition for children.
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Watch this video from start to finish. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino definitively says the people charged with firearms offences in Coutts are connected to far-right groups in Ottawa, but when challenged completely walks back the claim to an unrecognizable point.
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Conservative leader
@AndrewScheer
gave a deserved smackdown of the mainstream media's mask shaming obsession this morning.
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Made it to Ottawa for
#TruckersForFreedom2022
. Just walking through the hotel to my room I've already met dozens of folks from all across the country. Not seeing the evil, violent hatemongers yet, but perhaps they're staying elsewhere.
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Conservative leadership candidate
@PierrePoilievre
on the World Economic Forum: "I've never been to Davos. I've never been part of the organization. And I don't agree with its publicly staged policy objectives."
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Jagmeet Singh continues to lie about the convoy. Here he is claiming the protesters sought a "fascist" takeover of the Canadian government. (The memorandum of understanding he alludes to was debunked and denounced before trucks even got to Ottawa).
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I didn't have Saskatchewan as being Canada's Florida on my prediction list, but I'll take it. Party in Moose Jaw, anyone?
BREAKING: Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe commits to ending ALL restrictions in the short term.
"COVID is not ending," he says, "but government restrictions on your rights and freedoms - those will be ending and ending very soon."
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This is the crowd awaiting the east coast branch of the convoy as it got to Quebec.
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"We called this inquiry so that Canadians could see exactly why it was needed to invoke the Emergencies Act," Justin Trudeau says.
What a load of bollocks. The Commission is a statutory requirement.
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This was the year that independent journalists penetrated the elites’ alpine safe space in Davos.
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BREAKING: Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly testifies that he never requested invocation of the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy and isn't aware of anyone at Ottawa Police Service who did.
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Didn't get a picture, but one guy was offering free joints to anyone who deleted their vaccine passport. If they didn't have a vaccine passport to delete, they got two free joints.
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You can be against the Freedom Convoy and also be against the Emergencies Act. The debate is not about whether the convoy was good or bad, but whether it constituted a threat to the security of Canada rising to the level of a national emergency, as defined by the law.
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Just boarded a plane at Montreal airport. I’d say mask compliance at the airport was about 50-60 per cent. Even airport and airline staff were unmasked in large numbers. It was glorious.
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Ontario's vaccine passport is dead. It should never have existed, so I won't thank the government for scrapping it. I support businesses and consumers making their own choices. If a company wants to keep mandating vaccination, have at it – but don't expect a dime from me.
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This is your periodic reminder that nothing is stopping you from wearing one or more masks when you leave your home, if that's what you so choose. A mask mandate robs everyone of that choice.
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Justin Trudeau was more sympathetic to the Boston bombers and returning ISIS fighters than he has been to the thousands of truckers and their supporters in Ottawa because they're fed up with Covid restrictions.
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BREAKING: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has dismissed the challenge of Western University’s booster vaccine mandate.
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Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant tells the World Economic Forum we need a "recalibration" of freedom of speech.
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You are pushing an online hate bill that will prosecute people for saying the very things the Islamist fundamentalists want to kill Salman Rushdie for saying. How dare you?
The cowardly attack on Salman Rushdie is a strike on the freedom of expression that our world relies on. No one should be threatened or harmed on the basis of what they have written. I’m wishing him a speedy recovery.
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