The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with his longtime friend, Rex Murphy in “A Tribute to Newfoundland.” They travelled through Newfoundland for five days as Rex gave a guided tour of the ports and towns of Newfoundland. Jordan describes this experience as having toured “with none other than the man whom anyone with any sense would most devoutly hope for as a guide.” He hopes everyone will enjoy the trip as much as they did. You can watch the documentary on DailyWire+.

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Jordan B. Peterson: The past is still truly alive. The past becomes increasingly valuable. You come somewhere here and see these deep roots in this deep particularity; there is a relief in it. It is akin to the relief of looking at a great landscape vista. It is literally and metaphorically revivifying.

I have the great privilege and honor to be here in Newfoundland with Mr. Rex Murphy. Rex was a hero of mine, I would say, and of many Canadians. He is one of Canada’s great journalists — one of the most recognized and loved figures in all the country. So we are here in Newfoundland in this great old part of Canada with a unique culture borne of isolation in many ways. Rex has kindly agreed to spend a week showing us around and talking to us about the culture.

Rex Murphy: Newfoundlanders think of Newfoundland as a personality. Newfoundland has a distinct personal relationship with Newfoundlanders. It goes deep.

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Jordan B. Peterson: One of the things that is really striking about meeting people from Newfoundland is they are often extremely tough and extremely funny. When I reflected on that, even prior to knowing you, I thought, “Well, this was a very, very isolated place.” That meant that people made their own music, and they made their own fun. Then we are all the beneficiaries of that. That is part of what we want to shine a light on while being here. We are inviting you along on the trip. 

Rex Murphy: Newfoundland is a persona. It is a presence. There is no place that has so magnetic a hold on the people who have grown up here. The fealty that Newfoundlanders have for their place, it mimics the emotional bond of family. It’s fact.

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Jordan B. Peterson: For me, going to Newfoundland, where there is an overwhelming experience of beauty to see the past alive and preserved and so beautifully done, I have been thinking about that. You know that as there are more and more people on the planet and as the weight of the present and the future grows ever greater, the past becomes increasingly valuable, increasingly invaluable. Then there is a revivification that is associated with it.

Rex Murphy: The sense of memory in Newfoundland is very strong. Newfoundland is more an emotion than it is a place. 

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Jordan B. Peterson: When I look at the past in a place like Newfoundland, and I think, ”This is relevant to the farmers and to the oil and gas industry and all that too,” we need to sift through the past to see what we should be grateful for, which is a tremendous amount. To merely shoulder the sins of the atrocity without conjoining that with a sense of deep appreciation and consideration and an observation of the necessity of all the hard work and struggles of people in the past is — I don’t know what it is — it is ungrateful. It is certainly ungrateful. It is dismissive. It elevates us morally in an extraordinarily shallow way. It presumes that there is something uniquely moral about our time and place, that we have transcended all the ignorance of the past compared to, say, all the people who struggled to live here. And there is something about that. There is an assumption of superiority that is unbelievably dangerous. You know, it is useful to come to terms with the errors of the past and to try to rectify them. But you have to do that with proper appreciation for the moral caliber of the people who came before us.

Rex Murphy: Whatever it is about Newfoundland, whatever charisma this province and feeling has, it gets into the Newfoundlanders and it distinguishes them from any other citizens, I think, on the continent.

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said during an interview over the weekend that he fully supports former President Donald Trump’s purported plan to conduct widespread deportations of illegal aliens should he become president again.

Rubio, who is a rumored vice presidential candidate, made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’s “Meet The Press” with Kristen Welker.

“If re-elected, Donald Trump has said he’s willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military to deport the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country,” she said. “It would be the largest deportation operation in American history. Do you support that plan?”

Rubio noted that the 11 million number was low and that the actual number could be as high as 30 million illegal aliens, as nearly 9-10 million have entered the country under President Joe Biden alone.

“The answer to your question is yes,” he said. “We cannot absorb 25, 30 million people who entered this country illegally. They’re here illegally. What country on earth would tolerate that? We don’t even know who some of these, most of these people are. They talk about vetting; vetting them with what? They’re coming from nations that don’t even have document systems in many cases. Yes, we are going to have to do something. Unfortunately, we’re going to have to do something dramatic to remove people from this country that are here illegally, especially people we know nothing about. But 10 million, 11 million, that was the number 15 years ago. Today, it’s upwards of probably 25-30 million, maybe more.”

When asked about his shift on the issue from several years ago, Rubio said that things have “completely changed” due to how out of control the situation has become since Biden was inaugurated.

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“When I said that and back in 2013, when I was involved in immigration reform, we had 11 to 12 million people that had been here for longer than a decade,” he said. “Now, we’ve had almost that number in the last three years alone from all over the world, including people, that I believe, are terrorists. People, that I believe, are going to conduct terrorist attacks in this country if given the opportunity. Certainly people that were criminals in their home country. This is a completely different – this is not immigration. You asked me about immigration, this is mass migration. Mass migration. This is an invasion of the country and it needs to be dealt with dramatically. And by the way, I don’t – I’m not a big poll follower, but polls show most Americans agree with us on this.”

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WATCH: In 2016, @SenMarcoRubio (R-Fla.) said Donald Trump’s mass-deportation proposals weren’t “realistic.” @kwelkernbc: “Why have you changed your mind now?”

Rubio: “The issue has completely changed. … This is mass migration … and it needs to be dealt with dramatically.” pic.twitter.com/b0BI5KzXXa

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 19, 2024