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A homeless man was given a $1,000 fine because he was caught breaking the law while sleeping in his car. Can you believe it? And if you don t, then you re in for a treat!
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Well, you'd think it would be tough enough surviving this pandemic if you were homeless and living in
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your car. But, well, when it comes to the police down under, we've got a story of a homeless person
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that was given a $1,000 ticket because, well, he had no home to go home to. Avi Yamini shall explain
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all. Unbelievable. Even during a pandemic, and even during an economic smackdown, the Justin Trudeau
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Liberals are still going ahead with banning various single-use plastics. As if our lives
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weren't miserable enough already, eh? Sheila Gunn-Reed will have all the details. And finally,
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letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. I'll share some of your
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responses regarding my visit to a loony leftist protest against fighter jets? Yeah, apparently
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these planes aren't green enough for their liking. Say, is that a cuckoo bird I hear chiming in the
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background right now? Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.
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Avi Yamini here from the world's capital of COVID enforcement. We're in the state of Victoria where
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20,000 fines for COVID breaches have already been issued. Now, since we launched fightthefines.com.au,
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we've been inundated with outrageous stories, but none more outrageous than the one you're about to
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hear. Daniel Wright grew up locally to Mornington Peninsula, but due to circumstances, not by choice,
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he's been living in his car. Daniel Wright was here on this corner on the 10th of August
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when he was pulled over by two Victoria Police officers and fined $1,650 for essentially being
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homeless because they say he was breaching the COVID curfew by being in his car, which is where
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he sleeps. He tried to explain that to the officers who were not having a bar of it. Daniel's story came
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through fightthefines.com.au and when I saw it, I was outraged and I knew I had to share it with you
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and I know you're going to share it with everyone and together we're going to crowdfund to fight for
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his case. So fightthefines.com.au. Share Daniel's story. I haven't had my own place for four years at
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the moment, which is way too long for me. I'm like really starting to get stressed. I've had back
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surgery and it just doesn't help being where I'm at. So is this, is this a life choice? Are you doing
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this because you want to sleep in your car? No, not at all. So how does it feel then getting pulled up
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for breaching curfew, which means that you were outside of your house while being in the place
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that you sleep at night, not by choice? I felt like I was being picked on. I felt like they were bullying
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me. They got out of the car and then started asking me why am I out of my house after curfew. Like I
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explained to them, this is my house. I'm living here. I don't understand what they mean. How am
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I out of my house? This is your last resort. You don't have anywhere else. It's that's what people
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need to understand. And you made that clear to the cops that night. Yeah, 100% clear. It's quite
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clear that I live in my car. There's all the clothes in the boot. There's blankets in the back. I felt
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they were very heartless in the way they treated me. And then they said, well, you're on your license.
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Is this address? You must be at this address. Now your ID has your mum's address. Yep. And
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has since I got my learner's permit because I can't read and write. So it's always been
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at that address. It's never, ever changed. And that's the basis of their argument. Your
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home address, you weren't there, but it hasn't been your home for how many years? For since
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I was 16 years old and I'm now 38. I've told you before off camera, I've kept, I've spent a
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couple nights in my life as a kid, as a young teenager on the street. And I don't wish that
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upon my worst enemies. So, but I couldn't imagine being fined for, for sleeping in the
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No, it's not fun at all to be fined for sleeping somewhere that's not comfortable, cold. Plus
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you've got idiots that want to come up and do stuff. You know, you feel threatened and scared
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anyway, as you're out there, but I'd much rather be in a house where I don't have to worry.
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You know, I'm sure everyone would rather be in a house and be somewhere where they can
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park their car up and then they can just go inside and relax.
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If you pay that fine, then you're going to be homeless for longer because half the money
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Yeah. Over half the money because it's $1,650. I have $3,000 there to get a place.
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Well, guess what? You're not going to have to do that because everybody at home is going to
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watch this and they're going to crowdfund your defense to fight that fine. And you've
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got Madeline who you've already spoken to, who I can tell you firsthand is a gun lawyer.
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She's won every single personal, my criminal cases that, that, um, were politically motivated
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until now. She's won seven of them for me. So you are in brilliant hands. How do you feel
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Um, feel pretty blessed. Um, and I thank you and everyone for all their help because yeah,
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it's, it's very helpful because I've been to court before and you know, they don't really
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listen to you and to pay for a lawyer. I don't know how much it's going to cost, but I'm sure
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it's going to be, you know, a couple of thousand dollars.
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It's going to be far more than the fine, but this is why people want to jump in because
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it's, we could just pay the fine. We could crowdfund just the fine, but I think it's the
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So riddle me this folks, how can you go home when your home happens to be a car, a car that
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you are residing in? That is indeed the case with Daniel Wright, a man due to some unfortunate
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circumstances is down on his luck and is living in his car. And they say don't kick a man when
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he's down. Well, apparently some members of the Melbourne police service, they've never
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heard of that old adage. And as you saw, they gave Daniel a fine of $1,650. Absolutely shameful.
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And with more on the Daniel Wright case, I am joined by our man down under, Avi Amini. How
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Oh, it's going great. You know, Avi, I got to tell you, I was truly moved by this story,
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especially since when you look at Daniel, he's so humble. He's so good natured. He came across
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to me as a very gentle soul. And I'm scratching my head, Avi. What exactly did he do that was wrong?
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And how did his actions put anybody in that city in any kind of danger due to the Wuhan virus?
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It doesn't. It's absurd. The whole idea that this is for our protection, to protect the community
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from the spread of coronavirus. It obviously isn't. A man in his car who lives there alone at midnight
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where there's no other cars on the road. And it's something that we're seeing here on a daily basis
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where people who are on their own doing whatever they're doing, whether they're in their car,
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whether they're holding a side, whatever they're doing, they're alone until police approach and break
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that 1.5 meters of social distancing. So, you know, there's no logic to it. It makes no sense.
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And it's just revenue raising at the most disgraceful level.
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You know, Avi, it reminds me of the story in New Brunswick involving the senior, Walter Matheson.
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That was a great story done by our colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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And here is a senior citizen in his car with the windows rolled up in a coffee shop parking lot
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in which he's the only car and therefore the only person. And along comes a constable to give him a ticket
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because, you know, if he's hanging out there, that might attract teenagers to the parking lot.
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Now we have a social distancing problem. Like, Avi, I don't know about you, but yeah,
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seniors having a coffee and a muffin in a cafe parking lot. There's no bigger teenager magnet than
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that on the planet. But to your point, the biggest danger was when the officer got Walter to lower his
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window and came within that two meter distance. I mean, Avi, this is insane.
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Is it two meters in Canada? Because for us, coronavirus only can spread in 1.5 meters.
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Must be down under. It's less potent. But it's, you know, we're laughing about it,
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but it's not a funny matter. Daniel Wright is a man that's, you know, he's struggling in life as it is.
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Now, through lockdown, he's managed to save almost $3,000 to get out of it. So when lockdown ends,
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because there's, you can't inspect houses. So he can't even apply. You've got to inspect a house
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here. The rule, the law is you have to inspect the house to be able to apply for it. So he can't
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inspect house. He can't apply for it. So he can't move into house. So he's stuck living in that car
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that he was fined for living in. But in the meantime, he's been, you know, while, while it would have been
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easy, probably to give up, instead, he's chosen to save up the money with the foresight that this
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is one day going to end this, hopefully this lockdown's going to end no matter what the
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government wants. And then he's going to move into, you know, he's going to take his money and
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he's going to apply and get and move into a home. But what do they want? They want $1,652
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of that $3,000 that he's managed to save to get out of it. So essentially, the government wants to
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make him homeless for his own protection, because they don't want him catching coronavirus.
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It's staggering. And the irony is so perverse. But, you know, Avi, I want to make the point here.
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We're certainly not anti-cop at Rebel News, quite the contrary. And what some police forces are
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enduring right now, it is absolutely horrible. It's very tough to be a police officer. So we're
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rooting for them. But when I see things like this, it almost makes it hard to root for the police. And
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it's not like this was one cop having a bad day. As you said in your report, this went to internal
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review. So here we have sober second thought, look at all the facts, weigh everything. And still they
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said, nope, the ticket is valid. What gives air, Avi?
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I think it's a toxic culture that comes from the top at the moment, especially here in the state of
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Victoria. For a little while now, we've seen, you know, even before coronavirus hit, I was getting
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arrested at protests for my own safety. I was being arrested at protests for interviewing for doing my
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job. That's why we're going to the Supreme Court. But, you know, so that kind of mentality and policing
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has been growing. I think coronavirus has only sped up and exposed, I guess, to the wider public what's
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going on. I agree with you. I support, I back the blue. I always say that I back the blue, especially
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the cops on the beat that have to do the hard work. But it does get hard some days when they say that
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police have discretion, like in Daniel's case, where police have discretion to or not to fine.
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But I also get the feeling that they have certain quotas they're meant to fill. You know, so some of
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these fines, and you'll see some of the fightthefines.com.au that have been coming through, you'll
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see that there might be, you know, the masks ones are $225, but there's other ones that are $5,000.
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Wow. So, yes, I have a feeling that it's a mix of, it's command who want to make a point that
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they're in charge and they're enjoying their police state. And there's also departments in the police
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force that are around revenue raising. You know, they've shut down the economy, so they're not going
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to be collecting as many taxes. How else are they going to be able to raise that money? They've
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so far issued, I think it was sitting at about 25,000 infringements. You know, the numbers.
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You raise a fascinating point here, my friend, and it's this. Are the hearts of the police officers
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in Melbourne, are they truly in this kind of a draconian crackdown of the citizens? Or do you
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think that most police are saying, hey, mate, this is not what I signed up for. I wanted to get
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involved in law enforcement. I wanted to rein in the bad guys. I didn't want to be a glorified tax
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I'd say so. I'd say most cops on the beat, they feel that way. The ones I've spoken to privately
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certainly do. You know, and I think they've been saying that for a long time. We had a problem here
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in Victoria for probably the last five years now, something I was advocating against from the
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beginning. In fact, I interviewed the first victims of what we call the youth gang crime,
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which were mostly made up of South Sudanese and Somali immigrants or children of immigrants,
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these gangs that popped up as soon as we opened our border. And, you know, for five years, this
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lawlessness that sweeped across our state, they held our state hostage. And I was hearing from cops
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every single day telling me privately, Avi, keep pushing, keep telling them, because this is not a
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racial, this is a law and order issue. We've been told for political correctness that we can't
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actually police properly. And, you know, it came out in this, in this pandemic, it's been highlighted
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on a number of levels, because then we saw when the Black Lives Matter protest hit our shores here
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in Australia, something all the way from America came here and tens of thousands of people were allowed
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to march on our streets. In fact, police officers took a knee here in Melbourne.
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And only two weeks before that, and numerous times after that, the world has seen how they've reacted
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Well, Avi, I think you might have this wrong. You might not have gotten the memo. The Wuhan virus is
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very much into social justice. So if a bunch of BLM protesters get together,
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it knows very well not to infect those people. And as a matter of fact, Avi, I think you might have
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stumbled upon something. Maybe Daniel Wright, what he should have done is just thrown on a T-shirt
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saying, Black Lives Matter. I'm here as a matter of a protest. Maybe he wouldn't have gone that fine.
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The cops would have opened the door to take a knee.
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Don't worry. Well, it's absurd. You know, you asked me a year ago, I would not believe some of the stuff
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we're seeing. And, you know, it's interesting, the whole Fight the Fines campaign that you guys started
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there, and with Rebel News has now launched it in Australia at fightthefines.com.au, that just having
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that has given us, or me and the lawyer as well, an opportunity to see the madness firsthand from
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people, stuff you will never hear in the mainstream news. And, you know, I'm actually really excited to
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be a part of that because we get the chance to not only expose what's happening, the stories that
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most Australians and most of the world are interested in, but the media will never report. In fact,
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they'll never, they never look for him. And now we're not only going to report on him,
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we're going to be able to help them fight back. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right, Avi, and I can
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tell you, not just the media, but organizations like the Civil Liberties Associations, which I can
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tell you. Where are they all? Oh, they're AWOL. I can tell you in Canada, their main goal is to get as
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many prisoners out of the prisons so that social distancing can be practiced. So just get your head
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around this irony. Here we're letting out people, including violent offenders, for social distancing
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reasons, Avi. But if you don't pay your Wuhan virus fine, you might end up in jail as a guy just down on
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his luck. Before we go, Avi, I got to say, if any of our viewers want to contribute to Daniel Wright's
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cause, it is fightthefines.com.au. And one last question, Avi, how is Daniel doing? I don't know,
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have you reached out to him since your piece aired? Yeah, we've been in touch. I think he was
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overwhelmed. I don't think. He messaged me numerous times thanking me, thanking God, thanking all the rebels
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out there that have, you know, supported him through fightthefines.com.au and also all the kind
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messages on all the platforms and videos on Facebook, YouTube, even on the article on rebelnews.com.
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He's overwhelmed. He's been given also private offers of support in other ways. And it's interesting
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because when people were offering him, you know, food and he just, he wrote back to them saying,
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I really, I'm humbled and I appreciate, but I don't need that. I've saved up and I'm getting out
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of this. You know, my problem here was the injustice of this fine and through fightthefines.com.au.
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We're getting out of that. Well, Avi, it was an excellent piece. It was such a heartfelt piece.
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And I got to tell you for other Australians enduring this kind of nonsense, we're, it's not in our
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nature to bend the knee here at Rebel News. We will take on their cases if indeed there's validity to
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them. And we have the website up and running once again, fightthefines.com.au. Thank you once
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again, Avi, and you have a wonderful weekend. Thanks, mate. You too. See you later. Thank you.
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And that was Avi Yamini down under. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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When the pandemic hit, I think the world realized the so-called bad guy might actually be the hero
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we all need. You see, the world realized overnight that single-use plastics, well, they kind of save
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lives. Plastic manufacturers ramped up production to help make disposable personal protective equipment
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for medical and personal use. They ramped up production of plastic bags as grocery stores
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realized finally that handling other people's often dirty, reusable grocery bags might be a point of
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coronavirus transmission. Municipalities even canceled their own bans on plastic bags, something that had
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been a bit of a fad sweeping across the Western world lately. Plastic takeout containers and cutlery
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production was increased as restaurants moved towards takeout service just to keep their doors open and
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survive the lockdown. In fact, the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University studied the effects of the
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pandemic on plastic use and found this. 29% of study respondents feel they are buying more plastic
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packaged goods during COVID. Women are more likely than men to buy more plastics at 34% versus 25%. Young people are
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particularly buying more with 47% of 18 to 25 year olds and 34% of 26 to 39 year olds reporting more plastic packaging
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consumption. Also, knowing environmental packaging could cost more, 50% of respondents are more price conscious since
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COVID, particularly those with lower incomes and those receiving CERB. Food safety concerns seem to be a
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determinant. As such, 55% of respondents are more concerned about food safety since COVID, particularly
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female, urban and respondents in BC and the Atlantic. Those are Trudeau voters, by the way. Female, urban, people
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from BC and the Atlantic, that's the Liberal base. Now, when the virus struck, plastics were there to make us
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safer. It's a fact. We all know this. And yet, even now, the Liberals are proceeding with their ban
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on single-use plastics. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson reiterated the Liberals' plan
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in an announcement Wednesday morning. Here, just take a look. Today, I am very pleased to announce our
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government's approach to achieve zero plastic waste in Canada by 2030, a plan to keep plastic in our economy
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and out of our environment. This is a comprehensive approach that looks directly to address the most
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harmful single-use plastics while improving the way that we manage other plastics throughout their
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life cycle. Today, we are releasing a discussion paper relating to the government's plan to address
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plastic pollution. One important part of this plan is a ban on harmful single-use plastics that have
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three key characteristics. They are harmful in the environment, they are difficult or costly to
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recycle, and there are readily available alternatives. The proposed ban will address plastic checkout bags,
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straws, stir sticks, six-pack rings, cutlery, and foodware made from hard-to-recycle plastics,
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particularly expanded polystyrene. Regulations with respect to this ban will be finalized by the end of 2021.
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When a ban comes into effect, your local stores will be providing you with alternatives to these plastic
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products, like reusable or plastic bags or paper bags in place of plastic. The Liberals are still going to
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list single-use plastics as a schedule one toxin like lead, CFCs, and mercury. The plastic intubation tubing
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saving people's lives in hospitals right now just as bad as this best dose if you ask Justin Trudeau and his
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ridiculous environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson. Well folks, they say timing is everything and with
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that in mind, could the push to punish plastic users be more ill-timed than right now? Especially
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when we are trying to take all the proper safety measures in order to manage the Wuhan virus. Well,
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apparently not. Not if you are a Justin Trudeau liberal that is, wherein virtue signaling always, always
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trumps doing the right thing. And joining me now to discuss this depressing and maddening story is Sheila
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Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel Roundup my friend. Hey David, thanks for having me on the show. It is always a pleasure as
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you know. Sheila, I am absolutely gobsmacked quite frankly. Given the shite show that is 2020,
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you'd think that Justin Trudeau would park his pet projects that will hurt the economy while making
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consumers miserable. But I guess not, eh? Why is that? Because liberal bad ideas never take a holiday.
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They never take a break. They never get quarantined. Um, yeah, I mean, really when the pandemic hit,
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it was single-use plastics that sort of stepped up and saved the day. As I said in my video,
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sometimes the bad guy or what we think is the bad guy actually ends up being the hero we all need. And
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that was single-use plastics. Uh, the plastics industry ramped up production, um, in a way that,
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um, you know, supported, uh, frontline healthcare workers. But then they ramped up production to do
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something else that helped another sector of the economy. They ramped up production of the very
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things that Justin Trudeau is banning right now. And that's, uh, takeout containers, uh, plastic cutlery,
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um, stir sticks, the, the things that restaurants use for takeout. And the reason that was important
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that they ramped up that production is most restaurants had to move to takeout. They
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couldn't have sit down during the, uh, who knows what Toronto is doing right now. But, um, it just
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in the very beginning of the quarantine, a lot of restaurants had to move strictly to takeout,
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to keep their doors open, um, to try to hang on to their business. And luckily the plastics industry
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was there to save the day. And then grocery stores suddenly realized that, um,
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um, these people bringing their own reusable grocery bags from home might be a point of contagion
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if you're concerned about contracting the coronavirus. Um, and so the plastics industry
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really stepped up during the pandemic. I, I think many municipalities came to appreciate,
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um, the plastic bag that it's been a fad in the Western world to ban the plastic bag.
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I don't know why, uh, I think plastic bags might've saved the trees at some point. Um,
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and many municipalities who had banned them embraced plastic bags with open arms, uh, during the
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pandemic. And yet, even after all that, knowing what we know about plastic and how it helped
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the world get through the pandemic, Justin Trudeau has moved to ban the very things that we needed
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to survive the pandemic. And you know, Sheila, I kind of take exemption to the phrase single
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use plastics, because some of these categories, they are not single use plastic bags. As you
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mentioned, when you go to the grocery store, I don't know anyone that brings their groceries back
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in a plastic bag, especially now that a lot of jurisdictions, you have to pay five or 10 cents for
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the bag and then throw them right in the garbage. You do reuse them. I'll give you a quick story.
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The LCBO, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, their stores, I mean, there's a lot to criticize
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the LCBO about, but once upon a time, they had the best plastic bags in Canada, as far as I was
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concerned, really good thick plastic to do their own virtue signaling. They eliminated those plastic bags
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to replace it with paper bags, which really works well, by the way, when you have a 40 ounce
00:28:26.980
glass bottle of scotch and it's raining. But that's besides the point. The thing is, Sheila,
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I have a few of those LCBO plastic bags from 15 years ago that I still use today to, you know,
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typically to put my sweaty gym gear in when I'm done at the gym. So it's not even accurate to call
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some of these categories single use plastic in the first place. And when we look at the three R's,
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reuse, recycle, reduce, always the number one R reuse is the most important R. So they're taking
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that away from us by making us use paper, which are indeed single use.
00:29:06.340
Well, let me tell you under my desk here. It's funny you bring that up. I have a garbage can
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from the dollar store actually, but I'm using a plastic bag from, from the grocery store in it.
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Uh, I don't think like you, I know anybody who throws out plastic bags, um, after they come home,
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they get turned into something else. And secondarily, um,
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they aren't really single use plastic. If you deal with them appropriately, as in I'm pro incineration,
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I'm pro turning the locked fossil fuel energy inside of plastic and, and turning it into electricity
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through incineration. And they actually have a facility that does that burns garbage for electricity
00:29:52.100
in the lower mainland. That's actually where all of, um, that garbage that was sent to the Philippines,
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when we had to repatriate the garbage ship, that's where they sent it. So even green Vancouver,
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green BC, they know that you can incinerate garbage cleanly and turn it into something useful. So again,
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it's not single use. You can use it to do something else. And Justin Trudeau is willing to nuke a good
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chunk of the plastics industry during the pandemic, like at a time of unprecedented, uh, economic strife
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and layoffs. People are on CERB, they're extending CERB, they're turning it into something else.
00:30:35.460
The plastics industry in Canada is approaching like $40 billion. It's getting close to $40
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billion in economic activity. I would estimate about half of that, maybe single use. And Justin
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Trudeau is willing to leave that on the table, the virtue signal. I mean, that's just insane.
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And by the way, Sheila, when it comes to incineration, I'm assuming that is heresy when it comes to the
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just and true to liberals, they would never be open to that just based on, oh, I don't know,
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carbon emissions, perhaps. Yeah. Yeah, of course they wouldn't. I mean,
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of course they wouldn't, except when incineration fixes Catherine McKenna's problem of Canada shipping,
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uh, you know, uh, sea cans full of garbage to the Philippines and, you know, just out of sight,
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out of mind, um, with Canada's, uh, recycling problems. Um, then incineration is fine. Then she's
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bragging about bringing garbage home on a ship across the world to burn it back here. Then
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carbon emissions are not a consideration. But, um, when it comes to unleashing the fossil fuel
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energy that's locked inside of plastic, that's a big no, no. You know, you hit upon another issue
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here, Sheila, and it is the hypocrisy of the left yet again. And again, I go back to 15 years ago or so
00:31:55.620
when David Miller was the mayor of Toronto, he's now the head honcho of the WWF, not the good WWF
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folks, the one that wants that deal with wrestling. The one that made us change the name of wrestling.
00:32:07.540
That's right. The, the, the animal one. And there was no landfill space in Toronto at the time.
00:32:14.740
And the idea, and it was a great idea was to ship Toronto trash to Kirkland Lake
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via rail and Kirkland Lake wanted it. It was a huge economic activity. Oh no, no, no, no.
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We don't believe in polluting others, um, uh, backyards said the mayor. We're not going to do
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that. So what did they do instead? They trucked by garbage truck and container garbage to Michigan.
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So wait a minute. I thought you didn't want to pollute other people's backyards.
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I, I guess if they're American, it's okay to throw our trash there. Just like when it comes
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to the Philippines, it's okay to throw our trash there. Sheila, this is so hypocritical. It's off
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the charts. Well, and it's really pointless virtue signaling that makes Canadians lives more expensive
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and more inconvenient because I think it was black locks that had a report that said that, uh, Canadian
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plastic accounts for just, I think it was four 10, four tenths of 1% of the garbage, the plastic
00:33:20.500
waste that turns up in rivers and ocean shores around the world. We are again, the way we are
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with carbon emissions, simply a statistical rounding error in the grand scheme of things.
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And yet Justin Trudeau steps up to solve a problem that we don't actually even play a role in making.
00:33:40.340
It's the same thing over and over. And I suspect this is really just a proxy war on oil and gas.
00:33:46.900
They've killed oil and gas upstream, or at least they're doing their best to, uh, stick a pillow
00:33:51.140
over its face and euthanize it in its bed, um, in its deathbed. But, um, they've attacked oil and gas
00:33:58.340
on the upstream side through, uh, C 69 onerous regulations, um, blocking pipelines there.
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I suspect probably going to block a rail line that will carry oil and gas. They've done
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everything they can to stop upstream oil and gas. And so now they're moving downstream and
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they're going to kill the fruits of the oil and gas industries labor. And that's where the plastic
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band comes in. And Sheila, do we have an, an estimate on what this is going to cost the
00:34:28.180
plastics industry? I mean, what the, what the damage is going to be when these bands are, uh,
00:34:33.620
put in place? I think it'll probably nuke about half the plastics industry. And that's just my, um,
00:34:40.420
educated guesstimate. Uh, I think it's, uh, they're approaching $40 billion in economic
00:34:46.580
activity in the Canadian economy. And about half of that will probably disappear. I mean,
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this is an industry that employs thousands of people upstream, downstream in manufacturing and
00:34:57.460
packaging. Um, and let's not even consider the added costs to already struggling restaurants
00:35:06.340
who are now going to have to buy the more expensive paper, bamboo, uh, the recycled paper,
00:35:14.740
um, packaging. I mean, that stuff can cost sometimes twice, three times as much as economical plastic.
00:35:23.140
And Sheila, one last question, even if this idea had merit, and I don't really think it does,
00:35:30.260
why can't the Justin Trudeau liberals say this was on the agenda, but the Wuhan virus,
00:35:36.820
it was a curve ball out of left field. It has decimated our economy. It has put
00:35:42.900
millions of Canadians out of work. So for that reason, because of these truly exceptional
00:35:48.980
circumstances, we're not implementing this now. We're going to put it on the back burner.
00:35:53.620
When things get better, then we can have another look at it. I think that's a win for them,
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even for the people that want the Trudeau liberals to have a jihad against plastic.
00:36:03.380
Why can't they say that? Which is simply stating the truth, right?
00:36:06.740
Well, because then that is an admission that a ban on plastic would hurt the economy, whether it
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happens now or happened later in a recovery, it would be an acknowledgement that this would hurt
00:36:18.900
the economy, hurt producers, hurt restaurateurs and hurt the consumer because eventually down the line
00:36:25.220
that all gets passed on to the consumer. Um, you know, so it would, it would be a stark admission
00:36:30.980
of those things. But further to your point, Justin Trudeau didn't actually have to say anything.
00:36:36.180
He announces lots of things that he never carries through on. I mean, I'm old enough to remember
00:36:41.060
when he promised to balance the budget. So the budget will balance itself, Sheila.
00:36:46.900
I know we're still getting around to that. So, I mean, he could have made this announcement and then
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just quietly never done anything about it, but instead he's actually more aggressive than ever on this
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issue. Um, because more than anything, Justin Trudeau is, uh, I guess a puppet of the green
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ideologues around him. Well, Sheila, you know, uh, the biggest lie in terms of a phrase to come out
00:37:14.260
of this pandemic is we're all in this together. And, uh, so my heart goes out to all those people
00:37:21.540
in the plastics industry that in the months ahead might be getting a pink slip. So you'll be put on
00:37:27.060
the CERB and, uh, employment insurance, but, uh, let it warm your heart that all the Trudeau
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liberals and the bureaucrats that serve them, they'll have their six figure jobs. No problem
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there. What a disgrace. Sheila, thank you so much for another great piece, my friend.
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Thanks, David. Have a great weekend. You too. And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed,
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somewhere in the hinterland of Northern Alberta. Keep it here, folks.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Well, lo and behold, it is the Canadian National Day of Action.
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And, uh, basically the theme of this National Day of Action, as I understand it,
00:38:09.860
is to take a stance against the Canadian government buying new fighter jets. It's for a couple of
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reasons. It's the, uh, uh, you've got people here who are part of the peace movement, so they're against
00:38:22.660
war, uh, maybe even just wars. And then of course, um, and I'm not making this up, it is the carbon
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footprint of those fighter jets. Yeah, it's kind of, when you're standing up for liberty and freedom,
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you don't want to harm the environment when you're doing so, I suppose.
00:38:38.580
How dare you? So at, um, several MP offices across Canada, there are protesters gathering. And, uh,
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hopefully we can get educated by these peace-loving protesters. I think that it's insane that we're
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spending so much money to promote a new Cold War. We owe so much to the Indigenous people,
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and yet we're spending it on warplanes, for God's sakes. We're doing it only because the United States
00:39:08.100
I'm not talking to you. You look like a satirical figure, are you?
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But I'm just trying, I thought the whole idea of a protest was to.
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I'm going to walk away right now. Sorry, I didn't mean to hit you with the sign.
00:39:16.980
Okay, I'm back with the person holding the sign that doesn't know why she's protesting.
00:39:20.740
Cool your jets, support the Green New Deal instead. What, what is the Green New Deal, sir?
00:39:26.740
Uh, in Canada, there was, there was something called, uh, uh,
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uh, uh, I'm trying to think of his name. Is it, is it just fighter jets or would?
00:39:39.460
No, it's a whole military budget. Would you also be against, uh, I don't know,
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battleships, tanks, cannons? Any of those that are carrying weapons of mass destruction, yes.
00:39:50.340
Would you have said that World War II was not a just war? That we should have turned our backs on
00:39:57.140
our allies fighting Nazi Germany? I'm saying that no, there is no more just war. There never was.
00:40:05.140
So when, uh, Adolf Hitler was having a genocide against the Jewish people and others, um, you don't
00:40:11.700
think it was a just war to go to war with Nazi Germany to bring justice to, to those people?
00:40:17.380
I believe that many non-violent means should have been used and were being used even by Germans,
00:40:26.100
young Germans. We've got many, many resources at our disposal.
00:40:31.300
I mean, there's no need to be bombing and killing.
00:40:35.620
Well, you're young communists. That's amazing. Where, were you out yesterday for the raising of the,
00:40:46.900
Oh, the people's voice. Can I have one of those?
00:40:49.140
No, no. Why don't you move back? Keep the microphone out of my face.
00:40:54.340
Oh, I think you littered. What is the people's voice, by the way?
00:40:58.660
And also to all the parents out there, don't let your child go into gender studies.
00:41:09.300
Well, there you have it. Yet another loony leftist protest in downtown Toronto in which
00:41:14.580
not even the protesters themselves could articulate why they were brandishing signs on a sidewalk.
00:41:20.980
And as you saw from the threesome who made up the Young Communist League,
00:41:27.220
they simply wanted me to leave outright as though the sidewalk was their own private property.
00:41:35.860
Are these commies the only ones oblivious to the irony here?
00:41:40.660
In any event, here's what you had to say about one of the least significant protests of 2020.
00:41:50.820
These are just deeply stupid people. There's a certain percentage of the population
00:41:56.660
that is uneducated and not very rational. Just ignore them.
00:42:01.540
Oh, why ignore them, Steve, given that their stupidity makes for such solid gold entertainment.
00:42:07.940
And you know, we could sure use some laughs these days, eh?
00:42:13.940
As a military parent, these people don't have a clue. Our military is in serious need
00:42:19.940
of any upgrade of equipment. Indeed it does, Cole, but these people would apparently rather have
00:42:27.940
discussions with invading armies. Um, how well has that tactic worked throughout history?
00:42:37.780
I'm surprised your substitute teacher hasn't destroyed the entire military.
00:42:43.460
Oh, give Mr. Trudeau time, sir. I think he's going to be in office for several years yet to come, unfortunately.
00:42:54.020
Man, when I'm 90, I sure hope I'm not on a sidewalk making an idiot out of myself.
00:42:59.700
Indeed, High Caliber, regardless of age, you'd think that people publicly protesting would be
00:43:06.740
completely familiar with what it is that they're protesting so that they could publicize their message.
00:43:14.500
That is the ostensible polis reason of staging a protest after all, isn't it?
00:43:20.340
Well, clearly, that wasn't the case with these nutters.
00:43:28.340
Well, thank you, Kerry, and hopefully parents will take heed of my warning.
00:43:31.620
Hey, get your kids into the trades, folks. Some really great jobs can be found there,
00:43:36.500
and they'll be way too busy working to stand on some sidewalk holding up a sign,
00:43:42.500
denouncing fighter jets, and lauding communism.
00:43:52.900
Says the guy in the cloth mask and a bicycle helmet to the fine gentleman in a suit.
00:44:00.820
But it's kind of sad that their default position is to resort to ad hominem attacks.
00:44:08.260
Then again, if you have nothing substantive to say, shoot the messenger, I guess.
00:44:17.780
Winning invading armies will congratulate our Canadian armed forces on their low carbon footprint.
00:44:26.980
Well, yeah, we'll sacrifice our rights and freedoms, but we'll do so in a nation that is free of fighter jets and has a lower carbon footprint.
00:44:40.900
Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.