Calgary Police Harass New Canadians, Bylaw Tickets Archery Shop
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Rebel News' Kian Bexte joins me to discuss a disturbing story regarding Calgary police harassing newly landed immigrants for no reason whatsoever. And Sheila Gunn-Reed shall be joining me as well to discuss the ongoing harassment the owner of an archery shop is receiving from nitpicking bylaw officers.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.
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We try to back the blue here, we really do, but the actions of some police officers
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regarding the Wuhan virus pandemic has been, well, atrocious.
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And Kian Bexte joins me to discuss a disturbing story regarding Calgary police
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harassing newly landed immigrants for, well, really no reason whatsoever.
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And Sheila Gunn-Reed shall be joining me as well discussing the ongoing harassment
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the owner of an archery shop is receiving from nitpicking bylaw officers.
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His crime? He simply just wants to make a living.
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And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.
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And you had plenty to say about my latest visit to the Toronto Radisson Hotel
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that is apparently illegally detaining people against their will.
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Well, the good news, at least Toronto police didn't charge me with trespassing this time around.
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Those are your Rebels, now let's round them up.
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Kian Bexte for Rebel News in Calgary, Alberta, with a story that you're not going to believe.
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Well, actually you might because it involves the Calgary Police Service.
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They are the kind of police officers that beat their dogs and threaten to tase kids
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And now they are threatening immigrant men and women,
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asking them to take off their clothes in the middle of the night in back alleys
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when it's minus 30 degrees outside, if you can believe it.
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There was an immigrant support group that was taking place at a residence in Calgary.
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There was a new family from Poland that was meeting with another immigrant family from Poland.
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One side of them was Canadian citizens, the other permanent residents.
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It's actually an exemption under the Alberta rules.
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Now, when the police came, very late at night, they started banging on the windows.
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They started yelling and shouting, telling these Polish people that they must immediately comply.
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The Polish people, obviously, hardly speaking English, didn't know what was going on.
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And we didn't feel like opening a door because we were scared of the noise.
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And then they kept banging, kept banging on the walls, on the windows, on the door.
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And then started sending me text messages from a private number.
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All they knew was that people were banging on their door in the middle of the night.
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And the police, well, they nabbed them right there and started demanding that they de-robe, take off their jackets.
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They wanted to identify exactly who these people were.
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Of course, tickets were issued to those people who left.
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But the people inside the house, well, they just kept not complying.
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And when they were talking to us, they surround us.
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And they said, basically, you need to take off your clothes.
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I just want to see what t-shirt you're wearing.
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For the whole week, they were texting them from a private number, threatening messages.
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It's pretty horrifying stuff, but it didn't stop there.
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The police officers started calling the employers of these Polish immigrants, asking for a location.
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Of course, the employers were kind of scared, wondering why their employee was involved with the law.
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A couple of days after they actually called my employer, my wife's employer,
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At that point, I thought, okay, that's getting a little bit hot here.
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And the police have resorted to harassing them and embarrassing them in front of their only source of income.
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Because they're too proud to admit that they were wrong?
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Instead of just harassing the man's employer, they called the wife's employer.
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Over and over again, they harassed them in different ways, intimidated them in different ways.
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And it all came to a head when they reached out to me to explain what was going on.
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And just at that point, I couldn't believe what I was reading.
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I couldn't believe that the officers of my city were acting in this way to an immigrant family.
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It's 8 in the morning, and I'm standing outside of their house.
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The police have arranged through our lawyers, which we've provided,
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that they are going to meet up at 8 a.m. here so that they can serve a ticket
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that they believe this immigrant family deserves for organizing a support group in their home,
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I'm curious. Are you the officer that was here that night?
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Yeah. So you're going to hang tight because we're not here to do your stuff.
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Yeah, I'm sure you are, and I'm here to talk to you.
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If you don't back off and let us serve the tickets that we're here to serve,
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No, I'm not going to have a problem because I'm actually media.
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If you want to chat, if you want to chat, if you want to chat.
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You could walk up there if you'd like, and I'm going to follow you
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Are you the officer that asked one of these immigrant men to take off their jacket in minus 30 weather
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so that you could, like, look at the clothes that he was wearing underneath the jacket?
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You're in front of the room right now would be obstructing that.
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I'll keep asking you questions if you don't mind.
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Is it common for you to text people, threatening them, shining flashlights in their window,
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like they're some sort of rats that need to be dealt with?
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obviously all serious crimes such as murder and sexual assault and robbery
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well, they have to find something to do in the meantime,
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like pulling out their tasers on a kid skating at a park,
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Yes, harassing, because there's no other word for it.
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Some recent immigrants to Canada for the egregious crime of,
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And joining me now to discuss this is none other than Kian Bextie himself.
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what crime was being committed here in the first place.
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The police showed up at these folks' home very late at night.
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There's, you know, there's support groups for everything
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from dealing with addiction to coming to a new country,
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And the police, they weren't too happy about that,
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And, of course, these immigrants, they were terrified.
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They know what the police can do and what they're capable of.
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And showing up late at night is something that they actually fled Poland for.
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Well, I suppose that's not going on in Poland right now,
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but they know what's going on, and they're scared of it.
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They weren't even sure if they were police officers.
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I'm sure that people would easily pose as a police officer to get you to open your door.
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And the police, they weren't taking that for an answer.
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the immigrants were leaving the support group to their car,
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and the police surrounded them and demanded that they take off their winter clothing
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I'm not sure what the specifics were on that or why.
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And to a Polish immigrant who hardly spoke English,
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which I think is just a horrendous thing to do to anyone,
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much less someone who's not a criminal by any sort of definition of the word.
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So, it's a pretty sad story, frustrating story,
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and I'm glad I was able to be on the scene when the police came back later that week
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Oh, and they did themselves no favour in regard to how they converse with you, Kian.
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You know, tell me, Kian, usually this kind of a story,
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innocent immigrants just trying to get ahead in a new country,
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police using intimidation tactics, flashlights coming late at night.
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Usually the left and the mainstream media lose their minds over this.
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David, it's because, and this is easy, they weren't black.
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These were white immigrants, and they were from Poland,
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so they aren't under that purview of BLM and this, righteous or not,
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this movement that we've been seeing over the past year
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to have, you know, police brutality and the overreach of police looked at critically.
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And I think that's an important thing to do, regardless of race.
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It's really important for police to understand that they're there to serve us,
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not there to harass, beat, and intimidate us, regardless of your skin colour.
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But for the left, they don't care about this case because they were white,
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and it's really sad that this is being looked at from a racial lens from them.
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They pick and choose, they cherry-pick what they want to look at,
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and it's really a shame because these people are just as deserving
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of a safe place to live in Canada as anyone else.
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You know, Kian, they must be questioning their destination
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in terms of starting a new life in a new country.
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You know, when I go out to a lot of these anti-lockdown protests,
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usually it's the people from the former Soviet Union,
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that are absolutely the most passionate about what's going on right now,
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the eclipsing of our charter rights and liberties and freedoms.
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And it's because they or their families have lived through it.
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And so when they see this kind of nonsense going on,
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they've committed no crime, and yet they're getting harassed by police,
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they must be really questioning why they came to Canada in the first place.
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They actually, not as a reporter, they asked me as a Canadian citizen,
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because these are people who are permanent residents right now,
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and they're determining whether or not they should continue
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And they said, is it like this here all the time, Kian?
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If we continue on this trend that we're trending on in Canada,
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where our rights are being trampled, whether you're immigrant or not,
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maybe Canada isn't the place that so many people in the world think it is.
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And I've got to ask you this question too, Kian,
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because we've seen so much bad policing coming out of Calgary.
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The Ocean Weisblad incident was absolutely despicable,
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the way those two female officers acted, pulling their tasers,
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using all kinds of foul language, physically assaulting him.
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We've seen what happens with the street preacher.
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I'm just wondering, do you detect a problem with the police force?
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Usually when you look at good police forces and bad ones,
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it's all about the culture in the police force.
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And if you've got a rotten one, well, it just continues to function that way.
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What is your take, Kian, on the kind of policing we're seeing coming out of Calgary,
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especially right now during the Wuhan virus days?
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I always thought that I would always be pro-police,
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Whether it was in Calgary or rurally with the RCMP,
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I thought we could trust the police forces in the respective jurisdictions here in Canada.
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It's a total mixed bag when it comes to the police here in this country.
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And it's never been illustrated better than when they've been given absolute power
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by the likes of Justin Trudeau, John Tory, Mayor Nenshi.
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And it's sad to watch them lose the trust of the people
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because they operate off of this sort of assumption that they're acting in good faith.
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And the people of their jurisdictions will give them the benefit of the doubt most of the time,
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And they've lost that benefit of the doubt because of the behavior of several of their members here in Calgary
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I think that there's great police officers, and I want to stand behind them.
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I back the blue, but I can't back this blue that is harassing people
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just because they think they can get away with it.
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but so many police officers across Canada right now
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are making it increasingly hard for us to back the blue
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That was disturbing, that anecdote you mentioned,
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In what policing procedural manual is, I guess,
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a quasi-strip search authorized in frigid conditions like that?
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I mean, if they had a warrant to take off your jacket,
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then, you know, maybe they'd have to take off their jacket.
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But this individual complied with the police officer.
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the police officer was then able to issue them a ticket
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because they were wearing the right colored shirt.
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He had absolutely no obligation to remove his jacket for the police officer.
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the police officer might not have been able to issue him the ticket,
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is going to be thrown out because they didn't break the law in the first place.
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Like this, it's humiliating to be stripped in the cold
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The immigrant didn't know what his rights were.
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This is completely unacceptable in this country.
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good for you for standing up and not being intimidated by that cop
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who was clearly trying to use his bully act on you.
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But you weren't buying it, and you stood your ground,
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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You said that the bows were all being serviced.
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Yeah, well, to see if they like it, to see if they're going to buy stuff.
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You're going to be receiving a $12 ticket by mail.
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I genuinely don't believe that you're taking necessary precautions in the public health
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If you can't wear a mask because you feel it's, like, strenuous work.
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So just because no one is wearing masks, we would need some sort of partition or I
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So I don't know, but there are funds from the government for some additional services.
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The great thing is I'm not eligible for anything.
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So by you coming in here and doing this, you're shutting me down.
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Because this is 80% of my business right now is the lanes.
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Because so if you're shutting this down, you're shutting me down.
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I might as well just close everything up, go home, get rid of the house, get rid of my
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed for Rebel News and I'm back here at Wild Archery Pro Shop and Lanes
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And we met Justin last week when he defied the lockdown restrictions and told us the story
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of how he decided to open up his archery lanes to people like me who want to practice our
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skill and maintain our hunting form for longer than just the three weeks of the year we sit
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Justin, since I talked to you last, you've received what I would call a bit of harassment
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from Alberta Health Services and by law enforcement.
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I will send you the two signs that they're asking.
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So I'll just go through, are you like, are you the only staff that you have in place?
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What are you guys using for cleaning and disinfecting of services?
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And I think these have a two or a one minute contact.
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Did you ever think you'd see such a thing in our lifetimes, folks?
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Agents of the state visiting mom-pa shops, harassing them for having the utter temerity
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But while we want to back the blue, we really do, the behavior of some law enforcement and
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quasi-law enforcement in Canada these days is increasingly making me ill.
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And with more on the ongoing saga of the state clamping down on the private sector is our very
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own Sheila, the she-devil gun read, live and in person.
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You're not in the northern hinterland of Alberta, thank goodness, Sheila.
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No, I came into a big snowstorm, but it was still 30 degrees warmer than it was at home.
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Yeah, well, I think I got some tanning butter in the locker there.
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But, you know, Sheila, we ended the clip with, and I couldn't believe what I was watching
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But it was the female bylaw officer actually checking the best before date of the,
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I guess they were sanitizing wipes or something like that.
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I mean, I can't believe they would go, they would stoop that low to find something to hang
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Well, and this is the thing about the lockdown is we hear all these stories about just how
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petty and bad and heavy-handed these quasi-law enforcement officials are, these health bureaucrats
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who are now suddenly policing all aspects of our lives.
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And for Justin Watson at Wild Archery to capture that and then publish it, this pandemic is
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Where people are realizing this is so crazy, people will not believe my story if I tell it.
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And you know, it also, again, Sheila, makes a mockery of the so-called science behind the
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We keep hearing that from every level, every political stripe of government.
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Well, you know, folks, if it was up to us, we'd let everybody open.
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But according to the science, so the science here is a few people can't come into this archery
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facility because that's going to be the birthing ground of modern-day typhoid Mary's.
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But just a couple of weeks ago in beautiful Tampa, Florida, you had basically almost half
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the stadium with fans in the stands for the Super Bowl.
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I mean, can you explain how the science is so selective?
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Well, and it's funny because the science apparently changes from jurisdiction to jurisdiction based
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So the coronavirus is less deadly in Florida where there's a freedom-minded Republican in
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And somehow it's, you know, more dangerous once you get to New York where there's a governor
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who apparently shipped sick people off to nursing homes.
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So for Justin and his archery shop, he told me that between the bylaw officers and the
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health officials that came into his archery shop that day, that was more people than had
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And she's busy checking the expiration dates on the sanitary wipes or whatever.
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And then, you know, they ask for his business card and he goes to give it to them.
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And he goes, oh, careful, you're going to get COVID from me because even they know the
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You know, and tell me a little bit about Justin.
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I think it was alluded to in your video, Sheila.
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He doesn't qualify, I understand, for some of these handouts that the Justin Truro Liberals
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are giving Canadians just to sit home and do nothing.
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He needs to put, you know, the bread on the table.
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And the way he does it is by operating his business.
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So how is it that he is in that situation in the first place?
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Because it looks to me that the government is picking and choosing who they're going to
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So for Justin, the majority of the money that his business makes comes from the archery
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He says like 75 to 80 percent comes from the archery lanes, which makes perfect sense that
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he had, prior to the pandemic, invested so much money into the space there because you
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And on the other side, he has this small retail space, which is, you know, a place where you
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can shop and make some impulse buys while you're waiting for a lane to open up or you want your
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But the archery lanes are not qualifying for any help.
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And, you know, to watch the video that Justin recorded where the health inspector is saying,
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And Justin's like, you haven't missed a day's wages.
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I'm sorry that you can't go on the treadmill that 50 other people went on that day.
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And, you know, just to hear the fake empathy, I get why Justin was pretty upset with those
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That brings us to what I think is the biggest lie since the two previous biggest lies, which
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are the check is in the mail and hi, I'm from the government.
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And that is, Sheila, it's been going for about a year now.
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This guy, like thousands of others who have gone out of business, as in permanently out
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of business, they are paying the penalty of the government putting capitalism into a
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But the public sector, Sheila, has anyone lost a job?
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This is coming from somebody who is gainfully employed as a bylaw officer.
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Well, and in Alberta, in some instances, it's even worse.
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We just recently saw our provincial government that alleges to me that they're conservative
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say we're going to basically offer a top-up, a bonus, to basically essential public sector
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And I'm thinking, I'm helping people fight $1,200 tickets because they want to work.
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And these bureaucrats who've already not lost a day in wages, they're getting a $1,200
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And that's really been the story of this pandemic.
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The people who have never lost a penny are the ones advocating for it to go on and on
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And the people who stand to lose everything or are getting slapped with fines, they're
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I mean, when I was filling in last week for Ezra's show, my monologue was about how the
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teachers unions here in Ontario are saying, contrary to what the province wants to do,
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which is cancel March break, because there's so much time they need to make up.
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Besides, it's right there in the contract, sucker.
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You know, if you cancel March break, we need days in lieu of March break.
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And by the way, most of these schools have been closed since prior to Christmas.
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What do you mean the teachers are being burnt out?
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So I just want to say, Sheila, thank you for doing such great work in Alberta.
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The Whistle Stop Cafe, this archery place, there's so many that you've gone to bat for.
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And Alberta is one of the freer provinces in Canada.
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And I think the moral of the story or the parting shot here is for any entrepreneurs, right,
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that are being harassed by bylaw or law enforcement, take out your cell phone.
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You're not obligated to put it away, even if they falsely tell you not to film them.
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Film everything, because so much of it is really unbelievable, isn't it, Sheila?
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Sure, and going back to your whole we're all in this together thing, we are all in this
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together, but I would exclude the bureaucrats from all of that and the government workers
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In that, it started in Alberta with a restaurant rebellion, and it was one guy, and then everybody
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And then it was the beef companies that were dropping off beef.
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And then it was the customers that were patronizing.
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We rallied around one guy, and then we helped open up an entire industry, and everybody came
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So when the government says, we're all in this together, you say, no, we're in this together.
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And also, please forgive me for taking off to, oh, I don't know, Hawaii or St. Barts.
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Or we're telling you, don't even get in your car unless it's absolutely necessary.
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And there you have it, Sheila Gunn-Reed live and in person.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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That facility is a federal quarantine facility.
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And you've been cautioned now not to enter the premises of the federal quarantine facility.
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But this kind of intimidation, going to my personal residence to give me this bogus trespass ticket,
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it's making it increasingly hard for us to do, sir.
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I have just spoken to two people who have proven that they do not have COVID.
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Why is it possible that they are being held against their will?
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Well, folks, I am back at the infamous Radisson Airport Hotel on Dixon Road.
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And compared to our visit here last Thursday, there are a few subtle differences.
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Because, folks, as you may know from a previous video, the Toronto police came to my house yesterday.
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And two police officers paid a second visit to my humble little home in Richmond Hill to serve me with a trespassing ticket.
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And as I pointed out in the video, this, to me, looks like a hotel open to the public.
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You know, our first visit here in January, we were told by somebody at the hotel called Jamie.
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But the question arises, why would you trespass me for committing, I don't know, the egregious act of practicing journalism?
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But that's how they roll in John Tory's Toronto.
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So, at least now, they've done a little MacGyver here of bolting a private property, no trespassing sign.
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So, I would imagine that in any moment, there'll be police.
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In fact, I think those might be the police that showed up to my house yesterday.
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They were driving a black Dodge Caravan, which I guess I should be grateful one of the vehicles that came last week was a Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup truck.
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Here we have Paladin Security, or as I like to call them, Mayor Patrick Brown's Praetorian Guard.
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These guys are usually in Brampton guarding the hockey rinks where Mayor Brown and his buddies from Barrie illegally play hockey.
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So, yeah, once again, folks, your tax dollars are hard at work.
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Well, what a difference a week makes when it comes to the Radisson Hotel near the Toronto airport.
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For starters, there is new signage warning away the riffraff that this hotel is no longer open to the public.
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Unless you are a member of the public being held there against your will, that is.
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Oh, and finally, some confirmation from police that this is indeed a federal quarantine facility.
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We're still waiting to have our queries answered by the Public Health Agency of Canada regarding this hotel.
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But apparently, the PHAC has enlisted members of the Toronto Police Service to do their public relations work for them.
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When they're not writing trespassing tickets to journalists, that is.
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My only regret upon revisiting the Radisson was not bumping into Jamie.
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I really wanted to ask him how the construction was coming along.
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In any event, here's what you had to say about this government-run quarantine facility in Toronto.
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With it, they can convince a people that they need to abandon their freedom.
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Of course, you just trade one monster for another.
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But by the time the people realize this, it is too late.
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immigrated to the United States from Kabul, Afghanistan, at the age of nine.
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I imagine living in Afghanistan gave Mr. Methos a crash course
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on what it is like to be under the thumb of tyranny.
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If they tested negative twice, why are they still in this hotel?
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Unfortunately, nobody in Ottawa will give us an answer.
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Radisson Hospitality is majority owned by Xinjiang International's holding company,
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which is ultimately owned by an entity of the government of the People's Republic of China.
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It was China that unleashed this virus upon the world a year ago,
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And now it is China making out like bandits by taking federal government money,
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a.k.a. tax dollars, to incarcerate Canadians returning to Canada.
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You know, I don't know if we're fighting for patriotic Canadians
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But when it comes to Canada's quarantine hotels,
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it looks like the mainstream media is sitting this one out.
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I know someone who works at a maximum security prison.
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Inmates get one hour recreation time as per law.
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Are these Canadian citizen inmates getting their one hour rec time as well?
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Not only are they confined to quarters, the windows are sealed, shut,
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and they can't even order in their own food via such services as Uber Eats or DoorDash.
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And Hardcore Studios, Voice in the Well, writes,
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My freedom does not stop when your fear begins.
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Well, that's my stock answer to all COVID nonsense.
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to inform the Radisson inmates about their rights.
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Alas, the way things are going in John Tory's hog town these days,
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I wouldn't be surprised to see Stephanie hauled away
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when it comes to those espousing contrarian opinions
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.