Carbon tax： Trudeau raises it 50%, Manitoba puts it on hold (Guest： Marty Gold)
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In the midst of the worst economic downturn in 100 years, one province is putting their carbon tax on ice. Marty Gold talks about what the coronavirus pandemic is up to in Manitoba and how his province is pumping the brakes on a carbon tax.
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of my show. Justin Trudeau is proceeding with his cruel and inhumane carbon tax in the midst of the
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worst economic downturn in maybe a hundred years. But one province is putting their carbon tax
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on ice. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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It's April Fool's Day and of course the head April Fool in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau, is giving us all
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a big gift of higher prices on well literally everything due to a 50% hike in the carbon tax.
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With the coronavirus pandemic shutting down and shutting in everything and everyone and grinding
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our entire economy to a halt, can you name me any other world leader that would be raising taxes
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in the middle of all of this? When one million people in Canada filed for unemployment benefits
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in just one week? Even Manitoba, a province that was set to bring in their own carbon tax to comply
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with Justin Trudeau's demands, is cancelling their carbon tax that they were going to bring in today.
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So I thought there's no better time now than to bring on to the show independent Manitoba-based
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journalist Marty Gold to talk about what the coronavirus is up to in Manitoba and how his province
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is pumping the brakes on a carbon tax. So joining me now from his home in Winnipeg is Marty Gold in
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from the J.ca. Marty, thanks for joining me. I thought I'd bring you in first off to talk about
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some of the numbers coming out of Manitoba with regard to the coronavirus. Chief of
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operations, Marty Gold from the J.ca. Marty, thanks for joining me. I thought I'd bring you in first off to
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talk about some of the numbers coming out of Manitoba with regard to the coronavirus. Sure. And the
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some of the numbers coming out of Manitoba with regard to the coronavirus?
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Sure. As of Tuesday, at the one o'clock press conference on Tuesday, that's held by the,
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I guess he's the medical officer for health, I think is what he's called, Brent Rusin,
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and his ABLE staff, Manitoba had recorded 103 total diagnosed or suspected cases,
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three in hospital, two in ICU. There previously had been one in hospital that was discharged. We've
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still only recorded one death attributed to the condition. One of the new infected cases, this is
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up, I think from Monday to Tuesday, this would have been up seven cases. One of the newly reported
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cases is an employee with the Selkirk Regional Health Center. So this is the first time that
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somebody has been identified as working at a healthcare facility. I'm trying to figure out
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how to word this, but you get the idea. Your audience does. We here have recorded, you know,
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very low numbers. I think similar in a lot of cases, really in a lot of cases in the Midwest.
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I don't, and I haven't looked in a couple of days, I admit, but you know, the numbers in places like
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Saskatchewan, Wyoming, you know, Manitoba, Montana, Iowa. Last I looked, we're, you know,
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it's sort of like all trends that start at the coasts and south and then work their way up. So
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by the time something fashionable gets to Winnipeg, it's already been out there for three years.
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This is something I learned in the, around the clothing business in the early 90s in Winnipeg.
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And so once again, we're thankfully, you know, behind the great wave. We're lucky in that we
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don't have dense population. We don't have, you know, subway platforms people are standing on and
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such. And so it's been very controlled. I can go through the controls that have gone on. The
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premier has been holding a daily press conference. They moved the time this week,
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so it wouldn't coincide with the prime minister's performances. The government has taken a number
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of measures, the Manitoba government, the Pallister government, suspending rent increases and
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eviction hearings. So even if you, for instance, don't pay your rent for April or May, they can't
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even try to schedule, get you on the schedule before May 31st. So the hearing wouldn't be till
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like July or August at this rate. There's a really well known Winnipeg landlord who has
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tried to sidestep the, the edict by saying that because the residential tenancies branch
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has not given out any direction about how not to implement rent increases that are already
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approved. What this company proposed to do was to enact the rent increase. They put it like a notice
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up in the laundry room like a day ago or two days ago. And I think this building is either downtown
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or in Osborne Village, that since we have the direction from the government, from the department,
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the branch, we're going to increase your rent as scheduled, and then we'll refund it to you.
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Jeff Keel of CTV, a good guy, raised this. I mean, that's not a question that's in lockstep with
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where most of the rest of the media questions go. And Jeff was a great guy, raised it with the
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premier on Tuesday. And Pallister was caught unawares by this and pronounced that he was
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unimpressed, that this would not have been reflecting. It's not in the spirit of the legislation.
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It's, you know, it, I, I guess, let's be real. It's sleazy.
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I guess the concern from the landlord's point of view is if you don't enact the rent increase,
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the beginning, you know, when you say you will,
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yeah, then how do you know for sure the government's going to let you do it later?
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It's, it's just didn't reflect well. I'm being nice and not naming the company. It's a very well-known
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landholder in Winnipeg, but it could be that the highest echelons were going to cut, you know,
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they're going to get covered in the goo for this. And they may not realize where this decision was
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made in middle management or something. So I'm erring on the side of caution and not naming
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them. Anyways, obviously, Pallister government being alerted to that. I'm sure they're going
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to take some action to preclude that. Also this week, the, the government has lifted the restrictions
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so that restaurant orders, takeout and delivery orders can be adorned with your favorite kind
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of liquid libation at the regular menu prices that restaurants charge. Jeff Klaus of Little
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Bones Wings, who's an entrepreneur that I mentioned to you privately with his hands guiding a couple
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of different businesses. But with regards to Little Bones Wings, which is an award-winning
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company in Winnipeg for its, uh, its product. And, uh, it's got now some retail coverage,
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including on, I think it's Safeway shelves in, uh, freezers, actually, uh, wings and chicken tenders
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in, uh, in Alberta, as well as in Manitoba. And he said, really what the, that sector needs isn't
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so much liquor sales, which is nice, but it actually needs support with cleaning supplies and, and
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sanitation supplies. And Jeff has a very good relationship. I know firsthand with a number of, uh,
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cabinet members and caucus members, the conservative government Manitoba, they've attended the
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restaurant and the, uh, the bar upstairs, the restaurant's located in a, uh, in the basement
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of the Royal George, an awful lot of members of conservative, uh, governments have dined and
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feasted on, on that. And, uh, Jeff is hope is hoping that the, uh, the, because he's a respected
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figure and he's speaking on behalf of other restaurants as well, uh, that, that the government
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will sort of take heed. They have the buying power, the ability to make those kinds of purchases
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and, and enact that kind of distribution. Um, look, I didn't get personally, I didn't get my own
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hands on, uh, uh, wipes and on gloves until 10 minutes before we filmed this when my sister
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unexpectedly arrived at my doorstep with a care package, which yes, included a toilet paper as
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well. Um, so it is in short supply. Like I, you know, I haven't gone on an intensive hunt. I'm just
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me here. You know, I, uh, I've got contact with a limited number of, of, uh, people, um, uh, the
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way that, and my lifestyle is like this where I'm, you know, work on my own a lot, unless I go to a
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city council meeting or something like that. I don't work in an office environment very often when I go
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to clients offices, perhaps. And even, even those have, uh, you know, five or 10 employees tops.
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So for me, this hasn't been bad, but for a restaurant that wants to provide reassurance
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to their customers as they come in or to that, look, the, uh, skip the dishes and the door dash
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drivers, I don't know what services necessarily are active in, in, in Alberta. Uh, you know,
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they want to provide reassurance and they're doing everything they can. And, and, uh, Jeff Klaus making
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that, uh, that, uh, request through the free press and interviewing the free press on the weekend
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to the Manitoba government. I hope that they, uh, that they recognize that they can provide support
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to a sector that they are urging to stay open. Now, having said that, said that there's a number
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of sectors as of Tuesday that were told that starting on April 1st, they'd be closed for
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a period of two weeks. The so-called non-essential services, which isn't really a lot of businesses
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in Manitoba. It seems to me that Dollarama, for instance, because it carries groceries, because
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it carries a hardware that they'll be exempt is an example, places like that. But massage,
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uh, uh, um, uh, providers, massage treatment, uh, facilities, uh, physiotherapists, uh, uh,
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I guess the word I was trying to, uh, figure out, uh, salons, barbers, uh, they call them
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that anymore, but there are about 10 barbershops still in Winnipeg. Those kinds of places are
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closed, uh, uh, now for 14 days, uh, public gatherings limited to 10 people and, and have
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been, uh, actually since Monday, uh, no more than 10 people at, uh, indoor outdoor places
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or premises. And that includes, uh, uh, weddings and funerals. My, I didn't mention this to you.
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I don't think my, the, the family matriarch, my grandfather's, uh, remaining sister, and
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she was the youngest of the family passed away at the age of 95. She'd had a mild heart attack,
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uh, in, in February and, and was at the grace hospital and got out of the grace hospital,
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went back to the, uh, uh, the Shaftesbury where she had resided for a number of years, but
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did not rally. Her daughter had happened to my, this would be my dad's first cousins.
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Okay. Just to explain generationally. Um, her granddaughter had been in from Vermont,
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uh, when this happened and, uh, uh, her son flew in from Toronto. He's a, uh, a cardiologist.
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If I remember correctly, he's a cardiologist. Uh, her other son resides in Winnipeg, who's a,
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uh, a long time. I think he's probably retired now, but he was a school principal and school
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teacher. And they were all by, uh, and here if the side, when she passed, but I, the funeral
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was private. It was kept to her children, the grandchildren, my sister, who was the funeral,
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uh, director and my grandfather's, uh, remaining son in Winnipeg, my, uh, my uncle. And so,
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you know, auntie Rifka, who usually, my, my, she's 95. So I, she outlasted a lot of her compatriots,
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but a funeral where you might've expected 75 to a hundred people, uh, owing to her standing
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in the community, her years of philanthropy, uh, her, her social, uh, you know, she was,
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um, uh, her and uncle Zalman were very respected couple. Uncle Zalman had been in the insurance
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business for a number of years. His father actually was, uh, on top of that, the, her family,
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the family she married into were actually cousins of ours. Anyways, auntie Rifka passed away and,
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and there was only, you know, 10 or 12 people. One of our cousins, who's a cantor, actually performed
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in the ceremony as opposed to a rabbi. So I've, I've learned firsthand because I didn't see it
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firsthand. My son and I were not able to attend, uh, auntie Rifka's passing. Uh, but this is,
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this is the kind of effect that it's had even on my own family. Uh, this, uh, the current situation,
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uh, the, uh, government restrictions, um, uh, have been generally well accepted. There's incidents of,
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you know, kids, teenagers, like playing basketball, stuff like that. It's kind of causing other
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parents to flip out. And with good reason, you've got a five, a seven year old, a 10 year old,
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you're out for a walk or a bike ride. There's, you know, five or 10 kids playing basketball and
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the little kids, they want to know why the big kids are able to go play. And, and so there is a
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failure to some extent of parental guidance perhaps. Um, uh, but, but so far it's been well received.
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I don't know if it's a reflection that people in Winnipeg are not confrontational with authority,
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uh, necessarily. Um, I'm not sure what it reflects in terms of our psyche, but so far people are going
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along with it. Now, the rest of the province, again, I mentioned that I think that, uh,
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that our risk level, generally speaking to the average Manitoban is low. Uh, we've got, you know,
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a small population base is the second biggest place. The province is technically the U of M
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in Winnipeg. And then the third biggest is Brandon. Uh, but there was one story I wanted
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to reflect from Flynn Flynn, Manitoba, where a friend of mine is the, uh, does morning radio up
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there. Uh, and is still, uh, uh, he was deemed an essential service. He was quite thrilled actually
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to find out the communication, communications, uh, workers, uh, which I thought would be meant like,
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you know, Wichita lineman, uh, an internet service guy. So it turns out it means broadcasters and
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journalists as well. Yeah. In Flynn Flynn, a mother took to Facebook, I think it was on Monday
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and put it right out there. We've got a case in Flynn Flynn. It's my daughter. Here's what happened.
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The daughter had gone to Cancun with her boyfriend on March the 6th. So we can presume that the daughters,
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you know, 20 to 25, went to Cancun with the boyfriend returned on March 13th,
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was not asked any questions from customs about their health was not, uh, screened whatsoever was
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not told to self isolate. The boyfriend played, uh, a hockey game. I assume it was an indoor rink
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in Flynn Flynn or Creighton, perhaps the adjacent Saskatchewan community on March 14th. Uh, it's on the
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Saturday. So it came back on the Friday. They went to the unwinder, a popular watering hole in Flynn Flynn.
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The next day on the Sunday, the government mandible government asked international travelers to
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quarantine themselves. They did. So she, the daughter lost her sense of taste and smell.
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And I guess had noticed online cause it has not been widely distributed by health authorities in
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Canada, that this is a precursor, uh, symptom. Uh, she recognized it. She got tested as did her
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boyfriend. She came back positive. That was her only symptom. Uh, the mother wanted to get it out
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ahead of the curve, uh, because you know, her daughter and the boyfriend had come back from
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Mexico and had socialized and I don't know them. I don't know how, you know, a lot of people from
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this country, including two officials from Manitoba, if I'm remembering correctly, Winnipeg Regional
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Health Authority went on vacation to Australia in the first week of March. So when your average,
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uh, I don't want to call her a hipster, but this young couple from Flin Flon, they went on vacation.
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They're only as dumb. If it was a dumb thing to do, I'm not saying it is, but if it was deemed a
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dumb thing to do, they're only as dumb as some of the highest echelon health officials in Manitoba
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who did the same kind of thing. Or Sophie Trudeau. Well, Sophie, you see, Sophie, you know, what I,
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what I question about that one along with a lot of other questions, that was a weed day event.
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Yeah. Now why anybody thinks that Sophie, uh, Trudeau is, uh, is a significant enough figure to
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have it any kind of a weed day event outside of Canada is absolutely preposterous. Yeah. But she
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took the junket with her mother-in-law. So Margaret was there and the children, I don't know if they've
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been, I still haven't heard for sure that they were, were not tested. Uh, but somebody else who
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was seen in a picture with her fist, uh, supposedly famous actor, I'd never heard of before this came
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up. He tested positive. God only knows how, uh, meanwhile, the prime minister, the erstwhile
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alleged beau of said Sophie, it has not come down with his own symptoms. The one point that the mother
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in Flin Flon wanted to make before we move on was the social shaming show, social media shaming.
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She meant has to stop. And in that regard, you know, when there, when there wasn't an edict from
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the government and this reflects on the government and Dr. Tam, but when the government wasn't telling
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Canadians don't go anywhere in the beginning of March, the end of February, I agree with the
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mother. It's, it's very hard. Like I said, when you're top ranking health officials in Manitoba,
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we're taking off to Australia. I'm not so inclined to start, you know, jumping up and down people from
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Flin Flon that wanted to get out and go to Mexico for a week and a trip that they was not spur of
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the moment that they had planned for some time. There's a lot of people in that boat. Now, most
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recently I, uh, I mentioned the premier has health briefings, uh, has briefings every day. The, uh,
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health officials chief, uh, medical officer of health has, uh, a briefing. And he, he said on
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Tuesday that wearing masks is not useful if you're worried, stay home and that they provide
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us false sense of security. I saw the look on your face. Well, uh, it takes, uh, uh, this resulted
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in a bit of a discussion when a reporter, I think it might've been a CBC reporter mentioned this,
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uh, that, uh, uh, people on Twitter are pointing out, uh, Leonard Kaplan, a former cab driver who's
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well known to me, that, you know, you look at the rates of infection in places like Hong Kong and
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Taiwan, they're all wearing masks. Maybe the problem here is the doctor can admit we just
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have a shortage of masks and doesn't want to cause a stampede, uh, towards it. And so there is a
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question of whether Manitoba health was prepared now in terms of the city of Winnipeg, uh, uh, aside
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from the, uh, reaction to the province of Manitoba city of Winnipeg was very slow. Mayor Bowman got off
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on a very bad footing when early on, uh, Manitoba, uh, Winnipeg transit had no plans to increase the
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cleaning of their buses. Oh my Lord. At this point, people found out that they don't clean
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the buses very often. They might sweep it out, but they don't actually sanitize very often.
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And there was a firestorm directed at mayor Bowman in transit. Uh, that course was reversed.
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The mayor's got a bunch of other political problems. Uh, they keep losing like the, the legal
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department here needs our total bumbling incompetence. Was there a lawyer on green acres?
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Do you remember on the series green? Cause if there was, he probably ended up running the
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legal department, you know, uh, in the city of Winnipeg. Uh, uh, they missed a filing deadline
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a couple of years ago for a third, $20 million lawsuit over, over, uh, terrible problems with the
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wastewater, uh, uh, treatment plant. They missed the filing deadline. The city fired the lawyer they
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said was responsible. It should have been the head of the legal department was responsible.
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They fired that lawyer who I was never a big fan of. She sued for wrongful dismissal. They had to
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settle out of court last summer. The city was in contempt, found a contempt of court city, a city
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counselor committee, like a regional committee, uh, when they failed to hold a hearing for an
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application for the Parker lands, which is a development relating to, uh, the, the, uh,
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bus rapid transit line. So you've got missed deadlines for filing court important lawsuits
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for $20 million. This million dollar land development deal. They're in contempt of court
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on that. They just lost an arbitration hearing, a resounding defeat, uh, at the hands of the
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Winnipeg police association. When they tried, when they passed the bylaw to, to, uh, unilaterally
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change police pensions, just what you want to do in a time of crisis, piss off the police.
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Right. Yeah. Uh, and I'm not saying the pension plan doesn't need to be revisited, but they just
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tried to do it arbitrarily and argued in court. Well, you know, we did a little something in 2006
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and the police didn't say anything. And on every point I read the arbitration ruling, every point,
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the arbitrator, the arbitrator wrote the ruling, said, that's not proof of anything. They're wrong.
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That doesn't show that the police association was going along with this presumption of, of, uh,
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all power over this contract, just terrible problems that mayor Bowman has on top of what's
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going on here. And, and add to that this week, counselor Edie Ross Edie represents an inner city
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North end ward has written to council and the mayor asking for a state of emergency be declared
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over junk being dumped in yards and laneways. Uh, his assistant, a really good, good buddy of mine,
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uh, uh, Aaron McDowell, I've known since he worked in a beer vendor, actually,
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Aaron's his assistant and went out and videotaped back lanes in Minarski and Point Douglas wards.
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Uh, Edie represents, uh, Minarski Point Douglas is adjacent to it. Uh, and there's junk piled up in the
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back lanes of the Duffer neighborhood, the William white neighborhood, uh, by law enforcement, uh,
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knows this is going on. There's also problems in a couple of other neighborhoods and Elmwood and
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St. Fatal, uh, counselor Gilroy, who's on executive policy committee, one of mayor Bowman's inner circle
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circle, Cindy constantly, and, and Ross apparently constantly hear fires being set by this, you know,
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bulk waste, uh, fires. Last year, it was so bad that people on the same side were like yelling at each
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other because there was no efficient way of dealing with it. And the director of community
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service said they can't go on a private property to haul these mattresses and stuff off.
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Counselor Edie point out in his letter that there's landlords are getting junk dumped on their yards
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that aren't coming from their own tenants. And that, that the mayor can, uh, similar to what mayor
00:23:49.220
Cates did in 2012, the American declare a state of emergency. This would enable city workers under
00:23:54.020
the direction of a bylaw officer going up and down the lanes, pointing at a yard going,
00:23:58.100
Hey, get that mattress. Hey, that Chesterfield's got to go and start clearing some of this out.
00:24:04.180
And counselor Edie making the point, uh, and he signed his letters sincerely and desperately.
00:24:11.620
This is a city counselor making this plea that they should be dealing with this now as the snow
00:24:17.380
melts. That's initially fire bug season here in Winnipeg. And before police and fire departments
00:24:23.780
are swamped with COVID related calls. So counselor Edie trying to get ahead of the curve, uh, in terms
00:24:31.060
of what can be done for the city of Winnipeg. Um, one of the thing that I wanted to go back to with
00:24:36.980
you, uh, maybe we can have a brief discussion. Um, uh, we have the, the, uh, Brent Rusin here,
00:24:43.620
Dr. Rusin saying that, uh, masks aren't effective. I know that, uh, you have determined that you
00:24:48.580
have a, you know, you have a different point of view on that. And we, we touched on this briefly
00:24:52.980
yesterday when we were setting this interview up. Um, is our country not faced with a choice
00:24:58.020
between 37 million tests or 37 million masks? I think that it is not one or the other. I think,
00:25:06.580
um, it, we will probably have easier access to masks before testing. Um,
00:25:15.540
and I think that we've had a serious mixed message from the powers that be. And I think you're right
00:25:21.620
when you point out that, uh, they're downplaying the efficacy of masks for the common person,
00:25:29.060
because there is absolutely a shortage because our idiot stick of a prime minister sent them to China
00:25:36.500
in the midst of their COVID crisis, when the masks are actually made in China for the most part,
00:25:42.500
except for now that the United States is, uh, calling on private industry to retool their factories
00:25:48.900
to produce these things. Something we are really not seeing a lot of in Canada, 3M, Jockey, MyPillow,
00:25:55.540
um, a whole host of companies are manufacturers are just turning on, turning on a dime, retooling their
00:26:03.460
factories to produce, um, medical supplies, ventilators, and all kinds of other equipment.
00:26:10.500
We're not seeing a lot of that happening here. I know Canada goose is, uh, creating like medical coveralls,
00:26:16.820
I think. Um, but not a lot of that happening here. Um, I think the, uh, I know Hong Kong did
00:26:24.420
a lot of, um, testing of anybody who wanted it and then isolation of people who, um, tested positive
00:26:32.340
and they were doing that while people were asymptomatic. I think that's the, the real danger
00:26:37.140
time. And I think masks are a good way to deal with that. If you are asymptomatic, so you're not
00:26:42.340
showing any symptoms, but you are positive. You have no idea that you're positive. Wearing a mask
00:26:47.540
protects the world from you. And, uh, so I do think there's a, there is a benefit to the public
00:26:53.700
to be wearing masks. However, I think it's a cultural thing. You and I were talking yesterday
00:26:59.380
when we were setting up this interview, um, in, uh, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it, there's a,
00:27:07.860
it's a cultural courtesy to wear a mask. It's like holding a door open for a lady here. Um,
00:27:14.020
you are showing your fellow Taiwanese citizen that you care about their health. So you're wearing a
00:27:21.380
mask and that you care about yours. It's like washing your hands when you come out of a bathroom,
00:27:25.620
you want to make a big production of it. So everybody knows you're washing your hands.
00:27:29.620
That's the same thing with wearing masks there. Um, and I think, uh, that might be the real thing
00:27:37.300
that we have to overcome in Canada is that we're not accustomed to doing these kinds of things. It's
00:27:42.900
not ingrained in us. Well, it's not just that though, in, in Winnipeg, uh, in Winnipeg, if people start
00:27:50.180
are walking around wearing masks, that's just not going to go over very well with the average person
00:27:55.140
on the street, nevermind, you know, in, uh, for vendors or retailers, you know, it's, it's,
00:28:01.380
it, it, to me, it's so against the grain of, of our Western culture, uh, that I don't know that
00:28:09.380
you can ever really make it acceptable. Uh, you know, this was part of a broader discussion about,
00:28:16.660
you know, how things are, could change in the, in the short term and, and also in the long term,
00:28:22.740
we talked about, for instance, the prospect of a lockdown, uh, essentially what everybody's
00:28:27.220
going through now is, is, you know, two steps short of a full lock of a martial law lockdown.
00:28:32.500
Amazing how many people don't know how to spell Marshall, by the way,
00:28:36.580
that stuns me. Uh, but, but the idea here in Winnipeg, as I mentioned yesterday,
00:28:42.820
that Manitobans, if this thing has a bad spike, not anticipated, but if there's just a,
00:28:49.780
uh, uh, this goes off like some, uh, you know, bulk waste blaze in the North end of an artsy ward.
00:28:57.140
And people were told you got to stay in and there's curfews and whatever. There's a curfew
00:29:00.980
in Ecuador is a friend of mine from Winnipeg stuck in Ecuador right now. And, uh, the curfew there is
00:29:06.420
2 PM. Holy. Yeah. So I guess that's gets hot in the afternoon there anyways, this time of year.
00:29:12.500
And, and have a siesta. Yeah. So it's siesta time anyways. So you get go, go to the market,
00:29:17.620
get your chicken, pluck the feathers, you know, get your, I don't know. I don't know what the,
00:29:22.420
what the native kind of, uh, vegetables and fruit are down there. And then they're indoors from two
00:29:27.060
o'clock on. If this were to extend in Winnipeg past the end of April into may Victoria day. And
00:29:34.100
you've got people who nevermind from the, the, uh, the traditional underclasses, the underemployed,
00:29:42.420
the unemployed, the welfare class, et cetera, that are used to not having a lot of,
00:29:49.700
not having a lot of, you know, bright spots in their life on a day to day basis. Now,
00:29:53.700
everybody's broke. Nothing's open. There's nowhere to go. They're stuck in their place. They're in a
00:29:57.380
brownstone building on Toronto or Victor or Beverly. I'm mentioning those streets for the benefit of
00:30:04.420
people that know what Winnipeg's like, and they got no air conditioning. This is not going to work
00:30:10.900
very easily. If at all. Yeah. We, we are not a, you know, the government is not about to open a depot
00:30:19.700
and start handing out, you know, eight inch electric fans, you know, you know, one, one per
00:30:27.060
household. It would be catastrophic sociologically. If in Manitoba, people are locked up it may June,
00:30:36.340
like through Canada day. Uh, it would, I, I, I, I think that something like that. And I, I don't know
00:30:46.900
what it would be like necessarily in Saskatchewan or Alberta, BC, absolutely unworkable. I can't see
00:30:54.260
people there putting up with being cooped up under government order. You know, I, I, it might be
00:31:01.060
something like the, honestly, it might be something like the black have to be something, you know,
00:31:04.820
if it was approaching level of the black death or how the half of Europe was wiped out in like
00:31:08.900
four years, I think it was sure. People see death all around them. Then it's like, Oh,
00:31:13.940
pardon my French. I'll stay home. I don't think if the numbers don't get like that, I don't know that
00:31:19.780
people are going to buy into the necessity, a necessity to be locked into their own, into their
00:31:26.100
own places. Um, I, but you know, obviously the hope is here that because of our smaller population
00:31:34.660
base and various checkpoints and other things that we'll be able to come out of it relatively
00:31:39.940
unscathed. I mean, for right now, one death and only through four, one of the hospital cases,
00:31:45.300
I forgot to mention, um, was a fall, like a false positive. Yeah. Uh, I happen to have
00:31:55.220
been given the contact information on that individual and I'm going to be trying to get
00:31:59.940
ahold of them and do an interview with them. So our numbers are just so low that we're really hoping
00:32:04.260
that, that it's not going to be, we're not going to end up with extreme measures such as are required in
00:32:08.740
New York, New Jersey. Uh, not yet Chicago, Detroit, I understand as a mess right now.
00:32:16.900
Uh, this ultimately is a big, um, the big middle finger to the, uh, the urban visionaries and their,
00:32:24.340
their dreams of density. And, uh, you know, this vision of the future where we're piled on top of
00:32:30.500
each other, like cordwood. Uh, it's, it's very plain now that when people say they want space,
00:32:36.900
that they want affordable space, that there's a reason why people have single family dwellings,
00:32:43.380
right? Yep. And you know, who's been really quiet through all this, the urbanist crowd,
00:32:48.820
the, the, the, uh, uh, the, uh, global warming crowd. Yep. There's a lot of silence from that,
00:32:57.540
from, from that side of, uh, that side of the equation, global war. Before I forget,
00:33:01.140
we want to talk about carbon tax. Yes. Yes, please. Um, the, on March the 5th, the, uh,
00:33:07.860
Manitoba government announced a plan. It was a combination of an election promise by Premier
00:33:11.860
Pallister to lower the provincial sales tax, which is ridiculously, uh, too high for reasons I won't
00:33:16.820
get into now. Uh, uh, but you know, governments get addicted to having money to spend. Uh, it was
00:33:22.980
going to be lowered from 7% to 6%. He had, he had made that promise and he had combined this rollback
00:33:27.940
with an announcement of a made in Manitoba carbon tax. Again, I remind you all, regardless of what
00:33:33.220
lies are told by political strategists, uh, Brian Pallister in 2016 did not run on the base of a
00:33:38.740
carbon tax whatsoever. Yeah. But he's, he thinks he sees writing on the wall from the Trudeau
00:33:44.420
government and better to do something and try to convince the courts that you're doing something
00:33:48.660
that have something, something else that's way more injurious at a higher rate imposed by the Trudeau
00:33:53.860
government. So, uh, he had proposed a, uh, so-called flat green levy, which I still don't
00:33:59.060
understand how it was being. I don't know if it was being applied like a sales tax or what
00:34:04.100
that he said would save, uh, people, uh, a significant amount, uh, over the Trudeau
00:34:11.140
government levies. If you could convince the courts that Manitoba because of hydropower isn't
00:34:16.180
getting the kind of credit that the Trudeau government is giving other provinces with their
00:34:19.780
own plans. And in that regard, Pallister's right. Trudeau doesn't, does not acknowledge that we are
00:34:25.140
a carbon sink in Manitoba and that in fact there should be no carbon tax or whatsoever.
00:34:29.780
Uh, a hundred percent of the green levy will go back to Manitobans. I don't know how
00:34:33.220
Pallister, he said that. I don't know how Pallister is paying for the administrative costs. Exactly.
00:34:38.100
More hocus pocus. Uh, so he combined this, we're going to lower your taxes here. We're going to add a tax
00:34:43.300
here, but he suspended that now. Uh, there's no plan to move forward with either the sales tax
00:34:49.700
reduction right now, which is understandable because every store would have to read,
00:34:53.780
you know, to retool their cash registers. Wouldn't make sense to do it now. Anyways,
00:34:57.140
I kind of understand that. Uh, but he's not moving forward with the carbon tax,
00:35:00.820
the provincial carbon tax either. Unlike our esteemed prime minister, who as a spending addict,
00:35:07.860
uh, and, uh, and as the, um, you know, the, the crown prince of the globalist movement.
00:35:15.380
Yep. It is. I saw one of these bills and I don't know if it was from Saskatchewan or Alberta
00:35:21.540
was probably from Alberta where the amount of gas, the natural gas they use was like $300 and the tax
00:35:26.740
was 400. Yep. I have yet to meet a human being who can justify this, that the tax is more than the
00:35:35.140
cost of the product as though the product was something that kills people, poisons people.
00:35:40.980
Meanwhile, prime minister announced that who gets to waddle up to the trough one more time.
00:35:49.060
How did he call him? The, he had a comment about the, to describe, uh, Ralph Goodale.
00:35:56.500
Oh Lord. What did he call Ralphie? Oh, I, I try to avoid all Ralph Goodale news expertise of Ralph
00:36:03.620
Goodale. Good Lord. Yeah. He's, he's defeated, but he's back. He's got a new job.
00:36:09.940
Nose right in the trough. Uh, you know, there are a lot of liberals, uh, uh, federally
00:36:15.620
British have been keeping our mouths relatively shot during this period of time. And, uh, and
00:36:20.180
they're doing the right thing. Cause I think some of them are actually embarrassed by the
00:36:23.060
ineptitude that's come out of Ottawa that the, the, uh, the, uh, failure to enact proper
00:36:30.340
screening at customs at airports. Uh, Dr. Tam, uh, Dr. Tam is, is, you know, just to my mind,
00:36:39.460
obviously an apologist for the WHO and the WHO is not to be trusted whatsoever. Uh, that's not
00:36:45.620
conspiracy theory talking. That's those of us that value freedom and liberty and that value straight
00:36:50.500
facts talking. And WHO, you know, is, has been way behind the curve on this for obvious political
00:36:57.060
reasons from the beginning. Uh, and, uh, as I said, a lot of liberals are, are keeping the lips
00:37:03.620
zipped at this stage. Uh, there's a lot more political cooperation going on than, than, you know,
00:37:09.460
considering it's time of crisis than, than maybe we expected the, the, you know, that the volume's
00:37:14.820
pretty loud in, in the Western Canada, a lot of the time in the last, certainly since the going into
00:37:20.260
the federal election and since, uh, but nonetheless, uh, every day, Justin Trudeau, uh, comes out,
00:37:26.580
takes direction in his ear from some, some unknown, uh, unknown producer, uh, says very little. The
00:37:34.260
reporters in Ottawa have just been not, I mean, the importers in Ottawa aren't as good as the reporters in,
00:37:40.340
in Manitoba, honestly, questioning our leader. Uh, uh, but, uh, in the meantime, that carbon tax going
00:37:46.260
up is, uh, how it isn't, you know, how it, this is, I'm sure the only government there's a, I can't
00:37:55.940
imagine. I've not heard of another government that has raised the tax, whether it's an automatic tax
00:37:59.940
hike or invoking a new tax hike. I've not heard of another government on the planet. Yeah. I'll
00:38:05.380
rephrase this in a democracy on this planet, let alone not a democracy that's raised the tax right
00:38:10.580
now. But, uh, Justin Trudeau finds a way. Well, not only raise the tax, raise the carbon tax,
00:38:16.500
but give himself a raise right in the middle of it all too. Just, yes, which supposedly could them
00:38:20.980
in New Zealand. Yeah. And, uh, hardly a surprise given any given the, the mentality of the government
00:38:26.020
of New Zealand. Uh, it's, it's, it's an awful thing that the, the, the, the, the modern day left
00:38:35.140
will cannot stop themselves from belling up to the trough cannot always has an excuse why taxpayers
00:38:41.780
have to give more, but they don't. Yeah. Everything is, everything is an opportunity
00:38:46.900
to either pat themselves on the back or line their pockets with the modern left.
00:38:51.380
Absolutely. Um, we are rapidly running out of time. So I wanted to give you an opportunity
00:38:57.060
to tell us what you're doing next, because, uh, you've touched on just the sheer ineptitude
00:39:03.780
of some of the, uh, journalists around us in the mainstream media. And you are, I think,
00:39:10.260
trying to create something that will fill that void and give people, regular people a voice too.
00:39:17.780
I've, I've had a lot of encouragement in this direction, especially in the last three weeks
00:39:21.060
from some people that are out, you know, frankly, people that are, have been prominent or are
00:39:24.900
prominent in Winnipeg media and, and public affairs. Uh, and, uh, uh, for a variety of reasons,
00:39:31.700
I've been slowed down, uh, through the first part of this year, through the first quarter of this
00:39:36.340
year, slowed down the activities. I'm still the editor of the j.ca. We're going to be putting a
00:39:41.060
story out. There's been a terrific price exacted by the COVID-19 virus on the Jewish, uh, on the,
00:39:48.260
the Jewish religious leadership. And, and I'm not going to lie. A lot of this is the fault of the
00:39:53.140
practices of those religious communities and continuing to congregate in great numbers
00:39:57.300
as this spread in, in places in Europe and in New York city, for instance,
00:40:01.620
going so far as to defy orders, uh, you know, orders not to have these gatherings. Uh, uh,
00:40:07.860
but the, the number of, of rabbis, and these are very, these are learned rabbis. These aren't guys
00:40:13.620
churned out by some of the North American yeshivas, you know, that are, uh, you know, a little less,
00:40:17.940
uh, of the book study and a little more philosophy. These are like really revered authors and, and
00:40:24.180
thinkers, people who are experts in Judaism and in the function of Jews in the modern world.
00:40:30.180
And there's been a tremendous toll, um, in the, the, the, uh, Lubavitcher and the other, uh,
00:40:36.260
religious sects, the, the ultra religious, the black hatter, so to speak, uh, not my family's
00:40:41.460
tradition. This is, you know, further out from, from us. Uh, so we're going to be putting out a
00:40:45.780
story about that and trying to file a story about once a week, uh, on the j.ca, uh, continue to do,
00:40:52.340
to do that, uh, that kind of work. Um, but, uh, a few years ago, and I think this is when I first
00:40:57.700
might've come out of your, your radar, so to speak. It's when I was doing city circus,
00:41:01.460
which was the only program on Shaw TV, uh, that really dealt with community affairs, public affairs.
00:41:07.860
Uh, uh, I think there's one program like it in Vancouver. Uh, I'm trying to remember Vaughn,
00:41:14.820
I'm trying to remember the name of the guy. There's like one show.
00:41:16.420
Like Palmer. Yeah. Yeah. And, and nobody does this kind of stuff. And, and Shaw TV,
00:41:21.060
the other broadcasters, they don't like that. They don't like people doing news coverage
00:41:25.300
because they own the news stations. They own the other networks. They don't want everybody
00:41:29.060
competing and exposing how crappy newscasts are worried about ribbon cuttings and feel good
00:41:34.820
stories and not so much about real news. So what I'm doing is I'm reviving city circus.
00:41:39.620
Uh, there's going to be a YouTube. There is a YouTube channel. I've just never
00:41:43.140
uploaded a video to it. I smartly reserved it and forgot about it a few years ago.
00:41:47.460
Uh, I'm going to put on a newsletter. People can, will be able to subscribe. I'm struggling
00:41:52.420
with MailChimp as we tape this, but hopefully it'll be solved for, for Thursday morning.
00:41:55.780
Uh, I'm going to have one exclusive story to start with every day or every, uh, every issue. I'm going
00:42:01.620
to try to put them out every three days. Um, and I've got some contributors that are going to provide
00:42:06.500
opinion pieces, uh, their own experiences in the community and see how it expands from there.
00:42:11.620
I'd be happy to do in particular for Manitoba plugs for people's businesses and such,
00:42:16.500
fit it in. But I want to do something that's unusual in this market. There are no newsletters
00:42:22.180
going out. You can't go out to Robin's donuts or Tim Hortons and pick a newsletter up now. Really?
00:42:26.500
Yeah. You know, so even if I was in the fit, I've done physical newsletters in the past like that.
00:42:31.220
Uh, but even if you're doing them, you don't really have the distribution now.
00:42:35.140
So I'm going to start it online. I'm going to augment it in between the newsletters with, uh,
00:42:41.700
videos like this, except I won't be talking to you. Um, I've already had a city council volunteer
00:42:46.500
to be interviewed, which is right back in the wheelhouse of what I did on city circus TV
00:42:50.340
on Shaw from 2012 to 20. Uh, I guess it was 20, uh, 16, I think it was, uh, September, 2016. Um,
00:43:00.980
so the, the videos will be about, uh, you know, different issues that have come up items. And my
00:43:06.900
first story, uh, that, uh, I've got, you know, exclusive details of, uh, on March 20th, a Winnipeg cab
00:43:14.500
driver was murdered. And, uh, as you're aware, and many of my followers are, I drove cab for off
00:43:21.380
and on for about 15 years. My father drove cab until his, until he passed away from the time the
00:43:26.420
Valley pot business, uh, uh, uh, uh, collapsed. Uh, he became a cab driver and I ended up driving cab.
00:43:34.580
Uh, and, uh, I was a labor representative, safety representative on a provincial workplace safety
00:43:39.940
and health committee. Uh, driver was murdered. Uh, uh, Belvert tour 44 year old, the media reported
00:43:47.380
that there had been an arrest and that, uh, a fellow named Okoth OB had been arrested and charged
00:43:53.460
with second degree homicide and, uh, four counts of breaching conditions. Not one Winnipeg newsroom,
00:44:00.740
all these professional paid journalists, some of them are on the taxpayers payroll. Not one of them
00:44:06.660
reported. What kind of conditions was he breaching? What is the background of this
00:44:11.380
alleged killer? I have dug into his background. He was on quite a streak from about Christmas
00:44:19.060
till this incident on Burroughs Avenue with a cab, with its emergency light on the doors flung open
00:44:24.660
and a driver dying, bleeding to death after being stabbed in the cab at five 30 in the morning.
00:44:30.100
Uh, I am going to be putting out a story about the accused, about his background,
00:44:36.340
which also goes back into what appears to be interesting affiliations and activities,
00:44:43.140
uh, straight out of high school, which rhymes with straight out of Compton with this guy.
00:44:50.260
Sorry, makes you wonder why he was out on the street at all on conditions. He's the kind of guy who
00:44:54.980
doesn't seem like he would abide by them after a lifetime of being a walking human crime spree.
00:44:59.620
Oh, the pullover. He was pulled over in a vehicle and, uh, before this, uh, murder. And, uh, uh,
00:45:07.700
you know, when you put all the pieces together, um,
00:45:11.460
it, it, it's the kind of information the public has a right to know that the driver's family, Duffy's
00:45:16.900
taxi owners and drivers have a right to know. They do not know it because nobody else is bothered
00:45:22.100
reporting it. I guess that's going to be my job again. Yeah. I'm going to do that. I'm going to have
00:45:26.180
an interview with a city councilor. I've got another story that I'll be working on
00:45:29.860
with regards to more inactitude coming, uh, uh, from mayor Bowman, uh, the, uh, ongoing ticketing
00:45:37.300
of nurses and people that work at healthcare facilities
00:45:42.100
because you've got vultures. There's nobody parked downtown Winnipeg. So now the parking authority,
00:45:46.980
uh, they used to be commissioners or these, these, I don't know. What do you call them?
00:45:51.060
You know, meter maids, meter maids, glorified meter maids are like vultures waiting to prey
00:45:57.620
on people, including nurses and journalists. And this is unconscionable. Nobody Winnipeg media
00:46:04.100
is going to take on mayor Bowman about it. I guess it's going to be up to me. So this is the kind
00:46:08.340
of coverage I'm going to provide with city circus for, you know, next for a few foreseeable months.
00:46:12.500
And, uh, and we'll see how that goes. And if people want to get ahold of me,
00:46:16.180
Marty gold live at gmail.com, I'll add you to the email list. And then through Mailchimp, you'll be
00:46:21.860
able to, to, you know, send it around, add other people. Um, uh, and, uh, I'm just, I'm hoping to be
00:46:28.820
able to do my part to contribute, uh, information back into the community. There's so many reporters
00:46:33.300
that either, you know, they're not used to working from home. They are used to not taking orders in a
00:46:38.100
newsroom. They, uh, they're saddled with all these COVID related stories. And I respect that they've
00:46:44.260
got their assignments, but there's a lot of news that's slipping through the cracks.
00:46:48.180
Like this story from Flin Flon should have been reported in the media for instance, and wasn't,
00:46:53.460
that's the kind of gap I'm going to fill. People want to be able to contribute one way or the other,
00:46:57.540
keep the lights on the internet working. I'll, I'll, of course, uh, provide a link for that.
00:47:02.420
And hopefully I'll be back on with you at the end of April and, uh, give you a further update on, uh,
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all things COVID and non COVID from Winnipeg and from Manitoba.
00:47:12.260
Marty, I want to thank you so much. Uh, when you come on the show, you make my job pretty easy
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because I just sit here and listen to the news. Just blast me in the face.
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It means a lot to me to be able to be, you know, if there's one thing somebody mentioned to me,
00:47:26.260
if there's one mistake maybe that I, that, that I made, or one thing I could have done differently
00:47:30.420
is I should have talked with a little more with, with, with Ezra and the powers that be about,
00:47:35.140
about, uh, actively being, uh, you know, a correspondent for the rebel, because now you've got nobody in
00:47:40.500
Manitoba. It's not so easy to send Keene or somebody else here, but be that as it may,
00:47:44.820
if there's something that I can contribute to rebel, uh, to, uh, the rebel from here at this
00:47:50.260
stage, I'll do it. Uh, and, uh, and I'll do it, you know, through my own channel as well.
00:47:55.460
We need more media coverage, not less. Uh, you saw the free press bleeding about, uh, uh, lack of support
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that the Stephen Jebo is lying about. Yeah. You know what? People like us, we don't want
00:48:09.380
government money. We don't need government money. We want to be able to report on government honestly.
00:48:13.620
We want to be able to hold the government to account. That is not a job that all reporters
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really see as their role. And that's fine, but somebody has got to do it. It's up to people like us.
00:48:23.220
And I appreciate the opportunity to have to appear on your program and, and, and to be able to address
00:48:28.420
the rebel audience and hear back from them on, on Twitter at TG CTS, uh, my former, uh, program,
00:48:34.740
the great Canadian talk show, the acronym for that. Uh, and I can be found on Facebook too,
00:48:38.900
et cetera. And the more in touch I can be with people, the better off. Um, you know,
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the quality of my reporting is both for the J and for now for the revival, uh, of city circus,
00:48:47.860
much to my surprise, uh, out from the ashes, but I found the old logo. So I might as well use it.
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Well, Marty, I want to thank you so much for being so generous with your time. We'll have you on
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the show. I've got you down for the end of April. Uh, best of luck in your new venture.
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And I can't wait to see what you do next. Thank you. Sheila. I'll add you actually the
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mailing us that I think of it, and you'll be able to distribute it as well. Awesome. Thank
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you. And my best regards and best wishes to all the fans and the, the subscribers, uh, and viewers of,
00:49:14.740
uh, of the rebel. This is an important service that's being provided to the Canadian public,
00:49:18.500
especially at a time like this. Thank you, Marty. Stay safe and stay healthy.
00:49:26.580
These are strange and unprecedented times. And I'm afraid to say we couldn't have a worse equipped
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leader in Ottawa to deal with all of this. Trudeau does not know how to inspire and reach out to the
00:49:40.340
business community to produce the things that Canada needs to have to fight the spread of the
00:49:46.500
coronavirus. Trudeau doesn't understand what employers need right now to keep more of their
00:49:51.700
employees on the payroll through all of this. And Trudeau definitely doesn't understand what
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families need to get through any of this. Trudeau's holed up like a hermit in a hovel while the nation
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descends into crisis. And thank goodness for the people of Manitoba that their conservative government
00:50:08.980
realized that a carbon tax would rob what little money families have left. Now, if you at home want to
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support our petition calling on Justin Trudeau to stop his cruel and inhumane carbon tax during this
00:50:23.060
pandemic and, you know, always, please go to StopTheCarbonTax.com. Well, everybody, that's the
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show for tonight. Thank you so much as always for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same
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time in the same place next week. Please stay healthy. Please stay connected to the people you love.
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Reach out to those around you, not physically, however. And remember,
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don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.