COVID Hotels： Reviews and Assault Allegations
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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 favourite Rebels.
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Kian Bextie recently checked into one of those COVID quarantine hotels
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upon returning to Canada from the great state of Florida.
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Kian joins us to give us all the nitty-gritty details
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on what it's like to stay at L'Hotel Justin Trudeau.
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And while Kian had an awful time at the Calgary property he stayed at,
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This allegedly happened to a woman staying at a Montreal quarantine hotel.
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Jerea Humphrey was able to recently interview her.
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what this woman experienced was downright shocking, disgraceful, and completely illegal.
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And you had plenty to say about an essential worker
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returning home to Sudbury, Ontario from California
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he was forced to stay in that rat-bag Radisson quarantine hotel in Toronto.
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I'm going to go there and see what's happening.
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Is this form for you guys or for the government?
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Just call the front desk and schedule the time with them.
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So that you can place an order for the snack and for the dinner for tonight.
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And they will also take your order for next day.
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Yeah, it sounds like that, but we'll treat you in a moment.
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But I should be allowed to go home, see my partner.
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I was told that the locks had been removed from the doors.
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The risks of me being in this hotel are greater, you know, with me being here than if I just
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And actually, the conservative opposition has called for a suspension of this program.
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I don't know why they didn't just call for an abolition of the whole thing, because this
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Well, doggy, as Uncle Jed Clampett used to say.
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Remember how the very idea of COVID-19 jails and quarantine camps used to be dismissed as
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Remember how Ontario MPP Randy Hillier was mocked and laughed at in the legislature for
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Well, barely a few months later, it has all come to fruition, and no one knows that better
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That staffer said they were going to take really good care of you.
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So tell us, if you were writing a review regarding this property, how many stars do you give it
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I'd give it zero stars out of five on account of the fact that my freedoms were confiscated
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Well, you know, Kian, that was an unfair question.
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I should have prefaced it by saying you're allowed to give negative numbers, too.
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But anyhow, Kian, it was a fascinating report to see you in that hotel doing your daily dispatches.
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Here, in the big picture scheme of things, this is what has me scratching my head.
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But this month, we're approaching the one-year anniversary of all the lockdowns that we
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And what I don't understand is, why wasn't there this due diligence of shutting down
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international air travel a year ago from the COVID hotspots around the world?
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That's what Taiwan did instead of shutting down their whole economy.
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Why did it take the Justin Trudeau Liberals almost 12 months to put this plan into action?
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Justin Trudeau has been behind the eight ball throughout this entire pandemic.
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Right from the get-go, Justin Trudeau's advisers and bureaucrats were telling us one thing.
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And then two months later, they come back with completely polar opposite 180 advice.
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And whether it's his advisers telling him one thing and then changing the tune a little bit
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later, or whether it's just pure incompetence at the very top, it's not clear.
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But the only thing we can see right now, and looking back, and of course, we've seen since
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the get-go that this has all just been almost a show.
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And secondly, there's just massive frustration with the government when it comes to anyone
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who has to deal with them for any reason when it comes to the pandemic, and most especially
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You know, I think you nailed it, Kian, when you said just a show.
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That's what we're really talking about here, isn't it?
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It's the Justin Trudeau Liberals doing political street theatre, showing the Canadian public,
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you see how much we care about your safety, you see the extent we're going to quarantine
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And there's probably some people there saying, yeah, people shouldn't be travelling anyways,
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but there are people returning to Canada for cancer treatment appointments.
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There are people returning to Canada after they had to bury their father or mother overseas.
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The point I'm getting at is there is indeed essential travel, and yet they're almost being
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made martyrs by this grotesque political street theatre we see playing out.
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I take, like, and I'm sure you agree, you know, there's people that are travelling for
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They're going to go see their dying brother in San Francisco, or they're attending the funeral
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But, you know, that's just the sympathetic cases.
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We have, you know, anyone has a right to travel, and people saying otherwise, people who are
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butthurt and supporting the government in this way and about this issue, they're just mad
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that either, A, they don't have the courage to do anything that the government doesn't
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tell them to do and holds their hand through, or B, they couldn't afford to travel and go
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That's basically what we're dealing with, right?
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Either these super sympathetic cases or people who are going on vacation and living their
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People are just envious and jealous and lame losers, frankly, if they are targeting these
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people and think that they are, you know, somehow to blame for anything at all, right?
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The evidence shows that people, A, either aren't bringing back COVID, or the people that are
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and travelling are essential travellers who are exempt from this anyways.
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And that's the vast majority of travellers anyway, so focusing in on these people who
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are either going on vacation, good for them, or going to go see their dying mom, how do
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And I would say that, you know, we have learned so much in the past year, haven't we?
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I mean, I look at my streeters at Pearson International Airport from a year ago.
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I was going there with gloves on, masks, goggles, because, you know, this was really serious.
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It was almost like this was Ebola we were dealing with.
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We know there is a very selective demographic that dies from this virus.
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And, you know, so we've got all this knowledge which, first of all, would suggest that's when
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the international travel should have been clamped down a year ago.
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Who cares where you're traveling now because of what we do know about this virus?
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During the Christmastime break, MLAs, MPs, MPPs, they were buggering off to the Caribbean, to Hawaii.
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So obviously, they know that this is not danger.
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Why would they put their friends, colleagues, and family members in jeopardy by going abroad
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if they thought that they were going to be a super spreader upon their return?
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I have, you know, I think I'm a good example of this.
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I've been on about 100 flights on 100 different planes since the pandemic started.
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I've been in a crowd of a million people with not a single person wearing a mask.
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I've watched straight through it, beelined through it, actually, at the Washington day on January 6th.
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I've interviewed hundreds of people, and I've not gotten sick.
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It doesn't make you a risk, even, I don't think.
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And that's the exact kind of politics that Justin Trudeau tries to virtue signal that he opposes, right?
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But when it comes to this group of people who are traveling or seeing their parents or going on vacation,
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for some reason it's okay to scapegoat them and make an entire country feel like they somehow are being hurt,
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either physically or financially through the country needing to stay locked down,
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that somehow the responsibility for that lies at the hands and feet of these people who are traveling.
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Obviously, that's not the case, but Justin Trudeau needs desperately someone to blame outside of his own incompetence.
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You know, Kian, just like yourself, for the past year, I've been going to anti-lockdown protests.
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I've been going to protests where there's large crowds of unmasked people.
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So, but wrap-up question, my friend, this is being done for political reasons, not public safety reasons.
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My question to you, Kian, is that at the end of the day, when it comes to these quarantine hotels,
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is this a political win or a political loss for the Justin Trudeau Liberals?
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This is a huge, huge blow to Trudeau, and I think it's a blow in a way that he hasn't typically seen.
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When it comes to SNC-Lavalin or the WE scam, those people who were sharing those stories and who were upset by it
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were people who were already upset with Justin Trudeau and already knew that he was a corrupt insider politician.
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The people who were upset about this travel ban and this hotel scam are his base.
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You know, I'll refer to a tweet by Amanda Alarvo or whatever her name is.
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She's this Liberal Party pundit, like the definition of a Liberal Party hack,
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taking to Twitter to talk about how embarrassing Justin Trudeau is and how embarrassing this policy is, this scheme is.
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That's his base. His base are people who travel, you know, these elites who go on vacation all the time.
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And additionally, the people who are returning and going into these COVID hotels are people typically
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who have dual citizenship and family in another country.
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It's typically people from immigrants, basically, which, of course, are Justin Trudeau's base.
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If you look at that video of people telling those hotel staff that they're not animals and they deserve lunch
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and they deserve food, that was all minorities.
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And that is a huge amount of people who formerly would have voted Justin Trudeau without a second thought.
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But now that Justin Trudeau is getting between them and their family, getting between them and their freedom,
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Justin Trudeau is going to have to answer the polls for this.
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But as we've seen in the past with the numerous scandals, Blackface, Gropegate, SNC-Lavalin,
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this guy seems to be made of Teflon when it comes to anything sticking to him.
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But time will tell, I suppose, in the next federal election.
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Kian, great to see you back at home and out of that horrible hotel.
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And thanks for weighing in regarding your experience.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Why don't you tell us what happened when things got even more scarier for you?
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I opened my door to get some attention for the bottle of water that I had asked for since yesterday
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and then like a couple of hours before the situation.
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And there was no one there except this guy across me waiting outside his door as well.
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Just looked like a normal guy my age, you know.
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And that's when he kind of switched the conversation to like, oh, it sucks.
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And I was like, haha, you know, I have a boyfriend.
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And then I think the conversation just continued for like a little bit.
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And he kind of just like let go of his door, which closes automatically, right?
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And it takes him like two steps to get into my room.
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So he kind of just like, my door was already open, right?
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I did not say, hey, enter my room and close the door.
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It closes once it's pushed, you know, and I move.
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And so he made himself at home, then just started like touching me, asking me, like
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cornering me in the bathroom, had pulled out a condom, had asked me to sleep with him
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many times and pretty much begging me, telling me he hasn't had sexual intercourse in a really
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And finally, I like kind of like moved him to get out of the bathroom.
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And I like, I kept repeating myself, you need to get out.
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And that's when I started videotaping because he was not getting out and I was scared and
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So you only kind of get the bottom view, but you hear everything.
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He kept telling me like, oh, yeah, come on, like, just like trying to push me into all
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So that's when I kind of like escorted him to the front and he wasn't leaving.
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Like, if you make sure there's no security for like for me to get in trouble.
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And then when I turned around, he was like, oh, I'm already turned on.
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And he's looking at himself in the mirror like a psychopath.
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And then I was like getting more irritated, scared.
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And if these allegations are indeed proven true, then what happened here is both egregious
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And it raises a whole new raft of questions regarding how it could have even occurred in
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Joining us now for the latest chapter regarding yet another lotel quarantine.
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And what an ugly chapter it is indeed, is Drea Humphrey.
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So, Drea, before we get into the gist of this story, we had to blur the face of the victim
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Because there's a publication ban on this story.
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But if the alleged victim is willing to go on camera and be fully identified, why is there
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I asked Sarah that and she wasn't sure why as well.
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She's such a brave woman and she really wanted to get her story out to help prevent it from
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And she's not afraid of showing her face while she does that.
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So, yeah, it's hard because there's so much going on and you don't know from one province
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But it seems very peculiar to me that that's happening.
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You know, Drea, I got to tell you, I mean, in the realm of publication bans, it used to
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But now judges seem to be handing them out like candy at Halloween.
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It's inexplicable, especially in a case like this one where the victim, the alleged victim
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This idea of the doors being, you know, unlockable or non-lockable, whatever the right word is,
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whoever thought that would be a good idea, especially for, say, a single woman staying
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I mean, it's not safe for anyone to stay in a suite with a whole bunch of people and they
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can somehow get into your room if they work there.
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And we even saw in another report that Yankee just did that it wasn't just her that that
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There's sometimes there's rooms without locks and all of that.
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You know, Drea, when I went out to one of the Toronto Airport hotels and at least I finally
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got a manager to come on camera, although he really wasn't that good at providing tangible
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One of my queries was who's doing the training and what kind of training are these security
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Because, again, if these allegations are true and we should stress nothing's been proven
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This would suggest to me that there's not a lot of screening going on.
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And that's crazy because if you're a Boy Scout leader, if you're a hockey coach, you've got
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You've got to make sure that you pass the criminal background check.
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And that's something that we're definitely going to have to get to the bottom of for sure.
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And if anybody has the answers, but they're scared of letting us know, you know, we love
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We're happy to work with you and keep you in confidence.
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And, you know, the authorities should be given these answers.
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They deferred my calls to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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You phone that 1-800-Quarantine-Hotel line, Drea, I don't know anyone who has ever successfully
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spoken to a human being there before being disconnected.
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But, I mean, I think this is enough grist for the mill for the federal government to acquiesce
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basically to what Michelle Rempel-Garner has been saying.
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Shut this program down now because this is unacceptable.
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Sexual assault in the name of we're protecting you?
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And, yeah, what more do they need to make the right decision?
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Like, who else is going to be hurt because of this?
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And I would suggest as well that I wonder if someone could make a personal safety statement
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in terms of, especially if you are a single woman going to one of these hotels and saying,
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I'm sorry, based on what I've heard, I don't feel safe here.
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Why am I in this hotel to begin with that doesn't even have locks on the doors?
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I think that's a valid excuse or argument to say, I don't want to be here.
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Yeah, actually, I have a report coming up with a woman who did just that.
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And what happened to her out here in Vancouver was a completely different experience than that.
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We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns going into effect.
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And so they've had almost a year to think about these quarantine hotels.
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And evidently for the federal government, that's not enough time.
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But, you know, I want to see this next report of yours because what I see, Drea,
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is the Public Health Agency of Canada using fear and intimidation tactics if you don't go to these hotels.
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For example, you stand to be fined $1,800 per person per day if you don't go to the hotel.
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And if you're found to be in breach of the Quarantine Act, you face a penalty of up to $750,000.
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In other words, you're going to lose your house and six months in jail.
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So these are the tactics, the economic penalization that is probably making people think otherwise of just hopping in an Uber and going home.
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I mean, it's quite frightening to hear those things.
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But something that as a woman I was taught, I passed that down on to my daughter as well,
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is if you're being kidnapped, you do everything you can to avoid going to the second location.
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And I'm sorry, I am not going into some sort of facility.
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I will fight tooth and nail if I have to fight the fine or what have you and plead my case.
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You know, talk to your lawyer if you're thinking of that.
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And I guess if we ever got Justin Trudeau to weigh in on this, I'm just wondering what he would say.
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Oh, probably something like, well, she experienced it differently.
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Well, Drea, thank you so much for a great report.
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And I look forward to your next installment in the days ahead.
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I just want to add one more thing to follow up on the story of the alleged assault.
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So if you are just as upset about what you heard there and you want to make a difference there,
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please go to NoCovidJails.com and donate whatever you can.
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So that will go directly towards her legal defense or whatever the right term is for that.
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And I can hardly wait to see the follow up on this story.
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And there will be a follow up, won't there, my friend?
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David Menzies for Rebel News here in Sudbury, Ontario.
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And folks, Mike, unfortunately, is suffering from cancer.
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The reason for him coming back to Canada was he had a very important appointment with his doctor regarding his cancer treatment.
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And if you can imagine, thanks to these cockamamie quarantine rules, Mike was not only prevented from going to that medical appointment, he was put in one of those ratty Radisson hotels.
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And this is, I think, the timeline was Wednesday.
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And yet, when you arrived, when you landed in Toronto, and you were expected to being picked up by your wife to go to a regular hotel, what were you told?
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I was told that my test was no longer valid because it was not within the 72 hours.
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Obviously, we either read it wrong or they have to rewrite it, saying that the test has to be done in that 72 hours.
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So, in other words, if you had the test done on Sunday, according to their math, you would have got the results on Wednesday.
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And because they're not accepting the COVID test, Mike, they're saying to you, now you have to go to one of those lovely government quarantine hotels?
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There was two people in a small van and they escorted me to that hotel.
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But before that, they did make me do a COVID test at the airport.
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And were those, I take it the results weren't immediately available, right?
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And I did not get the results until Saturday, 10-ish.
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And then they tell me it's going to take another 12 to 24 hours to get out because there's only one quarantine officer on duty to fill out the paperwork.
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And I take it the hotel you were taken to was the infamous Radisson on 640 Dixon Road?
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Well, I'm not visiting it, you know, the actual property because I've already got one trespass ticket.
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But every Thursday at 4, Patriots show up to try to spring the inmates.
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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, not only was Mike Bedard held against his will,
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this essential worker also missed his doctor's appointment to have his cancer treated.
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But I guess that was for his own safety and well-being too, right?
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In any event, you had plenty to say about this man who received zero compassion,
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but plenty of aggravation and disrespect from government workers and members of law enforcement,
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Well, thank God we have Rebel News giving us the truth.
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Well, thank you, sir, but the real person you need to thank is Ezra Levent, the driving force behind this company.
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Oh, and by the way, the local media outlet, Sudbury.com, they completely botched this story,
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making it seem like Mike was the bad guy, if you can believe it.
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There should be a massive lawsuit filed against the Liberal government for what they're doing to Canadian citizens.
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Oh, Neil, as sure as the sun sets in the West, those lawsuits are coming, my friend.
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The Quarantine Act, with a stroke of a pen, we lose our rights.
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Indeed, and the people dishing out this misery tend to be public health officials.
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In other words, unelected, non-accountable bureaucrats earning high six-figure salaries.
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I actually just called Sudbury.com and spoke to a reporter.
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I asked why they would not tell the whole story and why they didn't check the facts.
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I said, and there is always two sides to the story and why they wouldn't check before they printed it.
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I asked if they were going to print a retraction and he said no.
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I told them they have screwed this poor fellow's life and they have been getting threats.
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The media release Sudbury.com printed from the Sudbury Police Service was also riddled with inaccuracies.
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Yes, Michael, that pretty much nails it when it comes to how the Justin Trudeau Liberals are completely mismanaging this pandemic.
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.