DAILY | Calgary police chief claims weekly freedom rally is anti-democratic
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1 hour and 10 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Rebel News Livestream, host David Menzies and co-host Sheila Gunn-Reed discuss St. Patrick's Day, the new name of the day, and why the CBC rebranded it O'Green Day.
Transcript
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, you have tuned into the Rebel News Livestream on
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I'm David Menzies and my co-host will let me tell you a little about my co-host.
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You know, she's my own personal pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, even on those
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days where there are no rainbows, which is most days.
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How come I'm the only one wearing green and it took a while to find the right shade of
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green that I could work in front of a green screen wearing?
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I have a beautiful green tie that I bought only for St. Patrick's Day, really.
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This red, white, and blue ensemble has nothing to do with a slight against the good people
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I'm not, because I just feel exhausted for some reason.
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And, you know, I think, you know, when you look at St. Patrick's Day, New Year's Eve,
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don't you find there's a bit of amateur hour attached to that, Sheila, that there's this
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And, you know, it's amazing because even woke culture, political correctness, they've
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And to make St. Patrick's Day more inclusive, they renamed it O'Green Day.
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And I thought, you know, that's kind of an Irish thing, you know, the O apostrophe thing.
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I mean, there's not a lot of O'Muhamads in the world, right?
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There's not a lot of O'Schmitz in the world, right?
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So, they don't even know what they're doing, Sheila.
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You know, they try to make something more inclusive and they make it just as exclusive
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as the original name was, which was never exclusive anyways, in any regard, because
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Yeah, we've got to get the fact that it's actually a Catholic day right out of there.
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If you don't like St. Patrick's Day, you don't have to actually have anything to do with it.
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You can just pretend it's, you know, March 17th, which it is, and just go about your business.
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Why do you have to un-Catholic it and change the name?
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You know, you're 100% right, but there, I guess there are some occasions where that is
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the rationale and there are others that have to be rebranded.
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The most famous, I think, is Christmas, which is, you know, this special time of year, happy
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holidays, you know, dancing around that C word.
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We don't want to come out and say that C word in case anyone gets offended.
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And you know what the funny thing is, Sheila, the non-Christians in my life are the very
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least offended people by saying Merry Christmas.
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So again, it goes back to, are these white virtue signaling liberals getting around a table,
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you know, fretting about a fix to a problem that doesn't exist?
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Yeah, again, the supply of racism never quite meets the demand for racism.
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I'm currently sitting through, well, I'm going through access to information documents,
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some from the CBC about their racial diversity quotas.
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And there's more to the story, but I don't want to give the story away.
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It might come out today or tomorrow, next day, but also on the CBSA.
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So the Canada Border Agency about their unconscious bias training, because even if you're not racist,
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Not only do the liberals tell you everything is racist when you're like, no, I'm pretty
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So even if you're not thinking racist things or doing racist things, somewhere deep in your
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And the solution for not being overtly racist or even, you know, passively racist is still
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anti-racism training, because that's not a scam.
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Who do they hire to consult in these reports, Sheila?
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You know, the amazing Kreskin, the great ravine and assorted other mentalists who can read
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And these are the same people that say, at least during the last two years of COVID,
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Oh, you're not saying you're doing anything racist, but I can, you got that look in your
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You don't like a certain group, but I'm calling you out.
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It's this neat little scam where it's like, you create the racism problem.
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And even if you're not racist, you're unconsciously racist.
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They're like, ah, that's exactly what an unconscious racist might say.
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So you, it's the same people shouting that everything is systemically racist that are
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selling the re-education programs to deal with the racism that isn't there, but they
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have to create the problem to get paid to fix the problem.
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Well, Sheila, before we dither away, usually about this point in time, you tell the folks
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out there what the ostensible policy reason is of this live stream show.
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Yeah, no, we only wasted seven minutes, which is like pretty decent.
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Sometimes it's 15 minutes before we even tell everybody what we're doing here.
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Used to just be hosted on Friday, just hosted by Ezra Levant.
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Then the pandemic struck, there was more news than ever, but you could not count on the
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mainstream media to actually discuss that news because, frankly, they're subsidized
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We thought since the news is breaking and changing every single day, one of the best ways to address
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the news is to sit down and talk about it as it happens.
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So that's how the live stream expanded from just Friday to five work days.
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And Ezra is too busy running Canada's largest independent media company most days to sit
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However, we have an excellent stable of hosts that run the show at least four days of the
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So always make sure that you're watching because you never know when you're going to get
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So this used to be a great way not only for us to interact with each other, but David, you
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But for our viewers to interact with us and support the work that we do completely willingly
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And it's really only a matter of time before we're gone from YouTube altogether.
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But we're staying there because they don't want us there.
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However, we are also simultaneously broadcasting on other platforms, Getter.
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I think this is the fourth week that we're doing that.
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And we're also on Rumble, Odyssey, and Super U.
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And all three of those free speechy platforms allow you to support the work that we do.
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like my hair, whatever, send it to me in a message.
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And, you know, the first topic on the docket here, I had to read it three times because
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The freedom rallies in that city are taking on an underlying anti-democratic angle.
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You know, Sheila, the Calgary police service, speaking about.
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The pastor arresting maniacs at the Calgary police service?
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The the taser drawing officers for the the hockey player.
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Those cats talking about anti-democratic angles to freedom protests.
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It's kind of like, you know, the fox wanting to consult with the farmer for the design of
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Because what what this is all about, of course, is that I don't know this district, but people
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The Calgary police are asking people to stay away.
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We want our downtown to be a safe and welcoming place.
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And Sheila, tell me this two years ago with the Calgary police service have issued a tweet
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about, oh, I don't know, Black Lives Matter protests going to this intersection.
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Because that was one of the most idiotic tweets I've seen come out of a police service.
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And I pay attention to the UK police where they brag about taking knitting needles off
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And I pay very close attention to the Ottawa police, which are terrible.
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And their communications people are awful, too.
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Because it's simultaneously hilarious and ridiculous all at the same time.
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So we are asking people, anyone who intends to protest in the Beltline and 17th Avenue,
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to stay away because we want our downtown to be safe and welcoming.
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You can't tell people to stay away and then say that you want downtown to be welcoming.
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I covered it just about every week before Adam came on board with the company.
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They've been marching for two years without incident.
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Sure, maybe they might be getting a little bit tedious, but that's not illegal.
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Nobody, that's not something for the police to deal with.
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The only time this even got a little frisky down there was when the anti-freedom protesters,
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I would call them the pro-lockdown protesters, showed up last week and the police, in their
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ineptitude, kettled everybody into the same intersection, which is a policing problem, not
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But the only time this ever became a problem was when the pro-lockdown protesters showed up
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at, you know, and the demonstrators down there, it's a hundred to one just about for freedom
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versus pro-lockdown protesters based on Sid's footage from last week.
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And it was those, that little pocket of pro-lockdown, pro-government control people,
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Now the police, instead of saying, you know what, these guys have been doing this piece,
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you know, if this is, if democracy is first come, first serve, and I don't think it is,
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but let's just concede that it is for the sake of argument here.
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If it is first come, first serve, those people were there first being peaceful.
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If that's the solution we have to go about, or the anti, the anti-freedom people, they could
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just behave themselves because that's all we're asking them to do.
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This guy's my favorite, by the way, let's roll sound on this guy and rewind.
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These left-wing lunatics and they're, so I just noticed I'm an openly gay conservative.
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There's more blacks, Asians on our side than there is on their side.
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Their diversity is they have every shade of white over there.
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I am not with these left-wing lunatics and they're making up facts and believe in it
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And can I ask you, do you have any inclination?
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Like, my message is, if you want to wear a mask, wear one.
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These are promoting oppression, fascism, communism, authoritarianism.
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I want that guy to be the police chief of Calgary.
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And, Sheila, what is the mask rule in Alberta right now?
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So, again, you can tell people's politics by the fact that they're wearing a mask outside.
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I feel a little bit sorry for you that you're still living in fear.
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But don't force your politics, because that's what this is about, onto everybody else.
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Like, the people are marching in the streets in Calgary because Alberta is still not free.
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Because people have still lost their jobs because of the vaccine passport.
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People cannot fly or take a train internally in our own country because of the vaccine passport.
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And, in fact, actually, maybe we'll—I'm sort of springing this on our producers.
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But even in Alberta, where we are probably the most free place in the country right now, if you are symptomatic for COVID, which means the sniffles, but you test negative—so, even if you have a negative test, you are still legally required to isolate.
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So, you go under house arrest in the freest place in the country if you have a cold and not COVID.
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And we have a clip of the public health necromancer, Dina Hinshaw, saying that the other day.
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I may have a stuffed-up nose for other reasons.
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I may have a stuffed-up nose for the rest of my life.
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But according to Dina Hinshaw, I'm supposed to be under house arrest.
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But legally, in Alberta, I'm supposed to be isolating.
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Well, indeed, let's see what the necromancer has to say.
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Also, as a reminder, if you are symptomatic and test negative, you are still legally required to isolate until all symptoms are gone.
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The COVID-19 assessment tool at ahs.ca slash COVID screen is available to help determine what type of care is needed based on your symptoms.
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Also, as a reminder, if you are symptomatic and test negative.
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Can you even believe, like, you have a negative test, but you cleared your throat a little too aggressively in the Walmart, and you are legally required to go home and isolate.
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Like I said, I have a congenital problem with my sinuses, so I constantly have a stuffed-up nose or a runny nose.
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And apparently, according to the Alberta government, I'm a scofflaw by going to get groceries.
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Sheila, clearly, I think these people just want this to go on, even if there is no science to support it.
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And the reason why I asked about the mask law, because in Ontario, on Monday, the mask law disappears.
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And, you know, it's going to be very interesting starting on Monday when there's no legal requirement for most places,
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because if you're on public transit, hospitals, long-term care health, you'll still have to wear the mask.
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And it'll be interesting to see who still diapers up, you know, in the public square,
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because then you know what their politics are without even having a conversation, right?
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I mean, and also, what I want to understand is that if the chief medical health officer has said,
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that's it, don't need the mask anymore, thanks for listening to me the last two years,
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well, then what makes the person still donning a mask?
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But what makes that person think, ostensibly, Sheila, that they know more about virology
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than the chief medical health officer, because for two years, we've been told,
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these are the experts, follow them, they know who's who in the zoo.
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Yeah, maybe they're coming around to my way of thinking, though, but just on the other side,
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where I'm like, I'm pretty sure these people don't know what they're doing.
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And I'm not altogether sure why I have to listen to them,
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because they keep changing their advice all the time.
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So this is just the flip side of the same coin,
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where they're looking at these people saying, you've changed your mind 20 times,
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but unlike me, they are content to live in fear.
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So they're just going to now overreact in the other direction,
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where I'm always happy to overreact in the direction of freedom,
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But this is just, I guess it's a symptom of how little the public on both sides of the argument now
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trust our public health authorities, because they just spent the last two years nuking their own credibility.
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And Sheila, speaking of public health, maybe Olivia can cue this up.
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It was based on our visit to the Radisson last week,
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The head office in Minnesota wanted nothing to do with this hotel.
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But they are putting up refugees there on the taxpayer tab.
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And we were there, that is to say, Isabel and I, just to do the victory lap.
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People might recall that the employee there, David Strong,
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Yeah, got triggered and decided he would physically assault us
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And we won a $1,000 reward from small claims court.
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because it happens far too often, quite frankly,
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that, you know, you might disagree with us, that's fine.
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But you can't cross that line of getting handsy with our people and our equipment.
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We were there and I said, maybe what we should do, Isabel,
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is just do some streeters of the people that live there.
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I'm not confident because I've done this in the past and nobody wants to talk.
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They've been media trained, air quotes, not to speak to anyone with a microphone.
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And that was the case with the first four people we spoke to.
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And then the fifth one, this lady, Nora, oh, my gosh.
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Did she open up a window in terms of what's going on in that hotel?
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And, well, I won't spoil it, but let's just say it is filthy.
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It has infestations of bedbugs and cockroaches.
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is that we have people walking into a store without a mask getting fined $1,500,
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And that's so, you know, so urgent for the city Toronto Public Health Unit.
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We treat our fellow healthy citizens like they are cockroaches.
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And meanwhile, where there is a real health issue and, you know, I think, Sheila,
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I think I speak for you in this, wherever you stand on the ideological scale
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of whether we should be bringing in refugee claims or not, that's one thing.
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The thing is, if you are going to bring them in, you know,
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And, folks, without further ado, let me throw to that video
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and just wait till you see the conditions at this Radisson Hotel.
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Deem Mr. Strong to be assaulting us and trying to damage our equipment.
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we encountered a lady who is a resident of this hotel.
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This hotel is basically exclusively for refugees and refugee claimants.
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Oh, I was just wondering what it's like to be here.
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Can you describe the conditions inside the hotel, ma'am?
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Okay, and I'm not able to go back to my country.
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I wish all the world to say sorry for my kids' life,
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That's like the cockroaches jumping in the foot.
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Anyone here would like to live that's my kid's life?
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He would like to have that life for his kids inside Canada?
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I said, outside, it's better to clean more inside.
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You don't need to be around people or kids, okay?
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I need a few surgeries, and no one hearing that.
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Not the kids protector or the refugee or something.
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Personally speaking, I don't think there's any excuse in the 20...
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Like you say, David, no matter where you fall down on the refugee issue
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or how this woman came to be inside of our country,
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maybe we could take some of the health cops off of the protester beat
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and deal with some of these disgusting places like this.
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The Canadian taxpayer is paying damn good money to these hotels,
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And I just think about, you know, when it comes to your priorities,
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where the city officials have spray-painted social distancing circles.
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You can only have six in a circle, and you must be socially distanced.
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Yeah, John Tory turned Hyde Park during cherry blossom season
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into basically East Berlin circa 1946, where everything was fenced off.
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And meanwhile, there is this cesspool going on.
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See, and here's my theory, and I have no way to prove it,
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because as you know, I did reach out to the hotel.
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It was the shortest interview in Rebel News history, I think.
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It was, hello, yes, hi, this is David Menzies, Rebel News speaking.
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And you're probably getting, I'm guessing, full rack rate,
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My feeling is, if I'm the owner of this property,
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Why am I buying even cleaning products at Dollarama
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I'm not in a competitive environment with other hotels anymore.
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the city, which has a department called Toronto Public Health,
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and it's been four days now since they've known about it.
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and the bureaucracy in general operates at glacier-like speed, right?
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Pretend this place is an illegal barbecue restaurant.
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and all the king's men to come trotting into Adamson barbecue.
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I mean, we're in a 21st century Western nation, Sheila.
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And I can't even get answers, but don't worry, folks.
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This was a cosmic fluke that we were in the right place
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And it is unacceptable and it has to be altered for sure.
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as a COVID infraction through the tips line in Toronto
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and maybe they'll actually have somebody come out.
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Reporting noncompliance, City of Toronto for COVID.
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And this is the most vulnerable amongst us, right?
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I might even do a gag, you know, phone call, Sheila,
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I mean, there's people there, the lights are on
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it's like you and I going to the Mandarin buffet.
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Not that I'm saying that the Mandarin is garbage.
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they can only relocate the raccoon they capture
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that a black squirrel can't inhabit Alberta, Sheila?
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the pastor arresting absolute tyrant in Calgary.
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That's what he's calling the freedom protesters.