DAILY ο½ China raids Hong Kong paper
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1 hour and 7 minutes
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Summary
Ezra Levant's last Christmas in Hong Kong, and why you should never go to China. Ezra's thoughts on the Hong Kong situation, and his deep regret about not taking the family to Hong Kong last Christmas.
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Well, hi everybody. Ezra Levant here. How you doing? That little warning censorship
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doing it under duress. That's just for YouTube. But we're streaming this program on four channels.
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We are on rumble.com. We are on superu.net, which I'm just delighted about. We are on
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diversify where we are to make it less likely that we can be shut down. I'm absolutely certain we will
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be shut down one day by YouTube. But hopefully by then we will have put down roots in these other
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channels. Let me talk. What didn't make it? The warning didn't make it to YouTube? Okay.
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I heard there was a glitch. We're going to play that warning again. You can't, you know what? The
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So we put that up there to let you know that we're being censored because the worst thing to do would
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be to censor ourselves quietly so that you think we're not doing it. Now, I'm going to say what I'm
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going to say. And maybe wearing that little garlic clove around my neck will ward off the vampires.
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Maybe it won't. We don't know. It's so whimsical and capricious over there in YouTube land.
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Just a quick word about our other platforms. Right now we have 213 people watching on YouTube,
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which makes no sense given that we have 1.47 million subscribers there. They're obviously
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throttling us. On Rumble, we have 818 people watching, even though we have less than 100,000
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subscribers there. So you can see it's out of joint. On the SuperU Free Speech Channel, we have 20
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through a cryptocurrency called Library. And we have 26 people watching from them now. All right,
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enough preamble. It is appropriate, however, that we talk about censorship because a terrible thing is
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happening in Hong Kong right now. And I was just saying to Justin this morning that I've had the
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pleasure of being to Hong Kong several times in my life, once when I was in my early 20s. I don't recall
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the details of it. Actually, I don't remember how I got there. And it's just an amazing city,
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truly on par with New York, London, just one of the world's great cities. It's great because it's
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the best of the Chinese culture, plus the best of the British culture, plus the best of all the
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expats from around the world. It's like the best people from all around the world go to this place.
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And the freedom and the energy and the creativity. And, you know, I think there's 300,000 Canadians
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there. I don't know exactly. So you have so many. It's just like a perfect
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future place, but also deeply rooted in Chinese culture, history, food, language.
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But hundreds of years of British civil liberties, rule of law. So it was just the one of the best
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places in the world. And my deep regret is that last Christmas 2019, the last Christmas of freedom,
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I had this theory that we would take the family to Hong Kong, but that wasn't really a kid's friendly
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Christmas vacation. So I was sort of outvoted. And now it's impossible to go there. If you are
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Canadian, you should not go to China. If you are a critic of the Chinese government like me,
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you should never go to China. And I would add Hong Kong into that. I went to mainland China
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a dozen years ago. Obviously, I could never do that again. But I do not feel that I could go to Hong
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Kong again. And I think a lot of good things are going to start leaving Hong Kong. Not a lot,
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not everything. I mean, there's no shortage of capitalists willing to sell communists. The
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rope by which to hang them is, I think, Solzhenitsyn said. But anything that relies on freedom and
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dissent, and I think you're going to see that slowly move out of Hong Kong, maybe to Singapore,
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maybe to Taiwan. I want to show you what I'm talking about. As you know, I follow a lot of
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Chinese social media designed like propaganda, I mean. So it's in English. It's written for me and
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other Westerners by the Communist Party of China. So you have to really be alive to the disinformation
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that you're going to get. So you have to watch it and say, what's the enemy political party,
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the CCP saying today? So you have to sort of reverse engineer it and say, well, what are they
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actually trying to say and do? And how many lies are there? How many levels of lies are there?
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Because they know that you know, it's propaganda. So how many, you know, it's like when you play that
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game, rock, paper, scissors, and the last guy does a rock. And so you think, okay, he did rock last time.
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So he thinks I'm going to do paper this time. So he's going to do scissors this time. So I'll do
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rock this time. But he knows that. So he's going to do scissors. But he knows that I know that. So
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like, you could go mad, right? How many layers are there? It's like Inception. You ever see that movie,
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Justin? See that movie? You know, it's a good, you know, you got to pay close attention. It's not a movie
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that you can be scrolling on your phone while you're watching that. It is an intense movie. It's about a dream.
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And in that dream, you're having another dream. And in that dream, you're having another dream.
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And I think, and there's like, I think, five or six levels of dreams. And the whole idea is to get
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into someone's dream and to plant an idea at an inception, to plant an idea in their mind,
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they think was there. It was an amazing movie. Hard to understand. But if you sort of go with it,
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that's, I think, what Chinese propaganda is like. What is propaganda and what is not?
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I think you got, I mean, you got to assume it's all propaganda, but how many layers? I don't know.
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Let's go to Global Times, which is one of these propaganda outlets.
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It's in English. So obviously, it's target is people like me and you. It's published on Twitter,
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which is not even allowed in China. So you can see it's a Global Times. And underneath it,
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Twitter says China state affiliated media. It's time to shut down Apple Daily. That's the name of
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a major pro-democracy newspaper. Legal experts say it's legitimate and necessary to clamp down on
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a poisoned apple. Hey guys, did you know that's a legal expert term? It's a poisoned apple.
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You see what we did there? It's called the Apple Daily. And we said it's a poisoned apple. You see
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how we did that there? Legal experts say it's not just us, the commies. As it's now the matter of this
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company as a whole on suspicion of endangering national security. And you can see they're arresting
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a bunch of editors and publishers. Now, can you go to their feed and scroll back? Because I think
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you can see that, how many people are following? 1.8 million followers of Global Times in the English
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language. Scroll down and find, like for the last few days, they've been given her like every couple
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hours on Apple Daily. Yeah, a little bit more. Yeah. This Friday may probably, it may probably be.
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So, so what you're saying is the dictatorship that owns you told you, hey guys, it may probably be this
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Friday, be the final day for Apple Daily as the pro-secession tabloid. That's a lie. That's a lie,
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by the way. Struggles for funds to maintain normal operations. You know, they're struggling for funds
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because the communist dictatorship seized their funds. They're not struggling for funds. That makes
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it sound like maybe no one's buying it. They're struggling for funds. No, they're struggling for
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funds because you seized their money to maintain normal operations. While observers called the shutdown
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long overdue. By observers, do you mean the commies party observers observing you watching this?
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Given its role in poisoning people's minds for 26 years. Wow. So it's been poisoning people's
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minds for 26 years and you commies are just saying enough. All right, scroll down a little more
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Just pure commie propaganda all the way down. Just all the way down.
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Let's just find, yeah, there's a couple more. Like, I mean, I said there was a bunch, but you can see,
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I mean, it's a very busy propaganda outlet here, Billie Eilish.
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Okay. What's that? Okay. Keep going. Xinjiang. Boy, they're sensitive about Xinjiang. Oh, they hate
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Taiwan. They're so mad. Keep going. They're so mad about Taiwan. Uh, they're, they're trying to mock
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Taiwan so badly and they hate the fact. Oh, there we go. Wow. So this is eight hours ago. So you just
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scroll through around 20 tweets, right? But that's only been eight hours. While Apple Daily may face
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imminent risk of closure after some of senior executives were arrested, Hong Kong Security Bureau
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says it will handle the matter of frozen assets in line with law and affirms that endangering
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national security is a very serious crime. Hey guys, they may face imminent risk of
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closure. That's just the language, the pretzel language. Keep going. Keep going. Um, so,
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so we're scrolling. So it looks like we're scrolling through a lot, but they're very, uh, prolific.
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Oh yeah, there we go. Um, 12 hours ago, Apple Daily may face imminent closure following the freezing
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of its assets. The next digital board will meet on Monday. That's today. I think to decide whether
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to shut it down. Media reports say while legal experts and observers see this, the shutdown is
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long overdue. Is that what legal experts say? Yeah. Um, you're legal experts and, uh, cause you're a
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bunch of comedy propagandists. They're not. So if, if this is the movie inception, this is like the first
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level of the dream. This isn't the second, third, fourth, fifth. They're just telling you what
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they're going to do. Scroll down a bit more. Yeah. Oh, they just, they, they hate that, uh, Taiwan.
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They just go on about Taiwan. Um, oh, there we go. After the latest arrests and police operation,
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Apple Daily posted a letter to its readers saying its staff would stick to the job, which former
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chief editor or CE, sorry, not, sorry, that's not CE, CE, C-Y-Liang called a shame to the end
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and a shame of Hong Kong. Okay. I don't know who C-Y-Liang is. Chief executive. That's what that
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means. Chief executive of, of Hong Kong. Sorry, I, I'm for a second, I forgot what C-E stood for.
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Yeah. So they're, they're just so furious that, uh, these people would, would want to keep, uh,
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writing. Um, let's just scroll for a minute more. You can, they're very prolific. Like this is all
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in the last days you see. Oh, there we go. There we go. So yeah, look at these. That's the president
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of Taiwan. Very successful president. She seems really lovely. I mean, I don't, I don't follow it
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too closely and I don't speak Chinese. So look, look what they're trying to do here. I'll read the
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bottom one first. Tsai Ing-Wun, that's the name of the Taiwanese president, faced a backlash for
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mourning Biden's lose of his beloved dog. A message that some netizens criticized Tsai of being Biden's
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bootlicker while turning a blind eye to people's lives amid the island's ravaging new COVID-19 wave.
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So apparently Tsai Ing-Wun said something about Biden losing his dog. Some netizens say she's a bootlicker.
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Some legal experts say Apple daily is terrible. Some people say their imminent shutdown may happen.
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And then they have another one. Will you feel sorry for the people in Taiwan who died
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because of your deco dereliction of duty? Have you seen the sudden deaths from AstraZeneca
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vaccination in Taiwan? Were those people inferior to a dog? Some netizens ask, gee, I wonder if they
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worked for the Communist Party or maybe they even worked for Global Times. Scroll down. Boy, they hate
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her. Scroll down a little bit. Yeah, there's the Chinese Air Force.
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Yeah, Tsai Ing-Wun faced a backlash. Keep going. Oh, yeah, they just love mocking America.
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All right. So you can see they're very, very bad. Yeah, I'll just read this. It is, it is time to shut
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down Apple daily. Legal X. Hey, guys, what time is it? It's time to shut down Apple daily, guys. That
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time has come. Legal experts say it's legitimate and necessary to clamp down on poisoned apple as it's
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Now, the matter of this company has a hole on suspicion of endangering national security.
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Okay, I'm not going to make you go through any more, but it really is quite ridiculous. Hey, can you do
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something different? Who's our foreign minister now in Canada? Is it? It's not Christian Freeland, is it?
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It's Mark Garneau. Sorry. It was Freeland and then it was Champagne. And I think now it's Mark Garneau.
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Can you go to Mark Garneau's Twitter feed? I wonder if he has anything to say, because as you can see,
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that they've been, they're arrested. Okay, so scroll down a little bit.
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What's that first one there, that top one? Okay, he's talking about, today we announced
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coordinated sanctions. Okay, he's talking about Belarus. They made a plane land, forced the plane down.
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Okay, paid tribute to fathers on Father's Day. Go back a bit.
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Tigray, that's a place in Africa, I think. Scroll down a bit.
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I participated in the Brussels Forum on the importance of protecting democracy.
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The UN. So I'm looking for anything on Hong Kong.
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Okay, vandalism. There were some chairs that were vandalized.
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Okay, so we're just, like, how many, like, we're back almost a week now, right?
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He's talking about Venezuela, which I appreciate.
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Just, like, you're, you're going back two weeks now.
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Can you go to, you know how to do this on Twitter?
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It's got nothing to do with Apple, Inc., the maker of cell phones and computers.
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It's, it's the Chinese name of this newspaper in Hong Kong.
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So, he hasn't said the word Apple in four years.
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Today, I expressed Canada's grave concerns over the targeting of 10 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists.
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Since then, it's gotten a lot worse and nothing from him.
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I had an excellent meeting with Heiko Mass of Germany about Ukraine, China.
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Okay, so he mentions it, but he doesn't say anything.
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We also discussed North Korea, relations with China.
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Okay, but it's not really saying what they said.
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Alongside allies, we have taken coordinated action on measures to send a clear message about the human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang.
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We are united in our deep and ongoing concern regarding China's human rights violations.
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So, he's been silent, really, for months, hasn't he?
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And he's never said anything about Apple Daily.
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He said he registered concern when Hong Kong Democratic politicians were arrested several months ago.
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He's signed some group letter on Xinjiang, which is the Muslim province, Uyghur Muslims.
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It's an ethnic minority in China that they are really putting into concentration camps.
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I wouldn't call them death camps, although there have been deaths, but they're concentration camps, they're re-education camps, they're labor camps, and it's really a form of ethnic cleansing.
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I mean, Justin Trudeau told us that China was the country he most admires.
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I'll get to those in a minute, but I want to show you something that actually really...
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You know, they all look the same once you're inside them.
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I haven't been able to check the prominence of this.
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When you're looking at videos like we're about to show you, there's a chance they could be a month old, six months old, a year old.
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I don't actually think it matters in this case.
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Let's play it all the way through, and then I might take you back through it.
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There's something that comes up in all of these.
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Someone with a mask is trying to shame someone without a mask.
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When women do it, I think it's sometimes out of busybody-ness and sometimes out of fear.
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When men do it, every single time, there's a certain argument that comes out, not at first, not at second, but before they're done.
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They always make this same argument, and it gives it all away.
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Let's watch this through, and you tell me if you can identify.
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I don't need a person like you being beside me without a mask.
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I've just come to the mall to pick up the street.
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This lady, guys, on YouTube, she's causing trouble.
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Sir, everybody's complaining about her with no mask on.
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He stopped shouting at this one lady to shout at someone else.
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You may feel that way, but you have no basis for that.
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Now, that's obviously not true because he shouted at another person with that one.
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But he doesn't really believe that because if someone's a danger, you don't go up to them.
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If there was someone, let's say, you know, you see those strange pictures?
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Of someone who puts like a queen bee on their neck and then gets this huge beard of bees.
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That, I think, if I saw someone in a mall or anywhere who had a thousand bees on them,
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It's like, it's like someone, but it's, like, why are you doing that?
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And you just, it's, it's sort of like someone who walks on, like, if you're walking on hot coals.
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But let's say you saw that guy with the bees in a mall.
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I might go near him just to look out of curiosity.
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But I don't think I would go right up to him because I wouldn't want to be stung.
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I, but I was trying to find an example of someone who really is a danger.
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Because if someone really is a danger, you don't go up to them and hang out with them and engage with them.
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Although if there was a guy in a mall with a bunch of bees, I would sort of go over, but I wouldn't get too close.
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Okay, maybe the bees thing wasn't a good example.
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I'm just trying to say if someone, better example.
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If there's a crazy person with a knife, do you go up to them and say, hey, you're crazy.
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No, you don't do that because you're genuinely scared.
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You grab your kids, you grab your wife, and you get out of there.
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So, thank you for indulging my five-minute bee tangent.
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If you're actually scared of a crazy person with a knife, you don't go up to them, film them, and tell them that they're a danger.
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Because if they are a danger, you run away from them.
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You know, maybe in February 2020, when we had pure terror propaganda, no one knew what was what.
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And by the way, very few people were wearing masks back then anyways.
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Because China had actually bought all the masks up in the world and shipped them back to China, including from Canada.
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Back in February 2020, if you were afraid of someone, you would walk away from them.
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He made sort of an attempted legal rules-based argument.
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I don't know the rules well enough to cite them.
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And if he was afraid, well, he's got his mask on, so he's super safe.
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Everyone knows that she wasn't causing the problem.
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But you see, that's got nothing to do with whether or not he's safe.
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Because if you are exempt, that means the rule doesn't apply to you.
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That probably means you are a danger in his mindset.
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If everyone's a danger, and thus they have to wear a mask, and someone is properly exempt from that, well, then they're dangerous.
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So he's not really worried about the underlying danger.
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If he was really worried about the danger, he said, I don't care if she's exempt.
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But what really irks this man, and one of the reasons I believe this man was going after this woman, we never see the woman who's filming, is he's a man who is submissive and puts on a mask.
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Even though he knows, and we can tell this through his conduct, that there actually isn't a danger.
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Like I say, you don't walk toward the person with the bees on them.
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What really irks him, and this is, you have to get through a minute of his blather to hear it.
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It's not fair that she's not doing it if I have to.
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It's not fair that she is independent, free-spirited, unmasked, if I have to be.
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If you're safe, what do you care if someone else is being dangerous?
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How come she gets to walk near the person with the bee beard, and I can't?
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No, I just want her not to be able to go to the bees either if I can't.
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He is upset with this lady because she has more courage and self-respect and independence
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and freedom of spirit and freedom of conscience and freedom of action than he does.
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And she's a woman and he's a man, and that's emasculating.
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It's emasculating for a man to be so submissive and to be confronted with the visual evidence of,
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look, not only is someone more courageous than you, but it's a woman.
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He compensates by being very bullshy, by being very macho, very brave and aggressive.
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I'm going to go harass a woman, stalk a woman, shout at a woman, follow a woman,
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which I don't think you would do if she was a crazy person with a knife or wearing a beard of bees.
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If you're afraid of someone, you get away from them.
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There's some clearly, you know, high or like really even mentally incapacitated or person on drugs
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But you sometimes encounter people in public who look like they may be a danger to themselves and others.
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You don't go up to them and say, hey, sir, I do say you are acting like a common nuisance
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If you're worried about something, you get away from them.
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You don't go up to them, follow them around and say, you're not following the same rules I am.
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You don't say to the crazy person with a knife, it's not fair.
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Sir, everybody's complaining about her with no mask on.
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Yeah, I'm living, I'm living, but he's hunting me.
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He means, why am I the kind of man who's wearing a mask in June 2021?
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Call the police because I'm worried about some cosmic force.
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Social opprobrium, the CBC being mean to me, some TV doctor saying you're going to die,
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There's something that is stronger than my own conscience.
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Whatever that cosmic force is, that angel of death, and it's not actual death, it's something
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He's going up to someone he claims is unhealthy or he's worried is unhealthy.
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And I think he gives it away when he says, call the police, bro.
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That's what I think that's what he's always been worried about.
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He's worried that if he were a man and took off the damn mask, the police would come and
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exert force on him because that's what he wants to call down on this woman.
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What's the bad thing that's going to happen to her?
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That's what you say to someone you're worried about getting sick and dying.
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If you saw Typhoid Mary, if you were in the Montreal smallpox epidemic, it was at 1885 or
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whenever, and you saw some, if you saw someone with the bubonic plague, those little bulbous
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things in the black place, you saw someone with leprosy.
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I've never seen anyone with leprosy and I hope I never do.
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And if there's someone who's not wearing a mask, if masks, say, lady, put the mask on.
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He didn't say that because that's not what he's actually worried about.
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What he's actually worried about is someone causing stress to his life, like the police.
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That's what he wants to rain down on this woman.
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So if she won't obey him, he wants to be a little enforcer.
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He's impotent in every aspect of his life, politically speaking.
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If he can't exert force on this woman, well, maybe he'll call down the lightning bolts from Mount Olympus, whatever he's afraid of, the cops.
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But the security guards there say, nah, mate, we got this.
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And the last thing you hear is her saying to these security guards, I'll actually show you my paper.
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And then we've got a lot of other things to cover.
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If you saw something, what would you run away from in a mall?
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The bees on the beard are looking very passive.
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You might say, huh, he's not afraid of the bees.
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So you could actually overcome your fear of bees.
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It would be like someone saying, oh, you're not wearing a mask.
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There was something wrong with that analogy from the beginning.
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It's not if the bees were passive, because then it's just a psych.
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Then all you're doing is you're negotiating with your fear.
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If it was a swarm of bees, then you're negotiating with an objective risk.
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You know, there might be the odd person in there with a mask.
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Because what I talked about before, people afraid of something more than the virus.
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Maybe if you're 80 years old and have underlying conditions and you're in, you know, long-term care home, you're afraid of the virus.
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But if you're young and healthy, you're actually not afraid of the virus.
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And that's why going to this kind of event, thanks, is so valuable.
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Because you say, oh, so there's no peer pressure to put on a mask.
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And no cop or security guard is going to get mad at you.
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Those are the only reasons you were doing it to begin with.
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Last point on this guy in Toronto, in the mall.
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Justin, if you take him out of that mall and put him wherever that NASCAR event was, where was that?
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By the end of that race, he's going to be masked off and he's going to forget he was ever a member of the cult.
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Which is all code for, if I have to do it, so does she.
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Well, buddy, you don't have to do it anymore if you're in NASCAR.
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Because, let's be honest, he's a bit of a coward.
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And he needs for that external threat to be removed from him before he acts like a normal person again.
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It is very Chinese, obviously, ethnically, linguistically.
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They have their own ethnicity as well on the island of Formosa.
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But, of course, a lot of people there fled from Communist China after Mao took over.
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When I went to Taiwan, my observation, this was a dozen years ago.
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I was worried about Taiwan, not militarily, although I am increasingly worried for them now.
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I was worried about the siren song of the great Chinese mainland market.
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Because whenever China was belligerent and bellicose, Taiwan would get its back up and it would disengage.
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But whenever China said, hey, we've got a billion people who speak Mandarin and you have a lot of experience in selling things and you're just off the coast, why don't you come and all get rich?
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Oh, that was much more a political strategic risk to Taiwan.
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The siren song of Chinese money and influence as opposed to the Chinese threat.
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I believe that mainland China has dropped the mask.
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They're no longer pretending to be anything but Taiwan's enemy.
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So I think there's less of a suicide gene in Taiwan now.
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I am worried about the military risk, though, because China's military has absolutely zoomed in the last decade.
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And when we were scrolling through those Global Times tweets, you probably saw there was an air show.
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00:46:00.200
Ezra, curious who to get in touch with to fight a fine here in Israel.
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Was last August, never received a fine, but got a SMS two days ago saying my failure to pay and increase the fine by 50%.
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Any chance of putting a fight to fines here in Israel?
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Well, first of all, I'm very sorry to hear about a fourth lockdown.
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Second of all, that's interesting to me because Israel has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
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And the fact that you're saying they're going into another lockdown brings into question a lot of things,
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including the good faith of the Israeli bureaucrats and the efficacy of the vaccine.
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Why would they go into another lockdown if everyone's vaccinated?
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But to answer your question on point, no, we just simply don't have the viewership to crowdfund lawyers out there.
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Justin, this morning I asked our Fight the Fines coordinator, Victoria Solomon, for an update on that.
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Because the last time I updated everyone on how many cases we had, do you remember what the number was last time, Justin?
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The pandemic has virtually disappeared in Canada, but prosecutions of lockdown offenses are ramping up as politicians try to sustain the panic.
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So when I say won the cases, we've had very few trials.
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In most of those 91 cases, the charges are so atrocious and outrageous and such junk policing
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that when we lawyer up and contact the Crown prosecutor and they look at the case, they say,
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yeah, no, I'm not running a trial in this garbage.
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I think that's just a sign of how much junk law there is.
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Now, our first fight the fines case was in April of 2020.
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Justin, you know, you've heard the right to a speedy trial.
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Hey, call up the Charter of Rights and Freedoms if you would.
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I know my fundamental freedoms, that's section 2, A, B, C, D.
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But I forget some of the other sections of the Charter off my heart.
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if you're finally getting around to a matter very, very late.
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The police wouldn't have charged him for nothing.