DAVID MENZIES ｜ Young professionals are at their 'breaking point' — but what's the root of the problem？
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A new study suggests that many young Canadian professionals are at a mental health breaking point. I have some thoughts on what the root causes might be. -Ezra Levenshtein According to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group, 5 million young professionals in Canada are in need of mental health support, advising businesses and organizations to invest more into employee well-being.
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Tonight, a new study suggests that many young Canadian professionals are at a mental health
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breaking point. I have some thoughts on what the root causes might be. It's Friday, June 2nd,
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2023. I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.
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According to a new study, many young Canadian professionals are at a mental health breaking
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point. But the question arises, why is that? What are the true root causes? By way of background,
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it was a few days ago I came across a CTV report regarding mental health in the workplace. And,
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you know, I wasn't all that surprised CTV was reporting on this, given that CTV's corporate
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parent is Bell Media. Every February, Bell launches a virtue signaling initiative called Let's Talk,
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described as, quote, an effort to raise awareness and combat stigma surrounding mental illness in
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Canada, end quote. Yeah, just as CIBC has hitched its social marketing wagon to fighting breast cancer,
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Bell is very bullish on mental health. Except that I just don't buy what Bell is selling. I mean,
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is this telecom titan truly concerned about mental health issues? If so, why did Bell mentally torture
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its employees during the COVID years by forcing them to get vaxxed? Yeah, even those employees working
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remotely from home who never came into contact with clients. Gee, maybe Ma Bell believes COVID-19 is
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transmissible via the telephone. But seriously, Bell caused so many employees to experience all kinds of
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mental anguish. Get the jab or lose your job. And by the way, there'd be no let's talk regarding that
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draconian demand. Shameful. Anyway, CTV, aka Bell's television puppet, goes on to chronicle the
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following, quote, a recent report published by the Boston Consulting Group found that 5 million young
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professionals in Canada are in need of mental health support, advising businesses and organizations
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to invest more into employee well-being. There's still a lot of stigma in discussing mental health.
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Young people especially are feeling discouraged from presenting the issues that they're facing right
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now. Geneve Benin, co-author of the report and managing director and partner at BOG, told ctvnews.ca,
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organizations do care greatly about the health and well-being of their employees. And I think this is
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now a very open topic for many organizations. But organizations are very slow to recognize the extent
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of the crisis, so they don't necessarily have an overarching strategy. The study found 25% of all
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Canadians reported having symptoms of a mental health disorder in 2021, while 50% said they need mental
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health support and 35% report being burnt out. As for the future of the workforce and the livelihood of
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18 to 24-year-olds, 40% of the demographic is reportedly at a breaking point for their mental health.
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End quote. Now, don't get me wrong, mental illness, be it in the workplace or in general,
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is a very serious issue. I'd wager just about every person viewing this monologue right now knows of
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someone, either in their professional or personal circles, that is experiencing mental health issues.
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And even to this day, there is indeed a stigma surrounding mental illness that is absent if someone were to
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suffer from, say, heart disease or cancer. And yet, the idea that 40%, 40% of 18 to 24-year-old
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persons are at their so-called breaking point vis-a-vis mental health, is this really the case?
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Here's the crux of the matter. I'm not sure if all of that 40% of that demographic are truly suffering
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from mental illness issues. Let me cut to the chase. Could it be that a sizable percentage
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of that percent are in crisis due to what I call work derangement syndrome? I mean, that 40% number,
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it's truly staggering. And based on anecdotal evidence, and based on conversations I've had in
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speaking to human resources personnel, younger folk these days seem more prone to complain or even quit
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or even simply not show up to the office simply when faced with the rigors of hard work or burning
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the midnight oil to meet a deadline. Now, I can just hear the outrage from the rank-and-file members
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of Gen Z and, of course, the magnificent millennials. I get the feeling right now they're comparing yours
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truly to the grumpy old man character brilliantly rendered by Dana Carvey, you know, back when
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Saturday Night Live was actually funny. In my day, we didn't have these fancy seat belts that would
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restrain you if your car crashed. In my day, if you stopped suddenly, you knew exactly where you were going,
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straight through the windshield. That was it. End of story. Pull the curtain. Close the shutters.
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Good night. You were dead and you liked it. Now, by way of clarification, I am by no means
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painting everyone comprising these younger generations with the same brush. There are young
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people that are super hard workers and there are indeed superb young entrepreneurs with very healthy
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bank accounts indeed. But the numbers when it comes to mental health issues in the workplace,
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they just don't add up to me. The Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, aka CAMH,
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notes that in general, one in five Canadians experience a mental illness. In other words,
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20%. However, CAMH does note that young people aged 15 to 24 are more likely to experience mental illness
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and or substance use disorders than any other age group. Indeed, 39% of Ontario high school students
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indicate a moderate to serious level of psychological distress, i.e. symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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A further 17% indicate a serious level of psychological distress. Now, again, defaulting to grumpy old man
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mode, back when I was in high school in the late 70s and early 80s, I don't recall experiencing
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psychological distress, nor did I observe this with the rest of the student body. And believe me,
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folks, I was never part of the cool kids club at school. So what's going on here now? I mean,
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when I went to high school, there seemed to be more pressure to succeed than what exists today.
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You could actually fail a subject. You could actually be mandated to go to summer school.
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Now, talk about psychological distress. These days, of course, nobody fails, even if little Johnny or
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Janie can't spell cat, even if you spot them the C and the T, they're going to pass. And I do not
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exaggerate when it comes to the laissez-faire, anything goes attitude that exists in schools
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these days. Case in point, do you remember that outrageous case of an Edmonton school teacher,
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Lyndon Dorval, going back a decade ago? In 2012, Mr. Dorval was actually fired by the Edmonton
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school district. And what crime did this teacher commit? Was he inappropriate on social media or did
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he do something offside with any of his students? Oh, no. The precise opposite is true. For this
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veteran teacher was simply doing his job. Here's the skinny. Some students in Dorval's high school class
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simply declined to hand in their homework. Others didn't show up to take tests. So Dorval did exactly
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what you'd expect any educator to do. He gave those students a zero mark. Oh, but wait a minute. Not so
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fast. The school board deemed that Dorval was acting in an inappropriate fashion. The Edmonton school
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district evidently has or had a no zero grade policy, even if there's nothing to grade. And when Dorval
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refused to bend the knee to the board, he was first suspended. And then four months later, he was
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terminated outright from his position at Ross Shepherd High School. Yeah, evidently, the school board thought it
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was cruel and unusual punishment for students not to be rewarded for work that wasn't being done. In
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their eyes, Dorval was a barbarian that had to be banished. Unbelievable. Then again, folks, perhaps the
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Edmonton school district was simply ahead of the curve when it came to wokeness. While determining a mark
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for, say, written English essays is wholly subjective, these days there are teachers in the math and sciences
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department that have also gone woke. In other words, two plus two equals four. That's a very good answer.
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But it's not the only answer. Maybe the sum of two plus two is five. Hey, that's okay. Or how about 13?
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Hey, 100 is a nice round number, isn't it? Yeah. Maybe two plus two equals 100. Because to be rigid in
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mathematical equations, well, that's an example of colonialism or imperialism or white supremacy
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or something. And from the classroom to the sporting fields, nobody in amateur sports loses anymore. In fact,
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there are some soccer leagues for kids in which scores aren't even being kept. And if a team goes
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0 for 25 during the course of the regular season, no worries. At the end of the season, every player
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shall be rewarded with a participation trophy. These academic and sporting policies are truly systemic
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problems. Today, there is an overriding policy of no harm, no foul. Don't hand in an assignment. Hey,
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no worries. You'll get a passing grade. Can't even get a shot on goal. That's okay. You're an MVP,
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kid. So could it be that we have raised a generation or three in which work, especially hard work,
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causes an adverse reaction? Is this really what is being interpreted as so-called mental health
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breakdowns? Look, when young people enter the real world, especially in the private sector,
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an employer justifiably expects performance. If you don't perform, if you miss deadlines, if you sleep
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in, if you don't get the work done, you don't get a passing grade or a trophy. You get reprimanded or
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perhaps even fired. For a young person who has been mollycoddled all their life, be it via the school
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system or helicopter parenting, the demands of the workplace must come across as something of a toxic
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shock to his or her system. Indeed, there was a very prolific and public firing, and I would say
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justified firing just a couple of weeks ago in the world of pro sports. I speak of the now ex-general
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manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kyle Dubas. Dubas was born in 1985, by the way, making him a
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millennial. Yeah, I know, I'm guilty of millennial bashing, I guess, folks, but too many of them just make
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it so darn easy, truth be told. Now, coaches and general managers in pro sports, they get fired all the
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time. But when Leafs president, Brendan Shanahan, terminated Dubas, this was a one-of-a-kind tale,
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I think, in the history of pro sports. As the story goes, on Sunday, May 14th, Shanahan and Dubas had
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hammered out a framework for a deal that would provide a contract extension to the Leafs' GM.
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I'm not sure why, under Dubas, the Leafs only won a single playoff round these last several years.
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Anyway, according to the aptly named Yahoo Sports, during the team's end-of-year media availability
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the very next day on Monday, Dubas told reporters that he would either return as Maple Leafs' GM or
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he would take the year off, you know, to reflect, citing the toll the season took on his family.
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Off? Take the year off? Jeez, that reminds me of one of my favorite automotive ads of all time,
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namely the advertising spot for the Cadillac ELR. Check it out.
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Why do we work so hard? For what? For this? For stuff? Other countries, they work, they stroll
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home, they stop by the cafe, they take August off. Off. Why aren't you like that? Why aren't we like
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that? Because we're crazy-driven, hard-working believers, that's why. Those other countries
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think we're nuts. Whatever. Were the Wright Brothers insane? Bill Gates, Les Paul, Ali. Were we nuts
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when we pointed to the moon? That's right. We went up there, you know what we got? Bored. So we left.
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Got a car up there, left the keys in it. Do you know why? Because we're the only ones going back up there,
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that's why. But I digress. It's pretty simple. You work hard, you create your own luck, and you've
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got to believe anything is possible. As for all the stuff, that's the upside of only taking two weeks
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off in August. Les Brown. You know, General Motors would never run an ad like that today,
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not during the Biden administration, at least. What you just watched was just way too much
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American exceptionalism, which has now been reimagined as white privilege or white supremacy
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or something like that. But anyway, taking a year off, well, you know, why not, Kyle? I mean,
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it's only been 56 years since the Leafs hoisted Lord Stanley's shaving mug. I guess another year or so
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won't make a difference in the long run. And what was the deal in terms of Dubas referencing his family?
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How did managing the Maple Leafs affect Mrs. Dubas and their two young children? And really,
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you'd think Dubas was flying bomber missions over enemy territory during a time of war, but Dubas had
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a dream job, wouldn't you say? He was in the cushy front office being paid some $4 million a year,
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not to score goals or save goals, but rather to sit on his ricotta cheese candy ass and work the phones.
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Where's the stress for the Dubas family in that? So it was that as team president Shanahan mauled over
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the statements made by Dubas during that disastrous Monday morning press conference, well, Shanahan
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justifiably came to the conclusion that Dubas was not exactly, you know, all in in terms of being the
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Leafs GM moving forward. So when a press conference was held on Friday, May 19th at the Leafs practice
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facility, it was supposed to be all about giving Dubas a raise and a contract extension, but instead
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it turned out that Dubas was fired. It was shocking. And yet who could blame Shanahan for this? Dubas,
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the so-called boy wonder of NHL GMs, could only whine about his inability to seal the deal. You know,
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Toronto winning the cup. Would you believe two playoff series in a row? Yikes! In the final analysis,
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Dubas was someone who made millions at a desk job in which over the course of five years, all he
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accomplished was over-promising and underachieving. Yet he felt he was entitled to a raise and a
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contract extension. Assuming that is that his family was okay with him staying on the job, that they
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could all cope with the stress. Are you kidding me? Some boy wonder. You know, folks, I have a sporting
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bet with a friend and it's this. What is going to happen first? The Toronto Maple Leafs shall win the
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Stanley Cup or I'm going to die. Let me tell you, sports fans, the smart money is on the Grim Reaper
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here. Anyway, at the end of the day, here's the deal. Are younger people to blame for their inability
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to cope with the rigors of employment? Or maybe the blame goes to those social engineers of
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yesterdecade, you know, the geniuses who decided that be it academia or in the sporting world,
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one can never lose and everyone is a champion. Isn't that just setting up people for failure down
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the road when it comes to the workplace? So just maybe participation trophies should be replaced by
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gold, silver and bronze participation medals. Perhaps the policy of not handing in an assignment
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or taking a test means the student receives a well-earned zero grade as opposed to a passing mark
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is deemed to be a good thing. Maybe so-called woke math teachers need to actually, you know,
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follow the science, subscribing to the fact that two plus two equals four, and that it always
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has and that it always will colonialism be damned. Indeed, instead of turning a blind eye to abysmal
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performance or ignoring it altogether, we need to instill in youth that there is no shame in honest
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failure, but only based upon the proviso that you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all
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over again. The idea being that you try harder with the ultimate goal of succeeding rather than failing
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or simply not caring. Otherwise, is it really any wonder that a growing number of young people
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are experiencing what they perceive to be mental illness in the workplace? They are simply being asked
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to perform hard work in a competitive environment. Sadly for too many, this is an alien concept.
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Hey folks, I'm old enough to remember when Peter Ustinov described the city of Toronto as a kind of New
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York operated by the Swiss. Alas, Mr. Ustinov uttered that quote in 1987, and some 36 years later, well,
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Toronto has kind of devolved into a kind of New York as operated by gangbangers, thugs, and other
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ne'er-do-wells. The city is dirtier, graffiti is everywhere, the streets are paralyzed by gridlock,
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and riding the subway can be fraught with danger. And get this, literally across the street from
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Yonge Dundas Square, Toronto's version of Times Square, the city operates a so-called safe injection site
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where everything from needles to crack pipes are distributed to attics, and even, as the case may be,
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miners. And with more on this sad, sad situation is Harrison Faulkner with True North. Hey, how are you
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doing there, Harrison? Good. Well, I recovered from my trip downtown. That was yesterday. I made it out
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of there safely. But it was interesting, David, they didn't want any journalists there to uncover
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what is actually taking place. They're very proud of their decisions to give away free crack pipes, but
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don't seem nearly as proud to show the rest of us. Well, you know what? I'm not surprised by that
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one bit. Back in 2020, when Nathan Phillips Square was occupied, basically, by hobos and grifters,
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Mayor Tory allowed that to go on for three weeks, 11 sections of the Trespass Act being broken. And yet,
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when we went down, and other journalists went down to cover it, we were being trespassed by city
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security. They even called the police on us and said, vamoose or what? I mean, the pandering to the
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lunatic fringe in this city is out of control. But, you know, before we get into the nitty-gritty of your
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report, Harrison, I just want to right now throw to a clip of what you witnessed firsthand, right,
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a stone's throw away from Young and Dundas. Here, check it out, folks.
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All right, so we're here at Young and Dundas, the heartbeat of Toronto, as some people call it,
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as some people say. It's where the city comes to life. But actually, if you go one block across,
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well, it looks a lot like the opposite of life. It looks a lot more like death. Behind me in that
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building, allegedly, I'll be allowed to receive my free crack pipe, my free crystal meth pipe,
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drug kits and whatever. That's what they're giving away to the city for free. So we're
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going to head on inside and see what it's like. I'll try and take you with me. I'll be as discreet
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as possible. Hi. I'm here to collect my free drug pipe, my crack pipe. Can I get that here?
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You can get that on the other side. The works? This is a clinic. Okay, where's the works? Over there.
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This door right here? Yeah. Oh, thank you very much.
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I'm here to collect my free crack pipe, crystal meth pipe. Okay, well, you're recording.
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Yeah. Chance seems like that's not the case, so I do have to advise you. That's against the
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wall. Oh, okay. I won't record. Okay, dude, you gotta leave. Why? I can't. I can't. You gotta leave.
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Like I said, you gotta leave. Wow, that is shocking footage. You'd think it was being run
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by drug dealers, but they're City of Toronto employers. Here's the thing, Harrison. How did
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we get here in the first place? Well, all of this is being marketed under the City of Toronto's
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safe supply and harm reduction strategy. I guess this is their strategy, David, to try and solve
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addiction crisis. Solve the addiction crisis by giving addicts everything they could possibly want
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to perpetuate their addiction. I mean, there's no real sense at all that I got that this has anything
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to do with treating addiction. It's the opposite, of course. It is perpetuating addiction. I have no
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idea how we got here, but this seems to be the same exact thing that's taking place in Vancouver
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and in other smaller cities in Ontario. It's just mayhem out there. It's just wild. And this is now
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their strategy to actually solve the problem. Or maybe they don't have any interest in solving the
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problem. That's how it looks like. That's what it looks like to me, at least. Yeah, Harrison, they call
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it harm reduction. But as you noted in your report, it's more like perpetuating addiction. And for that
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matter, misery, these are people in horrible circumstances. And the idea that we would aid
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and abet this kind of addiction. And you know, what I found amazing, we've heard reports of minors
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walking in to get this paraphernalia. You know, if you ran a convenience store, Harrison, and you sold
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cigarettes to somebody under 18, you're going to get in big trouble if it's found out. And I'm just
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wondering, how far do we take this perverted philosophy? There are people addicted to alcohol,
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they're called alcoholics. What if somebody had lost their license? They have to, they can't drive
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anymore, can't get to the LCBO. In the city of Toronto's eyes, maybe we should drive out there
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with bottles of bourbon to aid and abet that addiction. I know it sounds preposterous, but look
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what's happening right in the city center. Well, exactly. If you take this concept, this harm
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reduction concept for any other addiction that we obviously are trying to solve in our society,
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well, then we're, we're, we're already in lunacy. We're already in, in like lunacy territory here,
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David, but we're not going to give away drugs, drinks for free to alcoholics. We're not going to
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allow children to walk into the LCBO and walk out with free booze. But at this site, at this
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Yonge and Dundas site, on one side, they're giving out the drug starter kit, everything you could
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possibly want to get started on hard drugs. And then on the other side, just the door beside it,
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well, that's where you can get your hydromorphone, which is a more potent heroin alternative. Now we
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already see, we've seen the reports, we've all seen all, all the news and the data, this hydromorphone
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that the government is providing to addicts, which is paid for by us, David, it's being
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flipped on the street for fentanyl because addicts aren't getting the kind of rush they
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want from hydromorphone, but it's even stronger than heroin. So, I mean, I don't even know where
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this goes. If we're going to keep going in this territory now, Alberta is trying to actually
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give treatment, but there's no indication that that's what we're trying to do here in Ontario.
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It's just crazy. You know, I'm glad you brought up Alberta. I was fortunate enough back in
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March, Harrison, to be at a function where Premier Daniel Smith was being given an award. And she
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spoke about this, that unlike the province next door, British Columbia, which is all about aiding
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and abetting addicts, different kettle of fish in the Wildrose province, namely, please tell these
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addicts, listen, we can either do it this way, you can be arrested and we bring you off to jail,
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which I'm sure you don't want, or you can voluntarily enroll into a program. They have
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these dormitories set up. It's actually quite fascinating the way Premier Smith described it,
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Harrison. These people are told the very basics, because you have to start from a clean slate,
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you know, how to budget for groceries, how to shop, how to cook meals, and you're in a dormitory
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setting. And they are getting results. And by results, I mean, the aiding and abetting of
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addiction, that's over with. These people are getting clean and sober. Who doesn't want that
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as a model to help these people who are addicted to these vile things you just described?
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The worst part about it, David, is that the city of Toronto has the gall to describe this as
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compassion. What they're doing is compassion. I'm sorry, but when I went down there, the people
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that I spoke to, and I actually off camera, spoke to some of the addicts. And that's actually how I
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managed to get the bag of goodies, as I call it, from the Toronto Public Health. They didn't allow a
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journalist to get it, but I managed to have an addict go in there for me so I could show the city
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what they're giving away for free with our money. Now, they call this compassion, but I can tell you
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it's not compassionate. These people are dying. They're rotting away. And the city has no intention
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of actually trying to get them to be fixed. When I was speaking to one of these men, he was devastated.
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He could barely even speak to me, but I did make out that I asked him, are you getting any sort of
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treatment at all for this? And he basically said to me, no, not at all. Everyone around me is just
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basically in the same position. He didn't say this, but the reality is these guys are just spinning
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their wheels and they're moving in the wrong direction. They're moving towards death.
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They're not moving towards recovery. And the city doesn't seem to care while telling all of us
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it's the so-called compassionate approach. Insane. Absolutely, Harrison. I was reading some of the
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comments on your YouTube feed, and here is one that really broke my heart. I lost a member of my family
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to these kinds of drugs. This is wrong. Shame. So where's the compassion in greasing the rails
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for someone to meet a premature ending to their life? That's the opposite of compassion,
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wouldn't you say, Harrison? It completely is the opposite of compassion. The only way that I can try
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and think of the city doing this is that someone is making a lot of money off of this, David. That's
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the only reason why I could possibly think that some sane people would come up with a policy like
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this. There's no way that you could go down to where I was yesterday and come up with the idea
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that this is compassion. It's not. But I have a question, and I put this out on Twitter, and I'm
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trying to figure this out myself. Who is manufacturing the crack pipes that the city is buying with our
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money and giving away for free? Who is manufacturing all these needles? You can get five needles a bag.
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You can get a crack pipe. You can get a crystal meth starter kit. Someone is getting rich off the
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backs of these poor victims. The addicts are the victims here. The city, the government,
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the federal government that's pushing this, they are the ones that are responsible for this.
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And someone is making off like a bandit. And Harrison, do we have a dollar figure on how much
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taxpayer dollars are going into funding these programs in the city of Toronto, at least?
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I wish I had the number. I don't, David. But I have to imagine that it's got to be immense.
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It's got to be immense because all you got to do is walk around the city. You can see needles
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everywhere. You can see homeless addicts everywhere. It's only getting worse. So clearly,
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there's a lot of money being spent on this. And no money, as I can see, is really being spent on
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treatment. Harrison, we're getting near the end of this interview. But before I leave you,
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I think here's the elephant in the room when it comes to a final question. We are in the midst of
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a municipal by-election for mayor of Toronto, thanks to John Tory resigning in disgrace last
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February. Here's the thing. If you believe the polls, Harrison, Olivia Chow is the prohibitive
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favorite. She's got the backing of several unions. I guess she has name recognition. I find it hard to
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believe someone can get a critical mass of votes giving her hard left policies. But what I'm getting
00:32:55.920
at, Harrison, if she does become mayor, I fear that this beloved city of my birth, we are going to be
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on the fast track to Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Seattle. What we're seeing now is just the tip of the
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iceberg under what the city would look like with Olivia Chow as the mayor. Your final thoughts, my friend.
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You're exactly right. Olivia Chow thinks that we haven't done enough of this. Olivia Chow's idea is that we
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just we haven't we haven't we haven't really fully seen how great harm reduction and safe supply is. Just wait
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until I'm in charge and we're going to really ratchet it up. So if it's going to get any worse than this, David,
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well, we're really in for a very scary ride. I can't believe it. I can't even imagine she's that
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high in the polls. It's shocking to me. But that's the truth. If she wins, this is going to get way
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worse. And San Francisco, we're going to become the new San Francisco. Other cities are going to say
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we don't want to become Toronto. That's what we're looking at here. We're going to be the standard bearer
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for the failures of this wild urban decay that these people want to try and bring on to us.
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It's unbelievable, Harrison, how fast things can change from a kind of New York run by the Swiss
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to this and to what awaits if Olivia Chow becomes mayor. I'm already thinking my exit strategy.
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Costa Rica looks pretty good. I heard that. It sure does. It sure does. A little warmer too.
00:34:26.540
We'll see what happens at the end of the month on Election Day. Harrison, thank you so much for
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this report. It was excellent. And you stay safe out there, young man. Thank you very much.
00:34:47.600
Well, hey, folks, a lot of feedback from last night's show, guest hosted by my beloved colleague,
00:34:54.100
Sheila Gunn-Reed. Sheila touched upon the fact that the so-called Canadian Anti-Hate Network,
00:35:00.940
well, they're having a hissy fit because police aren't taking their complaints seriously. Oh,
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poor babies. And of course, Sheila weighed in on why the heck is Rachel Notley still sticking around
00:35:15.320
given the disastrous results for the NDP on Monday? In any event, you had plenty to say
00:35:23.360
You know, I totally agree with you, my friend. They do not oppose hatred. They actually create
00:35:40.200
hatred. They're all about division, not unification. I mean, there is no truth in advertising to their
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name, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Put another way, they kind of remind me of Antifa. You know how
00:35:54.400
that's a contraction of anti-fascist Antifa? Yet Antifa embraces everything that makes fascism,
00:36:03.420
fascism, violence, vandalism, you name it. It's the same deal with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
00:36:10.500
They need to just take out the word anti from their name. Now talk about truth in advertising.
00:36:19.100
And when it comes to Rachel Notley, leader of the Alberta NDP, Bristolian writes,
00:36:26.260
hopefully she will stay on and her Marxist halfwits get reduced to a handful of seats
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in Edmonton. Yeah, you know, I mean, lover or loather, here's the thing I don't get about Rachel
00:36:40.680
Notley hanging around. If she couldn't win on Monday, what makes her think she could possibly win
00:36:49.280
four years down the road? Bizarre. Kudray Serpay writes, she's so old, there needs to be an age cap
00:36:57.300
on politicians, mostly so people who are as old as the USA president don't become leaders. It's just
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sad to see. You know, I'm afraid I can't agree with you on this one. That would make me an ageist.
00:37:11.620
I think it's all about the individual. Look at great leaders from the past, Ronald Reagan,
00:37:18.040
Margaret Thatcher. They weren't spring chickens, and yet they were some of the best leaders of the
00:37:24.600
entire 20th century. Now, I'm not saying that applies to Rachel Notley. Don't get me wrong,
00:37:31.940
but the idea of having an age cap, I'm sorry, even in this day and age of Joe Biden, can't support that.
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Well, there you go, folks. Thank you so much for tuning in for yet another edition of the Ezreal
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event show. I believe the big boss man is back on Monday. So have yourselves a great weekend. And hey,