Don’t you hate celebrities who say they are tired of publicity？
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Don t you hate celebrities who say they re tired of publicity? It s February 26th, and this is the Ezra Beland Show: Why should others go to jail when you re the biggest carbon consumer I know? And you won t give them an answer?
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Hello, my friends. Have I got a video clip for you? Now, you'll hear it. You'll hear it on the
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podcast, but boy, I wish you could see it. It's a clip from Bonnie Henry, the $360,000 a year
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bureaucrat in British Columbia, who's their public health officer. She said something just incredible
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today, and I want to play it for you twice. You'll hear it, but I want you to see it too,
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Tonight, don't you hate celebrities who say they're tired of publicity? It's February 26th,
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody
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Harry used to be my favorite royal other than the queen. He was the one who served several
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tours of duty in Afghanistan at real risk. He seemed the most real, the most connected to
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real people. His grasping wife, Meghan Markle, has pulled him out of the royal family, disparaged
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the queen, and rented out her husband's royalty to the highest bidder. It's really gross what
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she's done to him, turned him into. Look at this.
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Yeah, you're a prince, mate, and you're now looking to sell that, to rent that, so your
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wife can do Disney voiceovers. They want their privacy, but they'll do a tell-all on a double-decker
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bus going through Los Angeles where they dish on themselves everything from their son's first word
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to their loving nicknames for each other, but damn it, they want their privacy. They sue newspapers for
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violating that privacy, but then they sign $100 million deals with Netflix and agree to do a tell-all
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on the Oprah Winfrey show. They're really the worst. I don't think I've ever seen such a sense
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of entitlement without a shred of responsibility or duty to go with it. So, so gross. Good for the
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queen for just cutting them off finally. But of course, there is something even worse than Harry and
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Meghan, and it's our own Canadian royalty, our own untouchable princes and princesses.
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I'm talking about our new class of overlords, Canada's public health officers. Oh yes, they love
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publicity. They love the limelight. They love the power. They love the respect they demand. But the
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moment someone disagrees with them, they're quick to pounce on that as unacceptable, not acceptable. That's
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the exact phrase used by British Columbia's public health officer, Bonnie Henry, to describe people
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engaging in a peaceful protest outside of her office. I'm going to play a clip for you now from
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Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster, and I'm not going to edit or shorten the clip at all. I want you to see
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the whole entire statement. Here is Bonnie Henry, who has destroyed thousands of businesses forever,
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caused tens of thousands of job losses, done untold health damage to people by destroying normal social
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interactions, especially for kids, cancelling thousands of regular medical appointments and
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surgeries. The destroyer of BC says it is, quote, not acceptable to peacefully protest at her office,
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and she's particularly mad that some media dare to disagree with her too. And she mumbles something
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about it being a psychological syndrome or something, like you'd have to be mentally ill to disagree with
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her. Get a load of this. You know, this is one of the things that has been incredibly challenging.
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We have people who have been protesting outside our office, and, you know, it affects me, but it also
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affects my family, it affects the people we work with, and that's the part that I find hardest to deal
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with. We have a very strong support system, and I know my colleagues across the country have all been
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facing some similar challenges. We meet regularly, and we do support each other in that, and I think
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that's important. I recognize that when people are in crises, part of the way they respond or react
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is to lash out, to become angry. That is a reaction that is sometimes fed by certain groups, by certain
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certain media, social media posts, etc. And it's not to condone it, but it's to recognize that
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the psychology of some people leads the psychology of what we're dealing with leads some people to react
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that way. And I do believe that it is our collective support for each other that helps mitigate the impacts
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the impacts of these things. Having said that, I do have security. I have a security system at my
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house. I have ways that I make sure that I check in with people. We support each other. And it really
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is not acceptable, and what I find most disturbing is how it impacts the people I work with, and my
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family, and my close contacts, and their concerns. So that's the most challenging piece right now.
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Got it. So someone protested outside your office peacefully, but that's not acceptable. Some media
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disagreed with you, and that's not acceptable. And you have a security system at your house, which you
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mention to imply that those peaceful protests at your office, that somehow that's a violent threat
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to you at your home, though you don't actually come right out and say it because people would
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immediately ask you, did anyone actually show up at your house? Was there actually a threat? Did you
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call the police about it? As if a millionaire public bureaucrat living in Vancouver doesn't already have a
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security alarm at her house before the pandemic? What a smearer. What an exaggerator.
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I should say that according to public filings, Bonnie Henry made more than $360,000 at the
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taxpayer's trough last year. She's not a practicing physician, by the way. I think that there are
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doctors who absolutely would earn that, but she's a politician. She's a bureaucrat with an M.D.
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degree. By comparison, the Premier of British Columbia himself only makes $211,000, so she
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makes nearly double. I disagree with many things that John Horgan has done as Premier of British
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Columbia, but I can say this in his defense. He campaigned in an election and he won. He
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actually increased his vote and his seat count. When did Bonnie Henry ever put herself to the
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Democratic test? How could voters fire her? Well, voters can't. But what citizens can do
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is protest peacefully outside her office, in the media and social media. But she just said
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she won't have any of that. She just said all that is not acceptable.
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It really is not acceptable. Sorry, sister. You can't rule over us and tell us that we can't even talk back to you.
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That's not how it works. Look at this super gross story from near the beginning of the pandemic.
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A new breed of celebrity in the age of COVID-19, the Chief Medical Officer. Day after day,
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Premiers have announced new restrictions on Canadians' civil liberties that they say are
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critical to limiting the spread of COVID-19. But it is the Chief Medical Officers at their side who provide
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the science, buttressing the calls for sacrifice. Some have become stars in their own right, displaying a
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kind of televisual bedside manner that combines a reassuring fact-based approach with occasional levity.
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They're funny, too. Quebec's Chief Doctor Horacio Arruda recently shared his weekend self-isolation plan to
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bake Portuguese tart. He's the best. While Alberta's Dina Hinshaw recently wore a periodic table-themed dress that lit up social media.
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Oh, they're great. The scientists are pushing aside athletes and other entertainers for the public's attention
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as citizens try to navigate through unprecedented times. Yeah, like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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They want their names in lights. They love the adoring press. They love their high six-figure salaries.
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But don't you dare protest peacefully against what they're doing to you.
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At least Harry and Meghan are nothings. They're wannabe entertainers, they're grifters, but they have no power over you.
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They can't shut down your church or business. They're just mooches.
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Look at this part of the CTV story. It's written by Giuseppe Valiante.
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But look at the bottom with files from, are you counting with me?
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We've got Giuseppe, plus Laura Osmond, Dean Bennett, Dirk Meissner,
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Siddhartha Banerjee, Keith Doucette, Julian McKenzie, Kelly Geraldine Malone,
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Nicole Thompson, Holly McKenzie Sutter, and Bob Webber.
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That is eleven reporters. Eleven reporters worked on that celebrity story about these new rock stars. Eleven.
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Can we have, I don't know, eleven reporters working on, say, the unreliable nature of the PCR test?
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The claims cases are skyrocketing. I mean, it's not a conspiracy theory. One of these public health rock stars said so herself.
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If you test somebody today, you only know if they're infected today.
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And in fact, if you're testing in a population that doesn't have very much COVID, you'll get false positives almost half the time.
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Can we have maybe eleven reporters looking into that? Or maybe eleven reporters looking into these clearly unconstitutional,
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mandatory COVID quarantine camps set up at airports in Canada?
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You know, the ones where they have taken the locks off the doors, and in the very first week there was an alleged rape?
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No? Too unhappy a story? Okay, let me remind you. Here's a story from the lying CBC state broadcaster just a few months ago.
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PM. Health officials warn Canadians against believing COVID-19 internment camps disinformation.
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Oh, really? Here's another from the lying CBC state broadcaster.
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It plays to our worst fears. Coronavirus misinformation fueled by social media.
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And here's another from the same lying CBC state broadcaster.
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Trudeau warns Canadians not to believe COVID-19 internment camps rumors.
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I think I'm seeing a pattern here. When the CBC is lying to you, they aren't doing journalism.
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They're doing anti-journalism. They're trying to discredit other journalists who are actually reporting the stories.
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It's not just the CBC. Here's CTV. Look at this headline here.
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Lexi's legacy. Family fights for better mental health access after losing daughter to suicide.
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Now, that's a horrific story, but look at how the headline is phrased.
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The family wants better access people. Come on, guys. Can we just give some more money to mental health?
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Yeah, let me read what little actual news is in this piece that for some reason isn't in the headline.
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They say she was given a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and depression
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after a trip to the emergency room in the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton.
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But after that, her parents say trying to get any more help through New Brunswick's health system was extremely challenging.
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Then last Thursday, Lexi's guidance counselor felt she should go back to the ER.
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According to text messages sent between Lexi and her father, she got to the hospital around 1 p.m. accompanied by the counselor.
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I said, OK, I'm in St. John right now. I will head out and I'll be there shortly, Dakin said. That's the dad.
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But because of COVID-19 protocols, Dakin and the school employee weren't allowed to trade places.
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So he said the counselor remained with Lexi and the two waited to see a psychiatrist because of COVID-19 protocols.
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That's a fancy way of saying the rules brought in by the political health officers like Bonnie Henry, who don't want anyone to talk back, to protest peacefully, to even criticize them on social media.
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Now, these public health rock stars, I mean, just ask CTV, right?
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They killed this girl, the public health officers.
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Which will probably be racked up as a COVID death and used to justify more lockdowns.
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New Brunswick has nearly 800,000 citizens, very large geography.
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They've had a grand total of 26 deaths from or with COVID in the past year.
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There is a grand total of one person in the hospital in the entire province.
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But you see, teenagers aren't allowed to go with their dad to a mental health expert because COVID.
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I'm sorry, but you can call that statistical murder.
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How many kids have killed themselves because their social lives have been destroyed and they can't get to a therapist?
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How many cancer treatments, other operations have been postponed or canceled?
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You're not a princess, even though you're paid like one.
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And we can't vote you out, which is why you're damn right.
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We're going to criticize you in the media and social media.
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And before you whine about peaceful protests outside your office,
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why don't you check to see how many of those peaceful protesters' daughters were killed by your COVID protocols
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Well, we don't have a full-time reporter in the city of Montreal yet.
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But if you've been to rebelnews.com slash careers, you'll know that's one place we want to hire.
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There's simply so much news going on in La Belle Provence, both in English and French.
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We're looking for a bilingual reporter to cover the news, to speak and read in French,
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They have the most brutal lockdown in all of Canada.
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Now, for people in Toronto, they say that's impossible.
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treating innocent people like guilty people, treating adults like children.
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Now, in this curfew, there are certain exempt people.
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And amongst them, if you can believe it, are journalists.
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Well, like I say, we don't have a full-time reporter in Montreal,
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but we do have a full-time staffer in Montreal.
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His name is Yankee Pollack, and he does our social media.
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But because he's out there with his cell phone,
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we ask him to go out and about at night to document what it's like in the curfew.
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He did so last night, and he got a $1,550 ticket.
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Yankee joins us now via Skype from Montreal, the most locked-down city in North America.
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You go out on the street just to document with a camera what's going on,
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and it really feels like a scene out of wartime or something,
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police prowling through neighborhoods with their flashers on,
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they're called over and shown to prove how far they are from their house.
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You've gone out quite a lot, and you have a signed letter from us confirming your media.
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Last night, I got pulled over three times, actually.
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And the officer said, asked me if I think me being out is essential.
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And he just called his buddy over from a different car.
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You had the presence of mind to film the interaction, and I'm always glad you did.
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I would encourage every viewer, if you're having an interaction related to the lockdown, film it.
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One of the things in the tape is that they grill you a bit on who Rebel News is.
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It's like the officers themselves thought they would sit in judgment of what media is or isn't essential.
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So we've got a clip from you that's a few minutes long.
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It goes for a couple minutes, but it shows the interaction and how whimsical it is.
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And that really, freedom of the press, any freedom, that's long gone now.
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Let's play a bit, and we'll come back to you, Yankee, after we show what happened to you last night.
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You want to see my media press credentials again?
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And you pulling people over, people out, just whatever is happening.
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It's like the third time you guys pull me tonight, so.
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Rebel News is an online media organization, so it's on the YouTube and website.
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It has 1.4 million subscribers, it has a new site.
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But that says you're allowed to go, let's say, from your place.
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One, I spoke to the media, a relations officer from the SPVM.
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I have an email, he said I could have, or he or she, I don't remember,
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the email said that I could have or the paper or my media cards.
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You're the third tonight, I've been let go every time.
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If you want, maybe you could see the computer my name, I don't know if that's the case.
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You gave a ticket to a person of the media, is that right?
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And we have had some good luck, 1.45 million subscribers, but I wouldn't ascribe it all to luck.
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I'd ascribe a lot of it to hard work from journalists like yourself.
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I want to praise you, Yankee, for not losing your cool, for not shouting or raising your voice,
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These are all natural human instincts that I feel arising within me.
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The scoffing of those reporters at Freedom of the Press is no laughing matter.
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I noticed here, and we'll put it on the screen, that over a month ago you wrote to the media liaison officer of the Montreal police,
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Annabelle Prato, who wrote back to you confirming that media were essential and just to simply have a letter from your employer on hand,
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So these police are either, A, uninformed about the lockdown rules, which is quite likely, or B, they just don't care,
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and they enjoy punishing people who defy them, that they're really getting off on a power trip.
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I don't know which is the case, but I would agree with your final statement there.
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Obviously, we will defend you, and we'll defend anyone in Montreal who gets a similar ticket, Yankee.
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And I have interactions with, I was pulled over three times last night.
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The cops were a bit rowdy, harassing me, but in the end they let me go.
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They were pushed, not physically pushing, but like telling me to move and be out of their way
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and stay back six feet while they were walking towards me.
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But the third set of cops, I guess, they decided that media is not essential and they just find me, which is fine.
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And I just want to remind our viewers that we have the main site called fightthefines.com,
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which that site has been quite popular over the last year.
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We've now made 100 videos about different clients.
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We've had over 500 people reach out to ask for help.
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But, and I haven't talked about this a lot, but we have a French language version
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really focused on the lockdown in Quebec and the curfew.
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And that's at a website, and my accent's terrible, I apologize, contesterlescontraventions.com,
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which is a fancy way of saying, you know, contester, contestthecontraventions.com,
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And we have retained a law firm in Quebec that you will be helped by.
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We'll help even people who don't work for Rebel News.
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They will take the first 1,000 cases that present to them.
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And I know that those cops are issuing tickets.
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And I think most people would just pay it rather than fight.
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They wouldn't have gotten away with this a year ago, but they're really loving the power.
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And maybe their bosses want them to give more tickets to pay back a lot of the lost revenues and taxes and served.
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But they're having a lot of fun being on a power trip.
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And even your own experience is essential to see it.
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And I want to check to make sure you didn't misspeak.
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You said that when you were out last night, you saw a lot of tickets.
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That means they physically stopped them from moving on.
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It's sort of temporarily stopping you from going.
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You can insist on being released or demanding to know if you will be arrested.
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It's sort of a murky area, but it has a meaning.
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Can you tell me what you mean when you say people were detained?
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Well, at least one person yesterday, he decided to run and try to avoid getting a ticket, which I think is not the smart thing to do.
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I think it took about an hour and a half until they released him.
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They gave him a 1550 fine and a notice to appear for evading the police or something like that.
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If the cops stop me, I give them my ID, give them my information.
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If you want to give me a ticket, give me a ticket.
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I'm familiar with some of the fines across Canada.
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In the Toronto area, I know in Calgary, it's often $1,000 or $1,200.
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And for an ordinary person, that in Montreal where rents are cheaper than in Toronto or Vancouver,
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$1,550 is likely more than an ordinary person pays in rent.
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Or it's certainly what an entire family might pay in rent.
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That is groceries and gas money for a whole month for a family.
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That is a huge amount of money for simply being out.
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It's never wise to run from police or to resist arrest.
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And frankly, if they didn't physically beat the guy, frankly, he's a little bit lucky.
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But a $1,550 fine, I can understand why someone would run.
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But I think it's cheaper to just pay a fine than running, getting a court date after that.
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But of course, we're not going to run and we're not going to pay.
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We are going to have one of the great lawyers that we've retained in Montreal fight for you.
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And we would do that for you because you're a rebel who is out there in the course of your journalism.
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I think any prosecutor is going to look at that.
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And frankly, they should write you an apology letter.
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But even if you weren't a Rebel News employee, we would offer you the legal defense of that firm Yankee.
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That's a very important asset when dealing with antagonists with guns.
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On the other hand, it's actually why you went out last night to document what's going on.
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As I told the cops, as long as you're out, I'll be out and documented.
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Well, we do like that because there is no pandemic exception in the Charter of Rights.
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Push this button and you don't have to follow the law.
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And, in fact, as we showed on screen, Annamal Prato of the SPVM police force confirmed that to you.
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I think she, I think it's those cops that need a course correction, not you.
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Yankee Pollock, representing Rebel News on the streets of Montreal.
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Gilly writes, in the wake of COVID, the greatest threat to freedom is the institutionalized man.
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Well, by that you mean someone who just becomes a corporate appendage.
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I think we have to maintain the idea that we are individuals and the state's infringements on us are the aberration, not the defaults.
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I've been rereading 1984 and it doesn't even feel like fiction anymore.
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It's just almost all of it has come true, but much worse than Orwell could have foreseen.
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If he would know the way in which we are tracked and monitored and scolded by social media and tech companies today,
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Paul writes, COVID passports, one more step towards the Chinese-style social score.
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Jay writes, the passports are necessary to keep the hoax going.
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It's obvious that this isn't about a virus anymore.
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It's about complete government control over your life.
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How long will it take before people forget what it was like to be free?
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And, I mean, I was trying to think, what was the last time I went to a restaurant?
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And I know you look at me and you say, oh, that's a big part of your life.
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Well, no, I mean, going out to a restaurant is part of fun.
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I cannot remember in my mind the last time I went to a restaurant.
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I mean, I know I can think of times historically, but I can't.
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And children are forgetting what it's like to play with other children in normal ways.
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I acknowledge that during the Cold War there was the threat of mutually assured destruction