EZRA LEVANT ｜ Alberta brings in the worst vaccine passport in Canada
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A man in Australia is arrested for visiting his family graves with a mask on, and then the guy who makes the video of it is locked up too. Meanwhile, Alberta is banning people who aren t vaccinated from meeting in public places, including in private homes. And Israel has more infections than any of their immediate neighbors who are almost completely un-vaccxed.
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Hello, my rebels. Jason Kenney broke his promise. He's bringing in a vaccine passport
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for Alberta. I see that today Saskatchewan has done the same thing. Alberta's is the worst I've
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seen anywhere in North America. It actually bans completely healthy people who simply are not
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vaccinated from meeting anywhere, including in private, including in homes. You probably think
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I'm exaggerating. I'll play you the clip of Tyler Shandro, the disgraced health minister,
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saying that himself. I'd like to invite you to learn more about our various ways of fighting back.
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Go to fightvaccinepassports.com to learn how we're engaging in strategic litigation to stop this.
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And later in the show, I tell you about a project called wewon'task.com, which gives shopkeepers
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beautiful stickers to put on their doors so that they will let the world know they will not be
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secret police. They will not be snitches. They will not ask you the private details in that
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store. I think it's a great initiative. Those stickers are free, by the way. All right. That's
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a little pitch for me, but enough for me. Enjoy a podcast. I guess it's still more of me, but here
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you go. Tonight, Alberta brings in the worst vaccine passport in Canada. It's September 16th,
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this is the Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I
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know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say
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to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I want to talk to you about Alberta, but first I want to show you this clip from Australia. A man
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arrested in a cemetery, visiting his family graves by himself with a mask on. And then the guy who
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films it, he's harassed, harassed by police. Take a look.
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He's doing fair income. He's locking him up for visiting the loved ones.
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You've been fair income. I'm here for visiting my loved ones.
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Are you, are you, are you, are you, are you locking him up for visiting the loved ones?
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My name's Sergeant Gleens from Melbourne Police.
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I've always said if you want to see the future, you can look to Australia for a time machine
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to see how our civil liberties, always taken for granted in our constitutional monarchy,
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our lucky part of the commonwealth with our rule of law.
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Look to Australia for a time machine to see our near future in terms of policing and police
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And look to Israel for the future of an over-medicated, over-vaccinated country that keeps doubling down
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on stupid, they're now on their fourth shot, two shots and now two boosters, and they've
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They're super-vaxxed, but they have more infections than any of their immediate neighbors who are
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And I saw this weird news today in nowhere less than the New York Times.
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Researchers in Israel reported that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine can enhance
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protection in adults older than 60 for at least 12 days?
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A result that is unsurprising, experts said, and does not include long-term benefit.
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So you get a vaccine booster shot and it works for 12 days?
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I'm not sure if that's normally how we do medicine or really buy anything that's that
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I don't know if you remember, but he already bought more than 400 million doses, according to
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That's about 10 shots per man, woman, child, and baby in Canada.
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Israel has the highest seven-day rolling average of new daily coronavirus cases per million people.
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The CBC stories, that's called cognitive dissonance, isn't it?
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So blend them both together, Australia and Israel, and that's where we're headed, but
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For the first part of the pandemic, Alberta was amongst the freest places in Canada, but
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then it became the most brutal, a full pendulum swing.
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That was the only place in North America, the only place in the free world that I know
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of, where Christian pastors were arrested just for opening their church doors.
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I think there were five pastors in the end who were arrested.
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And this week, the Alberta government was still at it.
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I don't know if you followed Sheila's reports, but the Alberta government was back in course
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demanding that Pastor Arthur Pawlowski go back to prison for 21 more days because he
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That's what the government prosecutor said in court.
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They want him to say sorry or to go to jail for not saying sorry.
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But Jason Kenney, after prosecuting pastors and small businesses, suddenly saw the polls
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or heard from voters or his backbench or whatever.
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And so as quickly as he brought in the brutal lockdown over Christmas, he lifted it and said
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That was some weird government tagline, as if governments make decisions for you about
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what's going to be great or not, or if you're going to be happy or not.
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But I guess Kenney meant he wanted to take a vacation himself, and he knew he couldn't
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do so while locking the rest of the province down.
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He tried that before over Christmas, actually, locked the whole province down.
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Then he and his cronies, his own chief of staff went to the UK, a lot of his MLAs went
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It blew up in his face because it proved he was just a cheater.
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Last night at 6 p.m. local time, Kenney and his team just declared a total lockdown of
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They went from free to lockdown, just like that.
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Now, he didn't have the courage or the honesty to call it a vaccine passport, so he called it
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The default is that you're under house arrest, that you're banned from things.
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You have to then get the government's permission to get out.
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That is why the government has reluctantly decided to adopt the Restriction Exemption Program,
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a proof of vaccination program for participation in certain discretionary activities that have
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No one will be compelled to get vaccinated against their wishes, and a negative test option will
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But with unvaccinated patients overwhelming our hospitals, this is now the only responsible
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I had earlier committed not to introduce proof of vaccination because of concerns I had around
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But the government's first obligation must be to avoid large numbers of preventable deaths.
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The lockdown rules are so intricate and so bizarre, with no science behind it, no police,
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no business person, no one will understand these rules.
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Everything that didn't work before will be tried again, but worse.
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And all of it, Kenny swore he simply would never do.
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Here's Kenny answering a question about a month ago from our own Adam Seuss.
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What's your position on vaccine passports for those individuals unwilling to be vaccinated?
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And we've been very clear from the beginning that we will not facilitate or accept vaccine
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passports and that, in fact, we regard, I believe that they would, in principle, contravene
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the Health Information Act and also possibly the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
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We also amended the Public Health Act to remove the 110-year-old power, allowing Alberta to
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So these folks who are concerned about mandatory vaccines have nothing to be concerned about
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and there will be no vaccine passports in Alberta.
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And will the provincial government act on behalf of Alberta citizens if the federal government
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Adam Seuss asked that question and here is Kenny saying to another reporter that he didn't
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But in any event, it was against privacy law, said Kenny.
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We have no capacity to, I don't even know what a vaccine passport is.
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All I know is this, that it's illegal based on the Privacy Act to ask somebody whether they've
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received a certain medical procedure or not, including a vaccine.
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So the government of Alberta at least will not be participating in anything like that.
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Of course, we got the truth from Doug Ford, of all people, who said that he was on a conference
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call with the other premiers, all of them who were plotting a vaccine passport all along.
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And unfortunately, the federal government decided to go to an unnecessary election, which I'm still
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shaking my head over in the middle of a fourth wave.
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Now, I'm not going to go through it all, but I want to show you one moment from their grave announcement
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Listen to Tyler Shandro, the disgraced health minister caught partying in the Sky Palace.
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For unvaccinated people who are 12 and older, they will not be permitted to attend any private
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Hang on, so you're seriously going to tell people they cannot gather in private and in
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So they're healthy, they're perfectly healthy, but they can't meet in private homes.
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You're going to go to a private home with police.
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There were lots of questions last night about police.
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So maybe like they did with Pastor Arthur, get them on the highway and demand to see people's
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And even if they're healthy, we'll get them sick in jail.
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And I got to tell you, Israel's experience tells you that if you don't get your regular
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booster from Pfizer, you will be deemed unclean again by the government.
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What was so gross about last night is that the Alberta UCP, that's the United Conservative
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It's called gaslighting, trying to tell people to believe the opposite of what they see, believe
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the opposite of the truth, and not to believe your own lying eyes.
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And here's Trudeau calling for people to love each other and be kind to each other.
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He has this sort of first date voice that he always does.
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And then he talks about respect before immediately downsing his enemies.
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We know that the only way to move forward as a country is to move forward together and
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to listen to each other and to learn from each other, not to affix labels, not to allow hate
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And yes, we are seeing vocal hatred and intolerance rising in some pockets of our communities.
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And the question that all the rest of us have to ask is, what do we do?
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Do we sit back and say, oh, let's leave them space for their anti-vax beliefs, for their
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misogynistic beliefs, because we don't want to ruffle the boat, rock the boat, or ruffle
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Do we say, no, not in Canada, not in our Canada?
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We leave room for everyone and we stand up for each other in Canada.
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That's what we've done over these past six years.
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So Trudeau talked about how tall he was and how respectful before viciously smearing his
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Well, Kenny and his crew did something similar last night.
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They blamed Albertans for their own policy failures.
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And then, in the very next breath, they scolded Albertans for not being kind to each other.
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It was a sick performance, but very much in the Trudeau style.
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Tell your listeners that you're the kind one, unlike the vicious, disrespectful bastards
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What's so nuts is that Albertans are actually doing okay.
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It's true there are 106 acute care hospitals in Alberta, and in them are 218 people in intensive
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So that works out to two patients per IC unit, on average, in the province.
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And for that, the entire province has been shut down, and all medical privacy and personal
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I'm not happy that anyone is sick or dying, but that's life.
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The average deceased person from COVID in Alberta is 79 years old, and more than 95% of them had
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Two, three, four deep health problems pre-existing all at once.
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And on top of that, COVID was enough to undo them.
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And that is sad, but can you please tell me how closing a nightclub for people in their
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20s or closing a bar or a gym or a coffee shop is going to save a bedridden 90-year-old
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dementia heart and kidney patient from getting COVID?
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I just don't know how sending police into private homes to check if healthy people are
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Are there really any 90-year-old people with dementia and heart disease and liver disease
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If not, how is putting masks on children going to help anything?
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Not that masks do anything, especially with kids dropping them on the floor, sharing them,
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laughing, spitting in them, getting them, like masks and kids don't even go together.
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None of this makes any sense, and I'm tired of trying to find any sense because it's not
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about sense, it's about control and fear and a breakdown in democracy.
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I thought Tyler Shandro calling for house-to-house punishments for unvaxxed people was the closest
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thing I've ever heard to not see ideology in any Canadian government, and I say that very
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Maybe we'll have to hide unvaccinated people in the attic.
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But of all the people assembled last night for Jason Kenney's announcement, none of the
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In fact, they were raging at Kenney, but they were only upset that he didn't do this sooner
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One such journalist is an awful person named Tyler Dawson.
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He's with Trudeau's Post Media Company, and he's the journalist who tried to ban Rebel
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News from joining the Alberta Press Gallery, which shows you his authoritarian streak, which
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might explain why his thoughts last night immediately turned to police enforcement of these insane
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For unvaccinated people who are 12 and older, they will not be permitted to attend any private
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Because Tyler Dawson is thinking like a cop, thinking like a snitch, he's a pretty good
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You can really see the guys here who would have been cheering for Stalin or Hitler as they
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So this authoritarian, Tyler Dawson, asked some real questions about where this is going.
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You'll see none of these questions are about health.
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Okay, a couple of hours later, and I have a couple further questions about the vaccine
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Businesses had six hours tonight to adjust to new rules for tomorrow.
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They will then have four or five days of these rules.
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That's four or five days to fire unvaccinated staff, presumably, or acquire rapid testing for
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Then they need to figure out how they will advertise their stance on vaccines.
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They also need to figure out how to enforce these rules.
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What if you, or I don't know, on the other side of the spectrum, what if you run a hospital
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and the nurses or doctors or orderlies won't vax?
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What if someone says they have a legitimate exemption, which is a thing in law?
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Is some middle manager somewhere, some shopkeeper, going to now be the court that makes those
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They're going to have little courts, little trials.
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Maybe in the coffee shop, we're going to have a trial.
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And the employees or the customers have to spill the beans on the most intimate private
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health details to the court at the little Starbucks or something, little Starbucks court,
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I can imagine some bullies in society loving this and others being absolutely disgusted
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Tyler Dawson of Trudeau's Post Media is hostile to Alberta, and he is aware that the feeling
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He knows that this will not go down well outside of the lockdown class.
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The rich doctors and rich politicians and journalists will be loving the last 18 months.
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Which, given the mood, I'd be inclined to hire a security guard to do.
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I guess my thought is, is there de-escalation training for staff, support to hire security,
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training on messaging, or government signage to put in windows?
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You're going to tell someone to get out of the store?
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You're going to tell an employee to get out of the store, and it's just going to go down
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That thug Tyler Shandro, the health minister, was talking about going into people's homes to
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You try that, someone's going to reach for their gun.
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You go in their house and tell them to break up their family, they're going to reach for
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Certainly, they've gone very close to what critics have been hollering about for weeks.
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Anywho, I just wonder how you manage a wholesale shift like this in a few days when the mood
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Was there a single word about health in all that, in his whole rant?
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It's about compliance and submission and control, and that we all have to bend the knee and bow
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Everyone's concerned about it in their own measure.
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And by that, I mean, have you talked to that person in the last five years?
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It's not the black death of Europe that killed a third of the population.
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It's against politicians who have no mandate to destroy lives and livelihoods.
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And then to tell the little people to be grateful, not to be angry about it.
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Let me end with what I'd call Tyler Dawson's diary entry.
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Dear diary, I can't help but notice the people demanding this didn't seem to devote very much
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time to making policy implementation suggestions beyond F the anti-vaxxers.
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He's got a little bit of self-awareness, doesn't he?
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Because that is how the media feels and the politicians feel and the emergency room doctors.
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I mean, without the swearing, that was half the front page of the Toronto Star the other day.
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He calls more than 10 million un-vaxxed Canadians, you people who will face consequences.
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Everyone needs to get vaccinated and those people are putting us all at risk.
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We're going to fight this with everything we have.
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And I see in the news that Saskatchewan has announced the same thing as Alberta.
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I think fighting this will likely be the thrust of Rebel News for weeks and months, and maybe
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Well, I'm coming up on half a century, which is a very long time.
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I should tell you, when I was a young man, one of my first real jobs was to go to Autocop
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and be a legislative assistant for Preston Manning, then the leader of the Reform Party.
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And one of my jobs was to work as a young staffer on the question period, questions that
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And I had a boss in Parliament, and his name was Jay Hill, MP.
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Well, Jay is now the leader of the Maverick Party.
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And I haven't talked to him in a while, so it's a bit of a reunion.
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We're not going to talk about old times, we're going to talk about his latest political
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We spoke to one of his star candidates, Tariq El Naga, the other day.
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So it's a pleasure now to join Jay Hill via Skype from Calgary.
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Since you were with my boss about 25 years ago.
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Ezra, you always were so, you know, it just flows, right?
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And I won't elaborate further on what flows, but it's great to see you again.
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And you can take a little bit of credit and a little bit of blame for all the things I've
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done since I worked with you on Parliament Hill.
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And I think you and I both learned a lot about challenging the status quo.
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I think there were some wonderful times in the Reform Party.
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In the end, I don't know how successful it was, but now you're the leader of the Maverick
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Tell me what lessons you learned from the Reform Party experience that you're taking to the
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Well, Ezra, the first thing is I have to admit that I'm a slow learner.
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It's taken me most of my life to put together the fact that the West is never going to get
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a fair shake, a fair deal, or whatever you want to call it, out of Confederation, out
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of Canada, until we determined to change the way in which we're governed and we're treated.
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And so that's really what motivated the Maverick Party for me to come out of retirement a little
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Actually, tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of Maverick.
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We're only running 29 candidates in Western Canada.
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We'll only ever run in Western Canada, Ezra, because the lesson I learned from Reform was
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that once we expanded and became a party running all across Canada, then you have to water down
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your message to try to appeal to where the votes are.
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And of course, those are in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, and that corridor from Windsor City
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And we don't intend to make that mistake again.
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Again, we're going to be effectively the Bloc Québécois of Western Canada and represent
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You know, I was thinking about that very thing when I watched the debates.
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And like I say, one of your candidates joined us for a little pre-show conversation, because
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I understand why the Bloc Québécois leader was in the French-language debates.
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And by the way, there were two French-language debates, but only one English debate.
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I mean, I didn't understand why the leader of the Bloc Québécois was in that one.
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I mean, he's an interesting guy, but he wasn't running any candidates outside Quebec.
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He had nothing but contempt for Alberta and the fossil fuel industry, for example.
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And I thought, if he can be in the English-language debate, even though he has no chance of being
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prime minister, he's not running any candidates outside Quebec, why isn't the Maverick Party
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allowed in any of the debates, including in the Quebec debates?
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In fairness to Monsieur Blanchet, there are some Anglophones, I think, still residing in
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Quebec that would prefer to hear the English debate.
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Whereas we're only ever going to run in Western Canada, as I said, Ezra.
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I suppose I was speaking more symbolically than anything, but it was quite symbolic to
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me to hear the French-language debate, all the parties wooing Quebec at the expense of
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Like, at least a quarter of that debate was just bashing Alberta.
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All the parties, I must say, in different degree, talking about wrapping up the oil sands.
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I just thought it was symbolically, it would be the same as if Maverick were in those debates.
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Now, let me ask you, I'm a little bit curious about the fact, we talked about this for a minute
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I was surprised that you yourself weren't running, because I've gone through your list
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of candidates, and there's some interesting people from different walks of life, but none
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Well, as I've been saying to people, I served 17 years in Parliament.
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As you know, you and I met when I was a very young and still dark-haired member of Parliament,
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But I served 17 years, and I guess I just tell people I served my time.
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I was relatively happily retired until I started to worry about my three young grandchildren
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here in Calgary, and what the future held for them with the way this country is being destroyed
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That's why I came out of retirement to start this party.
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Having said that, myself and the three other former reform colleagues that have also stepped
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Names, Val Meredith, Leon Benoit, and Alan Kirpan are the other three.
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Between us, we have 60-plus years of parliamentary experience.
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And we're all working to mentor this new group of members of candidates that we hope to be members
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And that's our role, is to establish credibility for the movement and the party, and to build
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the party and mentor the next generation of Mavericks.
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I mean, they were in Parliament when I was a young pup helping, so it's good to hear.
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Let me ask you about the fellow that both you and I followed to Ottawa back in the 90s, namely
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Has he given you any words of advice from his experience building the Reform Party?
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I consider him a good friend, and I hope that's reciprocal.
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Of course, he lives not far from me here in Calgary.
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And he has taken a far different approach, as you know, Ezra, all of his political life.
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So where we part company is, I believe very strongly that until the West is prepared to
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at least mutter the word independence, we're never going to get a fair deal.
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And that's where I part company not only with Preston, but with people like Jason Kenney
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that somehow believe that if you just continue to wrap yourself in the maple leaf flag and
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expect to be treated better or equally or fairly, that somehow it'll happen.
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I've come to the sad realization it's not going to.
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And that's why I'm advocating taking a page from Quebec's playbook and moving us to achieve
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this similar autonomy that Quebec has carved out for itself over the last several decades.
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Speaking of former colleagues, I think there was overlap between you and Maxime Bernier.
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So he, you know, he went rogue, some would say.
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And when he started the People's Party, I think there was a lot of skepticism because
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starting a party from scratch is just such enormous work, as you know.
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But the latest polls I've seen in this election show that he has some momentum, whether it's
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And I just looking at his social media, he seems to be drawing crowds.
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Now, I don't know if he's going to actually punch through anywhere, but he's certainly having
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What are the differences, would you say, other than the Western focus?
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Are there other differences between you and the People's Party?
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Because they certainly seem to be on a roll in their own way.
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How would you distinguish your candidates from their candidates?
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The single biggest difference is that our core foundation for Maverick is that we would
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You know, the Blanc-Québécois, all those years, and you were there as well as I, they've
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And their strategy in the House of Commons is very simple.
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If legislation or motion before the House is deemed to be in the best interest of Quebec,
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they speak in favor of it, and they vote for it.
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And I have thought for quite some time how refreshing that would be to have some, in this
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case, Maverick members of Parliament, that would have the freedom to do the same.
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And that's why we put the word freedom into our logo, right into our name.
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Because we believe that freedom is such an important word when it comes to addressing the
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needs, the aspirations, and building the future destiny for Western Canadians.
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And so we have a plan to accomplish that, and we have this twin-track mission statement
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we've developed, where we can either develop the autonomy, the fairness, and respect that
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the West deserves within Confederation, or failing that, we can lay the foundation for
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We're talking with Jay Hill, the leader of the Maverick Party, formerly WEGZIT.
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You emerged from the WEGZIT movement, am I right?
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Well, what happened, Ezra, is that when we cast about just a little over a year ago to
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start this federal political party, WEGZIT Canada offered to turn their party over to
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It had already accumulated the necessary signatures and jumped through all the hoops to be eligible
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So instead of starting right from ground zero, we did take over WEGZIT Canada, but once we
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had that, we virtually changed everything about it.
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I think most people recognize that WEGZIT was singularly focused on Alberta independence.
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As I said, we have a twin-track mission statement.
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We've changed virtually everything that existed with WEGZIT.
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But we have retained this call for greater independence for Western Canada.
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I just finished doing a monologue about the lockdowns and the vaccine passport in Alberta.
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And I'm still muddling through it, but there's certain things there that strike me, frankly,
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And I'm just shocked to hear that there will be restrictions on healthy but unvaccinated people
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meeting even in private, even just like in homes.
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I'm trying to get a legal opinion on that if that really, like that's what was said yesterday.
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I have trouble believing that's actually in here.
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And I know that one of the things that Bernier has done in his People's Party is he's styled
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I think he does believe that point of view, but it's also wise because he really takes
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Does the Maverick Party have a position on lockdowns?
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And again, I think there was overlap between you and Kenny in Parliament too.
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Well, of course, as an individual, I do, Ezra, but I find it slightly hypocritical, if I could
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say this, that federal political parties and leaders would, like Max, would say on one
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hand that there should be this clear differentiation between our two levels of government, federal
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and provincial, and yet they are heavily involved in the case of Max in being critical of what
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the premiers and provinces are trying to do in addressing this pandemic.
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And I draw people's attention back to the fact that at its core, Maverick believes in freedom.
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So on this issue, we believe that there should be no government that can force a Canadian
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citizen, regardless of where they live, to inject something into their body that they
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And we, you know, personally, I have no problem if people weigh the pros and cons and decide
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I have chosen to be vaccinated, but that's my personal choice.
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But as far as being like Max and, you know, coming out to Alberta repeatedly to attack the
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provincial government, my view on that is that there are many people and many organizations
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and indeed even a few media organizations like Rebel News that will hold the provincial
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governments across the land to account for the decisions that they have made and are making.
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And that's appropriate in a democratic country that they have the right to protest and let
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But as I said, I think it's hypocritical for someone like myself to say, okay, well, you
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know, I'm and have been greatly opposed to the imposition of a national carbon tax by a federal
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government on the provinces and in particular on Alberta and then turn around and inject
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myself in attacking a provincial government, regardless of where it is, for decisions they're
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I'm running for federal office or my party is, my candidates are.
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We're not looking to inject ourselves into decisions that are made by premiers or provinces.
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Well, Jay Hill, it's great to catch up with you.
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I still feel like calling you a boss, but I got to resist that urge.
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It was a pleasure meeting Tarek Il Naga on the show the other day.
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And as you can see, the word freedom is right in their logo.
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Instead of letters today, I want to just tell you a few things that we're doing around the office.
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We had 1,500 people buy tickets and not all of them showed up in the end because we had to postpone several times.
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But there was still at least 1,000 people in the room.
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It was just really wonderful to get out there and meet people again face to face.
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I think a lot of people just enjoyed being at a large event, at a large theater again.
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I think we just missed the lifting of the drawbridge in Regina.
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I understand that Saskatchewan is bringing in harsh lockdown rules too.
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We have another event for those in the greater Toronto area on September 21st.
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So the day after the federal election and the day before Ontario brings in its vaccine passports,
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in that one-day window on September 21st, we're having a special event at the Canada Christian College,
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which is about 25 minutes east of Toronto, with Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host.
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Now, he's not coming in in person, but he's doing a live big screen Zoom chat.
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So me and Dr. Charles McVitie of the university will be having a Q&A with Tucker.
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And it'll be all about civil liberties and lockdowns and censorship.
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So last I checked, we had sold about 40% of our tickets in the first day.
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But if you're in the greater Toronto area, just go to rebelnews.com slash events.
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I'm going to see if there's a way where we can let people outside the greater Toronto area participate by watching on Zoom.
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We have to check and get permission with Tucker because he's very conscious about what recordings are made of his events.
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And there's a lot of rules I don't want to get offside with him because I'd like to do other events with him too.
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So this throws into doubt different rebel events we were planning for the fall
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because there's simply no way we're going to comply with the snitch and secret police role
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that Jason Kenney and other premiers are asking us to do.
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I don't think I've told you about it before, but we have a new program called WeWon'tAsk.com.
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And it's simply these stickers that are perfect for businesses to put up on their front door.
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And we have a smaller version that they can put up their cash register.
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One says, We Won't Ask About Your Vaccination Status.
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And one, We Won't Ask About, and it lists a bunch of things like your race, your religion, disability, things like that.
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I'm hoping that this will become a grassroots response where thousands of people put these stickers on their businesses
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If you go to WeWon'tAsk.com, we'll send it to you for free.
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And if you want it even faster, we have the high-res version.
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You can actually print it out yourself for free at home so you don't even have to wait for us to mail it to you.
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And I should tell you, and I hope to have our first reports out tomorrow,
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we have filed our first lawsuit against vaccine passports.
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And I believe that Drea Humphrey will have the report on that.
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I should also tell you that we've taken a case of an Air Canada employee.
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And I hope to actually, in the end, represent dozens or even hundreds of Air Canada flight attendants, pilots, gate agents,
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other people who are being told, take the vaccine or be fired.
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I think I told you before that our goal is to hire in-house 10 full-time lawyers to do nothing but fight this insane constriction of our freedom of all our civil liberties.
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I just keep coming to that clip I showed you three times earlier today of Tyler Shandro, the so-called health minister,
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the one caught in the Sky Palace having a boozy party, party for him, but everyone else has to be in lockdown,
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when he actually said you may not gather in private, even if you're completely healthy,
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even if you had the virus and recovered so you have natural immunity, you may not gather in private.
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And they had a lot of talk last night about police enforcement.
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That is what a police state authoritarian sounds like.
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And we will do everything we can to stop that, journalistically, legally, and I think maybe politically, too.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.