Saskatoon, Canada's biggest carbon consumer, sent out the dumbest tweet in the history of Saskatchewan, and now they're going to jail you for it. Ezra Levenrant takes you behind-the-scenes to find out what happened behind the scenes.
00:05:14.440And in Canada, it's unfortunately a disease of nursing home patients because there are euthanasia orders in many nursing homes, especially in Quebec.
00:05:25.100That's why half of the deceased in the first year were from nursing homes in Quebec, which has just 25% of the population.
00:05:32.220But they had half the deaths because the Quebec government and their nursing homes and inpatient children were happy to use the pandemic as an excuse to say goodbye to grandparents.
00:06:11.860Alberta is one of the few places that continues to publish details like, you know, the fact that the average age of people who died from the disease is around 80.
00:06:25.040So half the cases are 80 and higher in age.
00:06:29.960I don't know if you can understand this strange graph of dots, but it's from the Alberta government website.
00:06:45.440Someone who is 80 wants to live to 81.
00:06:47.840Someone who's 90 wants to live to be 91.
00:06:50.420I do think we can say as a society that if we have to choose, it's better to have a disease that takes you at the twilight of your life rather than the dawn of your life.
00:06:59.600But that's a matter of opinion and morality.
00:07:01.400Obviously, what the Saskatchewan Health Authority said was not a matter of opinion.
00:16:14.200So this tweet igniting on social media, the main issue outside of the crazies, is that they feel vaccine status is not the only risk factor and that this is a misinformation propaganda.
00:16:27.660And just angry people these days want to flag for you because we've even had staff chime in arguing that this is a main risk factor and not liking our wording.
00:18:54.100Yeah, I'm sorry those people are such idiots and upset that you're lying to the public about the virus.
00:19:00.380Could you imagine if a real company with real accountability just had its staff blame storm and call customers' names and refuse to fix a problem and take the day off because they were too proud to admit they got it wrong?
00:19:15.560Could you imagine a real company being run that way?
00:19:19.220And I'm not even talking about firing anyone or discipline.
00:19:23.540But they won't even correct an error because they'd lose face.
00:19:33.160And it has gone from 134,000 impressions yesterday at 3 p.m. to 3.67 million impressions a day later explains why notifications are so busy with vile reactions.
00:20:40.300I don't know if you're familiar, but the IOC recently released a new set of guidelines for inclusion on transgender and intersex athletes.
00:20:55.060And I think the guidelines they set forward are very good and do a very good job of promoting inclusivity while keeping
00:21:08.380competition integrity, where the IOC guidelines are going.
00:21:10.900Where the IOC guidelines are that anyone, each sport basically has to come up with eligibility criteria for what constitutes an unfair advantage in that given sport.
00:21:31.520And then everybody is able to compete in the category they're most comfortable with unless there's a proven unfair advantage that they have.
00:21:52.100And this does a very good job of including trans women and not invading anybody's privacy or making anyone feel uncomfortable.
00:22:01.520So, yeah, I think those guidelines are very good.
00:22:06.420Well, just a couple of blokes talking about sports and keeping it fair.
00:22:10.340Actually, the second fellow there doesn't go by his name his mama gave him, Will Thomas.
00:22:16.300He's done three things just to change it up.
00:22:19.280I don't know if you saw he's wearing some discreet earrings, but then again, a lot of fellows do.
00:22:24.520I guess pirates have always worn earrings, but this guy's sporting some earrings.
00:22:29.360He's got long hair and he changed his name from Will Thomas to Leah Thomas.
00:22:36.120But if I didn't tell you that, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a couple of fellows talking about sport.
00:22:41.860But the thing is, Will Thomas, I can't really use that dead name or I'll be in trouble with politically correct, but Leah Thomas competed for the University of Pennsylvania in a 1650 meter swimming race.
00:23:00.620It's a very long race and he won by 38 seconds ahead of the second place contender who was a biological woman.
00:23:13.880He's smashing records around America, new records, but not as a man, as a trans woman.
00:23:22.240And joining us now to talk about this, our friend Barbara Kay, columnist for National Post, Western Standard Online and Apoch Times.
00:23:28.080Barbara, I'm not trying to be mean, but if you did not know that that second person, I'm going to stop saying fella or bloke.
00:23:37.700If you didn't know that second person there was a trans woman, you would just say, OK, it's a guy with long hair and earrings.
00:23:45.640That's not rare these days. You would not even think for a second that was a woman.
00:23:50.320And yet he just is crushing all these female athletes in competition, isn't he?
00:23:56.780He does. I mean, Leah Thomas does look very masculine, sounds very masculine, doesn't seem to have made a great effort to represent herself as stereotypically feminine, but doesn't have to anymore.
00:24:14.020According to the rules, you just have to self-identify he could have a beard and, you know, I mean, he could he could look like any other man and it wouldn't matter as long as he says the magic words I self-identify as female.
00:24:31.980And yes, he's coming very close to the all time records in female and women's swimming within a fraction or two of beating the all time best records.
00:24:45.180He is he's just smashing. The other women are very discouraged and very they feel humiliated as well.
00:24:53.440They should. The 38 seconds in swimming is three laps and it's it's it might as well be another sport altogether.
00:25:03.500A couple of the things that he said in the interview about as long as you don't have an unfair advantage,
00:25:08.960I think his own record as a male swimmer where he did OK, he was quite successful, but didn't set, you know,
00:25:17.260he didn't set any records on fire or he didn't come close to to any records.
00:25:22.300The fact that that is his record as a male swimmer against what he's doing now in the women's division is proof of an unfair advantage.
00:25:32.160And the other thing he said, he used the word integrity, that you can have both fairness and integrity.
00:25:37.800You can't because in order to be fair, there has to be a women's division that really is about biological women.
00:25:46.180And the third thing he said is, you know, these rules are made not to fake anyone feel uncomfortable.
00:25:51.480Well, he makes everybody feel uncomfortable, Ezra, to the point that and I was glad to know this to the point that when he finished that 1650 freestyle and touched the edge of the pool,
00:26:05.540that's usually the time when the crowd erupts into applause and there was dead silence.
00:26:11.500And that tells you everything you need to know about how this fiasco is being perceived by ordinary people who are attending these meets and want to see some fair competition.
00:26:25.600So the fact that nobody organized this protest, I mean, it is like a protest if you don't clap.
00:26:31.620And the fact that nobody organized it, but it was a kind of a collective response, everybody felt they just couldn't clap.
00:26:40.220Then they erupted into applause when the real winner, the first woman came in.
00:26:45.440That tells you everything about how ordinary people are viewing this situation.
00:26:50.560I'm kind of happy about that because it seems to me like a kind of tipping point where people just are not accepting this anymore.
00:26:57.280And they're saying, look, this is too crazy.
00:27:02.820Well, I have neglected to remind our viewers that you were the co-author with Linda Blade of the book Unsporting,
00:27:10.100how trans activism and science denial are destroying sport.
00:27:14.180And the cover of that book, you know, is actually an artistic representation of a weightlifting event where a young woman has young women work their whole lives,
00:27:28.100train their hearts out and they're pushed off the podium by some bloke who couldn't hack it in the men's league.
00:27:35.720So comes in and sort of grabs it from the kids.
00:27:38.500It's it's you can't even refer to satire five years ago anymore because it it's not funny anymore.
00:27:46.180I mean, South Park had Randy, the macho man, savage in as a transgender woman.
00:27:52.180But even before that, I mean, 20 years ago, Kramer from Seinfeld.
00:27:57.560It was a joke that he went and competed Taekwondo against little kids.
00:28:03.320Now, it was hilarious because he was so proud that he beat these kids.
00:28:13.280But that's not even funny anymore because here you've got a Kramer character who looks just as masculine and out of place as Kramer did fighting those kids.
00:29:14.120But this is the first time I've seen as well, in addition to people not clapping, this is the first time I'm reading about women competitors in at University of Pennsylvania who are talking.
00:29:25.920And some of them are saying they're very upset about this.
00:29:32.280I think some of the swimmers, they're upset with their coach who one of the one of the girls on the team said when asked about the coach's reaction, said our coach just likes winning.
00:29:45.280So if the coach is prepared to go through this charade in order to win, then, you know, boo on him, too.
00:29:53.740But the IOC, in their latest, you know, in their last declaration or statement, they kind of left the door open.
00:30:00.660They recognized themselves that lowering testosterone alone, which had been their only, the only thing you had to do, is not sufficient.
00:30:11.820They said it was unfit for purpose, that policy, because it's very clear that lowering, Thomas did have to lower his testosterone by a certain percentage in order to compete in the women's division.
00:30:23.800But he's only 2% off his time as a male swimmer.
00:30:28.840But as we see, as a male swimmer, he was good, but not a celebrity, because most, at that level, at elite swimmers levels, he was not an outstanding male swimmer.
00:30:42.580Now, 2% less testosterone, he's a supernova in the women's division.
00:30:47.840So that's proof that testosterone alone is meaningless, because he still has the muscle mass, the strength, the longer bones, the bigger lungs.
00:30:57.500There's like, you know, 15 different attributes that post-puberty males have, and nothing about that changes just by lowering testosterone.
00:31:06.740We're hearing all kinds of, the UK Council has made a report, and coincidentally, and very fortunately, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute here in Canada has just, by a happy coincidence, put out a report.
00:31:22.920I'll be writing about it for my column in the National Post this week.
00:31:26.080They have put out a report called Fair Game, and it's on this issue, and they have recognized physicians, ethicists, people who are expert in sport, who have looked at the subject very closely,
00:31:44.440and they've come to the conclusion that the male advantage in sport, there's all kinds of graphs.
00:31:52.740A man's ability to punch is 150 times stronger than a woman's, so that kind of an advantage in, you know, or lifting, power lifting.
00:32:05.540So there's no question about it, and even the heads of the sports associations are saying,
00:32:11.060well, even if there is a male advantage, the principle of inclusivity is more important.
00:32:19.760Our Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the head of that association, who sets the rules for Canada, the guidelines for Canadian athletes,
00:32:28.480he said, Paul Melia, he said, inclusivity is more important, and even if there's a male advantage,
00:32:38.040inclusivity is so much more important that we have to change the nature of sport to accommodate that.
00:32:45.380That's just absurd, because what he really means is women have to suck it up in order that these biological males can feel included.
00:37:36.020Affirmative action is supposed to help the disadvantaged be able to share a platform with those that are naturally more advantaged, more privileged.
00:37:45.780And here we're taking a privileged person and putting them into the arena with the disadvantaged and saying, this privileged person needs to feel included.
00:38:00.180So suck it up, you disadvantaged people.
00:38:06.480They're taking what is a social value.
00:38:09.540Yes, trans people should feel included in the general life of society.
00:38:14.860And they're transmogrifying it into a principle that with categories that are biological by nature and saying, well, this social principle now has to be translated into physical terms.
00:38:31.660So the one doesn't belong with the other.
00:39:04.020We want we want trans people to feel good about themselves.
00:39:08.200And we don't care what price is paid by other people in order for that to happen.
00:39:14.060You know, let me I enjoy these conversations and we always go longer than than I think we would.
00:39:19.660But I just love hearing what you have to say.
00:39:22.020I want to share with you a male thought, because I think there's some things only women think of and some things only guys think of.
00:39:29.020I mean, for example, when when a man sees in another man being a male feminist, it immediately rubs the guy the wrong way because he says, I see the trick you're doing.
00:39:40.320You're trying to trick this woman by using this false language of feminism to get her guard.
00:39:46.920Like, I just think that men, both men and women see male feminists.
00:39:52.360Some women are enthralled by it, but almost universally, other men say you're a trickster.