EZRA LEVANT | Did a lone man from Red Deer really defeat Alberta's lockdown in court — and free the whole province?
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Did a lone man from Red Deer, Alberta really defeat Alberta's lockdown in court and liberate the whole province? Is it true? Ezra goes through the video and explains why he doesn't think it's what it says.
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Well, my friends, there's a viral video out there.
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A Canadian named Patrick King is the star interviewee
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in a case in Red Deer that he sort of screwed up jurisdictionally,
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but he absolutely liberated the whole province.
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Almost a million people have watched the video.
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I'll go through it, I'll play a big clip of it,
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and I'll explain why I don't quite think it's what it pretends to be.
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It's August 5th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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I don't think I'd comment on it except for that reason.
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received almost 800,000 views on rumble.com alone.
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I think it's because we're in the worst of times,
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In terms of the virus, there's an actual health crisis.
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This is a map of COVID-19 deaths in Canada this past week.
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Second largest landmass in the world, 38 million people,
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and we're averaging fewer than 10 deaths per day.
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Six out of Canada's 14 provinces and territories,
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haven't had a single COVID death in more than a week.
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And yet the lockdowns continue everywhere, except Alberta.
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about this Delta variant and that super-duper mutation
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and all the fear of pornography that's called news today.
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But the fact is, statistically speaking, it's done.
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Schools with masks, schools by Zoom, kids at home.
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In Ontario, there are more than 3 million minors in the province.
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And the grand total of four people under age 20
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No government, no opposition party, no major media outlet,
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or university deans or judges, that's for sure.
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And then there's this video that pops up on the internet
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And they claim, in the words of that video's title,
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They seem so confident and optimistic that it has.
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and, of course, academia and every establishment,
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I think that explains the passion and excitement for the story
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and it also explains the anger and the sense of betrayal
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when I mentioned on my noontime livestream yesterday
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from a video host none of them had ever watched before.
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Now, I'm going to play a large chunk of the video to you.
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That's also when the mask mandates were lifted, too.
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It's just not accurate right from the beginning.
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But I think later the Canadian warms to the theme
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and he says that he's finally cracked the code.
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almost 800,000 people watched it on Rumble alone.
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None of the mainstream media is going to touch this.
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These propagandists are going to hide this from you
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because this is encouraging to freedom fighters,
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patriots who want to take matters into their own hands
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masking up your kids in school for 10 hours a day,
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Kids will not be masking when they return to school.
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They will now be recognizing COVID as a mild flu
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which I'm assuming is what lit the fire inside of you.
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in occupational health and safety and environment.
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where people are pouring through not only are they letting them through
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they're then farming them out all across our communities across this country
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do you think they're being worried about COVID for that of course not so he's
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facilitating who knows what new variants are out there but I can tell you
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whatever variants are around the world they're coming across that southern border
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and so he's not shutting down the virus he's helping to facilitate it in our
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country and what is his big solution what is he so upset about Florida
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his solution is he wants to have the government force kindergarteners to wear masks in school
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he doesn't believe the parents should have a say in that he thinks that should be a decision
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for the government well I can tell you in Florida the parents are going to be the ones in charge
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and one of the major medical people in his administration just recently told parents
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that they should be wearing masks at home when they're around their own children
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this is insane Joe Biden also believes that vaccination should be mandated by force of government
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and that you should have to show vaccination status to be able to participate in society
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now Florida we're very proud of our seniors first strategy
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you look at the mortality in nursing homes among seniors it's declined dramatically
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but we said from the beginning we're going to make it available for all
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that's ultimately an individual's choice to be able to do it
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Biden he rejects science because he denies the fact that people that recover from COVID
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have long-lasting immunity and that's been proven time and time again and the data is very clear
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so his vision is just like in New York City restaurants should ban young kids from being able to go in
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because they're not eligible for vaccination and law-abiding citizens have to produce proof
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of their medical records just to go to the gym or attend an event or just to participate in everyday society
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he wants that but yet if you want to vote he thinks it's too much of a burden to show a picture ID when you're voting
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so no voter ID but have to show your medical papers just to be able to live in everyday life
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give me a break and so I think the question is is we can either have a free society
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or we can have a biomedical security state and I can tell you Florida we're a free state
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people are going to be free to choose to make their own decisions about themselves about their families
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about their kids education and about putting food on the table
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and Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies then you should quote get out of the way
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but let me tell you this if you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida
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I'm standing in your way I'm not going to let you get away with it
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if you're trying to deny kids a proper in-person education I'm going to stand in your way
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and I'm going to stand up for the kids in Florida if you're trying to restrict people
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impose mandates if you're trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business
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if you are trying to lock people down I am standing in your way and I'm standing for the people of Florida
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so why don't you do your job why don't you get this border secure and until you do that
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I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you thank you
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Andrew I know that Ron DeSantis has several tools at his disposal that Aaron O'Toole doesn't
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he is the governor he can make decisions he can block Joe Biden in a way that Aaron O'Toole couldn't do
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but the language the confidence pushing back talking about individual decisions
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either for vaccines or for parents and masks saying hey how come you're not closing the southern border
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I can imagine O'Toole saying hey how come you haven't closed Roxham Road
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how come you haven't stopped flights from China
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like just the fact that he's not absolutely repeating back the message track of the lockdown is
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I find that inspiring and hopeful and makes me think right on there's a guy who might actually win
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at least maybe one day a conservative in Canada could give that kind of messaging a try
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yeah it's not about having the legal authority it's about just being a leader it's about leadership
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and it's about rhetoric at this point and the problem in Canada is that over the course of the
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pandemic we've essentially been a liberal uniparty the official opposition has been very muted
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the NDP the Bloc Québécois have been in lockstep with the liberals the conservatives have not wanted to push
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too far because they don't want to be accused of seeking an election and as we've been talking about
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going the other way so there is a huge opening for someone in Canadian politics to stand up
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and start countering a lot of the fear-mongering and make it about choice I was actually in Florida
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within the last couple of weeks and it was interesting because there's no mask mandate
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a lot of people wear masks now I wasn't one of them because I'm of the mind that we had waves two
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three and supposedly four in Canada well masks were required so I don't think they're doing what
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all of the officials are saying they're supposed to do but you know what people in Florida were making
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their own decisions people were respecting each other's space when that was warranted and if they
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wanted to go and have fun at the beach or at the pool or go to a restaurant they could do that
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and people could make decisions for themselves families could make decisions for themselves
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what DeSantis is saying here is not about left and right it's about government versus the people
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and the chasm between those two groups interest has been getting wider and wider for the last year
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and a half yeah well I tell you I hope that someone becomes the anti-lockdown voice in Canada
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Jason Kenney was the harshest lockdowner for about six or nine months there I think that really
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antagonized his base his rural base Christian Albertans who were shocked by the arrest of pastors
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but if that's largely behind him now other than a punitive prosecution of Arthur Pawlowski and his
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brother for contempt I think that maybe Jason Kenney could be that anti-lockdown hero that Canada
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desperately needs my god I hope he is listen Andrew great to see you thanks for letting me make you watch
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that five minute video from Ron DeSantis but it's the best thing anytime it's always good to talk to you
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right on great to see you folks just a reminder you can catch Andrew at andrewlaughtonshow.com
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or tnc.news take care my friend you too all right stay with us more
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on my show last night ma writes science which we are not allowed to question and dispute is not science
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but a religious cult masquerading as science yeah I mean I really went deep on my own watching videos
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of Feynman and reading his quotes he was what I wish Bill Nye the science guy was like just someone
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who loved skepticism was genuinely curious explained real science and wasn't political boy we could use
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a Dr. Feynman these days bold right the point of science is to question it by definition questioning
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Fauci is entirely within reason yeah I mean that's actually the root of the word science it means to
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observe to look to look skeptically Nick writes if you can question it it's science if you can't
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it's propaganda yeah exactly and you know I quoted that one line from Shakespeare and forgive me I
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always throw that into things it was a joke it's when Beatrice comes out and yeah yeah they they basically
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mock Benedict and tell him he was wrong and he accepts it and he says you know we're lucky to mend our
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flaws when critics point them out no one actually says that no one actually loves being proved wrong
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it was a joke when Shakespeare said it but it's true anyways if you're proving that you're wrong on
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something you can do better you can reform yourself but it's just the toughest thing in the world isn't
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it don't you hate when people say I told you so I think that's why people are so mad when I call out
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Patrick King and say you know he didn't have a winning court and that was sort of a bs video
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people hate to hear that they hate to hear I told you so they hate to hear you're wrong Shakespeare
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is correct no one likes to be criticized but I think the truth compels it that's a show for today
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until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters good night keep fighting for fear