EZRA LEVANT ｜ Finland has a party girl as a prime minister
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Sana Merin of Finland is a party girl. She's a dancer, a dancer and a partier, and she's a Prime Minister. Can she be a grown-up if she's drinking and dancing in clubs with men?
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Hello, my friends. A bit of a different show today. I'm talking about one of the most beautiful
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prime ministers in the world. Now, you might be saying that's like the tallest short guy,
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beautiful prime ministers. Are there even any who meet that description? Well, I mean,
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the standards are lower. It's not like saying the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.
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The most beautiful prime minister in the world, I think, is Santa Merin of Finland.
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She's not just beautiful. She's a party girl out dancing in clubs and drinking and men,
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which is sort of funny for a 36-year-old mother. But my question is more, is that the right thing
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for a prime minister to do? Prime minister who's raising the stakes in a possible escalation against
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Russia? I'll show you the latest and I'll give you my thoughts on it. But first, let me invite you to
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Tonight, Finland has a party girl as a prime minister. It's August 24th, and this is the
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Hi, everybody. It's great to be back in the chair here, and special thanks to my friends,
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David Menzies and Sheila Gunn-Reed, who've been covering for me. I've been doing a little bit
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of traveling for business, but I also had some elective surgery earlier this week, which took
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me out of commission for a couple days. So, I'm fine. No need to worry. It was all planned,
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and everything went great. I just want to explain my absence. I love doing this show,
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but I have other commitments from time to time. I'm lucky to have colleagues like Sheila and David
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who do such a great job in the chair. I want to show you some news. It's not going to look like
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news at first. It's going to look like, I don't know, a rock video with beautiful models. Take a look at
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Saw this a few weeks ago. They sort of look cool, the beautiful people. I saw that a couple weeks
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ago, and then here's another one, less a music video. I think this was shot in a bar. Take a look.
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who are those super cool beautiful people well they're not actually supermodels they're
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politicians which actually means they're even prettier what i mean by that is
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you know the standard for politicians is so low uh even someone like justin trudeau can be called
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handsome i think in hollywood he would not be but compared to other politicians he would be
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and the star of those videos the dancing girl is sanna marin the prime minister of finland
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videoed intimately close to various men at the parties wild nights booze and drugs
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um now there's nothing wrong with being a libertine i guess certainly nothing illegal
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um you don't have to be christian to listen to the words of first corinthians 13 11 when i was a child
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i spoke as a child i understood as a child i thought as a child but when i became a man i put
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away childish things there's something to be said for you know growing up uh if you're 18 years old
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i can understand it but maybe a 36 year old mom it's time to put away childish things and
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i don't know be a mom be a grown-up the drugs and booze she claims that she wasn't on drugs
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but the public pressure made her take a drug test to prove it i don't know maybe a prime minister
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shouldn't be partying like that um it's not a one-off she is a party girl she's partied in the
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past had to apologize in the past she partied during the covid lockdowns which irked people not
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just because she's a party girl but because she was partying while telling anyone else not to
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you couldn't gather for a funeral or a family gathering but she had to hit the clubs it gets
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a little risque i mean topless models kissing each other um it's it's not normal for a prime
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minister it's not even normal for a 36 year old mom i don't think um western liberals though
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absolutely love it she's a boss girl that's how it's done she's liberated and she is so pretty
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it's been a feminist defense anyone who criticizes her is just sexist or jealous of how cool she is
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i i don't doubt that she's free and freewheeling but is she wise or responsible or trustworthy would
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would true feminist icons like margaret thatcher behave like that or golda meir the former
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israeli pm or indira gandhi i don't think so you know if you look at the roots of the word senator
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alderman alderman alderman senator senior these words mean old old doesn't mean lifeless old
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typically is a surrogate for being wise being experienced being steady we look for leadership
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amongst older people not because we don't like the young it's just the young haven't learned things
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yet and we want the most learned people running our country look at this headline in the national
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post by sabrina madur she says unserious attacks on finland's santa maran about age background more
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politicians should behave like the dancing prime minister so you're unserious to be worried about a
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playgirl party girl more politicians should be like that who is santa maran well the world economic forum
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claims her as one of their she's an up-and-comer like trudeau and like trudeau i think she's an empty
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vessel like trudeau i don't think she's a serious person she's a mascot an influencer remember the
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old videos of trudeau dancing bhangra dancing costume parties like trudeau santa maran is now the
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top decision maker in finland a country that for years has been neutral but has now just ended that
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and applied to join nato with trudeau's strong support i'm worried that she might dance her way
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into a war with vladimir putin and drag other nato countries like us in too i don't know if you know
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anything about finland i've never been there i've been not too far away in sweden i guess finland has
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had a precarious relationship with russia for actually for centuries it was brutally invaded by
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the soviets um they fought valiantly winter soldiering snipers the fins know the threat from russia
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at least those who are older than 36 those who don't party finland is western in its focus but it
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has had a policy of strict neutrality so as not to give a pretext to the russians to invade again
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that's their public stance or at least it has been for decades finland's approach to being a neighbor
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to a bully being a neighbor to the authoritarian russians was actually cited by henry kissinger
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as a template for how ukraine might be able to survive both ukraine and finland are understandably
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worried about putin and his imperialism and his expansionism kissinger said both countries should
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be western oriented western focused free like the west turn towards the west but neither should prick
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the russians into invading by agitating them on security grounds well that is exactly what santa
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marin has been doing taking finland out of neutrality and joining nato i am worried about finland now not
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before but now i am let me ask you this would you invite taiwan to join nato today i mean i am very pro
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taiwan i've had the pleasure of visiting that democracy i'm pro finland though i don't know it as well but
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isn't changing the status of those two countries destabilizing i mean you're changing an old order
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i don't like the fact that taiwan isn't an independent country recognized by the u.n but i understand that
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there's a deliberate vagueness there and frankly it was decided by the western democracies to welcome
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communist china into the global fold to try and wedge against the soviet union it was canada the united
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states the democracies that said we will choose communist china i don't like that i don't like
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that history but that's how it is do we really want to change decades of the status quo do you think
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it would be a good idea to have taiwan join nato too and i say this is a top taiwan defender and i feel
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the same way about finland they've had a stance of non-partisan neutrality for decades is it wise
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now that putin is on an imperialistic rampage is it wise now to change the state of things let me read
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to you article five of the nato treaty this is the north atlantic treaty i'm going to read it to you
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takes about a minute the parties that's what they call the countries the parties agree that an armed
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attack against one or more of them in europe or north america shall be considered an attack against
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them all and consequently they agree that if such an armed attack occurs each of them in exercise of
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the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by article 51 of the charter of the
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united nations will not may but will assist the party or parties so attacked by taking for with
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individually and in concert with the other parties such action as it deems necessary including the use
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of armed force to restore and maintain the security of the north atlantic area
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i like finland i like taiwan and i want to help each of them stay free but would you sign a contract
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like that with either of them right now like trudeau santa maron is not a serious person she's a mascot
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she's an influencer she loves being on instagram and uh now she's a top decision maker
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um she tried the feminist card i'm a boss girl you're just picking on me
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no she she actually started by being proud of who she was and running with it leaning into it
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that didn't quite work people i think remembered the russian invasion last time
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so santa maron tried something very unbossed girl like she tried playing the i'm tough and strong
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car didn't work so she tried crying at a press conference here's that
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i don't know i think you've got to pick a lane are you a strong feminist woman who can
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run a military in nato and make big decisions rolling with vladimir putin and joe biden or are you
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just a girl who cries for sympathy and pity i don't think you can do both
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if she continues to dance i fear she will dance her way into war with putin and we will be dragged
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in too i don't have a lot to say about finland i don't know a lot about it but i know one thing she
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must resign as prime minister now she at the very least is at an enormous risk of blackmail
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imagine what vladimir putin's spies have on her that we haven't seen yet
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she's a child or at least childish she's unstable she's objectively speaking unready for the job
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let it be another woman who takes over i don't care a woman or a man that's not the point
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it has to be someone serious someone who spends their nights reading briefing notes thinking
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let her dance let her party but let her resign first it'll give her more time for the clubs
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welcome back well there's someone on the show wearing a tie which suggests he's a lawyer
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i am not in trouble i am not being arrested or anything like that actually he's a friend
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and ally his name is mark joseph he's a senior litigator at the democracy fund there's a lot
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of news going on in battles for civil liberties mark great to see you again thanks for having me
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i'm just joking man i should wear a tie more often but you look great um the democracy fund
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for folks i mean every single rebel knows what the democracy fund is it's a civil liberties
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organization that does education and litigation lots of fight the fines cases but these days
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some very interesting things cooking why don't you give us an update on two projects
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the first is western university and they're called to have mandatory boosters and then second we'll
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talk about something that the democracy fund just filed in court today a challenge to the arrive
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canap both of these deserve their own show frankly but why don't you give us a couple minutes summary
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on each let's start with western university sure so western university on august 22nd instituted
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a booster mandate so that means that not only are you required to be have your vaccinations you're
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required to have a booster um a third shot a third shot that's correct uh and that caught many people
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off guard i think there's been some pushback they've received um especially for people moving
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into residence who are facing now that that they have to get boosted and they're in a time crunch so
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there's been there's been a lot of concern and we're looking at that situation we expect that we might
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send a letter expressing our concerns to western shortly okay so um i as far as i know that is not
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that booster requirement is not an order by any legislature or public health officer that's not the
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standard working in a long-term care home working in a hospital that seems to be something that western
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university has decided they're going to go out there and do that no one else in the country is doing
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either politically or medically they're just they just made it up that's right um the universities
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paused their uh mandates i think in may and that was after the provisional government said you don't
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have to have a post-secondary vaccine mandate uh but some of these universities on their own have decided
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to reinstitute their vaccine mandates u of t was one of them they just came out with a residence
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booster mandate and western falls suit with a more general campus-wide booster mandate uh but
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other universities are not instituting a vaccine mandate which shows that there's some inconsistency
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here um i don't know if the medical science is different or the obviously the conclusions each
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university reach are different so i don't know what's going on that's right yeah i saw i think guelph
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today just announced they are not doing it and it's ridiculous it's as if the coronavirus has a
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different opinion based on if you're in guelph or uh you know western university or u of t or it
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there's no science to it's all politics now you mentioned august 22 just a few days ago
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they had all summer boosters have been available for months i'm a skeptic i think they left it to the
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last minute to ambush people so people say oh my gosh i've made all my plans i paid my tuition i've
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moved to the new city i've i'm about to start my life in college and they're throwing it this at me
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it's enormously difficult for me to do anything other than comply uh it seems like such a bad faith
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move to leave it to the last minute that feels very political not medical yeah it's definitely thrown a lot
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of people um a curveball and and a lot of parents of students a lot of students are quite frankly
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shocked by this turn uh and i don't know what they're going to do because as you say there's not a lot of
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time between now and move in um to make alternate arrangements if if they have to now i don't want to
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uh announce anything before it's announceable but theoretically is there something that could be
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done and i'm not saying to say what you're going to do but what could be done um to help these students
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especially in a in a urgent basis i mean these kids can't wait a year or two they they're making
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this decision in the next week or two right so we always like to approach um these types of situations
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um amicably and we're looking to come to some resolution with universities um but if we get no
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um positive response then yeah i you we could look at litigation yeah that's something that that
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all a lawyer always can look at it if if there's no positive movement well we'll wait and see if
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there's any news from the democracy fund on that before we talk about it i want to switch gears because
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a piece of litigation that was in fact filed today is something we've been talking about
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for months actually it's the arrive can app and for those who don't know what i'm talking about i've
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actually not left the country since the before times but anyone who comes back to canada has to
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download an app on their smartphone so you first of all you need a smartphone you must download this app
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and you must put your vaccination info into it if you look at the privacy policy though not only are
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you being forced to say what your vac status is to come into the country even even though you're a
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citizen it says right on the app that they will share this information with a host of organizations
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including international agencies obviously the world health organization and and others i find that
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insane that you must give your vaccination status to the let's be candid china controlled world health
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organization to be allowed back in your country and if you don't you get massive fines well the democracy
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fund filed a charter challenge with that today didn't we when i say we i mean the democracy fund that's
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right um it's something that we've been looking at for a while um and as you say we've had some concerns
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with respect to the language used in the privacy statement and it's caused the arrive can app has
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caused immense frustration to travelers coming through those airports and i think that's uh caused
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those lines that you're seeing um so but mostly the fact is that that when you upload your private
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health information um to the arrive can app uh it goes to various entities i think other organizations
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was the phrase that they use that could mean anyone literally anyone they want to and they may change
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that list and we don't even know who right i mean it's vague enough language that that uh the government
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can just hide behind it and say look uh we sent it on to xyz organization and it's right there in the
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privacy statement um you exceed to that when you uploaded your documentation so tough luck um and the other
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the other issue we had was that um the information could be used to determine your eligibility for
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access to border programs or something like that it's very vague language and it seemed to indicate
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that they could use this information to determine your your access to the country somehow it it's very
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vague um and that kind of vague language lends itself to government overreach and abuse we found and
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they'll keep the information for at least several years they say they may extend it i was talking
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to some folks the other day who go back and forth across the border and they thought they said to me
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that they have never told any government institution their vaccine status these two guys and they thought
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that this arrive can app was a way to force more people to go on the record in some way sort of like
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the old firearms database the government wants to know like i have never told a government institution
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if i'm vaccinated i've never because i've never left the country i've never um applied for and i never
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interacted with the government in a way that would require me to give that information this i i think
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there's two things behind it first of all they want to force people to give them that private information
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and saying you can't come to your own country is a powerful way but the second thing is i think
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as Yuval Noah Harari says COVID was the shock that can wobble people so much we allowed the government
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to do surveillance of us in a way never before uh Harari of the world economic forum talks about
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surveillance under the skin and that that was the great opportunity of COVID it shocked us into
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accepting something we never would here's that clip just in case you haven't seen it here's Yuval Noah
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Harari who's basically Klaus Schwab's muse at the world economic forum he's so excited
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not about COVID but what COVID let him get away with take a look
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COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept to legitimize
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total biometric surveillance if we want to stop this epidemic we need not just to monitor people we
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need to monitor what's happening under the skin what we have seen so far it's corporations and governments
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collecting data about where we go who we meet what movies we watch the next phase is the surveillance
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going under our skin we now seeing mass surveillance systems established even in democratic countries
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which previously rejected them and we also see a change in the nature of surveillance previously
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surveillance was mainly above the skin now it's going under the skin governments want to know not
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just where we go or who we meet above all they want to know what is happening under our skin what's
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our body temperature what's our blood pressure what what is our medical condition mark i think
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that's it i think that persisting with this arrive can app when i don't know any other country
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in the world other than china that has something similar i think trudeau is being very clear the app
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is what he wants he doesn't even care about COVID anymore he wants the app the government doesn't
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seem to want to give it up and they've mentioned digital ids in the past they might be connected i'm
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not sure but i think every canadian should be a bit worried when the government wants to mass collect
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private health information yeah well i'm just delighted that the democracy fund has filed that
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charter lawsuit today uh you can read it for yourself read the whole thing i have it's at no arrive can
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dot com and if you want to chip in to help cover the legal costs the thing about a charter challenge is
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the government throws everything they can at it obviously all the lawyers of the justice department they
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drown you in witnesses and paper it's a big battle if you make a contribution the money goes to the
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democracy fund doesn't go to rebel news goes to the marcus fund so you will get a charitable tax
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receipt for it go to the democracy fund dot ca to learn more about the charity or go to no arrive can
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dot com to chip in we'll mark a lot of things going on there if you make a move on western university
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come back and keep us posted on that because i know there's a lot of parents at that university and
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others who are very nervous we'll do so all right there you have it mark joseph senior litigator with
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the democracy fund big news on the no arrive can dot com and something to watch on western university
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hey welcome back your viewer mailed to me on avi being denied entry to new zealand bb says they're scared
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to let avi in the country well yes and i'll tell you why as you know avi amini has for two years running
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won our viewers choice award for best rebel now i love all our rebels it's like asking a father to say
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which son is his favorite i love all my kids equally but our viewers vote and they chose avi because he is
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a one-man army and he has done more to change the political discourse in australia than any other
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person and new zealand lacks an avi amini and so if avi was going to go there not only would he
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do journalism himself but he might find a local new zealander to join our team and
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maybe he would inspire other people to join the battle they kept him out because as jacinda ardern says
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if you don't hear it from the government you can't trust it remember she said that
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very early on do not believe anything you don't hear from the government here's that old clip
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you can trust us as a source of that information you can also trust the director general of health
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and the ministry of health otherwise dismiss anything else we will continue to be your single
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source of truth we will provide information frequently we will share everything we can
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uh everything you are else you see um a grain of salt uh and so i really ask people to focus on
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that yeah are you surprised that the the political tyrant who says don't believe anything other than
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what i tell you wants to keep avi amini out next letter on sheila's monologue on teresa tam jimmy zhao
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says i question where doctors time dr tam's loyalties lie now jimmy i appreciate you saying that
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i judge by your last name that you may be of chinese ethnicity as well let me tell you my
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question about dr tam's loyalties it's not about her ethnicity or her country of birth
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it's about the fact that she was on the board of directors of the world health organization of
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a particular board to deal with the pandemic at the same time she was serving as canada's public
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health officer so she had two bosses two oaths of loyalty two confidentiality clauses i'm sorry you
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can't ride two horses at the same time and you'll recall that in january 2020 teresa tam was on a
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world health organization board that had a vote as if that's science that had a vote on whether or not to call
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uh the virus a pandemic or or deadly or they they were sort of judging how the response would be
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that vote was secret to this day teresa tam has not said whether or not she sided with china or the
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free world why can't we have the right to know that because she had an oath of loyalty and an oath
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of confidentiality to the world health organization we showed you that in 2020 when we got that
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access to information request that's what i mean when i challenge dr tam's loyalty it's got nothing
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to do with her ethnicity some people say oh you that's what you mean that's not what i mean at all
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just like i challenge christia freeland's loyalty she is on the board of governors for the world
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economic forum how can you swear loyalty to klaus schwab promise that you will keep your fiduciary duty to
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him that you will give your loyalty and service to him while also representing canada's interests
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i'm sorry you cannot have two masters on david's peterboro tickets for shaking hands and laughing
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uh bruce hedgerson says pay the fine with nickels and dimes governments love to nickel and dime us so
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give it to them that's really funny you know i haven't had a chance to talk at length with david about
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that he did talk to me um briefly on the phone i think we should consider appealing it and obviously
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that makes no sense from a financial point of view but it makes sense from a moral point of view
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i think that these bullies have to be taken down a notch and i don't feel like bending the knee i
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don't know i'm going to get some advice from the lawyers to see that's just not a fool's errand
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but but losing in court makes me want to appeal what do you think that's our show for the day great
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to be back in the chair i'm sorry that i that i was away and i i will have a few more days off as
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well my goal is to get these away days done during the summer and i really enjoy doing the show so i'm
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i'm sad when i haven't been here but it was for elective surgery yesterday and the day before that's
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it for me for today until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel news network to you at home