I don't think you should call anyone a Nazi, easily. I don't want to normalize, trivialize, routinize the use of the word Nazi. But I look at what's happening in Austria and Germany, and I think, my God, my Gosh, are they moving in the wrong direction. I'll take you through it.
00:08:51.580You're trying to reach for the most evil insult you can instead of actually making a debate.
00:08:55.760But what if you were talking about Germany and Austria and talking about segregation and camps and forced injections?
00:09:06.220The place where they brought in the Nuremberg Laws that said Jews couldn't go certain places, Jews couldn't have certain jobs, Jews couldn't have the same rights.
00:09:19.240And after the Holocaust, after the Second World War, Nuremberg, the Nuremberg Code, really the opposite of the Nuremberg racist laws, a code of medical ethics that requires free, informed prior consent before undergoing a medical procedure.
00:09:34.300That Nuremberg Code, as we've talked about before, came from the trial of Nazi doctors who performed experiments on Jews in prison camps.
00:09:46.080You've thrown out all the lessons of the Holocaust, the demonization, the marginalization, the separation, the ghettoization, the incarceration.
00:09:58.660I hope they won't go to the last yard, the elimination.
00:10:02.820I know it sounds insane to even suggest it.
00:10:07.160But can you believe how fast it's gone so far?
00:11:14.020You might recall a couple months ago we did a whole show on why parliamentary privilege is so important
00:11:32.300and why MPs, members of parliament, parliamentarians, either at the federal or provincial level,
00:11:41.760have such an important right to take their seat in the chamber no matter what they've allegedly done to offend the order of the day.
00:11:51.120This comes from the United Kingdom, where the king himself had stormed into parliament to try to arrest MPs.
00:12:03.200Parliamentary privilege is there for a reason, so you can't intimidate a representative of the people, no matter what your claim was.
00:12:11.900I think, though, that's happened in Canada.
00:12:14.860I'll let the MPP in question, Belinda Karahelios, the MPP for the New Blue Party, representing the riding of Cambridge, tell her story directly.
00:12:40.180Ted Arnott, the Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, MPP for Wellington Halton Hills, was the one that provided me with this news just yesterday, actually.
00:12:52.140On November the 19th, I tested positive for COVID-19.
00:12:57.740Now, just for those who don't know, because I refuse to disclose my vaccination status,
00:13:02.760I take a rapid test twice a week in order to access the Ontario Legislature.
00:13:07.640And those rules were implemented by the Speaker of the House.
00:13:12.120So, on the 17th of November, I tested positive with an antigen test, a rapid test.
00:13:17.360It was confirmed with the PCR test on the Friday.
00:13:20.220And so, I did my quarantine as per public health guidelines.
00:13:24.840At the end of my quarantine, on November the 29th, I received an email from public health saying,
00:16:27.560And then yesterday, I received an email right here on my BlackBerry.
00:16:31.320And he says, you know, he's glad to learn that my symptoms are mild.
00:16:35.320And then he says he's clarifying that public health authorities are advising that both rapid antigen and PCR test results are unreliable in cases where an unvaccinated individual has contracted COVID-19.
00:16:48.380So, he's assuming that I'm not vaccinated.
00:16:55.880I cannot access via legislature for 90 days.
00:16:58.940Now, I know that in other jurisdictions around the world, politicians participate sometimes virtually.
00:17:05.440In fact, the federal parliament of Canada had an awful lot of its proceedings by Zoom.
00:17:11.060In Australia, I know in the state of Victoria, a number of state legislatures set up sort of a mini parliament in a bar and joined by computer.
00:19:33.980And then whoever's in the chamber would have to consent to that.
00:19:37.180So, you know, allowing the member from Cambridge to access the legislature without proof of a negative test for the next 90 days or whatever the wording would be for that.
00:19:44.620But that's the only way around that, that or getting an actual lawyer on it.
00:19:49.260But, you know, the problem with that is, would we get it before the courts, before the 90 days is up?
00:20:38.140I mean, has any civil liberties group, any law professor, any democracy actors, any opposition member, any NGO, any democracy watch, any, I don't know.
00:20:49.860I'm trying to think, does anyone give a damn?
00:21:24.980So, the nurse was, she was very helpful and quite shocked that something like this would happen.
00:21:31.080Well, I find the thing very frustrating.
00:21:33.680And the fact that no one cares and that, I mean, I'm not going to rehash the story of the British king who came with soldiers to the parliament and went in and tried to usurp parliament.
00:21:47.180And that's why we go through this fun little ceremony when parliament begins of bolt locking the door.
00:21:57.220But wars were fought over things like that.
00:22:01.340And I don't just mean like the Second World War fighting for our freedoms.
00:22:04.920I mean, wars in the United Kingdom itself about what a parliament is and what democracy is in the British Empire, in Canada, the system we're in.
00:22:15.820And to throw it away, to throw away the centuries of hard experience that led us to our system, to throw it away like a fool picking up a pearl on the beach and throwing it back into the ocean, I find deeply depressing.
00:22:47.380So it's very disappointing that the speaker has decided that he knows better than public health and that the science that he may be privy to is better than the science that public health is currently using for those who have gotten over COVID-19.
00:23:01.200I think it's right, a bureaucrat can work from home.
00:23:04.480But the bigger point than that is a bureaucrat is an employee hired or fired by a boss.
00:24:07.340Jillian Davis says, I keep thinking of the quarantines during historic plague times.
00:24:13.500Then I think of more recent history of World War II and the communist takeover of Russia and China.
00:24:18.520Bureaucrats overruling doctor recommendations for their patients, coupled with those same bureaucrats raiding doctors' offices for information of people's medical information.
00:25:38.680You know, what got me about it is that they were trying to dress it up as some scholarly thinking.
00:25:44.540You know, some, they quoted a PhD of this and a PhD of that.
00:25:48.400But their understanding of the meaning of these old words like, you know, blackmail or blacklist.
00:25:56.720They're infusing those words that did not have a racial meaning with their own racial meaning.
00:26:04.200I hope you like that clip of Ryan Long and his comedy partner showing that alt-right racists and woke racists really are, they've come full circle and they're saying the same things.
00:26:18.980That crazy, crazy talk that the CBC tries to normalize.
00:26:24.240How's that any different from some Klansman who says the same things?
00:26:38.460And let me leave you with a video of the day from Sidney Fazzard, our Calgary journalist who talks about Canada's Human Rights Museum that really doesn't live up to human rights, does it?
00:26:50.040At the museum, we talk about human rights.
00:26:52.580We talk about the fact that we all have different perspectives and ideas on what that means.
00:26:57.120But we want to come together and share one another's stories to learn about those different perspectives and ideas in the hopes that we are going to gain an understanding and respect for one another's ideas.
00:27:12.180And through dialogue, we can move forward into a better life together.
00:28:26.780My father, Israel Asper, selected the perfect location for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
00:28:33.780It's a beautiful building from head to toe.
00:28:36.520This marvel rests in the heart of Winnipeg and is surrounded by an array of wonderful attractions, acting as a centerpiece, bringing them all together.
00:28:43.980However, that might be all that's left of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
00:28:47.240As, you know, vaccine passports have come for all of us, so too have they come to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
00:28:53.840Earlier this year, I saw what appeared to be the video of a man being denied access to the museum.
00:29:04.060The real cop down at this whistle, man.
00:29:07.240This is the only museum in North America of human rights.
00:29:10.500This discrimination was for not identifying vaccination status, which got me thinking, how did we honestly get to a point where the Canadian Museum for Human Rights was discriminating against its own clientele?
00:35:11.980Now, though my rights were being trampled on, I do have a little bit of sympathy for these small businesses, struggling every single day to survive, while every week the government issues them a new set of orders and rules that they have to abide by.
00:35:23.100Now, unfortunately for me, that same day, when I went to the Forks, which is a market just south of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, I was faced with this discrimination again.
00:35:32.440This time, though, it wasn't for indoor dining.
00:35:34.120It was any dining, even in a park bench outside.
00:35:37.800But still, if you want to have human rights, you have to have your vaccine passport, just even for me sitting down and eating my pizza.
00:35:44.580There, it's happening right over there.
00:35:52.620And when I was done eating, I went over to the Human Rights Museum, because I wanted to know what they had to say, if they were going to take a stand against what's going on.