On this day, 50 years ago, the most famous goal in Canadian hockey history was scored. And yet, a half century later, where were you in 1972? Where were you, in '72? Any Canadian over the age of 55 knows exactly what I'm talking about.
00:13:14.440Don't you think the 50th anniversary of this extra-special event would be a superb time to correct such an appalling injustice?
00:13:25.980My second point, in the half-century that has passed, let me ask you, dear viewers,
00:13:32.720do you feel freer in Canada today as opposed to our dominion of yesterdecade?
00:13:38.380After all, we now live in a Canada wherein you can have your bank account frozen for supporting a freedom convoy.
00:13:46.720We live in a Canada in which one can be secretly wiretapped by law enforcement for showing up at a freedom rally.
00:13:55.880We live in a Canada in which medical apartheid is embraced when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination shots.
00:14:02.860We live in a Canada in which you can be cancelled for espousing an opinion that ruffles the feathers of certain elitists.
00:14:13.180Hey, I was only 10 years old back in 1972, but looking back, Canada then sure felt freer than Canada now.
00:14:22.480Indeed, how disturbing is it that Canada today is actually embracing bits and pieces of the tyranny that defined the now-defunct USSR?
00:14:37.360Then again, we do have a prime minister who admires the basic dictatorship of China.
00:14:45.500Bottom line, time to put Paul in the hall.
00:14:49.920And let's put the Justin Trudeau Liberals in the electoral penalty box for gross misconduct when the next federal election rolls by.
00:15:01.680Maybe Justin loves communism, but I subscribe to the chant that was uttered by the 3,000 or so Canadian fans who attended those final four games in Moscow.
00:15:19.920Well, folks, welcome to the People's Republic of Ontario under head honcho Doug Ford.
00:15:35.800So many facets of this province need fixing, but Dougie is sending millions and millions of dollars over to the LCBO so that this virtual monopoly can have its stores look more like Martha Stewart designed them.
00:16:29.740And, I mean, if it were a federal crown corporation, I'd be wondering if it was just auditioning for some of that, like, precious, sweet bailout money or something.
00:16:37.540But I don't know what they're benefiting from by sucking up to the crown corporation when it's Doug Ford running the show.
00:16:43.840And, you know, it's interesting because I worked at the LCBO for many, many years because even though I hate it as a libertarian, when you're a university student and they're paying you like $25 an hour to be a cashier, it's a pretty sweet deal.
00:16:56.480But the thing that I would point out is that there should not be an LCBO marketing department.
00:17:02.560Any dime that's spent on doing anything to promote the LCBO is wasted money.
00:17:10.500Like, I could literally just find a just random person who has no customer service mentality, put them in like the back of a truck with a few cases of liquor,
00:17:22.780and you go up and pay them in cash to get your product, and it wouldn't matter because that's the only option for the products that the LCBO carries for the most part.
00:17:32.880If I want to get a bottle of scotch, it quite literally is, as I said earlier, the LCBO's way or the highway, i.e. I get in my car and drive to Buffalo.
00:17:42.260I'm sorry, that option's not available yet for me until arrive, Ken, and all the restrictions leave.
00:17:48.100But come October, I can start doing that again.
00:17:51.060But, Andrew, I want to address the biggest fallacy of all when it comes to the LCBO and other provincial liquor monopolies, and it's this.
00:18:00.860People go, it's such a cash cow for government.
00:18:05.420Now, I can tell you, back when I was freelancing, I believe it was the annual report for 2004, with a financial analyst, I sat down.
00:18:14.260And what we did, Andrew, that year, is we removed the taxes collected by the LCBO, which the LCBO inexplicably categorizes as revenue.
00:18:26.500It turned out they actually lost $35 million of memory serves for that year.
00:18:33.920Can you imagine a government-run monopoly, liquor monopoly, actually losing millions of dollars?
00:18:39.600What I'm getting at, Andrew, is if you were to privatize the system like they did in Alberta back in the 90s, the government is still collecting the taxes.
00:18:50.520And that's their role, to regulate and tax, but not to warehouse and retail alcohol.
00:18:58.060Yeah, it's like the Ontario government losing money on online gambling.
00:19:03.840Like, it takes a special kind of success as a government to find a way to lose money at the realm where literally the slogan is that the house always wins.
00:19:13.920The house always wins unless it's the Ontario government running the only liquor retailer in town.
00:19:53.900And LCBO justified this by saying that it was so that people would drink responsibly, as in a good deal is antithetical to people not just going on a binge anytime they go there.
00:20:06.580And it strikes me that we're giving a lot of deference to this agency when we're not, as Ontario consumers or taxpayers, getting anything good for it.
00:20:30.580He won majority and then a second majority.
00:20:32.620And if you recall, my friend, one of the top three planks of Mike Harris's common sense revolution was to privatize the LCBO.
00:20:42.900And what you saw then under the stewardship of Andy Brandt, who used to be with the progressive conservative government, they started to spend money like drunken sailors.
00:20:53.560LCBO stores used to be very nondescript little buildings.
00:20:56.860Suddenly, you got these Taj Mahal liquor temples.
00:21:02.040And I think, Andrew, the idea was to create a network of stranded assets, i.e., if the province ever went ahead with privatization, as a private enterprise, you couldn't viably operate some of these stores in a competitive system.
00:21:21.200It's too many millions of dollars invested in the store and the overhead.
00:21:25.560So it's almost as though the fix was in in terms of, you know, polluting the waters, forever allowing the province to go through a privatization.
00:21:55.740It's a job, and it's a good, honest job.
00:21:57.880But that is not what the market would bear under any other circumstances.
00:22:01.460So you're right that an investor would look at this and head for the hills, which is why the only, the only demographic that is opposed to privatization seems to be big labor.
00:22:14.360But I'm going to view them as being one and the same right now.
00:22:17.460No one, this isn't even a left-right issue, liberal conservative, because all of them can enjoy the splendor that is holding up a glass of sangria or having a martini or whatever.
00:22:28.040And it's baffling to me that no government, even the most bootstrappy, free-market-tier conservative governments, will go near this.
00:22:38.760And I think one of the reasons, Andrew, especially if you look at the sunshine list, you see so many cronies making high six figures, working at the LCBO, working at the OLG.
00:22:49.920These are kind of like elephant's graveyards for loyal politicos to go to and get a nice, comfy job.
00:22:57.640But, Andrew, what we have to address, when you step back and you say, when you compare Canada to the United States, why do we have provincial liquor monopolies?
00:23:10.600Why do we have provincial lottery monopolies?
00:23:14.280And with both entities, it comes down to this, Andrew, as you well know, social responsibility.
00:23:19.900You see, if we were to allow potentially harmful products or money-draining products like lottery tickets, if we left that up to the private sector, well, the next thing you know, you have 15-year-olds drinking Colt 45 in the parking lot.
00:23:37.480All the private sector cares about is making money.
00:23:59.740I was working in Alberta at the time, visiting Southern California.
00:24:02.920Had a driver's license, had my ID, and I wanted to buy for my friend for putting me up for a few days a case of Budweiser.
00:24:11.220I went to one, two, three, finally the fourth store before somebody would serve me.
00:24:17.840And it was explained to me, the guy would say, look, you have out-of-state ID, even out-of-country, so we're not really allowed to accept that.
00:24:26.500And I believe that you're 23, that you're legal to drink.
00:24:31.840But if you're not, and if this is part of a sting, I face a fine.
00:24:37.620I think the number was either $10,000 or $50,000.
00:24:40.640If it happens again, I lose my liquor license.
00:24:48.480So, Andrew, I'm telling you this story because that proves the private retailers are really working under social responsibility, given the penalties.
00:24:58.460The three LCBO units that I went to with the 15-year-old, none of them were punished.
00:25:07.260What do you make of this fallacy that the government is socially responsible?
00:25:12.800Well, there was actually a study in Ontario, it would have been 12, 13 years ago now, where someone did organize that sting.
00:25:22.080And they went to variety stores to buy cigarettes, beer stores to buy beer, and LCBOs to buy some product from the LCBO.
00:25:30.480And they found that the highest performing as far as asking for ID and refusing when ID wasn't available was the group of variety stores they went to.
00:25:39.180The second highest performing was the beer store.
00:25:44.020And while individual LCBO employees may be reprimanded if they don't do the ID checks, for a convenience store, you're right, they could lose their entire license.
00:25:53.080And I've seen variety stores that have to hold up a very embarrassing sign on their door or on their rack for the cigarette saying,
00:25:59.460we are not allowed to sell cigarettes for X number of weeks because we were caught selling to a minor.
00:26:04.840So there is a huge, huge, huge downside if one of those privately owned businesses runs afoul of a law, which, like it or not, is the law in place right now for purchasing certain substances.
00:27:03.180Why are you giving air miles or aeroplan miles now?
00:27:06.660So, again, what part of monopoly do you not understand?
00:27:12.040Yeah, I mean, it's funny because I get my aeroplan miles from Air Canada, which is Air Canada's way of saying, you know, we really want you to book with us instead of WestJet.
00:27:21.080So we're going to give you these things.
00:27:22.260The LCBO is saying, you know, we'd really rather you.
00:27:55.900I've seen them on the Gardner off the road.
00:27:58.540It's like, that's expensive real estate.
00:28:00.220It's like, you're either trying to woo me away from your non-existent competitor, or you're just trying to convince me to drink in the first place, which seems to violate the LCBO's social responsibility mandate.
00:28:39.280Well, I can tell you, Andrew, what the sales reps do, allegedly, is they go to advertisers, they go to suppliers,
00:28:47.100and they say, you know, our holiday issue of Food and Drink is coming up, and I'm sure you would like to support us, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
00:28:56.780Basically, the underlying thing is, you don't want to lose your listing.
00:29:00.580You don't want to go to a part of the store where there's not a lot of visibility, and suddenly, wow, what a great way to sell ads and pad up that magazine.
00:31:53.400Like I said, I'd invite you out to have a drink with you with my favorite scotch Black Bull.
00:31:59.380But the LCBO, for whatever reason, they delisted that, my friend.
00:32:03.500So maybe we'll drink Perrier or something one day.
00:32:08.020Well, you better make sure when I do appoint you CEO, you better make sure to get a good severance negotiated because hopefully you'll be out of a job in a month when the whole thing goes.
00:32:27.460And folks, more of the Ezreal event show to come right after this.
00:32:33.500Well, folks, just tons of response from Ezreal event's monologue last night regarding how we must never forget what governments, bureaucrats, and even members of law enforcement did to us during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:33:00.940I will never forget how I was forced to stand outside at minus 30 while my husband buried his last grandparent alone.
00:33:09.200I will never forget the family who disinvited me to Christmas and other family events.
00:33:15.640I will never forget the leaders who debated tolerating me taking up space.
00:33:22.400You know, I am so sorry for your loss.
00:33:25.320I am so sorry you endured all those indignities.
00:33:29.200And that is the point, folks, that Ezra was making last night.
00:33:32.820Let us never forget how we lost so many rights, liberties, and freedoms all in the name of science that was more weird science or political science as opposed to medical science.
00:33:46.900And M. Shecky writes, they're still pushing their jabs vigorously.
00:33:52.420When a new booster is available, there will still be lines of mass geniuses gladly rolling up their sleeves.
00:34:00.360And one of the most despicable examples was that City of Toronto campaign ad campaign that was that was recently pulled.
00:34:08.720It is atrocious. My colleague Tamara Ugolini has an item on this basically showing how a child unvaccinated has to stay inside and watch her friends play outside because, you see, she's unclean.
00:34:35.280Well, folks, thank you so much for tuning in.
00:34:38.440The big boss man, Ezra Levant, he'll be back tomorrow.
00:34:41.780In the meantime, as always, stay sane.
00:34:45.320For Rebel News, I'm Tamara Ugolini here to show you a recent study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, that's also called JAMA,
00:34:55.160that found that COVID-19 mRNA does not stay at the injection site as we've been previously reassured.
00:35:02.120Titled Detection of Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk,
00:35:08.060the Pediatrics Division of JAMA tweeted that causation is warranted regarding breastfeeding infants younger than six months of age in the first two days after maternal COVID-19 vaccination.
00:35:21.080Because as it turns out, and after careful review, the researchers found trace amounts of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in the expressed breast milk of nursing mothers.
00:35:37.460Immunologist and virologist Dr. Byron Bridle tried to alert the public to this potential on May 27, 2021, during a brief radio interview with Alex Pearson.
00:35:48.660What has been discovered by a scientific community is the spike protein on its own is almost entirely responsible for the damage to the cardiovascular system if it gets into circulation.
00:36:00.640Indeed, if you inject the purified spike protein into the blood of research animals, they get all kinds of damage to the cardiovascular system,
00:36:08.960and it can cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to the brain.
00:36:11.500And then also a publication that was just accepted for a scientific paper, just accepted for publication that backs this up,
00:36:20.360looked at 13 young healthcare workers that had received the Moderna vaccine, which is the other messenger RNA-based vaccine we have in Canada,