Rebel News Podcast - August 11, 2022


EZRA LEVANT ｜ On a list of the world’s happiest countries, Canada falls to a new low


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37 minutes

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173.64906

Word Count

6,502

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500

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

What is the world's happiest country? Is it Canada? Or is it some other country entirely? The answer to this question is not what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would have you think. And it's not a good one.


Transcript

00:00:00.120 Hello, my rebels. Interesting story today about the world happiness rankings.
00:00:06.040 Did you know that Canada, well, I'm not going to give it away.
00:00:09.020 Do you know what our rank is this year?
00:00:12.140 Well, I don't think you do know because I don't think any media are telling you
00:00:16.100 because the answer is not an answer Trudeau would want published.
00:00:20.180 I'll take you through that today. I'll show you some charts.
00:00:23.480 They measure sadness, anxiety, things like that.
00:00:28.220 I'll show you what the rankings are.
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00:01:14.320 Tonight, on a list of the world's happiest countries, Canada falls to a new low.
00:01:28.500 It's August 10th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:30.940 You're fighting for freedom.
00:01:34.260 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:37.420 This popped up on my Twitter feed today.
00:01:49.360 It was a tweet from Bloomberg.
00:01:51.060 It says, what is the world's happiest country?
00:01:53.980 Now, they don't tell you.
00:01:54.800 They want you to click the link to find out.
00:01:57.060 And then they say the secret, social support, generosity to one another, and honesty in government.
00:02:03.680 Well, that spells bad news for us, eh?
00:02:05.460 Now, normally, Canada does pretty well on lists like this, semi-scientific lists that are in
00:02:12.720 some ways like PR agencies promoting some globalist or socialist scheme.
00:02:17.360 I've seen this before.
00:02:18.360 The lists are almost always about measuring inequality, which sounds pretty good until you
00:02:25.620 realize that in North Korea, everyone is equal in their misery, whereas, say, in America,
00:02:32.140 people are unequal in their happiness.
00:02:34.700 That's the United Nations list, the HDI.
00:02:39.520 They call it their Human Development Index.
00:02:43.440 The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate
00:02:49.820 criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone.
00:02:54.420 That's what they say.
00:02:55.320 Like I said, it was designed to say America bad, socialism good.
00:02:59.360 Now, I'm not saying it was completely devoid of merit.
00:03:02.740 Life expectancy was a big part of that UN list, and that is a pretty good measure for
00:03:08.020 many things because nutrition and health require prosperity.
00:03:12.580 Literacy was another one of their measures, and I agree with that, obviously.
00:03:15.680 I don't think anyone would dissent with the ranking that a poor, illiterate country where
00:03:21.700 life expectancy is, say, 45 is much worse off than a rich, educated country with life
00:03:27.040 expectancy of, say, 80.
00:03:29.000 But I know that one of the main uses of that UN list system was to nitpick between the US
00:03:36.060 countries versus, say, the socialist Nordic countries that always were on top.
00:03:40.680 So it really felt political to me.
00:03:43.560 But I had never heard of the World Happiness Report before, have you?
00:03:48.160 And frankly, I'm even more skeptical of it than the UN's Human Development Index.
00:03:53.780 And then how do you measure happiness?
00:03:55.740 How do you take a reading on it?
00:03:57.280 I think it's hard.
00:03:58.100 I think to a degree it's subjective.
00:03:59.980 It's psychological and philosophical.
00:04:01.340 Someone can have a small job with a small income and live in a small house and drive
00:04:06.100 a small car and be truly, truly happy.
00:04:10.120 Someone can have a big job and a big income and live in a big house and drive a big car
00:04:14.420 and be absolutely miserable.
00:04:15.940 In fact, maybe they're more likely to be miserable.
00:04:19.440 That's an old saying, who is happy?
00:04:22.120 He who is content with their portion.
00:04:24.940 So how do you measure that?
00:04:27.640 Well, there are some ways.
00:04:29.020 I guess one way to start is simply by asking people and to try to show some attempted standardization.
00:04:36.740 You know, in science, one of the tests of an experiment is, is it replicable?
00:04:40.620 That is, if you do the same experiment again, will it yield the same results?
00:04:43.800 It's a test of if you're doing it right.
00:04:46.180 That's an attempt to bring rigor to social sciences.
00:04:49.920 It's a bit of art.
00:04:51.380 But with that disclaimer, take a look at this.
00:04:54.980 This is what was behind that tweet I saw.
00:04:57.740 Turns out this World Happiness Report is a UN project too, but it also has private companies
00:05:04.940 and private donors funding it.
00:05:06.800 A lot of participation from Canada.
00:05:08.660 As a matter of fact, Canadian universities, a Canadian government grant, of course.
00:05:13.720 They're trying to be science-y, I think.
00:05:15.260 I'll give them some credit.
00:05:16.100 They're working with Gallup Poll, which at least tells you something about their methodology.
00:05:21.100 So they've been at it now for 10 years, and obviously the pandemic has cast a shadow over world happiness.
00:05:28.360 Or if you ask me, the lockdowns and government abuses in response to the pandemic have cast a shadow over happiness.
00:05:35.500 It wasn't COVID that banned people from going to work or school or seeing each other.
00:05:41.520 It wasn't the pandemic that forced churches to close and funerals to cancel and weddings to cancel.
00:05:47.600 Or bizarre anti-human punishments like hugging loved ones through walls of plastic.
00:05:54.860 Do you think this school child is happy in band?
00:05:59.040 Band should be really fun.
00:06:00.280 Do you think he was happy?
00:06:02.160 It wasn't the virus that did that.
00:06:03.800 It was other people.
00:06:06.000 I thought this was interesting.
00:06:08.500 Genetic studies involving twin or family designs reveal that about 30 to 40 percent of the differences in happiness between people within a country are accounted for by genetic differences among individuals.
00:06:20.260 The other 60 to 70 percent of differences between people result from the effect of environmental influences that are independent of the genes.
00:06:27.580 I think that rings true.
00:06:29.660 Look at this.
00:06:30.380 In 2020, for the first time, the Gallup World Poll asked questions on the experience of your life being in balance, feeling at peace with your life, experiencing calm for a lot of the day, preferring a calm life to an exciting life, focus on caring for others or self.
00:06:51.360 The majority of people in almost every country prefer a calmer life to an exciting one.
00:06:57.880 That preference is no higher in eastern countries than elsewhere.
00:07:01.760 However, it is particularly high in the poorer countries, especially in Africa, where actual calm is low.
00:07:09.140 Both balance and peace contribute strongly to a satisfying life in all regions of the world.
00:07:15.220 Isn't that interesting?
00:07:16.340 You know, maybe there's some signs here after all.
00:07:18.460 These are some good questions, don't you think?
00:07:21.280 Anyways, you can find the whole study online.
00:07:23.000 We'll put a link to the full report on the website beneath this video.
00:07:26.660 So here's why I'm talking about this, other than I thought, well, how do you measure happiness?
00:07:32.020 And I think some of the answers were thoughtful.
00:07:35.960 Well, it's like I said before, though.
00:07:38.380 Canada always does well in rankings like this, especially rankings done by the United Nations, especially rankings paid for by Canadian tax dollars like this one.
00:07:47.880 I mean, Canadians think we're nicer than other countries, don't we?
00:07:52.160 Come on.
00:07:53.580 But I think some of that is narcissism or vanity or snobbery.
00:07:56.880 We just know we're better people than those Americans.
00:08:00.900 In fact, they're in real life more charitable than we are.
00:08:04.220 Did you know that?
00:08:05.780 In many measurable ways, they are actually nicer than we are.
00:08:10.320 Did you know that?
00:08:10.920 I think it's just a kind of snobbery up here in Canada, like our belief that you used to hear a lot of 20 years ago.
00:08:17.460 You don't hear a lot anymore that we have the best health care in the world.
00:08:20.840 You really don't hear anyone say that now, not even politicians.
00:08:25.300 No one would believe them.
00:08:27.480 So what are we best at in the world now?
00:08:29.680 Sanctimony?
00:08:30.480 I mean, official Canada.
00:08:31.880 Ordinary Canada is still wonderful.
00:08:34.300 I mean, I'm talking about the official people, the politicians and the media and the banks and the big companies.
00:08:40.100 What exactly are they better at?
00:08:42.440 Best in the world, I mean.
00:08:43.560 Best brand in the world.
00:08:45.540 Ambassadors to the world.
00:08:46.640 I'm not sure if that's just true anymore.
00:08:50.540 We're persona non grata in China.
00:08:53.560 They literally kidnapped our citizens.
00:08:55.520 Trudeau humiliated us in his India antics and was never invited back.
00:09:01.040 Trudeau failed at getting a seat in the U.N. Security Council despite spending millions in bribes.
00:09:07.660 No one stops to look at his fancy socks anymore when he goes to a G7 meeting or a NATO meeting.
00:09:13.720 That was sort of funny once, but now it's just pitiful.
00:09:17.500 Trudeau has taken a lot of photo ops.
00:09:19.520 In Ukraine, he raised the flag at the Canadian embassy there with some difficulty, but it was a fake.
00:09:25.280 The embassy was not actually open.
00:09:27.260 It was a media trick.
00:09:29.040 Trudeau just broke his own sanctions, sending critical gas pipeline turbines to Russia to help them make billions in natural gas sales to Europe.
00:09:39.900 I wish Trudeau without Western Canada have natural gas pipelines, oil gas pipelines, too.
00:09:46.480 So, yeah, we've fallen in the world a bit.
00:09:48.960 But the whole world saw Trudeau go full banana republic on the truckers, invoking martial laws, seizing bank accounts, sounding like a bit of a fascist sometimes.
00:10:00.120 So, yes, we're going to get out of this pandemic by the vaccination.
00:10:04.160 And we know all those people who are trying to hesitate a little bit.
00:10:08.560 We're going to continue to convince them.
00:10:10.400 But there are also people who are far away from the vaccination.
00:10:13.980 Who are extremists.
00:10:14.980 Who are not in science, who are often misogynes, who are often racist as well.
00:10:19.600 It's a small group, but who takes place.
00:10:24.560 And there, there is a choice as leaders, as a country.
00:10:27.560 So, yeah, we've come down a bit in the world, haven't we?
00:10:33.940 Which brings us to the happiness rankings.
00:10:37.140 Where is Canada on the list?
00:10:40.640 And it's not all on politicians, of course.
00:10:42.820 But what are the things that make you anxious or angry or sad or stressed?
00:10:48.000 I don't know.
00:10:48.720 I can think of one being demonized by your politicians, being forced into isolation for months or years,
00:10:53.640 being put under a kind of house arrest, being forced out of your job, out of your school, out of society,
00:10:58.980 to be banned from restaurants, banned either by a lockdown of your business or because you're not vaxxed.
00:11:04.800 I don't think anyone is happy now other than the ruling class,
00:11:08.560 the staycation class who got pay raises to work from home for the government,
00:11:12.920 even if they weren't actually working.
00:11:15.620 We'll talk more about that later in the show.
00:11:17.320 So, how is Canada doing in the happiness rankings?
00:11:20.860 Well, let me tell you.
00:11:22.040 I'll quote.
00:11:23.800 France reached its highest ranking to date at 20th,
00:11:27.920 while Canada slipped to its lowest ranking ever at 15th,
00:11:32.400 just behind Germany at 14th,
00:11:35.360 and followed closely by the United States and the United Kingdom at 16th and 17th.
00:11:38.320 Ten years ago, Canada ranked fifth.
00:11:47.700 How could we have fallen?
00:11:49.420 Oh, my gosh.
00:11:50.300 Can you imagine?
00:11:51.100 Next year we'll be below the United States.
00:11:52.740 What will Trudeau say then?
00:11:54.360 How could it be that ten years ago, under the evil Stephen Harper,
00:11:58.100 Canadians were so happy,
00:12:00.220 according to this taxpayer-funded, UN-funded survey?
00:12:02.880 Well, some things were better back then.
00:12:05.580 The economy was stronger.
00:12:06.700 We weren't pitting West against East.
00:12:10.360 We weren't pitting Anglophone against Francophone.
00:12:13.560 We weren't demonizing entire industries and their workers.
00:12:16.160 We had pride in our armed forces.
00:12:18.340 We weren't denouncing each other as racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic.
00:12:23.200 We were working at reconciliation with Indigenous people,
00:12:26.260 not calling Canadians genociders,
00:12:28.980 who were cutting taxes, not raising them.
00:12:31.540 Things were more normal.
00:12:32.700 From fifth place to fifteenth.
00:12:37.160 You'd think that would be on the news.
00:12:40.560 Oh, it would be on the news if Stephen Harper were presiding over our unhappiness.
00:12:45.660 No surprise, the news is buried,
00:12:49.900 given Trudeau's in power and cutting the bailout checks.
00:12:52.440 And don't get me wrong,
00:12:54.080 we're obviously still a better place to live than many third-world countries,
00:12:57.620 at least until Trudeau goes full Castro and censors the internet
00:13:01.540 and seizes your bank account,
00:13:03.340 shuts down farms and farmers and oil workers,
00:13:06.820 and brings in mandatory digital ID surveillance,
00:13:09.100 all these things he's proposing.
00:13:11.780 There really is a Cuban level of misery.
00:13:14.980 Two quick charts from the study.
00:13:16.580 Here's one on page 92.
00:13:18.280 Look at that chart on the left.
00:13:20.580 Anxiety.
00:13:22.380 Canadians are almost 25% more anxious now.
00:13:26.220 Do you think so?
00:13:27.240 I think so.
00:13:29.060 Look at sadness on the top right.
00:13:31.560 Imagine measuring our national sadness.
00:13:33.420 It's almost 15% more sad.
00:13:36.860 I guess we're a bit less angry now,
00:13:38.960 which is a plus.
00:13:39.860 I'm a bit surprised.
00:13:41.500 But there's a net negative change in life.
00:13:46.020 Here's a chart on page 95.
00:13:47.640 A couple of them.
00:13:48.060 It's a bit hard to understand.
00:13:49.600 But when you understand it,
00:13:51.120 it's a bit shocking.
00:13:51.940 Do you see Canada on the anxiety chart on the left?
00:13:55.340 Here's what this chart is called.
00:13:58.260 Time intervals for which anxiety and sadness
00:14:01.380 remained continuously above their median level
00:14:05.780 in 2019 in each country.
00:14:07.180 In other words,
00:14:08.880 how long were you anxious compared to 2019?
00:14:12.820 How long were you sad?
00:14:15.180 Look at Canada there.
00:14:16.820 35 days of anxiety in a row?
00:14:20.440 More than any other country,
00:14:21.800 if I'm reading this chart right.
00:14:23.760 And look at sorrow.
00:14:25.820 Only the UK and New Zealand were sadder.
00:14:28.400 A virus didn't do that.
00:14:32.180 The lockdown did.
00:14:33.380 The punishments did.
00:14:34.360 The fear-mongering did.
00:14:35.800 That's Trudeau and Theresa Tam
00:14:37.900 and the media party
00:14:39.200 and the entire establishment.
00:14:42.680 Trudeau made us sad and anxious.
00:14:44.680 He made us depressed.
00:14:45.940 He demoralized us.
00:14:47.200 He's made us miserable.
00:14:49.280 Don't take it from me.
00:14:51.260 Take it from a study that his government funded.
00:14:56.040 Stay with us for more.
00:14:57.180 How did you do during the lockdowns?
00:15:12.160 Well, I guess the answer depends on who you are.
00:15:14.460 If you were in the internet business
00:15:16.640 like Amazon or Netflix,
00:15:20.020 it was the best thing that ever happened to you.
00:15:22.620 Those folks doubled their value.
00:15:24.860 Not because they provided an amazing service,
00:15:27.600 but rather because their local competitors
00:15:29.400 were legislated out of work.
00:15:32.180 You couldn't go to your local shop.
00:15:34.020 You had to order from Amazon.
00:15:37.340 DoorDash and other online food delivery companies
00:15:40.000 did well, and I don't begrudge them that,
00:15:41.840 but it was because you were banned
00:15:44.100 from going in person to restaurants.
00:15:47.220 There were certain people who made out like bandits.
00:15:49.820 Typically, they were well-connected,
00:15:52.140 but there were many people who were left
00:15:54.800 with very little or with nothing,
00:15:56.900 working-class people who couldn't do their job
00:15:59.100 as a store clerk or a cashier from home.
00:16:03.640 Government workers had the best of all worlds.
00:16:07.600 If they had to work at all,
00:16:09.540 they could work from home,
00:16:11.280 and of course, there's never a recession
00:16:13.480 in government land.
00:16:14.880 Many government teachers didn't have to work at all.
00:16:18.320 Schools were closed.
00:16:19.600 Do you think they weren't paid?
00:16:21.240 I can tell you people who work at gyms
00:16:23.300 or theaters were not paid,
00:16:25.460 but government workers didn't miss a cent.
00:16:28.760 Look at this headline in a new press release
00:16:30.980 by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:16:33.460 45,000 more federal bureaucrats
00:16:37.880 receiving six-figure salary
00:16:40.260 than before the pandemic.
00:16:43.580 You think you've lost ground?
00:16:45.520 You think inflation has taken away
00:16:47.340 your spending power?
00:16:48.700 You lost your job altogether?
00:16:50.520 Well, you just got the wrong job, bud.
00:16:52.980 You've got to work for the government.
00:16:54.340 Let me read you a sentence from the press release,
00:16:56.140 and then we'll invite its author on to say it.
00:16:59.000 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation
00:17:00.500 is calling on the federal government
00:17:01.800 to implement a sunshine list
00:17:03.760 as government documents reveal
00:17:06.220 114,433 employees
00:17:10.080 received more than $100,000 in 2021.
00:17:14.220 We're not all in this together,
00:17:16.060 said Franco Terrazzano,
00:17:17.520 federal director of the CTF.
00:17:18.980 It's not fair to ask the Canadians
00:17:21.080 who lost their job
00:17:22.060 or took a pay cut during the pandemic
00:17:23.540 to pay higher taxes
00:17:25.160 so the federal government
00:17:26.260 can add thousands of highly paid bureaucrats.
00:17:30.160 And joining us now via Skype
00:17:31.340 is our friend Franco Terrazzano.
00:17:33.400 Frank, great to see you.
00:17:36.180 What's so astonishing,
00:17:37.900 and it's an astonishing number,
00:17:39.340 45,000 new sunshine list,
00:17:43.240 100,000 heirs.
00:17:45.100 But in just since the pandemic,
00:17:47.520 the list has grown to 114,000.
00:17:50.540 So it almost doubled in size.
00:17:52.620 The number of $100,000 earners
00:17:54.360 has almost doubled in government land
00:17:58.220 under the pandemic.
00:17:59.140 That's amazing.
00:18:00.820 It's absolutely crazy.
00:18:02.260 And really,
00:18:03.400 it's more evidence to show that
00:18:04.980 we're not all in this together.
00:18:07.040 What we have seen
00:18:08.420 is a tale of two pandemics.
00:18:10.440 One full of private sector pain
00:18:12.400 where people who are working for a business
00:18:14.380 who are self-employed
00:18:15.520 may have lost their job,
00:18:17.200 may have taken a pay cut,
00:18:18.440 maybe even lost their small business.
00:18:21.200 And then the other side of the pandemic
00:18:22.740 was full of economic gain
00:18:24.520 for government bureaucrats
00:18:26.180 and for politicians.
00:18:27.420 Now, the federal government
00:18:29.400 doesn't have a sunshine list,
00:18:30.840 so we had to dig these documents up
00:18:33.340 through access to information requests.
00:18:35.460 And what we found
00:18:36.240 is absolutely eye-popping.
00:18:38.580 In 2021,
00:18:39.660 there was more than 114,000
00:18:42.180 federal government employees
00:18:43.380 that received
00:18:44.240 more than $100,000
00:18:45.720 in annual salary.
00:18:47.900 And that means,
00:18:48.700 as you pointed out,
00:18:49.760 that more than 45,000
00:18:51.700 more federal bureaucrats
00:18:53.260 are receiving six-figure annual salaries
00:18:55.420 than there were before the pandemic.
00:18:58.560 Yeah, and by the way,
00:18:59.600 we're thinking six-figures,
00:19:01.040 okay, $100,000.
00:19:02.060 Some of these folks,
00:19:02.900 like Teresa Tam,
00:19:04.080 are close to the half-million-dollar mark.
00:19:08.500 You know,
00:19:08.620 I just was scribbling some numbers.
00:19:10.020 100,000 people
00:19:11.460 earning $100,000.
00:19:14.320 You know what the math is on that?
00:19:16.080 I can't even believe it.
00:19:17.620 It's $10 billion.
00:19:19.820 And that's, again,
00:19:20.900 if they were just making $100,000 even.
00:19:23.260 Like I say,
00:19:23.800 some of these folks,
00:19:24.540 like the Teresa Tams,
00:19:25.420 are making quadruple, quintuple that.
00:19:28.380 That's such a large number.
00:19:30.380 That's such a large number.
00:19:31.640 That's almost Bezos money.
00:19:34.220 And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
00:19:36.320 And, of course,
00:19:37.020 we're talking about costs here
00:19:38.220 of billions and billions of dollars
00:19:40.080 when it's all added up.
00:19:41.180 And who has to pay that cost eventually?
00:19:44.460 Well, the burden is going to fall
00:19:45.760 on the taxpayers
00:19:46.460 who struggled in the private sector,
00:19:48.680 lost their job,
00:19:49.540 took their pay cuts,
00:19:50.380 did everything right their whole lives
00:19:52.080 to save that money,
00:19:52.940 to invest in their business,
00:19:54.320 and their business
00:19:55.160 may have got shut down
00:19:56.260 during the pandemic,
00:19:57.280 got shut down during the lockdowns,
00:19:59.260 and now they're going to have to face
00:20:00.760 a higher tax burden
00:20:02.060 because we have all these
00:20:04.080 highly paid bureaucrats
00:20:05.620 that the federal government
00:20:06.760 is hiring.
00:20:07.940 But again,
00:20:08.580 this is just the tip of the iceberg
00:20:09.720 because, Ezra,
00:20:11.000 these are just talking about
00:20:12.480 the salary.
00:20:13.420 Of course,
00:20:14.440 then there's pensions,
00:20:15.420 there's other types of perks
00:20:16.800 like bonuses
00:20:17.680 that the government's throwing around.
00:20:19.520 And here's another slap
00:20:20.460 in the face to taxpayers.
00:20:22.280 During the pandemic,
00:20:23.420 the federal government
00:20:24.460 gave more than 300,000
00:20:27.020 federal employees
00:20:28.120 at least one pay raise.
00:20:30.320 And guess what?
00:20:31.260 The federal government
00:20:32.000 has no records
00:20:33.220 of ever reducing
00:20:34.900 its employees' pay.
00:20:36.380 Yeah.
00:20:36.820 Well,
00:20:37.260 maximum number
00:20:38.380 of bureaucrats
00:20:39.460 of all time,
00:20:41.180 maximum pay
00:20:42.020 of all time.
00:20:43.060 You know,
00:20:44.580 there may be a recession
00:20:45.560 looming for ordinary people,
00:20:47.520 but it's boom times
00:20:48.760 in government land.
00:20:50.380 You know,
00:20:50.540 I was looking for the stats.
00:20:51.740 I saw a report
00:20:53.960 a few weeks ago,
00:20:54.720 I don't know
00:20:55.020 if it's still true,
00:20:56.540 that a majority
00:20:57.760 of the people
00:20:59.300 who work for the passports office
00:21:00.680 are still working from home.
00:21:02.440 Now,
00:21:02.760 that may have been remedied
00:21:03.960 in the last few weeks.
00:21:04.780 I haven't seen an update on that.
00:21:07.020 But just stop and think about it.
00:21:08.240 I mean,
00:21:08.440 there's these huge lines
00:21:09.780 of passports office.
00:21:10.820 People are literally
00:21:11.520 camping overnight.
00:21:12.420 There's months-long waits.
00:21:15.020 Last time I was
00:21:15.880 in a passport office,
00:21:16.820 you have to see the person.
00:21:18.220 They have to,
00:21:18.820 like,
00:21:19.060 you need to meet the person.
00:21:20.300 I don't know how
00:21:20.740 you could do that from home.
00:21:22.080 That would be like
00:21:22.600 being a waiter from home.
00:21:25.140 How does that work?
00:21:25.880 You have to be at the place.
00:21:27.660 And,
00:21:27.860 I mean,
00:21:28.720 there's not a lot of ways
00:21:30.300 that we interact directly
00:21:32.640 with the federal government
00:21:34.040 every day.
00:21:34.680 Like,
00:21:34.840 with the city government,
00:21:35.820 you can tell,
00:21:36.400 okay,
00:21:36.520 there's garbage pickup,
00:21:37.620 there's the police.
00:21:38.880 With the provincial government,
00:21:40.160 it's sort of easy to know
00:21:41.220 schools and hospitals.
00:21:43.040 Like,
00:21:43.400 really,
00:21:44.140 how do we interact
00:21:45.180 with the federal government
00:21:46.160 on a regular basis?
00:21:47.260 It's not quite as often.
00:21:49.080 But passports and airports
00:21:50.500 are two that come to mind.
00:21:52.200 Those are the two biggest
00:21:53.500 operational disasters
00:21:55.680 in Canada.
00:21:56.260 Franco,
00:21:56.460 I don't know if you saw it,
00:21:57.120 but Toronto Airport
00:21:58.000 was ranked as the world's
00:21:59.540 worst airport
00:22:00.620 for delays
00:22:02.020 in the world.
00:22:03.280 And they had a strike
00:22:04.600 at Paris' airport.
00:22:06.220 They were still better.
00:22:07.580 They had a strike.
00:22:09.160 And it's not on the airlines' fault.
00:22:10.880 Don't think I'm blaming
00:22:11.720 the airlines.
00:22:12.580 It's this Arrive Can app.
00:22:14.660 It's the,
00:22:15.180 it's the,
00:22:16.000 still the vaccine rules.
00:22:18.340 The two things
00:22:19.080 government's supposed to do
00:22:20.200 that we come into contact
00:22:21.180 with,
00:22:21.480 they're failing.
00:22:22.140 But I bet everyone's
00:22:22.940 getting raises all around.
00:22:24.820 Yeah,
00:22:25.140 there's really two issues
00:22:26.640 that we've been talking about.
00:22:28.020 The first one,
00:22:28.920 which we've been highlighting,
00:22:29.880 is that it's not fair
00:22:31.140 to ask the person
00:22:31.940 who may have lost their job,
00:22:33.360 who may have taken a pay cut,
00:22:34.780 to ask the person
00:22:35.480 who may have lost
00:22:36.240 their small business
00:22:37.040 to pay higher taxes,
00:22:38.380 to fund all these pay raises,
00:22:40.020 to fund all these
00:22:40.760 government bureaucrats
00:22:41.620 that they're adding.
00:22:42.360 That's issue number one.
00:22:43.560 Issue number two,
00:22:44.420 which you just nailed,
00:22:45.940 is that why are taxpayers
00:22:47.520 paying higher costs
00:22:48.600 when Ottawa is failing
00:22:50.240 on performance?
00:22:51.800 And get this,
00:22:52.560 over the last few years,
00:22:54.140 federal bureaucrats
00:22:55.120 haven't even been able
00:22:56.420 to meet half
00:22:57.440 of their own
00:22:58.540 performance targets.
00:23:00.120 And on top
00:23:00.620 of the pay raises,
00:23:01.600 on top of
00:23:02.720 the new bureaucrats,
00:23:04.520 taxpayers have also been forced
00:23:05.940 to spend buckets of cash
00:23:07.520 giving these
00:23:08.700 government bureaucrats
00:23:09.880 bonuses.
00:23:11.100 Ezra,
00:23:11.680 this one really irks me.
00:23:13.740 The Bank of Canada
00:23:14.800 has one job,
00:23:16.680 one job,
00:23:17.400 keep inflation low.
00:23:18.640 Well,
00:23:18.800 if you've been to a gas pump,
00:23:20.280 if you've been to a grocery store
00:23:21.640 in the last year,
00:23:22.540 you know that the Bank of Canada
00:23:23.860 failed.
00:23:24.600 Well,
00:23:24.900 what did the Bank of Canada do?
00:23:26.480 It was busy
00:23:27.160 patting itself on the back,
00:23:28.980 handing out
00:23:29.400 $45 million
00:23:30.580 in pay raises
00:23:32.300 and bonuses
00:23:33.140 during the pandemic.
00:23:34.760 Can you believe that?
00:23:36.400 Well,
00:23:36.620 unfortunately,
00:23:37.200 I can.
00:23:37.900 It's incredible.
00:23:38.520 I remember when Pierre Polyev,
00:23:39.720 who is a candidate
00:23:41.020 for the Conservative Party,
00:23:42.220 he's been a critic
00:23:43.100 of the Bank of Canada.
00:23:44.060 Put aside his leadership
00:23:45.000 campaign,
00:23:46.780 he's been a critic
00:23:47.360 of the Bank of Canada
00:23:48.080 for months,
00:23:48.760 actually for years.
00:23:50.280 And everyone
00:23:51.300 in the establishment
00:23:52.460 jumped on him for it.
00:23:54.140 But Tiff Macklem,
00:23:55.340 the absurdly named
00:23:56.360 boss of the Bank of Canada,
00:23:58.580 admitted,
00:23:59.100 yes,
00:23:59.600 he needs to be held
00:24:00.720 accountable.
00:24:01.200 He actually said that,
00:24:02.680 which I thought
00:24:03.540 was surprising.
00:24:05.000 But of course,
00:24:05.660 he wasn't held accountable.
00:24:06.640 He said,
00:24:06.980 yes,
00:24:07.160 I should be held accountable.
00:24:08.240 And then he wasn't.
00:24:10.140 He certainly would never resign.
00:24:11.960 He wasn't held to account
00:24:12.880 by anyone.
00:24:13.800 So he needs to be held
00:24:15.180 to account.
00:24:15.760 He agrees,
00:24:16.460 but he isn't held
00:24:17.200 to account.
00:24:17.980 And bonuses all around.
00:24:19.600 Champagne.
00:24:19.860 I wonder if they had
00:24:20.520 champagne and caviar.
00:24:21.880 It's very frustrating.
00:24:23.660 You know,
00:24:23.980 it's hard.
00:24:25.380 It's hard to accept
00:24:28.120 the establishment
00:24:29.100 because they're all
00:24:31.100 in it together,
00:24:31.860 it feels like.
00:24:32.880 I don't know.
00:24:33.400 I don't want to start
00:24:34.080 sounding like a Marxist,
00:24:35.200 Franco,
00:24:35.860 but I think the government
00:24:37.860 has failed us
00:24:38.540 in many ways.
00:24:39.640 Last question.
00:24:40.200 How can people
00:24:40.800 get on your email list?
00:24:42.800 How can people
00:24:43.400 on a more regular basis
00:24:44.840 see what you're apt to
00:24:45.680 if you've got press releases
00:24:46.560 like this?
00:24:47.220 What's the best website
00:24:48.160 for folks to go to?
00:24:50.400 Taxpayer.com.
00:24:51.660 Check out our newsroom.
00:24:52.720 Sign some petitions.
00:24:53.640 You can join to get
00:24:55.020 email action updates
00:24:56.300 free of charge.
00:24:57.200 So please head over
00:24:57.920 to Taxpayer.com.
00:24:59.420 Taxpayer.com.
00:25:00.180 There you go.
00:25:00.580 Last question for you
00:25:01.380 just because I'm so curious
00:25:02.320 and I bet our viewers are too.
00:25:03.480 What's your pin
00:25:04.180 on your lapel?
00:25:06.320 Taxpayer.com.
00:25:07.540 Are you serious?
00:25:08.240 I couldn't see it.
00:25:09.220 I just thought that's sort of
00:25:10.160 I didn't quite
00:25:11.380 Taxpayer.com.
00:25:12.740 Always on brand.
00:25:13.960 Isn't that great?
00:25:15.020 You're on brand.
00:25:16.140 You know what?
00:25:16.500 You guys have been doing
00:25:17.600 the heavy lifting
00:25:18.340 of defending the interests
00:25:19.720 of the little guy
00:25:20.360 of ordinary taxpayers
00:25:21.780 for decades
00:25:22.660 and I think it's because
00:25:24.100 you don't take a dime
00:25:25.140 from Trudeau.
00:25:25.740 The minute you start
00:25:26.320 taking government money
00:25:27.260 you're going to pull
00:25:28.240 your punches.
00:25:28.840 You're going to
00:25:29.460 tailor your message.
00:25:30.860 It's hard not to take
00:25:32.160 government money.
00:25:32.760 We're in the same boat
00:25:33.500 and that's why
00:25:34.420 we love you guys
00:25:35.360 at the Taxpayers Federation
00:25:36.300 and I really encourage
00:25:37.820 all my viewers
00:25:38.440 if you have a few extra bucks
00:25:40.660 give them to
00:25:41.700 the Taxpayers.com
00:25:42.740 sorry
00:25:43.520 Taxpayer.com
00:25:45.560 because they're one
00:25:46.900 of the few
00:25:47.400 independent voices left.
00:25:48.540 Thanks Franco.
00:25:49.040 We'll look forward
00:25:49.360 to talking again soon.
00:25:51.040 Thanks for having me on.
00:25:51.840 All right.
00:25:52.360 Anytime.
00:25:52.860 There you have it.
00:25:53.380 Franco Teresano
00:25:54.160 with the news
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00:25:56.380 Stay with us.
00:25:56.960 More ahead.
00:26:08.520 Hey welcome back.
00:26:09.440 Your viewer feedback.
00:26:11.000 Arepsicas,
00:26:11.520 I think that's Shakespeare
00:26:12.300 backwards,
00:26:12.900 says
00:26:13.180 there is no doubt
00:26:14.780 about that.
00:26:15.540 They are absolutely
00:26:16.480 terrified of him
00:26:17.380 and are doing
00:26:18.680 and will continue
00:26:19.440 to do absolutely
00:26:20.280 anything,
00:26:21.340 anything at all
00:26:22.000 to be Smirch's
00:26:22.740 excellent name
00:26:23.340 and his outstanding
00:26:24.320 abilities of President
00:26:25.320 when you're talking
00:26:25.900 about Donald Trump.
00:26:27.320 You know,
00:26:27.860 I was looking
00:26:28.720 at a lot of coverage
00:26:29.380 especially up here
00:26:30.060 in Canada on that.
00:26:31.720 A raid,
00:26:32.420 FBI raid
00:26:33.080 on Donald Trump.
00:26:34.180 I see Andrew Coyne
00:26:35.480 in the Globe and Mail
00:26:36.000 thinks Trump's
00:26:36.640 going to prison
00:26:37.180 for sure.
00:26:37.940 This time,
00:26:38.960 Andrew Coyne says
00:26:39.740 that every few months.
00:26:42.040 Many of the reports
00:26:43.040 neglected that it was
00:26:44.240 the Presidential
00:26:44.780 Paperwork Act.
00:26:45.960 When you say that,
00:26:48.300 you almost think
00:26:49.100 it's a joke.
00:26:49.700 Is that a real thing?
00:26:50.760 Yeah.
00:26:51.400 So Donald Trump
00:26:52.260 had some papers
00:26:53.120 that he says are his
00:26:54.320 and the government
00:26:54.760 says,
00:26:55.080 no,
00:26:55.240 they're ours
00:26:55.680 and they're having
00:26:56.600 a dispute.
00:26:57.260 It's not a criminal matter.
00:26:58.800 It's not high crimes
00:26:59.980 or treason
00:27:00.580 or insurrection.
00:27:01.980 They're literally
00:27:03.260 having a paperwork
00:27:04.760 disagreement.
00:27:07.040 Could you imagine
00:27:07.720 not putting that fact
00:27:08.900 in your breathless reports?
00:27:10.680 Trump's almost in jail.
00:27:12.120 We'll get him this time.
00:27:13.460 Sure you will.
00:27:14.520 Miss Sparkles and Glitter
00:27:17.440 says this is exactly
00:27:18.560 why he needs to run again
00:27:19.780 and win.
00:27:20.920 The system will spend
00:27:21.660 four more years
00:27:22.680 of panic
00:27:23.220 of what he could do.
00:27:24.520 Go Trump.
00:27:25.840 Well,
00:27:26.200 you know what?
00:27:26.700 They're proving
00:27:27.300 every allegation
00:27:28.480 and accusation he makes.
00:27:29.880 He calls them
00:27:30.480 the deep state.
00:27:31.580 He says they're biased
00:27:32.640 and partisan
00:27:33.280 and rule breakers
00:27:35.280 and they just went ahead
00:27:37.400 and proved it.
00:27:39.160 David Faulkner says
00:27:40.280 absolutely shocking,
00:27:41.940 shocking to the core
00:27:42.700 of freedom.
00:27:43.180 The British government
00:27:44.420 are even talking
00:27:45.380 about a new constitution
00:27:46.720 for us
00:27:47.480 even though we already
00:27:48.660 have one.
00:27:50.720 Well,
00:27:51.220 I'm not sure
00:27:51.700 I've heard about that
00:27:52.600 and I don't think
00:27:53.700 the UK has any power
00:27:54.860 to change our constitution.
00:27:57.780 I think that's been
00:27:58.320 fully repatriated here
00:27:59.780 in 1982.
00:28:00.740 That sort of ended
00:28:01.520 the UK's role here
00:28:03.440 other than the role
00:28:04.520 of the monarchy
00:28:05.140 which would never
00:28:06.500 devise a new constitution.
00:28:08.160 it's interesting
00:28:11.320 tyranny on the march
00:28:12.980 and I think that
00:28:14.280 what happened
00:28:16.120 to Donald Trump
00:28:16.800 I mean,
00:28:17.160 it's a presidential
00:28:17.740 paperwork act
00:28:18.700 but raiding
00:28:19.620 a president's house
00:28:20.820 I wonder
00:28:22.900 what precedent
00:28:23.520 they're setting.
00:28:24.560 I think they're
00:28:25.300 getting lawless
00:28:26.080 down there.
00:28:26.700 It's almost like
00:28:27.200 they're watching Trudeau.
00:28:29.580 That's our show
00:28:30.240 for today.
00:28:31.540 Until tomorrow
00:28:32.260 on behalf of all of us
00:28:33.300 here at Rebel World
00:28:34.040 Headquarters
00:28:34.560 to you at home
00:28:35.220 good night
00:28:35.660 and keep fighting
00:28:37.120 for freedom.
00:28:38.200 Welcome back
00:28:38.900 to Rebel News.
00:28:39.560 This is Andrew
00:28:40.300 outside of the
00:28:41.660 University of Toronto
00:28:42.580 Student Commons area
00:28:43.480 where they've instituted
00:28:44.780 a booster requirement
00:28:46.260 for any student
00:28:47.420 who is coming back
00:28:48.280 to live on residence.
00:28:49.280 Now,
00:28:49.560 is it because of
00:28:50.200 the university's
00:28:50.920 connection to
00:28:51.560 Moderna research?
00:28:52.920 Nobody knows.
00:28:53.940 We're going to go
00:28:54.420 in to find out
00:28:55.080 and let's not forget
00:28:56.040 our land acknowledgement.
00:29:04.540 Hello there.
00:29:05.660 Hey guys,
00:29:06.480 we wanted to ask
00:29:06.940 you guys a question
00:29:07.640 about if it's true
00:29:10.100 that there's a booster
00:29:11.200 requirement to live
00:29:12.700 into the U of T dorms.
00:29:14.780 Is that true?
00:29:15.580 We don't have comments
00:29:17.060 for that
00:29:17.380 because we're not
00:29:17.840 with the University
00:29:19.080 of Toronto.
00:29:19.940 Okay.
00:29:21.020 Is there anyone here
00:29:21.700 that wants to speak
00:29:22.320 to us?
00:29:24.020 Probably not
00:29:24.740 in the spot.
00:29:25.560 Yeah, probably not
00:29:26.220 in the student union.
00:29:27.180 I mean,
00:29:27.480 I do have my
00:29:28.280 University of Toronto
00:29:29.900 shirt.
00:29:31.400 We're going to have
00:29:31.980 to blur out my age
00:29:33.000 on that in the year.
00:29:33.900 But as we can see,
00:29:35.100 this was a gift
00:29:35.600 from my brother
00:29:36.340 a long time ago.
00:29:38.880 I'm much more
00:29:39.600 handsome now.
00:29:40.420 What's best
00:29:40.980 for their situation?
00:29:42.480 And yeah,
00:29:44.160 I hope everyone
00:29:44.720 stays healthy.
00:29:46.140 So that's not
00:29:46.700 really a real answer.
00:29:47.760 I'm going to give you
00:29:48.220 one more chance.
00:29:49.180 Do you agree with it?
00:29:50.180 Do you not agree with it?
00:29:50.900 Or you just don't
00:29:51.240 want to say?
00:29:51.660 I don't want to say.
00:29:55.900 Well, I think
00:29:56.420 that's unfair.
00:29:57.080 As someone who was
00:29:57.560 unvaccinated myself,
00:29:58.740 like I was affected
00:29:59.520 by it.
00:29:59.900 I had lost my job
00:30:00.700 for a little bit
00:30:01.320 and definitely I think
00:30:02.340 it's unfair forcing
00:30:03.120 people.
00:30:04.020 Like, fine,
00:30:04.900 if you want to say
00:30:05.380 the first round,
00:30:06.140 okay, but the booster
00:30:06.820 shot I feel like
00:30:07.300 is a little excessive
00:30:07.920 because where does
00:30:08.460 it stop?
00:30:08.940 You continue on,
00:30:09.800 like is there going
00:30:10.120 to be a new booster
00:30:10.560 every year?
00:30:11.200 Like, that's something
00:30:12.080 that a lot of people
00:30:12.540 are concerned about.
00:30:13.320 So definitely I think
00:30:14.000 it's unfair.
00:30:14.840 I think it's unfair.
00:30:16.200 Unfair?
00:30:16.640 Why is that?
00:30:17.620 I think that decision
00:30:18.620 should be left
00:30:19.180 to the students.
00:30:20.680 Yeah, I would say
00:30:21.540 I partially agree with it.
00:30:22.980 And why is that?
00:30:24.400 Because it's like,
00:30:25.980 it's more about a concern
00:30:26.880 of, like I might prefer
00:30:28.300 not to have it,
00:30:29.100 but like I might be
00:30:30.700 the vector for COVID
00:30:32.760 to spread to others too.
00:30:33.700 So I'm putting others
00:30:34.220 at risk.
00:30:35.340 But do you recognize
00:30:36.440 that even when people
00:30:37.280 have the vaccine,
00:30:38.240 they still spread it
00:30:38.880 and they still get it?
00:30:39.800 Okay, I guess the spread
00:30:40.780 rate is much lower
00:30:41.620 when they have the vaccine.
00:30:44.220 So, and it's,
00:30:45.340 I mean, in that way
00:30:46.380 we can have an argument
00:30:47.080 that it's better for me
00:30:47.760 to recover once I have
00:30:49.700 the vaccine
00:30:50.120 because my body
00:30:50.680 is used to that.
00:30:51.380 It has the necessity
00:30:51.960 antibodies to fight
00:30:52.900 against the virus
00:30:53.540 as opposed to
00:30:54.620 without having the vaccine.
00:30:55.880 So yes, spread,
00:30:57.380 you can talk about that.
00:30:58.260 But at the same time,
00:30:58.900 it's good for me
00:30:59.480 as well personally.
00:31:00.380 I mean, I'm kind of
00:31:01.360 against it to be honest
00:31:02.620 because I'm against mandates.
00:31:05.220 I'm against any kind
00:31:06.340 of mandates for anything.
00:31:07.880 So I wouldn't feel
00:31:09.540 good about that at all.
00:31:11.420 I think it's a really
00:31:12.000 interesting question
00:31:12.980 because I do think
00:31:14.580 that everybody should
00:31:15.420 be triple vaccinated,
00:31:16.600 but I don't think
00:31:17.420 it's like ethical
00:31:18.080 to force people to do it.
00:31:19.380 But I think everybody
00:31:20.020 should just because
00:31:20.780 of how good it is
00:31:21.780 for like the betterment
00:31:22.680 of the community
00:31:23.300 and like for everybody
00:31:24.400 around them,
00:31:24.800 they should take it.
00:31:26.080 But like,
00:31:26.520 you're not into forcing people.
00:31:27.760 I'm not into forcing people.
00:31:29.100 But I do,
00:31:29.740 that being said,
00:31:30.260 I do think everybody
00:31:30.980 should have it.
00:31:31.740 I personally don't agree
00:31:33.200 with it,
00:31:33.540 but I'm moving out.
00:31:34.460 So I mean,
00:31:34.920 it doesn't affect my life.
00:31:36.380 But I just think
00:31:37.000 that, you know,
00:31:38.880 maybe like,
00:31:40.160 I don't know.
00:31:44.600 It's like a great line.
00:31:45.760 Like, I just think
00:31:46.520 that if the,
00:31:47.440 if the residences
00:31:48.280 are making it mandatory,
00:31:49.740 then the university
00:31:50.400 should make it mandatory.
00:31:51.960 And if the university
00:31:53.580 is not making it mandatory,
00:31:55.220 maybe the residents
00:31:56.540 shouldn't make it mandatory.
00:31:58.320 I don't know.
00:31:58.820 You don't want to say
00:31:59.360 where you're from?
00:32:00.740 Ukraine.
00:32:01.840 Ukraine, okay.
00:32:03.000 You want us to talk
00:32:03.600 about Ukraine at all?
00:32:05.140 We support Ukraine.
00:32:06.300 Anything you want to say?
00:32:07.320 Yeah, yeah.
00:32:07.880 Support for Ukraine, everyone.
00:32:09.120 Ukraine is the best country
00:32:10.280 in the world.
00:32:10.760 In the world?
00:32:12.920 Oh, um...
00:32:16.960 I don't really know
00:32:18.380 because I'm not
00:32:19.340 a resident student,
00:32:20.600 but extra precaution, I guess.
00:32:24.460 I'm not sure
00:32:25.020 if a third one is necessary
00:32:26.420 because currently
00:32:27.060 I think the situation
00:32:28.040 is better.
00:32:29.220 And so I'm not sure
00:32:30.000 if anything is required.
00:32:32.580 It's ridiculous.
00:32:33.440 After two, you're good.
00:32:35.160 And why do you think
00:32:36.220 they're doing that?
00:32:37.820 I'm trying to justify
00:32:38.560 their existence
00:32:39.240 trying to make themselves
00:32:40.320 feel busy, I guess.
00:32:41.360 Astronomy and astrophysics,
00:32:42.560 Mauricio,
00:32:42.940 if there's ever been
00:32:43.680 a department
00:32:44.180 where I can just walk in
00:32:45.220 and get straight A's,
00:32:46.180 it's that one.
00:32:47.360 All you got to say,
00:32:48.340 flat Earth.
00:32:50.080 The University of Toronto
00:32:51.560 has a research agreement
00:32:52.680 with Moderna,
00:32:53.580 the vaccine manufacturer,
00:32:55.160 to further research
00:32:56.680 their mRNA vaccines.
00:32:58.140 Do you think
00:32:58.480 that influences
00:32:59.200 the decision
00:32:59.960 to mandate vaccine
00:33:01.340 requirements or no?
00:33:02.900 Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:33:04.140 For sure.
00:33:04.980 Yeah.
00:33:05.200 I mean,
00:33:06.460 if they're working
00:33:07.000 together with them,
00:33:07.780 obviously they'd want,
00:33:08.880 they'll be like,
00:33:09.740 they'll be on their side
00:33:11.620 and they'll influence
00:33:13.060 the students
00:33:13.620 in the same way.
00:33:14.840 All right.
00:33:15.160 Anything else
00:33:15.560 you want to say?
00:33:17.420 No, but I think
00:33:18.440 people should think
00:33:19.140 critically.
00:33:19.840 No, that's fair.
00:33:21.140 Do you think
00:33:21.560 it has anything
00:33:22.060 to do with the
00:33:22.820 U of T agreement?
00:33:24.020 They have a research
00:33:24.660 agreement with Moderna
00:33:25.700 to further research
00:33:27.540 mRNA vaccines.
00:33:28.620 Do you think
00:33:28.860 that plays into it
00:33:29.620 at all
00:33:29.880 or do you have
00:33:30.140 an opinion on that?
00:33:31.180 I didn't know
00:33:31.860 that fact,
00:33:32.600 but if that is true
00:33:33.780 and they do have
00:33:34.560 a research agreement,
00:33:35.340 I wouldn't be surprised
00:33:36.540 if it does.
00:33:37.500 But that being said,
00:33:38.120 all the data does say
00:33:38.920 that vaccines are beneficial
00:33:40.200 and there hasn't really
00:33:41.520 been anything to say
00:33:42.320 that it isn't beneficial.
00:33:43.440 So I don't really
00:33:44.200 see an issue
00:33:45.060 with, I guess,
00:33:46.340 making us test subjects
00:33:47.500 for it,
00:33:48.060 especially for the betterment.
00:33:49.120 Let me tell you
00:33:49.960 what the head doctor
00:33:51.420 of Ontario,
00:33:51.980 what's his name again?
00:33:52.560 Do you remember?
00:33:53.900 Anyways,
00:33:54.360 Dr. Kieran Moore,
00:33:55.900 who makes the announcements
00:33:56.720 for the vaccine mandates,
00:33:58.480 the last time
00:33:59.000 he promoted
00:33:59.460 the third booster,
00:34:01.200 as in the third vaccine,
00:34:02.200 he said for people,
00:34:04.280 men particularly,
00:34:05.340 between 18 and 25,
00:34:06.440 there's a 1 in 5,000 chance
00:34:08.220 of myocarditis,
00:34:09.200 which is a severe
00:34:09.860 heart condition.
00:34:10.620 If we're an 18-year-old
00:34:11.760 healthy individual,
00:34:12.720 the risk of getting
00:34:13.280 hospitalized,
00:34:14.840 if we have no underlying
00:34:15.820 medical illness,
00:34:16.940 is very, very low.
00:34:18.640 We know there is a risk,
00:34:20.060 a very small risk,
00:34:21.020 1 in 5,000,
00:34:21.860 that may get myocarditis,
00:34:23.200 for example.
00:34:24.480 And you'd have to have
00:34:26.080 that discussion
00:34:26.580 on the risk-benefit
00:34:27.500 of a complication
00:34:28.700 from the vaccine
00:34:29.480 versus a benefit
00:34:30.300 of decreased hospitalization.
00:34:31.500 For a young,
00:34:32.620 healthy person.
00:34:33.760 1 in 5,000
00:34:34.480 is 100 divided by 5,000,
00:34:36.220 that's 1 over 50,
00:34:37.560 so that's 0.01%
00:34:39.660 of a chance.
00:34:40.500 When you actually
00:34:40.960 look at it statistically,
00:34:42.040 like, there are more people
00:34:42.840 who die as a result
00:34:44.060 of COVID
00:34:44.520 compared to the people
00:34:45.640 who could potentially
00:34:46.520 contract, like,
00:34:47.640 mitochondria.
00:34:48.900 So I...
00:34:49.160 I don't count to you, though,
00:34:50.640 but the amount of people
00:34:51.700 under 20 years old
00:34:53.020 who have died from COVID
00:34:54.040 is extremely low.
00:34:55.180 We're talking in the hundreds
00:34:56.240 in the entire country
00:34:57.080 in this whole time.
00:34:58.000 So if there's 5,000 people
00:34:59.320 in this residence,
00:35:00.020 then one of them
00:35:00.840 is going to get
00:35:01.220 a heart condition
00:35:01.840 where they may not
00:35:02.500 have had any effect
00:35:03.280 from COVID at all.
00:35:04.380 Do you want to counter that?
00:35:05.240 I have accounted for that.
00:35:06.580 I like this.
00:35:07.920 If you look at it
00:35:08.600 from a utilitarian perspective,
00:35:10.500 a majority of the people
00:35:11.360 who are contributing
00:35:12.140 the most to the economy
00:35:13.120 are above 30+.
00:35:14.600 They're the most of the people
00:35:15.580 who are in positions
00:35:16.420 of leadership,
00:35:17.460 positions of power,
00:35:18.900 and I guess the risk
00:35:20.060 that it poses to them
00:35:21.380 far outweighs it.
00:35:22.880 And again,
00:35:23.340 even though we aren't
00:35:24.820 considered in that
00:35:25.720 category of people
00:35:27.220 that are most at risk,
00:35:28.320 eventually we would become
00:35:29.440 in that category
00:35:30.220 and vaccinating would,
00:35:31.580 I guess,
00:35:31.880 help our community
00:35:32.720 and help us
00:35:33.260 as we grow older.
00:35:34.520 Maybe when you get
00:35:35.220 to that age group,
00:35:36.260 but I think from now
00:35:37.100 and the reason why
00:35:37.700 they have the multiple
00:35:38.520 boosters and everything
00:35:39.280 is because the antibodies
00:35:40.960 wear off over a certain
00:35:42.000 amount of time,
00:35:42.700 which is why they're
00:35:43.360 asking you to get it,
00:35:44.200 you know,
00:35:44.740 every three months to start
00:35:45.860 and then every nine months
00:35:46.840 now is what they're saying
00:35:47.640 to be up to date.
00:35:48.680 So I think that if you
00:35:49.780 were to get it at your age,
00:35:50.940 for example,
00:35:51.380 I'm guessing you're
00:35:51.900 like under 22 or something,
00:35:53.700 that the antibodies
00:35:54.660 you develop are shown
00:35:55.760 to last much longer
00:35:57.120 from an illness
00:35:58.520 that doesn't affect
00:35:59.740 your age group as harshly.
00:36:01.020 You want to do
00:36:01.360 one final point?
00:36:02.500 One final point.
00:36:02.940 I do have to get food anyway.
00:36:05.140 I would still say,
00:36:07.040 like, it's kind of
00:36:07.680 like a flu shot,
00:36:08.540 whereas, like,
00:36:09.120 people have to consistently
00:36:09.880 take flu shots
00:36:10.720 because it makes us feel better.
00:36:12.000 And, like,
00:36:12.440 from what I know
00:36:12.940 from my friends
00:36:13.400 who are in life science,
00:36:14.420 like, the whole consensus
00:36:15.200 with COVID is that
00:36:16.380 eventually speaking,
00:36:17.480 it'll turn into, like,
00:36:18.420 more of the common cold
00:36:19.280 through these, like,
00:36:20.160 continual boosters.
00:36:21.100 So I would still advocate
00:36:22.200 for, like, you know,
00:36:23.340 continual boosters,
00:36:24.140 but, like,
00:36:24.360 you do have a valid point
00:36:25.460 in that you say
00:36:26.200 that we aren't the category
00:36:27.600 that's at risk.
00:36:28.760 But I think for society
00:36:29.720 to function,
00:36:30.620 we need to kind of, like,
00:36:31.540 accommodate for the people
00:36:32.520 who are at risk for it.
00:36:34.460 I have no idea
00:36:35.520 what the maternal controversy is.
00:36:37.880 I think it does
00:36:38.860 because U of T
00:36:39.560 is a research-based institution,
00:36:41.380 so anything to do
00:36:42.940 with research
00:36:43.580 or involves research
00:36:46.160 will really influence
00:36:47.200 U of T's decision.
00:36:48.460 I mean, listen,
00:36:49.980 on the surface,
00:36:51.540 yes, I could see it
00:36:52.580 playing a role.
00:36:53.660 Would it surprise me
00:36:54.440 if it's playing a role?
00:36:55.500 But I don't know,
00:36:56.240 to be quite honest with you.
00:36:57.100 Guys, wrapping up
00:36:58.020 on the University of Toronto campus,
00:36:59.640 now, 99% of the people
00:37:00.980 we asked don't agree
00:37:01.900 with forced boosters
00:37:03.020 for people having
00:37:04.120 to live in residencies.
00:37:05.220 Even if they believe
00:37:06.100 in the booster
00:37:06.560 and think other people
00:37:07.400 should get it,
00:37:08.000 they don't exactly think
00:37:08.940 that people should be forced.
00:37:10.340 Now, is Moderna
00:37:11.300 influencing their decision
00:37:12.700 on whether or not
00:37:13.340 they should force this?
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00:37:16.380 more information to them.
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