EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ontario’s strip clubs are set to open, but its schools are still in doubt.
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Ontario's strip clubs are opening, but their schools are still in a state of lockdown. And a strip club in Toronto says they don't need a booster shot to be safe. Plus, a story about a pastor who was arrested in a highway takedown by a SWAT team for having people at his church.
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Hello, my Rebels. Big news out of Ontario. The schools remain closed, and it's not certain
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they're going to open even in September, but the strip clubs are opening. How can you tell
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that politicians are making these decisions? I'll talk a little bit about that. Hey, while I'm at
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Tonight, Ontario's strip clubs are set to open, but their schools are still in doubt.
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It's July 14th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publishing, is because it's my bloody
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You can tell a lot about society's values these days in the lockdown.
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Early this year, when Alberta was under a bitter lockdown, when Christian churches were being
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raided and expropriated and pastors were being jailed, Alberta granted an exemption
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to The Bachelorette as a TV show to do their production at a resort in Jasper, the famous
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Jasper Park Lodge. I don't know if you're familiar with The Bachelorette, but it's a dating show.
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One woman, 25 guys, so a series of dates, weeding out the men until there are just a few left,
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and then there's a final decision in case you're in any doubt. There's lots of what the Brits
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called snogging. So yeah, so Arthur Pavlovsky, the pastor, was arrested in a highway takedown
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by a SWAT team for having people at his church, but a few hours up the highway, a cast and crew
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of twice the size of his whole congregation, were, shall we say, violating social distancing rules,
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and no problem. Ocean Weisblatt, a kid in Calgary, was assaulted by police, sworn at, attacked,
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threatened with a tasering for being in an outdoor skating rink that was actually officially open by
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the city. That was illegal, you see. But the NHL and their whole entourage, they're not just open
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for practice and to play games, but they could actually go to whatever restaurant they chose,
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and that restaurant could magically open up just for them and their entourage. That was legal.
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Well, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, the casino was opened up there, no problem. There was a coronavirus
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outbreak at the casino, apparently, but they shut down the church in town and gave it a $14,000 fine.
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We fought that for them and we won. The fine was dropped. So yeah, priorities. No one has been more
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shrill about lockdowns than Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster, but the president of the CBC, Catherine
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Tate, has actually been commuting weekly from her home in New York City. Obviously, she doesn't quarantine
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for two weeks for her weekly jet flight. She's exempt. Which brings us to today's news in the
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Toronto Sun. Fillmore's says no vaccine, no entry as strip clubs set to reopen. Fillmore's is a strip
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club in Toronto and it's being closed like other things have been closed in this province. Restaurants
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have been closed, still are. One of the last places in North America where that's true. So
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the strip clubs are going to open, maybe. Restaurants are going to open, maybe. I mean,
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I bet the strip clubs have a lot of politicians as clients. You'd think the restaurants would too,
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but no luck yet. As you can see in that photo in the sun, the sign on the strip club says,
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masks on, clothes off. That's pretty funny, actually, but it shows just how insane this all is. It's not
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about a virus anymore. You may not know this, but strip clubs sometimes involve sex, bodily fluids,
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the occasional stripper does more than just strip. Imagine thinking that the leading health risk in
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such a club is something that a mask would stop. But they're not just insisting on a mask.
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Looks like they're insisting that you get vaxxed. Let me read. Anyone wanting to enter the iconic
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Fillmore strip club on Dundas Street will need proof of vaccination before they can get up close and
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personal with a dancer. We want our staff to be safe. We were the first industry shut down in the
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last reopen, said Fillmore's entertainment manager, Casper Cameron, on Tuesday. Fillmore's isn't the
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only club taking this approach, added Cameron, who noted that he has been in conversation with the
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owners and managers of all the other clubs in Toronto, and they will adopt the same approach
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when they reopen on Friday. Everybody, our dancers, doormen, bartenders, everyone is fully
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vaccinated, Cameron said. We're going to make it mandatory that customers have at least one dose.
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Yeah, I'm not sure if the coronavirus is the most worrisome disease at a strip club, to be honest.
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Dancers will perform on stage, but lap dances will not be allowed, something Cameron said was
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ridiculous, noting that massage parlors and sex clubs are reopening without restrictions.
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Now, I'm not going to read any more about Toronto's sex trade to you, other than to note the absurdity
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of demanding inoculation for the coronavirus that spread through coughing, not through sex,
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but it raises the question, would a strip club demand that customers prove they don't have
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a sexually transmitted disease? How about if they demand a proof that customers don't have AIDS?
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AIDS is far more deadly than the coronavirus. About four million people have died
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in the entire world from coronavirus, COVID-19. And of course, in North American Europe, the vast
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majority of them are senior citizens in their 80s, not exactly the strip club regular crowd.
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Now, compare that with AIDS. According to the United Nations, 36 million people have died from AIDS,
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many times more than have died from COVID-19, and it's often sexually transmitted. So seriously,
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why wouldn't a strip club demand to know if you've had AIDS, if you haven't now, if you've been
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taking an experimental vaccine? There are experimental AIDS vaccines, just like there are
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experimental COVID vaccines. None of the COVID vaccines have finished being tested. But you see
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my point. Can you imagine demanding to know if someone has AIDS or is vaxxed? And AIDS is relevant
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to a sex club, I think. But vaccine passports are being demanded for any business anywhere for the
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coronavirus. Since when is it anyone's right to demand your private information like that,
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to walk into a bar, restaurant, store, gym, whatever? If you're healthy, if you're healthy,
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if you're not a risk to others, why should any bouncer or clerk be able to ask you such invasive
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personal questions? The reason I choose the strip club story is because it's in the newspaper today
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and it's sort of funny. But also because while it's set to open, let me tell you what, in Ontario,
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the schools are not yet set to open. They might, but they might not. They, you know, the question's
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not settled yet. Because you see, they're not as important as NHL teams or Hollywood productions,
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and they're definitely not as important as lap dances at strip clubs. In fact, the mad priest,
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Anthony Fauci, he says we have to hit kids the hardest, even children of tender years,
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who have effectively a zero chance of serious illness from the virus. Did you see this?
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The children who are not able to get vaccinated because of their age should follow, their parents
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should follow with them, the guidelines of the CDC, that unvaccinated children of a certain age,
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greater than two years old, should be wearing masks. No doubt about that. That's the way to
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protect them from getting infected. Because if they do, they can then spread the infection to
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someone else. So the CDC guidelines for unvaccinated people, including children,
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are not changed at all. We are currently doing, we being the federal government together in
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collaboration with the pharmaceutical companies, age de-escalation studies, namely looking at
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the safety and the immunogenicity of vaccines in children from 12 to 9 years old, then from 9 to 6,
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then from 6 to 2 years old, and then ultimately from 6 months to 2 years old. Those data will likely be
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available by the end of the year, and then it will be up to the FDA to decide when they will make a
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recommendation that, in fact, this could be done in the sense of vaccinating children of that age.
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He's mad. He's a wizard. He's a priest. He's not a mad scientist. Science is about observing facts,
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of testing hypotheses. Fauci and his disciples are a cult now, who don't want to hear any information that
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contradicts their theories. They take it on faith now. They're tyrants who demand obedience now.
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Well, science doesn't demand obedience. It rewards skepticism. There is no science behind masks in
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schools, other than the science that it harms children. That's the only scientific proof. But
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really, at this point, it's not even certain the kids will be allowed back in schools in Ontario,
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masks or not. I know not all parts of Canada are that insane, but what I've learned over the last
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year and a half is that it's the worst ideas that get passed around. It's a race to the bottom.
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Politicians say, well, if he's doing it, I better do it too. And the media ensures it. The courts
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ensure it. You know, there's been so many court challenges. We've funded a few of them. Not a
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single anti-lockdown court case has been successful in Canada in any meaningful way. The worst ideas are
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being embraced by every powerful element of society. And as surely as night follows day,
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when the flu season returns this fall, the lockdowns will return with it. But hey,
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you can always go to the strip club if your mask is on, because that's what's important, right?
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Hey, I've got a question for you about vaccine passports. If vaccines work, why do you need one?
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Because everyone who wants one has got a vaccine. If vaccines don't work, why do you need one? Because
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they don't work in any event. I put it to you that vaccine passports make no logical sense
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in terms of dealing with an illness or a pandemic, which by the way is subsiding.
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But vaccine passports make a lot of sense if the issue is both control, controlling citizens,
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regulating them like a Chinese-style social credit system. And psychologically, it's a club.
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Just like people can't wait to tell you that they're on a gluten-free diet or they're vegan,
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saying you're vaccinated is a new status symbol and a way to scold people. Well, you can't scold
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people if you don't know who isn't vaxxed. So the card is essential. It's like airline loyalty
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programs. Air Canada, they have something called the elite. But there's also the super elite. And the
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top is the super elite 100K. It's not just about being in, it's about who's being out. And I put
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it to you that vaccine passports are about people deciding who's in and who's out. Joining us now
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via Skype is our friend Andrew Lawton of TNC.news. His new article is called Jason Kenney vows to not
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cooperate with feds on vaccine passports. Andrew, great to see you again.
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Oh, well, it's our pleasure. I understand that just today, Justin Trudeau says
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that he's going to leave it to the provinces to have vaccine passports. And we heard from Jason
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Kenney that he's going to leave it to companies and schools and other entities to have vaccine
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passports. I think that means we're going to have an enormous number of vaccine passports.
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Anyone's going to get into the business. Privacy, medical secrecy, your private matters will now be
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something that any person, any company, any school, any employer will demand to know your intimate
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information. In a way, it's worse than if the government were involved, because now any Tom
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Dick and Harry can ask you personal private questions and deny you service and discriminate
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based on that. That's a working theory I have. What do you think?
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Yeah, the guy selling you the used dining room set on Kijiji can say, I need to see your proof
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of vaccination first. There are really two issues here that I see. Number one is the forced disclosure
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of medical information. And again, I'm a firm believer in the fact that people can make their
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own medical choices and they can decide they want other people to know or they can decide to keep
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those privately. It doesn't matter if you may be comfortable or someone else may be comfortable
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sharing their decision on this. No one should be forced to, which is really the underlying premise
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of a vaccine passport. The other one is the stratification of society. You mentioned the in
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club or the out club when it comes to vaccination. There's a significant risk here that certain facets
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of society, of civil society, like going to a concert, going to a movie, going to school, we'll talk about
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this in a moment, will be off limits to people that have not made a particular decision that legally
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you are entitled to make for yourself, which is do I get a COVID vaccine or do I not? Good Life Fitness
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today came out and said it will not require staff or members to be vaccinated. And the backlash to them
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on Twitter is quite insane. Seneca College in Ontario yesterday came out and said any student who wants
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to go to a class in person in the coming year will have to be vaccinated. So we're already starting
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to see this. And again, I believe private businesses are allowed to make their own decisions on things.
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But the problem we have here is that a vaccine passport really encourages those decisions to be
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made. And listen, Ezra, we had 16 months in which everyone was locked down, even if you were low risk.
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The government said it didn't matter. We all were in it together. And it's interesting that now that
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more and more people are vaccinated, not everyone is getting to benefit from the reopening equally.
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Yeah. Let's talk about Seneca for a second. That's a college or university in Ontario. I'm
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certain it gets public money. It's not a private institution. So it's using government money and
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its prestigious position in society to say you're not allowed even to come on campus if you're not
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vaxxed. What about people who can't get a vaccine because of health reasons? They're allergic to it.
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They would get a health reaction to it. What about people who are naturally immune because they had
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the COVID virus and have recovered from it? What about people who are objectors on religious or other
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grounds? There's no room for any of them. And here's the reason I mentioned all this, Andrew, because
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I, like you, believe in property rights and liberty. And I think that while discrimination is bad,
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we can't, you know, people ought to have certain rights on their property or their private business.
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But Seneca is saying we're going to discriminate based on a medical issue, a private medical issue,
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not that you're sick, that you just didn't take this medicine. And I haven't seen the fine print of
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their policy, but I don't think there's any exemptions there. Could be wrong. So all of a sudden you're,
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you have this discrimination in public, in private, in stores. You're demanding knowledge about things
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that, that I think is in any other sphere, illegal discrimination. So I hear what you're saying about
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loving liberty and letting people make their choices. But you're, you're about, Seneca and other places like
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that are about to disenfranchise vast swaths of citizens, whole classes of citizens. And by the
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way, I don't want to be racial about it, but different minority groups have a different approach
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to this vaccine. For example, visible minorities are less vaccinated. Maybe like black people,
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remember the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. They maybe don't trust vaccines quite as much as other
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folks. I just think we're going down a whole terrible road and people are so bloody eager to do it.
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Well, Canada's, Canada's disregard for acquired immunity is quite something. Acquired immunity
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is one of the reasons that United States jurisdictions were able to reopen as vastly
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and successfully as they have, because they realized that there are multiple paths to immunity. One is
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a vaccine, one is acquired immunity and so on. And you are right to point out that when government
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money is involved, my view is that you should have to uphold constitutional freedoms. And we know that
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post-secondary institutions are notoriously bad for this when it comes to free speech.
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And clearly, they may be going down a very dark road with vaccine as well. Now, I will say the
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Seneca policy will accept exemptions under human rights grounds, such as medical exemptions. What I
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find interesting is that the Ontario Human Rights Act is notoriously broad. And one of the protected
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grounds against discrimination in Ontario is creed. Could your creed simply be, I don't want to get
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Yeah. I wonder, I think this is really bad news. I saw, it was our own reporter, Adam Sose, who put
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the question to Jason Kenney that everyone picked up, will you bring in vaccine passports? He said no.
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But that's not even a good answer. I mean, it's a better answer than yes. But I look to Ron DeSantis,
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the Florida governor, who not only said no, but he banned anyone from doing so because the cruise
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ship industry, which is headquartered in Florida, wanted to have vaccine passports. And you could
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see why they would want that. But he said, we're going to fine you, I think it was thousands of
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dollars for every person you ask. Well, that would destroy the cruising industry. So they decided to
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not go with a vax passport. So he didn't just say, I'm not going to do it myself. I'm going to stop
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anyone else. I am worried that you're going to have countless vax passport rules, every
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restaurant, every company, every retailer having a different standard. And I think it's going to be
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invasive. And I don't want to go to a Starbucks and have some 16-year-old barista ask me my personal
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health information. The answer is none of your bloody business. But if it's not blocked,
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that's going to be the norm. I don't know. I just feel like we're living in an era
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where the most deeply invasive questions are now being held up as a righteous kind of
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inquisition. I just think it's gross. Last word to you, Andrew.
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Yeah. You know, I was actually in the U.S. not that long ago in a jurisdiction that had abandoned
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its mask mandate. And every single business I went into had no mask requirement. There were some
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individual customers and staff that still decided to wear masks, which is completely their prerogative.
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If a business were to say after a mask mandate is stripped away in Ontario, say, you know what,
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we're going to require masks of our customers. I would say, listen, that's fine. You have the right
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to do that. I have the right to go elsewhere. And a mask is something very tangible. You can see it.
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You're wearing it. You're not wearing it. Vaccination is very different. This is something
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that requires medical documentation to prove, which no one should have to hand over to anyone
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to access a service, but certainly not to your barista, to your baker, to the registrar of your
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university. It is absolutely no one's business. And the term that I used at the beginning,
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the stratification of society along these immunological grounds is a very dangerous turn
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for our country. Yeah. You know, I did say, Andrew, last word to you, but you know, I can't help
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myself. I, like, just imagine if someone said to you, hey, do you have AIDS? Hey, do you have an
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AIDS vaccine? Like, I'm really worried. We would say, what are you saying? Who the hell are you?
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Just mind your own. Like, if someone started saying that, we would all get the creeps.
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Andrew, keep your eyes peeled. We've done a lot of litigation over here. We've challenged the COVID
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jails at airports, hotels. We've challenged anti-gathering laws in Saskatchewan. I want to take
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a vaccine passport case. Maybe Seneca's the one, maybe not. But if you see a crazy example out
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there, please bring it to my attention, because I really want to challenge the worst vaccine passport
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law so we can set the best precedent. I just think we're headed into a terrible time of no privacy and
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no autonomy over our lives. And I think we have to fight back. I know you'll fight back with us
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journalistically. And by the way, congratulations to TNC.news for hiring Sue Ann Levy, an outstanding
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columnist formerly with the Toronto Sun. Give us one word on Sue Ann.
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Yeah, Sue Ann's absolutely fantastic. She's fearless. She's well-established. And the politicians
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tend to tremble in their boots when they see her coming. So she's a great addition to our team.
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And I know she's already hit the ground running. And we look forward to some great things from her.
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Yeah, anyone in the greater Toronto area knows who she is. And anyone who's not in the GTA,
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you're going to love her. She's got such a fighting spirit. And frankly, I think that
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the Toronto Sun, no disrespect to them, but I think they were trying to muzzle her a bit because
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she was too effective. And City Hall was trying to punish her a bit. I know she won't have any of
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those censorship issues at TNC.news. So yet another reason to support Andrew and his team. The name
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again is Sue Ann Levy. She's the best. Andrew, you're the best. And thanks for joining us today. It's
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great to see you. Anytime, Ezra. Thank you. All right, there you have it. Andrew Lawton,
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Hey, welcome back. On my show last night, Tad writes, political persecution is alive and well
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in Canada. You know what got me about this letter from the election commissioner, and you can see
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it at Libranos.com, is he responded to my lawyer saying, look, there were 24 books. They were all
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about the election. They were all published during the election. Some were pro, some were con. They're
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all identical. Why is my book the only one being prosecuted? That's unfair. And they said, well,
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it's true. Everything you said is true, but we have the right to do that. Oh, just that. You're
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just admitting that you're doing that. Okay, good to know. Keith writes,
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I think the Streisand effect just inspired me to buy a book. Yeah, you know, it is true. I think
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the Libranos is my best-selling book ever, and I think it's partly because Trudeau wants a band.
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VI writes, Ezra, I hope you have a revised edition ready in time for the next federal election. There's
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plenty more Trudeau wrong going to add. You know, I'm working on another book, a new one. I mean,
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it is a good idea to revise and update the old one, but I think I've got a new one that's even
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better. I've got to get it done on time, though. Oh, boy, that'll get another election complaint,
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won't it? Anyways, folks, that's my show for today. Thanks for joining in. Until tomorrow,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.