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Bill S-7, introduced by Justin Trudeau's Liberals, gives border guards the power to search your phone for photos and videos, not based on probable cause, just on a hunch. It s quite something, and I ll take you through it.
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Hello, my rebels. I'm going to take you through a, I guess, a sort of small and obscure bill
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introduced by Justin Trudeau's liberals, introduced into the Senate, which is a little bit odd.
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It's called Bill S-7, and it gives border guards the power to search your phone for
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photos and videos and texts and emails, not based on probable cause or anything like that,
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just really a hunch. General concern is what they say. It's quite something. I'll take you through
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Tonight, why do they want a digital ID so badly? It's May 27th 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 about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I'm worried about a new bill introduced in Canada's parliament to give border guards the right to
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search and seize information in your cell phone, including photos, including emails, including
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documents. It really is modeled after China's so-called social credit system where everything
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about you is tracked in a government database or more likely contracted out to a company like Amazon
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or Google on behalf of the government. So they both have your stuff. I think it's the worst of both
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worlds. I'm not against ID. I'm very much for ID for things like voting, for example, or immigration.
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Those are things that the left hates ID for. They call ID racist. Weirdly, when you say that people
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should have to show ID to vote in an election, I don't think it's racist. I think it's racist to say,
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as the left does, that minorities don't have access to ID, that that's a barrier for them. I think that's
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just weird. I think it's false. I think it's just an excuse. It's the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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The left doesn't want ID because they want to cheat.
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I'm for normal ID. What's normal is the question, I guess, these days. I've been carrying around my birth certificate
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in my wallet for decades. Same with my original social insurance card. It's no problem. Those and my driver's license
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and my health card fit in my wallet and in some credit cards and maybe some cash. And I guess the wall,
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it's a bit bulky, but it's no big deal. I've never lost my wallet in my life. What a hassle it would be
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to replace all those things. I can understand the appeal of digital versions of those IDs.
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I get it. I use digital versions of tickets now. I used to fly before unvaccinated people
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were banned from flying. You could choose a paper airline ticket, but it was also pretty convenient
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just to have it on your smartphone. Just hope your cell phone battery doesn't die and you're fine.
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Tickets for events, too. Ticketmaster gives you digital cards. I think phone-based payments,
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pretty handy, too. I don't know if you've ever used Apple Pay, for example, where you scan your phone
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on the credit card machine just like you would scan a credit card in the past. Apple Pay doesn't bother
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me too much because if it weren't for my phone, I'd probably be swiping a credit card instead.
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So it's not like I'm creating a new digital record about myself that I wouldn't otherwise do.
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Same with the airline ticket, same with the Ticketmaster example. I think this is all obvious.
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The reason we like digital tickets for things is because they can be convenient for us and they're
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convenient for the other side, too, for airlines to scan you in that way. No fuss, no must, no paper.
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It's connected right to their computer systems. But I'm worried about a merger between all of these
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different databases. I'm worried about connections between the databases. I'm fine with my credit card
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company knowing where I buy things. They sort of have to know that to make the payment for me.
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But what else is connected? And to whom? And who gets that data? We've had scary answers to that
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question in the past, especially in the past decade, not so much from credit card companies,
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but from big tech companies who know much more about you, like Facebook and Google. Now,
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they're free services, your Facebook page. They're free because they're not the product being bought
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and sold. You are to their advertisers, but mainly to them. They know everything about you,
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everything you read, everything you write, everything you buy. These days, everything your
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eyes look at, everything you say is picked up by your phone's microphone. And you can't remember every
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word you write or say in your whole life, but a computer can. It can store them. That's what's for sale.
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That's the greatest value of these mega tech corporations. That's why they're free, because
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you are for sale. And the knowledge about everything you care about and would pay for is for sale.
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And in the case of Twitter, we've seen this, and YouTube too, and other highly political big tech
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companies, they don't just want to make money off you for things you want to buy, advertise.
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They want to manage your politics. They want to censor what you see and censor what you say
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and want to boost left-wing things in your field of vision. That's what the new Twitter CEO,
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Parag Agarwal, meant when he said they're not in the free speech business. They're in the attention
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business. You can talk all you want on Twitter, but only they get to decide if anyone hears you
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and what you hear in return. They get to turn on or off the taps. I think that's scary.
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Now, this was all happening already, of course, but then came the pandemic. Nothing worked. None of
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their advice worked. The masks didn't work. They never did before. They were just used to keep
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people in a state of fear and to be a flag to fly to show which team you were on. It was obedience
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training for what was to come. The six-foot separation rule, it never worked. It was made
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up in the first place. Don't take it from me. Ask the former head of the FDA, the commissioner of the
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FDA, Scott Gottlieb. And you're right. The six feet was arbitrary. The six feet was arbitrary in and of
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itself. But if the administration had focused in on that, they might have been able to affect a policy
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that would have actually achieved their outcome. But that policymaking process didn't exist. And
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the six feet is a perfect example of sort of the lack of rigor around how CDC made recommendations.
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Nobody knows where it came from. Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation
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for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu where droplets don't travel
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more than six feet. We now know COVID spreads through aerosols. The initial recommendation
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that the CDC brought to the White House, and I talk about this, was 10 feet. And a political
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appointee in the White House said, we can't recommend 10 feet. Nobody can measure 10 feet. It's
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inoperable. Society will shut down. So the compromise was around six feet.
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The lockdowns not only did not work, they made everything worse. Countless lives harmed or even killed,
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especially children. What cruelty. And the vaccines and vaccine mandates, as in, if you don't get a
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vaccine, you can't go to work or you can't fly or you can't go to a restaurant. Well, let's quote Bill
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Gates himself, talking about how vaccines really aren't vaccines if they don't stop the virus from
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breaking through. Here's the most honest six seconds he's ever said, just this week, in fact.
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The idea of checking if people are vaccinated, you know, if you have breakthrough infections,
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what's the point? Now, we knew a lot of this pretty early on. We knew the truth about the
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disease itself pretty early on, how it wasn't as deadly as first thought. We knew, but it was in
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too many people's interest to have the pandemic as the big thing. Again, here's Bill Gates himself
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and how we got it so wrong. We knew things pretty soon. It wasn't until early February when I was in
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a meeting that experts at the foundation said, there's no way, you know, this, there's been too
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much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this. And then at that point, we didn't really
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understand the fatality rate. You know, we didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate
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and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different
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than that. So that was pretty scary period where the world didn't go on alert, including the United
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States, nearly as fast as it needed to. I think Bill Gates is cruel and sociopathic and immoral,
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by the way. As you know, his relationship with the child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, which he
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You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact
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with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you. Did that play a role
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Yeah, as I said, it's not one thing. It was many things. But I did not like that he'd had meetings
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with Jeffrey Epstein. No. And you made that clear to him. I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey
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Epstein exactly one time. Did you? Yes, because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it
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from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. I had nightmares
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about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that's how I felt.
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And here I'm an older woman. My God, I feel terrible for those young women. It's awful.
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Yeah. And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him?
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Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to
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Gates himself just sort of chuckles about it even now.
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Well, he's dead. So, you know, in general, you always have to be careful.
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He's a creepy guy who has a bit of a God complex and he has a hundred billion dollars to indulge
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any fancy. But I want you to meet this guy. I think we've shown him a couple of times before.
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His name is Yuval Noah Harari. He's a thinker, a philosopher, even a futurist, I think.
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He's a star at the World Economic Forum. He's pretty bizarre too, by the way. I won't get
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into that here. But listen to him talk about everything that's happened and why it's so
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useful. Not useful for public health. Sorry, that's not what he means. Useful to condition
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COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize total biometric
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surveillance. If we want to stop this epidemic, we need not just to monitor people, we need
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What we have seen so far, it's corporations and governments collecting data about where
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we go, who we meet, what movies we watch. The next phase is the surveillance going under
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our skin. We now see mass surveillance systems established even in democratic countries, which
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previously rejected them. And we also see a change in the nature of surveillance. Previously,
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surveillance was mainly above the skin, now it's going under the skin. Governments want
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to know not just where we go or who we meet. Above all, they want to know what is happening
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under our skin. What's our body temperature? What's our blood pressure? What is our medical condition?
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Now humans are developing even bigger powers than ever before. We are really acquiring divine
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powers of creation and destruction. We are really upgrading humans into gods. We are acquiring,
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for instance, the power to re-engineer life. I know that in recent years, we saw populist politicians
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undermining deliberately the trust that people have in important institutions, like universities,
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like respectable media outlets. These populist politicians told people that scientists are this small elite
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disconnected from the real people. I mean, all this story about Jesus rising from the dead and being the son of God,
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this is fake news. Humans are now hackable animals. You know, the whole idea that humans have, you know,
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they have this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what's happening inside me.
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So whatever I choose, whether in the election or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will, that's over.
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There was a lot in that clip there. It was a bit of a montage, but did you get that first part?
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He said, COVID is critical because that is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize total biometric surveillance.
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We need not just monitor people. We need to monitor what's happening under their skin.
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If you think that's science fiction, well, here's the president of Pfizer talking about a pill that works in a very practical way. Just look.
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It is basically a biological chip that it is in the tablet. And once you take the tablet and dissolves into your stomach,
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sends a signal that you took the tablet. So imagine the applications of that, compliance.
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The insurance companies to know that the medicines that patients should take, they do take them.
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Funny, that was at the World Economic Forum too. So can these people be serious?
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Sure, serious like a pericarditis heart attack, serious like a trillion dollars. That's how serious they are.
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So that's what the vaccine passport was about. That's what Trudeau's Arrive Can travel app is about.
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That's what digital ID is about. It's to connect it all.
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And of course, the phone companies have already been handing over all of your data about where you have been going based on that GPS.
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They hand that over to the government too, even though they lie about it.
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Here's a story that popped up in the Toronto Star.
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Governments aren't tracking your cell phone in the battle of COVID-19.
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All right, well, here's one from January of this year.
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Canada's privacy watchdog probing health officials' use of cell phone location data.
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The privacy commissioner, few realized the government was tracking their pandemic movements.
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Yeah, few realized it, of course, because the government lied about it and the media covered it up and called anyone who was skeptical a conspiracy theorist.
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That's the nature of a network, the nature of the Internet.
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I think it means total surveillance, but also punishment if you get out of line.
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I mean, ask the hundreds of Canadians who had their bank accounts seized with no court order.
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Ask the thousands of people who tried to donate to the GoFundMe for the truckers, but the tech company blocked it on the demand of the government.
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That's what I mean, connected. Link it all together.
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One digital ID system for everything, an everything card, where you are, how's your body, your most private details, your money, and give the power to the government to, I don't know, turn it off.
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Now, you might say, don't bills in Parliament start with the letter C, like Bill C-11?
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Well, that's when they're introduced in the House of Commons.
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Strangely, this government bill was introduced in the Senate, so it's got an S, an act to amend the Customs Act and the Preclearance Act.
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I'm going to read from the summary of the law in the actual legislation.
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The enactment amends the Customs Act to A, clarify the circumstances in which border service officers may examine documents stored on personal digital devices.
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B, authorize the making of regulations in respect of those examinations.
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And C, update certain provisions respecting enforcement, offenses, and punishment.
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The enactment also amends the Preclearance Act to A, clarify the circumstances in which preclearance officers may examine, search, and detain documents stored on personal digital devices.
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So, let's say you're not carrying your master digital ID, but so much of your info these days is on your phone, right?
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It's a little bit long, but I'm going to read it.
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And by the way, the words exported and imported means if you're leaving or entering Canada with these things.
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At any time up to the time of release or at any time up to the time of exportation, an officer designated under subsection 2 may, in accordance with the regulations, examine documents, including emails, text messages, receipts, photographs, or videos that are stored on a personal digital device that has been imported or is about to be exported.
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And is in the custody or possession of a person if the officer has a, get this, reasonable general concern.
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That this act or a regulation made under it has been or might be contravened in respect of one or more of the documents.
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Any other act of Parliament that prohibits, controls, or regulates the importation or exportation of goods and is administered or enforced by the officer.
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Any regulation made under the act has been or might be contravened in respect to one or more of the documents.
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Any other act of Parliament that prohibits, controls, or regulates the importation or exportation of goods and is administered or enforced by the officer or any regulation made under the act.
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But what it's saying is they just have to have a general concern that there's something on your phone.
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And they demand to look at it and don't think you can stop them.
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Don't think you can say, yeah, try and hack it, buddy.
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Every person who contravenes section 153 is guilty of an offense.
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Sorry, punishable and on summary conviction and liable to a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for a term.
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And by the way, you're guilty of an indictable offense and you can be liable to a fine of not more than $50,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years or to both.
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Imagine $50,000 and five years in prison for not letting them into your cell phone.
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Now, I believe the customs officers and border guards are important jobs and I believe they should be able to guard our borders.
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For people being trafficked, like children being trafficked, Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein style, you know.
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But seriously, going through your phone, clicking on your apps, downloading, copying your stuff.
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I didn't read part of the bill, but it's in there that they can take copies of your stuff.
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And all of it based on a reasonable general concern.
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I just got this, I just got this feeling in my tummy.
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So right now, they have to change the law through S7 to permit this.
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They want to make it legal for cops to go through your emails, your texts, your photos, your videos.
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But really, if they have a digital ID, they won't really need to search your phone at all, will they?
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Hey, there were some really exciting moments of our team in Switzerland.
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First, they were in Davos, where the World Economic Forum met.
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And then they went down to Geneva, where the World Health Organization met.
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I want to show you three clips because they're just too good.
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And it's not going to surprise you that the star of these is Avi Yamini, our Australian chief correspondent.
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I think, you know, every year we have a viewer survey, a poll, a vote, really, for best rebel reporter.
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But Avi has won the MVP award two years in a row from our viewers.
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Here's the first time he bumped into Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, then the governor of the Bank of England.
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And I am most certain he intends to come back to Canada, run for parliament and become the liberal leader to succeed Trudeau.
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How do you justify, how does the U.N. climate envoy justify the massive carbon footprint here today to set this up, this fake city for a week event?
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For one week event, the carbon footprint is huge.
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But look, I'm not doing a stand-up interview, okay?
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I think people around the world, you know, this year they say regaining trust.
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Can we sit down and I'll make a time with you and answer some actual tough questions?
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Look, as I say, as with everyone else, you can do the same thing as with the guy from
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But the whole world is looking at this now going, you're a pack of hypocrites and you're
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Yeah, he's a little bit of a slippery fish, isn't he?
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Well, wouldn't you know it, Davos being a small town, Avi Yamini bumped into Mark Carney
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And if you don't understand the reference here, Avi's talking about the World Economic
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And this is Avi Amini and Savannah Hernandez and our team when they were in Geneva, the
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They were just outside the building, like literally outside doing what we call a scene
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And police came and said, and I'll let you see it for yourself because you will not believe
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The police said, you may not even film images of the outside of the building if you're saying
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Why can't you film the World Health Organization?
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Because it's official if you said, WSHO is bad.
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We can film if we like the World Health Organization.
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But if we're reporting badly on the World Health Organization, we can't film.
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So they don't seem too happy with filming the World Health Organization.
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my name sounds good in french too this is certainly an image of health he's got his
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masks tied to his security belt it's both secure please just one moment okay thank you what
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yes it's possible to to do your interview okay just um for the the image the image yes not
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not inside the building we're not going inside that's okay yes okay thank you just around thank
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you you're welcome thank you very much all right there you go so um that's the thing you got to
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learn when you stand up for yourself against tyranny and that's what it is that's a taste
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of tyranny that's what it looks like when authoritarian states and rulers try to shut
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you down if you stand up for yourself nine out of ten times at least while you're in a democracy
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you will win let that be a lesson avi mini for rebel news in geneva switzerland that's a good
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message by avi at the end if you fight back for your rights in a democracy you can sometimes win
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avi says nine out of ten times you'll win i'm not sure if it's that high but avi does a good job but
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you can see why he's was elected twice by our viewers our reporter of the year well one of my
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favorite reporters in fact my number one favorite reporter at the national post tied with rex murphy
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is our next guest you know who i'm talking about rupa supermania she joins us now via skype to talk
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about her column about the world economic forum rupa great to see you again
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so much for your kind words i just uh i really appreciate it and i don't know if i fully deserve
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it but well listen what i like about your coverage is you're not afraid to zig when everyone else is
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zagging sometimes you're a contrarian and i think that's the hardest thing to be hey your new column i
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have it in front of me here in the national post it's called world health organization and the davos elite
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leave a lot to be desired canadians elect our leaders to work in our interests not those of international
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bureaucrats or the rich and powerful i i should have known this but i didn't i didn't realize
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that trudeau last year gave nearly three million canadian tax dollars to the world economic forum
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they're full of billionaires rupa but the richest people in the world what are we doing i know i know
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it's it truly is bizarre uh so this is a story that was actually broken uh by the true north center a
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couple of weeks ago and uh i i it came as a surprise to me as well i i didn't think that a rich
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organization like the world economic forum you know which has all kinds of rich benefactors
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uh needs uh to be subsidized uh by taxpayers and it's not just canadian taxpayers who who who've been
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subsidizing help subsidize the world economic forum it's also taxpayers in japan it's taxpayers in the us
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um uh you name it germany a bunch of different countries um and uh it really is perplexing you
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know why why why do taxpayers have to uh foot the bill for this annual event um and uh you know it
00:34:05.320
really does uh you know it's it's problematic optics in my opinion um sure three million dollars is not a
00:34:13.000
whole lot of money and uh you know you could say it's it's it's an insignificant sum of money but
00:34:17.880
my point is that uh you know this is happening in the context of a very inflationary environment
00:34:23.480
uh you know where you know the average canadian is struggling to make ends meet um and so you know
00:34:30.440
and so this is just just very problematic for a range of different reasons yeah and it's you know
00:34:36.840
three million dollars is not a lot of money in the scheme of the canadian budget they waste so much
00:34:41.160
they waste that much in in a matter of seconds but there's something um immoral about it feels
00:34:46.920
upside down this really is the western meeting place for oligarchs like we use the word oligarch
00:34:54.040
as a pejorative to describe the billionaires around vladimir putin okay i get it they are shady characters
00:34:59.880
but what do you call people in the west who are ultra rich and powerful and want to scheme behind the
00:35:05.400
scenes george soros jeffrey bezos bill gates shouldn't we call them oligarchs too that's
00:35:11.160
who davos is for and about and by and so the idea that we canada would give even one dollar
00:35:18.600
to the oligarch meeting group and and it's not like this is some international
00:35:23.160
government agency it's it's basically klaus schwab's company it's so gross we're giving them any money
00:35:30.040
i think i think it was our finance minister and deputy prime uh deputy prime minister christian
00:35:35.720
freeland who called them plutocrats uh and she went from being uh you know one of their biggest
00:35:41.320
critics to now being an insider and she sits on the uh uh board of trustees of the world economic forum
00:35:48.760
um and um and you know again this is this is something that i flagged about a year and a half ago
00:35:54.520
and it was you know she's been a member of this board for a few years now and um and you know i'm
00:36:01.480
not quite sure why um you know why this is not a bigger issue here in canada because the optics again
00:36:08.440
once again uh don't look good uh she's the only um a politician um on the board of the world economic
00:36:17.560
forum um and uh and i think it's important that we ask why that that is the case that's a great
00:36:24.440
point i mean i know a little bit about christia freeland and i did read her book plutocrats it felt
00:36:29.320
like um an attempt of being uh you know i don't know if our viewers remember there was a show called
00:36:34.920
uh lifestyles of the rich and famous it was by robin leach who would just visit these rich people on
00:36:40.360
yachts i it felt like it was sort of a purient if i'm saying that word right um you know i'm hanging
00:36:48.200
out with billionaires she was actually george soros's official biographer before she came back i think
00:36:53.880
she just loved hanging around rich people and she would sort of say oh i'm not for the super rich but
00:36:59.640
she was she loved it and she was working for soros as a biographer um i don't understand what value she
00:37:10.520
has to the world economic forum other than she's an insider in the canadian cabinet like she had a
00:37:17.560
she was uh you know sort of a pop non-fiction author she had a project at thompson reuters that
00:37:25.560
failed spectacularly i guess what i'm saying is just like hunter biden had these contracts in
00:37:31.160
russia and china and ukraine clearly because it was just about his relationship with his dad joe biden
00:37:36.840
i think christia freeland's only use to the world economic forum is not her brilliant management or
00:37:42.920
strategic skills is that she's plugged right into the canadian government and that scares me because
00:37:49.400
how can you be loyal to two organizations that are sometimes at odds i just think it's really
00:37:53.960
inappropriate well that is the point isn't it uh you have two different so you have the national
00:37:59.800
interest the canadian national interest which is what she's supposed to be defending that's that's
00:38:04.120
that is what she she should be standing up for and then you have the the interests of the world
00:38:09.160
economic forum which may be at odds with what what is in our national interest and uh this this this
00:38:15.800
does present a dilemma and uh the world economic the world economic forum says that you know the the
00:38:21.720
the um their board of trustees is comprised of people from a range of different uh backgrounds uh
00:38:28.680
from the political establishment from uh big corporations uh from civil society and so on and so forth
00:38:35.560
um but you know it still begs the question why is the only actively serving politician uh on the
00:38:43.400
board of trustees from canada um what exactly what purpose is that serving and uh and i i feel that this
00:38:50.760
this is not getting uh the attention that it that it deserves uh now the the world economic forum makes it
00:38:57.880
very clear that you know the board of trustees don't get any compensation for for for serving on the board
00:39:03.560
uh and but but they provide guidance uh they they provide guidance to the organization uh but what
00:39:12.120
is that guidance you know what does that guidance look like um and is that is that uh in our national
00:39:18.520
interest that's the that's the most important question i think you know i would think that being finance
00:39:24.360
minister deputy prime minister and she seems to be the foreign minister at least in regards to ukraine
00:39:29.960
uh i would think that sort of takes up uh someone's time so uh i i wonder why and how she can make time
00:39:38.040
to serve the interests of a group of oligarchs i find it odd maybe it's her relationship with george
00:39:43.080
soros that has carried her over i don't know but rupa i'll tell you this it's very rare that canadian
00:39:49.080
journalists other than independent sort of even fringe journalists talk about the world economic forum i know
00:39:54.520
that terry corcoran of the financial post does but other than him you mentioned the world economic
00:39:59.880
forum and people will hiss at you and say that's a conspiracy theory the great reset is a conspiracy
00:40:06.360
theory they don't actually want you to own nothing and be happy even though each of those phrases
00:40:11.080
is their official thing i don't it's so weird how in certain polite society if you even mention the
00:40:19.640
world economic forum they'll call you a crank even though it's a real thing we were just there it's a real
00:40:24.040
thing last word to you rupa why is it that no one even is this is a very interesting thing even if you
00:40:30.040
like billionaires and oligarchs and secret societies and klaus schwab who is literally the son of a man
00:40:37.400
who moved to nazi germany to run a factory i mean i'm not blaming him for his father's affiliation with
00:40:43.400
the nazis but he's like this classic super villain this klaus schwab and he says the craziest things
00:40:50.440
like surely just out of sheer spectacle journalists would find this curious but very few even talk
00:40:57.240
about it yeah so so ezra i don't think we need to you know really even have a conspiracy theory here
00:41:05.080
it's not a conspiracy theory it's all out in the open uh their agenda is out in the open uh they they're
00:41:11.640
very clear about where they're coming from what they want to accomplish uh they see themselves as uh uh
00:41:18.440
agents of change they they see themselves as uh powerful individuals trying to influence um
00:41:25.160
governments all across all over the world where is the conspiracy here right uh but ultimately i think
00:41:30.840
what what what uh what is important is that does that serve the national interest that's the question
00:41:36.840
that we should be answering every single time that the world economic forum um you know is a topic of
00:41:42.360
discussion or for that matter the world health organization and the pandemic treaty which is is you know which is
00:41:48.360
as you mentioned they they also met this past week and uh the pandemic treaty now is it's it's
00:41:54.520
to be honest with you i mean i'm nothing against international treaties i think they serve they serve
00:42:00.200
a purpose but with the pandemic treaty you really have to wonder uh an organization that got it so wrong
00:42:06.440
on on the pandemic do we really trust them to come up with this global pandemic treaty to to deal with the
00:42:12.360
next pandemic i know i i it raises a lot of questions for me um and it should it should for a lot of
00:42:18.840
people yeah well rupa we're so grateful for your column in the national post i'm so glad you have that
00:42:25.080
prime journalistic real estate uh because you're getting the people who who really ought to hear it
00:42:30.120
and i'm glad they are nice to see you again my friend thanks for your time thanks so much ezra right on
00:42:34.760
there you have a rupa supermania who is a columnist for the national post as well as for nikai nikai
00:42:41.720
excuse me uh the asian news agency stay with us
00:42:48.760
hey welcome back your letters to me island jason says roman never fails to impress me
00:43:06.520
thanks for the great interview roman babra i really like the guy and i have to say he was
00:43:13.320
probably the most effective critic of the lockdowns from within government i really like the the cut of
00:43:20.520
the jib of randy hillier i like how he fights i like the fact that other mpps battled doug for two they
00:43:27.480
were all thrown out but i think that roman babra did the most research he was the most meticulous the
00:43:33.560
most authoritative um and really he was pretty early to it he was pretty early to it i think he was sacked
00:43:40.520
in january of 2021 so not even a year into it he realized things were wrong give the guy credit for
00:43:46.920
that sebastian says most likely pierre is going to be the candidate but i'm hoping roman becomes an mp
00:44:00.840
and works his way up to be leader i think it's quite possible that uh roman babra is elected
00:44:08.440
and it wouldn't surprise me if pierre polly appoints him to cabinet especially if roman babra wins in
00:44:16.520
his toronto riding of york center i actually happen to live in that riding and um you know the
00:44:23.320
conservatives have a tough time in the greater toronto area that's a winnable seat um it was held
00:44:30.520
uh by the conservatives it was lost to the liberals i think roman babra could could win it back ryan f says
00:44:39.240
roman is one of the few candidates who kept it 100 during the lockdowns and mandates yeah and he lost
00:44:46.600
his job over it i mean he absolutely would have been re-elected and i think he probably would have
00:44:52.360
merited being in cabinet so i think he did pay a price for speaking out i'm glad he did
00:44:56.440
that's a show for the day and that's the end of our week what a week oh my gosh we covered so many
00:45:04.280
trials we covered things in every time zone juan mendoza diaz was covering the border was covering the
00:45:10.840
the uvalde shooting if i'm saying that right and of course we had our team in the world economic forum
00:45:17.000
in davos and then the world health organization in geneva i think it was actually one of the busiest
00:45:23.880
weeks in the history of rebel news and one of the most important i'm very proud of our team
00:45:27.880
in fact even last night we had a documentary premiere in the city of calvary a lot going on
00:45:32.840
i wish i could have been there but like i said i can't fly that's our show until monday on behalf
00:45:38.840
of all of us here at rebel world headquarters see you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom
00:45:43.880
and let me leave you with our video of the day from alexa lavoie quebec city residents share their
00:46:09.240
so hey alexa for urban news and we are the monday 23 of may and i'm currently in petit champlain in quebec
00:46:17.240
city as you know between the 22 and the 26th of may in davos switzerland it's happening the annual forum
00:46:27.240
of the world economic forum so during this forum they are talking about climate change they are talking
00:46:33.720
about global cooperation technology as well as economy and way more other topic so i'm here today to
00:46:43.400
look if people are know this man claus schwab the president of the world economic forum i i don't have
00:46:51.720
too many remedies the remedies have to be discussed through dialogue by the stakeholders of our global
00:46:59.560
system but i just see the need for such a dialogue and i see the need for action i see the need for a great
00:47:08.680
reset and i'm here as well to ask them what the sentence of you will own nothing and you will be
00:47:24.120
so today i'm asking people uh if they know this man yes who is it uh schwab yeah is that steve cohen no no
00:47:34.920
i don't know who he is who is he claus schwab oh that's schwab okay do you recognize this man nope
00:47:42.840
if i say it's claus schwab do that invoke something charles schwab claus schwab i know i've heard of
00:47:50.360
charles schwab before but no no no and you no i do not no should i i don't know this person
00:48:02.040
uh i'm not sure i know of the world economic forum but not sure about schwab um i'm from ontario no i
00:48:13.480
do not know who this man is i'm actually from i was born in korea and i don't really know this man
00:48:19.880
it's more as many is knowing like all around the world charlie monger no if i see claus schwab of the
00:48:27.640
world economic forum do that mean something the schwab like the bank the founder of the bank is
00:48:33.480
or but this one is the president of the world economic forum oh i'm sorry i'm young i don't
00:48:39.880
really know about that and so what that sentence means for you if i say you will own nothing and
00:48:46.840
you will be happy it's a lie yeah the more i own the more happier but it's not necessarily true
00:48:55.240
you can be happy with nothing i was before what that sentence means for you oh this is
00:49:01.560
yeah that's very unfortunate to say the least um it's a lot of increasing economic inequality and um
00:49:08.840
you know destroying our lives one step at a time as they have been for the last 40 or 50 years
00:49:13.480
it's not good but more well because if you'll never own anything because everything is so expensive
00:49:20.280
but you'll have to come to grips with it and then just be happy in life but it's sad because
00:49:26.520
you won't never own anything yeah you don't need to own things to be happy that seems like a good
00:49:32.840
statement you don't need to own things to be happy like you don't need material goods
00:49:38.280
well i guess if it's saying like if it's demanding that you will own nothing
00:49:43.560
at least from an american standpoint i know that that would make people upset but
00:49:47.560
i think if it's something that you like are making the decision about yourself
00:49:52.760
then it could be a good thing what that sentence means to you you will own nothing
00:49:58.680
and you will be happy what that means to you uh i think i'm sad here thank you
00:50:10.120
it's good yeah for me yeah so it's these older white guys that are trying to uh that think that
00:50:21.080
they know what the younger generations need or want and they are trying to organize the future in the way
00:50:29.720
that they see is best fit but i think this guy is affiliated with a lot of uh big or big you know
00:50:37.240
multi multi multinationals and and um and it's kind of like one big gang that's trying to
00:50:45.320
organize or plan our future in a way that's just uh not in line with the realities of what
00:50:51.960
people are actually living so there's a disconnect i don't think it's such a good thing but
00:50:57.000
mm-hmm you think it's a good or bad thing uh in terms of as a young as a young generation it'll be
00:51:06.440
good if you don't have anything but you'll more have opportunity to have more in the future right
00:51:11.560
but if you're um that of like my dad like um that of one of family i will be it'll be a little bit more
00:51:18.760
more heart heart because you will have to raise your family you know you if you're a mom if you're
00:51:25.640
a dad you want to have um you want to do good things to refer for your family right that's all