EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster decides that there are 18 words you shouldn't say anymore
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Ezra Levant is back with a new segment on the Ezra Levant Show, and he's here to talk about it. First, Ezra explains why he doesn't read the National Post anymore. Then, he talks about the new ban on the use of 18 words, and why he thinks it's a good idea to ban them.
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Tonight, Trudeau's CBC State broadcaster decides that there are 18 words you shouldn't say anymore.
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It's December 1st, 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 right to do so.
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I don't read the National Post newspaper that much anymore.
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They take $140,000 a week from Justin Trudeau, and it shows.
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I should tell you, they look down their nose at us, at least some of them do,
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but they've been stealing our stuff for years, literally going on the Internet,
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taking our Rebel News videos and our pictures, taking our logo off of them,
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putting their logo on them, and then publishing it and selling ads on it.
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I finally sued them for doing that, and they admitted in court to everything,
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and they actually apologized, so I let them go.
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Here's their letter, confessing, really, and apologizing.
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They say they don't like our work, but they like our work enough to steal it and claim it as their work.
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I think that's unethical, and they pretty much admitted to everything we said they did.
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I still like Conrad Black, of course, and Rex Murphy, of course.
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Maybe those are two reasons to keep reading the National Post.
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Most of the rest of the time, it's the same as any other media party newspaper.
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Never forget, the majority of reporters at the National Post signed a petition
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to fire Rex Murphy from the newspaper because he dared to say in an opinion column
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that in his opinion, Canada is not inherently racist.
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So, the majority of the people writing for that newspaper are like as kooky as
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NDP or Green Party extremists cancel culture losers.
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If you are a conservative newspaper, but you hire a bunch of cancel culture woke leftists,
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year after year, sorry, you're not going to be a conservative newspaper very long.
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I hope Rex Murphy and Conrad Black live to be 120,
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but the National Post is doomed by its own hiring decisions.
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That all said, it's a long preamble, but I have to give that Trudeau bailout newspaper credit today
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because the National Post actually nailed it today.
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CBC's brainstorm of first world problems is to blindside everyday English by savaging us as intolerant
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if we use a blacklist of allegedly tone-deaf words that we shouldn't grandfather into the lexicon.
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Now, that's a bit of a weird sentence, isn't it?
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It's like, you know that phrase, the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog?
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That's a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet.
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So, it's fun and it's to practice typing, right?
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Well, that weird sentence on the front page of the National Post, as you can sort of tell in red,
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uses 10 of the 18 words the CBC says should be banned.
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Have you ever casually used the terms spirit animal, first world problem, or spooky?
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It might be time to rethink your use of these phrases and remove them from your daily lingo.
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I swear I thought that was a joke, something from a satirical website like the Babylon Bee.
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But how depressing to see the reactions to that tweet.
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All the CBC journalists across the country started saying,
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I mean, here's Trudeau's CBC propagandist assigned to Saskatchewan.
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Yeah, Stephanie, this might be one of those things that you leave for the Toronto office.
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There might be some really hip cafes in downtown Toronto near the CBC headquarters
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where only triple-vaxxed people go and they're required to sip their coffees through a mask.
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Where this kind of thinking is normal, Stephanie, I don't think it's going to fly in Tisdale.
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Great work here by Priskesh, highlighting an important truth.
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They don't actually say anything other than the headline, words and phrases you may want to think twice about using.
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But this is the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
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This is a government agency that prosecutes people for hurting feelings.
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So obviously they're really excited about a new thing to get offended about.
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Historical, cultural context important for phrases like grandfathered in and spirit animal.
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And her biography, I'll just read this before reading the article, says,
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Priscilla Kisun Huang is a reporter with CBC News based in Ottawa.
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She's worked with the investigative unit, CBC Toronto and CBC North in Yellowknife, White Horse and Iqaluit.
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She is a master of journalism from Carleton University.
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Doesn't she know the word master was the word used for people who had slaves?
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Yesterday we talked about how people who come to Canada, come to America, sometimes come for freedom.
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And sometimes just come because it's better, perhaps financially, than where they came from.
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I think Priscilla was born in Canada, but she is of Korean heritage.
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The nation is cut in half, where the north half of Korea is under totalitarian Orwellian slavery.
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It is calling for word police and thought police.
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It makes me terribly sad that a Korean Canadian is doing that.
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It would be like if a Soviet emigrated Canada or America.
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Maybe they were in the gulag if the kids became enthralled with Marxism at University of Canada
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and started becoming word police tyrants like back in Stalin's day.
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Have you ever casually used the terms spirit animal, first world problem, or spooky?
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It might be time to rethink your use of these phrases and remove them from your daily lingo.
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CBC Ottawa compiled a small list of words submitted by readers and some of our journalists who are black, indigenous, and people of color.
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So there's no more racism towards, say, the Irish or Italians or Jews.
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Were they allowed to make contributions to this list, too?
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I mean, I didn't know when I was young that the word paddy wagon is derogatory towards the Irish.
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since a quick search of their website shows 22 articles where they use that slur.
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But of course, just white Irishmen, who cares about them?
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The word redneck can sometimes be used by people to describe themselves,
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like when black people use the N-word themselves to take ownership of it, take the power away.
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Here's nearly 200 hits on the CBC's website of the term redneck.
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And no, when Trudeau's state broadcaster publishes that word from Toronto,
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By the way, this is what they do in Ottawa's CBC.
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often by health bureaucrats no one's ever heard of before.
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There are one or two stories that you might think, oh, I don't know,
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CBC's that reporters at CBC News in Ottawa would care about if they're in the news business.
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But while the world burns outside their window, they're busy making lists of words they don't like.
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Apparently some experts got involved because, you know, there's experts and hurt feelings.
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We ran some of the words by anti-racism and language experts who said some of these phrases can be hurtful to various groups of people for their historical and cultural context.
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Someone whose job is to spread division and hatred and bickering and foster disunity and to train new immigrants to Canada to think that we are an unwelcoming place even though we just welcome them.
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Being an English speaker doesn't entail that you necessarily know the racist etymology automatically, said A.E. Taniguchi, a linguist and an associate language studies professor with the University of Toronto, Mississauga, in an email to CBC.
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Etymology is the study of the origins of words and the way their meanings change over time.
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The fact that you said it, oblivious to the etymology, doesn't automatically make you a bad person.
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What you do once you find out a word is racist, sexist, or ableist etymology carries more importance, she explained.
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She's here to tell you that you aren't necessarily racist, sexist, or ableist, but if you don't immediately agree with her to stop using words she doesn't like after she tells you what she thinks they mean, you will turn into a racist, sexist, or ableist.
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It's like the five-second rule when you drop food on the ground.
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Well, you've got five seconds to stop saying words she doesn't like or then you'll be a racist, sexist, ableist.
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I found her Twitter account pretty quickly, though.
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It's sort of what you'd expect someone with her pronouns in her bio, who tweets pictures about knitting for her cats.
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But I noticed that she immigrated to Canada and she actually grew up in Japan.
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Now, I've got to tell you, I really like Japan.
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But I don't think it's really controversial to say that it's, I'm sorry, it's pretty racist.
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It has an ethnic superiority complex towards many people, including other people in Asia.
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I don't think I'm being mean by observing that.
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I'm not going to even get into the rape of Nanking or anything horrific or the supremacism that launched Japan into a terrible war.
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Like I say, I truly admire Japan, but it's just a bit much for someone who came to Canada from a 99.9% racially homogenous country that literally accepted 47 refugees last year.
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And it's just a bit much for someone from Japan to come here to tell us we're racist when we say the word blacklist.
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I'm picking on her for being a total bloody hypocrite.
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I mean, they have a superiority complex over there in Japan.
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She feels quite at home lecturing Canadians about our racism.
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Perhaps it's because she feels an ethnic superiority to us.
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But she says I'm sexist for saying the word grandfathered or whatever.
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And, hey, even if you think they're crazy, there's a lot more of them.
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And if somebody really calls us out on a particular word, we need to stop and say,
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it's not about me, said Kara, who runs Ottawa-based Jaskara Consulting and coaches people and
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She's all for inclusion except for language and people she doesn't like.
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Let me quote, blackmail, blacklist, and black sheep.
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The issue here is that these are all negative terms, said Joseph Smith, an anti-racism trainer
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It connotes evil, distrust, lack of intelligence, ignorance, a lack of beauty, the absence of
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This lowering of blackness on the spectrum with regards to value was developed further
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That's its color because it absorbs all the light.
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You know what we call someone who thinks black is negative?
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It reminds me of this wonderful sketch by comedian Ryan Long.
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When me and Brad first met, I didn't think we'd get along, but it turns out we kind of
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Your racial identity is the most important thing.
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Everything should be looked at through the lens of race.
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We both have a lot of opinions about people of color, even though we barely know any.
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I say colored people, but as long as we're classifying them, we both think minorities
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are a united group who think the same and act the same.
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I just think we should roll back discrimination law so we can hire based on race again.
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White actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters.
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All I said is that black men who date white women have internalized racism, and white men
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White people should be making white foods, like cramped macaroni and cheese.
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I mean, I've been pushing for segregation forever, and my man does what?
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I created an improv comedy show exclusively for ethnic people.
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On my birthday, white people need to stop wearing dreadlocks, and they need to stop appropriating
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Shaved heads and country music, the way God intended.
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Even if you have a black wife or a black friend group, you're still really racist.
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You know we just kicked a guy out of the organization for having a black girlfriend?
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But if you can promise me he's still really racist, we'll consider letting him back in.
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Black people should only shop at black businesses.
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I guess the only thing we really disagree about is I think white people are the root of all
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If we can narrow that down to a certain group of tiny-headed white people, I think we can
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Technically, I don't consider Jewish people white because-
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This article on the CBC goes on and on and on and on and on.
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People have slowly moved away from using the term third world to describe low-income countries,
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But the phrase first world problem is still used to convey that something is an issue only
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to those who live in a country with privilege and wealth.
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When we're saying first world, we're putting them at the top.
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Why do we have to use these prefixes, which kind of dehumanize some country or some human
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No, it's a sign that you're too rich and too privileged and too pampered, and you have
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a fake job as a diversity coach, and you have such luxury and such ease in your life
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that you can spend time talking about things like this, that you can actually get a degree
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in this, that you can get a job with the state broadcaster in their news department, and
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instead of reporting news as your country burns down, you and your friends can come up
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with fake problems in the freest, least racist country in the world.
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I love that these pampered academics claim that they care about classism, as if they
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would even tolerate for one second a genuine working class person of any race.
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And I don't mean a bar where they charge $20 for a gin and tonic.
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You know, real people use words like blacksmith and manitoba.
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I know that it's, look at the bottom there, it's part of a series called Being Black in
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And who better to tell us what it's like to be black in Canada than a Korean-Canadian
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academic interviewing a Japanese immigrant academic.
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That's really speaking to the streets of the inner city, isn't it?
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Ghettos and inner cities were typically seen to be places where less refined people lived,
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the people who weren't up to date culturally, development-wise, he said.
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It actually just means the inner city, which is different from the suburbs.
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The inner city is where apartments and condos are.
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The burbs are often where houses with yards are.
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So single people, poor people, young people are in the inner city, including many new immigrants
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If you won't even say inner city, you probably won't fix the problems of the inner city.
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You know, I remember talking to a wonderful professor of English from, I think it was
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And he was a black man himself, an accomplished author, award-winning.
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And he was talking to me about calls to ban the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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because there are some words in there that are today considered unacceptably racist.
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I know that's surely true about one of the greatest pro-black books of all time,
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It's an anti-slavery book that sold so many copies.
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It sold 300,000 copies in the United States when that country just had 30 million people.
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So many people read that book that when Abraham Lincoln met the author, a woman named Harriet
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Beecher Stowe, he said to her, I think I've told you this before, he said, so this is the
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It's talking about the Civil War because this book galvanized people against slavery.
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And that book helped emancipate the slaves, Ask Abraham Lincoln.
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But that professor, we were talking about whether the right word was black or African-American
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or Afro-American or person of color or colored person.
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And he said, I remember, I got to try and find that old video.
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But if you don't actually fix any of the problems affecting black Americans, you're nothing but
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They want to sow the seeds of racism and division.
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If Canada were a racist hotbed, people wouldn't be streaming here in record, unrelenting numbers,
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I admit there are some racists, like our blackface prime ministers, true.
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These hucksters at the CBC, including people who come here from truly awful places, but then
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But one of the tools of the madness and the control isn't just the TV screens that watched
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It's not just the informants that ratted on you.
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They called it new speak that replaced English, that removes words from the language so you
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By 2050, earlier probably, all real knowledge of old speak, that's what they call it English,
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The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed.
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Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, they'll exist only in new speak versions.
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Not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used
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How could you have a slogan like, freedom is slavery, when the concept of freedom has
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The whole climate of thought will be different.
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As we understand it now, orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
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So yeah, I got to tell you, I'm not going to stop saying words because some Trudeau racist
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A massive crowd in Rome, Italy, in the Circus Maximus, a place where people have gone for
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However, the New York Times, their man in Rome, he summed it up this way, protests against
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If that was a fizzle, I can only imagine what it takes to impress the New York Times.
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But I think they're more about shaping the opinion of its readers rather than informing
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We're happy to go live to Rome via Skype to talk to Brie Dale, who writes for the Epoch
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Brie, I'm glad you're there to tell the other side of the story because if one were to rely
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on the mainstream media or what I sometimes call the media party, I think they're more
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interested in the narrative than actually reporting on things.
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How is the population of Italy responding to their vaccine mandates?
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Can you tell our viewers a little bit, first of all, how many protesters and what is their
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And second of all, what are they protesting against?
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What is the vaccine passport, which they call the, I guess, the green pass over there?
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So Ezra, you know, that particular protest, Italian news sources have said that over 4,000
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And, you know, what's incredible is to see that despite protests up and down in Italy,
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despite massive protests, because of really green pass mandates, vaccination mandates throughout
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Italy, including for working spaces, for medical professionals, for the military,
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for police, and even to be able to enter a restaurant, a gym, a place of worship, these
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things are being essential now to being able to have this freedom.
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Even people who have received the vaccination are now saying that this is not fair.
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And, Ezra, part of that reason is simply because the universal health care here in Italy was
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And so many people who wanted the vaccine were not able to get the vaccine before mandates
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started this past year, including the green pass, Ezra.
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Now, you were telling me before we turn on the camera that even the poor are not allowed on
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So if you don't have a car, and, you know, not everyone does, and if the most marginalized
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people, they have to either get jabbed, they're forced to, or they have to pay some sort of
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So this new mandate that has just come out, which is called the super green pass, it will
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be done in the 6th of December, I believe, indicates that unless you are either having
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the vaccine or you've had COVID and how they have that ability and that knowledge is that,
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again, universal health care, the government has access to those records and that those
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And so if people have not received the vaccine or who haven't had COVID, and this includes
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now, you know, it was with the original green pass, you had the ability to get the nasal
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swab test within 72 hours and have a green pass.
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Now it's no longer the case with the super green pass.
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You're not going to be able to access a lot of this mass transit.
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What that does to the poor is it marginalizes them.
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Again, many people simply haven't had the access to get their vaccines, even though this is
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We did see a video of a woman, an elderly woman, a few months ago trying to access a hospital.
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She had yet to receive her vaccine and she was not permitted to go into the hospital, Ezra.
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So we are seeing this pushback by people who have the vaccine saying, look, we should still
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have the rights to our own bodies and we should have the right to be able to work.
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You know, I find it incredible that Austria in particular has gone so far down the road
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And I'm not comparing Austrians today to the Nazis of 80 years ago, but it was there that
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That was the episode that's where Hitler was born.
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And it was in reaction to some of the horrific crimes of the Nazis that the so-called Nuremberg
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And that's where we developed the ideas of free and informed consent before you engage
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And it's shocking to me to see Austria revert to forced jabs.
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But more than that, the police type enforcement of demanding people show their papers, of literally
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And I mean, maybe it's because I'm over here in North America.
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It just looks so like if you were to write that as a Hollywood script, the the agent would
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You would never have fascism come back in Austria.
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And I feel the same way when you describe certain things in Italy.
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Italy, 80 years ago, had a fascist leader, too, Mussolini.
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And he was not he did not reach the depths of depravity of the Nazis, thank God.
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But but this authoritarian instinct to see it come back in Italy, Austria, Germany, I find
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And does no one else see the historical parallels?
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Uh, the Stasi has been, um, has been referenced a few times.
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Um, you know, one of one of the big issues of the propaganda and and people are seeing it
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But really, social media has really kept this alive.
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And, um, you know, it's not just Austria, it's Germany that has now also taken up, um, this,
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uh, draconian and draconian measures, you know, and and we're seeing this also being proposed
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Um, but people are pushing back Ezra and, um, you know, it just, it just reminds us, uh,
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that, uh, when you provide power to the government, um, because of fear, uh, it's very hard to get
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that power back, um, unless people in mass, uh, call for it.
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So we are seeing that happen throughout Italy, uh, and we've seen it now happen in Germany
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and Austria is where, uh, as well as people are, people are rising up and they're not
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anti-vaxxers that should, that should be made note.
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Very few are, um, they are anti-mandate and government overreach.
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I referred to the New York times earlier, um, that same article referred to the anti forced,
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uh, anti, uh, COVID pass, anti, uh, mandate people as the neo-fascists, uh, which I think
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I mean, the people forcing medical procedures using the power of the state.
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I mean, I, I don't know if I would call them neo-fascists just yet, but imagine calling
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the civil libertarians against that neo-fascists.
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I sense it in the United States, a lot of people are just getting tired of it.
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And there's, I think America is falling into two real different camps.
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You have the, the states that love being free, Texas, Florida, you know, college football
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So you have people who are clearly saying we're done.
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And then you have other jurisdictions in America where they seem to love masks.
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They can hardly wait to get their kids, but at least there's another side of the
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How is Europe is, is it a monolithic group think, or are there people, not just political
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activists, but normal people saying, no, we're done with this now.
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Clearly it looks like people are, are getting tired of fear mongering.
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It does seem that people still want to hold their, their representatives accountable, where
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it does seem more like the, the, those who are in leadership positions in Europe think
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Um, you know, one of the things, Ezra, that I was talking with a bar owner today, whose
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bar is going to have to be closed due to mandates for Christmas and the first of the year.
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Um, you know, they have looked to the United States as, uh, for the last few years in leadership.
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And, um, they have said, where is the United States in, in ending all of this?
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This is, you know, 15 days to slow the spread has now gone to 88 months.
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Um, you know, what are, what are we supposed to do with this?
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And, and so they are, they're calling, they're looking to the United States for the leadership
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and they're seeing the, um, the, the data coming out of the free state, such as in Florida.
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Hmm. Well, it's incredible. And I certainly hope Italy remains free. Brie Dale of the Epoch
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Times. Great to see you again. Thanks for your time tonight.
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Hey, welcome back to your viewer feedback. Alfonso Liberty says,
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Well, I hope so. Um, you know, February is not too far away. I know there are some alternatives
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out there, but they haven't really caught on in a ferocious way. And here's what's on my mind about
00:35:55.040
that. Part of the fun of being on Twitter or Facebook is that you're in the grand marketplace
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of ideas, the public square. You're not off in a corner to use a banned word from the CBC. You're
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not off in a ghetto. You're not just recirculating your ideas amongst your own echo chamber. You're
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engaging with the other side. There's debates. That's what's sort of fun about it and dangerous
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about Twitter is the banter, the trolling each other, the flame wars, as they're called.
00:36:27.300
So I think that Trump's social media site will be every Trumpist, every pro-Trump activist in America
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and a lot of leftist reporters joining just to see any offensive comments and putting that on Trump.
00:36:43.500
You're not going to get non-Trump people in there. You're not going to certainly get liberals or leftists
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in there other than as trolls. So, I mean, sure, it's good if you're marketing things,
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marketing things, let's say, to people on the right, but it's not that true national conversation
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where you have different points of view. That's why it would make me sad if we would be sacked from
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YouTube and sacked from Twitter altogether, because I do want to talk to people who aren't on my side
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already. I want to try and convince them. It's just a shame that Twitter, YouTube, Facebook,
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et cetera, are pushing us off. We're not leaving on our own. Mark Lozen said, gone from made in China
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to owned by China. Isn't that the truth? There's, you know, that could be applying to half the stories
00:37:32.140
we talk about these days. Very frustrating. Judy 101 says, prior to COVID, you've always heard of
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foreign investment was a good thing, yet everyone was warned this was the process of selling off
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our natural resources and country. This was all predicted and ignored. Well, we're so reliant on
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China for so many things, especially for certain minerals, but really one of the things that struck
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me was that 90% of our pharmaceuticals are actually manufactured in China. Did you know that?
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Odds are, if you're taking a medicine, a pill, even a vitamin, it is made in China.
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That could be a quality control issue, but I think it's more a strategic issue.
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Do you really want your sworn military geopolitical enemy to have control of essential industries like
00:38:25.140
that? Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with
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a video by Tamara Ugolini. Hundreds of Canadians gathering for an underground prohibition speakeasy
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style COVID science conference in the greater Toronto area. This is what we've come to, folks. Take a look.
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I'm Tamara Ugolini for Rebel News. And adjacent to me, there is a private panelist discussion
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taking place here at an undisclosed location in the greater Toronto area. The privacy of the venue,
00:39:03.780
all attendees, including some of the academics that comprise of the panelists, well, their privacy
00:39:10.280
is being upheld. And so I am not able to bring you the full scope of the event that's happening
00:39:15.400
here at this location today. All attendees have been instructed to turn off their GPS, put their
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their phones on airplane mode, or better yet, turn their phones off completely. And there is to be
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no posting on social media, either before, during, or after the event. There are plain closed police and
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private security ensuring the physical safety of everyone present here today. And the whole thing
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is really just straight up prohibition style. That's the reality that we are living here in Canada
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as critical thinkers in 2021. What this event is about is questioning the narrative, sharing
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evidence-based research, advocating for our right to body sovereignty, and the right to be free from
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non-consensual medical treatment. But overall, it's also to connect. It's to show people in real time,
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in person, that they are not alone in questioning, just questioning,
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and listening to your intuition that something doesn't seem right here, that the government's
00:40:23.820
response to the pandemic isn't adding up. The state of emergency is in question, and the ethical
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violations that have come as a result of rolling lockdowns and knee-jerk reactions, despite mounting
00:40:37.600
evidence showing their harms. This event is intended to bring people hope, to know that there are others
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like you out there that want to connect in-person, unmasked, and not socially distanced. Topics of
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discussion ranged from dissection of legalese around the Charter of Rights, the Bill of Rights,
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and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Other speakers included medical professionals and
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academics that have lost their jobs due to alleged non-compliance with indiscriminate and
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unconstitutional mandates. One epidemiologist with former experience at the Public Health Agency of
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Canada, he spoke of the five pillars of outbreak response, and how that's been ignored, and the
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general collaboration of esteemed individuals and the general population. They're working to create new
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institutions and innovative systems of education, healthcare, and information sharing, because it's
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becoming clearer and clearer that we're not going to change or come back from the narrative that is
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being imposed on us without our consent. You know that new normal that everyone talks about? So what
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the people at this conference and in this room behind me today are doing is connecting to move forward out
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of this grotesque mess without using a risky experimentally rushed drug. They're doing it in a way that's
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inclusive, utilizes evidence-based best practices, is open and transparent, with debate and information
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sharing. Because if not you, then who? And if not now, then when? For Rebel News, I'm Tamara Ugolini.
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I traveled in inclement weather for three hours both ways to attend this five-hour event with my nursing
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eight-month-old. This is the kind of on-the-ground reporting that you won't find anywhere else. To
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