EZRA LEVANT ｜ Where did those COVID rules come from？ Evidence that was 'limited in quantity and quality'
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In March and April of 2020, the Public Health Agency of Canada was pushing for the public to wear surgical masks to protect themselves from SARS-causing SARS. But when it came to public health, there was no evidence that masks were even needed. So what happened? And why did the government push for them?
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Oh, hey Rebels, bet you were expecting Ezra Levant, weren't you?
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However, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and I'm filling in for my boss today on the big show.
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Now, today, I have exclusive access to information documents to show you.
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They're from the Public Health Agency of Canada and they show the direct political meddling
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from the Federal Health Minister's office who intervened to make sure that the Public
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Health Agency of Canada was pushing for masking of the general public when the Public Health
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And in fact, they admit they had really no evidence to be doing this.
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And this kind of explains all that flip-flopping that Theresa Tam did on masks way back in March
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Then we're going to meet Rebels' newest reporter, Juan Mendoza-Diaz.
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And he just made a trip to the southern border to document the migrant crisis.
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And it is an absolute humanitarian crisis that's already unfolding.
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Now, please, enjoy this free audio-only version of Ezra's show.
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Tonight, shocking evidence in black and white that the Federal Health Minister's office
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politically influenced the Public Health Agency of Canada to promote face masking.
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Then, our newest rebel, Juan Mendoza-Diaz, on his trip to investigate the migrant crisis
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you are watching 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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You know, nobody really seems to know where the six-foot rule came from, that one that
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they used to stop the spread of COVID and you have to stand on stickers in the grocery
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store, while largely the same thing also goes with masks.
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It seems to be something somebody asked for once and then the TV doctors went all in.
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Mask mandates are all part of the political theatre that placates the TV-fed COVID hysteria
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of a certain hypochondriac subsection of the Canadian population, and it makes politicians
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and health bureaucrats who are making these rules seem like benevolent saviours taking steps
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But that's not just my well-formed theory after watching, oh, about two years of a patchwork
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quilt of COVID rules where mask mandate regions fared roughly the same as saner regions, which
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didn't force the public into paper and cloth face regalia.
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As this little-known analysis the government did on an earlier Danish study admits, look at
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this, the authors concluded that recommendations to wear surgical masks to supplement other public
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health measures did not significantly reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers
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by more than 50% in a community with a modest 2% infection rate beyond other public health
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Face masks likely offer little to no protection to the average wearer.
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You see, the people imposing the masks on us, they knew that too.
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And I can show you that in today's exclusive access to information documents from the Public
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Health Agency of Canada from April 2020, right as all that masking hysteria set in.
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These sorts of investigations are made possible through your support at our special website,
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So thank you to all of you who make this important work possible.
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Now, the fact that evidence never supported masking and the Public Health Agency knew it from
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the very beginning certainly explains all the flip-flopping done by Dr. Teresa Tam, the chief
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medical officer of health for the entire country and the one person tasked with making Canada
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She first went from no masks because you people just don't know how to use them on March 28th,
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2022, wear a mask if you're sick, but only if you're sick just three days later.
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Putting a mask on an asymptomatic person is not beneficial, obviously, if you're not infected.
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If you have close contact of a case and under certain circumstances, especially you'll also
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be in self-isolation, by the way, if you're close contact of a case and you also need to
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What we worry about is actually the potential negative aspects of wearing masks.
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To wear a mask all the time, to wear a mask during coitus, remember that, to you better wear
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a triple ply surgical mask if you want to breathe the air at all, to never take a mask off and get
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your 10th booster, no matter what anybody tells you to do.
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Anyway, let's get into these exclusive documents.
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Page one confirms the Minister of Health's office is directly involved in writing the
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Based on discussion this morning and comments received from the Minister's office, I have
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modified the document to make clear the community setting elements and the workplace relevant
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I don't think any content was removed, although some bits have been reworded, of course, over
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the past several versions with the Minister's office.
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Page 74, we can see the Public Health Agency just copying UK advice just because.
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We took a final review and added in language from UK references shared by Marina on masks
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Both commercially available and homemade cloth masks and medical masks can play a role.
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Face masks, including homemade cloth masks, can reduce viral transmission.
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Benefits of use increase where risk exposure is high and are marginal where it is low.
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We're paying these people a lot of money to just follow the leader while they were badgering
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Page 80 and 81, we see an email from Health Minister Patty Hajduz, Chief of Staff, further
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showing the political involvement in creating masking rules.
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Except, of course, the document is heavily redacted.
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Even they know there is little evidence that masks work, but they want them, so they just
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Evidence for non-medical masks is limited in quantity and quality.
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On page 91, they acknowledge masking kids is useless too.
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Regardless of mask type, children were less well protected.
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And that the benefits of cloth masks were insignificant against airborne viruses.
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Page 94, it's an email exchange with Dr. Theresa Tam.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada does not want to provide masking guidance, but is being
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The first email to Tam from a public health bureaucrat.
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Need to figure out if we are going to do something more than what's on our and Health Canada's
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There is a real appetite for us to do so to provide clarity, not just to the general
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We have no plans on providing guidance to the questions below.
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But it looks like Government of Canada and other government departments want us to provide
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further guidance for certain settings, for example, airport or federal employees who are
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unable to physically distance from others for a brief time.
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We also know that there is a discussion on mask use for essential service workers, for example,
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But in the end, Tam did capitulate to political pressure, didn't she?
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You see, Tam is a politician at this point, not a health officer.
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In fact, she earlier admitted there was very little evidence for masking the general public,
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So she did what was best for them, the politicians and not the public for whom she is supposed to
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Will we ever truly know the extent of how mishandled and political the pandemic was?
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We can't count on liberal appointed friendly judges to get to the bottom of anything.
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We're going to have to dig this up for ourselves.
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Now, I'm going to keep filing for access to information, but I need your help to do it.
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We rely on the support of the Canadian public to get this work done.
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So if you'd like to offset our investigation costs, please visit rebelinvestigates.com and
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the relevant documents I receive back, I'll be sure to publish them because they're your
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As Canadians working at a Canadian network, we focus a lot on the border crisis unfolding
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here in Canada, particularly at Quebec's Roxham Road.
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But the migrants illegally crossing into Canada at Roxham Road, they aren't originating in
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In fact, they're using the United States as a bit of a pass through before they get to
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And so to deal with the crisis where it's starting and to report on some of the major
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issues in the southern states, in Texas and in Florida, we've elicited a brand new reporter.
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We've got Juan Mendoza-Diaz, and he's our new reporter based in Florida, and he just came
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Juan, tell us a little bit about your trip to the border.
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As a Canadian, it was really shocking to see just the ecological carnage unfolding at
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I mean, where is the Sierra Club or Greenpeace or the environmentalists on this?
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We know they don't care about people, but maybe they could care about the land for a
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Well, I mean, a lot of the clothes that get left off there or items that just get littered,
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that's nothing new around the southern border since the border crisis started.
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I mean, that's just an Eagle Pass, one of the main crossing points that we've seen people
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I've been doing work covering the whole southern border from the Yuma sector to the Rio sector,
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which is where Eagle Pass is located, to the RGB sector.
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And you'll see similar stuff throughout the southern border where there's all these signs
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of people crossing illegally, and they'll drop off their wet clothes.
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And I mean, they just come in massive numbers that, I mean, it just creates an ecological disaster,
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Now, an Eagle Pass, there was a recent amount of crossings that have actually gone up there.
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And Houseman already leader Kevin McCarthy actually hosted a congressional delegation
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where many members of Congress in the United States went in to get more information from
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U.S. Border Patrol about how just the area is being impacted there because of the border
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crisis that has started since the Biden administration took office and essentially
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implemented their open borders policies, welcoming people or encouraging people to go through
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Right now, you're in Laredo, Texas, although you say it a little bit more fun than I do.
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So, tell me about the impact of illegal border crossing on these small Texas communities.
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Well, their main concern is just that, I mean, with all this, with all the increased amounts
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of illegal border crossings that's happening, the main problem is that they're concerned that
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I mean, human trafficking now is the most profitable thing that organized crime groups are having
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I mean, they're making about $15 to $16 million a day alone on human trafficking.
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And, I mean, a lot of that ends up just a lot of people that come into the United States,
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a lot of horrible things happen to them as they cross illegally.
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They get killed, they get extorted, and pretty much held hostage in a stash house while the
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human smugglers are trying to extort the family to pay more money or else they're going to kill
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So, my reporting, I mean, it's just shown that a lot of the people have been concerned because
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it can result in the increased crime or the increased power of organized crime groups that
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have been in the United States already for some time.
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But since the Biden administration took office, they've just been having a field day and just
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making a lot of money off of this just humanitarian crisis that has been started by President Biden's
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You know, you really did some great work from Eagle Pass.
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Congresswoman who said that Joe Biden is the cartel's best friend.
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There's, I mean, there's, you were encountering people crossing right there, right in front
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I mean, it's akin to something we see at the Canadian border.
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And many of those people do ultimately end up at the Canadian border.
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And I think that's where the Canadian interest in this story is.
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But it's also a human interest story in that I think an open border, I'm not coining this
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phrase, I've heard somebody say it, an open border is an inhumane border because it gives
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And it's, you know, again, I ask where the Sierra Club is, but where are the feminists
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when we see that women are being sold into sex trafficking by the cartels and being trafficked
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And you don't have a feminist anywhere to be seen advocating for these underprivileged
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And I mean, like I say, one of the biggest crimes I've seen that's happened with people
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crossing illegally is that a lot of the women, they get raped.
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And actually, these human smugglers, what they tend to do on lots of occasions that I've
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gotten photographs from from Border Patrol units that they show us that they tend to find
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what they call rape trees, which is what the cartel, they rape these women and then they
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hang their undergarments almost like a sick form of trophy for the sexual crimes that they
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But there's also another level here where this the open border is helping fuel the drug crisis
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I know that I think it was a Texas border guard.
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But as it turns out, the two people he drowned, gave his life going into the river to save were
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And those drugs are intended to poison people in American communities.
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I mean, like I said, it's not just the increase of illegal crossings from human trafficking
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Like you said, there's record high levels of all kinds of narcotics being trafficked through
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the U.S. border, especially fentanyl, which is being moved.
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And fentanyl has been one of the biggest killers for people in the United States.
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There's a fentanyl epidemic happening here in this country.
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Well, and unfortunately, I think it's your work and your reporting from the border.
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You're going to have to do a lot of it because as the Democrats wrestle with Title 42, repealing
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the law that basically prohibits people from coming into the country if they may pose a risk
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to the country because of a communicable disease, the Democrats are currently wrestling with
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And that is just going to cause a flood of people coming across the border because that
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really seems to be the only thing that's holding so many of them back.
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I mean, luckily, the federal court struck down the administration's order to repeal Title 42
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And I was talking with CBP units and even NGOs that were concerned that they would be overwhelmed
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once Title 42 would be repealed because they've already been seeing record numbers.
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Fiscal year 2022, there's already been over a million encounters of illegal migrants at the
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Yeah, and I mean, their fiscal year, it goes all the way to September 30th.
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And I mean, they're thinking it's going to surpass last year's, last fiscal year's amount
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And we're not even halfway through the year and it's already over a million.
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I just, it makes me concerned for American communities because these people end up somewhere
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Juan, tell us where people can support your work because I think your work is so important
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and it does have implications for Canadians, but also for just normal Americans.
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All of this impacts their communities, be it through human trafficking, sex trafficking,
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narcotics coming across the border, or the expectation that migrants have to be resettled
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and communities don't have the resources to deal with Biden's bad decisions.
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Well, definitely, you guys can support me through going through Rebel Media.
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And as well, if you guys want to get more, more looks at what my current updates with the
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border situation is when I'm on the ground, you can check me out on Instagram and Twitter
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I usually provide quick updates on my Twitter there.
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And I also post videos once I have all the reports done there as well on Instagram.
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And of course, like I said, you can go to rebelbordereports.com to be able to help us finance these trips.
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I know that, you know, you have some experience doing this.
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But boy, when you went to the border, you hit the ground running.
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You were catching migrants as they crossed the border.
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And I think you're going to be a very busy guy in the very near future.
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You know, I can't wait to see what Juan does next.
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And I think there's just so much news coming out of Texas with the border crisis
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and with Governor Abbott shipping the migrants up to Democrat-run cities.
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And in Florida, with Governor Ron DeSantis being the leading warrior in the culture war,
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but also I think he's sort of the leader of the conservative movement,
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not just in the United States, but I think kind of in the free world.
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And I know that Juan is probably going to have a very good problem
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in that he will probably wake up every single day not wondering,
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But how do I get to all the things that I want to do today?
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Because there's just so much news coming out of the southern states.
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And I know he's going to do a great job covering it.
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If you'd like to see and support Juan's work from the border,
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Now, this is a part of the show where Ezra reads his hate mail, fan mail, letters, queries, comments.
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So I will do that too, since I'm filling in and it's his show.
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These comments or letters are not directed at me and they do not reflect the opinions of your usual host.
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So I'll read a few of them and then wrap up the show.
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So the first letter is from Paul McCullough, who says,
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I don't trust any news media company that takes government handouts.
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I mean, how could you trust CBC's reporting of Justin Trudeau
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when they live and die on Justin Trudeau's affections for them?
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If he cuts the subsidies to them, then they have to experience layoffs.
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And so naturally, people are going to say nice things about the prime minister
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Now, luckily here at Rebel News, we are fiercely independent.
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We are really beholden to no one except the people who help us pay the bills
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And we know when you are interested in a story because we immediately hear from you,
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unlike the mainstream media who, you know, they're happy to take your money,
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Now, we also take tweets sometimes and read those too.
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I don't even know what tweets you're replying to,
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but producer Olivia assures me that this is a great comment.
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And Shanna Millett replies that the virus was here in the fall of 2019.
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I had the symptoms, loss of taste and smell, couldn't concentrate, and no energy.
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The doctor said it was a virus that mimicked as an allergy.
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You know, there is some evidence to the fact that the coronavirus was in North America
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But I think there's another issue at play here.
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You're just guessing about whether or not you had the coronavirus.
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And I know that at least here in Alberta, I don't know what it's like in the other provinces.
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You will have to continue guessing unless you are able to pay out of pocket
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And I did that for a time until I was able to take a T-cell test to see if I was naturally immune.
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The government doesn't want you to know if you're naturally immune to the virus
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That's the only way they've decided that we were to ever get out of the pandemic.
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Whether or not you needed that vaccine was not a concern.
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And I know for myself, I think for the antibody testing, it was close to $200.
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And the T-cell testing, that was, I think it was approaching $400 to get that testing.
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But if you try to get that test in Alberta, the government will block your doctor from ordering it.
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My kids refuse to take off their masks at school.
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I asked them why, assuming it was out of fear of COVID-19.
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Both answered succinctly, I just don't want people to see my face.
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Masking up now has become a result of social and identity anxiety
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There's a whole subsection of children who are just so scared
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by the things their teachers and the TV tell them,
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even though they don't have to wear them anymore.
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And there are other ones who have spent two full years of their formative years
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as forced agoraphobics, scared of crowds, scared of human contact,
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And it is my great worry that the damage done to a generation of youth may never be healed.
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And, you know, thankfully there were parents out there
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but so many just went along because it was the path of least resistance.
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On that dark note, that's the show for tonight.
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Thank you to everybody in the office who will ultimately put together
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I plan to send them into a watchable show for our viewers and subscribers at home.
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I think it'll be Ezra back in the chair tomorrow.
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And as Ezra says, I think I'll use his tagline today,
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pointing out the doomsday generators throughout Canada's legacy media parties.
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They have shared this outlandish new study from Global News to the National Post to CTV News
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that the unvaccinated are apparently the ones responsible
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for spreading COVID infection among the vaccinated.
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It's basically how you tell people that their vaccines don't work
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without outright telling them that their vaccines don't work.
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The main proponents of this hogwash is none other than
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Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Toronto's
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Dalai Lana School of Public Health, David Fissman.
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He is a now resigned member of the Ontario Science Table,
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who has declared conflicts of interest that came as ahead
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as early as January 2021 when he was found to be lobbying the government
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and simultaneously being paid by a massive teachers union,
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A few months later, he resigned from his position at the OST
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as his unnecessarily alarming model predictions became increasingly ignored
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some of his declared conflicts of interest with the OST included
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that he received direct funding from Pfizer, AstraZeneca,
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the Globe and Mail reported a direct quote from him
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that he hadn't hugged his kids since mid-March.
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Denying your children physical contact for over two months
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is basically a recipe for sociopathic behaviour.
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He contributes to more COVID collectivism under this direct quote
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that the conclusion is that public health is something you have to do collectively.
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a theory that was never scientifically possible,
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where he calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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called for an explicit goal of COVID elimination
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as though draconian measures could completely eradicate
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COVID zero extremists advocated for the devastation
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between Canadians making medical choices for themselves.
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was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal,
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The study sought to explore the impact of mixing
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and then developed a computer model to prove it.
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and is basically just a big pretend play simulation
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are dying at a greater rate than the unvaccinated
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when population is adjusted for per 100,000 people.
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This comes, yes, from an anonymous Twitter account,
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The first is the surveillance report on vaccine uptake
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for instance, on page four of that second report,
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those that receive the first dose of a two-dose series
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So if you are within 13 days of your first dose
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It's as though Fisman believes that the green line,
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that green line is apparently caused by the purple line,
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when they published this disgusting piece of print
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It's time to ignore these fraudulent science people