EZRA LEVANT ｜ Where oh where is Tammy Sepetis？
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A super-fan of cancel culture, cancels herself, and becomes the Queen of cancels. This week on The Ezra Lavent Show, David Menzies ( ) tells the tale of Tammy Sepatus, a crazy human resources lady from hell who has a bone to pick with freedom fighters.
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tonight a super fan of cancel culture cancels herself it's tuesday june 21st 2022
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i'm david menzies and this is the ezra lavent show
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where oh where is tammy sepatus who dat you ask well my bad her given name might be unfamiliar to
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many but most will likely know tammy sepatus by her nickname which is batshite crazy human resources
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lady from hell who has a bone to pick with freedom fighters the tammy sepatus story is all about
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someone who loves the idea of cancel culture she's perfectly fine with giving someone a economic
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death sentence for embracing wrong think hey diversity is our strength and all that
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just not a diversity of opinions mind you but alas and alack much like an o henry short story
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the tammy sepatus tale is full of irony with a twist ending to boot that's because this self-appointed
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queen of cancellation apparently ended up canceling herself now before i ramble on let's check out that
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infamous two minute slice of viral tiktok video evidence if you haven't seen it oh you're in for
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a treat and by the way as you view the self-inflicted carnage just ask yourself imagine working for a
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company in which miss sepatus heads up the human resources department there are some rights and
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freedom that would tell you that but since you seem to forget that and you're all loud and proud with
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your big thoughts and your big big ideas and you want to whatever and set up hot tubs in ottawa
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i'm a recruiter it's a small small small industry smaller than you think same with hr so if you're
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looking for a job or maybe trying to keep a job maybe just maybe think about what you're putting
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on social media again freedom fighters i know you're not really big with stats and you know facts aren't
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your thing you know but what i can tell you what is a fact is that recruiters talk and recruiters
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like the majority of canada don't agree with you do you know what that means do you have any guesses
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any guesses what that means what that means is that if you need a job you might not get one
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if you want to keep a job you might not get to do that and you know what else hr is good at
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documentation you know what that means you want to be we document it we give you a couple tries
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then what do we do we terminate you with cause if we're so lucky if not we give you the minimum
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allowed by law either way best of luck to you recruiters are watching hr is watching everywhere
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and we hate you we hate you so much and you think we can't do anything but we can we have the power
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always remember that doesn't matter if there's a man at the top of your hr department it's run by
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women and it's run by angry women just like me i'm so so glad i got that off my chest it's been
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eating me up inside and honestly my heart goes out to you guys i mean you have families to feed right
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you brought your kids to this big event you're freedom fighters you're standing up oh they will
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yourself yourself love you hmm that unhinged rant those wackadoodle eyes that demented demeanor
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it all reminds me of another loony lass oh yeah check it out you dirty bird how could you
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misery chastain cannot be dead misery spirit is still alive i don't want her spirit i want her
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and you murdered her of course the difference is that the kathy bates character in the 1990 film
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misery was fictional whereas tammy sapatis is a real life monster chiller horror theater character
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and good golly miss molly where does one even begin to unpack the insanity how would any company
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think that someone so unhinged would make for a qualified human resources director i wouldn't
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entrust this fruit loop to feed the fish in the office aquarium now i did reach out for tammy's side
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of the story well i tried in a way i wanted to play the role of tiger woods's deceased daddy and
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essentially ask her hey girl what in blue hell were you thinking tiger i am more prone to be inquisitive
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to promote discussion i want to find out what your thinking was i want to find out what your feelings are
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and did you learn anything you know folks i still can't believe that ad aired i mean the very idea of
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tiger woods departed dad lecturing him on his shenanigans from the great hereafter and was that
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ad like pre-recorded just in case nike's top spokes thingy ever got into some hot water and is this even
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an ad because i have no idea what nike is trying to sell here but i think the goal was to produce
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something profound and moving but to me it's cheesier than a bucket full of bulgarian feta
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and it made me lol because i think the best form of comedy is unintentional humor but still the zombie
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woods lecture to tiger woods does indeed apply to the curious case of miss separatist namely once again
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tammy what were you thinking posting that tick tock video in any event we spent some two weeks
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trying to track down tammy to get her side of the story i was really looking forward to that interview
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but me thinks tammy has removed herself from the grid maybe she's curled up in the fetal position
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in a jungle somewhere in costa rica i think that's where i would be and what i'd be doing
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if i were in her stilettos this much is known about her tammy took an hr course at truanto seneca
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college but the folks at seneca have no idea where she is employed right now i also got the idea from
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the nice lady who answered the phone at seneca college that they are getting deluged with calls
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about her so please don't pester the seneca people folks separatist might come across as a cancel
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culture monster but seneca is not dr frankenstein then we heard tammy was the hr person at bowringer
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ingelheim in burlington ontario i reached out to this company only to be informed that tammy departed
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this firm some three years ago no mention if she resigned or was fired i can offer a guess though
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by the way bowhanger ingelheim is a pharmaceutical company do you think they make a pill or a vaccine
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to cure tammy's condition whatever that condition might be as well a linkedin profile of separatist is
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now deleted wow what a surprise in the meantime the human resources professionals association
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stated the following in a tweet quote hrpa is aware of this video posted by one of its regulated members
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and does not condone or endorse in any way the statements made about hr practice therein
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further hrpa is reviewing this matter to determine if there has been a breach of its rules of professional
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conduct end quote so the human resources professionals association it issued that
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statement some two weeks ago and apparently it's still studying if that rant is a breach of professional
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conduct because the reader's digest translation of what tammy stated on tiktok is essentially this
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if i disagree with you or your politics or your ideology i shall do whatever i can to end your career
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oh and by the way psfu nice now one must wonder is this woman employable in the realm of human
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resources anymore tammy has made it abundantly clear that she does not judge people on their merits
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in the workplace rather like some fearsome bureaucrat plucked from orwell's 1984 tammy believes that
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whether an employee remains an employee has much to do with what they do on their free time or how they
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think or what causes they support hey big tammy is watching you sucker so smarten up and embrace her
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thoughts and ideas or else and now that her rant has been viewed by some three million people the world
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over an important question arises if tammy ever had a role in firing anyone in the past do you think
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maybe we are talking a wrongful termination lawsuit given what we now know about her today oh well i'm sure
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she'll show up somewhere i'm guessing at an alcoholics anonymous meeting in timbuktu in the meantime
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poor tammy in the department of perverse irony maybe she really should have taken her own heartfelt advice
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namely so if you're looking for a job or maybe trying to keep a job maybe just maybe think about what
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you're putting on social media indeed because as the saying goes folks the internet is forever you know
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normally i'd have a fair degree of sympathy for someone self-terminating his or her career but given
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what tammy separatist stands for and given her position of power well her old position of power that is
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it's hard to shed a tear she is the hunter who became the hunted she is an adherent of cancel culture
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only to apparently cancel herself with her own unhinged words hey i'm not saying tammy separatist is
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unemployable but while everybody loves a comeback story it is abundantly clear that she can't come
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back to her chosen vocation of human resources that tick tock video revealed what's lurking
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in tammy's warped mind and it's very ugly indeed
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well folks while the trucker freedom convoys received the lion's share of publicity when they
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descended upon ottawa and windsor there was also another trucker rally this one in little coots
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alberta and while it might have been smaller the story that was told is really quite profound and i'm
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delighted to be joined by my guest he is the producer of the documentary trucker rebellion the
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story of the coots blockade and that would be kian simone how you doing there kian good how are you
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david i'm doing great well you know what what a fantastic documentary um before we get into the
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nitty-gritty why don't we throw to a few scenes from that doc that is now playing across canada
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we're here for all auburns canadians we're here fighting for the freedoms of not us but our kids
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our grandkids the future of this province this country we are prepared to put everything on the line
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the small fringe minority of people who are on their way to ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views
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i've also received reports uh in the last hour of people allied with the protesters assaulting rcmp
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officers so jason kenny's statement was not true at the press release
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they have just blocked the border here in coots alberta to sweet grass montana
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we don't want to put anybody's livelihood in jeopardy that is the very last resort
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but this is something i don't well i've certainly never seen before freedom and peace and loving
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that's the canadian way it's not like cbc or any of these other mainstream news channels are making it out
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so there we have it you know kian why don't we talk about
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your narrative versus what we saw from the mainstream media and of course the various governments
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there was demonization there was vilification there was outright lying about crime and arson and
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vandalism the precise opposite was true what when you were there in coots over those very cold weeks
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observing this rebellion what how would you sum it up in the final analysis yeah so what you'll see
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in the documentary is actually it's uh in a span of nine days and the whole thing is actually carried
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through um from day one to day nine of statements from jason kenny and statements from the mainstream
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media of what they were saying so i would put their clip in of what they would say and then the next
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thing and then the and then the next thing coming up would be what actually happened so that's it's
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really it was it was they got demonized and they were called names they were there there was a
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statement that jason kenney made that um a trucker assaulted an rcmp officer and to this day that
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statement has not been retracted which was not true so this is a false statement and there's been no
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retraction of that yeah so the rcmp said the same thing at the top the the top dogs at the rcmp
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but the the lower guys there you'll see like they there was a a member of the of the protest who
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was speaking to the rcmp and the rcmp who was there when the supposed assault happened he never saw
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anything and he was supposedly the one to report that unbelievable in fact kian i seem to recall
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and correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't there a large piece of construction equipment that was
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deliberately vandalized by the rcmp yeah i believe it was three excavators um which it's funny when
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you tell a story but it's really not funny that it was on private property they went in without a
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warrant anyway it's a funny story because they were seen from the protest from the border and the cops
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went over to the owners and said can you move these can you move these out of the way they're like we
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don't want them to be used in the protest so the owner's like sure i'll move them out of the way
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and then after they got moved out of the way was when they got um sprayed uh foam sprayed by the rcmp
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so they really wanted to move the excavators out of the way of the site of other people so that they could
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break it that is despicable and i wonder if in the future there'll be some kind of a civil lawsuit
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against that because this is the police operating above the law and nobody is above the law that was
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absolutely like i said despicable but tell me i can't when you look at the rank and file truckers
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and their allies that were part of the coots blockade how would you describe these people
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sheila at the the previous screenings you've had for this documentary brings up a great point
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that it's not the judges it's not the lawyers it's not the teachers and it sure isn't the doctors
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who save the country who save the world who save uh culture or society when it's in turmoil it's the
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common person and that's who these truckers are and their ranking of of uh of of how they participate
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in society they're the ones that put food on our table they're the ones who who down in coots
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there's people with seven children nine children twelve children and they would bring them on the
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the last final days and these are regular people yeah right yeah being pushed to the brink and i i
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like what uh tucker carlson fox news said about truckers and it was simply this uh if you're alive
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you owe your life to a trucker they're the ones bringing groceries to the supermarket and they're the
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ones bringing uh uh pharmaceuticals to the drug stores um the idea that these people are vilified
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uh is absolutely uh perverse uh tell me too uh kian it this uh documentary has been playing at select
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cinemas uh sol sold right out standing room only um when you talk to people members of the audience that
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see your report what kind of feedback are you getting it's always uh and and i think it'll be
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different tonight as you know we play in toronto in edmonton i'm sorry in uh alberta as a whole i
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think it's it's so special to be able to bring it to them and because they got the the smear campaign
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from the mainstream media as well so all they have about what happened at coots was what i was able to
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get up on twitter because of our little um service that we had right so when they were able to come and
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they would see this documentary and they would see the actual whole nine days of what went on when
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the border was being blocked and unblocked and and the the the commotion that happened with the rcmp
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the negotiations and what these truckers like really went through they didn't just go there and protest
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stand around and drink beers at night and and hang around they they went through some cold cold days
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where it was minus 45 with 110 kilometer wind chill oh unbelievable yeah so so that's they would come
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up to me in our q a and and and sometimes the questions wouldn't be questions it would just be
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a thank you you know ken how do you respond to those critics of the trucker convoys they typically phrase
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their criticism along the lines of we we believe in the right to protest we believe in demonstrations
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etc but you don't have the right to uh occupy a street to uh close off a uh a bridge uh to another
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nation so on and so forth um why can't you just you know spend an hour or two driving around saying
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what you have to do and then go home how do you respond to these people well first of all i wouldn't
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listen to anybody who didn't go and second of all they have to look at the last two years which they
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have also and their families have also been impacted by and maybe they they view this they view it
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differently about how they feel about um the the virus and and how it affects them on a health basis
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but like i said before these are the people who put the food on our plates they need to put food on
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their plates too yeah so if you're gonna push them into a corner you're you're gonna get pushed back
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from the people who have families and and that's what it is it wasn't just truckers there was also
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my aunt yeah i think policies were making many of these people desperate losing their livelihoods
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their jobs their homes uh and when you lose all of that um what more can you do but make a profound
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statement yourself and given all the misery that led up to these various convoys um you know what's
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incredible key and i find is that they weren't violent it was like love i mean for goodness sakes
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i don't know many revolutions in world history where there was a hot tub and a bouncy castle
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on on the on the streets of the the capital um last word goes to you my friend when it comes up to
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summing up the trucker rebellion documentary well it's a it's a great project um it was it was an honor to
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be able to be there and be the only journalist myself and sydney fazard on the scene yeah before
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he was there for 16 days i was there for nine and this project that we're now sharing around the
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world i think is extremely important and and that's what we're uh we're gonna do around the country is
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we're gonna bring it we're gonna try to bring it to a hometown maybe your hometown if uh if anybody has
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a theater let us know and we'll bring it i i think everybody needs to see this on the big screen
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with the loudspeakers so you can hear the honking you need to see it how it was made
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what it was made for it was the big screen indeed well thanks so much for coming in all the way from
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calgary uh kian and there you have it folks trucker rebellion the story of the coots blockade uh check
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your local listings if it's coming to a town or city near you more of the ezreal event show coming up
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well folks plenty of feedback regarding ezreal events monologue on censorship and let's kick it off
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with a letter from construction cronies who writes diabetes obesity fentanyl inflation interest rates
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house pricing and they are going to after free speech way to go trudolf well you know what can i tell
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you my friend uh this is a man as i've said many times before some eight years ago in toronto before he
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was prime minister said he admired the basic dictatorship in china in terms of getting things done i always
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wondered what he meant by getting things done and i think now we know it's shutting down freedom of
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speech he would be just really at home in beijing these days wouldn't he in darkness rights in canada
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hate speech laws are secular versions of blasphemy laws plain and simple so who are the sacred cows
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and little gods well it's very clear it is anyone with a contrarian opinion to the trudeau singh regime
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those are on the wrong side of history and good thought well at least according to justin trudeau
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goger writes china is starting to admire canada's basic dictatorship
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gee that rings a bell why am i having a sense of deja vu right now well there we have it folks
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that's the ezreal event show for tonight ezreal will be back tomorrow in the meantime as always stay sane
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this is carrie diott in downtown edmonton where we're getting reaction to the formula one driver who
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said that what happens in alberta is a crime because you chop down a lot of trees and you
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basically destroy uh the place um just to extract oil these things shouldn't be allowed anymore and
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they shouldn't happen bear in mind this is a formula one driver you might be asking the wrong people yes
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i did hear about this actually and what do you think i think that he just isn't informed and he
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doesn't know about the oil sands we've spent countless years working up there and i think it's a
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lot more than what people realize and if they went up to the oil sands and they saw the reclamation
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projects and stuff like that they would have a different outlook but going off of what's just in
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the media they draw the wrong conclusions what do you think oh the same thing i like said we've been
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in the i've been in the oil industry for the last 20 years and i'm actually currently working up
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in the oil sands and his opinion is absolute hypocrisy because he's standing there with aramco
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on his jersey which is saudi arabian oil company so he's telling us to shut down the most ethical
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most environmentally regulated oil system in the world oil production system in the world but he's
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okay with blood oil where women can barely drive they still behead people and your hand get cuts off if
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you steal something it's ridiculous and the manner of doing it with the tar sands mining oil sands mining
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is horrible for for nature what information they're cherry picking is yes the oil companies up there they're
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still they're still doing open pit mining which looks terrible yes but they are those companies are bound
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by the government to reclaim everything so yes that pit gets dug but it also gets filled back in and
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they have to reclaim it to the original topography when they started mining it sir a very quick question
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for you did you hear about the formula one driver who said that uh it's basically a crime that we're
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developing the oil sands in alberta what do you think of that i never heard about it but i think
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it's a terrible thing to say why so well just because beneath the oil sands i think it's a hypocrite
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i think it does not know what he's talking about i think we all need it because uh hey technology hey
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alberta is number one and they they work hey at the same time see we actually live on this planes i
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uh uh the car drivers but you know carbon capture technology is also you know we are probably i think
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number one too so we are even man there's no when you're there man you know you say things that you
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don't know man you should come here see it then you will understand how many a jobs on the line
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and and and and and the safety you gotta have the safety tickets as well protected it's clean it's
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cleaner that you know the ones we know uh you see alberta university some of the best students come
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here i mean i love oil man i think he's kind of a hypocrite right he's driving a race car he's
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more gas than any other car in the world well that's nonsense unless he's driving an electric
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formula one car and that i gotta see i think it's very hypocritical i mean he's made a fortune driving
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a vehicle that's powered by uh fossil fuels so you know talk about the kettle calling the pot black
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well i mean if you don't live in this country and you don't know how we do things and i'm not sure if
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you should have opinion at all i think he's wrong like he's contradicting himself well i appreciate
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all in gas when he gets to minus 40 and he's a race car driver isn't that ironic i would think so
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eh and i don't know everyone's a critic and everyone wants to point fingers and such but i'm pretty
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thankful for a warm apartment i'm pretty thankful for the industry eh so everyone can be a critic all they
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want right but there's there's no substance to it right so i don't pay attention to that well uh
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i'm a big fan of the uh the montreal grand prix montreal is my hometown and it's the biggest
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sporting event in canada and i thought you know why go and tarnish it with this i mean it's based on
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misinformation it's it's misleading uh it it's unfair to you know resource producing provinces like
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alberta and saskatchewan it's just like you know stay he's a driver stay in your lane stay in your lane
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i think there's a lot of ignorance to that comment yeah stay in his lane how about that i don't pay
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attention to uh celebrities on political issues so that don't really mean anything we still need alberta
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oil don't we that's all i know for sure we still rely on it we still need it our province functions
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on it but so does the whole country so yeah i i don't know i don't weigh in on other people's uh opinions
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but i know what we need is albertans and i know that we need uh we need to still be on oil and
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it's not feasible to not be yet that's what i know for sure well i can see where he's coming from but
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for us to get our oil sands industry going that's something we need for the province to stimulate our
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economy first of all i stopped watching formula one it was the most exciting sport when damon hill
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and schumacher used to race and it became the most boring sport and he just rolled around
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in a procession so did i hear about it no yeah i guess well considering that this guy makes his
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living from oil and gas do you see the irony in that well the world is now divided into
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most people who i think are stupid that's just my humble opinion so
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so i had near most most of what people say so so we ran into a lot of opinionated people
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about the formula one driver who is critical of alberta's oil sands reporting from downtown edmonton i'm