If not one person in PEI has the virus, why are they — and most of Canada — still under lockdown？
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Prince Edward Island has not a single case of the Ebola virus, and no one has died from it. So why is the whole province still on lockdown? And why should we care? Today's show is all about why we should care.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you on a journey across Canada, starting with Prince Edward Island,
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which has not a single case of the virus and not a single person passed away.
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Good for them. So why are they still on lockdown?
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We talk about Newfoundland and Saskatchewan and Manitoba and Ontario.
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We go across this great land and I say, why are we still on lockdown?
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And I give you the data to prove we shouldn't be. I think you'll like the show.
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It's better in video format, though, and I say that because we show a lot of graphs.
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I got a lot of graphs for you today, all of them provided by the government,
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showing we can flatten that curve. There is no curve anymore to flatten.
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You can get the video version of the podcast by going to rebelnews.com,
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paying eight bucks a month for the Rebel News Plus.
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That's what we call the video version of this podcast plus Sheila Gunn-Reed show.
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and David Menzies show. So think about it. Eight bucks a month.
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I hope you do. Okay, here's the podcast version.
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Tonight, if there's not a single person in Prince Edward Island with the virus,
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It's June 17th. This is the S World Advantage Show.
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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
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Prince Edward Island, like any small island, is a good place to be if a pandemic breaks out.
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It isn't a global hub with an international airport like Toronto or Vancouver.
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So as long as you can stop people from coming onto your island, you're set.
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It's a small place, too, to begin with, just about 150,000 people.
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You know, Taiwan is an island, too, but with more than 23 million people on it.
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You know, last year, 14 million passengers flew between Taipei, the capital of Taiwan,
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So pretty much the opposite of PEI in terms of being an international hub, right?
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And yet Taiwan managed to avoid the virus almost completely also.
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They had a grand total of just seven deaths from the virus.
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They never shut down their entire society because they didn't trust the garbage advice
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They were kicked out of the World Health Organization by Communist China that hates Taiwan.
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So they put in tough quarantines for people flying into Taiwan from China, but they let
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They quarantined the sick and the risky, and they let everyone else go about their lives.
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Taiwan's sort of crowded, certainly more than Prince Edward Island.
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The idea of social distancing doesn't really work there.
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So they wear masks, clean, inexpensive masks made in Taiwan, not junky, cheap, worthless masks
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Anyways, I tell you that to point out the borders work, and that even a country is integrated
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They just ignored the World Health Organization, and they focused on people at risk.
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Unlike our foolish governments here that have cracked down on moms at the playground.
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No huge international airport connected directly to Hong Kong and Shanghai and the like.
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Here is the simple one-page virus details status page for the province.
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A grand total of 27 people got the cough, but all of them got better.
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You really can't make a lot of charts and graphs with just 27 little points.
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And they're almost running out of things to talk about, aren't they?
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27 people got sick, they all got better, no one died, and there is currently not a single
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But look what their official public health predictions were just two months ago.
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Here's their April modeling done by all the smartest people they could find.
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Best-case scenario of 120 people in the hospital and a worst-case scenario of 14,000 people in the hospital.
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On page 14, they predicted as many as 900 deaths from the disease, and certainly no less than
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They put a ban on outsiders, by which they mean fellow Canadians from other provinces.
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People at a bar have to sit six feet away from each other.
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No more than six people at a dinner table together, even on a patio.
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And my favorite, music volume should be kept low.
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They're still banning any indoor gatherings of 15 people or more, even banning 20 people
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This would apply to personal gatherings, large families having visitors or playing frisbee
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in the park, and organized gatherings such as worship services, organized sports and
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recreation, day camps, events including weddings, funerals, burials, and graduations.
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So I say again, just in case you didn't hear me, there is not a single person on the entire
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But you can't have a funeral with more than 20 people at it.
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And if you're in a church service, so it's indoors, lower that number to 15 people if
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I guess 16 people if you include the recently departed.
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You are hiding under the bed, but the monster is gone and the lights are turned on.
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The monster was never even there, but you literally have an army of bureaucrats checking how loud
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the music is in restaurants, bringing a tape measure to bars, going to churches to threaten
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It actually isn't over because that implies it was here to begin with.
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The same number of people died in PEI from Ebola.
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Same number of people died from the bubonic plague, died from leprosy, as in no one did.
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But they're still living like they're in a bomb shelter.
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Again, the data also shows no individuals in hospital or intensive care.
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Five active cases and 292 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19, and the number
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So, in Manitoba, almost ten times the population of PEI, they did have seven people pass away,
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But there are only five people in the whole province who have the virus now, and none
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The entire province is still on lockdown, though.
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It has various European countries transposed over the map of Canada.
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Not even most Manitobans really know how huge it is, because they're mainly in the city of
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Winnipeg, and they don't venture to the farthest flung regions of that massive province.
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Imagine the entire province still being on lockdown, because five people are sick at home with
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There are three people in the hospital in that entire province.
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It's bigger than France or Spain or Japan or Germany by size.
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By the way, on their darkest day, back on May 8th, there were a grand total of 19 people
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The whole point was to flatten the curve, flatten the curve.
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It's three guys at home, and they're probably going to be fine.
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There is one active case in the entire province.
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They had a grand total of three people pass away across the province of 520,000 people.
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I don't want anyone to die, though I know that we all are going to die one day of something.
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It's not good to die from this virus or from anything else.
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But three people in a province of half a million is not a public health crisis.
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One of the nerve-wracking things about Newfoundland, if you ever go on their highways, is how many moose there are.
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There are more than 100,000 moose in Newfoundland, and they wander around, and they wander onto the roads.
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And every year, people die when they run into a moose because the moose's center of gravity is high enough that, you know,
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your car knocks out their legs, but their massive bodies just crash right through your front windscreen.
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This Newfoundland driver hits moose while looking at another driver who hit moose, and three other moose crashes.
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I won't read that story to you, but you get my point.
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I'm just trying to put things in a statistical perspective.
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Hitting a moose is a greater threat to Newfoundlanders than this virus.
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I'm going to call him Frank just because it seems a bit impersonal to describe one individual person in a statistic.
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So let's say Frank's at home in St. John's, just watching some TV and ordering in takeout and passing the time.
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So according to the government, the one guy who's at home in bed, he's in eastern region.
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You've got people in Cornerbrook and Gander and Twillingate in a lockdown.
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Because Frank might sneeze over there in St. John's at home or something.
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So here's what everyone in the whole province has to do until Frank gets better.
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Like I say, no one in PEI has the cough anymore.
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But in Newfoundland, where Frank is, there's gatherings, including funerals, burials, and weddings are expanded to, oh, 20 people.
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As long as physical distancing can be maintained, visitations are permitted with restrictions.
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Large playgrounds in municipal parks must not be used.
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Gym and fitness facilities, yoga studios, tennis and squash facilities, arenas, dance studios, and performance spaces remain closed.
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But the good news is he's finished Tiger King on Netflix and he's moving on to the new Marvel movie.
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Better not open any bars in a province literally built on sitting around a bar talking with friends.
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I can go through every single province the same way, including the biggest ones.
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Here's the information for the greater Toronto area.
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There's more than 6 million people in Canada's biggest city.
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Look at that graph called cases by episode date.
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Now, there's some delay in reporting statistics.
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But the numbers for the last four days have been 41, 25, 8, and 6.
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Look at this chart, which is actually more important.
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Number of COVID-19 cases that ever resulted in hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, intubation, and deaths by age groups.
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So that's actually really the chart that counts.
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And seven people between the ages of 40 and 49.
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So a grand total of nine people under the age of 50 have died in the greater Toronto area throughout this whole thing.
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No barbers, no gyms, no schools, no playgrounds.
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That didn't mean you wouldn't get sick, by the way.
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Flatten the curve just means, all those models I've shown you,
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so that the peak number of people who would need a hospital bed on the worst day would not exceed the number of hospital beds.
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That's why the U.S. Navy sailed a hospital ship to L.A. and New York, so they could take the overflow of patients, so that hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed.
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Those boats were never even used in province after province in Canada.
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The whole premise for the lockdown, which we were told would be two weeks, was to not overwhelm the hospitals.
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Bored nurses and doctors have taken to making little TikTok videos in empty hospital hallways,
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They can take credit for the low death toll, saying that it was their decisions that saved your life.
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By their own models, they clearly admit they have nothing to do with it.
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Public health officials love being able to treat Canadians as guinea pigs for their plans.
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Public health doctors are the authoritarians of the medical profession.
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The disgraced Theresa Tam says what so many of them secretly think.
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I think the public has to know this is one of the worst-case scenarios in terms of an infectious disease outbreak,
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If there are people who are non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.
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It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms, have police and other setups to ensure quarantine is undertaken.
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There's no medical reason for the country to be in shutdown.
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There is no medical reason for Parliament not to be sitting.
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There is no medical reason for why the civil service is still being paid but not working.
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There is no medical reason why working-class Canadians are being banned from earning a living.
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Oh, yeah, there's also no medical reason why Trudeau has ordered 37 million syringes for a rushed, hasty Bill Gates United Nations vaccine.
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Other than, they're listening to Theresa Tam, who works for the UN's World Health Organization.
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Yeah, there is devastation here and there is sickness here, but it is not caused by the virus.
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Well, the Conservative Party of Canada has its leadership race underway.
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It was paused, as so many things in life were, by the pandemic.
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And then it was put in reverse by the party itself that kicked out not one, but two or maybe even more of the candidates who were running for it.
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Just disqualifying people for some inside baseball reasons.
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Well, four people managed to get through the very odd leadership committee that really is hand-picking.
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But four have made it this far in the Hunger Games.
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And they will be debating tonight and tomorrow night.
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Bizarrely, but not surprisingly, neither the CBC nor the so-called private broadcaster Global News has decided to run these leadership debates for the Conservatives,
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even though they both ran the leadership debates for the Liberal Party.
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You'd think it would be an interesting political moment, especially for a political channel like CBC, but they don't really find it interesting.
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In fact, as you may recall, they're actually suing the Conservative Party.
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The CBC itself is suing the Conservative Party.
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Why would it cover the Conservative Party and give it positive press coverage for free?
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It's too busy covering Justin Trudeau's morning press conferences.
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Well, it's happening tonight en français and tomorrow in English.
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And tomorrow night, you can watch the live stream here at the Rebel.
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And I will be here and we'll have other Rebel personalities.
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And we'll sort of give you our play-by-play thoughts on the Conservative debate.
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We'll just be covering tomorrow's English language version.
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But joining us now from downtown Toronto, where the debates will be held, is our friend Kian Bexty.
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You're on the street talking to me via Skype from your phone.
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I can't help but notice that behind you is the Telltale building.
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I can make out the logo and their Telltale red cross windows there.
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They haven't hired you away from Rebel News, have they?
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You know, the Conservative debate was just placed directly across the street.
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I think the Conservative Party might have just wanted to make it super easy for the CBC to make sure they had all their cameras here.
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They have, and I shouldn't be too hard on them,
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and they have been quite nice and gracious and sort of accommodating myself and my cameraman, Efron,
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They even gave us our own little badge, Rebel Media, for the Conservative Party Leadership Convention here,
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They've been great, so I shouldn't be too hard on them.
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The only one person has been really upset that we've been here,
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He was running with his tail between his legs when we were asking very basic questions
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that we asked of every other candidate, but Peter McKay was just too scared to answer.
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Let's watch that Peter McKay clip, and then we'll come right back to you.
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We're just wondering if you could answer a few questions.
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You've been dodging us throughout this whole campaign.
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We're wondering if you could tell us, do you think the RCMP is systemically racist?
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Peter, could you tell us, is the RCMP systemically racist?
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Peter, on World Milk Day, you sort of giggled in a picture with you drinking milk.
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I'm wondering if you're just trying to recreate the failed policies.
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I'm just wondering, why are you trying to recreate the failed policies of Andrew Scheer?
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After the debate, yeah, I believe you're accredited.
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Peter, sorry, why are you trying to recreate failed policies of Andrew Scheer?
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Peter, why aren't you answering basic questions?
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I should tell you that Peter McKay, I saw it with my own eyes.
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In fact, you can see the background footage here.
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Our friend David Menzies accosted Peter McKay months ago.
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And McKay did promise a proper conversation with Rebel News.
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I mean, Kian, you can be tough and you can be a little bit of a bulldog.
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But if the leader of, if the would-be leader of the Conservative Party and the would-be Prime Minister of Canada can't handle a few questions from you, how is he going to stand up to Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin?
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I mean, and I don't even think your question was that surprising or that unfair.
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How is he going to stand up to Vladimir Putin and how is he going to stand up to Xi Jinping?
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But how is he going to be able to stand up to the CBC if he can't answer straightforward, not even gotcha questions from me.
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They were just very normal questions that viewers and party members want to know answers to.
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How is he going to respond to the CBC when they are aggressively twisting his words and manipulating the story and the narrative to make him look bad?
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He's just not going to be able to stand up to the media party if he cowers and runs like a scared dog when we ask him very basic questions.
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I mean, I think I understood why Andrew Scheer didn't talk to Rebel News.
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I think it's because I asked him too many prickly questions about his immigration policy.
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But more than that, he just didn't want Rosemary Barton to be mean to him.
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In the end, she was super mean to him throughout the campaign, including suing him.
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But as we just discussed, CBC can't even walk the one block from their head office to the debate to cover it.
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But I mean, there's better stories here than Peter McKay.
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Aaron O'Toole came out and greeted me by name, said, hello, Kian, how are you?
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And his answer was, I mean, as much as you could expect.
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Basically, the answer every conservative would have wanted.
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And the answer that Peter McKay could have easily given but decided not to.
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And actually, just an hour before we asked that question, he announced that he would label Antifa as a terrorist organization if he was prime minister.
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So he actually went a little bit of a step further, saying that he would never take a knee.
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And on top of that, he would label Antifa a terrorist organization.
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Leslie Lewis, though, she actually skipped the debate prep entirely.
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So we weren't actually able to ask her questions, the same question we asked everyone else.
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And we were told that she was studying at home.
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She preferred that over spending time in the studio.
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So hopefully we'll be able to hear from her later.
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Well, I'm encouraged that you had a conversation with Aaron O'Toole, because until today, he, too, has been avoiding rebel news.
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I look forward to seeing your full report on that.
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And from what you just said, you were pleased with the answer.
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And I suppose it is a small victory that you yourself have been accredited at the party event.
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You're wearing an official Conservative Party lanyard.
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From what you just said, I've got to admit they've been friendly to me.
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I'm very glad to hear it, because I thought it was an enormous strategic mistake by the Conservative Party itself,
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let alone for Andrew Scheer, to marginalize the leading independent media company in this country,
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It's just probably an 80% overlap, the second probably being the PPC party.
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So I take what you've said as a lot of good news today.
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Good news that you're on the scene, you're flying around again, the pandemic lockdown's sort of over.
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Good news in that you're getting to politicians and smoking them out.
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I mean, Peter McKay, if he can't take on you, he's not going to be able to take on his real opponents.
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Glad Derek Sloan, we've spoken to him several times, and it sounds like he has interesting things to say.
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I'm really pleased with what you've done so far, and the debates haven't even happened yet,
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We'll be watching closely to see how this debate turns out, how well they can speak French,
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I know lots of folks here in Ontario seem to care about whether or not a candidate speaks French.
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That seems to be what everyone is interested in right now,
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is how well they're going to be able to just communicate on a basic level.
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So we'll see, and of course, the reports will be sure to follow.
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And just to remind our viewers, the live stream tonight is en français,
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and tomorrow night they'll have the debates in English,
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and we'll be doing a live stream coverage of that.
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There are thousands of government journalists lurking.
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Now, a lot of them are working from home because they're worried about the Rona,
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but it wouldn't surprise me if just lurking around the corner
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is some government journalist who has a love-hate relationship with you.
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They're jealous that you have the freedom to be an independent reporter,
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and you can say what you want about the prime minister.
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So you might see some emotional outbursts there.
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You might see some sort of shrieking that you haven't been deplatformed yet.
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The one block around the CBC office is an extremely bad neighbourhood.
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Yeah, no, you know, I was excited to see that there was one journalist there
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So who knows if they're actually going to show up and cover this.
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I'm disappointed to hear that they're not carrying it live.
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because we will be carrying the English debate live,
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Yeah, it's a good point is why bother covering it.
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It's not like conservatives would tune into the CBC to watch it.
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All right, Kian, thanks for joining us via Skype.
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Be careful out there in the rough streets of Toronto,
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Boy, it makes me nervous him standing that close to CBC World Headquarters.
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But he's doing the job that the government journalists won't
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Trudeau is the only one who wants this worthless UN seat.
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Yeah, you know, I said before that I don't know
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if Trudeau actually wanted to be prime minister.
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I think he probably would have been a better fit
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like the lieutenant governor or lieutenant governor,
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where you just go around and cut ribbons and stuff.
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because we have valuable interests that we care about.
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pick up the white man's burden, Rudyard Kipling role.
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So I think there's a lot of anti-Western entities
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that would love to have a dupe like Trudeau in there.
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He's been pushing UN values as Canadian values for years.
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He denies we even have a distinct culture in Canada.
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and then there's the non-aligned in the third world
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it's Canada running against Ireland and Norway,
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would sort of stick together for freedom, democracy,
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are going to say, oh my God, we can infiltrate.
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because Trudeau will give it, it'll be an inside job.
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On my interview with Andrew Lawton, Sherry writes,
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into something else that I could not recognize any longer,
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we had three TV channels, one of which was the CBC.
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Even then, I could feel that condescending, sneering tone.
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a great captain of the Ticker World Head Borders,