New national poll： A lot of people love having their freedoms curtailed!
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A poll by Leger asked Canadians how they were feeling mentally during the lockdown, and the results are depressing. Only 20% of young people say they are in excellent mental health, and only 7% say they're very good.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through a poll by Leger, a pollster who asked Canadians
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how they're feeling mentally during the lockdown. I found the information very interesting,
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very sad. I'll go through about six of the slides from Leger, and it'll make you sad.
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I'm sorry it will, but you need to know it. Hey, let me invite you to become a subscriber
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and it helps keep us strong and independent. All right, here it is.
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Tonight, according to a national poll, a lot of people love having their freedoms curtailed.
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It's February 24th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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I really don't want to spend so much time on polls. I've shown you a few polls recently. Polls are useful
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in a political horse race. We love to hate pollsters, but they generally get it right.
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That's why it's depressing to see Aaron O'Toole, the new conservative leader, fall back. He had no
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honeymoon after his leadership win, and I have my theories why I've already told you them. But
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I want to show you a poll today that does talk about politicians, but it's really more about the
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pandemic. And I find the poll depressing. I apologize in advance. The poll was actually published three
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weeks ago, but I only read through it now. I'm certain that it's still accurate. Not much has changed
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in the last three weeks. Actually, one thing, and I'll get to that. But here's what it is.
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It's from Leger. Generally regarded as accurate. Here's the poll. It's the big North American tracking
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poll. There's a lot of stuff in there about the U.S. that I'm not going to get into because it's not
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relevant to my points today. But let's look at something very non-partisan, okay? Let's not look
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at elections or parties or leaders. Let's look at this. Mental health during the crisis. And people
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can rate themselves from excellent to very good to good to bad to very bad. And the news is terrible.
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The bottom three categories, oh, I'm good. I'm bad. I'm terrible. That's 69% of people.
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And look at the breakdowns. It's done by province, which is something that I think is interesting.
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But it's the age groups that I find the most interesting. Look at young people, 18 to 34.
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You can see some numbers are in red. Most are in black and some are in green. Black is sort of a
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normal number. Red is the lowest number in any category. And green is the highest. So just to
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explain what those colors mean. So you can see that only 20% of young people say they're in excellent
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mental health. Only 20%. Just 7% say they're very good. Those numbers are in the red because those
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numbers are the smallest of any age group. Now look at the other side. 39% say they're good. 30% say
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they're bad. 30%. And 8% say very bad. So 77% say they're in the bottom three levels. Now compare that
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to senior citizens, 55 plus, who seem to be doing great, which I wouldn't quite have expected. Only
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2% say they're very bad. Only 11% say they're bad. 38% say they're just peachy, excellent, or very good.
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What do you make of that? Well, I think that if you're in your 80s and 90s and in a senior's home,
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and maybe you have dementia or other serious illnesses, you're probably not answering pollsters'
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questions. But if you're 55 or 60, you might be retired anyway, so you're not worried about
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losing your job. You have no kids still in school, so you're not worried about kids not being in school.
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Your home is probably paid off, so you're not worried about making mortgage or rent payments.
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You're probably not starting up a business in your 50s or 60s. So really, the lockdown, no worries.
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But if you're 18 or 20 or 25, your school or your college is canceled, your job is probably
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canceled, retail, restaurants, whatever you're doing, you're more likely than someone in their
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80s to be going to the gym. Well, not now you're not. You might be single. We'll try dating in the
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era of lockdowns. Where would you go? You can't visit friends. You can't make friends. You're scolded
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and demonized. You can't even go to the park. That's terrible. Now, 21,000 people have died from
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COVID in the past year out of 37 million citizens. Average age of death, 82. Average number of
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comorbidities, three. But millions of young people are depressed, and it's getting worse because of the
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lockdowns. Here's the chart of it getting worse. Now, this isn't broken down by age, so it's all people
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in Canada who say they're doing excellent or very good. I'd like to see a version of this just for
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young people. Near the beginning of the pandemic, it was in the mid-40s. People say, yeah, I'm okay.
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I'm good. Fine. Good. But now it's just at a record low, 29 percent of anyone in any age. And it's
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getting worse, as you can see. This virus is not getting worse. The lockdown is getting worse.
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Look at page 27. This is one U.S.-Canada comparison I'd like to make. A total of 29 percent of Canadians
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say they're excellent or very good, and it's falling. We just showed you that. But 45 percent
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of Americans say so. Why is there such a difference? That's a pretty significant difference.
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Why are the number of Canadians saying they're doing bad, as you can see, almost double the number
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of Americans say they're doing bad mentally? Is it because in the U.S. there are 50 different states
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taking 50 different approaches? And most of the states are open. In fact, only one state in the Union,
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California, is still harshly locked down. Many, most actually, are very open, if they were
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even closed to begin with. Some states never did lock down, like South Dakota. Schools are
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open in almost every state. Travel is not weirdly blocked. People aren't told to stay home and
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be miserable, at least not in every part of America. Is that why they're not depressed? I don't
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know. I personally don't value a vaccine, but in the U.S., they're miles ahead of us in terms of
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giving it to the people who do want it. I don't want it, but those in Canada who do want it can't
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get it. Is that part of the reason for stress and depression? Just total incompetence by Justin
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Trudeau? You didn't have 50 states working on it? You had one idiot who's just, you know,
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has never done anything in his life. Look at page 29. It measures fear of the virus, not fear of the
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lockdown, of the bug. Ontario's people are terrified. The number is in green because it's
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the highest, but it feels like that should be in red or something because it's the number of people
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frightened. Alberta is the lowest afraid, 51 percent. The number who say they're not afraid at all
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ties to Alberta, 16 percent. Just half that, 8 percent in Ontario. So Ontario is scared, and fair
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enough. They're made to be scared by every politician, every government agency, every journalist, every
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public health pundit, the media. Young people, they're the least afraid of any age, which makes
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sense. It's a disease whose average victim is 82 years old. Page 30 of the poll shows those numbers
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really haven't moved at all. So it's not really the news, I don't think. People were scared briefly in
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last spring, as you can see, but now it's not any changing facts. I think it's just our personal
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nature and character. We have been conditioned to be afraid, or we resist being afraid. I think we're
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becoming two different countries, right? And as a whole, I think we are a nation that's afraid.
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I think I'm a minority, and maybe you are too, in not being afraid. I mean, you can be a little bit
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afraid, but you don't have to be panicked, which is what I think most Canadians are. Look at page 32.
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It's, the worst, is the worst, sorry, pardon me, is the worst behind us or still to come? That's a good
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question. 52 percent say we're in the worst of it now. 21 percent say the worst is yet to come. Only 13
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percent say the worst is over. By the way, the worst is over, statistically speaking. The death
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rate, the hospitalization rates, our knowledge or lack of it, we're better now than at any time
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during the crisis, except for during the month of April 2020. But look at the demographic breakdown.
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Albertans are most likely to say the worst is behind us. Ontarians, the least likely. Ontarians are
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a province of people who are afraid. In terms of age groups, young people, most likely to say the
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worst is behind us. The least likely to say the worst is yet to come. And they're right. They are
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not going to get sick. And if they do, they are not going to die. What's the recovery rate for people
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in their 20s? 99.9 percent? 0.999 percent? So let's skip ahead to page 40 here, which matches these
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questions to provincial premiers. So now we're getting political. To this day, here's the
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question. To this day, are you satisfied or not with the measures put in place to fight the COVID-19
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coronavirus pandemic by your provincial government? I'd be curious what they say about Trudeau,
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because he's the one who didn't stop the flights from China. He's the one that's bungled the virus
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vaccines. But they only test the premiers. Now, it's shocking to me, but the biggest bully's got the
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most love. Quebec literally has a curfew, treating everyone like criminals and children.
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Legault is sky-high, 80 percent. Newfoundland just canceled its election. They didn't have a single
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person in the hospital, let alone ICU. But they just canceled showing up and voting. Why not? I mean,
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it's only democracy. They voted during the Second World War. They voted during the Spanish flu 100
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years ago. Oh, we can't vote now. The Atlantic loves the lockdown. You know, you can't fly or drive to
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the Atlantic without going through a quarantine. WestJet and Air Canada have all but stopped flying
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into the region. And, you know, this poll says they couldn't love it more. They're loving it.
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Ontario is somewhat split. 53 percent are satisfied with Doug Ford. 43 percent aren't. There's a split
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there for sure. Canada's industrial heartland, commercial heartland, the worst lockdown in the
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country, though it has the lowest case rate in the country outside the very small population,
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provinces and territories. Some people obviously love the lockdown. Those who get paid no matter what,
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the lockdown class. But Ontario's entrepreneurial class is starting to hate it, I think. Alberta's
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what I want to talk about, though. Only 26 percent are satisfied by Jason Kenney's approach. 72 percent
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or not. That is stunning. And here's my point today. Why? Why is Kenney plunging in the polls?
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It's not just on the pandemic, it's on everything. He's falling. How's that happening? Well, if you
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listen to the mainstream media in Canada nationally or in Alberta, especially in Edmonton, they will tell
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you why. There's a socialist explanation for why Kenney's doing poorly. They say that Jason Kenney
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is cutting too much, not taxing enough, not spending enough, and he's not green enough,
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and he loves oil too much. Now, I don't think any of that's right. I think that's just the media
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party's inherent leftism and hatred for conservatives. But in regards to the pandemic itself, which is
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what this Leger survey measures, the media party would say Jason Kenney is too lax. He should be
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cracking down harder on those diners that were in the rebellion. He should be jailing more Christian
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pastors that dare to open. Seriously, I haven't seen a single media party journalist express concern
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about that pastor who's been sitting in a solitary confinement maximum security jail cell for eight
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days now just for opening his church while Costco's and Walmart's are all open. So the official class,
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the lockdown class, the journalistic class, wants Kenney to go harder, more brutal. The public health
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bosses, the teachers unions who want a permanent staycation while they're on the payroll, the entire
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establishment wants Kenney to go harder. That's why they would say he's unpopular. But I think that's
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the exact opposite. I think Jason Kenney is getting crushed. Because Albertans, like Floridians,
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aren't like Ontarians or Californians. I think they're different. Some people, as I've shown you,
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like to be afraid. Some people like being in a cage. They feel safe that way, being told what to think,
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what to do, what to say. Some people love being forced to quarantine and vaccinate. They'll love
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scolding people who don't wear masks, snitching on people who have an extra person over. They'll love
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snitching on you on your vaccine. They'll love vaccine passports. But I don't think that's Alberta.
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At least not all of them anyways. Alberta is the youngest province too, demographically speaking,
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young, free. And I showed you, young people are the least afraid and the most depressed by the
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lockdowns. Alberta just doesn't believe in the lockdown. But it is locked down nonetheless,
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unlike young, free Florida, which is living like they're still in the before times.
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If I were giving Jason Kenney advice, it would be fire the public health deep state. They're always wrong.
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Their models are never accurate. This virus does what it does, no matter what public policy
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says. If you compare, say, Sweden and the UK, I'm just picking two jurisdictions,
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one which barely locked down and one that locked down extremely. Or compare New York and Florida,
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that might even be a better comparison. There really is no correlation between policy and the
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virus. It does what it does. So why are you locking down? Every prediction in Canada by Teresa Tam is
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proved false. Why are you obeying that stuff? And we all see the double standards in the lockdown,
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the cheaters. The fact that professional sports teams are allowed to do what they want.
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Right now in the Jasper Park Lodge, the large hotel in Alberta, Hollywood is filming The Bachelor
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there. And they're breaking all the rules. They've got a special exemption for that. But you can't have
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your grandparents over. Costco and Walmart can open, but churches can't. Politicians and doctors
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love scooting to the States for a sunny holiday, but you can't. I think a lot of people are sick of it.
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Albertans especially. Sack them all. Sack this public health elite, unelected, unaccountable.
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And be free. Vaccines for those who want them. Masks for those who want them. Stay home if you want.
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But for the rest of Albertans, open up. If I know anything about Alberta,
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that not list that, you know, being free, not listening to Teresa Tam,
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is what would make Alberta free again and would stop the depression and the fear. And you know what?
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I bet Jason Kenney would rise in the polls too. Stay with us for more with David Manzi.
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Got my bags and we're going to go outside. We're going to refuse their stupid test and tell everybody
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to refuse their stupid test. So, yeah. Hi. Yes, because I have a medical condition,
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so I don't need to wear one. And I'm also a Canadian citizen, and this is a violation of our
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Charter Rights Section 6 and a violation of the Emergency Act 14.1. So, I'm going to be declining
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your test today. Thank you very much. No problem. I'll happily do that. Everybody in here,
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if you are a Canadian citizen, simply deny the test, deny their quarantine, and there's nothing you can do.
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They cannot stop you. They cannot force you. You are a citizen. You have rights. If you want to
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wait in the line for two hours, let them push up your nose, go right ahead. But if you have a brain
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and you have balls, just say no. That is the incomparable Chris Sky. There's only one guy like
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him. And he's got a lot of chutzpah. If you look that word up in the dictionary, it's tough to say
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chutzpah. But you don't need any words. It's Chris. You've become a regular chatter with Chris
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because he's got a lot to say. He's actually, I mean, he's got a very brash and unusual presentation,
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the tattoos, the open shirt, inner fitness, and the lovely Miss Jenny who often accompanies him.
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But if you put aside the audacious presentation, he actually has a lot of thoughtful things to say.
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I'm impressed with his critique of the lockdown. He's a thinking man.
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Yeah. I think, Ezra, with Chris, you're getting the steak and the sizzle combined, right? And you're
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right. I was talking to our mutual friend, Joe Warmington of the Sun, and I think Chris in the last
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year has become a true Toronto character in a good way, right? And it is amazing. Like you mentioned
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my favorite Yiddish word, chutzpah, shir, a mitigated gall. And when I heard he was going to
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Turkey and no one's going to tell me to mask up and no one's going to tell me to have a COVID test,
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I'm saying, Chris, have you ever seen the movie Midnight Express, right? Like, you know,
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I don't know if the Turkish regime takes kindly to such a simple disobedience, but he was saying
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that there was more freedom there, incredibly, Ezra, than there is here when it comes to the
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masking issue. And sure enough, he came into Pearson. He told me ahead of time, I think all
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hell might break loose. He was trying to convert people in the luggage pickup. You don't have to do
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this. It was like trying to convert the sheep to turn into Chris Guy wolves, right? And no one took
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him up on the offer, not that night, but he did walk out of the airport. He got an $880 fine,
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which he laughs about because he's been pining to get to court to challenge. I think he's got five
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or six other $880 fines and they keep postponing it and delaying it. And he wants his trial. I mean,
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he doesn't even want it dismissed as right. He wants to make his arguments in court. And this is just
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another one on the pile. Now, what's important, that was Sunday night, mere like less than five
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hours before the new regulations came into effect, the new international air travel regulations,
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Ezra. And what is interesting is that it has now been reported. We went there on the very first day,
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the morning of Monday when they went into effect. We didn't see anyone bolt. We saw people, you know,
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going to the hotel, even there, it was all screwed up. A lot of people said it's 2000. An Egyptian
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fellow said it was 4,000. $4,000. Yeah. I think cause he was with his wife and I don't know why
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they can't. Yeah. Why couldn't two people share and they, they live together. They will live together.
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They were on the plane together. $4,000 is staggering for anyone. I don't care who you are.
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And he just paid for his daughter's wedding in Cairo. So he says, I'm now in the poor house.
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Then we met a man, 1200 for him. What? And then we met a woman. She said 149 a night.
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What? I know it doesn't make sense. I mean, and Chris Skye just left and he got an $800 ticket
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that he may or may not ever have to pay. That's less than almost every number you just said here.
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Right. And what's being reported in some media outlets, Ezra, is that since the new rules came
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into effect on Monday, so it's been three days now, people are just getting out of the queue.
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They're going, see you. And the cops, sometimes they talk them out of it, but they haven't made
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arrests. So they get an 880 fine and they jump into a taxi. Now I failed grade 11 math, Ezra,
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but by my calculation, 880 is better than 2000. Yeah. You're talking about a very interesting,
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I don't know if it's a TV channel or a web program. It's called In Saga. And I had not heard
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of it before. And I see the mayor of Mississauga on it. I just want to play a quick clip from it.
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The reporter seems quite earnest. He seems to have done his background research. He says he
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confirmed this. I just want to show a quick clip because the absurdity comes through in this
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Mississauga-based journalist putting questions to the mayor who has no explanation here. Take a quick
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look at this from In Saga. I'm aware that the rules about three days in the quarantine hotel,
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shall we call it, it only applies to personal travel. Yeah. So if you're actually essential
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on business travel, it doesn't apply to you. You still have to quarantine if you come back from
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overseas or across the border, but you can go home and do it. You don't have to go to the quarantine
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hotel and wait those three days for your COVID test to, I mean, it's just another layer of protection,
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right? Because presumably you've already proven you're negative because you had to get within 72 hours,
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a negative COVID test to get on the plane, right? And then you were there asking for another one
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once you've landed and you're going to spend three nights to get the test result. But
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I'm quite sure that applies only to personal travel.
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So, and as you say, so if you refused, you pay your fine and then just leave. That doesn't seem
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to make any sense. But those are federal rules. They're not our provincial rules, right? It's the
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federal government that manages the airport. And I mean, it's clear that no one knows what's going
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on. I think you said that one person you saw at the airport called the helpline 15 times and was hung
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up on 15 times. Yeah. It happened to me twice. Never got to a human being. Uh, it, you go through,
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your call is very important to us and it's a bunch of robots. And I only get as far as press one for
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English and then it disconnects. And by the way, speaking of mayors and speaking to the word
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chutzpah, literally on the way down here, Mayor Patrick Brown was weighing in on people getting
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out of the line. And he was saying, what's the effect of such selfishness, uh, for skirting the
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rules. I'm going, this is sneaky. Yes. Sneaky Patrick, the one you caught sneaking into a hockey
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arena that kids were banned from. What an idiot. Oh my God. You know, we're having a good chuckle,
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but it's, you know, you mentioned this guy from Cairo. I can't imagine like $4,000 after
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tax money there. I don't care if you're making a million bucks a year. That is painful for most
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families. They don't clear that in a month after tax. That's devastating. It's, there's no science
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behind it. There's no logic behind it. Why do you have to be in a hotel instead of at home?
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Why do you have to do that if you're healthy and not sick? There's nothing about it that makes sense
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other than, I don't know, maybe Trudeau's trying to, you know, distract from his vaccine fiasco
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with a new fiasco. Oh, Ezra. And there's a degree of pettiness and even I would argue cruelty. I was
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up in Sudbury last night to interview Mike. He's a guy we're going to have a video on in the next day
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or so. And he works as a lineman in California. He came up to Toronto specifically for a medical
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appointment. Ezra, Mike has cancer and he had to go to one of these COVID, the infamous Radisson.
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They would not let him go to his doctor's appointment, right? And that was the only reason
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he came up here. He spent two nights there. The meals were garbage and in portions that would make
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a budgie starve. The shower had black mold in it, right? And he's paying this out of his pocket
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or he was told to. Sorry, no, but it wasn't, it was before the Sunday regulations kicked in.
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The point is he left the hotel after two nights, went up back to Sudbury and the Sudbury police came
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by and gave him a ticket for almost $4,000 for breaking the quarantine act. You know, we've got
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a, I don't know if you offered him legal assistance. Oh yes. Cause we've got to help him. I mean,
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I know for a fact that if you have a medical reason, you are exempt from the quarantine. I recall
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reading that with my own eyes and I haven't studied his ticket and I haven't studied the most recent
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regulations, but I am quite sure that even in our mad times, no judge would say that, that finding a man
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for leaving for a cancer appointment is constitutional. And what irks me and troubles me
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deeply is that you have police who say, sure, I'll do that. Sure. I'll do. I mean, and I think that
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we're still in an era where things shock us, but we're coming up on the one year anniversary of the
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lockdown. Yes. When we're two years in, three years in, four years in, we'll all be numb to this
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and the police, those who haven't quit out of disgust will be the worst of the worst. The ones who
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love the cruelty. You know, I think in Mike's case, certainly the two Sudbury constables that
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came up to his, uh, abode, uh, they were really messenger boys. I want to know, um, who gave the
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order, who in the federal government instructed Sudbury police, go to this guy in Sudbury, give
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him these tickets. And, um, because I think this is very important as well as, um, the release,
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the Sudbury police service sent out was riddled with errors. They got everything wrong. And of
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course the local Sudbury, uh, paper there, Sudbury.com also riddled with errors to the point
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maybe of defamation. And, um, that's the other part. Mike's wife was saying she, she was reading
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the comments that were coming in and saying, you should be tarred and feathered. That's what
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somebody said. What for coming to Toronto to get a cancer treatment? Yeah. Well, and that's the thing
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is that it's not just the police that have lost their, uh, moral moorings here. Uh, but
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just because some health bureaucrat says, Hey, Hey, copper, run this errand. Since when do police
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take orders from some bureaucrat? And I, I, and this goes back to when Toronto public health
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officer, Eileen De Villa sent 100 police, the riot squad, the ride horses to a barbecue, uh,
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restaurant, Adamson's barbecue. I don't think that that was lawful. I don't think that the police
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take orders from some health bureaucrat and that's happening all the time. And I don't think anyone
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stepped in to stop it. I think it's something we have to look at. I'm so glad we're taking or have
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offered to take this gentleman's case, Mike from Sudbury. These are dark days. And just when I think,
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oh, I'm getting tired of all this fighting, I hear a story like that. And I think we have to fight
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extremely hard. I think 2021 is the year when the pandemic is not the issue anymore. The pandemic is
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as good as gone. They have herd immunity in the United States now. I mean, the vaccines for those
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who want them, America is every senior has basically got it in America. Those that want it in Canada. I
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mean, we're six months behind because we've got a pothead as a prime minister, but we will eventually
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catch up. But they're moving the goalposts. Now Fauci is saying, oh, even with a vaccination,
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don't expect to go out. Don't expect to congregate. You might have to wear a mask.
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The lockdownism is the point of it. It's not the means to an end. It is the end itself. And so as
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governments become more and more absurd, they're going to have to be more and more vicious because
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otherwise people will just say, what are you doing? And I am not yet hopeful about
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things. I see some flickers of hope in Alberta where you have the diner rebellion in mere Alberta,
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a success, where you have this pastor in prison. Now you might say, how is that a success? Well,
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it's, I think he's winning that staring contest with the government. You see flickers of hope there,
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but for every flicker of hope, you see lights go out in the rest of the country. We are in the
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You know, and I just want to say something else. The punctuation mark on the Adam Skelly
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saga, Ezra, is the fact that not only did he have all the king's horses and all the king's men
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come to his abode, but weeks later, he was sent an invoice for 187,000. And secondly, you mentioned
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Eileen Davila. I keep calling her Cruella Davila through a mental breach. But the thing is,
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what I've noticed as we're enduring this almost year of the pandemic is that public health officers,
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regional health officers, the average Joe, the average Jane had no idea who they are. They are
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now household names. And I think they are thriving on this power, on this celebrity. There's six figures
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all the time. They are unelected. They are non-accountable. And like you've said before,
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they got a little taste of totalitarian power. Kind of like the taste.
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Yeah. You know, I cringe every time I hear one of these health officers called,
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Alberta's top doctor, Toronto's top doctor. No, the top doctor in Toronto is probably
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some world-leading physician of some complicated brain surgery or heart surgery who has done
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transplants and has amazing patient success and is beloved. And that's a top doctor.
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Another top doctor might be a researcher who's discovered something. A top doctor could be
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someone who's just had a 50-year career and has, you know, without an error. You could even say a
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teaching doctor. But just because someone is a politician with the letters MD after their name,
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they are not a top doctor. In fact, they're probably not ambitious enough or sharp enough to
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have succeeded where those other top, true top doctors were. They still get the $300,000 or $400,000
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a year salary. And they are simply authoritarian. There's a world of difference between a doctor
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with a patient who says, how can I help this person? Let me think about this person versus
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a public health doctor who treats people as interchangeable ants in an ant colony. There
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couldn't be a further thing from actual patient-centered medicine than these public health doctors.
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Oh, and I think what makes your point the best was that hot mic moment, I think it was in December,
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with the number two doctor in Ontario, Dr. Barbara Yaffe, who was caught in a hot mic moment saying,
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oh, they just give me these papers to read. I don't know what to make of it. But first of all,
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who is they? I thought you're the they. I thought you're the medical top doc telling the people.
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And how does she have any credibility after that?
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Well, I don't think she had any credibility other than the station of her office. She's a politician.
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And in my monologue tonight, I showed that unfortunately, a lot of Canadians love it.
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They love being abused. I mean, I always thought when I first heard what S&M was, I thought who would
00:32:16.680
enjoy being abused? That can't be a thing. I mean, it's cruel enough to inflict pain. But what kind of
00:32:23.640
person would actually say, I want that? But now I see that most Ontarians, Ontario is the worst,
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but Quebec too, they love being abused by politicians. And I don't like that one. I'm
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embarrassed for people who say, I love the lockdown.
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You know, you've given me some insight, Ezra, right now as to why Fifty Shades of Grey is such a
00:32:46.880
multi bestseller. It's terribly written. I mean, I didn't get past a few pages. And but you got to
00:32:53.980
ask, is it an S&M fetish or is this Stockholm syndrome where you fall in love with the kidnappers
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and go on their side? I don't know. It's something like that. It's definitely a psychological kind of
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group mania. And the way face masks have been transformed and has have transformed all of us
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is something that will scar people, especially children for decades to come. We got to keep it
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there. Thanks very much for coming on the show. Good. You're doing great work out there. I love to see
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all the radio folks. Stay with us more. Hey, welcome back on my show last night. Gary writes,
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not only is Tam compromised, but her boss is too. They both need to be fired. Yeah. I don't
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understand how you could have an employee who is swearing oaths of loyalty and confidentiality
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to another employer on the same subject matter. She's supposed to be working for you. How's that
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even work? Debbie writes, when was she voted in by Canadian citizens? Well, that's the thing. None of
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these public health officers were voted in by anybody. And politicians are all too happy to
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trot out these unelected, unaccountable doctors, top doctors. They're not top doctors. They're political
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bureaucrats with an MD. Catherine writes, and what is O'Fool doing about this? Oh, yes, I forgot.
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He got rid of Derek Sloan and demoted Polyev. Aaron O'Toole has not yet spoken out against these
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COVID jail quarantines. He just hasn't. I think that's really noticeable, don't you? I mean, if you
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won't stand up against those, which make no medical sense, which treat people cruelly,
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which are clearly unconstitutional, if you won't stand up against that and you're called the
00:34:49.580
official opposition, I don't think you're going to stand up against anything. That's our show for
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today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, do you at home good