One Year Later： Following up on York Regional School Board's Wuhan Virus Letter
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Why do the progressives think that everything is racist even when it pertains to the Wuhan Virus? Why not ban flights coming into Canada from certain diverse nations? Why isn t that a racist thing to do?
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tonight why do the progressives think that everything is racist even everything that
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pertains to the wuhan virus it's february the third i'm david menzies and this is the
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ezra levin show 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 the only thing i have to say to the
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government about why i publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so
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hey folks how are you digging those new travel restrictions that kicked in on monday
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you know how canadians are being shuttled off into hotels that are now quarantine facilities
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hopefully these properties aren't supersized versions of the roach motel black flag roach motel roaches
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check in but they don't check out yikes forget about black flags i think the feds want returning
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snowbirds to wave the white flag of surrender but it is perversely amusing to see the federal
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government scrambling to contain potential inbound candidates who might test positive for the wuhan
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virus because the feds are about a year too late on this file really do you remember around this time
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last year when we would make almost daily visits to toronto's pearson international airport
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to prove the fallacy that the borders had been closed well maybe the bridges were closed to
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non-essential vehicle traffic but international flights were still coming into canada around the
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clock including up to 10 flights a day from china yeah you know the country of origin for the wuhan virus
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indeed one of the reasons that taiwan makes for a model country in terms of how to deal with the
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wuhan flu is that this nation didn't shut down its economy but rather moved quickly to ban flights
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coming into taiwan from the various virus hot spots so why didn't we do that same strategy so many moons
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ago well the answer is that it would be potentially racist to do so you recall i mean we must be sensitive
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when it comes to diversity after all diversity is our strength and if we banned flights
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coming into canada from certain diverse nations well that's egregious it would be like building a wall
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for border security or something this is especially true when it comes to the way this current federal
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liberal government roles because we know how justin trudeau feels about china sure thanks to spawning
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the virus china is responsible for untold trillions of dollars of economic damage the world over
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oh but justin he admires communist china there's a level of of admiration i actually have for china
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um because their you know basic dictatorship is allowing them uh to actually turn their economy
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around on a dime and say we need to go green as fast thank you ever so much prime minister blackface
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you know to this day folks i still cannot believe that a man who would go on to be the leader of a
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western democracy would wax poetically about a brutal communist regime one that continues by the way to
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illegally detain two canadian citizens in an inhumane fashion in any event going back to a year ago
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those in government and the bureaucracy and academia were oh so hypersensitive about racism
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when it came to the coronavirus file indeed we were sternly informed that the very name of the virus
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is the uber generic covid19 now more often than not i continue to refer to this bug as the wuhan virus
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president donald trump almost always called this virus the china virus but when covid is referred to in such
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a way well the progressives just lose their minds oh you can't blame china they would say
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you can't single out this country the country of origin for the starting off point for this virus
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because that's um racist even though there was a long history folks of naming a virus after the point
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of origin so it is that the west nile virus is so named because it was first discovered in the west
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nile area of uganda lyme disease was first recognized back in 1975 researchers were investigating why
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unusually large numbers of children were being diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in the
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town of lyme connecticut and two other neighboring towns gee do you think maybe west nile virus and lyme
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disease are racist terms towards ugandans and the fine people of the great state of connecticut
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yeah i know ugandans and connecticans they're not races but that doesn't matter to those who are
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race obsessed still this is how we roll in the world today china seems to have favored nation status
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we're not supposed to embarrass china or anger china hey they might just stop shipping stock to
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dollarama and as such we really better not call this pandemic the china virus or the wuhan flu
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because well like i said before pinpointing a virus's geographic origin should it originate in china
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is an act of racism and so it is we must forever refer to this virus as covid19 covid19 isn't that a
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planet in the star trek universe situated somewhere between rigel 4 and uranus still isn't it downright odd that the
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variants of covid19 are named after the geographic hotspots from which they originate so it is we have the uk variant
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and the south african variant and the brazilian variant as opposed to covid19 a b and c good golly
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why does the world health organization hate the uk and south africa and brazil so much but i digress
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you see when the progressives latch on to racism they make a left turn at the bizarro world and crash land
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in the twilight zone to them everything must be seen through a race-based lens even viruses
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don't believe me here's another case in point ontario premier doug ford recently recorded a stay home message
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in 22 count them 22 different languages here check it out
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to all ontarians who are doing the right thing and staying at home from the bottom of my heart i want to thank you
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and just in case some of you need a quick reminder of what we're asking please stay at home
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Now, I'm no fan of how Premier Cherry Cheesecake has handled this pandemic.
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But you would think that the left and the progressives and the social justice warriors
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And yet, as I drove into Rebel headquarters the day this PR exercise debuted,
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talk radio was all abuzz of SJW-type screaming that Ford should not have stated
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stay-at-home messaging in 22 languages because that wasn't inclusion.
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And what he should have done is find 21 other people whose mother tongue is Italian, French,
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Let's make a simple 50-second clip into a government megaproject that will, par for the course, take forever to complete
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and sport an off-the-lot price of five or even six figures as though we aren't already spending money that we don't have as it is, eh?
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But surely the jump-the-shark moment vis-a-vis the Wuhan virus and allegations of racism emanated from the tall forehead types running the York Region District School Board.
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You see, way back in January 2020, these educrats had a conniption regarding a petition that was being signed by thousands of parents
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who were actually spot on the money when it came to recognizing that this new strain of novel coronavirus
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that was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China should not be taken lightly,
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even though the federal government and even the Public Health Agency of Canada were reassuring Canadians not to fret that everything was under control.
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And the government maintained this narrative all the way until St. Patrick's Day, really,
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when suddenly there was this realization that we've got to do something.
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Too bad that the do something translated into locking down the economy.
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But back to that petition, which was condemned as racist by the York Region District School Board.
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Please keep in mind that thousands of the parents who signed it were themselves of Chinese descent.
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Anyway, you tell me if this petition makes for hate speech,
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or if it's a prediction that today looks downright prescient.
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The recent outbreak of the coronavirus of China has progressed so quickly.
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After the first case was confirmed in Wuhan, China on January 12th,
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Within only two weeks, the virus has reached multiple major metropolis,
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as well as other countries in Asia, Europe, and North America.
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You may have already been aware of the disease and its severity.
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However, we still have a few reasons for our kids, parents, teachers, schools, and community
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to take extra actions on this fast-spread disease.
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Traditionally, large amounts of people travel nationwide or even internationally
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which tremendously increases the chance of infection.
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Meanwhile, in the next few weeks, families went to China,
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It will definitely bring the virus into our country
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being the peak time of this infectious disease transmission.
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York Region has a large Chinese-Canadian population.
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We cannot be overly cautious in protecting our children.
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We strongly need the school board to ask students and their teachers
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who traveled back from China to report to school and classroom teacher.
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The school should keep tracking status of the students
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who recently traveled to China, not just Wuhan, any city of China.
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Other parents of the class should have the right to know whether there are students in the class
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coming back from China recently and have the right to decide whether to keep their kids at home.
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We ask that the school board send out a communication to all parents requesting students
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who or whose families have recently returned from China to stay at home
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and keep isolated for a minimum of 17 days for the purpose of self-quarantine.
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Allow students to wear safety equipment, including respirator masks, during school.
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For the safety of children and teachers, the school and classroom teachers
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should advise students to strictly follow safety guidelines
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to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in school.
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Your patience and considerations are deeply appreciated.
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Now, the point is, whether or not you agree with the government's current response to the lockdown,
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this parental petition seems to be downright prophetic, not racist.
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And yet, how did the educrats at the York Region District School Board react at the time?
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Well, check out this lovely letter jointly written by trustee Juanita Nathan and Louise Cerisco,
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While the virus can be traced to a province in China,
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we have to be cautious that this not be seen as a Chinese virus.
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Those who are afflicted or are potential transmitters are not just people of Chinese origin.
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The letter then encourages students to practice good hygiene.
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Given that these days, a kid who doesn't wear a mask risks, I don't know, expulsion?
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Oh, by the way, do you know who organized that petition?
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But going by Nathan and Cerisco's hissy fit, you'd think that the author was Adolph McWhite supremacist.
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One, that students identify themselves to the school if they or their immediate family have just come back from China.
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Two, that the school requests recent travelers to China self-quarantine for a minimum of 17 days.
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Three, that students be allowed to wear masks in school.
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And four, that the public health guidelines be strictly followed.
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In other words, the petition was pushing for the exact same mandates our government is now insisting we embrace here and now.
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Were the parents who signed this petition psychic?
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Or did our governments suddenly become, I don't know, racist in the last 12 months?
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Because what the parents were condemned for in 2020 is now being mandated policy under penalty of law in 2021.
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Or maybe, just maybe, the likes of Nathan and Cerisco are progressive nitwits that have absolutely no business teaching the children of York Region.
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Well, here's another excerpt from their letter of last year, demonizing parents.
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Situations such as these can regrettably give rise to discrimination based on perceptions, stereotypes, and hate.
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Individuals who make assumptions, even with positive intentions of safety, about the risk of others,
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request or demand quarantine can be seen as demonstrating bias and racism.
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You know, I have to be honest here, they might be right about that hate part because
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whenever virtue signaling morons like Nathan and Cerisco put their words on paper,
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By the way, last January, I did visit the Aurora, Ontario headquarters of the York Region District School Board
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to get their side of the story regarding this racism rubbish.
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Well, I'm here at the York Region District School Board.
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I was told that Ms. Cerisco is not available and I would have to go through the communications person,
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So I called Mr. Miguelo and first of all, he said that no one was available
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and then eventually he said that nobody will ever be available.
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I was told that somebody in communications would get right back to me as soon as possible.
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I guess the school board works by the mandates of geological time, you know,
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in which a millennium is a blink of an eyelash in relative terms.
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By the way, I did reach out again on Monday to Abbott and Costello, or I mean Nathan and Cerisco.
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I sent them an email in which I simply pondered if they were planning on issuing a public apology
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to those parents that they unfairly claimed to be racist last year.
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This reply acknowledges receipt of your email message.
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Please note that our office receives hundreds of emails each week.
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We will forward your information to members of our senior staff
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responsible for schools and operational services for review.
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Kind regards, Director's Office, York Region District School Board.
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Yeah, I got one of those, your call is very important to us messages.
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And do you believe that, Claptrap folks, that they get hundreds of emails each week?
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I mean, the schools are being shut down in York Region.
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And even if they were getting hundreds of emails,
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what about burning the old midnight oil and responding in a timely fashion?
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The people who make bankers' hours look like slave labor scheduling.
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Indeed, it's now more than 48 hours later and still no response from Dumb and Dumber.
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Moving at the speed of molasses going uphill in the wintertime.
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Could you imagine how these dolts would function in the private sector?
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Most of which, by the way, remains locked down, unlike those in the public sector,
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who continue to collect their salaries and their benefits and their bonuses.
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So in summary, here is the lesson for the day for the likes of Nathan and Sarisco,
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who are obviously way too busy or too entitled or too stupid to apologize to the thousands of parents
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Simply put, if everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
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13 new groups have been added to the terrorist list here in Canada.
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And with his thoughts on that, there is the boss himself, Ezra Levent.
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The Proud Boys, but I believe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard,
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Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, put a motion before the House.
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It was just a symbol to declare the Proud Boys a terrorist group.
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And so, of course, the liberals said, OK, well, if the entire political spectrum agrees,
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we're going to ban this group in the same list as al-Qaeda.
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In fact, today, they added also more al-Qaeda affiliates, ISIS affiliates.
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And then in the middle of that, the Proud Boys.
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And some of our viewers might be saying, what's the Proud Boys?
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Was that the Millennium Bomber trying to blow up LAX?
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Was that the guy who shot his way into Parliament,
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killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the War Memorial and shot his way in?
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No, Proud Boys is an invention of our former comedian commentator, Gavin McInnes.
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It's like a franchise and there's a book and you have to follow the rules and they can kick you out.
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So you had different people saying, I'm a Proud Boy, I'm a Proud Boy.
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In recent years, they have been called fascist.
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And they got into some fights with Antifa in New York and they were prosecuted.
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But Gavin McInnes repudiated and renounced and quit the Proud Boys after that battle in the street.
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It was sort of like a gang fight, Antifa versus Proud Boys in the streets of New York.
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So when someone went to jail for a fight, it became really serious.
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And actually, I think the guy who took it over is a Latino man named Enrico Terrio,
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who it turns out is an undercover cop or something.
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But my point is, I don't know what information was used for calling it a terrorist group.
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As far as I know, it hasn't had any activities in Canada,
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other than some Proud Boys meeting up for drinks or something.
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There was that one time when five members of the Canadian Armed Forces,
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including an aboriginal fella, a gay fella, like a real diverse group of guys,
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went to counter-protest in support of Sir John A. MacDonald or something in Halifax.
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There was just a political protest from a mix of people saying,
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but it was a statue that they wanted to knock down.
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So I think that's the only time the Proud Boys have actually ever done anything in Canada.
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And I remember a local Indian chief or aboriginal leader saying,
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This was a local aboriginal leader who said this.
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I think it's Trudeau trying to cotton onto the Capitol Hill riots of a month ago
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He's trying to impress his friends Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
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But much more dangerously, he's trying to criminalize what was really a political fraternity.
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I am not disputing that they had street battles in New York on one occasion at least.
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And there may have been individual Proud Boys who were in Capitol Hill.
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Like I said, I don't think it's an incorporated entity.
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It's just anyone who sort of says, yeah, I'm one of them.
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But to call something, put it on the official terrorist list in Canada,
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Because to say something's a terrorist group is to say,
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They're not just drunk guys who like to hang out and shoot the breeze.
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They are worse than Hell's Angels, worse than the mafia,
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And so the full force of the law and the military
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and special prosecutions for giving any sort of support to these groups,
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whether, I mean, financial, but moral support, recruiting support,
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all the things, all the tools you would use to stop a terrorist
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from organizing, traveling, recruiting, flying, funding, having a flag,
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can now legally be deployed against this dopey fraternity club thing entity
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just because Justin Trudeau likes to censor anything on the right.
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you know what, I'm all with denouncing the cause du jour,
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but not put real terrorist groups like Iran's terrorist group,
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I mean, I know Gavin McInnes, the founder of it
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and he renounced it and he got into some trouble
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because some of his followers fought with antifa on the street
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that is a danger because of what they can do to those folks
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and I think it's opening the door to criminalizing
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any conservative opposition to the liberals at all.
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and I think the proof is in the proverbial pudding here.
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Ezra, you've mentioned a couple of times antifa.
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I mean, we have seen how these individuals have behaved.
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You know, their weapon of choice is a bike lock.
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They are extremely violent and yet we hear apologies from the left
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Because I can tell you in the history of antifa,
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I mean, I haven't really followed the Proud Boys carefully
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and there may have been people wearing a Proud Boy shirt
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But I do know that from following in the media,
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the only thing I've ever seen reported in Canada
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and I think it was a John A. Macdonald statue in Halifax.
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And imagine that, going there to prevent vandalism.
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and the counterterrorism people know that I don't know,
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but I know what the MPs know who voted for this.
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that it's cool to bash because they're not woke
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but to call them a terrorist group is going too far
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and if all you need to do to call someone a terrorist group,
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there are terrorist groups not even on this terrorist list
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towards the criminalization of conservative groups,
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you can call pretty much anyone a terrorist group tomorrow.
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that he's all about shutting down hate and violence
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and yet look at his position when it comes to that?
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flew to India on his big Bollywood dress-up tour.
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because I don't know if it exists as a corporation,
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What exactly has been turned into a terrorist entity?