Spencer Fernando on Andrew Says
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Spencer Fernando, a writer and campaign fellow with the National Citizens Coalition, joins me to talk about the Great Reset and why we should all be worried about it. We also talk about how governments are planning to use the pandemic crisis as an opportunity to implement policies they previously could not achieve through democratic means.
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Spencer Fernando is a writer a campaign fellow with the National Citizens Coalition and you
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can find him on Twitter at Spencer Fernando and SpencerFernando.com how are you doing today
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Spencer thanks for joining me not too bad yourself I'm doing well thank you now the first thing I
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wanted to get right into and talk to you about was I think it's the only video you have on your
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YouTube channel I know that you're a writer so you probably don't have time to do these videos
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but the lone video you have is a really good one and it's about the Great Reset and you're talking
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a bit about how it was considered a conspiracy theory but we're now we're watching it in real
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time pretty much across the world so let's go ahead and play that clip for anyone who hasn't seen it
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and I will talk about it Justin Trudeau has now openly admitted what was once considered by many
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to be a conspiracy theory governments are seeking to exploit the pandemic crisis to impose policies
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they previously could not achieve through democratic means Trudeau stated the pandemic has been an
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opportunity to reset things and implement plans the government had been unable to force on us
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before the crisis of course you weren't asked if you wanted a Great Reset you weren't asked if you
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wanted everything reshaped I want to ask you where do you think that this whole Great Reset thing
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comes from clearly governments are implementing it in different ways do you think there's a group of
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people directing this or this politicians mimicking each other to gain more power yeah I think it's a
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bit of both I think I mean you know they always go and they meet with each other every year at a lot
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of these conferences so you know Davos for example so that's not a big surprise but I think the the
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problem is that this kind of fits into the the mindset that a lot of people in politics just
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naturally have right like if you go into politics in the first place unless you're really a libertarian type
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person you're probably more someone who thinks okay I'm going to use the government to reshape
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society and make people act in the way that I think they should as opposed to just protecting
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so I think when a crisis hits you know a lot of politicians they kind of think the same way they
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say oh wow look you know people are really scared right now I think we shouldn't we can
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probably force through some stuff that we wouldn't get away with otherwise
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so I think you're right it's a mix of you know people actually talking to each other and
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trying to make plans but I think a lot of it is they just mimic each other and they say I mean look at
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they're all using the exact same terminology right they're all saying build back better you see almost
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every leader of every country saying the exact same thing we're all supposed to be independent
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countries with their own politics and our own decisions right but they're all saying the same
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thing and talking the same way so yeah I think that's it would have been called a conspiracy before
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but it's pretty obvious now is that why you think the goalposts keep shifting because as long as the
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people are willing to go along with it then we can just you know change our goal and change what we
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are moving towards so long as you know we keep gaining momentum and power do you think that's
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fair to say yeah I mean you look at what happened in Ontario right and again this is I don't think
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it's really coordinated between all governments but it's just the the mindset they have I mean and
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again you know supposedly a conservative government in Ontario right not too much conservative going on
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there but they pushed and pushed and pushed and got away with everything until people finally had a
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limit it literally took them Doug Ford basically saying all the police are going to be able to be
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you know show me your papers police demand to stop anyone walking at any time driving at any time
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and people finally said you know this looks like it's going a little bit too far but that's what
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it took for people to react and if people hadn't have reacted then Ford would have kept pushing and
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other premiers and other leaders in other parts of the world would have looked and said okay well they
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got away with that on Ontario let's try it out here so they're definitely mimicking each other and
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they're definitely trying to push us as far as they think will go I definitely agree and we'll get more to that
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specific thing later but I wanted to pivot to Aaron O'Toole and the federal conservatives I want to
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play what I think is a hilarious video of Aaron O'Toole talking about his climate plan I think it's
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on CTV and it's just ridiculous from the get-go so let's play that and I'll ask I have some questions
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about that for you you've called this plan daring yet it is comparable to the emissions reduction seen
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under the current federal system so if it truly is daring why not go further and try to reduce
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emissions even more than what we currently have it's daring because we're going further in protecting
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jobs in growing the economy and making sure we have a prosperous Canada after COVID-19 we meet we match
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Mr. Trudeau's emission reductions by 2030 it's a smart plan to reduce emissions but it's vastly superior
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on securing and creating jobs getting our economy back to work in all sectors and in all regions of
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the country that's what makes it daring it actually grows the economy so forget about him looking left
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and right to his lines which are on both sides of him whoever decided that that was the background
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the climate moving in the mountain behind should be fired from the get-go I want to ask you Spencer
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how do you think that they're protecting jobs by taxing businesses what's the logic there well they're
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not obviously he knows that I mean if you look at what he said about Trudeau's plan up until you know a
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few days ago he was saying you know carbon taxes are job killers right so now it's shifted of course uh but
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yeah I mean to be honest he really looks like a clown when he tries to pull that kind of stuff because
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that's exactly what Rachel Notley said that's exactly what Justin Trudeau said when they brought
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in carbon taxes oh it's not a tax it's a levy and it's good for the economy blah blah blah
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so it's it's just kind of embarrassing for him uh he's really backed himself into a corner at this
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point I mean you know all the reports show that he he apparently didn't tell most of his caucus
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about any of this stuff so a lot of them were caught off guard and uh yeah he just has to somehow
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try to justify a terrible plan and the plan is in many ways worse than the liberal plan I mean
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he talks about creating jobs I guess maybe for the banking industry or whoever is going to be
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you know managing that fund uh that and so and you know what's even worse about it is there's not
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really a shred of conservative thinking in it I mean you could totally see the NDP coming up with
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basically the exact same plan or the greens really you know we take your money from you and then we put
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it into a fund or an account and you don't get to choose whatever you want to spend it on no you get
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to pick from what the government tells you and that's supposedly a conservative plan so yeah I don't know how he
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thinks he's going to sell this to people yeah I wanted to ask you about that I mean he's doing
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this thing that almost is comparable to the green new deal if he was to expand it into a manifesto like
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AOC does it's basically that um and he he says on one hand Trudeau sucks and everything and he's
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saying that for years but all of a sudden true Trudeau's plan is good he's saying this plan is good
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and we're we're just not making it worse after saying that they're so bad for all this for for all of
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time I want to say now he's trying to force industries to change I don't see how that will
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create jobs at all and there's a and there's I think there's a tweet from yours that actually points
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out um if we could put that up Efron here it is studying the potential for introducing new taxes
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on frequent flyers and uh luxury cars how I mean can you explain this new like uh points reward system
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that they've got going uh not really I don't think they can explain it either um I mean the best I can
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come up with is I mean they've tried to say it's kind of like a interact system it'll be managed by
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the people manage interact and then it's going to be like a kind of costco rewards it's really you're
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converting you know tax dollars into points that the government then gives you and then you can convert
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that back into tax dollars but I guess that's only four products that they say are acceptable so it's
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almost like a social credit type environmental green scheme again the problem that it's so tough
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to explain is is really a big issue they have just beyond the lying obviously but just the plan itself
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is terrible I mean you know you know I've said this on you know a lot of videos I've done recently where
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I'm talking to you know interviews and talking to people but if you're explaining in politics you're
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losing right that's kind of the saying you hear all the time and so you know the liberal plan
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I don't like it but it's very easy to explain the liberals say we tax you and then we give you
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the money back in a rebate right now whether they actually give it all back you know they don't
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really but it's easier for them to say they do so it's easy to explain we tax you and we give it all
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back the conservative plan is we tax you we put it into a fund it's managed by the banks or some
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consortium on bay street and then here's the list of stuff that the state says you can spend it on
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and the more you use I guess the more points you have and then the more you can buy but if you don't
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like anything on the list then you're screwed because that's all you have to choose from and
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it's not really your money because the government's taking it and telling I mean it's just it's a
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terrible plan and it's almost as if they felt like okay we have to do something uh and it can't be the
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liberal plan so let's come up with this much much worse plan and somehow sell it as something different
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so yeah it's it's yeah it's they look like fools trying to sell maybe you can get a bike I believe is
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the thing going around but yeah it's and it's ripe for corruption because now you've got a list of
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things that politicians can can appoint to where this is okay to buy this is not okay goodbye to buy
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oh I wonder if people are going to get their thing their items put on the list for government point
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spending or whatever it's going to be called now on in a broader point um the conservative party of
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canada is there any hope left in there should should derek sloan just leave I mean I asked myself
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this question when I see him with the cpc still in his his twitter bio there should we be trying to
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shift to somewhere else or should we be trying to save anything that's left of the cpc or are they
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just booting too many people out for that to be possible well I wrote an article about that recently
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and you know people always ask oh what's the alternative right and that's that's all you know
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in some ways old tools kind of holding people hostage psychologically of course where it's like
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look you hate justin trudeau and you know you may think that me erin old tool i'm terrible but hey
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i'm not as bad as trudeau so you better vote conservative anyway so i think you know what
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i said in the article was you know certain mps who i think have a future in conservatism and in
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canada uh someone like michelle rempelgarner pierre pauliev you know if you live in their riding
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or you support them then i'd say keep doing that you know you'll want to keep some strong conservative
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voices in the country if you live in a liberal dominated riding where the liberals win easily
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every time certainly feel free to vote for you know the ppc or the maverick party even even just
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once to send a message to the conservatives that you can't betray your base and you can't lie and get
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away with it and then if you live in a swing riding you know realize that you have leverage right you
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know the conservative candidate or mp in a very close riding they need your vote and they need your
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support and they probably want you to volunteer for them and so you know contact them respectfully of
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course and just say look uh you know you guys have been betraying us you know you haven't spoken
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out against a tool obviously lying to everybody and trying to pull a fast one on everybody so unless
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i see you pushing back on some of this stuff i'm not going to vote for you and i'm not going to
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volunteer for you so it's not really a binary thing where people just have to say i'm just automatically
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going to vote somewhere else or stay home but realize that you have some leverage and you can use that
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and put some pressure on politicians you know a lot of them may be you know pretty cowardly but at the
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end of the day it's all about self-interest right they want to get re-elected so right now they're
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thinking if if i oppose a tool then it'll weaken the party and we'll lose and the calculus in their
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mind needs to shift to saying if you don't push back on what a tool is doing you personally are
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going to lose because your core supporters aren't going to turn out for you so i think people need
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to you know study your riding look at the vote margin look at what your mp or conservative candidate is
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saying and use your leverage yeah and i think you made great points there about it not being a
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binary choice now a lot of people were mad in the last election at uh bernier for trying to to split
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the vote now obviously that didn't even actually happen but i'm sure there's going to be a lot less
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complaining about people not voting for erin o'toole this time around because it's pretty evident to me
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that he is not like doug ford not doing what he was elected on yes it was an election within the
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party but they are not doing what everybody thought they were going to do in fact they're
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probably doing the exact opposite and to your point there are a couple of them that i think
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you can throw your hat into sometimes maybe not all the time but uh when it comes to all the things
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that that are happening right now from lockdowns to police oversight to covet hotels to online
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censorship no one seems to be doing anything about that in the conservative party especially not
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in the leadership office whether they disagree with him or not i want to talk to you about
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about the opp um let's show this video if we can i'm not sure if you've seen it a lot of people
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have by now so just in case the opp pushing over allegedly we'll say for the cameras um a 12 year
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old and id-ing them can we play that one please
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OPP are the only ones after this order was put down from the provincial government to say that they will be enforcing it.
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And I have a piece of paper right now from Andrew Lawton, which is his list.
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His list of all the jurisdictions in Ontario, the police jurisdictions or stations, if you want to call that, that said no.
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And the OPP actually said, yes, we will be enforcing them.
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My question to you is, do you think that they have a choice or do you think they should have thrown their hat in with everybody else?
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Well, you know, that's the tough question, right?
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The OPP is technically, I mean, it's controlled by the Ontario government, right?
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But, you know, I think when every other police, you know, jurisdiction has basically said no, they could have really finished Ford off completely and said, yeah, we're not going to do it either.
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He's going to force them, you know, make them, you know, you could have people resign, threaten to resign, threaten to quit.
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So there's a lot of things they could have done just to put pressure on him when everyone else had done the same thing.
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So I think it's, you know, it's funny, you know, for a long time we've been hearing people, you know, a conservative politician goes out and says, I'm going to reduce the rate of spending growth by 0.1% this year to get closer to a balanced budget.
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People are like, oh, fascism, this is unacceptable, this is crazy, right?
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And then you've got the police, you know, pushing around allegedly, a 12-year-old, right?
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And you have, you know, show me your papers, all this kind of stuff.
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Where are all the people warning about fascism?
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You know, where, oh, fascism is just around the corner.
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So it's interesting how situational a lot of people's ethics and political beliefs seem to be.
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But, yeah, I mean, the LPP, I think they should have totally said, look, we're not going to do this either.
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I mean, he had to back down the next day anyway, right?
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So I think, yeah, I think they should have done something.
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Now, let me get a bit more meta on you about this.
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All these police jurisdictions say we're not going to enforce this.
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Is it at all possible that this was planned ahead of time to try to get people to cooperate a bit more?
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We're not going to, we're not going to randomly stop you.
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But then we saw a day later people in Barrie being arrested, people in Mississauga being arrested for protesting.
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Do you think I should even get into such a conspiracy?
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You know, at this point, I think nothing would surprise me.
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You know, the question is, that would imply, you know, a large degree of coordination and competence in the Ford government to pull something like that,
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which seems like it's probably beyond them at this point.
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But look, I mean, you know, a lot of things that people would have called conspiracies.
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I mean, just look at the border right now, right?
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So you've got interprovincial borders, you know, people pushing again for even more lockdowns, you know, trying to shut people down from going outside.
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Despite, of course, going outside being the best thing and being active the best way you can make yourself more resilient in the first place,
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even if you do get the virus and the risk of getting it outside is almost non-existent.
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But then you have flights coming in from, you know, heavily infected countries constantly over and over.
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And the government says, oh, we've got the strongest border controls.
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I mean, it's still coming in and it's spreading in the country from people from outside the country coming here.
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So how can you justify locking people down within our own borders but not stopping people from getting in at the same time, right?
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So that totally sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's exactly what's happening.
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Yeah, and I want to get to another police incident that happened, I'll call it.
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There was a Peel region, which is just west of here, police officer, that was, I don't know, quote-unquote caught by global news.
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So let's go ahead and play the clip of that officer before we comment on it for those who haven't seen it.
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What are we going to do with guys like this that want people to feed their kids for the next 20 years, right?
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We don't want to go along with the close swap agenda.
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I'm fighting by all the protocols, as you should be as well, as you know.
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So, a lot of crimes being committed by this cop here who has been suspended, whether that's
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ceremonial or not, I don't know, maybe they're just saying let's wait until the heat dies
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But I want to get your comment on the Global News Reporter.
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I think it's Shawn O'Shea, if I'm not mistaken.
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mistaken he's out there he's wearing his mask he feels really safe and he's con and in his tweets
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you can see he's condemning what's going on the cop touching and hugging people uh what does this
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say to the state of the media in in terms of being in favor of the lockdowns do you want to comment
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on that yeah it's pretty terrible i mean the media is supposed to be speaking truth to power right so
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they should be going to the politicians and saying why do you guys keep getting paid you know every
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month here you know your nice big salaries while you're destroying other people's livelihoods right
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why are you ignoring a lot of the advice on fitness you know why haven't you once said
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that obesity is the second biggest risk factor for the virus and instead you encourage behaviors where
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people stay home and get even fatter right so why don't you say any of that stuff so i think that's
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that's a big problem the media instead of you know holding the powerful accountable is trying to hold
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the rest of us accountable on behalf of the powerful in the government which is the total opposite of
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what they should be doing and you know it's always i don't know how far i want to go with this but it's
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you always see far when when things are whether it's you know like totalitarian regimes i'm not
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saying we're in one but there's some movement for sure in that direction with what the police
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and the politicians are trying to make the police do it's just this kind of attitude where acts of
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compassion start to get demonized and that's that's very concerning right what someone's punished for
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hugging people and showing he just basic human decency right i mean these are people trying to save
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their livelihoods and the police officers just being a decent human being towards them and so then the
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media calls him out and then he gets punished by the state that's very concerning when you see
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things moving in that direction because it speaks to a kind of attitude behind the scenes that's not
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good at all so i think that's a big concern and yeah it's just in the worst thing is we're expected to
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listen to the politicians and the media who've basically gotten every single thing wrong this
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entire pandemic right i remember you know at the beginning i was saying you know this looks pretty
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serious maybe we should be shutting the borders down right and stopping flights from coming in from china
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and people you know patty heidu justin trudeau theresa tam saying no no it's it's low risk we've
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got it contained we have it managed it's not a problem stigma and racism are the real virus that's
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the real threat and we're gonna you know go down and you know you know hug people you know go down
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to chinatown i mean they were saying things like go down to chinatown and don't let stigma interfere
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with things and then these same people are like we have to completely destroy all our businesses and run
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the biggest deficits of all time to stop the virus and you're gonna have to give up most of your
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charter rights it's that serious so the flip that they've made is just it's stunning and you know
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a credible media would have held them accountable but the media has been there the whole time with
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them yeah it's a big circle of hypocrisy one government is oppressing us and and you know
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they're being fascist but then the government that's actually the same government is it's just
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as it turns out in canada specifically maybe not the united states but the same government here
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has now moved towards that as you were mentioning earlier move towards a more totalitarian
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state and all of a sudden we should be promoting this for our safety and and everything else is okay
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but at the same time enforcing it also shouldn't happen i mean we never stopped flights from china
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i believe flights from india are still happening i don't think we stopped flights from a lot of
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countries that had a high covid case rate but here we are 13 14 months later and it's still going on i think
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we got to leave it there spencer spencer fernando.com and at spencer fernando on twitter i think
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you should make more videos start a rumble account i'll certainly watch it last words to you spencer
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well it's good to talk to you and i think it's you know this is what the country needs right i mean
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the government we see what they're trying to bring with censorship they're trying to you know shut
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people like us down and i think we all need to push back against that and keep getting the truth
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though the truth does win over time sometimes it just takes a while i appreciate you all right have a
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good night and we'll talk to you next time okay all right take care thanks