Trudeau goes on vacation (again) as coronavirus spreads to Canada
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The first case of Coronavirus lands in Canada, and Justin Trudeau takes his second vacation of 2020, just as the first Canadian case of the deadly virus lands in the country. Ezra goes through some reports from China and around the world on how they're dealing with it, including the Italian government sending medics to planes arriving from China.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I go through some reports from China on the coronavirus and
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also from around the world of how they're dealing with it. Very interesting approaches
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in Hong Kong itself and in Italy, where they send medics into airplanes arriving from China.
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I will show you all that. Actually, I guess you'll hear the audio. If you want the video
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helps us pay the bills. All right, here's today's show.
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau takes his second vacation of 2020, just as the first coronavirus lands in
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Canada. It's January 27th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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On the weekend, Canada got our first case of coronavirus, the deadly virus that is raging
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through China. A man flew on a China Southern Airlines flight to Canada. That is a very long
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flight. He got off the airport and walked through customs, and we only heard about him because
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he later realized he was sick and he called an ambulance. The CBC found someone to say,
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look at this, it was quite impressive how quickly first patient was isolated and treated. Really?
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I'm not really impressed. And I see this morning that his wife has now fallen ill too,
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and that she hadn't been quarantined. She hadn't been under any observation. She had been under a
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self-quarantine, whatever that means. That means no quarantine. Have you ever returned to Canada from a
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long trip abroad? I have. Typically, you go to the grocery store to get some fresh milk and eggs and
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bread. Maybe you pick up some dry cleaning. You putter around town a bit. Did this woman literally
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not leave her home? We don't know. Now, this news started coming out on the weekend about the Canadian
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case. Public health officials from the government of Ontario had a press conference. I didn't find it
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particularly useful, but I suppose that government bureaucrats working on a weekend, that's a good sign
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of some sort. I recall one of the excuses that the Soviet Union used for not alerting the world
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to the Chernobyl disaster was that it happened on a weekend. And the Soviets said, I swear they said
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this, that they didn't think Western bureaucrats would work on the weekend. And, you know, most
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bureaucrats actually don't, but these ones in Ontario did. They said that the passengers near this sick man
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on the plane would be in danger. If this person was symptomatic and infectious during the flights,
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and that is something we're still ascertaining. The protocol is to work with the federal government,
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and I have talked to Dr. Theresa Tam at the Public Health Agency about this already,
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getting the flight information up to them through to get to the manifest and usually to identify people
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who are within three rows of the person who's infectious because they would be at risk potentially.
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But things like international flights where the air circulates for 12 hours, they're not really the
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domain of provincial governments. That's more of a federal jurisdiction. And Justin Trudeau was on
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the second holiday of the year this weekend. I mean, he took an extra long 17-day holiday over
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Christmas. I've never heard of a world leader of a G7 country going on a 17-day vacation before.
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Have you? 17 days. A lot happened in that 17 days, if you remember. Iran and the United States started
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trading blows. Canada has 500-plus soldiers in the Middle East. Trump took out Iran's leading
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terrorist. General Trudeau, he couldn't be bothered to end his vacation any sooner. He's still wearing
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that vacation beard like he's just phoning it in. He's been pitifully weak in dealing with Iran since
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they shot down a Ukrainian passenger taking off from their own airport. Trudeau calls that a crash or
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a tragedy when, of course, it's murder, manslaughter at best. Dozens of Canadians dead. But look,
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that's tough to deal with and stressful and you need to know what to do. And Trudeau doesn't know
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what to do, so he hides on vacation. So he was on vacation again this weekend. Who has had two
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vacations already in 2020? Now, when the province of Ontario was having its press conference on the
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weekend, I checked for any comment from any relevant federal cabinet minister. I checked
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Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, his deputy, and Harjeet Sajan, the defense minister, and Mark Garneau,
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the transport minister, and Bill Blair, the public safety minister, and Patty Hajdu, the health minister.
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I checked them all. Literally not a word from any of them. They were on holiday too. Or rather,
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they were partying. They were all out at different Chinese New Year parties, ironically.
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Literally in the middle of the Ontario press conference, these cabinet ministers were partying.
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Many of them were partying in Toronto, just a few miles away from where this emergency press
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conference was happening. They were literally posting pictures of their parties to Twitter
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and Instagram in the middle of the press conference. I mean, in truth, if they had gone,
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what would they even say? Trudeau, their boss, was on holiday. He wasn't holding emergency meetings.
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There was no cabinet meeting, not even a phone call, conference call. It's not like
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these cabinet ministers had instructions, marching orders from him. If they would have said anything,
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they'd probably get in trouble, either for contradicting the boss or, more likely,
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making the boss look bad and lazy. When the news broke of the first infection in Canada,
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I went to the state broadcaster. And hours after the news broke, there still wasn't a single story
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about it on the CBC's main website. Like the Liberal cabinet, the Liberal spin doctors at the CBC
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didn't know what to say yet. They were all waiting for their instructions from Trudeau.
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You know, I'm certain that we'll have to rely on the foreign press to tell us anything useful,
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other than the good news. Just like during the election, we had to rely on America's Time magazine
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to reveal the Trudeau blackface photo, because the Canadian media all had these photos, but they just
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wouldn't publish them. So expect a lot of that. In fact, the CBC has been weirdly reminiscent of
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China's state broadcasters criticizing people for being too worried and for embarrassing the
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government. Look at this story. It plays to our worst fears. Coronavirus, misinformation fueled by
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social media. Experts say social media has increased the spread of misinformation during outbreaks.
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Hey, what's a social media expert, by the way? It's someone the CBC thinks you need to listen to,
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that's all. You know, it's true, there is misinformation in the middle of any crisis,
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and rumors and gossip can fill the void. I don't think it helps when the Prime Minister takes a
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three-day vacation in the middle of it and leaves no instructions for his minions, and by that I mean
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his CBC. But actually, these days, there's a lot of positive information that fills the void.
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Some of it could have errors in it. It's possible there's an incorrect translation from something in
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Chinese, for example, or that something's missing. Sure, sure. But this here is an official government
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propaganda video from China showing every car on a major highway in Shanghai being stopped and
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inspected. That shows it's getting bad out there in one of their biggest cities. This is a compendium
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of videos from various cities in China. What's the most worrisome part of this in my mind
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is that scene from the crowded hospital hallway. Now, I don't know if all of those people had
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coronavirus going in, but jammed together in that hallway for an hour, I'm pretty sure they've all got
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it now. There are direct flights from Shanghai to Canada, by the way. Now, here's a video that purports
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to show people in a small town physically trying to scare away people from the big city who they fear
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are bringing the virus to them. That made me think of the panic and chaos of a medieval plague. Who
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knows if they're right? Probably not. But here's an official propaganda video released by China
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yesterday. Now, keep it running for a moment and actually turn up the volume a bit. There's no words.
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It's just the soothing sound of rain. That's Wuhan. That's the hot zone. The streets are empty. It
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sort of looks pretty, doesn't it? The rain helps clear the smog away, I think. It really is a calming
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video. Very well done, propaganda-wise. It's calming because there are no people in it, are there?
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No panicking civilians, no crowded hospital hallways, no police confused about what to do and why.
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There's this brief moment where there's diggers building a new quarantine hospital. That's in
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the video. But no people. That's the way to calm people down, I guess. Just soothing. I'm not sure
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if it works. It felt more like, you know, that scene in the zombie apocalypse movie before the
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climactic battle where you say, wow, there's no one left alive. So what are other countries doing
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besides Canada and China? Well, the United States is arranging not one, but several flights to
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evacuate its citizens from Wuhan. I see that a number of countries are doing the same or taking
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steps to prepare to do the same. France, Australia, the United Kingdom, Russia, but not us. Our guy was
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on vacation, you see. You'll just have to wait. Look at this tweet from a flight from Hong Kong to Milan,
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Italy. Italian health authorities don't seem to be taking any chances with the coronavirus.
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Just landed in Milan from Hong Kong and every passenger is having their temperatures checked
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and providing contact details. That's from in the plane. That sounds pretty prudent, doesn't it?
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Why don't we do that? Flights from China only come into, you know, not even half a dozen Canadian
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airports. Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, maybe a few others. I don't know. How hard would it be to
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simply have medics board the plane and do the exams right out in the plane rather than wait for people
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to self-report? Get off the plane, spread it around as the first two cases in Toronto did.
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Here's an infrared thermometer scanner in Hong Kong's own airport. Anyone coming into the city by plane has
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their temperature taken automatically by remote. They don't even realize that. If they have a fever,
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they're pulled over. Why can't we do that? That's not really new technology, actually.
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There are 4,000 people from the city of Wuhan around the world right now, according to the government.
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So it's probably 10 times that. How many of them are in Canada? Do we know? Does anyone care?
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I think the reason why Trudeau is on holidays is not because he's tired from working. Like I say,
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he just had a 17-day holiday over Christmas. That's crazy. It's that he's running away. He's
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hiding from problems. He doesn't know what to do. He's not a decider. He's not an executive. He lacks
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the energy to do anything. We know he hasn't talked to Donald Trump in over a month, despite huge issues
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where he should, whether it's Iran or China or the virus or hostages, whatever. Trudeau's hiding.
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He's got that beard that says, I'm mentally still on vacay. I wonder if he'll even show up in
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question period today just to fake it. But hey, maybe this is all a good thing. Here's a tweet from
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a Trudeau ally in Quebec, a former politician, current journalist, Luc Ferrandez. Let me translate it.
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No automobile traffic. Wuhan. No automobile traffic. No air flights. The only city on the planet that will
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meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets, the path to the decline, which will be necessary when
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all the debates have been in vain. I think he's actually cheering for the virus. What a perfect
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Well, we live in very strange days. And I could be talking about any half dozen number
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of things. But in particular, I'm talking about the transgender agenda. As I've said
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to you before, I've faced censorship from a number of camps, not the least of which is
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political censorship. Of course, I faced Islamic censorship when I published the Danish cartoons
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of Mohammed. But there is no censorship that is faster or more furious than transgender censorship.
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I don't know if you know this, but when our reporter, Kian Bextie, was covering the case
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of Jonathan, a.k.a. Jessica Yaniv, Twitter was monitoring Kian in real time. And if he said
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Jonathan Yaniv instead of Jessica, if he said he instead of she, Twitter would immediately suspend
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him. And he would have to delete the tweet. And then it was like they had a real-time hall monitor.
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That is how forceful the transgender censorship is. Of course, censorship is the least of us.
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People can be fired from their senior jobs. People can be physically attacked. There's so many things
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going on, and it's all happened so suddenly. One person in Canada who I think has been following
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it more closely than anyone else is our friend Barbara Kay, a columnist in various places,
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including the National Post. And she just wrote a piece in the Post called,
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Will 2020 Be the Year of Reason in the Cancel Culture Wars? Most people, McGill's Prof. Vazier
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believes, want to see more brave conversations on difficult topics. Barbara joins us now via Skype.
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Well, I'm fine. I think you might be optimistic if you think 2020 is the year that cancel culture
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is overcome. But let me invite you to make your case. Why do you think we're turning the corner
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when all around me, I see more censorship than ever? I see setbacks. Maybe I'm not seeing the
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good news. What do you think is reason for optimism?
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Well, there was one piece of good news that, you know, I'm looking for reasons to be optimistic. So
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maybe I'm over optimistic. But the piece of good news that I found encouraging was that the
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psychiatry department or the department of transcultural and ethnic psychiatry, ethno-psychiatry,
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invited Dr. Kenneth Zucker to make a presentation at the Montreal Neurological Institute on his research
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into gender dysphoria. And the fact that Kenneth Zucker, who is highly controversial, considered
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highly controversial in this field, could be invited to come, that he would, that the lecture would go
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forward without protest, that people of various opinions would come together, listen to what he
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had to say, listen respectfully, and then engage with him in a respectful Q&A. This all did happen
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at McGill, McGill administration, in spite of some petitions for cancellation, there were. But they,
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again, they were, you know, letters, not, not placard wielding activists screaming, you know, accusations
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of transphobia. It all went according to what you would consider to be civil opposition, or, you know,
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two sides of a coin, and people voicing their opinions, you know, in the way that universities are
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supposed to. So it was a good, it was a good event. And it was well conducted. And the administration
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didn't even for a minute consider de-platforming Dr. Zucker. So for me, it was, it was, you know,
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a positive moment. My editor was very glad to get some positive news on that front.
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You're talking about Dr. Ken Zucker. Now, he was actually fired from McGill, right? For, I mean, he
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believes that certain cases of, well, why don't you tell us a little bit more about Dr. Zucker? I'm
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sure you know his case better than me. He was sacked. Yeah. He later got a retraction, I think,
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a payment. But tell us a little bit about who this guy is, and why you think it's important that he
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gave a speech within this institution. Okay, so he was not fired from McGill. He was fired from the
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Center for, wait, CAMH in Toronto. What is it? The mental health, the, uh, the mental health. Okay,
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he, he had been headed, he headed up the, uh, uh, gender, uh, dysphoria or gender identity clinic
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for decades. And he is the, he is an international expert on gender dysphoria. He is the editor in chief
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of, uh, uh, uh, the archive of sexual behavior, which is, you know, the leading journal for that
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domain. And, uh, so he was highly respected for many, many years in his profession. Um, but the
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activists, uh, were not happy with his clinical approach to treating gender dysphoria because, uh,
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he had a very holistic approach. Uh, if parents brought a child, uh, that was confused about
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gender to his clinic as his patient, he didn't just say, oh, this child, you know, this little
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girl thinks she's a boy. Uh, okay, let's, uh, let's talk about puberty blockers. He said, well,
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tell me about this child. What's her behavior like in general? Is she depressed? Is she anxious?
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Have there been family issues? Uh, like in other words, he was treating, he does treat his patients,
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uh, as a psychotherapist, um, activists nowadays in the last several years have decided that, uh,
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gender dysphoria is not a disorder. It's a, it's a normal condition. Um, and psychotherapists should
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really not be doing the offering, uh, treatment of that kind to children. They don't need therapy.
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They need affirmation. So, uh, on the affirmation model, Dr. Zucker became suddenly very, uh,
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incorrect in his approach and, uh, the activists were out to get him. They made false allegations
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about him, that he was practicing something they call conversion therapy. Uh, he was doing nothing
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of the kind. He does endorse for those children who are persistent, um, in their, in their, uh, dysphoria.
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He does, uh, endorse puberty blockers and the rest of it. So, uh, it was false allegations and he
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therefore, uh, did, he was sacked, but he did, uh, sue CAMH and did receive a payout, but he was not
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reinstated and now he's practicing privately and continuing with his research. I have to tell you,
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Barbara, it's so, um, bizarre to hear him accused of conversion therapy. And I know that phrase is used
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if someone is gay and, uh, conversion therapy is, well, no, you're actually straight and here,
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let's talk you out of it. Well, it seems like the greatest conversion fad these days is to convert
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people to trans. The irony that trans activists would be against conversion when that's their whole
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shtick is all they want to do is convert people who may be gay.
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Or they, or they, or they certainly encourage, uh, what is entirely normal in childhood, uh, to have,
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you know, passages or phases when, uh, you're non-conforming to your biological sex. That is
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extremely normal. And as we know from many studies, uh, children who are non-conforming in childhood,
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uh, usually after puberty turn out, uh, to be comfortable in their natal sex. Uh, many of them
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turn out to be gay. So if you have like an effeminate little boy, that doesn't mean he wants to be a
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girl. It means that he, or it may probably means, uh, nothing whatsoever, or, uh, it means, uh, that he
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will turn out to be gay. So, uh, you know, I think you're right. This word conversion from, uh, when that's
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not the intention at all, uh, to help children with their confusion is, is, is a real false
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allegation. Yeah. Well, um, I accept your detection of a modest victory in that Dr. Zucker was allowed
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to give a speech despite some letters of protest. Um, I guess you have to take your, uh, your victories
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where you find them. Um, let me draw your attention across the pond to a very prestigious, uh, institution,
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perhaps the most prestigious university in the world, Oxford University, where Professor Selina
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Todd, who is a feminist, she is a, you know, 10 years ago, she would have been the leading edge
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of political progressivism. But because she is a feminist, she's a woman first, I suppose you could
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say. She has been targeted by transgender extremists. Um, they call, they use that made up word against
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her, a TERF, that she's a trans-exclusionary radical feminist. It's gone more than just arguing with her
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or trying to de-platform her. It's to the point where physical threats mean that she must now have a male
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bodyguard at her lecture. So this is in the highest institution in the UK. And she is someone who,
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mere moments ago, was the most progressive person around. Now, she's being threatened by these trans
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thugs to the point where she needs bodyguards. That's not just cancel culture. It's almost like
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she's Salman Rushdie. Yeah, it's a fiat culture. It's a fatwa, you know, gender fatwa culture.
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These are people, by the way, who usually, when you see them on talk shows or panel discussions,
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they talk a great deal about compassion, about how, how any discussion about gender that doesn't
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conform to their narrative is it causes pain, it causes harm. It's not a safe space for trans people.
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But when you do step outside the bond, the bounds of what they want to hear, you do find some of the
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radicals amongst them. It can get very brutal in their abusive pushback. One last question. I appreciate
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you taking the time to talk to us about these. So few people will even talk about these things.
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It's so, you instantly become labeled, no matter how progressive you are, no matter how warm-hearted
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you are, if you refuse to go with the full trans agenda, you are unpersoned. And even someone with
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impeccable progressive credentials like this, Professor Todd, imagine having two bodyguards in her classes.
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I know. Burly bodyguards. I noticed that in the description of the bodyguards.
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Yeah, Burly. Yeah, that's right. They're not messing around. Now, here's the thing that got me.
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Like so many Canadians, I follow, with some amusement, the Democratic Party's presidential
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nomination primaries in the United States. I just think it's fascinating. I'm sure you do too.
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They have had a real focus on transgender issues. I'd say, I mean, obviously, climate change is
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their number one. But they really talk about transgender a lot in their town halls. And I saw
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Joe Biden, who I think is regarded as more moderate than, let's say, Bernie Sanders, more moderate than
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certainly Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I mean, Joe Biden, he's of a certain vintage. He's been in the
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Senate for decades. He was vice president for years. He said that the trans agenda is the absolute,
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in the tweet here, is the absolute human rights battle of our lifetimes. So if the most conservative
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Democrat running for president says a trans agenda, 100%, I think he, I don't know if he's trying to get
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some advantage over Bernie, or if he's just trying to head off an attack against him. But he said it now.
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I think they're mad. I think that every mum in America, or every dad, really, who wants their
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daughter to be able to enjoy sports at school, or wants their daughter to be able to change in a
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locker room or go to a bathroom without having some Jonathan Yaniv character in there. I think this is
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so far down, the emperor has no clothes. I think it's crazy. And when Joe Biden did it,
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I thought, my God, it's gotten far. Do you have any thoughts on that? The so-called most, go ahead.
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Yeah, I think Elizabeth Warren, a little while ago, said one of the points of her platform
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was to ensure that trans women, you know, male-bodied people that want to be, like Jessica Yaniv,
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that they would have access, that they would have access to being billeted in women's prisons. That
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was very important to her, that they would have the right to be in women's prisons.
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And I said to myself, man, you know, she thinks Twitter is the American population. She thinks 10
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people on Twitter represents the majority opinion out there. And she's out to lunch on this. Because
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if you did a real poll of the American population on how they feel about male bodies in women's
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prisons, they'd say, what are you even talking about? They wouldn't even have been aware of that
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discussion. And if you asked them, they'd say, well, why? Why would you? You know, I mean, so, so when,
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when they get into this whole trans thing, they're really treading on very, very fragile ground,
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because they're, they're responding to the activists, to the loudest voices. They have no idea
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what ordinary people or, by the way, ordinary trans people do not identify with these radicals
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at all. They just want to live their life. And most of them can absolutely see why male bodies
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should not be in women's sports, or in women's prisons, or rape crisis shelters, or in girls'
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locker rooms. So, you know, this is a very dumb thing that they're doing, trying to outdo each other
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on the trans file, which is on nobody's list of important issues, you know, in their voting patterns.
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Yeah. You know, I, I'm just waiting for a politician, a mainstream politician somewhere to say,
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the emperor has no clothes. I'm not going along with this. I think they would get a huge
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bandwidth of support. You know, let me say one quick word about prisons. Obviously, if a woman
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is in a prison, she's probably done something very bad because most women, even who commit violent
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crimes are not imprisoned. That said, I would imagine that if you're a woman in prison,
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you've had a pretty rough go in your life. And although you're obviously a criminal,
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you're probably in many ways, a victim of life too. And to put a man in a woman's prison
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is to victimize those other women in countless ways. And, and as you know, Barbara, under Justin Trudeau,
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it is now the policy that Corrections Canada must put prisoners in the prison that they identify
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with. So if Jonathan Yaniv in Vancouver, who's now being criminally prosecuted for having a
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restricted weapon and, and possibly even for assaulting our reporter, if he's jailed, he can say,
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I'm going in with the girls. And it's shocking to me. I just, I haven't seen any conservative
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politicians in Canada speak out against this. Have you like not even a common sense conservative,
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like a Doug Ford or a Jason Kenney? Have you? No, I haven't. And it's a, it's kind of weird.
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This is a subject that's become such a, you know, a hot rail, uh, that everybody seems very afraid to
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touch it. But, uh, you're, you're so right about, uh, these women, many of them are very tough,
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uh, tough women. I, they have done bad things. Uh, but as you say, they're, uh, one of the reasons
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they've done bad things is they've had a tough go in life. And I suppose one could say the same about
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the men. I don't want to get into, uh, who's had the tougher background. Uh, but the idea is, uh,
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they should be in, in a safe space sexually. Um, and of course men aren't, look, we could get into
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this whole thing of, of male rape and all of that. I mean, it's, it's all, it's all problematic,
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but I don't see why there can't be units, uh, for trans women and trans men within the prison system.
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I don't see, I don't see that's a big stretch. So I don't know why this. I mean, I just think that
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that the first candidate who comes forward and says, I'm just, you know, I, I'm not for picking
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on anyone, but I just, I'm not going to go along with the madness. We're not going to be mean to
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trans people, but neither are we going to go along with the madness. I think that person would immediately
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draw from the center left, the center, right. And a lot of people who don't even think in terms of
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left and right, they would just say, yes, thank you. Stop the madness. No, really it look, uh, trans,
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trans rights often collide with women's rights. This is, this is a fact. And, uh, when they do
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collide, you can't just say, no, trans rights trump women's rights because trans, you just can't, you,
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you have to use common sense. Well, listen, Barbara, it's always good to talk with you. Thank you. We sort
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of meandered a little bit, but there was such a strange and interesting subject. And, um, I mean,
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to be censored in real time, like to watch Kian tweet about Jonathan Yaniv and he was censored,
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I think five times in an hour, they had someone watching his tweets. They do actually. Yeah. I
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think, I think there is somebody literally within Twitter who's assigned to the Yaniv case. I really
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get that impression. Yeah. It's, it's crazy. Um, and I, I don't know if you know this and I'll just,
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I, I don't think we've officially told our, our viewers, but not only is Yaniv now being
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investigated for his assault on Kian Bextie, but we have decided to file a civil action against
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Yaniv for his assault on Kian, as well as his assault using a cane against David Menzies,
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because it's just part of the madness is that people let them get away with it. And I think
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we're going to stop here. And for folks who are interested, uh, when it's filed, we'll have that
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full lawsuit up at Yaniv trial.com. If people want to see it, Barbara, you take care and don't
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let anyone push you around. I tell you. Okay. And Godspeed in your civil suit. I hope you win.
00:32:23.400
Thanks Barbara. Great to see you again. Well, there's our friend, Barbara Kaye. She writes
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for the national post and other places. And she's one of the most courageous journalists
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when it comes to the issue of transgenderism. Stay with us. More ahead on the rebel.
00:32:42.280
Hey, what do you think? Do you think I'm over worried about this Corona virus? Do you think
00:32:48.200
I'm worried too much? I don't know. I, I saw that movie Chernobyl and I, and I was reminded of how
00:32:54.760
authoritarian regimes cover up bad news because they don't want to look weak. Uh, it's certainly
00:32:59.880
what the Soviet union did. Uh, we know China's covered up health epidemics before the SARS virus.
00:33:06.840
We know that that came to Canada and killed people here too. Uh, we know from the fact they
00:33:12.520
had a weekend press conference that Ontario's public health officials seem to be engaged, but
00:33:16.840
we know that Trudeau took his second vacation this weekend. Are you confident
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that he'll do anything? I see what other countries are doing. Basic things. I really like that Milan idea
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of just sending medics onto the plane, take temperatures on the plane. Why didn't we do that?
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I don't know. I don't want to be alarmist, but they're certainly ringing the alarm in China.
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Uh, I don't think they would do that if it wasn't really, really bad. That's the thing about
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authoritarian regimes. And it's probably even more so in the Chinese culture of saving face.
00:33:49.480
You don't declare an emergency and seal off, what is it now, 50 million people? If something's not
00:33:56.600
desperately wrong. I'm worried. Uh, I'm not in panic mode yet, but I'm a little worried. I'm attentive.
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And with Trudeau in the decider's chair, that's really what worries me the most.
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All right, folks, that's the show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at
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Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.