Was Theresa Tam part of China’s WHO cover-up？
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Dr. Teresa Tam is the head of the World Health Organization fighting against the Ebola virus, but was she on China s side in the debate over whether or not to declare it an international emergency? And why is she still working for the WHO?
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through a very interesting story in a UK newspaper
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about a roaring debate the World Health Organization had in January, January 22nd and 23rd to be
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precise, about whether or not they should tell the world that the virus was an international
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emergency. China won the vote that day, but according to The Guardian, they had
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Western countries supporting them. There were only 15 people on that panel. One of them was Dr.
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Teresa Tam. Whose side was she on? That's the question I get into in today's show.
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Tonight, a bombshell question that needs to be answered. Was Teresa Tam part of China's WHO
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cover-to-show cover-up? It's April 20th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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We've told you why Dr. Teresa Tam, Justin Trudeau's hand-picked chief public health officer,
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needs to go. I can think of four reasons off the top of my head. Number one, she called people who
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were concerned about the virus, she called them racist back in January, even when many of those
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people who were concerned were Chinese people themselves. Number two, she gave bizarre advice
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against using masks. So our advice right now is there is no need to use a mask for well people.
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Three, she said the closing borders for the virus doesn't work, even though China itself sealed off
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Wuhan. If it's a pandemic, do we close borders? Do we shut things down like other countries are doing?
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It may be sort of anti-intuitive for people to understand this, but the more countries that are
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impacted means that your border measure is going to be much less effective and definitely not
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feasible. Yeah, that's so weird. Taiwan has some of the strictest rules against global travel,
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and it kept its death toll in the single digits, even though it's very close to China.
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Number four, what irks me the most of all, is that of all the weirdness I mentioned above,
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it's absolutely word for word the propaganda that the Chinese Communist Party uses and managed to get
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the World Health Organization to parrot. They call concern about the virus racist. They claim the
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virus wasn't contagious, so you don't need to wear a mask. They wanted countries to keep accepting
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airplane passengers from China, especially from Wuhan. So really, why bother having a Canadian
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health officer in Theresa Tam? Why not just read the latest spin on the WHO website?
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If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to
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wear a medical mask like this one. Mask alone can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a
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source of infection when not used correctly. Masks should only be used by health care workers,
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caretakers, or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough. Why? Because health care workers
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and caretakers are in close contact with ill individuals, so they're at higher risk of catching
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COVID-19. Well, as I showed you last week, Theresa Tam doesn't just follow orders from the WHO.
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She works for them right now at the same time as she purportedly works for us Canadians.
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Here's her official biography on the WHO website. She has a biography there because she serves as one
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of seven people on this committee, the Emergency Program Oversight Committee. I mentioned this to
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you before. It was her job to oversee emergencies. Let me read a bit from the job description of the
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committee. I hope this doesn't sound boring. It's actually the key to things. It tells you what
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Theresa Tam was supposed to be doing over there. The main purpose of this seven-person committee is
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quote, to provide oversight and monitoring of the development and performance of the program
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and to guide the program's activities. The program being, you know, the World Health Organization
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fighting against health emergencies. But it gives more specific details. Here's the job description.
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I'm going to read a few points. Assess the performance of the key functions in health
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emergencies. Determine the appropriateness and adequacy of financing and resourcing.
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Provide advice to the Director General. Review reports on WHO's actions in health emergencies.
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Review reports on the state of health security adopted by the Director General for submission
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to the World Health Assembly through the Executive Board and to the United Nations General Assembly.
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So these are her to-do items. That's another way of saying you're the auditor.
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Not a financial auditor checking receipts and things like that. You're not an accountant checking
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for financial fraud, although you're on the lookout, I guess. You're a health auditor checking to make
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sure the WHO is doing the right thing, telling the truth about health emergencies. And we know that
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China didn't do that. Now, everything I've shown you here so far, I've touched on in the past week or so.
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I don't know if you saw it, but last week I recorded a video called FireTam.com, and it's been seen
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about 400,000 times. It's amazing. People are really frustrated with her. And in that video,
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I made most of the points I've just made here so far. But I've learned something new since then,
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and I think it's a blockbuster, maybe. And I've just sent an email to Teresa Tam's office
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asking for her to answer and explain. I'll let you know if I get an explanation.
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It's a story from the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. That's a lefty newspaper,
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but sometimes they do interesting work, no matter what your political stripe. This is one of those times.
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Here's the story here. Caught in a superpower struggle. The inside story of the WHO's response
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to coronavirus. Caught between the U.S. and China, the World Health Body has been unable to enforce
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compliance or information sharing. So they framed it as the U.S. versus China. In some ways, that's
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right, but only in the same way that you have policemen versus robbers, or firemen versus a fire.
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They're opposites, but they're not morally equal to each other. Dr. Fauci, Donald Trump's chief
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health advisor, he has his politics, and you can agree or disagree with him, but I don't think anyone
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would doubt that he's being candid and transparent and acting in good faith. As in, even if he's
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mistaken on something, he's trying to do what he thinks is right. Call me naive, but I believe that.
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Trump seems to, obviously, as well. Whereas whoever is the Chinese equivalent to Dr. Fauci, well,
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there could be no such thing. Fauci goes on countless media interviews and says what he thinks.
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He has no minder checking up on him, no censor. I suppose Trump could fire him if he wanted to,
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but he doesn't seem to want to. I don't think for a second that Fauci would hesitate to disagree with
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Trump if his heart or mind told him to. I don't think Fauci would lie for Trump.
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There is no one like that in China. There just isn't. There's no counterpart. They don't have a
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free press. I'm sure there is a medical expert who actually gives advice to Xi Jinping, but he would do
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so in private so as not to embarrass the dictator or cause him to lose face. And even then, there's a risk
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of telling the truth to an omnipotent tyrant. If you think the news will upset a tyrant,
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you don't want to say it. It's hard to speak truth to power at all. I can imagine it would be
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very hard to criticize Donald Trump. But Trump will not kill you or send you and your family to
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an internment camp if you offend him. He'll give you a mean nickname, maybe, and that's about it.
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I mean, Trump keeps letting Jim Acosta of CNN ask questions almost every day.
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He seems to like it, maybe. You ask one gotcha attack question like that to Xi Jinping and it's
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off to the gulag for you. So my point is, it's not a battle at the WHO between two teams like a sports
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match. It's between medical doctors and public health officers acting in good faith and honesty
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and transparency, the Western democracy way, and one big murderous dictatorship that cares about
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saving face and tamping down unrest at all costs. To equate the two would be like equating firemen
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and a fire. Okay, that's just my thoughts on the headline, but back to the Guardian story.
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This is interesting. Remember, throughout January, the WHO was repeating the Chinese lie that the virus
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was not contagious. Here's a killer tweet. I call it a killer tweet because it surely led to many
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deaths from people who trusted it. Anyways, here's what the Guardian says happened on January 22nd and
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23rd. Apparently, there was a battle raging within the WHO about whether or not to tell the truth
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and declare a global health emergency, a public health emergency of international concern,
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as they call it. The debate raged on for two days within the WHO, but the agency was deadlocked.
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China insisted the virus wasn't contagious, but other countries' doctors insisted it was. Let me quote,
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China argued against declaring an emergency on 22 January, but could not have carried the argument
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alone. And for the vote to have been split, several Western or Western-aligned representatives
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must have voted with Beijing. Voting on whether or not the virus will kill you. But are you with me there?
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So there's only 15 countries in the world who had a representative on that particular committee
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called the IHR Emergency Committee for the COVID-19 Outbreak. So this is the big committee.
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Only 15 countries. So it's a different committee than the other one Teresa Tam was on.
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15 countries in the whole world, and Canada was one of them, and Canada's representative
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was Teresa Tam. There she is at the end of the list of members. Now, how each country voted on January 23rd
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is apparently a secret, if I'm reading this Guardian story correct. Like so much of what the WHO and
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other UN agencies do, it's secret. But neither possibility is any good.
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If Tam voted along with China to lie about the virus, and to continue to falsely claim that the virus was not
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contagious from person to person, she was a party to one of the deadliest political outrages in modern times,
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possibly a crime. But if she voted against China, and I hope she did, if she voted against China and for publishing
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the truth about the virus, but was blocked by China, in some ways that's just as bad. Because that means she
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would have known how bad things were at the WHO. She would have seen firsthand how China was manipulating
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and blocking the facts using politics, corrupting the science using votes at the UN. And yet she still went on to parrot
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How did she vote in this committee? Did she vote at all? We'll have to find out. I've asked her. I mean,
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seriously, how much time is Dr. Tam devoting to the UN's WHO and their shenanigans versus attending to her
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business, you know, her real job here in Canada? But how did she vote? At that key meeting, did she vote with
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China to keep the cover-up going? Before she voted, did she seek input and approval from Trudeau
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or his advisors first? What did they tell her to do? And why did she keep all this a secret
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as thousands died around the world? Don't you see? The WHO isn't good. It's actually evil. Japan's
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deputy prime minister said it should be called the China Health Organization, not the World Health
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Organization. Taiwan knows that pretty well, too. But here in Canada, we're still following the WHO.
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Tam sure does. Trudeau does. Patti Haidu does. She gets furious when people say China's lying.
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So I would say that your question is feeding into conspiracy theories that many people have been
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perpetuating on the internet. Yeah, no, Patti, China lies. Sorry. My question, and I've sent it to Dr. Tam
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by email today, is on January 23rd, that fateful day, when the WHO Pandemic Committee voted in secret to
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keep lying about the virus, whose side was she on? I'll let you know if I get an answer.
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Here again, called for in-person sittings in Parliament. Here's a little bit of what he said.
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If the government wants to effectively shut down Parliament, it needs to explain why. What are the
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Liberals so opposed to? Transparency and accountability are in the best interests of Canadians.
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So I agree. Transparency and accountability are in the best interests of Canadians. I'm not sure
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any journalist would disagree with that notion. I don't think it's completely honest, though,
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to say that the government doesn't want Parliament to return. I just don't know that we've reached a
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place where they agree. Well, that's a CBC pundits panel calling Andrew Scheer dishonest,
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or partially dishonest, in his complaint that Justin Trudeau didn't want Parliament to resume,
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whatever would give people that impression, other than the fact that Justin Trudeau has been
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in a fake quarantine for more than a month in his own house, not wanting to come out,
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resisting all he could, the scrutiny of a question period. It's odd to me that the state
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broadcaster would hold the leader of the opposition to account more than it holds the prime minister
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to account. But let me point out one quick thing before we move on. That panel weighing Justin Trudeau
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could have been handpicked by Justin Trudeau. Let's just quickly go through those four people we saw.
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Rosemary Barton, the host of Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster, she was a personal plaintiff
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suing the Conservative Party in the last election. Next up was Chantal Ibert, who is a scholar
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at the Trudeau Foundation. Then you have Andrew Coyne, and not to be personal about it, but it is
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personal. He has a family connection. His cousin was Pierre Trudeau's mistress and had a daughter by him.
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And finally, Althea Raj, the authorized biographer of Justin Trudeau. Four people on a panel, each of
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whom explicitly or implicitly have a connection to Justin Trudeau. That's the kind of scrutiny the CBC
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proposes. Well, finally, parliament did resume, albeit at a reduced count, and that's fine. And
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our friend Andrew Lawton from True North was watching it, and he comes to join us to report
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on what he saw. Andrew, what a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for taking the time.
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Well, it's always good to have you. And before we go further, let me just remind our viewers
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that Andrew has his own show, which you can subscribe to or watch at andrewlawtonshow.com.
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And you got to give him support. He's one of the few good guys out there not on the take
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from Justin Trudeau. In fact, he's fighting Trudeau with us in court over the Debates Commission. But
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let's get back to today's news. Andrew, what was it like Trudeau finally answering in a form of
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Well, it was funny. There was not a huge amount of fireworks. I think a lot of people were expecting
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that it was going to be this case where we'd all tune into question period. The fur would be flying.
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It started out by all accounts very civil, actually. Andrew Scheer asked the prime minister
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for an update on the Nova Scotia shooting. And then some questions about really the meat of the
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government's response when it comes to getting ventilators in, preparedness, the emergency stockpile
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that we know was expired and discarded. But I do think there's a symbolic issue here that needs to
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be pointed out, which is that Justin Trudeau was claiming for the last few days that Andrew Scheer's
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desire to have Parliament reconvene, as all parties had originally scheduled, by the way,
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was going to jeopardize the health of 338 MPs. The liberal talking point, the media talking point,
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was that Scheer was basically pushing for all the MPs to fly from far-flung corners of the country,
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from Vancouver Island, from Nunavut, from Yukon, from Nova Scotia to Ottawa, and packed themselves
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into the House of Commons like sardines, when in actuality, all that was at stake was exactly what
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we saw today, which is a pared-down, bare-bones, proportionate number of MPs from each party
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getting together under the same roof and doing the business of government. You know, for all that we
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talk about the importance of government in the response to COVID-19, you can't have government
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without Parliament unless you surrender what is the core identity of our government, which is a
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Yeah. Well, recall that about a month or so ago, Trudeau wanted to change the rules so that he could
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rule by fiat, including any spending, not just till we're through the pandemic, but through to the end
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of 2021. Now, that was such an overreach, even the media balked. But Trudeau has taken every
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opportunity to empower himself, take authorities away from Parliament, and reduce scrutiny of his
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Yeah, and I think it's exactly because of that, that the parliamentary oversight that Andrew Scheer and
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the Conservatives have been pushing for is so important, because we've already seen really what
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the ideal scenario is for the Liberals, which is an executive fiat that allows them to tax and spend
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far beyond the imminent danger of the pandemic. And I think that whole episode with that bait and
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switch from the Liberals on that initial relief bill shows why people are more leery. And there was
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one clip from Andrew Scheer's press conference on this morning, as a matter of fact, where a CBC
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journalist asked him, her words, what's your problem? She literally said, why don't you just go along
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with all of these other parties? What's your problem? And that was, I guess, in some ways,
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we can laud the honesty of CBC, just saying Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives need to go along and fall
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in line with the other parties. But the whole point is, you need to have that oversight that comes from
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an opposition party, you need to have the oversight that comes from the parliamentary process.
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Yeah. You know, I saw that clip, I think it was Julie Van Dusen. We have it now. Let me
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play that for our viewers. Just absolutely unthinkable that if the shoe was on the other
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foot, if Stephen Harper were the prime minister, saying he didn't want to be accountable, imagine
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the CBC saying to some liberal, why don't you just go along? I mean, come on. Here, take a look at
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You seem to be almost suggesting that the other parties are joining forces with the government.
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You've called one of them a cheerleader, almost like they're plotting something. I'm just trying
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to figure out why just won't you go along with everyone else? Like, what's your problem? What
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have you got to lose? Well, you know, we don't believe that going along with a plan that eliminates
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80 percent of the sitting days of the House of Commons during a crisis serves Canadians. We don't
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believe that that will result in better programs and services for Canadians. In fact, we know
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the contrary to be true. And we're not talking about some theoretical concept. We're not talking
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about a hypothetical. We know it to be true. When the government has proposed programs...
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You know, it's almost like they're holding the opposition to a ground. Why do you guys have
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to oppose everything? Sure, you're called the leader of the opposition, but you have to be
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so opposey about it. I thought that was a deeply embarrassing moment for Julie Van Dusen personally,
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for the CBC in general. But the media party, they've really been that way since this pandemic
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began. Yeah, that's been the role. And to be fair, I think in the early days, everyone was committed
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to that idea of what Justin Trudeau has called the Team Canada approach, which is all hands on deck,
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suspend partisan differences. And I think that if the government had kept up with that on its end of the,
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on its end of the equation, that might be possible. But they've revealed that they've tried to seize
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power on this. They've revealed that a lot of the promises they've made for relief aren't making
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their way to where they're supposed to. And more importantly, I think they've completely compromised
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their credibility by giving public health advice and recommendations that are wrong, that are just
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flat out wrong, that are reversed within days, reversed within a week, reversed within a few weeks.
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I mean, you compound that with the government shilling for the Chinese regime's numbers,
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with all of the other factors of the World Health Organization. And you've had, I think,
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a huge, huge crisis of credibility in the people that are supposed to be above partisanship leading
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us all through this. Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right. Every single mistake that could have been
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made was made. Calling people racist just when they're concerned about the virus, saying masks don't
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work, not closing the borders, standing by the World Health Organization and Chinese numbers when
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even now China's admitted they were not accurate. Every, I mean, the federal government actually is
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not in the driver's seat for this crisis. For constitutional and practical reasons, it's the
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provinces. Justin Trudeau does not have authority over any hospital in the country. That's all provincial
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matters. It's just the few things that were his to do, the foreign affairs stuff, the airport stuff,
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I guess the bully pulpit stuff. Every single one of them he's got wrong. And he's shown, in my view,
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a laziness, Andrew. I mean, Trump works seven days a week. And by the way, instead of hiding from
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critical questions, he seems to love the scrappier the question, the better. It's such a contrast.
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You don't have to love Donald Trump to acknowledge that he's working seven days a week as opposed to
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Trudeau. Let me ask you a question about today, though. Was there a question in question period today
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that stood out from Scheer or another one of his critics? Was there something that really got to
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an important issue in your mind? I think, yeah. And I'll say Andrew Scheer and also Michael Cooper.
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And Michael Cooper was a lot more punchy with it than Andrew Scheer was. But asking the prime
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minister about China's numbers. And in the end of it, when Michael Cooper asked, and he said,
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listen, I mean, how are you on earth trusting a Chinese communist regime? Christian Freeland gave the
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answer that we've heard multiple permutations of from the government, which is, oh, this is an
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ongoing thing and this is a pandemic. And there was kind of a glimmer of hope in her answer because
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she mentioned authoritarian regime. She didn't call China one, but she mentioned authoritarian regime.
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So perhaps there was a tacit recognition of this. I mean, maybe I misheard and, you know,
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heard her talking about something that, you know, she wasn't talking about. But in her answer,
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she did use those words. And I think that that was, you know, the closest we've gotten from the
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government accepting there might be a flaw with China. And just for context on this, remember that
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last week on Friday, even China acknowledged that China's numbers were wrong. And the point that I
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made on my show is that, you know, this means that Patty Hajdu or Politburo Patty, as I've come to love
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her as I love the nickname of, which has more confidence in China's numbers than China has in China's
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numbers. Yeah, let's play that clip from question period. Michael Cooper and Christy Freeland. Take a
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look. Speaker, the Chinese communist regime repeatedly destroyed and falsified information
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about the spread of COVID-19, all the while imprisoning whistleblowers. As a result, a regional
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health problem became a global catastrophe. What measures is this government prepared to undertake
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to hold the Chinese communist regime accountable? The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister.
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Mr. Speaker, this is a global pandemic. That's why international cooperation and information sharing
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are absolutely essential. We can all help each other and save lives by gathering and sharing the most
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accurate information possible. Having said that, decisions about Canada are made by Canadians based on the
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advice of Canada's world-renowned experts. Finally, Mr. Speaker, I think everyone in this House
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appreciates that democracies are transparent in a way authoritarian regimes can never be.
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Well, I'm glad that they've started to have some functioning as a parliamentary democracy. I note that when
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Hungary brought in some emergency powers, every liberal in the West said, look at that, they're suspending
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parliament. No, no, no, the Hungarian parliament still sits. Those same critics who are quick to
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jump on. Other countries for any authoritarian excesses have given Trudeau a pass. Let me ask you,
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how often will this question period sit? It looks like they worked out the social distancing minimal
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quorum number issue. That's fine. How many days a week do we expect to see Trudeau rouse himself,
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Well, it's still not known. I mean, Andrew Scheer is pushing for three sittings a week.
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Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are trying to push for one plus virtual sittings to augment it. But the
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problem is that those virtual sittings don't exist yet. We don't have the capability or the setup to do
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it. So it's all fine and dandy in the future. But I don't want it to be an excuse that the Liberals
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can use to say, all right, we're going to do one and two virtual sittings when we get the virtual
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sittings up and running. And then that comes sometime, I think, in May of 2047. So the reality
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here is that the only way to guarantee there will be this check and balance is to do in-person
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sittings. But so far, the parties have not yet agreed to the when and the how and how often.
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Let me ask you one last question. In that clip we played a few minutes ago of Julie Van Dusen
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asking Andrew Scheer, why don't you just go along with everyone else? Why are you implying
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that there's something conspiratorial, some sort of coalition? My ears perked up because
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I'm old enough, Andrew, to remember that in, I think it was 2008, maybe it's 2011, the Liberals,
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the Bloc, and the NDP did in fact try and form a coalition to oust Stephen Harper, who had
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only won a minority government. Yeah, that was 2008. And it's amazing how that just seems like
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a distant memory now, that this axis of the NDP, the Liberals, and the Separatist Party
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coming together to try to unseat the Conservatives is now something that we're expecting. We're now
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expecting some sort of collusion mentality and saying, well, but how can you take issue with that?
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Now, why would those other parties be so quick to grant Trudeau a pass? I don't think there's any,
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chance that Canadians would support bringing down the government now and forcing another national
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election now. So it's not a matter of losing a confidence vote. So given that that's off the
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table, why wouldn't the Bloc Québécois, the NDP, and even the handful of Green MPs, why wouldn't they
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want more scrutiny of Trudeau? Surely to score points from their own ideological angle. Why are they
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not wanting to sit? Well, look, I think that the Bloc knows it's never going to form government. The NDP
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knows it's never going to form government. The Green Party, they might think they're going to form
00:28:35.260
government, but they understand that that's not imminent at the time now. So I think for a lot
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of these people, they know that the best chance they have of getting what they want, of getting the
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money, getting the programs, getting the taxing and the spending, is from the Liberals. So I do think
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there is either an implicit or perhaps an explicit agreement between these parties and the Liberals
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that we're going to keep pushing whatever you're advancing and whatever you're championing,
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because these parties know that their agenda, the only thing that they can hope for is that
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Justin Trudeau will go along with it. They know that in the event where the Conservatives are in power
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or the Conservatives have a perceived moral high ground, the Bloc is not getting the concessions that
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they need. The Liberal or the NDP is not getting the concessions they need. And I think they know
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their only hopes of advancing their agenda are by appeasing the Liberals.
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You know what? I think that's an excellent answer. And I see that Trudeau and his ilk are
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already talking about, and certainly the Greens are most explicit, saying, well, let's keep doing
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some of the things we're doing now. And Trudeau has said, when we come back online, we'll have to
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have a green economy. So I think you can see the secret deals, or it doesn't even have to be secret,
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just the subconscious. I'll throw you a bone, Green Party. I'll throw you a bone, NDP. Hey,
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Bloc Habakkuk. I promise I'll finish off the oil patch. Just stay calm and quiet. You can already
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see Trudeau absorbing their agendas in return for their compliance. Very interesting. Listen,
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thanks very much for watching Question Period and giving us the report. And I want to give a shout
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out one more time to your website where folks can sign up for your podcast. It's andrewlaughtonshow.com.
00:30:11.640
Thanks, my friend. And stay healthy and stay safe out there.
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Yeah, you too. Thanks very much for having me on.
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All right. Our pleasure. There's our friend Andrew Lawton. And it's good to see he's working
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so hard holding the government to account. One of the few good guys out there not taking
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a dime from Trudeau. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:30:29.400
Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about fighting to protect civil liberties, Lance writes
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to actually think the government will let us go back to the freedoms we had before the panic,
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give up all that control. There is a bigger force behind all this global panic.
00:30:51.700
Well, that's the battle, my friends. And the battle is on now. We're going to do our best here. Maybe you
00:30:57.120
can help. But the answer is, it is not yet determined how this will go. We're going to do
00:31:02.700
our best to make sure we go back to civil liberties. Paul writes, if we're ever going to come out of
00:31:09.060
this, it will be because of the provinces. The Trudeau liberals would keep us in lockdown forever
00:31:12.940
if they thought they could get away with it. Absolutely, because that's the globalist authoritarian
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way. And Trudeau sort of likes the emergency. He doesn't have to go to work any day. He can hang out
00:31:23.760
at his cottage, a 22-room house. And you see him fighting hard. He doesn't want to even go to
00:31:28.640
question, period. Yeah. Trudeau and his people will do just fine out of this, believe me.
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On my interview with Lauren Gunter, Bruce writes,
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Lauren is correct. It's time to start reopening places. Protect seniors, but let schools and
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businesses reopen. If people are kept under house arrest, there's going to be an explosion of anger.
00:31:46.760
I think that people are relieved that it's not a mass casualty event. I mean, we're not quite at
00:31:54.540
2,000 deaths in the whole country. That's still a very large number. Obviously, no one wants any
00:31:58.540
deaths, but that's not 20,000 or 200,000 as some models predicted. So people realize it's not a panic
00:32:06.880
like they were told. And people are also detecting more and more, I think, that this disease attacks
00:32:13.860
certain kinds of people. Older people, not younger people. People with pre-existing health
00:32:18.520
conditions. So if you're a 25-year-old healthy person who's out of work, it doesn't make a lot
00:32:25.380
of sense for you to remain out of work because a 75-year-old in an old folks' home might be in
00:32:30.540
jeopardy. I think it's going to be very interesting days ahead. And we have our role with
00:32:34.780
fightthefines.com. That's where we're going to go to work. I should tell you, we already have
00:32:40.480
seven clients in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. And we're going to fight
00:32:49.820
back. All right, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here
00:32:54.740
at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.