Why are the courts shutting down — even Zoom trials？
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A year into the pandemic, and the courts have still not figured out how to serve the public in the Pandemic? Grocery workers never took a day off, and yet the courts are shut down because of a pandemic? What's going on?
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Hello, my rebels. I thought I was in a time machine. I saw an announcement from a senior
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judge in Ontario that he wants to basically delay trials, reduce the amount of action in the court,
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even by Zoom trials. And I thought, now this has got to be a year old. No, we checked. It's a new
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story. Really? A year into things and they still haven't realized or figured out how to serve the
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public in the pandemic. Grocery workers never took a day off. I'll take you through the announcement.
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It makes me mad. We also interviewed Mark Morano about the new global warming summit.
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They got big plans. China's just laughing. That's all I had. Before I get to that,
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Tonight, why are the courts shutting down even Zoom trials? It's April 26, and this is the Ezra LeVant
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Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say
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to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I saw this headline just this week, not from a year ago, but actually last Tuesday. It said,
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Ontario Superior Court of Justice to defer cases due to pandemic.
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Ontario Superior Court of Justice has directed courts to defer as many matters as possible due
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to the pandemic. Chief Justice Jeffrey B. Morowitz issued a notice to the profession and the public
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on Tuesday, saying courts should reduce the number of staff, lawyers, or parties required
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to leave their homes. Okay, it's been 14 months. Are you saying this branch of government,
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the highest paid branch, the highest status branch, the judges, they haven't figured out how
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to operate in the pandemic? I mean, grocery stores never closed. Factories never closed. Banks never
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closed. Pharmacies never closed. Construction sites never closed. I think that, frankly, some of the
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so-called COVID measures introduced by many of these companies are absurd, and they're public health
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theater, not real medicine. But still, they're never closed. But now, 14 months into things, the
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Senior Court of Ontario thinks it has to gear down because of the pandemic, really? I double-checked. I
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thought, no, this has got to be a year old. No. So let me show you this. There's no factual reason for
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this panic right now. I grabbed this from the Ontario government's official COVID stats page. I know I'm
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talking about Ontario, but this shows the insanity all across Canada and all around the world. Look at
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this. The number of hospitalizations in Ontario is pretty much stable. It bounces up and down a little
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bit. It's around 2,200 people. That's around four people per hospital in the province. Again, that's
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similar across Canada. The intensive care unit numbers are around one-third of that. So just over one person
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per hospital in intensive care. So what's the panic? The number of deaths is pretty steady. In fact, it's
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actually down significantly from January. Again, these stats are pretty similar across the country. So why are the
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Ontario courts being shut down now? Are they just moving online? Is that what's going on? They're doing
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Zoom calls? No. Morowitz says virtual hearings should also be deferred. What? Why? What's the problem with
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those? I mean, just a few months ago, I don't know if you saw this, we learned that Zoom trials are so
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easy to do. One Ontario judge actually went to the Caribbean and held his trials from there via Zoom.
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Imagine that. You're sitting on the beach in the Caribbean and then you just hop into your cabana.
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Maybe you put on a robe to cover up your bathing suit. Maybe you put up a fake backdrop to make it
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look like some dreary Toronto landscape and you're ruling on Ontario matters from afar. That's how easy
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it is to do Zoom hearings. But apparently that's not easy enough.
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He says courts will focus on the most serious child protection matters, urgent family matters,
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critical criminal matters, and urgent commercial or economic matters. Hey, what's a serious child
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protection matter as opposed to a non-serious one? What's a critical criminal matter as opposed to
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a not important one? Does it defend who the victim is if they're fancy? Of course, not a single person in
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our justice system. Not a single person in any branch of government has been laid off during the
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lockdowns. Not one has lost their job. While the private sector was bulldozed. So this is basically
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a Trudeau, you know, when he just sort of had a staycation for a year. He wants the pay, he wants
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the status, but he just wants less work, you know. Even fewer Zoom calls, which you can do in the comfort
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of your own home. That's the lockdown class for you, right? All the money, all the power, and the
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pandemic is just an excuse to work less. Tell it to the grocery store cashiers. So let's catch up
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here. First, parliament was canceled and then brought back in a very limited manner. Of course,
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journalists were limited to who could attend and who could attend press conferences. So limited
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parliament, limited journalists covering parliament. As if parliament was making any of these laws these
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days, they're all done by decree by appointed bureaucrats. You know, the kind, the kind who
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act like they're high priests. I'm going to be very frank. There's no politician in this country
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who's going to disagree with their chief medical officer. They just aren't going to do it. They
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might as well throw a rope around their neck and jump off a bridge. They're done. I'm telling you
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the facts. It's very simple. I don't know why I bring all these papers. I never look at them.
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Oh, you're giving numbers. I do. I go, oh, oh, oh. I said that. Did you really say that?
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I just say whatever they write down for me. That's why you're laughing.
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So limit parliament, then limit media coverage of parliament, limit travel, both internationally and
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now within our own country, between provinces, sometimes even within provinces. Limit churches.
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Limit permission to leave your own house. Limit the hours to leave your own house.
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Which exercising is one of them. Exercising is not allowed.
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What am I allowed outside of my house for? Could you explain that to me?
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There's a list that's readily available. You don't have that list? You don't have that list,
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but you're here charging me for something, but you don't know what's on the list.
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I do know what's on the list. Then could you explain it to me?
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I'm not going to argue with you. Do you have your option?
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Because you can't argue? Because you're charging me with no rounds whatsoever to charge me?
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No, you didn't. I just asked. Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. I'm not allowed to do that.
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Are you going to go give him a second? Because he's outside.
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You've been charged and you have your options, okay?
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Limit your life. Limit everything except your limitless obedience.
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And acceptance and compliance. No limit on police powers.
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No courts have struck down any meaningful lockdown rule.
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Today, the federal court agreed that the COVID jails and airports do indeed violate our charter rights,
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You can go through that for a few more months, said the court.
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Oh, and up next, Trudeau and his heritage minister, Stephen Gilbell,
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really his censorship minister, will introduce their law to
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limit what you can say and what you can hear on the internet.
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You're living through the internet, but now that will be limited,
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We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service
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due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families.
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Look, if this chief judge is saying that we just plain old have too many laws and too many lawsuits,
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He's not giving up his power and his prominence.
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He's just saying he and his friends would like to work a little less,
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Because, you know, you see there's this great new Netflix show on and the lockdown class.
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They just need a little bit more me time, don't they?
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Well, so Biden, again, promised about 80 percent or a little more than 80 percent
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And what that translates into is a reduction in temperature by the end of the century
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if Biden actually makes the next president or the next after that in 2030 carry through
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his promises and if all the presidents for the next 70 years up till 2100 do the same.
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If all that happens, he will have managed to reduce global temperatures by the end of
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This is if you run it in the standard UN climate model.
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Now, remember, Biden is talking about, as you also saw with Kerry,
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that this will cost about half a trillion dollars a year.
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That's 1,500 U.S. dollars per person in the U.S. per year.
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The average person in the U.S. says they're not even willing to pay $24.
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You're not going to be able to see support for that kind of policy in the long run.
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He's an author, he calls himself the skeptical environmentalist because he actually has
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environmental goals in his heart, but he sees through the BS of politicians, bureaucrats,
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The left hates him because he's not a climate denier, as they call many conservatives.
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He's someone who's worried about the climate and the environment, but he just says your carbon
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This half a trillion dollar a year spending proposed by Joe Biden is not going to work.
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But that certainly won't stop Western politicians from digging in.
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Look at this Zoom meeting with the world's leaders.
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So he couldn't catch a cold through his computer.
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Maybe he's heard about one of those computer viruses.
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I just thought it projected a weirdness or a lack of science or just a general weakness.
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Compare him to, well, there's China's Xi Jinping on the left.
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Listen, he knows about mugging for the cameras.
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He didn't need to be told twice, but Joe Biden wearing a mask as he accepts a half trillion
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Joining me now via Skype from the Washington, D.C. area is our friend Mark Morano, the boss
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Mark, it's hard to believe that during the pandemic, the lockdowns, the economic disruption
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of the last 14 months that anyone would seriously be talking about spending half a trillion
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dollars a year in the United States to fight global warming, a fight that, as Bjorn Lomborg
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points out, has no possibility of success by its own terms, and that China is just laughing
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And interestingly enough, you have to understand what the Biden administration is doing.
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All the executive orders are a way to implement a stealth Green New Deal.
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Every funding decision, the transportation bill, 5% bridges and roads, the rest, all of the woke
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climate, other types of agendas just thrown in, they are trying to implement the Green
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New Deal without a legislation, without a vote of Congress, because they learned the
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Ten years ago, it was an embarrassment when they tried to get the cap-and-trade, carbon-style
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They couldn't even get it through a Democratic House and Senate.
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They got it through the House, and it stalled in the Senate.
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So they're doing all this through executive order.
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But what's amazing is they know the negative impacts it's going to have.
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They know it's going to hurt poor and minorities the hardest, because they're going to raise
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Because then they get to reach out and have all the subsidies and universal basic income,
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This is an interesting perspective, Ezra, because they know this is going to have devastating
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effects on the very people they claim to be helping.
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But they don't care, because those effects will justify more government intervention.
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Create a bigger disaster, which requires even more government, which then gives you more
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And they're right on path to do what their goal is.
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It's shocking to hear it phrased that way, but I think it's true.
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I mean, one of the first things that Joe Biden did was to halt the Keystone XL pipeline.
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That pipeline is actually already built across the border from Canada to the United States.
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That's almost a year ago now that it was built, but it was not finished.
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Thousands of unionized steel workers, welders, et cetera, out of work.
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You know, how many millions of people work in fracking all around America?
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But he wants to, he would rather have those people retraining to learn how to code or whatever
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He would rather have them helpless than earning six figures doing oil, gas, coal, fracking,
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It's shocking, but I think you're right on that.
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And that's exactly the labor leader, Terrence O'Sullivan, head of the Laborers International
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Union, LIUNA, who was part of all these pipelines and the Keystone.
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He came out and called it, you know, BS, that the workers could be retrained.
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They don't really care because in their end goal of all this is to give them make work
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government jobs based on solar and wind panel subsidies.
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Some of the stats are hundreds of workers in a solar or wind power environment to equal
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Some others are 67, you know, workers to equal one worker.
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So they're going to create a lot of jobs in solar and wind, but they're all going to be
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dependent on government mandate, direct subsidies, massive spending, and they're going to have
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But they don't care because the more they get the public, you know, dependent on their
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And that's why, you know, that's why they love lockdowns, endless lockdowns,
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And it does one very important thing, get rid of the small businesses, the mom and
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pa's, because they can't control them with this sort of great reset agenda.
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They can't get them to comply with mask mandates or lockdowns or vaccine passports.
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So with the climate agenda and with the virus agenda, they can just crush everything down
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and then build back better, i.e., and the socialist universal basic income, all-powerful
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To go back to your opening question, Ezra, climate and the virus are working hand in hand.
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You know, the agenda behind those two to scare us is working hand in hand to crush society
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You know, Xi Jinping, the Chinese dictator, was in that Zoom call there.
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He doesn't smile a lot, but he must have been loving every moment of it.
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First, he got the West to flatten its own economy because of the virus.
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And now he's getting them to agree to this economic suicide while there's no limits on China.
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Now, here's an image that was just shocking when it came out on New Year's Eve in Wuhan, China.
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The epicenter or the ground zero of the virus itself, absolutely roaring economy, huge parties
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Compare China, which, you know, after a blip, you know, their economy's roaring while we're
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still we're into, what, the 14th, but we've already four months into 2021 in Canada.
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I see that Trudeau is planning at least until 2024 for his pandemic response.
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I mean, that really is a shocking five-year plan, to borrow a communist word, while China
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is just going full tilt to make up lost ground.
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I think that this is the great reset of the Western economies, while China just laughs
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In fact, if you look at China, China, of course, is classified as a developing nation, along
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with India and many other countries in this UN climate pact.
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So China, yes, there was an independent analysis about a month ago now.
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They're building, on average, one coal plant a month.
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And I believe they have more coal plants on their building than the entire industrialized
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They're also basically committing to nothing with the climate agenda.
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All they're doing is doing what analysts have said is going to happen anyway.
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Their economy is going to hit peak emissions and then start to stabilize as they reach peak
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industrialization, which essentially happens in every country that has a rapidly growing economy.
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And they finally reach that sustainable level where they smooth out and then they'll start
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But what's interesting here is the Biden administration is just lusting after China's approval.
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John Kerry is willing to go over there, overlook all sorts of human rights violations just in order
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to get that virtue signaling agreement, knowing full well that they're not going to comply,
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number one, and knowing full well that it's going to benefit China.
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They're the ones making the solar and wind panels.
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They're the ones that own 90 percent of the world's cobalt.
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They're the ones with Chinese-owned companies in Africa with child labor and horrible environmental
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So they're the ones that are going to benefit from A to Z on this entire agenda.
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But yet the United States is desperate right now to get China involved in this.
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And by the way, anytime Canada, the U.S. or Europe does a Green New Deal or does a U.N.
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climate or does carbon taxes, it does one thing.
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Because it offshores all of our mining industry, energy extraction to countries that don't have
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the same environmental standards, and they don't have democracies either.
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This is just unbelievable that this is happening.
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And my biggest beef, of course, is Capitol Hill Republicans are quite pathetic in fighting
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You mentioned a couple that actually stand up and fight.
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There's a few Republicans, actually, that stand up and fight, but very few in Washington.
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Yeah, you know, that's a point I made about a decade ago in my book, Ethical Oil, the case
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for Canada's oil sands, every barrel you don't make in Canada or the United States is a barrel
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that will be produced in Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia.
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They don't care about human rights, let alone the environment.
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So you're pushing it away from the most conscientious producers to the worst producers.
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It makes no sense, but I think some of the folks who are advocating it are either doing so for vested
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reasons, like ideological reasons, or their friends are all in those eco-lobbies, or some of them
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generally just want to take America down a peg.
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And it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the cover.
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I think she would accurately be described as a communist.
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That's me using it as a descriptor for her views, the nationalization of the economy,
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the nationalization of public health, the nationalization of carbon.
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These are controlling the means of production, controlling the means of life.
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And I think in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's point of view, and some advisors around Joe Biden,
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they don't actually believe that America should be the strongest country.
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I think this is all deliberate, and I think it's all terrifying.
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I mean, Justin Trudeau actually was praising the Great Reset using the climate agenda.
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Now, if you go back, the Great Reset world economic point, one of their exact phrases is
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the U.S. will no longer be the world's leading superpower.
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So all these leaders signing on to this, and we have John Kerry, we have Al Gore, we have
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Joe Biden, we have Trudeau, using the actual phrase Great Reset.
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And they're not trying to hide it, although I do think the World Economic Forum has now
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downplayed it because they realize all the negative press from both.
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Interestingly enough, the progressive left, as many on the progressive left, people like
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Naomi Wolf and others who are terrified of this Great Reset agenda.
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But I think what's happening now, with Joe Biden now pushing this on us, it is going to
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be so rapid, so fast, a complete transformation.
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I opened the book Green Fraud with a 2009 quote from MIT climate scientist Richard Linden.
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And in it, he says, it's hard to imagine, this is in 2009, anything better than carbon
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dioxide in the atmosphere, trace essential gas, to come up with the control of every aspect
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Well, if you fast forward just about 11 years, there is one other thing that they could actually
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envision to control all aspects, and that's a virus.
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And now the COVID virus is where the lockdowns began and all this Great Reset talk began,
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Well, now, because of that, we have a situation where climate and COVID are merging together.
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I have two chapters in the book Green Fraud on that very topic.
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And right now, we have everyone from Greta Thunberg to John Kerry to Washington Post all
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talking about how climate change will make viruses worse.
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They're basically going to piggyback and merge the two issues.
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We are in for it because we need to elect people that actually have proper, willing to fight
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But unfortunately, most of the people in power now are just weak, weak people in power who
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don't want to be seen as against public health or seen as against the science when it comes
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Yeah, we have that same problem up here in Canada.
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The Conservative Party is not very conservative.
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They recently endorsed the carbon tax, ending a decade of opposition to it.
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Green Fraud will have the Amazon link underneath in case folks want to click it.
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On Friday, Bruce writes, I'm sure the Minister of Censorship would be shocked if he read Rebel
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We consumers get so much abuse online, even so we learn to take it like grownups.
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I mean, the internet is a place of insults and snark, especially from anonymous accounts.
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In the case of Rebel News, we get all that and we actually get our people pushed and shoved
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and sometimes punched and the police really don't help us.
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If we were the CBC, each time our people were touched would be a national scandal.
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But politicians would get a taunt and they want to censor the internet.
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Stephen writes, all these horrible politicians need to be removed.
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Loretta writes, only feeble-minded people need to censor others because they have no rational
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Well, feeble-minded people or people who just believe, as Mao and Stalin did, the power comes
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I mean, was it Stalin who said of the Pope, how many divisions does he have when advised
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I mean, the only reason why Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of passive resistance against the
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British worked is because the British were British.
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If you agree to take the punishments of your enemy, you better have an enemy that's gentle
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Passive resistance didn't work against Stalin or Hitler or Mao.
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So when you say the feeble-minded people need to censor others, that's true.
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But it's also true that brutal-minded, bloody-minded people censor others because it's not that
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I think we're dealing with a Liberal Party and a Liberal government that's not so much
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They just want to eliminate the last independent voices in Canada.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rubber World Headquarters, to you at Elba,