Reacting to JJ McCollough's analysis of the Trucker Convoy
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Summary
J.J. McCullough's analysis of the Great Truckers' Protest is a fair and objective analysis of what happened on February 22, 2019, when hundreds of truckers took to the streets in protest of the government's handling of the truckers' protest.
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All right, I'm a Canadian. My name's Greg. Let's get into this.
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We're going to be reacting to this video from J.J. McCullough.
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And you know what? I really like J.J. McCullough.
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A lot of Canadians have probably seen his content.
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He has certainly made great informative videos about Canadian politics, Canadian history.
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Quite frankly, J.J. McCullough has probably taught me more about some aspects of Canadian history than I have learned in public school.
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This is J.J. McCullough's Candace Trucker Protest, a fair and objective analysis.
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My name is J.J., and I am finally back home after spending an entire month in fabulous Washington, D.C.
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In a truly bizarre twist of fate, I wound up going on my big month-long holiday,
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the first substantial holiday I have taken from this channel in many years,
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during the one month that Canada has made more international news than it has in at least a decade.
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I refer, of course, to the Great Truckers' Protest of February 22.
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During the last month, I was subject to an endless flurry of requests,
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both from you guys and people in the mainstream media who wanted to hear my take on the whole
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thing, which was very flattering because I know I have established this reputation as
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Mr. Canada over the years and in ordinary circumstances.
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I mean, I guess certainly on online circles, I have a whole lot to say about how there's this
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sort of class of people who are like representing Canada. There's this other guy on TikTok who like
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makes all these skits about the different provinces and it's like ho ho yeah that's what
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that's what canada is you know ho ho ho all the stereotypes of the different provinces
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and it just seems like such a cheap lame cop-out uh of what i actually think canadian canadians
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are and canada is you know uh not to say that again not to try and rip on the guy but it's like
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you're you're the best we got jj like you're you're mr canada okay all right i gotta stop
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getting sidetracked here let's get into this let's let's get into the stances canadian affairs are
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indeed my favorite thing in the world to talk about but it proved a uniquely challenging thing
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to do amid all of the travel and the various other projects i had going on in dc and frankly
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just my desire to take things easy for a bit but anyway i am now finally back in canada and the
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trucker protest is basically over which i guess i can spin as actually being the perfect time to
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talk about the issue because we are now a bit further removed from it so let us get into it
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i i i think i would disagree with that saying that because he published this in nine months ago
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march 5th uh the best time to talk about it there's still so much stuff that's happened since
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then that still is not even like settled uh like there was an inquiry recently um and more
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importantly this was before the arrests started there was all these arrests i guess sorry that's
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not that's not entirely true there are arrests for a lot of people obviously out the convoy
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but you know this is before um i think this was chelsea you're in chat was this before randy was
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charged when was randy charged there's a lot of stuff that happened after the convoy and has been
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ongoing still that is part of the that i think is part of the convoy equation because this this
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isn't just about uh the trucker convoy this is about like the sort of slow rise or acceptance
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of this authoritarian government that we have in canada right um but i do want to also comment
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on the fact that this guy was out of the country you know jay mccullough was out of the country
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and we're going to find out later that this analysis of the trucker convoy
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is really just not necessarily a fair and objective analysis,
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but more of like a, I read the headlines when I was out of the country analysis of the convoy.
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...fin as actually being the perfect time to talk about the issue
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because we are now a bit further removed from it.
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Okay, so for anyone who needs a quick refresher,
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on january 28th 2022 hundreds of truckers in big rigs comprising something they called the
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freedom convoy descended upon the city of ottawa which is the capital of canada at the protests
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peak there were over 500 trucks occupying this so-called red zone which is the downtown core
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of the city around many of the most important government buildings including the parliament
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of canada the down 500 trucks can we get a fact check on that wasn't it at the inquiry they said
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it was over 700 vehicles the longest convoy and then also the other thing there is what about all
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the trucks that were not in the red zone there was there was trucks lined up in all sorts of
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other areas uh not just in the red zone so um but you know then again he wasn't he wasn't even in
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the country when this happened he's just kind of like reading the headlines from cbc or ctv or
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whatever so there you go a ruined many of the most important government buildings including
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the parliament of canada the downtown occupation in turn choked off many other streets including
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commercial and residential areas making a significant chunk of the city all but inaccessible
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there is currently a significant chunk is making a significant chunk of the city all but inaccessible
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That is definitely not accurate. Pretty well, most streets, there was a through street where you could drive. The only exception to that was Wellington. Unacceptable views does a great kind of debunking of that near the beginning of that documentary.
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It sounds like a lot of this analysis is basically regurgitating misinformation that JJ has consumed while out of the country, reading the headlines.
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And I got to emphasize, too, he doesn't even mention, I watched this earlier today, so I'm really livid about it.
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He doesn't even mention the misinformation around the trucker convoy.
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All the things that came up, desecrating the war memorial, desecrating the Terry Fox statue, there's so many things that the media did to try and make the larger population hate the convoy.
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And what's totally missing from JJ's analysis here, spoiler alert, he doesn't talk about the role that the media played in this whole protest.
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you know like he doesn't talk about the misinformation and the and the lies from
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public officials there's so many things that he misses in this video but we'll keep going we're
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only like we're not even two minutes in so let's let's keep this moving there is currently a class
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action lawsuit of local businesses affected by the blockade claiming over 306 million dollars
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in damages the trucker occupation lasted it really sucks sorry to pause it again but it really sucks
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how like even JJ who's supposed to be this like conservative is not going to like look at the
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economic damage in the greater context of restrictions from lockdowns you know like I
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get I get it when a mainstream media person does that I totally understand when a mainstream media
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person does that you know they're paid by Justin Trudeau obviously they're not going to talk about
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the economic damage that lockdowns cost uh but it's like you're a you're a conservative youtuber
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And, like, you're not going to mention that anyway.
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I guess he's supposed to be fair and objective, right?
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For three weeks and quickly assumed a carnival-like atmosphere.
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There was music and a bouncy castle and a hot tub and barbecues and all the rest of it.
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There was actually a whole other class action lawsuit just to get them to stop.
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In short, the truckers were incredibly obnoxious.
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this was a protest so the goal was very much always to be loud and annoying both to get
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attention and also to have something to use as leverage with the authorities well so uh the
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honking did stop a lot of the honking stopped after i think it was the first weekend i think
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it was the first wednesday after the i might have to fact check on this but the first wednesday
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after the um after the protest started they decided that they will stop honking basically
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all throughout the day and they would only honk during the day if i'm not mistaken so there was
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some sort of negotiations there so the idea that it was like you know the truckers were obnoxious
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the whole time for three entire weeks that's not that's not accurate and there's a lot to say like
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was it a positive that that the truckers stopped honking like was that a good thing a lot of people
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were like oh yeah we want to get along with ottawa and like you know be better but uh i don't know
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this is a whole other discussion a whole other video like you know did the protest kind of be
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weak when we got there did we kind of continue to kind of like lessen our position lessen our
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position not be as aggressive not be as aggressive um because really to get what we want like should
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we not kind of escalate in a certain respect but that's a whole other conversation but to say that
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we were obnoxious the whole time that's certainly misleading um because after the first week there
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was not honking all the time it was only during certain hours uh during the day if i'm not
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mistaken so uh yeah the truckers in ottawa got most of the attention it is worth noting that
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there were smaller coffee cat protests in other parts of canada as well the most notable was a
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trucker blockade that was set up on the ambassador bridge for seven days the ambassador bridge being
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the busiest point of cross-border trade between Canada and the United States. There was also a
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similar border crossing protest in Coots, Alberta, and one in Emerson, Manitoba, plus lots of smaller
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solidarity rallies in scattered cities across the country. All right, so now let us get to the
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10 million dollar question. What were they protesting? This is a question I tend to be
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pretty cautious about when it comes to large-scale protest movements. So the answer to this is like
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very it the answer to this is so cut and dry that even a recent c i'm switching videos here for a
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second the answer to like what they were protesting is so cut and dry jj that even cbc in a recent
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report actually got the answer to that question right and protesters all here in opposition to
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vaccine mandates vaccines themselves and prime minister justin trudeau's government well okay
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that's not entirely correct but it yeah you know against the mandates against the mandates
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people getting their jobs back um it's it's it's this was why the protest was so massive it was an
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idea ending these mandates the bodily autonomy that's what it comes down to so the next part
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of this video is like so so goofy but anyway so this is jj this is jj's analysis fair and objective
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analysis of why the biggest protest in recent canadian history happened this is what the
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protest was about guys according to jj cautious about when it comes to large-scale protest
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movements not just in canada but in other countries too i visited santiago a few years
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ago when they were in the midst of a very intense protest movement of their own and in the ensuing
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video I made I tried to emphasize how these protests weren't really about a single thing
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per se, but rather a sort of broader expression of left-wing malaise towards the perceived
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corruption and indifference of the Chilean system more broadly. I think the Canadian Truckers
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protest is best thought of in a similar way. It is perhaps best understood as a movement of broad
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right-wing malaise towards the perceived oppressions that Canada's governments have imposed on the
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the public during the covid 19 pandemic no dude like no you're just you're just flat out wrong
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like does this person look like a right this is someone who i interviewed there's a paramedic that
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got laid off does this look like does this does this person speaking does this sound like right
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wing malaise to you someone told me that you are a paramedic that's right yeah yeah it was yeah i
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was with toronto and what happened uh they basically they terminated me uh because of
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mandates and i'm a single mom i'm trying to figure out what to do with my life and i don't
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really have that much support and you know because this issue has dividing families and friends even
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further it's like you have limited resources to reach out to so i think it is a way of like phasing
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people out and and kind of canceling people all together right if you don't go along uh you seem
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very calm cool and collected yeah yeah jj it was it was right wing it was right it was right with
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right wing malaise that's that's why the protest was happening it's like dude people are getting
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laid off because they didn't want to take an injection one that is turning out it turns out
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that this injection is uh i'm not going to talk to the science because we're on youtube and facebook
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right now but uh it turns out this injection yeah the people who questioned it had every single
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right to question it and to not take it i am so tired of this perspective of like oh dude they
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wanted to overthrow the government why were the people there protesting it's like dude bodily
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autonomy they got the no feeling they didn't want to get injected with this product and they were
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losing their jobs they couldn't bring their kids to like regular activities like couldn't even go
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to a restaurant and while we're on the topic another thing that uh jj does not bring up is uh
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you know how things were really hitting a fever pitch right before the convoy this is january 19th
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2022 so like 10 days before it started more than one in four canadians support jail time
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for the unjabbed like that's that's kind of where we were at right before the convoy started
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right-wing malaise like fuck off dude fuck off part of my language but like man right-wing malaise
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give me a give me a break imposed on the public during the covid19 pandemic in theory the spark
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that triggered everything was prime minister trudeau's decision in early january to require
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Are all truckers returning to Canada from the U.S. to be fully vaccinated?
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Truckers will have to be fully vaccinated to enter Canada.
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Come Saturday, new rules mean unvaccinated truckers entering Canada
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or every Canadian or American trucker transiting to Canada must be vaccinated.
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The tighter restrictions put an estimated 10,000 truckers off the road,
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Prior to that, truckers had been exempt from the vaccine mandates because they were considered an
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essential service. And the Trudeau decision was accordingly quite unpopular with the trucking
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industry. Unvaccinated drivers have been delivering loads since March of 2020 because
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as essential workers, they've always been able to go. But that said, it quickly became clear that
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the vaccine mandate was really just the pretext for a much more wide scale protest against the
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idea of covid restrictions more broadly so it was just covid restrictions more broadly
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i don't think that's accurate i think it's more like and everybody else who had mandates imposed
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upon them and didn't like the mandates imposed upon them you know like this is another ongoing
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thing that more hate to say it but like more mainstream media people mainstream media types
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have this idea of like oh it was just the truckers protesting it was just about the
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mandate for the truckers no it was about the all the other mandates happening like you couldn't
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even go to like people were kicked out of university were they not like there were so
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many other mandates that applied in so many different industries some of them still are
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around today and just to say oh yeah the covid restrictions it's like no man people people
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couldn't get into restaurants people couldn't leave the country that doesn't even come up
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that doesn't even come up in this video jj like come on bro oh my god just oh just some it was
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just restrictions that you know these right wingers were complaining about fair and objective analysis
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yeah okay for a much more wide-scale protest against the idea of covid restrictions more
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broadly a manifesto posted on the freedom convoy facebook page and signed by the two people usually
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described as the ringleaders of the protest, listed four key demands, an end to vaccine passports and
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all other obligatory vaccine contract tracing programs, an end to vaccine mandates, cease the
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divisive rhetoric attacking Canadians who disagree with government mandates, and cease to limit debate
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through coercive measures with the goal of censoring those who have varying or incorrect
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opinions or as a fellow in a viral video summed it up the hawk it will continue until freedom
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improves simple as that yo shout outs the ferryman's toll the meme lord himself
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i love how that made it in um yeah but yeah it's so funny he's like oh we don't know what
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the protests are about uh it was a right-wing malaise and then he lists off the what the
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protest was about like what the main organizers you know so like why did you have that whole dt
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tour on right-wing malaise anyway um yeah it's it's and it's ending mandates that's the main
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part that was number one ending mandates the ferryman's toll the fonking will continue have
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varying or incorrect opinions. Or, as a fellow in a viral video summed it up,
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The hawking will continue until freedom improves. Simple as that.
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From the start, the truckers singled out Prime Minister Trudeau as their main enemy,
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with F***ing Trudeau flags, a particularly ubiquitous presence. This gave the protests
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a pretty partisan tint, but it also made them an important symbol of the broader drift of
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right-wing politics into a more populist direction, as explained in this quote from
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before we even get into that like again to say that anybody who was upset at trudeau is right
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wing that seems really dumb just to say that anyone who was upset at trudeau at that point
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is just a right wing person you know like that's that's so like oversimplified and and just and
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just the, I don't know, like, like you, like you couldn't be, I, I, my regret is I wish
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when I was at the convoy that I would have asked people like what, what they thought
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their politics was, because there's a lot of people who I talked to who is like, this
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That person's, you know, that person's apolitical that person's, you know?
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And so, again, I kind of reject this idea that it was a right-wing pro.
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Sure, there's probably a lot of right-wing protests,
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and there's probably a lot of people who, of course, hated Trudeau,
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who piled on, a lot of conservatives who piled on,
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a lot of right-wingers who, of course, piled on.
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The reason it was so big is because people wanted to oppose mandates, period.
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And for somebody who is very in tune with Canadian politics
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It was because they wanted to end mandates, man.
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from Rich Lowry, who's a famous American political commentator.
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The sense now is less, the government is bankrupting us, and more, these out-of-touch,
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self-appointed experts are telling us what to do because they have too much power and
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like lording it over us with the press, social media, corporations, and non-profits all on
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Because it was such a large protest, however, there were other factions and other arguments
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being made as well, embodying other strains of right-wing thought, a particularly prominent
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people sometimes ask me here we go here we go so i just want to interject here for a quick minute
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like there's such a perspective from jj's analysis here that is of the the journalist class of the
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sort of like not necessarily the ruling class no yeah kind of the ruling class because it's it's
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you know all in that sphere of journalism and it's this kind of like haughty toddy sort of i'm in my
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ivory tower let's see how this will benefit the conservatives let's see how this will benefit the
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liberals let's look at this from like a a war room perspective of paul it completely leaves the
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actual people like out of the conversation entirely you know uh like so much of this
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analysis just is is for journalists for the kind of like political class nothing to do with actual
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you know working canadians whatsoever that's why he kind of brings up all these he is a columnist
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for the washington post so that kind of explains it but anyway let's keep this moving here
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me if there are any uniquely popular conspiracy theories in Canada, and I usually reply by
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calling attention to the so-called sovereign citizen type stuff, which is when people put
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forward these theories that because, you know, the Canadian constitution was signed the wrong
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way in 1921 or whatever, all of our laws are actually illegitimate, and the government doesn't
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actually have any power to arrest you if you break one of their phony laws and so forth.
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Early on in the protest, there was a petition circulated by a certain faction of the truckers
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and governor general were called on to assert powers they do not have and create a weird new
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interim government for Canada that would then repeal all of the COVID restrictions. The governor
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general in particular, who is the representative of the British queen in Canada, became a particular
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subject of fascination by this set and was bombarded around the clock with demands to
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fire Prime Minister Trudeau. I think what's noteworthy here is that he'll bring up the,
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JJ will bring up this like whole conspiracy angle to the convoy, which I don't think most
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He doesn't even bring up in, in this video, the fact that people had their bank accounts
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Uh, like that's a whole saga of the money that got donated towards the convoy.
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He, he mentions how it might've been majority American and I'm pretty sure that was bad
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information that he's working on, but that was right after the convoy.
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so you can't really blame them but um the convoy regardless raised more money than uh major
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political parties like that's such a big factoid that the trucker convoy raised more money than
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the uh than the largest political parties in our country um and they were freezing bank accounts
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they were freezing bank accounts like when when that seems kind of like a noteworthy thing to
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mention uh jj but sure once again like the canadian news media let's uh scrutinize the
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protesters harder than anybody else and oh look i found a conspiracy document amongst all these
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protesters yeah they're crazy how about the fact that the government is free freezing bank accounts
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for a lawful protest in a democratic country are you do you want to bring up that jj is that
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noteworthy is that part of your fail fair and objective analysis of the trucker convoy
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when's the last time that happened bank accounts being frozen also not remotely within her
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authority to do but crazy theories about the power of the crown often play a prominent role
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in canadian conspiracy theories of this flavor now regardless of how persuasive or not you find any
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of this stuff in many ways the much more significant thing about the truckers protest
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was just that it involved truckers leaving aside the question of how representative a convoy of a
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A few hundred trucks was of the interests or opinions of Canadian truckers in general, who are a huge and diverse community.
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The most relevant variable explaining why it had the impact that it did was just that it used trucks.
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Parking gigantic trucks in a city's downtown core,
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designed to cause maximum obstruction and frustration,
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was undeniably an extremely creative and unprecedented tactic that proved remarkably effective, at least in the short term.
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On February 7th, the CBC published a good piece that described in considerable detail
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how towing a giant truck is difficult or almost impossible without the driver's cooperation,
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and even harder still when the tow truck companies themselves are refusing to
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offer their services out of solidarity or fear.
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Several independent contractors and companies have publicly supported the convoy
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Those who have offered assistance are being threatened.
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We could very easily make a whole other video just analyzing the power of the protest from this sort of technological logistical perspective.
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So I need to interrupt here because there's so much that JJ doesn't cover.
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You know, he praises a CBC article saying it's going to be so hard to move these trucks.
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Another thing, another huge point that he does not talk about.
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he mentions earlier in this video how the honking is a way to kind of like impose or sort of uh you
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know put pressure put pressure on delegates to try and like you know increase negotiations or
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like increase pressure to try and get what you want you know be obnoxious as protesters to try
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and get what you want like as in there's going to be some sort of negotiation that's going to happen
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as in there's going to be some sort of reconciliation that happens
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and that never happened you know there there was trudeau did not talk to anybody and on top of
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that he said he had oh sorry i got covet 19 i can't talk to you guys right now uh well he didn't
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even say that he just said he had covet 19 he refused to talk to the protesters and relied upon
00:27:27.140
once again the misinformation that the mainstream media was saying about the trucker convoy saying
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that were a bunch of racist misogynist blah blah blah and uh they never came to talk to us jj they
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never came to talk to us after three weeks dude you know and yes we had a strong position with
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the trucks everywhere but like the fact that there was no negotiations that happened despite
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it being a massive protest a massive occupation for three weeks again kind of feels like a
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noteworthy thing to have in your fair and objective analysis the fact that the prime minister of the
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country did not even acknowledge our existence aside from the fact that we're a bunch of like
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deplorables who just need to be uh you know dealt with but i think it is probably a pretty
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underrated angle of their success overall so what gave the truckers such an innovative idea some
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pundits such as david from the famed canadian american political comment here we go again man
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Here we go again with this, like, oh, let's have this haughty-taughty analysis.
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Like, nothing to do with the working-class people, but here we go.
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Peter has speculated about this a fair bit, and I think his argument is pretty persuasive.
00:28:42.220
The prelude to a lot of what happened in Ottawa was a year and a half where, through 2020,
00:28:48.220
there were increasingly intimidating acts of interruption of essential services, pipelines, and rail
00:28:54.120
by other kinds of protesters farther from urban Canada.
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or sorry, Justin Trudeau, largely looked the other way.
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And that set the table for what has happened here.
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living here in the province of British Columbia,
00:29:22.500
in the northern part of this province at a natural gas site where mass protesters smashed up a bunch
00:29:28.720
of property in an effort to disrupt the project so wow so i'm really glad that he brought this up
00:29:34.800
um protesters smashed things up and destroyed property yeah um how many of them were thrown
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in jail how many of the like did they have their bank accounts frozen did they get beaten up by
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the cops did this even like hit the news cycle nearly as hard as uh you know the vilification
00:29:58.040
of the people who just wanted mandates to end you know like it's uh it totally lopsided coverage
00:30:05.700
he does kind of speak to that again but once again kind of in this week sort of like
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here we go the conclusion would be that there has been a slow normalization in canada
00:30:15.960
of the politics of, I guess we would call it like physicality for lack of a better term. The idea of
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using physical blockades and physical obstruction and even physical destruction as a means in which
00:30:29.080
a minority faction can get their political views across. And as Frum alluded to, there's also a
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kind of jealous both-sidesism going on, wherein the Canadian right perceives the left as having
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gotten away with these sorts of tactics for too long and are now willing to call the government's
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bluff by using them themselves all right so now well and once again it's like you know there
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wasn't one smashed window at the convoy until the cops showed up there wasn't one sort of violent
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act caught on camera anyway until uh until the cops showed up um so the both sides ism is is
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real you know like like it's it's totally lopsided it's totally unfair there was no emergency act
00:31:15.460
called when they blocked a main railway out in bc which disrupted supply chains and all of that
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no one was saying oh my god these indigenous people blocking the railway it's causing so much
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economic destruction what are we going to do about it they basically try to act like nothing
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was even happening when that happened so uh you know the bias is real the lopsidedness is totally
00:31:38.200
real and at this point to like not emphasize that or to act like that's not real i don't know it's
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it's it's totally dishonest um and yeah once again jj like you totally don't cover uh how the media
00:31:54.300
covered this and really tried to vilify the convoy protesters as these right-wing monsters
00:31:59.400
when uh that obviously was not the case it was obviously just people who wanted to end mandates
00:32:05.720
let us talk a little bit more about the whole partisan angle to this thing the angle of the
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truckers protest as a symbol of the poisonous polarization of left versus right politics that
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is becoming so ubiquitous everywhere these days i wrote a few columns about the protests in my
00:32:24.540
capacity as a columnist at the washington post and in this one there it is say he's a columnist
00:32:31.540
at the washington post i mean how conservative can you be really if if you're uh working for
00:32:38.480
the washington post the honest question i like i'm i'm honestly curious like how can
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like if you work at the washington post jj are you allowed to say that there's only two different
00:32:49.620
genders or will you get fired for saying that genuine question i might i might tweet that at
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you but i don't think you check your twitter often that the truckers had a uniquely traumatizing
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effect on people on the canadian left or even center because of the way they embodied such a
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galling rejection of what had previously been assumed to be pretty solid public support for
00:33:11.560
canada's covid policies as i put it well before he says this yeah like we pop the bubble of the
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mainstream media bubble everybody's living in this mainstream media bubble and it's like nope nope
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That's only like a small percentage of the country actually watches and believes that stuff.
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There's a lot of people who just wanted to end mandates, you know.
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A festival of partisan division and anti-government bombast in the nation's capital
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is a painful unraveling of presumed consensus when the country's politicians and journalists
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have leaned so heavily on confident rhetoric of cooperation and unity to get through the pandemic.
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Canadian covid. It's almost like it's almost like the Canadian news media is subsidized by the federal government and it's become a propaganda machine.
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It's almost like all that propaganda has, you know, completely destroyed the sort of like honesty and what's actually happening in this country.
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And, of course, when you have the dishonesty in the mainstream media and you're taking people's fundamental rights and freedoms away and taking their bodily autonomy away, there's going to be consequences to that.
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Policies have not been the strictest rhetoric of cooperation and unity to get through the pandemic.
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Canadian COVID policies have not been the strictest in the world.
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did you just say that hold on and journalists have leaned so heavily on confident rhetoric
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of cooperation and unity to get through the pandemic canadian covid policies have not been
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the strictest in the world by any stretch but they have how many different countries
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had the arrive can app jj how many different countries had an app like arrive can where
00:35:08.740
essentially you have to give all of your personal information to uh to enter canada you have to
00:35:14.540
give your address this and that and the other you know typically just for those who don't you know
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don't realize this back in the good old days or not even back in the good old days if you refuse
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to download the arrive can app you don't even have your home address on your passport you just
00:35:29.260
have your birthday and that's that's all that's on your passport that's all the government needs
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to know about you in that respect uh but with arrive can it's like here's my email here's my
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phone number here's my address you know all that stuff um not not not the strictest by by a really
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i i i think you're gonna have to fact check that one my friend uh who else had curfew
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there's curfew in quebec who else had curfew and like to say that it's like not not by far
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not the worst covid restrictions in the world did i mean curfew is pretty bad how much worse
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does it get than curfew bro yeah i've been fairly uniform across the country with basically every
00:36:16.180
province having a similar regime of mandatory masking and vaccine passports and targeted
00:36:20.720
shutdowns regardless of what party was in charge there was like uh i i just i just hate the yeah
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and like those were the rules yeah those were the rules here in canada notice how the rules uh
00:36:32.700
aren't here anymore by the way uh how some of those rules uh do not exist anymore and in many
00:36:39.140
cases it happened right not many cases but in some cases it happened right after the convoy
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uh more on that later likewise a lot of coverage in the canadian press that presented such policies
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as not only broadly popular but patriotic easy and natural for canadians to follow because
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Canadians supposedly are just inherently passive people who love doing what they're told. The line
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I will always remember was from this 2020 editorial from the Toronto Star, Canada's biggest
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newspaper, declaring at core our national DNA favors the collective during a crisis that has
00:37:15.600
demanded collective action, mutual sacrifice, looking out for the other rather than insistence
00:37:20.780
on personal liberty and pursuit of happiness i'm so tired i am so tired of hearing people in their
00:37:32.200
ivory tower tell me what being canadian is i am so tired of hearing all these journalists and all
00:37:41.260
these politicians saying i'm gonna tell you what being canadian is at core our national on dna
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favorites like and the thing is i think there's actually truth to that to this this quote
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looking out for the other rather insistence on personal liberty and pursuit of happiness i mean
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i don't know this quote the what bothers me about this quote is that it's from the toronto star and
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it's obviously trying to craft a narrative right you know the people at the convoy were certainly
00:38:15.160
looking at looking out for each other because they had personal liberties and the opportunity
00:38:21.960
to have a pursuit of happiness taken away from them so in this quote they kind of like put it
00:38:27.340
they pitted against each other right it's either it's either you're looking out for each other
00:38:30.900
or uh you care about freedom right which is a false dichotomy i ah man i i hate the fact
00:38:38.800
that anyone is like going to like prop up a quote from a editorial in toronto star and it's a fair
00:38:45.040
an objective analysis of the trucker confoy yeah right man and pursuit of happiness at one time
00:38:53.300
this sort of thing was being published everywhere alongside plenty of america bashing which of
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course is always hard to escape in this country the idea being that while americans were acting
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like wild yahoos screaming about freedom and refusing to wear masks canadians were obediently
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whipping out their vaccine passports to visit their local library or whatever but then the
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truckers happened and suddenly a lot of progressive Canadians were aggressively reminded that this
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country does indeed contain plenty of people flamboyantly opposed to vaccine mandates and
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all the rest of it liberal columnists good good damn right man we're out here we're the real
00:39:35.200
Canadians by the way we're the real Canadians okay not these not these
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Toronto Star editorial editorialists from praising our national DNA to writing
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gross things like light no more the world sees Canada very differently now
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or the Canadian flag as a national symbol has been critically injured you
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know cringe oh because the truckers waved it although I will note that one
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popular cope to all of this was casting the truckers as being fundamentally foreign which is
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to say american either by calling attention to how much money they were getting from americans
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which one study suggested was almost half of their fundraising a study a study suggested not
00:40:18.000
the actual facts right it was a study that suggested this or by making more chauvinistic
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arguments about how canadians had been radicalized by their proximity to american politics and media
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For example, here is a piece from the New York Times that quotes a man named
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Gerald Butz, who was, and I suppose still is, one of Prime Minister Trudeau's closest advisors.
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For two years, Canadians have been largely stuck at home, and many have spent more time in front
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of the screen than ever. As they did, they absorbed the American culture war being played out from
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Fox News to Reitbart, and Trumpian ideas took root in Canada, said Gerald Butz, a long-time
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friend of mr trudeau's and his former there you have it folks there you have it in jj mccullough's
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fair and objective analysis of the trucker convoy we have gerald butts quoted as being a a fair and
00:41:14.320
objective voice to uh what happened at the trucker convoy like you gotta be you gotta be kidding me
00:41:22.200
bro you gotta be kidding me bro and this is the thing like i've said it's not that deep it's not
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that deep as as you know it's it's so it pisses me off so much this perspective from gerald butts
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too it's like oh the only reason people were complaining about lockdowns is because they
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were stuck in their home and they had to watch fox news nothing to do with people killing
00:41:48.800
themselves nothing to do with people you know being more drug addicted than ever nothing to do
00:41:53.300
with like all of the terrible things that people had to endure during lockdowns and during mandates
00:41:59.900
and restrictions and all the small businesses that were destroyed all all the jobs that were lost
00:42:04.400
livelihoods ripped away from people all the social division that happened because of the propaganda
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no it was because of fox news it was because people were inside watching fox news that's the
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only reason that uh people got radicalized by fox news nothing to do with the terribly irresponsible
00:42:22.020
socially and economically destructive decisions that the government of canada made nothing to do
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with that right no it's because they're they're inside watching fox news like holy crap that's
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such a garbage take from gerald butts and i cannot believe that jj mccullough is like yeah this is
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what gerald butt says this is my fair and objective analysis trucker convoy man and once
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again like to my earlier point like it's these people in ivory towers like jj mccullough is it
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kind of like in it's he's in the journalist class i guess so they're just talking about well this is
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what this is going to mean for the conservatives or the liberals or blah blah blah you know like
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it has nothing to do with the actual working people it's actually nothing to do with with
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the actual you know canadians of this country um it's like i don't know it's part of this like
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it feels very elitist uh to be talking about things like this and and the whole premise of
00:43:26.300
the video i was on vacation trying to enjoy my vacation when this happened i couldn't go on
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vacation jj because i wasn't jabbed so i couldn't leave the country
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now as the weeks went on and the city provincial and federal authorities looked more and more
00:43:45.740
helpless to remove the protesters from ottawa more and more attention came to be focused on what i
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would call the q anon faction of the movement initially prime minister trudeau had sought to
00:43:57.180
denounce the truckers by focusing on their supposed bigotry characterizing the movement
00:44:01.460
as fundamentally racist and sexist and so forth conservative party members can stand with people
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who wave swastikas they can stand with people who wave the confederate flag and while some truckers
00:44:13.820
did indeed infamously wave confederate or even nazi flag i don't have to make a comment here
00:44:20.460
we know that this is you know the ccis essentially who is supposed to investigate uh ideologically
00:44:28.500
motivated violent extremist groups which would fall under a nazi flag or a confederate flag
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they have no they have no information on these people despite the despite even having the uh
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what's i'm gonna call it visible and while some truckers hold on indeed infamously wave confederate
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you can see the license plate number here and when csesis was questioned about the license plate
00:44:55.420
number they under under oath at the emergencies act inquiry they had nothing to say so this is
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supposed to be our intelligence agency in canada hey you're investigating ideologically you know
00:45:07.320
violent extremist groups did you investigate this person they had nothing to say which leads people
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it supports the theory that these were literal false flags uh these were like literally planted
00:45:19.520
to try and make um the protest look bad and once again back to a point that jj misses entirely
00:45:27.220
is uh the misinformation or this sort of mischaracterization of this protest from the
00:45:33.500
beginning from the mainstream media to make us look like these right-wing monsters uh kind of
00:45:38.240
a big part of the equation um because as i said this isn't just about the convoy this is about
00:45:42.820
like the rise of an authoritarian regime in canada not even the rise more just kind of like them
00:45:48.660
taking their mask off and being like yeah we're an authoritarian regime bro welcome to canada uh
00:45:53.760
we're gonna lie in the media we're gonna freeze your bank account we're gonna beat you up with
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police horses and not talk to you uh this is canada now even nazi flags trudeau wound up
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getting a fair bit of pushback from the press and public for this particular line of rhetorical
00:46:09.940
attack i suspect because it struck a lot of people as a somewhat gratingly tendentious take from
00:46:15.680
Trudeau. Gratingly tendentious take. Oh, these simpletons don't understand. I am a columnist
00:46:26.560
for the Washington Post. You see, it's such a... I digress. Talk this way about everything. To most
00:46:35.420
people, the worst thing about the truckers was just how horribly obstructive they were. And
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Trudeau's numbers have accordingly taken a bit of a dive recently as he shoulders a fair chunk
00:46:44.640
of the blame for not moving swifter to deal with them not moving swifter also once again jj not
00:46:51.720
even talking to the protesters not even talking to them saying he was sick instead of talking to
00:46:58.300
them it lasted three weeks man three weeks in the dead of winter and and he didn't want to talk to
00:47:05.380
us again seems like an important fact to bring up but the prime minister did move swiftly in the end
00:47:11.720
On St. Valentine's Day 2022, Prime Minister Trudeau invoked a very controversial piece
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of legislation known as the Emergencies Act that gave him short-term emergency powers to
00:47:23.280
quell a public order emergency. The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act
00:47:31.540
to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations.
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no canadian prime minister had done this sort of thing in more than 50 years the last one actually
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being justin trudeau's father pierre elliot trudeau who had proclaimed a national emergency
00:47:48.420
to deal with a flare-up of french canadian separatist violence in 1970 i would say that
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the younger trudeau uh you should probably mention the fact that uh politicians were
00:47:59.440
if i'm not mistaken kidnapped and assassinated or killed uh that like that's when this war
00:48:06.000
measures act was called last um and nothing even close to that is comparable to to the convoy um
00:48:14.300
and i suppose again you're out of the country jj you're relying on like
00:48:19.100
cbc and toronto star articles so i guess i can't blame you
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for not for not knowing you know the disparity there those emergency was probably less controversial
00:48:30.320
than the old man's only because the scope of government's emergency powers have been
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considerably watered down post 1970 and the truckers had become so broadly disliked by this
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point that the poll suggested the public was open to just about anything to get rid of them
00:48:45.940
but yeah why and why were they disliked why were they broadly disliked because of the disingenuous
00:48:53.560
headlines man the disingenuous coverage like it's it's such a fair and objective analysis
00:49:02.600
In any case, as I said, to justify this unprecedented move,
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the Prime Minister and his people shifted to playing up the fear
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that the truckers actually posed a significant threat to Canadian democracy.
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Growing attention was given to the allegation that they wanted to
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which, as we discussed earlier, there was at least some theoretical interest in.
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But the day the Emergency Act was invoked also brought a bit of a darker tone
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to something that had previously been easily dismissed
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as just a kind of crankish, crackpot conspiracy theory
00:49:33.540
after the police seized a large cache of weapons
00:49:36.440
from one of the copycat protests at the Alberta-Montana border.
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of the real and present danger of the protests.
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are the hallmarks of a sophisticated and capable organization
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driven by an extreme ideology that would seek to create to overthrow the existing government and
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create some kind of parallel structure looking back over the course of the number last number
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of weeks and more importantly seeing the developments of the arrests and seizures
00:50:13.820
that have been made this past week there's there's a real danger in trivializing and
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diminishing exactly what's going on here the emergency deck yeah so um once again i was it
00:50:28.460
evident that marco mendocino was lying so many times about uh during the convoy um like and
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that's i once again jj like you had the police chief lying about things about like about throwing
00:50:45.800
a bicycle in front of a police horse you know you're not covering that you're not you're not
00:50:50.780
covering the like the dishonesty from our public officials to essentially you know there's the
00:50:56.280
whole like fake arson story like there are so many fake made-up stories um that the mps lied about
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and of course they were trying to blame the emergencies act here on a meme country if that
00:51:10.200
wasn't clear um like it's it's it's it's crazy man I'll bring up this article just for Diagalon
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is a time-traveling cocaine addicted goat Tom Marazzo facts that's fact that's that's real
00:51:26.640
but uh of course for some reason Diagalon did not make it into uh J.J. McCauley's video it was
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talked about in the hostile commons it was talked about in the senate it is worth mentioning here
00:51:38.980
in a fair and objective analysis of the trucker convoy.
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They tried to blame the Emergencies Act on a meme country,
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and they threw a little, well, I'm not going to comment on where
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this stash of weapons may or may not have come from, but
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still up in the air, what, nine, ten months later?
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just, again, JJ's video here is very much like, you know, normie tier, mainstream media tier
00:52:13.420
analysis, in my opinion. The declaration was popular with the public, but polarizing among
00:52:20.300
the political class. When Prime Minister Trudeau eventually asked the parliament to extend his
00:52:24.720
emergency powers beyond the initial seven-day window, he could proclaim unilaterally, the
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liberal and NDP parties voted in favor, while the conservative party and separatist Bloc Quebecois
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voted against i i just i just want to emphasize again here like you know he's coming from the
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perspective that you are a politician or you are a political analyst or you work in ottawa or you
00:52:46.940
work for a political party in ottawa like so much of the analysis is that of somebody who is in the
00:52:52.840
political bubble the elite political bubble nothing to do with the actual canadian people
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and as we'll see later this is somebody jj worships the polls he loves the polls the polls
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have never been wrong it's like hey the poll said this that's how the public thinks okay moving on
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polls have never been manipulated ever i suspect that the bloc voting against had a lot to do with
00:53:18.320
lingering animosity over the way that emergency powers were used to round up french canadian
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nationalists in 1970, which remains a sore spot with Quebecers to this day. In any case, the
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emergency powers pretty much worked. Once they were invoked, the government was able to basically
00:53:34.820
just declare the truckers' protest illegal and arrest anyone participating in it. They could
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also finally legally compel those indifferent towing companies to remove the trucks and force
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the truckers to cooperate under penalty of serious fines or prison. In all, 196...
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again all of this to not have a conversation about mandates protesters were arrested 115
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trucks were towed and over 3700 fines were levied i wonder how many of those fines actually went
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through and a lot of those arrests are not even real arrests most of them are just like hey we
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handcuffed you and drove you around the corner uh yeah so not not really real arrests just just
00:54:16.780
kind of staged arrests for show and over 3,700 fines were levied the emergency powers have now
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been revoked Ottawa is back to normal and Canada's brief moment well it wasn't uh back to normal right
00:54:29.740
away it was actually Ottawa was even less inaccessible and it was even more inconvenient
00:54:36.000
to drive around in Ottawa right after the the police occupied it they had fences up everywhere
00:54:43.340
they had checkpoints everywhere uh it was even less accessible uh once once the cops showed up
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but anyway if if you're only consuming mainstream moves you wouldn't you probably wouldn't know that
00:54:55.360
as a subject of global curiosity and pity has ended the truckers quickly became right-wing
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folk heroes to many canadian conservatives because they are heroes the truckers are heroes
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And, you know, actually, that's something that I didn't emphasize before.
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Like, another misconception is that it was just the truckers protesting for the truckers' mandates.
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And what the truckers did is the truckers were the ones to lead the charge.
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But every single trucker I talked to there were like, we're not just doing this for us.
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because they're they're actually such like humble hard-working amazing you know salt of the earth
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people just like the best the best people uh some of the best people in this country without a doubt
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and um to say that it's like that it was just them protesting is it's it's so so silly um
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but yeah sorry i got i got distracted there let's keep going truckers quickly became right-wing
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folk heroes to many canadian conservatives most of whom don't live in ottawa and thus had the luxury
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of observing the protest primarily as a grassroots pro-freedom movement that had arisen in opposition
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to a prime minister they hated many conservative politicians again it's not necessarily hating
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trudeau it's it's like this simple rule dude it's the simple mandate rule that's that's such a
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that's such a yeah such a cop-out keen to try to cozy up to the truckers arguing that they
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shared their concerns with the oppressive nature of covid restrictions during the heat of the
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protests the conservative governments of saskatchewan and alberta both announced that
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they would be repealing all of their covid restrictions the following month a move that
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was probably on track to happen anyway uh probably on track to happen anyway that's exactly what some
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of the canadian news headlines said oh you know what we took the restrictions away but this had
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nothing to do with the trucker convoy we took all the restrictions away it had nothing to do with
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the three-week-long protests that really intimidated and made uh politicians wet their
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pants it had nothing to do with this massive uprising of blue-collar workers driving from
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all across the country to honk on our front doors no no that was on track to happen anyway
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yeah break but was nevertheless framed on both sides as a sop to the trucker's influence it
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starts with truckers but it goes far beyond truckers some of the leaders i mean i mean
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So this doesn't even make sense by his own logic because he's essentially saying, oh, this was going to happen anyway, but Saskatchewan and Alberta made a nod to the truckers, but I thought the country didn't like the truckers.
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You were saying that on average, the majority of the country didn't like the trucker protests.
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So why would these provinces repeal the restrictions and say they report the truckers?
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wouldn't they say that they will repeal the restrictions and it does nothing to do with the
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truckers doesn't add up yeah your respective doesn't add up there jay the trucker convoy
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had also made the explicit demand that aaron o'toole the moderate head of the conservative
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party be fired uh if they were smart they would pull aaron now right now get him out of there
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and on february 2nd this happened to the whole stuff around the trucker convoy i think just
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added to the pressure and showed just what a weak leader he he was so again many might say that this
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was probably just gonna happen anyway like really dude really hey you know the convoy didn't do
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anything i'm telling you this would have happened anyway yeah okay man okay dude the new acting
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leader of the party and the guy who everyone suspects is likely to be the next permanent
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leader have both been far more aggressive in their opposition to covid restrictions than o'toole ever
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was i that's only the case because erin o'toole was hardly aggressive at all i don't i don't know
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how much more aggressive uh candace burgeon and uh small pp truly were to uh to mandates especially
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when it mattered sure he he's gotten aggressive he's gotten all he's pp's gotten all piped up
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now that all these uh trucks have shown up to support him but i don't think he was really that
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aggressive beforehand governments have taken advantage of covid to try and take away our
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freedom and give themselves more power and case in point i don't think he has really been that
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aggressive talking about this because is jj's has all these mainstream media clips is this really
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the best clip you have of pp saying something like this this this kind of like you know cell
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footage of him like you know in a parking lot somewhere right next to the trucks right only
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once the convoys happened do you have a clip from the house of commons uh months earlier when
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mandates were cracking down when uh when we were saying that one in four people support jail time
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for the unjabbed was uh was pp speaking out against that earlier in january or was he only
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speaking about that in the freaking parking lot of the trucker convoy once it was politically
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expedient to do so but he was much more aggressive against mandates yeah okay
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way our freedom and give themselves more power the fact that the conservatives have chosen to
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interpret the truckers as basically the heroes of this story has some observers wondering whether
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this is particularly good politics for the canadian right given that the truckers were never
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particularly well liked by the broad canadian public once again why is that it's because
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it's because of the misinformation it's because of the horrible propagandists in this country
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subsidized by the liberal government to try and make us look bad to try i'm not going to go over
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you guys already know this you guys already notice but but again the fact that this doesn't come up
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at all in your fair and objective analysis of the convoys is is kind of laughable at this point
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conservatives in turn respond by calling attention to recent polls showing that canadian public
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opinion has turned sharply against covid restrictions meaning the truckers cause
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might still be a winner even if the truckers themselves are not
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ah like once again once again wow the the the opinion sharply turned against restrictions
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during the trucker convoy but the convoy wasn't popular it's like huh the the opinions on the
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restrictions changed during the trucker convoy why you know well it wasn't because of the convoy
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with the convoy had nothing to do with this massive
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though in in some canadian uh newspaper that basically said like hey guys we're appealing
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restrictions and in brackets but it had nothing to do with the convoy which totally puts it you
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know summarizes the absurdity of it given that prime minister trudeau's popularity has taken
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quite a hit from his perceived mismanagement of the protest the conservatives are mostly feeling
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empowered by how things have played out and talking of polls lastly i just want to call
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your attention to some rather stark numbers regarding how the canadian public thinks that
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unruly protesters should be handled i think this gets at one of the most under-reported aspects of
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the canadian public which is just how much support there tends to be in this country for harsh
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treatment of troublemakers there's been a lot of under-reported things in this video jj but please
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continue a maru poll found 64 of canadians supporting the idea of using the army to remove
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the truckers from the capital city a solution considerably more extreme than anything trudeau
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actually did even with the emergency powers uh well they did consider uh getting tanks right
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they were texting each other about getting tanks we discovered during the inquiry so that's i mean
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a tank that that sounds like the military i think 67 agreed with the statement it's time to clear out
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the protesters in ottawa even if it means people who will not leave may get hurt or worse this
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This tracks quite closely with the sort of polling data that we've seen in response to some of the
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environmental protests of the past that so irritated David Frum, suggesting that the
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relevant issue in the eyes of most Canadians is the fact that people are protesting in an
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obstructive or disruptive manner rather than the cause that they're protesting for. It strikes me
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as a reflection of just how rigidly order obsessed the broad Canadian middle class tends to be.
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i mean all this call what gets called into question here is like how accurate are these
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polls first of all but let's assume that they are you know more canadians are acting pro-authoritarian
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you know that's the creepy thing that's the creepy kind of revelation uh that's happened
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not even during the convoy but before the convoy all these people who are okay with the mandates
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all these people who are okay with all these restrictions that's messed up that's messed up
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what is wrong with canadians out there who are essentially okay with like daddy government
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telling them what they can and cannot do oh i love having curfew in quebec i love it when my
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premier says i can't leave my house after 10 p.m like i'm a prisoner yeah it's it is messed up
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and well we'll finish that i think there's more stats he wants to show here a tendency that i do
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feel we should all keep an eye on because it can go in some rather dark places if left unchecked
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For instance, a different Maru poll offered up this option.
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Regardless of my politics, I would vote for a strong-willed person
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in what I think was obviously supposed to be a testing of the water,
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of the authoritarian instincts of the Canadian public.
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Protests do have the capacity to change politics,
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just not always in the way that the protesters themselves expect.
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so i think he's trying to imply there that the convoy made more canadians pro-authoritarian
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and well actually maybe that's actually maybe that is an insight to take away because my
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takeaway from the convoy having been there and having experienced everything was that the mask
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for the trudeau regime had fallen off and it's like oh you're an authoritarian scumbag
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who doesn't care about my freedoms at all you care about power and uh yeah but you're right
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these polls that he shares at the end are quite creepy because it reflects on the canadian public
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being okay being all right with this with this authoritarianism um uh i'm getting distracted
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here super chat from meh mechanics 20 he says merry christmas thank you mechanics i appreciate
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it um what else is there to say about this video he didn't talk about the misinformation
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in the canadian news media completely vilifying the protesters it's too bad that someone like jj
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mccullough just is kind of echoing everything that we've seen in the canadian news media
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you know it's it's it's too bad it's too bad that he's going to kind of just you know quote
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quote jerry butts and say like yeah this this is an important part of the analysis
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here it's certainly the perspective of somebody who uh did not consume alternative media did not
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consume anybody who was on the ground i mean he's not even going to mention bank accounts being
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frozen he's not gonna he's not gonna mention people getting arrested he's not gonna mention
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a sitting politician randy hillier getting arrested and all the trumped up charges that
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happened there like you're not you're not gonna make like you're gonna talk about the people
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being authoritarian and having an authoritarian sensibility at the end of the video here but
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you're not gonna talk about the government acting authoritarian jj you don't think that's relevant
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to bring up you don't think it's relevant to bring up the the once again the fro the frozen
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bank accounts and and all the other things that have happened with it with the propaganda news
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media it's it's uh it's unbelievable guys it's unbelievable someone said bearded mcnasty said
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spam jj's comments telling him to watch this everyone i okay i appreciate that bearded mcnasty
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uh whatever you do just just don't don't make don't make fun of them okay don't don't don't
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send any hateful comments that doesn't help me that doesn't help us at all um but uh yeah
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yeah uh i'm really glad i got got this off my chest because this video is really really bothering
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me if you if the video was jj mccullough's perspective on the canada trucker protest
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i wouldn't even really care i probably would have even reacted to it but it's the fact that
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he calls it a fair and objective analysis, a fair and objective analysis while he was
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And he's bringing up mainstream news article after mainstream news article.
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I mean, he didn't really emphasize the fact that it came from all across the country.
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The fact that Quebecers and English speakers were getting along for like probably the first time in a long time is amazing.
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Bank accounts being frozen didn't get brought up.
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And all the mischief charges that happened, the Diagalon, that's something that like not nearly enough people know in general.
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But, you know, oh man, even I try to forget, even I try to forget what it was like a year
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ago, more than one in four Canadians support jail for the unjabbed, you know, and, and,
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and that's alongside, you know, the headlines from Toronto star saying, uh, you know, well,
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we all know that Toronto star front page where it was just like, I don't care if unjabbed
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people die basically right you know things were hitting a fever pitch people needed a solution
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people wanted the pressure was cracking down on us you know and that's why the convoy happened
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to fight these mandates but anyway i'm just rambling on here thank you so much for watching
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