The Sad Reality of Canadian Media
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and colleague, Dr. Kelly, to discuss the anti-choice and anti-vaccination protests that took place across Canada on October 19th, 2019. We talk about the need for free speech and the need to speak out against the censorship of alternative viewpoints.
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The biggest thing is, I think that the mandates are actually irrational.
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And particularly the collusion of the national media with the federal government
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to censor alternative viewpoints or differing viewpoints about these subjects
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has stooped to lows rarely seen outside of communist dictatorships.
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As a person who is very pro-science, but also very pro-choice,
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Somebody needs to stand up for free speech in this country
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It's to the point where it's not enough that you be vaccinated
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to maintain your employment, which is already such a coercive authoritarian act,
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But we carried a banner around the protests today
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that had the names of somewhere between 100 and 200 people
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who fully support the convoy and the protests happening
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but were afraid that they could actually be terminated from their jobs.
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And so they requested that their names be blacked out.
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And I thought that sent an especially powerful message
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because, again, it's not enough that you be vaccinated.
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You can't even have the wrong opinion about vaccines or vaccine mandates.
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You can't ask questions about anything anymore.
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This interview, you're like, yeah, I'll share my voice,
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especially depending on where you work and all that.
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And like you said, you compared it to communist countries.
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And that comparison is almost getting like so tired
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It's almost becoming this sort of stock answer or something
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where you get sort of immune to it, sort of, no pun intended,
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And the thing that keeps, I think, the argument really vital
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is the growing number of people who share that concern.
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It's just this thing that's spreading out to more and more people
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where more and more innocuous opinions and innocuous behaviours
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are being condemned as like far-right radical hate or something.
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Because I actually travelled a good distance of the way to Ottawa
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and I've been keeping a close eye on the mainstream media coverage