Greg Wycliffe - January 31, 2022


The Sad Reality of Canadian Media


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

166.68523

Word Count

499

Sentence Count

29


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The biggest thing is, I think that the mandates are actually irrational.
00:00:05.740 I think that they're anti-free speech.
00:00:08.260 I think that they're anti-free choice.
00:00:09.860 And particularly the collusion of the national media with the federal government
00:00:17.220 to censor alternative viewpoints or differing viewpoints about these subjects
00:00:23.240 has stooped to lows rarely seen outside of communist dictatorships.
00:00:27.960 And that disturbs me greatly.
00:00:30.040 As a person who is very pro-science, but also very pro-choice,
00:00:34.420 I find that incredibly disturbing.
00:00:35.840 And I can't keep quiet about it anymore.
00:00:38.760 Somebody needs to stand up for free speech in this country
00:00:41.780 because that's where it all starts, right?
00:00:43.740 It's to the point where it's not enough that you be vaccinated
00:00:47.860 to maintain your employment, which is already such a coercive authoritarian act,
00:00:54.780 in my opinion.
00:00:55.460 But we carried a banner around the protests today
00:00:58.740 that had the names of somewhere between 100 and 200 people
00:01:02.600 who fully support the convoy and the protests happening
00:01:06.460 who wanted their names included,
00:01:08.540 but were afraid that they could actually be terminated from their jobs.
00:01:11.760 And so they requested that their names be blacked out.
00:01:14.420 And I thought that sent an especially powerful message
00:01:17.360 because, again, it's not enough that you be vaccinated.
00:01:20.400 You can't even have the wrong opinion about vaccines or vaccine mandates.
00:01:25.140 You can't question it.
00:01:26.100 You can't ask questions about anything anymore.
00:01:28.580 This interview, you're like, yeah, I'll share my voice,
00:01:31.400 but don't want to have my face out there.
00:01:33.040 And the thing is, I understand that,
00:01:35.220 especially depending on where you work and all that.
00:01:37.680 And like you said, you compared it to communist countries.
00:01:40.120 And that comparison is almost getting like so tired
00:01:44.960 because like that comparison keeps coming up.
00:01:46.800 It is.
00:01:47.220 It is.
00:01:47.680 It's almost becoming this sort of stock answer or something
00:01:50.800 where you get sort of immune to it, sort of, no pun intended,
00:01:53.760 because you hear it so often.
00:01:55.400 But it's true.
00:01:57.220 And the thing that keeps, I think, the argument really vital
00:02:00.460 and keeps breathing life into it, though,
00:02:02.760 is the growing number of people who share that concern.
00:02:06.260 It's just this thing that's spreading out to more and more people
00:02:10.260 where more and more innocuous opinions and innocuous behaviours
00:02:14.740 are being condemned as like far-right radical hate or something.
00:02:19.480 It's totally insane.
00:02:20.700 Because I actually travelled a good distance of the way to Ottawa
00:02:23.820 with one of the main convoys,
00:02:26.160 and I've been keeping a close eye on the mainstream media coverage
00:02:29.960 that's going on,
00:02:31.060 and it is absolutely shameful and despicable
00:02:34.540 the level of willful misinformation
00:02:37.640 that is being pushed out to the public.
00:02:40.360 Like, I can't say this clearly enough.
00:02:42.740 I just encourage anybody that might hear this
00:02:44.760 to look it up and do some research
00:02:46.680 and do some fact-finding for themselves,
00:02:48.400 because all I can say is that
00:02:50.040 there is hardly a word
00:02:52.120 that's being pushed out to the Canadian public
00:02:54.720 that even resembles reality anymore
00:02:57.240 from mainstream legacy media.
00:02:58.800 It's embarrassing.