Greg Wycliffe - This Hour has 22 Minutes is God Awful

00:00:00.000 Canadians still don't know about the carbon rebate.

00:00:03.180 What do we do?

00:00:04.060 Make them give it back.

00:00:05.060 That's a clip from a recent episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes,

00:00:08.680 a comedy satire show paid for and on the CBC.

00:00:13.340 For a while now, I've called This Hour Has 22 Minutes state-approved comedy,

00:00:17.880 but that is just straight-up propaganda at this point.

00:00:20.900 They're actually shoehorning in liberal talking points into the sketch.

00:00:26.620 Aside from the terrible writing, they're literally just explicitly saying,

00:00:30.680 isn't it weird that Canadians aren't talking about the carbon tax rebate?

00:00:35.140 Comedy and satire is supposed to challenge the status quo, challenge those in power,

00:00:42.760 but instead the CBC, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, is just underlining it and saying,

00:00:47.440 hey, remember the people in power said this?

00:00:50.120 Just a reminder.

00:00:51.320 You can make a whole documentary on the rich history of Canadian comedy and satire

00:00:56.000 and how right now it's really at risk.

00:00:57.980 It's really dying.

00:00:59.900 And the worst, worst, worst thing ever is happening right now in Canada.

00:01:03.440 It's the Online Harms Act or Bill C-63.

00:01:07.700 If you've heard of this, it is bad, bad news for free speech.

00:01:11.740 It's going to be the end of free speech.

00:01:13.680 If this passes, essentially the state or an anonymous person can say,

00:01:18.560 hey, that person's hateful, or I think that person is going to do something hateful.

00:01:22.280 I want to find them.

00:01:23.500 I want to throw them in jail.

00:01:24.620 Uh, I want them on house arrest.

00:01:27.000 Yes, this is real.

00:01:28.060 The Online Harms Act, Bill C-63, they're trying to dress it up and say it's going to protect

00:01:33.180 kids from cyber bullying, but no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:01:35.740 If this passes the way it is, it could very well be the end of free speech in Canada.

00:01:40.060 So because of that, I am doing daily uploads to talk about it because if you don't use free

00:01:46.000 speech, you will lose it.

00:01:49.160 Thanks for watching, we'll talk to you tomorrow.

Greg Wycliffe - March 07, 2024