Juno News - August 13, 2025


Alex Brown says Nova Scotia’s forest ban feels like déjà vu


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Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

165.09515

Word Count

321

Sentence Count

11


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00:00:00.000 There is a there's a senator who like, I'm not even kidding that this is his rationale that has been like supported by the side when he put out a tweet that said, I was at a friend's place last night.
00:00:11.460 My wife put a cigarette out in the his wife put a cigarette out in the fire pit before we went inside for dinner.
00:00:17.060 Ten minutes later, we noticed the pit was in full blaze.
00:00:19.540 A fire pit was in blaze, folks.
00:00:22.040 Innocent enough, but incredibly dangerous.
00:00:23.980 I support Premier Houston's call on this 100 percent.
00:00:26.440 that has absolutely nothing to do with keeping law-abiding self-respecting taxpayers out of the
00:00:35.480 woods you lit a fire in a fire pit and now you want to keep people out of the woods there's been
00:00:41.800 a ruthlessness and an unthinking aspect of this messaging and we're seeing mainstream articles
00:00:47.880 not representing opposition from people just going like hey wait a second down with the fire ban
00:00:54.680 this is nonsensical. And in doing that, in this reaction, in talking down to people as these
00:01:03.440 folks like to do, as the government will now sort of thoughtlessly decree, they're creating their
00:01:10.460 own opposition without a care. This hectoring, this tone policing, then crying foul when they
00:01:16.060 get a little contact back, it doesn't serve anyone well. And it was foundational to the
00:01:21.800 COVID experience. And so you can see why people are starting to go, uh-oh, we're joking about
00:01:28.880 climate lockdowns because it sure feels like those years, those cursed summers when we were
00:01:35.680 just making everything worse without a care and just to abide by the sensibilities of this sort
00:01:43.200 of professional class and a select few amount of people who, you know, they could ride these things
00:01:49.480 out in their cottage or they were insulated from the damage being done to the real economy
00:01:55.000 or what was really happening at street level.