Juno News - April 13, 2020


Another week of fewer freedoms


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31

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It's another week where I become increasingly shocked by the amount of people who are snitching, making complaints about their neighbors to the authorities, and where more policies are coming into place that don't seem to make a lot of sense.

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00:00:00.000 Well, it's another week where I become increasingly shocked by the amount of
00:00:07.720 people who are snitching, making complaints about their neighbors to the authorities,
00:00:11.520 and where more policies are coming into place that don't seem to make a lot of
00:00:16.080 sense. It's barely even possible at this point to keep up with the number of
00:00:20.220 complaints received across the country about people not properly staying six
00:00:24.840 feet apart from one another, as well as keeping up with the amount of tickets
00:00:28.980 that are being issued. So what are some of the new developments in the sphere of
00:00:33.720 civil liberties vis-a-vis the pandemic? Well, over in Ontario, Toronto Mayor John
00:00:39.060 Tory says he is going to urge the police and bylaw people to start writing more
00:00:44.700 tickets. So if you live in the Toronto area, that's something to look forward to.
00:00:49.080 Mm-hmm. In the Northwest Territories, they have banned all indoor gatherings of any
00:00:54.840 size. They specifically note that that means you're not allowed to hold
00:00:58.260 funerals, and they say no visitors in your household whatsoever. So does that
00:01:03.540 mean they are allowed to go around knocking on your door and checking how
00:01:07.440 many people are in your house and whether those people live in that house or not?
00:01:11.160 Who knows? And over in BC, they have closed all provincial parks across the board,
00:01:16.500 saying in a very scolding manner that they tried to keep them open, but people just
00:01:21.120 weren't maintaining proper social and physical distancing, so they had just had to
00:01:25.360 shut them down. Now, I think this was a very short-sighted decision, as part of
00:01:29.980 your overall ability to stay healthy is going outside, getting fresh air, vitamin D,
00:01:35.200 you know, the sunshine vitamin, exercise, and you know, hiking and walking, it's good
00:01:39.460 for your mental health. And a lot of people don't have backyards, right? So in
00:01:43.780 order to be in an outdoor space, they will have to leave their apartment or
00:01:47.920 townhouse. It's great if you have a big backyard where your kids have their own play
00:01:52.780 structure and a trampoline, maybe, and your dogs have space to run around and
00:01:57.520 play fetch, but a lot of people don't have that. So aren't we all kind of asking
00:02:01.840 ourselves, why is it acceptable to stand in a long line outside of Costco or the
00:02:07.320 grocery store or the liquor store, but it's not okay, it's actually banned, to be
00:02:12.520 hiking on a trail where you might quickly walk past a few people? And I think an
00:02:17.820 important counterpoint to the provincial parks closure is, well, now that you've
00:02:22.120 closed all of the provincial parks, now the people who wanted to go to parks will
00:02:26.920 go to regional or city parks, making those more crowded, and then the
00:02:31.540 authorities will say, oh, well, now the regional and city parks are too crowded, so
00:02:35.600 we got to close those up too. Also on Good Friday, a lot of people set out to go to
00:02:41.800 their vacation homes in smaller communities in BC, so perhaps on Vancouver
00:02:46.640 Island or in the Gulf Islands, and one elected official from BC, a member of the
00:02:52.800 BC legislature, he said, yesterday ferries to the Sunshine Coast BC were full of
00:02:59.760 people who deserve to live in a dictatorship. The rest of us respect seniors, 0.97
00:03:05.200 health care workers, and each other. Deserve to live in a dictatorship, eh? Hmm, 0.98
00:03:10.160 that, uh, I'm sure that's a totally normal thing for an elected official to say. And
00:03:16.120 people were just bombarding BC Ferries, the ferry company, with demands that they shut
00:03:21.460 down their services and ban people from boarding. You know, it's so weird to watch.
00:03:26.160 I've said this in some of my previous videos, but I just find it so eerie that
00:03:30.740 people are so compliant right off the bat, and they're so willing to snitch out their
00:03:38.180 neighbors. They're willing to be informants. And now we're seeing people who are literally
00:03:45.260 advocating for limits on their own mobility within their own province. And we have a MLA
00:03:52.840 in BC who's part of the NDP who feels totally comfortable saying that people who take a ferry
00:03:59.020 within their own province deserve to live in a dictatorship. And sure, free speech, he's
00:04:04.940 allowed to say that. He can tweet that if he wants. But I think it's really a telling
00:04:09.200 comment. It really shows their mental processes and how they think of you and how they think
00:04:16.440 of your rights, how they think of your civil liberties. You know, this is one thing I've
00:04:20.580 been really paying attention to since the start of this pandemic is how far are people willing
00:04:26.520 to go with taking away our civil liberties in the name of this virus. And I think it's something
00:04:32.140 we really need to keep an eye on. And so I will keep talking about it as long as it's relevant.
00:04:38.440 I'm Lindsay Shepard with True North. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next week.