Juno News - Another week of fewer freedoms

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.

Juno News - April 13, 2020

Another week of fewer freedoms

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