Are Vaccine Passports Inevitable？
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In this episode, I discuss a section of my recent interview with Maxime Bernier on his show, The Max Bernier Show, in which I talk about the need for a vaccine passport in Canada, and why I oppose it.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the good privilege of being a guest on Maxime Bernier's show,
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We talked about my time in politics and media, independent media, COVID lockdowns.
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We spoke for, I think it was 40, 45 minutes or so.
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And I'm not a PPC supporter in the sense that I'm not a supporter of any particular party,
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but I enjoyed the conversation and would happily go back.
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There was one section of that interview with Maxime Bernier that has had me getting deluged
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by a lot of very nasty email, and it was a section in which I talked about vaccine passports.
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I think that a vaccine passport is inevitable, and I'm kind of of two minds on this,
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because on one hand, I respect national sovereignty, and I respect that countries
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need to be able to make decisions that are right for them.
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So even if Canada doesn't have a vaccine passport, countries that Canadians might want to travel
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to, like France or Germany or Israel, may expect one.
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So if a Canadian wants to travel, they have to play by other countries' rules.
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Now, one of the problems is I generally tend to be an easygoing person, and some people
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are uncomfortable with the fact that I'm not angry all the time, to which I say it's very
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But I gave what I believe is a matter-of-fact assessment that vaccine passports are inevitable,
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And I realized that I haven't actually talked about this in a little while, and I wanted
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to delve into it in a way that people understand my position, that I think vaccine passports
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are terrible, but also that they are unavoidable.
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Number one, I am committed to my libertarian principles, and I don't believe that anyone
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As much as I became accustomed to, in the before times, being able to just head on over to the
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United States if I wanted, or pick up on a plane and go to a country anywhere in the
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world if I so desired, no other country has a right to admit non-citizens into its borders.
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Which means that if any country that is a tourist destination decides it wants to put up barriers
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and say, in order to enter, you must prove that you are vaccinated, I believe they have
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Now, if Canada were to do it, I would oppose it because I'm a Canadian.
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I have a say in how the Canadian government does things, or that's how it's supposed to
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be in a democratic society, but that's a topic for another day.
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I believe that businesses have a right to determine whatever rules and guidelines they
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So if Live Nation, which is one of the biggest concert companies, decides that they're going
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to say, in order to come to one of our concerts, you need to be vaccinated, you need to prove
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it, and you need to show a vaccine passport, I would oppose that, but respect their right
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And that's the challenge with liberty, is that if you believe people have a right to make
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these decisions for themselves, you unfortunately will inevitably lead to situations where these
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If the Canadian government mandates a vaccine passport, that would be incredibly wrong.
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It would be a violation of people's right to not be vaccinated.
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Like I've said in the past, I support vaccinations, but I also support people's right to say a vaccine
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And that's an especially important freedom as we see stories of concern about the AstraZeneca
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Just this morning, U.S. health authorities recommended a pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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over a small number, but still a number of cases involving blood clots.
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You as an individual have a right to decide what you want to put in your body.
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Similarly, other businesses have a right to decide what rules they want to put out.
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And other individuals have a right to decide what comfort level they have about people in
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And this is the inevitable problem we are going to see with vaccine passports, is that we may
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reach them by default without them being adopted by a state.
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Without them being adopted by the Canadian government necessarily.
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Because if the Canadian government were to start mandating this, or even airlines which
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are federally regulated, I'd say there is an argument that Air Canada and WestJet are not
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private companies, especially Air Canada now that they've gotten a multi-billion dollar
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But this is not me endorsing vaccine passports.
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This is me taking a very realistic view of how the world is headed and where the world
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One story that came across my radar regarding the TIAC, which is the Tourism Industry Association
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of Canada, is that they're calling for a vaccine passports because they see it as being the
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This industry, which is again made up of Air Canada, Via Rail, a bunch of government funded
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tourism boards, they are saying that listen, the 14 day quarantine is killing tourism, travel
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They think a vaccine passport is the only way to get out of that.
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And that's the problem here, is that a lot of people right now think that that is the
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And if they don't see another solution, that's going to be a position they're going to adopt.
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Government has to get off of this quarantine mindset, which simply isn't working.
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If you want to drive into Canada right now, you're a Canadian citizen, you're allowed to
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be in Canada, you have to get a test three days before you cross the border.
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And then on the day you arrive, you have to get another test.
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And if it's negative, doesn't matter, you're still in quarantine.
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And then on your 10th day of quarantine, you have to get another test.
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And if it's negative, you get to leave your quarantine on the 14th day when you would
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So you need to do three tests, even though the outcome is the same, which is you being
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So the idea of just going away for a weekend is simply not possible for most people unless
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they want to deal with the two weeks of house arrest that comes after it.
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And we've already talked on the show on numerous occasions about what happens when you fly into
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You have to spend up to $2,000 to hang out in hotel quarantine for three days.
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And at the end of which you get a negative test, you still have to spend your 14 day quarantine
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What government is trying to do is basically prohibit travel without coming out and saying
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that you are not allowed to leave the country, which government can't do.
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They can not deny you entry into your country, but they can make it miserable, which is what
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And it's causing a slow, painful death to the travel and tourism sector in Canada.
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So much so that people are grabbing onto a vaccine passport because they think it's the
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So while I think these things are inevitable in some form, I'm also very aware that government
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is trying to make it so that the vaccine is the be all and end all, but they're not even
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The government isn't saying that being vaccinated gets you out of quarantine.
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And the reason the government's not saying that is because they failed at getting vaccinations
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They failed at getting people who want to be vaccinated, vaccinated.
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And that failure is going to continue and persist for months and months and months, which is
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why Canada is, as a developed nation, still shamefully doing this four-month interval between
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first dose and second dose, despite the fact that that's not what the vaccine manufacturers
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And it's not what they are prescribing for these things.
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So again, I'm never going to force anyone to get a vaccine.
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But the thing is, not everyone has to accept that choice.
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Same as you don't have to respect their choices.
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Same as you don't have to respect their choices.
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So you can call me a big globalist shill because I think the vaccine passports are inevitable.
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But the fact that we're already seeing so many pushes for this is kind of indicating that
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Whether you like it or not, this is what's coming.
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If you liked watching this clip of the Andrew Lawton Show, True North has lots more for
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And I apologize for everything that I see on theusz.
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I don't know if I'm trying to control the anxiety on the edge of my shoulders and I'm
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You know they don't want to bring you back to that.