Juno News - Canada's embarrassing approach to COVID-19

00:00:00.000 now when i reflect on the current position that canadian provinces find themselves in with

00:00:09.600 covet 19 particularly ontario and quebec being under lockdown one perspective one thought that

00:00:16.640 keeps coming to mind is that it's embarrassing i think it's unjustified which it is i think

00:00:23.040 these should end right now we should not be in these lockdown restrictions which i do think

00:00:27.040 but i also just think when i compare to how we're doing things in ontario where i'm based to how

00:00:32.640 they're doing things in all these other jurisdictions around the world it really is

00:00:36.880 just very embarrassing how we're handling ourselves in ontario and to realize that we are in this

00:00:43.120 position once again i was watching the leafs game on television the other night toronto maple leafs

00:00:48.240 against st louis blues in missouri in st louis missouri and you're watching there in the stadium

00:00:53.040 and it's a packed stadium people are there they're in missouri they're having a good time

00:00:57.680 there's some people wearing masks as i guess they want to many other people not wearing masks and

00:01:02.320 that's just what they're doing and it's fine here in canada if it had been a home game for the leafs

00:01:07.440 well it wouldn't have been happening because those things are banned now yes we had leafs games for a

00:01:12.400 bit and then the government said no we got to bring it to 50 capacity we got to cap it at this give it

00:01:17.600 cap it at that and then they just said no we got to shut the whole thing down no leafs games allowed

00:01:22.880 in canada no spectators allowed you can't have the ticketed events and there was a time not too long ago

00:01:30.160 when you would watch professional sports on television in the u.s and you'd say oh well well

00:01:34.880 why can't we do that we should be able to do that and it wasn't yet allowed and then we opened up to it

00:01:39.040 and we were doing it and and many people attended the sports events and it worked out just fine it was

00:01:44.800 fine to do it we learned now it's not so much that you look to the u.s and you see oh well why can't

00:01:49.680 we do that well we know we can we have since covid we've reopened to all those sporting events now to

00:01:56.000 see that they're shut down here and to see that they're doing it over there again it's it's just

00:02:00.160 embarrassing it's just humiliating it's like if you were down there for whatever reason and you're

00:02:05.120 at a sporting event you wouldn't dare say oh we were not even allowed to have them here and if we had

00:02:09.280 them here we'd have to be double mass and what have you there was another policy they introduced

00:02:13.440 actually forbid on ontario uh when the movie theaters were open and when sporting events were

00:02:17.600 open no alcohol sales no beverage sales no popcorn sales no hot dog sales because then well you know

00:02:23.200 it's going to lead to people taking off the mask it's going to lead to them eating the food and

00:02:26.400 you're like this is so it is so embarrassing just to see the disconnect between these jurisdictions

00:02:34.800 the fact that there are governors south of the border who democratic republican you can't play

00:02:39.840 politics on this it's it's all across the board there's far left-wing politicians who are embracing

00:02:44.720 being reopened there in the united states that they are forging ahead in a different direction

00:02:50.560 and we are not it's like there i've used this analogy before down in the united states they look

00:02:56.720 for reasons to reopen and they look for a positive path forward here in canada and ontario and

00:03:02.000 quebec people are looking for reasons to want to stay locked down they're looking for reasons to 1.00

00:03:09.200 bring in more restrictions they they see something that can be made into bad news and they chase

00:03:14.640 after it and they they want to be able to expand just how bad the news is they don't want to look

00:03:18.960 for the positive pathway forward and and i'm at the point where it's not even about having this sort of

00:03:25.200 rational discussions and looking at the facts and the evidence because we've been doing that

00:03:29.280 and that clearly hasn't worked and clearly hasn't enabled us uh to live in a more productive way right

00:03:35.360 now it's just it's just flat out embarrassing that's what it is and it's unbelievable that

00:03:41.680 they're doing these things just on the other side of the border and it's working out okay for them

00:03:46.160 they're managing it here we just can't allow ourselves to do that very frustrating

Juno News - January 17, 2022