Juno News - March 01, 2020


Disrupting blockades works


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

183.5273

Word Count

820

Sentence Count

58

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So I've got some crazy breaking news to tell you guys all about. This just in,
00:00:10.720 police immediately disrupting rail blockades, actually works. Who would have thought it?
00:00:17.440 It's with great relief that we see that there are really no blockades happening across Canada.
00:00:22.200 Right now, after there were attempts to bring solidarity blockades to a whole bunch of rail
00:00:27.360 lines to strand people's commutes after the OPP finally went in after almost three weeks and
00:00:33.520 disrupted those Belleville, Ontario via rail line blockades. There was a lot of hand-wringing,
00:00:38.480 a lot of discussion over whose authority is it, who can do what, what's appropriate. Justin Trudeau
00:00:44.160 was using phrases like dialogue and coming together to meet to talk about this and that. We heard it
00:00:49.760 from many other cabinet ministers. I thought, okay, if you want to talk about these broader issues,
00:00:53.600 fine. Meanwhile, you've got people on rail lines, some of whom may have been tampering with those
00:00:58.880 rail lines. Get them off the rail lines. It's illegal. No one else would be allowed to stick
00:01:03.600 around and do that for so long. But we had the provinces and the feds arguing back and forth
00:01:08.080 about whose responsibility it was. Justin Trudeau saying, we do not tell the police what to do.
00:01:13.120 Politicians can't do that. And then he had a press conference telling the police, okay, guys, you can
00:01:18.000 move in now. And you know what? Here's the thing. They did move in. The OPP moved in at Belleville and
00:01:24.080 there was no violence. Nobody got hurt. There were several people arrested. Quite frankly, I think they
00:01:29.920 got off quite easily because one should not be allowed to do what they did for so long and not
00:01:34.800 suffer legal consequences. Here's the thing. A lot of activists, particularly those sort of far left
00:01:41.600 social justice warrior climate activists who wanted to affix themselves to all of this and kind of
00:01:47.040 pretend that they were also First Nations activists, they went and they went to do a whole
00:01:51.920 bunch of shutdowns in British Columbia and in downtown Toronto. They tried to blockade the
00:01:56.480 commutes coming out of Toronto one afternoon rush hour. And they were up on those rail lines for,
00:02:02.400 I don't know, 15 minutes. The police came on force. They took them off the rail lines right away. It was
00:02:09.520 really only a one hour disruption for people's commutes. And then they got the trains moving. And there you go.
00:02:14.640 You know, we had a number of voices come forward to say, what needs to happen? Who needs to do this?
00:02:19.840 And that. Eric O'Toole stepped forward, conservative leadership candidate, and he proposed this sort of
00:02:24.320 bringing in a law about critical infrastructure and you can't block the, okay, whatever, fine,
00:02:29.600 maybe that law is helpful. But basically it's still illegal to have done all of this from the get-go.
00:02:36.480 And we saw that when police finally did decide to enforce the law, well, they just did it. And then
00:02:42.000 people got off the lines. The GO trains in the Greater Toronto Area got back to service. And now we have the
00:02:47.520 Via Rail lines more or less operational again. Although we've learned that it's going to take several weeks to get
00:02:53.200 all of those backed up trains back into, I guess, the logistic system so they can get their grain shipments and so forth
00:02:59.600 out and about. But what a lesson. What a teachable moment. Pretty crazy. I thought the idea that this would
00:03:05.200 somehow come to blows and that everybody would be, you know, severely harmed or even killed. It was
00:03:10.000 really almost kind of offensive, both to the police that this is the way they conduct themselves and
00:03:14.480 they would do this, and also to assume that the activists were so violent that basically they wanted
00:03:21.280 to get into this situation. Now, when you see these people who have been running in front of trains and
00:03:26.640 then throwing pallets down in front of the trains, that's another story. And I think if these people are
00:03:32.240 going to go without facing legal consequences to do something that, let's be honest, is domestic terrorism,
00:03:37.760 we got another thing coming. When it comes to the basic blockading of the GO trains, the Via Rail lines,
00:03:43.520 there, they get on the tracks. Five minutes later, cops come. They take them off. It's that simple.
00:03:48.640 We always had the resources for it. We always had the correct laws in place. What needed to happen was
00:03:53.600 people needed to act. And next time they do it, five minutes after it starts, the police should act.
00:04:02.240 have done a time so that they're not kept running away.
00:04:09.280 So I want to be able to go without police repair and work.
00:04:20.520 To be honest, I want to be able to engage possess thatças but not me.
00:04:25.840 So I am ?