Juno News - June 13, 2021


Don't forget about the government's ridiculous public health measures

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Maxime Bernier Stephen Harper
Dismantling Institutional Wokeness Were the lockdowns worth it？

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Length

3 minutes

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189.23

Word count

675

Sentence count

37


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Part 1 of a two-part series on the reopening of Ontario and other parts of Canada, including the ban on drinking on patios and other outdoor spaces in certain areas of the province, and the recent arrest of Maxime Bernier for speaking to a few people outdoors.

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00:00:00.000 Parts of Canada are now finally slowly reopening and I know there's a lot of celebration going on.
00:00:12.160 People in Ontario celebrating the fact patios are finally open.
00:00:16.620 On Friday they reopened for the first time in quite some time
00:00:19.880 and I think people were just happy to get out and about on a nice day,
00:00:23.980 sit on the patio, have a beer, they went to stores and so forth.
00:00:27.240 Just great to put this all behind you.
00:00:29.400 But don't entirely forget about it.
00:00:32.420 Don't forget that our officials did things that were not proven to be necessary.
00:00:39.260 They did very severe things that damaged our society and that's what it did.
00:00:44.760 Damaged society and they said, well, it's the only way.
00:00:47.780 There's no better way, no possible other way and I just don't think we should be forgetting that.
00:00:52.780 One thing I did on Friday morning when Ontario began its phase one reopening
00:00:56.360 is I took my son to Canadian Tire to buy a baseball bat.
00:01:00.900 Now that's actually a radical proposition if I'd said it just the other day
00:01:04.300 because just the day before it would have been illegal for me to go inside a store,
00:01:08.880 if you can believe it, and just a couple weeks ago it would have been illegal for us to go on the baseball diamond.
00:01:14.700 I don't mean for us to field a whole two teams and play a whole league together.
00:01:18.220 By the way, that's still not allowed in Ontario.
00:01:19.700 It would have been illegal for my son and I, two people in the same household, family members,
00:01:25.620 to go and play on a baseball diamond.
00:01:27.720 That's how onerous, that's how absurd certain parts of Ontario's stay-at-home order were.
00:01:33.740 I mean, it's just unacceptable that those rules, that rule,
00:01:38.120 two people can't be on a baseball diamond, that that was ever, ever in place in Ontario.
00:01:43.380 So I'm happy that people can go grab a pint on a patio.
00:01:46.140 Absolutely, and I'm looking forward to never having to talk about these restrictions again.
00:01:50.560 But at the same time, the politicians who want to say,
00:01:53.100 yes, they were completely necessary up until the day they were not,
00:01:56.420 and you can thank us for now liberating you, uh-uh, not buying it.
00:02:00.500 Very shocked to see on Friday, Maxime Bernier was arrested for doing a bit of a rally
00:02:06.520 at a series of events in Manitoba where he's doing a tour where he's speaking out against lockdown measures.
00:02:12.080 Doesn't support them at all.
00:02:13.640 And he was going from one event to the other, and they were not particularly well-attended events.
00:02:17.880 I think some of them in big cities were.
00:02:19.680 But just after he was arrested, pardon me, just before he was arrested,
00:02:23.420 the rally he was at, I counted, I think there was about nine people, all socially distanced.
00:02:28.560 Maxime Bernier arrested after speaking to a handful of people outdoors, socially distanced.
00:02:35.760 Now, those are the Manitoba rules.
00:02:37.800 That's how you cannot have outdoor gatherings at the time of him doing that.
00:02:41.180 And he knew what he was doing and so forth. He knew he was breaking the law and so on.
00:02:45.040 But really, Manitoba, what are you doing?
00:02:48.520 I mean, this is an outrage.
00:02:50.280 You're arresting Canada's, one of Canada's former foreign affairs ministers,
00:02:53.840 he's a former cabinet minister in the Stephen Harper government,
00:02:56.380 for having a conversation outdoors with a handful of people.
00:03:00.920 I get that that's technically illegal, and I know Max knew what he was getting himself into,
00:03:05.420 but maybe that shouldn't have been illegal.
00:03:08.400 Maybe that law should not have been on the books in June, in the summer, in Manitoba.
00:03:15.220 And that is the stuff that we should just look at and go,
00:03:18.560 I can't believe these things are on the books.
00:03:20.400 I can't believe they were ever on the books.
00:03:23.220 And yes, we're happy to get back to real life and forgetting about this stuff,
00:03:28.160 but good grief, some of what happened, some of the rules that were in place, never acceptable.