Juno News - June 13, 2021


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


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3 minutes

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189.23465

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675

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36


Summary


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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.