Juno News - February 12, 2022Here’s what Ontarians have to say about Ford’s state of emergency
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The situation in Ontario is really starting to heat up. Yesterday in the building behind me, Premier Doug Ford announced a state of emergency in the province due to the ongoing border blockade in Windsor and what he calls the siege of the city of Ottawa.
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Harrison Faulkner reporting for True North in downtown Toronto on Saturday February 12th.
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Thousands of people have gathered to Queen's Park to protest the ongoing COVID restrictions
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in place by the province. The situation in Ontario is really starting to heat up.
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Yesterday in the building behind me, Premier Doug Ford announced a state of emergency in the
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province due to the ongoing border blockade in Windsor and what he calls the siege of the city
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of Ottawa. We're now two weeks into the siege of the city of Ottawa. I call it a siege,
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because that's what it is. So I wanted to ask the protesters here what they thought of Doug Ford's
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decision to declare a state of emergency. What do you guys think of the Premier's decision
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to declare a state of emergency yesterday? Very disturbing. I've been to a lot of rallies
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and it's peace loving people and they're spinning a very hateful narrative that I think is very
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inappropriate and feeding fear and dividing people, marginalizing people just for having
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a different opinion. I think it's insulting to the real state of emergency that happened in BC and
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Alberta recently. I think you know the real state of emergency is that the everyday person is standing
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up and using their voice and that frightens politicians. Well I truly believe it's not really him,
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he's just reading the script. Like from what we've seen so far in the last couple of months,
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he tells you one thing and then he backs off. It's the same as through the door.
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I mean I think it's too bad. I think it's too bad that it had to come to this to get our freedoms
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back. I think that directly comes from the government mandates and they could have listened earlier.
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What do you think of Doug Ford's decision to declare a state of emergency in Ontario?
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I think it's ridiculous, personally. He shouldn't have followed that. I think he just subsides
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everyone even more. So what do you think about Doug Ford's decision to declare a state of emergency
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yesterday? Doug Ford has been an embarrassment from day one. He's flipped on everything. He hasn't got
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what it takes to do this, okay? He may talk a talk, but I don't think he's going to get anywhere with this.
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It seems to me that Doug Ford is not a conservative. He's a phony and I think he's tied up with Trudeau
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deeper than what we really think he is. I think it's a little extreme considering that
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we are the French minority as they say. Small group. Why make such a bold thing?
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BC has all the floods. That's the state of emergency. Alberta has the forest fires. State of
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emergency. But for something like this, it's just a little bit of using overreach. To me,
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it seemed like there's no emergency. There's nothing happening. So it seems totally premature.
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So what do you think about Doug Ford's decision yesterday to declare a state of emergency?
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Another state of emergency on top of a state of emergency seems pretty ridiculous to me. Considering
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the first one gives you all the power you need to do anything. You tell people to stay in their homes.
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Like, I don't know how you need another state of emergency on top of that. For True North,