Juno News - February 12, 2022


Here’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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00:00:00.000 Harrison Faulkner reporting for True North in downtown Toronto on Saturday February 12th.
00:00:04.880 Thousands of people have gathered to Queen's Park to protest the ongoing COVID restrictions
00:00:08.960 in place by the province. The situation in Ontario is really starting to heat up.
00:00:12.800 Yesterday in the building behind me, Premier Doug Ford announced a state of emergency in the
00:00:17.280 province due to the ongoing border blockade in Windsor and what he calls the siege of the city
00:00:22.800 of Ottawa. We're now two weeks into the siege of the city of Ottawa. I call it a siege,
00:00:30.160 because that's what it is. So I wanted to ask the protesters here what they thought of Doug Ford's
00:00:34.240 decision to declare a state of emergency. What do you guys think of the Premier's decision
00:00:37.360 to declare a state of emergency yesterday? Very disturbing. I've been to a lot of rallies
00:00:43.360 and it's peace loving people and they're spinning a very hateful narrative that I think is very
00:00:50.720 inappropriate and feeding fear and dividing people, marginalizing people just for having
00:00:56.880 a different opinion. I think it's insulting to the real state of emergency that happened in BC and
00:01:03.200 Alberta recently. I think you know the real state of emergency is that the everyday person is standing
00:01:09.280 up and using their voice and that frightens politicians. Well I truly believe it's not really him,
00:01:15.920 he's just reading the script. Like from what we've seen so far in the last couple of months,
00:01:21.920 he tells you one thing and then he backs off. It's the same as through the door.
00:01:26.800 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
00:01:31.520 back. I think that directly comes from the government mandates and they could have listened earlier.
00:01:35.520 What do you think of Doug Ford's decision to declare a state of emergency in Ontario? 0.76
00:01:38.960 I think it's ridiculous, personally. He shouldn't have followed that. I think he just subsides 0.70
00:01:44.160 everyone even more. So what do you think about Doug Ford's decision to declare a state of emergency
00:01:49.600 yesterday? Doug Ford has been an embarrassment from day one. He's flipped on everything. He hasn't got
00:01:59.200 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.
00:02:05.520 It seems to me that Doug Ford is not a conservative. He's a phony and I think he's tied up with Trudeau
00:02:12.000 deeper than what we really think he is. I think it's a little extreme considering that
00:02:17.520 we are the French minority as they say. Small group. Why make such a bold thing?
00:02:23.920 BC has all the floods. That's the state of emergency. Alberta has the forest fires. State of
00:02:30.480 emergency. But for something like this, it's just a little bit of using overreach. To me,
00:02:36.720 it seemed like there's no emergency. There's nothing happening. So it seems totally premature.
00:02:44.800 So what do you think about Doug Ford's decision yesterday to declare a state of emergency?
00:02:48.080 Another state of emergency on top of a state of emergency seems pretty ridiculous to me. Considering
00:02:52.640 the first one gives you all the power you need to do anything. You tell people to stay in their homes.
00:02:56.560 Like, I don't know how you need another state of emergency on top of that. For True North,
00:03:00.720 in downtown Toronto, Harrison Faulkner.