Juno News - April 09, 2020


How long will Canadians support social distancing？


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

180.6656

Word Count

608

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 it's a delicate balance right now properly enforcing social distancing
00:00:09.760 measures police and bylaw officers doing the right thing but not going too far
00:00:15.480 recent poll by Leger shows that the vast majority over 90% of Canadians support
00:00:21.240 the social distancing measures that are happening across this country wow that
00:00:25.320 is remarkable support levels no politicians ever seen any numbers like
00:00:28.620 this in this country it shows we're all in this together for now because if the
00:00:34.860 law goes too far if enforcement officers go too far public support well that's
00:00:40.260 gonna start to diminish there's been a couple stories that have left people
00:00:43.920 scratching their heads and being rather frustrated in the east end of Ottawa a
00:00:48.420 father took his young autistic son out to play in a field not a playground not a
00:00:54.180 baseball diamond not an official public park a grass patch sort of owned by the
00:00:59.460 city or what have you a piece of land looked around made sure there was no one
00:01:03.780 within 500 meters of him how many hockey stick lengths are that but still an
00:01:09.840 enforcement officer showed up wrote down that father's license plate number and
00:01:14.220 simply said to the guy $700 fine and got back in his car and drove away now the
00:01:18.900 man didn't receive a physical ticket and he's wondering what's gonna happen if he
00:01:22.560 actually gets one in the mail he's prepared to go to court to fight it but I
00:01:26.060 think we can all agree that's wrong let's be reasonable we cannot all stay
00:01:31.980 cooped up in little coffin sized spaces for the next few weeks the next few
00:01:37.200 months during this summer time when kids have to get exercise adults all of us we
00:01:41.940 need to go out and have a little bit of a walk so let's use our good judgment
00:01:46.260 here a rather sad story from the Montreal area there's a lady who had a
00:01:49.940 birthday and her friends wanted to surprise her because of course she
00:01:53.480 couldn't have a birthday party so what happened was that the friends drove up in
00:01:57.800 their cars one person per car rolled down their windows the cars were spaced
00:02:03.320 apart from each other and they sang happy birthday to the lady she watched from
00:02:08.120 her front door how far apart is a car to a front door I don't know 15 meters 20
00:02:12.940 meters something like that the cars drove on the enforcement officer comes by
00:02:17.740 later $1,500 fine for disturbing the peace really people really where are our
00:02:25.720 priorities and there are a lot of things going on that maybe should be more
00:02:28.900 enforced perhaps there can be directives to go after that not this cheap shot
00:02:34.940 low-hanging fruit quite frankly it's really frustrating to see people say oh no
00:02:38.800 those illegal border crossers we must protect them the most they are more
00:02:42.640 important now than ever and some people were actually dismayed to see Justin
00:02:46.180 Trudeau closing the Roxham Road border crossing we're hearing a lot of concerns
00:02:49.780 about inmates in prisons we've got to release them right away and so forth lots
00:02:53.980 of prioritizing for them for them to sort of have it easier but the otherwise
00:02:57.980 law-abiding middle-class the working Joe know we're gonna make life more and more
00:03:02.200 difficult for you even when you're doing something in the case of these
00:03:05.800 examples I gave that really isn't that big of a deal so yes we're all supporting
00:03:10.460 this we're all in this together but as the weeks continue as the weather gets
00:03:14.200 warmer a lot of people are gonna say come on guys let's just use our judgment
00:03:19.780 here