I just EXPOSED Toronto's insane ＂harm reduction＂ strategy
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Summary
What does it look like when a society gives up on its most vulnerable population? Perhaps it s when the government is proudly trying to expand its euthanasia regime to include the mentally ill and homeless, or when hundreds of thousands of children rely on food banks just to stay alive? Or perhaps it looks something like this: The City of Toronto is now handing out free taxpayer-funded, neatly packaged crystal meth pipes, crack pipes, and drug starter kits to anyone who wants them.
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What does it look like when a society gives up on its most vulnerable population? Perhaps it's
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when the government is proudly trying to expand its euthanasia regime to include the mentally ill
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and the homeless. Or perhaps it's when hundreds of thousands of children have to rely on food
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banks just to stay alive. Or perhaps it looks something like this. The city of Toronto is now
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handing out free taxpayer funded neatly packaged crystal meth pipes, crack pipes and drug starter
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kits to anyone who wants them. Now these drug starter kits and crystal meth pipes have the city
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of Toronto branding proudly displayed on them for these addicts to see along with a cell phone number
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to call not to receive treatment but to receive more of course. Now all of this is part of the
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city of Toronto's broader harm reduction and safe supply strategy. The idea that providing addicts
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a stronger heroin alternative along with city of Toronto branded crack pipes to smoke their drugs
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is somehow going to reduce harm and actually solve addictions. The truth is the data is available for
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anyone to see. These strategies have been a disaster. Since 2016 opioid deaths have taken over 30 000
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Canadian lives. But as long as we trust the federal government, as long as we trust the city of
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Toronto and city of Vancouver, all of this is eventually going to work. We're just not giving
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it enough time yet. You see, all of this safe supply strategy, although it's been a abject failure,
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it's just not working yet. It's going to get there eventually. That's what they want us to believe.
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And watch, anyone who questions the safe supply regime enforced by the federal government and promoted by the
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federal government. Well, this is how the minister responsible responds in a completely unhinged way.
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Now we've got a bit of a surprise for you coming up on ratio. We're going to try and investigate this and
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see what the heck is really going on here. Also, as always, stick around for the ratio of the weak
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prize. Drop a like in the video. Help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel.
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And the comment question for the episode is this. Have we given up on the most vulnerable
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people in our society? Let me know in the comments and let's get into it. It turns out that the city
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of Toronto, under the guise of harm reduction and safe supply, is now in the business of handing out
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free taxpayer-funded crystal meth pipes, crack pipes, and even something called a drug starter kit.
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Now, if you're having trouble understanding how this actually reduces harm, well, you're not alone.
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On one side, public health officials are putting up a giant green light to drug addicts, encouraging
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and facilitating harmful drug use by providing them with city-branded drug starter kits and nice shiny
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new crystal meth pipes. And on the other side, you have what's called safe supply, where public health
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officials are providing taxpayer-funded hydromorphone, a more potent heroin alternative,
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which is actually fueling a black market fentanyl trade. So on one side, the city is
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facilitating drug use, and on the other side, the city is actually giving addicts drugs.
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Last month, as we discussed before, a National Post investigation blew this safe supply strategy
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wide open and completely exposed it for having the opposite effect of what the government tells
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us it is supposed to have. As the government gives addicts hydromorphone, these addicts then take that
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drug flip it on the street for a more dangerous fentanyl, which is then causing spikes in overdose
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deaths. A couple days ago, the National Post followed that story up with a tragic story of a 14-year-old
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girl who died from an overdose. Her father blames the safe supply regime enforced by the government, which,
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as Carolyn Bennett always reminds us, saves lives. What happened was this 14-year-old girl got hooked on
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hydromorphone given to her by other addicts who were receiving that drug from government depots,
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and then, because of that, she was then hooked on other stronger drugs, and the rest is sadly history.
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The drug crisis in British Columbia, which is where this 14-year-old girl died, is well documented and
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well established. Take this video of a sprawling tent city in Kelowna, BC, as evidence that nothing is
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working here. It's just getting worse. But the focus of today's show is on the city of Toronto.
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Eileen Davila, the chief public health officer of the city, recently submitted a proposal to Carolyn
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Bennett, the minister of addictions and mental health, and the rest of the federal government,
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to seek an exemption which would allow the full decriminalization of hard drugs, any hard drugs in
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the city of Toronto, of any amount at any age. So take this in. A child could walk around Yonge and Dundas
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square with a brick of fentanyl, and the cops wouldn't be allowed to do anything about it.
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That's what Eileen Davila and the rest of the safe supply, harm reduction drug regime want to try
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and put into this city. So you know what? We're going to do something different on ratio today.
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We're going to go investigate this for ourselves. I'm going to take you with me as I go down to one of
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these harm reduction facilities, a building hilariously called The Works by the city of Toronto,
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and see just how easy it is for someone like me to receive a free City of Toronto branded
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Alright, so we're here at Yonge and Dundas, the heartbeat of Toronto as some people call it,
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as some people say, it's where the city comes to life. But actually, if you go one block across,
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well, it looks a lot like the opposite of life. It looks a lot more like death. Behind me in that
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building, allegedly, I'll be allowed to receive my free crack pipe, my free crystal meth pipe,
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drug kits and whatever. That's what that's what they're giving away to the city for free. So
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we're going to head on inside and see what it's like. I'll try and take you with me. I'll be as
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Hi. I'm here to collect my free drug pipe, my crack pipe. Can I get that here?
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Uh, you can get that on the other side. The works? This is a clinic. Okay, where's the works? Over there.
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This door right here? Yeah. Oh, thank you very much.
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Hey, I just got to go out here to the small play that came up.
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What's the purpose here? Yeah, what is here today? Well, I'm here to collect my free crack pipe,
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crystal meth pipe. Okay, well, you're recording. Yeah.
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Chance seems like that's not the case, so I do have to advise you that's against the policy while you're
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going. Oh, okay, I won't record. Okay, dude, you gotta leave. Why? I can't, I can't record.
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You gotta leave. Like I said, you gotta leave. So I'm not even, I'm not allowed to have my other
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recorder. Well, you're coming in here, you're causing issues. You're not one of our clients.
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No, no, no. You're trespassing now. I'm directing you to leave. I'm just here to collect my free crack
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pipe, crystal meth. Can I, can I not receive? Daniel, Daniel, come here. It's okay. That's good. Come on.
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All right. I'm not here to cause any services. As I stated to you, you're not supposed to be recording
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in your against the policy. I'm asking you to leave now. I did advise you that when you initially came in.
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So you gotta leave, man. You're not, you're not complying with the policies and regulations
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and rules over here. So you gotta leave. So you're coming here trying to cause issues.
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Well, I'm not here to cause any issues. I'm just here to collect my, my crack pipe. Didn't I pay for it?
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Uh, do you guys, uh, are you guys refusing service?
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Yes. Yep. Okay. So I need you to leave now because now you're trespassing, right?
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All right. So as you can see there that they don't want anyone to actually expose what's going on.
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I, I came in here trying to record what is taking place inside here. You're not allowed to record.
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You're not even allowed to, you're not even allowed to voice record anyone who wants to go in there
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and show people what is actually taking place. You're not allowed to do that. I guess they're
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trying to hide what's taking place inside the public health building. But the truth is we've
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already seen the reports inside that building. They are handing out free taxpayer funded crystal
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meth pipes, crack pipes, naloxone kits, anything else. And the last thing they want is for someone
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to actually show that. I don't know why after all, I thought we paid for this stuff. But as you can see
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here, it's no surprise what is actually taking place around this building. It looks like death
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and destruction, not treatment. And anyone who wants to actually show people what's taking place here,
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well, they're not going to do that, are they? They don't want to hide. They want to hide this as much
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as they can. If there's nothing to hide, then why can't I go in and show people what's going on?
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Two gentlemen there, the Toronto security guards, they were very upset about that fact. They thought
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that I was trying to cause a disturbance, but simply I wasn't. All I wanted to do was go in,
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grab my free crack pipe, my crystal meth pipe, and be on my merry way. But no, apparently you're not
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allowed to do that. And in fact, they are refusing service to certain people, perhaps certain people
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that aren't there to receive crack pipes and to smoke crack, but actually to expose them. That's what
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they're trying to do. So they're hiding this from a taxpayer, regardless of the outcome. Very strange,
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but there you go. I guess that's what the city is trying to do. They're trying to hide what's
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taking place inside because they don't want anyone to see the truth of what's going on.
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So here we are folks, despite their best efforts to try and stop me from showing you what's going on
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inside that building, this public health building, well, here it is. It's true. This is all of the stuff
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that they are giving to drug addicts. They're giving them crack pipes. They're giving them crystal
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meth pipes. They're giving them drug starter kits, an entire collection of needles here. Anyone can
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go in and go pick it up. Except however, if you're a journalist trying to expose this, that's the last
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thing they want. They don't want anyone to actually show people what's going on inside these buildings.
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But luckily, I was able to, I'm able to show you what they're providing. I'm going to actually show
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you this when I get inside my car to really look at these items. It's truly insane. But this is what's
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going on in Toronto. This is what is being described as so-called harm reduction. But really,
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all you need to do is just work around. There is no harm reduction taking place here. It's just
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perpetuating addiction. That's what the drug strategy seems to be here. All right, well, I'm back home
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and I was going to record the contents of these three bags out in my car, but I decided I might as
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well get back and record it with the better lighting. But let's go through what the city of Toronto
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is giving addicts for free, paid for by all of us taxpayers, in the guise of harm reduction,
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shall we? How about we start off with the crack pipe? There we go. Nice crack pipe for you. Where
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do you think addicts are going to put these when they're done using them? You think they're going
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to put them nice and conveniently in the garbage bin away from the public? Obviously not. It goes right
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back onto the street. That was the crack pipe. We'll do the blue bag next. What's in the blue bag here?
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You'd think they'd make it easier to actually open. Okay, here we go. Ready? Shall we take a look at
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what's in the blue bag? Wow, I think this is the crystal meth kit, guys. We've got a wooden stick,
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some sort of cylindrical tube here, another pipe, some cleaning swabs, and some brass screens. So quite
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the intricate setup here for what I believe to be a crystal meth kit. But that being said, I don't,
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I really don't even know what I'm looking at here. But let's look at this big black bag because this
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one, as I can already tell from the outside, is full of needles. Full of them, not just one needle,
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it's full of them. Let's see actually how many. All right, here we go. This is the black bag.
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Wow, we've got a ton of stuff in here. We've got, what are these? I don't even know what these are.
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A blue rubber band. And how many needles here? One, two, three, four, five. So five needles and a
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bunch of sterilizing pads. Unbelievable. That's what the city is giving to drug addicts. Anyone who wants
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it, you can get all of this for free. And it's all being paid for by us. And it's all neatly packaged
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in bright colored packaging with even city of Toronto branding on it. The question is,
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what does the city actually think is going to happen with all this drug paraphernalia?
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Do they think it's going to just magically all disappear and go into the garbage? Or do they
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think that addicts who are on crystal meth and crack are going to leave them out throughout the
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city? Well, we already know the answer. Because all you got to do is look around the city. The city
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is full of needles. No wonder why. We're giving addicts five needles a piece. There's actually
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really no, there was no indication that you couldn't keep just buying, getting as much as you
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wanted. So obviously, what does this create? Well, the public health officers tell us that
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this creates harm reduction. You tell me what you think this creates. Because all it looks like to me
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is a great way to keep your drug addiction alive. That's what the city of Toronto was doing. And no one
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wants you to know about it. All right, we're back just in time to hand out the ratio of the week prize.
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The winner this week, who else could it have gone to really? The Toronto Blue Jays after they forced
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a hostage confession video of one of their pitchers after he dared to share an Instagram story quoting
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scripture as a reason for Christians to boycott target. You're not allowed to do that in Canada
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anymore as we discussed on Tuesday. And it turns out actually that the Blue Jays got brutally destroyed
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on Twitter for this. Look at this response. 13.2 thousand comments to only 3,502 likes. I mean,
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it's just absurd. I don't think we've ever seen that before on this show. Apparently,
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this hostage style statement from Anthony Bass was not enough for the Blue Jays. General manager
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John Schneider, by the way, is a terrible baseball manager, but that's just a side point, told reporters
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that Bass's statement is a first step, but not enough. It's not going to be a 15 or 30 second
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apology and say, okay, I did my part. There's going to be a continued work with the resources we do have
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to try to show that he's understanding that he made a mistake. Will the Blue Jays be the next boycott?
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Hey, at Blue Jays, super fan here. What you've done is wrong. The man had an opinion and you've
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obviously convinced him to do a 180 on that opinion when the cameras start rolling. This is inauthentic,
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it's manipulative, and it's un-Canadian. Viva Fry writes,
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two plus two equals five. I love big brother. Humiliating. What type of employer would force
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their employee to do something like this? It's truly enraging. And all around the sport of baseball,
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woke ruins everything. Well put. Anthony Bass shouldn't have apologized. There's no reason to
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apologize for opposing darkness. But the blame should not be on Anthony Bass. The blame should be
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on Rodgers and on the Blue Jays. They have forced their employee to undergo a corporate Marxist
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struggle session. A hostage confession video for daring to oppose the regime. We have completely
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lost our minds here in Canada. We're giving out free drug starter kits to addicts. We're giving out
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free more potent heroin alternatives. And we're also forcing Christians to apologize for their faith.
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What has happened to our great country? Alright everyone, that's going to do it for
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us today on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ration.