Juno News - October 20, 2022


The Emergencies Act clown show continues


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The Emergencies Act hearings are underway, and so far, they ve been a complete clown show. We ve heard about phantom honking, micro-aggressions, and a purge-like atmosphere without any actual acts of violence, but no actual violence. So why did Justin Trudeau's government invoke the Emergency Measures Act in February of this year?

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00:00:00.000 I'm going to learn French now so that I can use that excuse. Anytime I say something that I don't
00:00:04.480 really want to be questioned on, I'm just going to say, I'm francophone. I can't speak that in
00:00:08.260 English. I can't say that in English. You have to ask me in French to define the word. Je francophone.
00:00:19.640 Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. The Emergencies Act hearings are
00:00:24.440 underway and so far all we have heard from witness testimony has been an endless stream of useless 0.84
00:00:29.840 nonsense of woke speak drivel. Clearly what's going on is there is an attempt to try and muddy the
00:00:34.980 waters about what really went on in Ottawa in February of this year. Also on the show, Justin
00:00:39.860 Trudeau and Christophe Freeland want you to know that for all your hard work, for all your tax
00:00:43.180 dollars that you've given to Justin Trudeau's government to spend endlessly, well they're
00:00:48.120 going to give you back some pennies, some crumbs for all of your tax dollars. How kind. Oh and the
00:00:53.380 video that they released this week about that announcement was so bizarre, so strange. Why
00:00:59.400 are those two just so weird? That's the question that I want to know from you guys. And the
00:01:04.540 Ratio of the Week award goes to a late entry into the competition this week. This tweet that we're
00:01:09.460 going to show you is definitely worthy of the award and it involves true north, so you'll see exactly
00:01:15.960 why. And please before we go any further, help us out by subscribing to our YouTube channel. We're so
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00:01:36.200 around. And the common question for this episode is this, are you confident that the commissioner
00:01:40.220 overseeing these hearings is going to find that Justin Trudeau's government was not justified in
00:01:45.880 invoking the emergency measures? We know from what we've heard so far that that justification has not
00:01:52.040 been made available. We have not seen anything that justifies these measures yet, but there's
00:01:56.760 still a long way to go. Do you think the commissioner will possibly find that Justin Trudeau was not
00:02:01.260 justified or is it pretty much a foregone conclusion? Like I said before, drop a like on the video and
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00:02:11.180 is in the description of this video. All right, let's get into it. The Emergencies Act hearings have been a
00:02:16.080 complete clown show from the beginning, guys. I'm afraid I was optimistic going into this. I thought,
00:02:21.380 you know, we're going to maybe hopefully get some answers as to what really went on. We're going to
00:02:26.000 finally get to the bottom of why Justin Trudeau felt this though. The bouncy castle rebellion,
00:02:31.380 the hot tub insurrection required wartime-like measures to, I guess, move out of Ottawa. The
00:02:38.760 Emergencies Act hearing is required by law after the government invokes these emergency measures.
00:02:44.900 These are the last resort measures and the threshold that the government is supposed to meet
00:02:49.220 in order to invoke such heavy-handed measures is very high. And it's worth just going through that
00:02:54.860 because then when we go through some of these clips of the hearings, you'll realize this is a 0.94
00:02:59.160 clown show. What we're watching here is basically a performance. It's designed to convince Canadians
00:03:04.780 who are watching that these protesters were these awful evil people. They were there for an
00:03:09.560 insurrection or as they always say, an occupation of Ottawa. So we're going to go through the specific
00:03:14.140 language in the act, which basically lays out how and when the government is justified in invoking
00:03:20.840 these wartime measures. We know from what we've heard from testimony, phantom honking, microaggressions,
00:03:26.620 a purge-like atmosphere without witnessing any actual acts of violence. So no violence,
00:03:31.620 but phantom honking and microaggressions. Awful, awful stuff. Let's just go through this here and you tell me,
00:03:37.700 I might miss it, but you tell me if there is, if you caught in this reading anywhere where it says
00:03:43.880 phantom honking is required for the government to invoke the Emergencies Act. So this is what the act
00:03:49.540 actually states. The Emergencies Act can be invoked if, as the text in the act states, what's going on
00:03:56.860 seriously endangers the lives, health, or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature
00:04:02.580 as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or seriously threatens
00:04:08.900 the ability of the government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity
00:04:14.640 of Canada, and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada. So basically what
00:04:21.120 needs to happen is the hot tub rebellion needs to become so dangerous for the government of Ottawa
00:04:26.320 that no other law in the country is able to successfully put down the hot tub rebellion,
00:04:33.640 the bouncy castle insurrection. That's what needs to be met by the government. And the purpose of the
00:04:38.520 inquiry, which again is required by law, is to find out if what was just read met what was actually
00:04:44.940 going on in Ottawa. If the bouncy castle rebellion seriously threatened the sovereignty, security,
00:04:51.620 and territorial integrity of Canada. Again, remember this, before the Emergencies Act was invoked,
00:04:58.120 the border blockade in Windsor was cleared. So clearly existing laws managed to clear the border
00:05:03.100 blockade, but of course the bouncy castle rebellion, well no, no, that required the Emergencies Act,
00:05:08.620 that required the RCMP horses, that required the brutal beatdown of protesters in the city,
00:05:14.040 because of course it did, right? So let's go through what witnesses in Ottawa have testified.
00:05:18.660 So the first clip of viral testimony came from Victoria Delaronde, an Ottawa resident,
00:05:23.600 a blind Ottawa resident. She testified that she suffers to this day from phantom honking,
00:05:29.940 imaginary sounds of horns that haunt her while she's going about her day in the streets. Now,
00:05:35.260 when the CBC first released that article about phantom honking, basically everyone in this country 0.92
00:05:39.960 laughed at that and mocked that article for it being so, so totally ridiculous. For this idea,
00:05:45.700 they created a new term, phantom honking. They created this new term to, to, to try and, you
00:05:50.740 know, paint the truckers, paint the, paint the protesters as so evil that they have created phantom 0.58
00:05:55.520 honking in the streets, that Ottawa residents, they can hear in distant, they can hear in the
00:05:59.140 distant, that loud horn of the trucks. They're coming their way once again, guys. But things have
00:06:03.720 gone to a point now where we're just taking that testimony at face value. You know, we're just saying
00:06:08.720 actually, oh yeah, you hear phantom honking. You hear, you hear horns in your mind. They're not actually
00:06:13.160 there, but you hear them in your mind. Okay. That's totally normal. First of all. And second
00:06:17.100 of all, okay, that will, that, that must justify, that must justify the emergency act. That must
00:06:21.520 justify the RCMP horses coming into trample on the protesters. So take a look at this video.
00:06:26.760 This is from Victoria Delaron testifying of hearing imaginary horns in her mind.
00:06:32.160 I had also, um, uh, a phantom horn blowing as an experience for a number of weeks after.
00:06:43.160 In, in the immediate days and weeks after the end of the demonstrations, what, what was
00:06:48.060 your experiences with horns? Very much like that, that, uh, I kept hearing them like phantom
00:06:55.460 horns. I kept hearing them in my head. I also had phantom smells too. My phantom smells and
00:07:04.300 horns mean they're not there, but that's. They're not, they're not there. We played that exact same
00:07:08.500 clip around the office to some other true North employees. And they actually said that they heard
00:07:12.640 horns in that video. Now I can tell you, and the video editor can testify there were no horns played
00:07:18.340 in that video. So if you did hear phantom honking, if you did hear horns that video, well, you too,
00:07:23.140 you like Victoria suffer from phantom honking. You should probably get that checked out by your doctor.
00:07:27.480 The next viral clip of testimony came from Zexi Lee. Zexi Lee is a federal bureaucrat. She's a 22 year old 1.00
00:07:34.060 bureaucrat. And she was also the public face of the injunction that was filed a successful 0.98
00:07:39.700 injunction that was filed in Ottawa at the start of the protest to get truckers to stop honking
00:07:43.700 their horns. So she's kind of been the public face of the resistance movement in Ottawa to the
00:07:49.180 truckers. Well, she testified among other things that in Ottawa, it was like some lawless wasteland,
00:07:55.700 like some lawless nightmare. She testified that it was a purge like atmosphere. For those of you that
00:08:00.520 don't know, the purge is a fictional movie. It's a horror movie in which a United States enters a 12
00:08:05.820 hour state of complete lawlessness where people go on murdering rampages and killing sprees. So she 1.00
00:08:11.840 testified that the Ottawa protest, the trucker convoy was like a purge like atmosphere as she says. And
00:08:19.340 she also says that the streets were covered, the snow around the streets were covered in urine and
00:08:24.700 defecation. Now again, that's just not true because if it were true, we would definitely hear about
00:08:30.120 that. We would know about that and we'd see pictures of it, but of course we didn't. So she
00:08:33.340 just made that up clearly. And then of course she goes on top of that and says, oh yeah, the streets
00:08:38.780 were like a purge like atmosphere. Listen to this clip. The snow was often colored yellow or brown due
00:08:45.160 to the public urination and defecation that took place gratuitously, often alongside of my building and
00:08:54.780 just quite literally anywhere you walked on every corner. And on these intersections, oftentimes there
00:09:02.580 were illegal bonfires and yeah, just trash burning right next to, you know, cans of fuel or near the
00:09:13.940 same areas where these individuals would later set off fireworks. And I just remember feeling like it was
00:09:22.640 such a surreal sight. It almost felt like you were in something like the purge because it, though I
00:09:29.420 didn't often see direct acts of violence, it was, there was a certain chaos on the streets.
00:09:38.900 So you hear there, it was like the purge where people go on killing sprees in the United States,
00:09:43.960 but actually I didn't witness any personal acts of violence. Huh? Interesting there. So it was like a
00:09:51.260 purge except without all the crime. Does that make sense, guys? Does that make sense to you?
00:09:55.640 Clearly, again, justification for Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act. But guys, the cream of the crop
00:10:00.680 in terms of woke nonsense spoken at these hearings has to come from Ottawa City Councillor Matthew
00:10:06.840 Fleury, this woke francophone bilingual City Councillor Matthew Fleury. I mentioned his linguistic capabilities
00:10:14.380 because you'll see in the clip, it comes up. Now he accused the protesters in Ottawa of committing
00:10:19.600 multiple acts of microaggressions. Microaggressions. Now that's a word that most people will never use.
00:10:25.400 That's because that word is basically only spoken by woke activists, you know, equity officers pushing
00:10:32.020 critical race theory as a profession. Now I googled the definition of microaggression because I was also
00:10:37.620 confused. I don't use that word. I'm not a woke freak. So I don't use the word microaggressions.
00:10:42.020 But on Google, microaggressions is defined as a term used for commonplace daily verbal behavioral or
00:10:49.920 environmental slights, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile,
00:10:55.260 derogatory, or negative attitudes towards stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups.
00:11:01.060 Now, with that out of the way, Matthew Fleury accused the truckers in Ottawa of committing
00:11:06.000 multiple acts of microaggressions. Brendan Miller, the lawyer representing the protesters in Ottawa,
00:11:10.540 asked Matthew Fleury to define the word, given he had used it so many times in his testimony. You
00:11:17.000 know, if you're going to use the word, you might as well be able to define the word. So watch what
00:11:21.940 happens. Watch what happens. If you haven't seen this already, watch what happens when Brendan Miller
00:11:26.320 asks woke city councillor Matthew Fleury to define microaggressions.
00:11:31.800 In your evidence, you made use of a term you referred to as microaggression. Is that right?
00:11:38.600 I believe so. Multiple times. Okay. Is microaggression, is your understanding of that, that it means
00:11:45.380 verbal and environmental slights?
00:11:47.060 I'm francophone. So if you want to ask me specific things about words, you're going to have to ask me
00:11:55.000 in French, you're asking me a theory about how to define something. Unfortunately, my knowledge of
00:12:01.460 English terminology is perhaps not sufficiently appropriate, Commissioner.
00:12:05.780 Brendan. My name is Brendan.
00:12:11.560 Brendan. I think, you know, it is funny, but it's not. I am doing my very best to answer clear questions in
00:12:21.520 English. You asked me a very specific question on a definition. I'm saying, ask me, clarify in French.
00:12:27.580 I'm glad to specify if it is yes or no. The specificity of the nuance of a word. I'm, I'm
00:12:34.460 uncomfortable in responding to your question.
00:12:36.140 What are the words of, that I put to you? And there's a few. So means, verbal and environmental
00:12:43.060 and slights is confusing. Is there, which one are you confused about?
00:12:55.120 I've already explained. Try to express this. And I've explained this to the commissioner that to my mind,
00:13:07.640 everything in the periphery of the red zone was what I would describe as being microaggressions. 0.95
00:13:13.700 Have you ever seen something so utterly ridiculous, so insanely ridiculous, to use the 0.91
00:13:20.720 word microaggressions multiple times delivered as if you're a native English speaker without any 0.99
00:13:25.100 problems. And then the second you're asked by someone who is, who is questioning you on that term
00:13:30.020 to define that exact word, you crumble, you pretend to not speak English. Imagine just using that excuse.
00:13:35.740 I'm going to learn French now so that I can use that excuse. Anytime I say something that I don't
00:13:41.000 really want to be questioned on, I'm just going to say, I'm francophone. I can't speak that in
00:13:44.780 English. I can't say that in English. You have to ask me in French to define the word.
00:13:48.420 Je francophone. They're trying to make it seem as though the bouncy castle rebellion, 0.98
00:13:52.280 the hot tub insurrection was so dangerous that the last resort measures were definitely required.
00:13:58.040 So there's this new thing that Justin Trudeau has been doing over the past, I guess it's over the
00:14:01.660 past year. And it's very strange and weird and just uncomfortable. I just got to say it. It's
00:14:07.440 very uncomfortable. He does these weird selfie videos where he's like standing in front of his
00:14:12.640 phone with, and the phone's a bit, it's a bit angled, right? It's supposed to look like it's
00:14:16.200 sort of like totally him doing it. Like it's totally organic. And he's like speaking into the phone,
00:14:20.920 talking about legislation that he's passed. And there was a video posted this week, him and
00:14:25.800 Christian Freeland standing very close together in his office, doing one of these weird tilted
00:14:30.640 angled selfie videos, very strange video. It's getting absolutely mocked on Twitter. And there's
00:14:37.100 a lot to get into because again, like I said, it's just uncomfortable. Basically what Justin Trudeau
00:14:42.620 and Christian Freeland are talking about here is they're talking into the, they're talking into
00:14:46.100 Justin Trudeau's phone and they're saying how proud they are of legislation passed to give you back
00:14:51.620 basically $300 or $400 from taxes to help you get through what is basically record inflation,
00:15:00.160 record high food prices. So it's called this GST tax rebate. Now they're getting into too much detail.
00:15:06.260 What's going on here is Justin Trudeau and Christian Freeland acting as Prince and Princess of Canada
00:15:10.920 are basically standing on top of their castle, throwing pennies out to the peasants on the ground,
00:15:16.120 giving back fractions of their money, which was given to the government to waste and to spend 0.99
00:15:21.480 endlessly on stupid things. They're celebrating, giving back our money to us. Like it's some big 0.98
00:15:27.460 accomplishment. Oh, how charitable, how generous of you, Christian Freeland and Justin Trudeau.
00:15:31.260 How amazing of you guys. Very weird stuff going on in this video. You've got Christian Freeland in
00:15:36.460 the first 30 seconds of the video, endlessly banging her head. Like she's at the Moss Pit of a Metallica
00:15:41.220 concert. And then you've got Justin Trudeau saying the legislation has passed royal assent. Now I don't,
00:15:47.960 you don't need to be a, you don't need to be a political science expert to know that that's not
00:15:51.320 actually how it works. You don't pass royal assent. Royal assent is given. And then of course,
00:15:55.900 also the very beginning of the video, the weird way Justin Trudeau says Christia, he says it like
00:16:00.320 he's some worldwide traveled expert. He's got some, a little bit of an accent there. Christia,
00:16:05.040 Christia Freeland and I like it's very weird. Why is he? It's just so strange guys, right? I'm not the
00:16:10.780 only person who thinks it's strange. Turns out I'm not because the comments are, the comments are great.
00:16:15.680 He's getting brutally mocked for it. So one person writes, how will that offset my July $12,000
00:16:20.880 grocery bill? Oh wait, that was yours. That's right. You see, Justin Trudeau's grocery bill
00:16:25.300 and an exclusive report uncovered by True North turns out that he spent $12,000 on groceries in a
00:16:31.280 month. $12,000 because that's exactly what all of us spend, right? On groceries. This person writes,
00:16:36.480 and this is perfect. Nice spin, but I'd rather just keep my own money in the first place. Yes,
00:16:40.580 exactly. Instead of celebrating about giving pennies of our money back to us,
00:16:44.800 why don't you just not take it from us in the first place? How easy would that be? We'd save
00:16:50.480 you the cringe. We'd save you the cringe, man, of these weird videos. You don't even have to do the
00:16:53.900 videos. Just don't take the money in the first place. That's not how it works, right? Justin
00:16:57.080 Trudeau has to have our money to waste in the first place, and then he can give back pennies to us,
00:17:02.140 and then he can make a big deal of it. Make it a little political win. This person sums exactly what
00:17:06.840 I just said up perfectly. He's giving you back pennies for all your taxes that you give to him so he can
00:17:11.780 waste. Here we go. Ratio of the week time, guys. And I have to, before we go any further,
00:17:16.000 I have to give credit to a Twitter user who sent me this tweet from CTV News that was getting
00:17:21.040 absolutely destroyed, ruthlessly ratioed. And the tweet says, video games can potentially trigger
00:17:26.760 cardiac arrest in susceptible children study fines. Now, when I took that screenshot, this tweet had
00:17:32.080 over 2,500 replies and under 430 likes. It had 423 likes and over 2,500 replies. So a complete
00:17:41.920 destruction of CTV News on Twitter. Now that usually would have been the winner. However, you'll see
00:17:48.920 exactly why it does not win the award this week, because the true winner of the award goes to Tasha
00:17:54.520 Kiriden, the former chair of John Charest failed conservative leadership bid. Kasha Kiriden shared
00:18:02.160 a Reuters fact check, which fact checked the video of the Pfizer executive claiming that the vaccine
00:18:08.760 was never tested for transmission prior to it entering the European market. We posted that video
00:18:14.420 at true north. The video posted by true north got over 2 million views. And the original video posted
00:18:19.720 by Dutch parliamentarian MEP Rob Roos has over 13 million views on Twitter. So of course, along comes
00:18:27.040 Reuters to fact check the article. However, Reuters is fact check is not really what you might think it
00:18:33.200 is. It's not taking issue with the video true north posted. It's not taking issue with anything we wrote
00:18:38.040 about it either. It's purely taking issue with the idea that testing the vaccine for stopping transmission
00:18:43.600 was required prior to entering the market prior to leaders telling us that the vaccine stopped
00:18:50.080 transmission prior to, of course, the federal government and provinces in this country enacting
00:18:55.600 discriminatory vaccine mandates on Canadians. This video went instantly viral and true north posted it
00:19:02.000 and Reuters fact checks true north video without actually proving where we were wrong in the video
00:19:07.920 itself. So there you go. Interesting there Reuters fact checking an article without actually proving
00:19:12.160 anything was false. I tend to find that I see that a lot these days coming from Reuters. Now,
00:19:17.840 Tasha Kiridan took this tweet and wrote, it's been a fun 24 hours on Twitter, leaving it here and
00:19:23.840 inviting at Leslie Lewis and at Daniel Smith and any other Canadian politicos still trading in
00:19:29.440 misinformation to read the below. Where does true north come in with all this? So the actual fact
00:19:34.880 check by Reuters includes our video at true north. So we're basically saying that we were wrong for
00:19:40.480 posting the video. We were not wrong. Reuters couldn't find anything we had posted that was actually
00:19:45.360 misinformation. Nonetheless, Tasha accuses basically true north of pushing misinformation and by extension,
00:19:53.440 Les and Lewis and Daniel Smith. This tweet got 678 replies, 365 likes when I first screenshot it. So
00:20:02.320 it was getting pretty solidly ratioed. Now true north founder and editor in chief Candace Malcolm
00:20:08.000 quote tweeted this tweet and absolutely shot it down brilliantly. She wrote this true north posts a
00:20:13.520 video of a Pfizer exec quoting her verbatim. And in context, Reuters fact checks our journalism using
00:20:20.960 their opinions as facts to try and revive a dead narrative. Tasha uses the fake fact check to dunk on 1.00
00:20:26.880 legit criticism gets ratioed cosmic justice. My friends couldn't have put it any better myself.
00:20:32.400 She's basically using what is obviously a fake fact check to try and dunk on conservatives raising 1.00
00:20:38.080 legitimate questions. Why wouldn't we have questions about this given that this was a justification used
00:20:43.920 by Justin Trudeau to enact some insanely discriminatory vaccine policies. Keep in mind,
00:20:49.840 unvaccinated Canadians weren't allowed to see their dying parents in long-term care centers. They weren't
00:20:55.280 allowed to get on an airplane or a train or a boat. God forbid they got on a boat to travel inter-provincially.
00:21:02.160 It's insanity. We talked about it last week that this this deserves to be called out and and really we
00:21:07.680 can't be having this anymore in Canada. But then again, here comes Tasha Kiriden, Ottawa establishment 0.99
00:21:12.800 figures trying to basically say that anyone who raises questions about this is pushing misinformation.
00:21:18.240 Here we go. We've got this one here. Preventing transmission never required but touted as why
00:21:23.040 everyone should submit. This is the real issue here. Another Twitter user writes, that's wonderful.
00:21:28.000 Did you know that the Reuters CEO is on Pfizer's board of directors? Interesting piece of information
00:21:32.400 there. Not worth investigating, right? We wouldn't want to investigate that potential conflict of
00:21:37.600 interest, right? Of course not. Nothing to see there. Nothing to see there with the fact checkers and
00:21:43.600 Pfizer. But of course, don't look into that. That would be a bad waste of your time. You wouldn't want to
00:21:48.240 uncover a potential conflict of interest. And lastly, here we go. Ah, fact check from the mainstream
00:21:52.720 media. Debate settled. Exactly. Now that Reuters fact checked it, of course, there's no debate to
00:21:57.600 be had. There's no questioning the almighty Reuters. The almighty Reuters must be taken as gospel. No
00:22:03.280 questioning can be given to Reuters fact checks. All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us
00:22:06.960 this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. Help us out by subscribing to our YouTube
00:22:10.480 channel. We'd really appreciate it. I'll catch you tomorrow on Fake News Friday.
00:22:13.760 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Radio.