Rebel News Podcast - All About Manitoba's New Vaccine Passport

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through some of the details of Manitoba's new vaccine passport.

00:00:05.760 In fact, I went online and sort of started to fill out a form.

00:00:08.440 I lacked a Manitoba health card, so I couldn't go past a certain point.

00:00:12.440 But I learned some crazy things about their vax passport. 1.00

00:00:16.020 The craziest thing, of course, is that it's here.

00:00:18.440 I'll take you through it and tell you what I think is next.

00:00:21.180 That's all I had.

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00:00:58.480 Tonight, Manitoba announces a vaccine passport.

00:01:05.100 If you don't take an experimental drug, you won't have civil rights there.

00:01:09.680 It's June 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:12.000 Manitoba is a smaller province, so maybe we don't talk about it enough.

00:01:36.880 But it truly has one of the most abusive, authoritarian premiers in the whole country in terms of the lockdown.

00:01:45.180 Remember how awful he is, Brian Pallister?

00:01:47.920 Smearing, defaming businesses in public that didn't comply fast enough or hard enough with his whimsical lockdown rules.

00:01:56.620 If you break the public health rules, there's a good chance you might get your name mentioned on TV.

00:02:02.960 Pallister literally boasted that he was the most abusive lockdowner in the whole country.

00:02:08.800 We're on this, and we've been on it for some weeks.

00:02:11.640 The reality, though, is that, you know, we have to reduce the number of contacts,

00:02:15.720 and that's why these very stringent restrictions, the most stringent in Canada, have been invoked for a long time. 0.99

00:02:22.500 Absolutely stupid rules, too. 0.99

00:02:24.820 Like taping off the wrong section of a store because science. 1.00

00:02:29.320 That is why today we are here to discuss new and stricter measures, including limiting residential gatherings to your household only,

00:02:40.680 with exceptions for essential services, limiting retail operations with new capacity limits,

00:02:48.200 and ensuring that only essential items are purchased in person.

00:02:53.140 I can tell you the Manitoba cases in our Fight the Fines project are the ones being prosecuted the most abusively in all of Canada.

00:03:01.720 What did Manitobans ever do to deserve this?

00:03:04.960 Well, take a look at this.

00:03:07.580 These are the stats of COVID cases by province.

00:03:12.680 This is Ottawa's chart, because Manitoba's chart doesn't show you charts that are actually meaningful.

00:03:18.700 They don't show you statistics like hospitalization rates over time, or death rates over time.

00:03:24.620 There's a reason they don't show you that.

00:03:27.360 Instead, they just talk about cases.

00:03:30.540 And this is the federal chart, which is only slightly better.

00:03:34.360 If you scroll over Manitoba and select for the count of deaths in the last 14 days,

00:03:40.620 as a chart, you can see the numbers have plummeted since flu season over Christmas.

00:03:45.860 Down almost 90%.

00:03:48.480 Nothing to do with the vaccines.

00:03:50.980 Those numbers plunged before the vaccines were offered in the last month or two.

00:03:56.900 So what's the reason to panic and to get cruel and demand that people take experimental drugs

00:04:03.200 that haven't even been fully tested yet?

00:04:05.480 Why?

00:04:06.200 Why is that the measure that Manitoba uses?

00:04:09.300 They'll talk about cases, not hospitalizations or deaths.

00:04:12.440 And they'll demand a certain number of people taking this experimental drug.

00:04:17.400 Why, when the province is so much healthier now than it was a few months ago,

00:04:22.680 now that things are normalizing, now that we know that the disease targets the old and the sick 0.51

00:04:26.700 and not the young and the healthy, why are we pushing the experimental meds on even children now?

00:04:32.500 How is that the measure for what we should do or not?

00:04:34.800 Isn't health the measure, not juicing sales for big pharma?

00:04:38.180 But now look at this.

00:04:40.860 Look at this press release.

00:04:42.580 Manitoba launches new secure immunization cards for fully vaccinated people.

00:04:47.900 New approach recognizes importance of immunization to protect people safely resume activities.

00:04:52.820 Palser.

00:04:53.680 But no, the death rate plummeted before the vaccines.

00:04:57.780 People can safely resume activities.

00:05:00.200 Look at Texas or Florida for proof of that.

00:05:03.000 I'll read some more.

00:05:03.600 Fully immunized manitomans will now be able to travel without having to self-isolate for two weeks upon return

00:05:11.280 with a new secure immunization card that will be available to people

00:05:14.800 two weeks after they have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine,

00:05:19.180 Premier Brian Palser announced today.

00:05:20.940 So your civil rights, your charter rights, they don't depend on whether you're a citizen

00:05:27.680 or even if you're a healthy citizen.

00:05:31.900 They don't depend on whether you, for example, may be naturally immune to the disease

00:05:36.240 because you got the disease and recovered from it.

00:05:39.680 And your civil rights no longer have to respect your conscientious views.

00:05:43.720 You simply have to take the experimental meds if you want to be free, even if you're healthy.

00:05:48.660 Oh, and you have to show everyone who asked you to prove it.

00:05:54.340 Many Manitobans have rolled up their sleeves over the past few months

00:05:57.680 and done their part in protecting our province, and I want to commend them for doing so, said Palser.

00:06:02.140 Manitobans have told us that getting back to the things they love and miss

00:06:04.900 is one of the biggest incentives to getting vaccinated.

00:06:08.060 As a government, we're doing everything we can to bolster vaccine availability and accessibility

00:06:11.680 and equipping Manitobans with the information and support they need to make

00:06:15.560 the right decision to protect themselves, their loved ones, and the community.

00:06:20.280 Hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:06:22.820 Who gets to make the decision?

00:06:26.320 Because this doesn't let people make the decision.

00:06:29.020 This is the government punishing and rewarding people.

00:06:32.360 The government's making the decision.

00:06:33.820 The government is choosing to deny people their civil rights

00:06:36.720 if they make the wrong decision.

00:06:39.100 Brian Palser's made the decision for them.

00:06:40.900 He's giving and taking away their freedom based on his decision, not their decision.

00:06:47.320 The digital and physical cards contain no personal health information or data.

00:06:51.280 Rather, the cards only show the person's first and last names and a QR code.

00:06:55.300 When scanned, the QR code will show the person is fully vaccinated.

00:06:59.560 Well, hang on.

00:07:00.080 So do they have that information or not?

00:07:02.200 Even in the press release, they're lying.

00:07:05.220 So anyone can scan the card and see your intimate private health details.

00:07:09.120 Did you have an injection or not?

00:07:11.060 Why are they saying there's no information in the card if there is?

00:07:14.820 So if you got the virus and you recovered and are naturally immune,

00:07:18.000 that's irrelevant to whether or not your QR code comes up, right?

00:07:21.700 Take the drug.

00:07:22.840 Even if you don't believe in it, take the drug.

00:07:25.240 If you're young and healthy and think the risk of the drug is higher than the risk of the virus,

00:07:28.760 take the drug.

00:07:30.180 Or hey, it's your decision.

00:07:32.220 You just won't be able to go places, see people, leave your house from quarantine.

00:07:36.800 Pretty soon you won't even be able to work.

00:07:38.620 How long until you won't have the right to rent an apartment?

00:07:43.320 Because your landlord will say, oh, he's not vaccinated.

00:07:46.360 I can see that coming.

00:07:48.280 Or your right to work in a place or to even go out on the street.

00:07:50.920 I mean, I went on the Manitoba government website and I filled out the form I started to.

00:07:57.020 I don't have a Manitoba health number, so I couldn't get past a certain point.

00:08:00.300 But I got to the frequently asked questions part of the form.

00:08:03.580 So, and it says this, what happens if I don't consent to giving my information to a third party?

00:08:11.440 Can I still get my immunization card?

00:08:14.400 And their answer, if you do not wish to provide your consent to giving your information to a third party,

00:08:19.520 you will not be able to receive an immunization card.

00:08:22.280 That was rather hidden in the fine print, wasn't it?

00:08:28.880 Who do they mean, third party?

00:08:31.660 Is the third party some tech company, some computer company?

00:08:37.280 Is the data stored in China like much data is?

00:08:41.200 Is it the spyware, malware company that's making those cars?

00:08:44.160 Or just anyone on the street who demands it from you?

00:08:46.820 Who is this third party that you have to give your health information to?

00:08:50.540 They don't say, do they?

00:08:53.240 I mean, look, if you had police enforcing masks,

00:08:56.360 why wouldn't you have police enforcing VACs in order even to be on the street?

00:09:01.040 You're not wearing a mask in the street.

00:09:02.300 You're not social distancing in the street.

00:09:03.920 Cops are there.

00:09:04.660 Why wouldn't the cops start enforcing this the same way?

00:09:06.900 This is outrageous.

00:09:08.320 This is clearly illegal.

00:09:09.640 It's unconstitutional.

00:09:10.940 But it is absolutely, utterly, completely supported by the entire establishment.

00:09:16.820 The government, of course.

00:09:17.740 The opposition, of course.

00:09:19.560 The lawyers.

00:09:21.360 The law schools.

00:09:22.200 The courts.

00:09:22.940 The civil liberties groups.

00:09:24.160 The media, utterly.

00:09:25.620 Everyone in the establishment loves this.

00:09:28.880 Everyone except for people, I think.

00:09:31.260 This weed is starting to grow in Manitoba.

00:09:33.360 I'm surprised.

00:09:35.320 But it will spread, mark my words, to other provinces and federally within weeks,

00:09:39.260 maybe within days.

00:09:41.540 Who's going to stop this?

00:09:43.760 I don't know.

00:09:44.360 I've written to our top constitutional lawyers and asked them to put together a plan if they

00:09:48.180 can.

00:09:48.840 I'll let you know what they tell me when they write back.

00:09:51.780 But this is not good, my friends.

00:09:53.920 Stay with us for more.

00:09:54.860 Welcome back.

00:10:07.320 Well, my eyes keep turning to Miami and, of course, to Florida in general and across the

00:10:12.840 United States after state after state is saying we're done with the pandemic lockdown.

00:10:18.980 We're done with artificially holding back not just business, but life in general.

00:10:25.720 And I look with some jealousy because I happen to be headquartered in the most locked down city in the world.

00:10:33.460 That's according to the BBC.

00:10:36.000 Toronto is one of the most expensive cities in Canada.

00:10:38.340 And some would say, well, that's justified because it's such a great city.

00:10:42.340 There's wonderful things to do.

00:10:43.960 There's wonderful neighborhoods and restaurants and the best schools and the best shops.

00:10:49.080 Well, no, there hasn't been.

00:10:50.480 Not for more than a year.

00:10:51.480 All of those things are shut down.

00:10:53.020 Here's a chart that shows one of the most important things, which is can children go to school?

00:11:00.660 And as you can see, the place that has had the worst children's lockdown has been Ontario.

00:11:09.060 And I can tell you there is nothing worse than depriving a young child, especially a child of teenage years, I would put it to you,

00:11:17.400 of social interaction, of forcing them to learn by Zoom.

00:11:20.380 No such thing.

00:11:22.700 And will it ever change?

00:11:24.680 Now, our relief from these lockdowns is not being tied to actual sickness or hospitalizations or let alone the death rate,

00:11:32.560 which has plunged since flu season.

00:11:35.240 But it's been linked to an artificial number, namely how many people are taking the vaccines,

00:11:41.840 which is not a measurement of public health because, as I say before, the deaths and the hospitalizations are plummeting.

00:11:48.300 And now it's, will you take an experimental medication, not yet approved by regulators, but authorized only for emergency use?

00:11:56.220 It's almost as if that's the point of it.

00:11:58.480 That's my point of view.

00:11:59.620 But joining me now is someone who I love to talk about, about complex matters that touch on both the law and politics.

00:12:08.440 You probably know who I'm talking about.

00:12:10.420 It's our friend Manny Montenegreno.

00:12:12.720 He's the CEO of ThinkSharp.

00:12:14.580 And he joins us now via Skype from our nation's capital.

00:12:17.000 Well, Manny, it's so great to see you again.

00:12:19.160 It's been too long.

00:12:20.640 I know you've been cogitating on the lockdown.

00:12:23.140 I'd love to hear your thoughts.

00:12:27.260 Well, nice to be with you, Ezra.

00:12:30.080 I cannot believe that I'm going to be sitting here saying a lot of negative things about a conservative leader in Canada.

00:12:37.660 Now, I take it you're referring to Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario.

00:12:40.700 That's what's so unusual to me, Manny, is in the United States, Republicans, or at least some, like the governors of Florida and Texas and South Dakota, have taken a real anti-lockdown position.

00:12:53.820 And it's been mainly Democrats who are taking the pro-lockdown position.

00:12:58.400 In Canada, there really isn't any difference between the two main parties, is there?

00:13:02.960 Yeah, that's right.

00:13:06.340 I mean, here we have in Canada, if you look at even the chart that you presented or look at all the facts, the most, I'll say, party that adhered to conservative values was the NDP party in British Columbia.

00:13:24.280 I mean, if you look at Ontario, Doug Ford, I mean, I can't believe, I am so offended.

00:13:31.080 He's offended every conservative value that I have fought for for 40 years.

00:13:36.580 And I'll just speak on one topic alone, which is schools.

00:13:40.340 You'll recall that in October, November, even as far as December, Doug Ford, Premier Ford, was telling everyone in Ontario that the schools were the safest place for children.

00:13:55.600 He was very emphatic about that.

00:13:57.880 And there are many clips, I sent you a clip.

00:14:00.100 There are many clips and many times that he messaged that to Ontario.

00:14:04.480 And now what has happened since December of 2020 to now where we're the only jurisdiction that our kids aren't going to school?

00:14:14.740 What has happened since that time?

00:14:16.500 Well, three things have happened.

00:14:18.080 Number one, a very comprehensive study done, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the prestigious universities, journals.

00:14:26.620 And what they did is they studied Sweden, where they have two million children who were in school and did not miss a day of school in phase one, phase two, phase three.

00:14:37.840 They went through school every day, uninterrupted.

00:14:41.340 Sweden had a no mandatory mask policy and was slightly soft on their approach.

00:14:48.260 They studied the two million kids and found that not one difference in having the children in school versus lockdown.

00:14:55.540 They found that the children were very safe in school, sort of actually supported what Doug Ford was messaging for about two months.

00:15:03.880 You also had the CDC do a study saying there was no added transmission to schools, to community, and it was a safe place.

00:15:13.420 And the third thing that we had now that we didn't have in November was vaccines.

00:15:19.840 And now we have approximately 70% of the population in Ontario, at least with the first dose.

00:15:26.180 When you look at what Ford has done, you look at, you're saying, well, wait a minute, his position was schools were the safest place.

00:15:33.200 And that's what conservatives want.

00:15:34.660 Conservatives want their kids in school. 0.71

00:15:36.580 They want the kids not to be abused, not to be manipulated by governmental authorities.

00:15:43.740 And since that time he made that proclamation or that statement and assured the public that schools were safe for children, which they are, we've had nothing but greater signs to show that schools are extremely safe.

00:15:57.360 And what does he do?

00:15:58.620 He's the only one that shuts down schools.

00:16:00.460 And we even have medical, the children's, the Toronto children, the CHEO, all the many doctors saying that children's mental health are at risk, yet he continues to defy the signs.

00:16:15.540 He is, he has, listen, he has performed, in my opinion, the worst of any leader and certainly the worst of what you'd expect of a conservative leader.

00:16:25.660 You know, I find it very frustrating.

00:16:27.780 Again, in the United States, you have 50 different states with 50 different approaches from very restrictive to very free.

00:16:36.320 Although I have to say, even the most restrictive states in the U.S. are freer than Canada's provinces.

00:16:42.860 Now, in the U.S., people can up and move.

00:16:46.200 There's a lot of people leaving the lockdown states, moving to Texas and Florida.

00:16:50.900 And in California, they have recall legislation.

00:16:54.100 They're recalling Gavin Newsom in part because of his handling of the lockdown.

00:16:59.540 In Canada, I feel like citizens don't have those choices.

00:17:03.920 You really can't move because one province is as bad as the other.

00:17:07.460 You do point out that B.C., weirdly, isn't as locked down as the other places, even though it's got a new Democrat premier.

00:17:14.400 But you don't have the same diversity of approaches.

00:17:18.800 You don't have the same citizen tools.

00:17:20.680 Like, there is no meaningful recall in any province, including the two that have something on the books, Alberta and B.C.

00:17:27.180 You can't really recall anyone.

00:17:29.160 Go ahead.

00:17:30.660 Yeah, Ezra, what's most offensive is how he's ignoring all the signs.

00:17:39.520 You've pointed to jurisdictions like Texas, who, as early as February, went back to no mask, man, completely open.

00:17:50.540 Florida, back in September.

00:17:52.840 We've had Sweden run through it all its time.

00:17:55.500 And to ignore all the compelling science, plus prestigious studies, especially saying that there is no additional harm to children, but there's extreme harm to the mental health.

00:18:08.480 It just, it doesn't baffles.

00:18:09.920 It baffles me.

00:18:10.880 Ezra, what happened on April 15th?

00:18:13.900 We had, you saw that.

00:18:15.180 I thought it was very peculiar.

00:18:16.560 But there was a media push that Ontario could see 18,000 cases per day.

00:18:23.800 This was published on April 15th.

00:18:27.540 18,000 cases per day.

00:18:29.600 Well, I looked at that.

00:18:30.920 On April 15th, the cases were starting to drop, and it started to drop as early as April 11th.

00:18:36.740 And that is even in the Ontario website.

00:18:39.560 But on April 15th, this media leak of a possible model showing 18,000, and we've known that the models have been wrong every time they've used them.

00:18:50.920 They've been dead wrong ever since the beginning of Fauci saying that there would be about 6,000 Americans killed and 600,000 Canadians killed.

00:18:59.700 They've been wrong from the beginning.

00:19:01.160 Yet, Ford did very quick on the model that's known to be proven right, known to be going in the wrong direction of the actual data, and stripped people of their fundamental liberties.

00:19:13.240 And now we're 60 days past that point.

00:19:16.060 We've seen a precipitous fall in cases and everything for 60 days, and he ignores the actual science in favor of the modeling science to strip away liberties.

00:19:27.460 Ezra, you and I know we're lawyers.

00:19:29.860 We know that courts are very reluctant to strip away freedoms.

00:19:36.440 This is a society that we live in, and the laws that we know, and the parlance is best to have 100 guilty men go free than one innocent man taking away his freedoms.

00:19:49.680 Well, that's something that's in our Constitution.

00:19:53.660 That's something within the DNA of every Canadian.

00:19:56.720 Freedoms are very important.

00:19:58.060 But this government, the Ford government, seems to take away freedoms very quickly and very reluctant to return the freedoms.

00:20:06.600 Ontario reported today 38 cases per million.

00:20:12.480 Ottawa has only 15 cases.

00:20:14.800 And the clients that I used to act for cannot stay open.

00:20:20.760 They can't do business.

00:20:22.700 Over 15 cases.

00:20:24.500 There should be a rush to return to freedom, particularly when we know that vaccination is much more than it was.

00:20:31.760 Well, obviously, there was no vaccination this time last year.

00:20:34.600 70% of the population is vaccinated.

00:20:37.520 The virus went away in the summer as it does this summer.

00:20:42.680 That's the science of every virus.

00:20:44.880 And cases, in fact, have been down over the last 60 days.

00:20:48.540 So there should be an immediate return because there's no risk.

00:20:52.220 None.

00:20:52.980 No risk to anybody in returning back to being open.

00:20:57.080 But here's my worry.

00:20:58.720 I mean, as the weather gets nicer and as it stays sunny out longer, people just naturally want to go outside, especially young people and lower income people who don't have a nice big patio, a nice big backyard.

00:21:11.260 One of the frustrating things is that the lockdown class, they might have a cottage in the country, they might have a backyard, but a lot of the people who are locked down, the waiters and the waitresses and the retail workers, they had nowhere to go or do.

00:21:27.980 So it's so lovely out.

00:21:30.180 People are just saying, I'm going to the beach anyhow.

00:21:32.140 I don't care.

00:21:32.600 I'm going outside anyhow.

00:21:33.440 I think it would probably be ungovernable for the Doug Fords and the Francois Legault to crack down.

00:21:41.280 I mean, they actually had curfews until about a week ago, Quebec.

00:21:43.780 But here's my worry.

00:21:45.300 I think that the government is going to let people out on the summer because they just couldn't keep them bottled up.

00:21:50.660 But as fall comes around and it turns cooler and we go back to what's traditionally called flu season, I'm afraid that we're going to have about two months of relative freedom.

00:22:01.260 And then, boom, they're going to, oh, my God, it's a new variant.

00:22:05.120 Oh, my God, it's a new season.

00:22:07.300 And they're going to shut things down again because we haven't pulled this weed out by the root.

00:22:12.500 I'm worried we're going to have like a two-month reprieve and then they're going to flatten us again in the fall.

00:22:18.260 Go ahead.

00:22:20.760 Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.

00:22:22.220 Listen, you have all the right to be worried.

00:22:24.340 All you have to do is look at the behavior of this premier. 0.89

00:22:27.520 The premier, in my view, is acting more of a coward than a leader.

00:22:32.760 Every decision that he has to make, he takes the easiest decision out, and that is at the peril of the citizens.

00:22:40.280 And here's who's, you know, we talk about conservative and liberal and right and left, but more so I tend to look at elitists and non-elitists.

00:22:49.800 And I judge people by their elitism.

00:22:51.840 And I look at this decision here.

00:22:55.320 Ezra, you know, I came to, we came to, immigrated to the country with nothing.

00:23:00.740 We spent, we had two families living in 800 square feet, semi-detached when we came to Canada.

00:23:07.020 There are many families like that in Ontario.

00:23:10.000 And they are now 42.

00:23:11.840 I mean, I just can't imagine my mother and father who had two or three jobs and certainly no ability to buy computers and put the kids and stay at home with kids while they are doing online learning.

00:23:26.480 My parents went to work and we would have just sat there.

00:23:29.360 And this is what's happening.

00:23:30.980 It's the poor that are being hurt.

00:23:32.960 You know, Doug Ford does not understand.

00:23:35.400 He's worried about, oh, well, we'll get you to the camps.

00:23:38.380 I never went to a camp, Ezra.

00:23:40.020 I went to school and then I went to work in the summer.

00:23:43.540 I never went to a camp.

00:23:44.820 He's thinking of camps.

00:23:46.220 You know, elitist people think of camps.

00:23:48.260 The poor in Ontario don't have the ability.

00:23:50.860 They go to work.

00:23:51.800 They go to work and the kids sit there and not are learning.

00:23:56.300 Schools are essential.

00:23:57.620 Essential for the poor.

00:23:59.480 Essential for the people that are compelled to go to work.

00:24:01.940 And essential for the kids to learn.

00:24:03.780 And we have robbed unnecessarily because the science has proven.

00:24:09.240 The Swedish study has proven.

00:24:11.280 We've unnecessarily battered the poor because we, the elite, think we know what's best for them.

00:24:17.520 We are hurting them.

00:24:19.000 And it just disturbs me.

00:24:20.480 And I assure you, I will be doing what I can to make sure that Doug Ford is certainly not the leader of this party.

00:24:29.340 You know, there was a tweet the other day by the NHL celebrating the fact that the federal government was exempting them from the 14-day quarantine that everyone else has to take when they go back and forth between Canada and the United States.

00:24:42.680 Now, by the way, I don't think that that quarantine ought to be necessary if someone just took a COVID test.

00:24:49.680 You have to take a test before you get on the plane, take a test when you land.

00:24:53.820 I mean, fine, if you take a test and you don't have it, why are you still quarantining for 14 days, especially in a government quarantine hotel?

00:25:01.260 I don't think we need that, especially if we're testing people.

00:25:04.580 But the NHL was specifically exempted those millionaire players, their entourage, and their billionaire owners.

00:25:10.940 And here's my point. The quarantine is supposedly to protect the rest of us from the travelers. 1.00

00:25:17.700 So it's not even that the government doesn't care about NHL players.

00:25:22.520 It's that they say that NHL players are not a threat to the rest of us.

00:25:26.500 But if that's a fact for them, why isn't it a fact for others?

00:25:30.540 What gets me about these special exemptions, Manny, is not that some people want the exemptions.

00:25:35.580 I want everyone to have an exemption from these crazy rules.

00:25:38.120 It's that it's so transparently for political friends, for business friends, for lobbyist friends, and the rest of us know your place.

00:25:46.260 Stay at home and watch NHL on TV.

00:25:48.780 And and by the way, pay for that luxury from the teams that themselves are getting exempted.

00:25:54.280 I just I think everyone's admitting this is just political.

00:25:57.480 No, exactly. I mean, Ezra, here's another point that I think your viewers should remember.

00:26:06.400 Businesses, people need certainty.

00:26:08.860 So the health experts under every jurisdiction, but particularly I'm going to focus on Ontario, created a color code system and rolled it out.

00:26:18.420 I think in September or early October to give people certainty.

00:26:21.640 If your region gets to a certain point, you go to yellow, you go to green, you go back and so on.

00:26:26.760 So that at least to provide a certain certainty for businesses, for families, for schools, that was scrapped.

00:26:33.680 It was used for probably 20 days or a month.

00:26:38.780 When you scrap something that is to be giving fairness and a clear understanding, it is just trampling on rights.

00:26:46.240 I mean, everything. And especially when you look around the world, I mean, I don't know.

00:26:51.900 I mean, I'm I scratch my head.

00:26:54.660 How dense are people when they know that Sweden went through a different protocol?

00:27:01.000 Sweden trusted its citizens.

00:27:03.180 It educated. It had a light touch.

00:27:05.540 And it's Sweden is 11.5 million people.

00:27:09.120 Quebec is about nine million people.

00:27:11.000 And if you do a comparison between Quebec and Sweden, you'll see identical numbers.

00:27:15.940 And Quebec had extreme, harsh lockdowns.

00:27:20.260 I don't know why people are not looking at the at what's happening around the world and saying, hey, maybe this is not necessary,

00:27:29.940 particularly when you look at, you know, a dozen or so in the United States.

00:27:33.180 I mean, the worst state in America for deaths is New York.

00:27:37.380 And they were the most severe.

00:27:39.620 So I don't know why we are punishing the poor, punishing kids.

00:27:46.720 I mean, there are a lot of people doing well.

00:27:49.340 I mean, if you've got a big cottage and you've got a big house and a yard, you know, it doesn't affect you and you're working from home.

00:27:56.560 But there's a lot of, you know, people in Ontario who are struggling, working parents who can't, who don't even have a voice.

00:28:05.140 And, you know, Ezra, I've been a lawyer and I've been in politics for a long time.

00:28:09.840 And I was, I thought I was the voice or health, the voice of the poor.

00:28:15.360 And I'm seeing this party completely ignore the poor.

00:28:19.400 And it just offends me to the core.

00:28:21.580 And, and, and, and, and, and, and by the way, I mean, it's just, it's just offensive to see.

00:28:26.720 I mean, I don't know what the parents are doing when you got to work at a meatpacking plant.

00:28:32.180 The dad and the mom's working, cleaning some place at a hospital and the kids are at home.

00:28:36.840 How they're dealing with their day.

00:28:38.680 It just, it just breaks my heart.

00:28:41.280 And, you know, and Ford plays that, you know, common man.

00:28:44.300 Hey, that boy got a lot of money from daddy.

00:28:47.620 He's living a good life.

00:28:48.940 He ain't the guy that should be talking about the hardworking Canadian.

00:28:53.060 He has no concept of conservative values.

00:28:55.940 Conservative values, Ezra, you know what they are.

00:28:58.460 Number one, the constitution, freedom, individual rights, families, the poor, churches, liberties. 0.86

00:29:08.820 Every conservative value I've fought for, for 30 years, this clown has attacked and violated. 0.89

00:29:16.800 And it offends me to the core. 0.97

00:29:18.540 Well, there you have it.

00:29:19.640 Manny Montenegreno, the CEO of ThinkSharp, former managing partner of a national law firm,

00:29:25.960 a guy who thinks about politics and law all the time.

00:29:27.840 Manny, it's great to catch up with you.

00:29:30.040 I guess I would just leave with the one thought.

00:29:32.420 You can't beat someone with no one.

00:29:35.300 And as I look across the political landscape, there are precious few people who would oppose

00:29:40.320 Doug Ford or any of the other lockdown premiers.

00:29:43.180 And I think that that's, we have to look at what's wrong with our political system.

00:29:47.040 As I mentioned, the United States at least has some variety.

00:29:49.820 It's great to catch up with you, my friend.

00:29:51.280 Let's not let so much time pass until the next conversation.

00:29:53.920 Great.

00:29:54.320 Thank you very much.

00:29:55.140 That's right.

00:29:55.380 Right on there.

00:29:55.840 You have it.

00:29:56.140 Manny Montenegreno.

00:29:57.060 Stay with us.

00:29:58.140 More ahead.

00:30:10.000 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.

00:30:11.960 Cab rights.

00:30:12.840 Supreme Court?

00:30:13.380 I think the correct term is Star Chamber.

00:30:16.900 Yeah.

00:30:17.320 Listen, when I called it Facebook Supreme Court, I was joking.

00:30:20.380 It doesn't have any of the checks and balances and the transparency of the Supreme Court, but

00:30:25.120 it has more power than them, don't they?

00:30:27.160 The Supreme Court of the United States could never ban someone from saying something on

00:30:31.040 Twitter or Facebook, but the Supreme Court of Facebook just did.

00:30:35.600 Okanagan writes, they blocked President Trump because upcoming elections in the USA.

00:30:40.360 Apparently, the communists don't like to hear the truth from conservatives.

00:30:43.060 Oh, yeah, I mean, listen, they still regard Trump as a force.

00:30:46.340 Even if he himself doesn't run again, he can endorse people.

00:30:49.520 He can rev people up.

00:30:50.700 He's a great communicator, and the left knows it.

00:30:54.280 Ickes writes, the same people that cheer this on actually think they're fighting fascism.

00:30:58.640 Yeah, I think in so many ways, the fascists of today think they're do-gooders.

00:31:04.340 Maybe the fascists of yesteryears did also.

00:31:07.360 I think they were a little more self-aware, though.

00:31:09.820 Well, that's our stories for today, our show for tonight.

00:31:12.280 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:31:16.080 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:31:17.820 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - June 09, 2021

All About Manitoba's New Vaccine Passport

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