Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Air Canada’s union blinks — and agrees to file a grievance against the company’s vaccine mandates!

00:00:00.060 Hello, my Rebels. I have good news for you. When was the last time I said that?

00:00:03.960 It's got to be almost two years ago now, but we have a bit of good news.

00:00:07.720 I don't want to say it's bigger than it is, but one of the cases we've taken

00:00:11.580 at the FightVaccinePassports.com battle station

00:00:15.500 is against Air Canada and their forced vaccine

00:00:19.940 policy. We took the case of a flight attendant who

00:00:23.700 has already recovered and has natural immunity, and she was about to be fired.

00:00:27.780 Well, we hired Top Gun lawyers for her, and wouldn't you know it, 0.99

00:00:31.480 last night we had a little flicker of success. I'll tell you all about it.

00:00:37.040 That's ahead. But while I've got you here,

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00:01:07.840 All right, here's today's show. Some good news for a change.

00:01:14.960 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.

00:01:17.100 Tonight, Air Canada's union blinks and agrees to file a grievance

00:01:29.940 against the company's vaccine mandate. It's November 12th,

00:01:34.200 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:35.900 I've got some encouraging news, happy news. It's been a while since I've been able to say that.

00:02:01.820 One of our crowdfunded lawsuits against vaccine mandates has had some success.

00:02:08.160 We're not out of the woods yet, but it's a breakthrough. Here's the story.

00:02:11.640 Two months ago, we took the case of an Air Canada flight attendant

00:02:15.800 who was being forced to get the vaccine,

00:02:18.680 even though she already had caught COVID and recovered from it fully,

00:02:24.020 and so she had natural immunity.

00:02:25.600 And she had a doctor's note confirming that her natural immunity

00:02:30.220 was equivalent to taking a vaccine.

00:02:33.580 In fact, just yesterday, Anthony Fauci's CDC, the Centers for Disease Control,

00:02:39.500 they confirmed for the first time that they are unaware of a single case

00:02:44.360 where a person with natural immunity like this

00:02:47.080 had ever transmitted the virus to another person,

00:02:49.920 which is something that vaccinated people actually can still do.

00:02:54.120 Bill Gates admitted the same just this last week.

00:02:57.540 So it was 2015 that I gave the TED Talk and wrote a number of papers

00:03:02.640 titled, We're Not Ready for the Next Pandemic.

00:03:08.060 And sadly, that was a better forecast of what would happen

00:03:13.420 than anyone would have wished for.

00:03:16.240 You know, the economic damage, the deaths,

00:03:20.740 it's been completely horrific.

00:03:23.440 And I would expect that will lead the R&D budgets

00:03:29.160 to be focused on things we didn't have today.

00:03:32.720 You know, we didn't have vaccines that block transmission.

00:03:35.960 We got vaccines that help you with your health,

00:03:38.480 but they only slightly reduce the transmissions.

00:03:40.720 We need a new way of doing the vaccine.

00:03:43.620 So this Air Canada flight attendant was being forced by Air Canada

00:03:48.740 to get the jab despite this, despite being naturally immune.

00:03:53.700 They were going to fire her if she didn't. 0.92

00:03:56.260 So we wanted to help her.

00:03:58.980 But the thing is, most Air Canada workers are part of a union.

00:04:03.940 And the whole idea of collective bargaining, as it's called,

00:04:07.900 is that any quarrel you have with the company

00:04:10.780 has to be done through the union.

00:04:12.700 In this case, the union representing this Air Canada flight attendant

00:04:17.020 was CUPE, which stands for the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

00:04:21.500 And CUPE just refused.

00:04:23.680 They refused to help this flight attendant, 0.98

00:04:26.520 who is their own union member.

00:04:28.040 I can't think of anything more important for a union to do

00:04:31.060 than to protect its members from the company bosses

00:04:35.060 just deciding one day to force them to undergo a medical procedure,

00:04:40.000 an injection against their will.

00:04:41.780 That wasn't part of the collective agreement.

00:04:44.160 That wasn't part of the contract.

00:04:46.660 Why would the union simply roll over and allow the corporation

00:04:50.420 to change its contract unilaterally?

00:04:52.860 Whose side are they on?

00:04:55.100 Isn't protecting the health, privacy, and bodily integrity of its members

00:05:00.160 more important than any other issues they fight over?

00:05:03.560 Even more important than wages, really.

00:05:06.740 But the union literally would not.

00:05:09.000 It's like this one union leader here said

00:05:11.400 when he raised the same issue about the GM union selling out its members.

00:05:17.000 So a long time ago, a union rep said something to me that was very profound.

00:05:21.080 He said, if the union and the company are saying the same thing,

00:05:24.980 one of them is not necessary.

00:05:26.640 Yeah, he's exactly right.

00:05:28.480 So what can you do when you have a company union,

00:05:31.600 a yellow union that's actually taking the side of the bosses?

00:05:36.720 Well, you sue the union to get them to do their job.

00:05:42.160 You pay them union dues.

00:05:43.760 They represent you.

00:05:45.820 Make them do so.

00:05:47.220 So we helped this Air Canada flight attendant,

00:05:50.200 and we crowdfunded three excellent lawyers at two law firms

00:05:55.400 to go to battle against the union

00:05:58.520 to compel them to file a grievance on her behalf.

00:06:02.780 You can see a copy of some of the documents,

00:06:06.740 including the very first letter we filed,

00:06:08.320 on a special website we set up for this case called aircanadalawsuit.com.

00:06:14.480 Read the first letter, the opening salvo.

00:06:16.440 It's only five pages, and it's in plain English,

00:06:19.280 although it does refer to some legal technicalities.

00:06:22.700 Let me read a bit of it to you.

00:06:24.000 I found it very bracing to hear the case made for this flight attendant.

00:06:29.920 This is what the union should have been saying from the beginning,

00:06:33.420 but they refused.

00:06:34.160 Here's an excerpt from the letter from the lawyer.

00:06:36.140 It is surprising that CUPE would permit such an intrusion at all,

00:06:41.360 but specifically through the Air Canada press release policy.

00:06:45.580 Given the apparent abdication,

00:06:48.420 there may also be issues of bad faith representation

00:06:51.560 by cooperating with Air Canada in this conduct.

00:06:55.500 Whatever the reason CUPE has facilitated Air Canada's efforts

00:06:59.080 to violate members' health, safety, privacy, and employment rights,

00:07:02.900 this is antithetical to CUPE's statutorily mandated role

00:07:08.280 under the Canadian Labor Code.

00:07:11.060 Exactly.

00:07:11.680 Let me read just one more passage from this demand letter.

00:07:15.220 I really recommend you read the whole thing.

00:07:18.060 It's only five pages long.

00:07:19.960 Go to aircanadalawsuit.com,

00:07:21.860 especially if you're an Air Canada employee or know someone who is.

00:07:25.480 You've got to know your rights.

00:07:27.100 Let me read a little more from this first letter.

00:07:28.460 CUPE's apparent breach of the duty

00:07:33.080 is further illustrated by the jurisprudence

00:07:35.700 deciding the extent of this legal requirement.

00:07:39.560 The requirement to investigate grievable matters

00:07:42.760 and reasonably pursue them

00:07:44.880 is a key element of CUPE's duty.

00:07:47.700 Given that a bargaining union member

00:07:49.720 does not have an absolute right

00:07:51.740 to have a grievance referred to arbitration,

00:07:54.420 CUPE must show that,

00:07:56.060 one, CUPE did not merely conduct

00:07:59.320 a perfunctory or cursory review of the matter.

00:08:02.980 The review must be thorough.

00:08:05.180 Two, CUPE gathered sufficient information

00:08:08.260 to arrive at a sound decision.

00:08:10.600 Three, CUPE demonstrates

00:08:12.560 that there are no personality conflicts,

00:08:15.460 bad relations, or other matters

00:08:17.380 that could affect the soundness of its decision.

00:08:20.320 My point is,

00:08:22.540 the letter ferociously fought for the workers' rights,

00:08:27.160 something the union was supposed to do. 0.72

00:08:29.820 Isn't it funny?

00:08:31.080 You know, people call me a right-wing guy,

00:08:33.340 and I guess in many ways I am,

00:08:35.420 and yet here we are crowdfunding

00:08:37.320 for union members

00:08:39.360 to get a stronger union

00:08:41.300 to take the side of the working people 0.52

00:08:43.900 against the big monopoly corporations.

00:08:46.120 And where are the so-called leftists

00:08:48.620 who say they care about working people, 0.90

00:08:51.040 about personal privacy,

00:08:52.780 about people who always say,

00:08:54.400 my body, my choice.

00:08:55.640 Where are they now?

00:08:56.860 It's an upside-down world,

00:08:58.440 but I know who I stand with.

00:08:59.840 I stand with this flight attendant.

00:09:02.400 So you can see that five-page letter

00:09:04.140 that we sent to the union on September 14th,

00:09:07.720 and they went back and forth with the law firms.

00:09:10.540 They tried to brush it off.

00:09:12.020 They tried to rag the puck,

00:09:13.640 you know, slow walk this whole thing,

00:09:15.060 so that many more workers

00:09:16.620 would just collapse under pressure.

00:09:18.780 And I think that's part of the strategy here

00:09:20.720 by the other side.

00:09:21.960 Ratchet up the pressure, delay,

00:09:23.640 so people just collapse and panic

00:09:25.780 and just give up and give in.

00:09:27.800 But the lawyers went back and forth,

00:09:29.900 and then the lawyers that we crowdfunded

00:09:33.040 for this flight attendant

00:09:33.880 did something that they promised they would do.

00:09:38.160 They took the CUPE union

00:09:40.200 to the Industrial Relations Board.

00:09:42.780 They literally sued the union bosses

00:09:46.900 on behalf of the union members

00:09:49.640 for refusing to represent this flight attendant.

00:09:54.000 And then last night,

00:09:55.560 the incredible thing happened.

00:09:56.800 The union blinked.

00:09:58.460 They agreed.

00:10:01.140 They agreed to take the grievance

00:10:03.120 on behalf of this Air Canada flight attendant.

00:10:06.580 For months, CUPE was like Unifor,

00:10:09.240 a yellow union company union

00:10:11.460 absolutely in bed with the bosses,

00:10:13.740 absolutely ignoring the working people.

00:10:17.400 And what are you going to do about it,

00:10:19.040 you little worker? 1.00

00:10:20.520 What are you going to do?

00:10:21.560 Well, good point.

00:10:22.880 Because what Air Canada worker on her own 0.99

00:10:25.380 could possibly spend tens of thousands of dollars

00:10:28.060 to hire three top gun lawyers

00:10:30.200 to fight back for her?

00:10:32.000 Well, this flight attendant

00:10:33.560 obviously didn't have the money,

00:10:35.240 but you did.

00:10:36.400 You, our viewers did.

00:10:37.760 You got her the lawyer she needed

00:10:39.200 and CUPE bloody well blinked.

00:10:43.160 If you go to aircandlelawsuit.com,

00:10:45.160 you can see the 344 page filing

00:10:49.640 that our crack lawyers filed

00:10:52.020 against the union

00:10:52.940 at the Industrial Relations Board

00:10:54.260 on behalf of this flight attendant.

00:10:55.820 Again, you'll see the personal name

00:10:57.420 and other personal details

00:10:58.420 of the flight attendant blacked out

00:11:00.440 to protect her privacy.

00:11:02.640 But that's what did it.

00:11:06.120 Now, there's still risks here, first of all,

00:11:07.960 and I'm a bit nervous.

00:11:09.660 So I'm thinking, okay, boy,

00:11:11.280 they sure fought hard against this.

00:11:14.260 Maybe they're doing it grudgingly.

00:11:16.160 Maybe they're just phoning it in.

00:11:18.520 Like a boxing match

00:11:19.860 where one of the fighters throws the fight.

00:11:22.960 Maybe, could be.

00:11:25.280 And then, of course,

00:11:26.140 grieving a new company rule

00:11:28.080 doesn't necessarily mean

00:11:29.160 you're going to beat it.

00:11:30.440 Even if CUPE does fight hard

00:11:33.160 and fight smart

00:11:34.000 and shows loyalty

00:11:35.540 to its own members for a change,

00:11:37.720 maybe the grievance won't be successful.

00:11:39.660 Maybe it won't be upheld.

00:11:42.120 But what we have here, I believe,

00:11:43.940 is an actual victory.

00:11:46.060 And it happened because of the lawyers,

00:11:48.640 and it happened

00:11:49.240 because of a courageous flight attendant.

00:11:52.560 But the missing piece was you.

00:11:54.620 You paid for the legal work,

00:11:57.820 and you can see that work,

00:11:59.020 or at least some of it,

00:11:59.900 at aircanadalawsuit.com.

00:12:02.020 Note that we haven't put

00:12:02.940 all of the legal documents up there,

00:12:04.800 but some key ones.

00:12:05.860 So thank you.

00:12:07.620 To those of you who crowdfunded this,

00:12:09.920 we have a bunch of other cases underway

00:12:13.000 in different stages in the courts

00:12:15.540 and direct with companies.

00:12:17.780 We've had some luck with other companies so far,

00:12:20.280 including CN Rail.

00:12:21.620 You can see most of the cases we're fighting

00:12:24.440 at the website fightvaccinepassports.com.

00:12:28.400 From hockey leagues

00:12:29.820 to the province of British Columbia,

00:12:31.580 we're suing them over the vaccine passport.

00:12:33.640 If you haven't had a chance to chip in yet,

00:12:35.820 please do.

00:12:36.900 Last night's big win at Air Canada

00:12:39.280 gives me some hope.

00:12:41.260 And let me say the message

00:12:43.100 to any other Air Canada staff out there

00:12:46.220 who are concerned about this issue.

00:12:48.280 Go to aircanadalawsuit.com.

00:12:51.840 Read the legal materials for yourself.

00:12:53.900 And if you are in a similar position,

00:12:56.020 there's a form there.

00:12:57.420 Fill out the form.

00:12:58.940 Give us your name.

00:12:59.720 We'll take a look at your case

00:13:00.800 and we'll help you if we can.

00:13:02.940 And I have an idea

00:13:03.860 where we'll hold an Air Canada

00:13:05.600 Zoom town hall meeting

00:13:08.740 where anyone at Air Canada

00:13:10.860 who's worried can join

00:13:12.540 and we'll have speakers.

00:13:13.760 We'll have the lawyers

00:13:14.700 who represented this flight attendant.

00:13:17.020 They'll come on and explain the case

00:13:19.000 and answer questions.

00:13:20.880 And then we'll have some other keynote speakers

00:13:22.720 and we'll give help to people

00:13:25.420 at Air Canada

00:13:27.040 who want to fight back.

00:13:28.900 But the battle is far from over,

00:13:31.660 but it's definitely begun.

00:13:34.900 Stay with me.

00:13:36.320 After the break,

00:13:37.420 we'll talk to Matthew McDonald,

00:13:39.540 one of the key labor lawyers

00:13:41.220 responsible for last night's win.

00:13:47.020 Well, I have to tell you,

00:13:57.260 it's few and far between

00:13:58.880 that we get pieces of good news these days.

00:14:01.060 But when I heard that last night

00:14:03.400 the union blinked,

00:14:05.040 at least in the case of this flight attendant,

00:14:06.980 I thought there's a flicker of hope.

00:14:09.180 And joining us now via Skype from Calgary,

00:14:11.220 the labor lawyer who crafted the complaint,

00:14:16.360 Matthew McDonald, who joins us now.

00:14:18.500 By Skype, Matthew McDonald,

00:14:19.440 first of all, welcome to the show

00:14:20.680 and congratulations.

00:14:22.280 I've been following this

00:14:23.560 out of the corner of my eye

00:14:24.600 for two months now.

00:14:27.480 I'm delighted with the legal work itself,

00:14:30.560 but you had a little bit of success yesterday.

00:14:32.620 Put it in your own words

00:14:34.280 because I don't want to overstate it,

00:14:35.900 but I don't want to understate it.

00:14:37.140 What happened yesterday that changed things?

00:14:41.960 Well, we got word that some of the members

00:14:44.300 that have been affected by this policy

00:14:46.180 and are facing discipline,

00:14:47.800 the union is actually going to represent them

00:14:50.440 and grieve the discipline

00:14:52.000 that's being brought against them.

00:14:54.380 So we actually have the union,

00:14:55.620 we push the union to do what we think

00:14:57.420 it should have done all along,

00:14:58.640 which is represent its members.

00:15:01.320 Well, I mean, that sort of seems

00:15:03.300 like their mission statement.

00:15:04.820 I saw a Unifor shop steward who was fired

00:15:08.440 who said if the union and the company

00:15:10.600 are saying the same thing,

00:15:12.200 one of them isn't needed.

00:15:13.200 I mean, of all the things

00:15:14.320 a union should be doing,

00:15:16.100 this is the crisis.

00:15:17.540 You mentioned multiple members.

00:15:20.160 Sorry, our flight vaccine passports case

00:15:22.240 had one client, a flight attendant,

00:15:24.860 who were not saying her name

00:15:26.240 for privacy reasons,

00:15:27.460 but you just said multiple staff.

00:15:30.060 Are there other flight attendants

00:15:31.760 or gate agents who are now

00:15:35.220 being helped by the union?

00:15:38.080 We have reason to believe

00:15:39.840 from people that we're working with

00:15:41.460 who have been approaching us

00:15:44.000 about our complaint as well

00:15:45.080 as wanting to work together

00:15:46.000 that there seems to be other members

00:15:48.700 that are getting representation.

00:15:50.160 So the work has helped

00:15:51.640 more than just one person, we think.

00:15:53.420 Well, that's excellent.

00:15:54.820 Can I ask you a question?

00:15:55.860 If there are other Air Canada employees

00:15:59.560 who are part of CUPE,

00:16:03.560 would they, do you think

00:16:04.900 this would naturally come to their aid

00:16:06.920 or should they contact us

00:16:09.560 and be connected with you?

00:16:13.140 They should talk to their union first

00:16:16.400 and make the request there.

00:16:18.320 The union's making it very clear

00:16:19.460 they don't want me involved.

00:16:21.380 Now, they're certainly asserting

00:16:23.000 their rights and saying

00:16:24.520 that they will deal with

00:16:25.540 the members affected

00:16:26.620 and that's what they do.

00:16:30.300 So they should talk to the union

00:16:31.560 and they can contact us through you

00:16:33.680 and I'm sure we can give them some help

00:16:35.720 but they should be making the request

00:16:37.580 to the union and just say

00:16:38.620 that they are facing discipline

00:16:40.720 and termination because of this policy

00:16:42.440 and their reasons why

00:16:43.460 and they are asking for representation

00:16:45.300 and I think this precedent should help them.

00:16:47.560 Well, I'm very pleased

00:16:48.540 and I guess that's what I was asking about.

00:16:51.220 Is this just their attempt

00:16:53.120 to get you off their back?

00:16:55.100 Because I've read some of the back and forth

00:16:57.520 between you

00:16:58.520 and I've read the 344 page complaint

00:17:00.920 and I can imagine they say

00:17:02.740 just make this guy go away

00:17:04.580 but we don't just want to help one person.

00:17:07.140 Part of the strategy behind

00:17:08.220 fightvaccinepassports.com

00:17:10.520 is to take on institutional employers

00:17:13.960 or schools

00:17:14.780 so that one legal success

00:17:17.480 can actually help dozens

00:17:18.680 or even hundreds of people.

00:17:19.900 So I guess that's important to me.

00:17:22.160 Do you think this is broader

00:17:23.560 than just the one client?

00:17:25.980 I mean, you mentioned that there is

00:17:27.020 but do you think

00:17:27.440 this will be a policy across CUPE?

00:17:31.700 I think that CUPE is quite concerned

00:17:35.840 about the fact

00:17:36.620 the issues that we raised in that letter.

00:17:38.240 I think they're concerned

00:17:39.700 that they may be being vulnerable

00:17:42.580 to not meeting what's called

00:17:43.900 their duty of fair representation.

00:17:45.920 And so I think that

00:17:46.840 they are definitely going to be more proactive

00:17:48.960 in representing members

00:17:51.000 who are facing individual grievance.

00:17:52.820 It was their whole reason

00:17:53.740 for not doing anything

00:17:55.340 on the policy

00:17:56.900 was they said,

00:17:57.780 well, we'll deal with it

00:17:58.440 on individual cases as they come

00:17:59.940 and now they have to do that.

00:18:01.860 We're making them 0.57

00:18:02.640 put their money where their mouth is.

00:18:04.260 Hmm.

00:18:06.340 I just wonder

00:18:07.660 and don't give away any confidences

00:18:09.320 but have you spoken

00:18:10.460 with the flight attendant in question?

00:18:12.580 What's her reaction?

00:18:13.500 Is she relieved?

00:18:14.300 Is she happy?

00:18:15.380 I mean, we've kept it

00:18:16.700 sort of at arm's length

00:18:17.520 for privacy

00:18:18.440 and solicitor-client reasons.

00:18:20.860 Have you talked to the client?

00:18:23.000 I have.

00:18:23.820 And she's happy.

00:18:25.060 She's cautious.

00:18:27.040 She's been in the union environment

00:18:28.580 so she knows

00:18:30.280 what dynamics are at play

00:18:32.260 and I think she is

00:18:33.000 concerned about reprisals

00:18:35.600 and that's why she's grateful

00:18:37.040 for the work that's being done here

00:18:39.320 to protect her rights.

00:18:40.920 So I'd say she's cautiously hopeful.

00:18:43.600 I got a question for you

00:18:45.120 and this just shows

00:18:45.880 that these days

00:18:46.540 I'm very skeptical.

00:18:47.640 I'm pessimistic.

00:18:49.100 You know,

00:18:49.320 you can call me paranoid

00:18:50.360 a little bit, Matthew

00:18:51.240 but I think these times

00:18:52.540 can maybe justify it.

00:18:56.340 Is the union really grieving this

00:18:58.300 with their whole heart

00:18:59.380 or are they just going

00:19:00.580 through the motions

00:19:01.320 because you had to really

00:19:03.620 twist their arm

00:19:04.280 for two full months

00:19:05.300 before they said,

00:19:06.760 all right, fine,

00:19:07.240 we'll help her.

00:19:07.720 and you just said

00:19:09.560 they don't want you involved.

00:19:11.200 All right,

00:19:11.640 that makes me nervous.

00:19:14.180 What do you think

00:19:15.080 about the prospect

00:19:16.380 and tell me

00:19:16.960 if I'm just too paranoid

00:19:18.720 but that they're going

00:19:19.980 through the motions

00:19:20.580 of a grievance

00:19:21.220 but they're just phoning it in

00:19:22.560 and that they don't actually

00:19:23.860 want to succeed.

00:19:25.940 They don't actually want

00:19:26.820 to stop Air Canada's

00:19:28.740 vax policy.

00:19:29.440 They haven't wanted

00:19:30.100 to stop it so far

00:19:31.160 and they're just doing this

00:19:32.700 to get you off their back.

00:19:33.720 That's obviously a concern

00:19:37.000 and I think that

00:19:38.040 that's a founded concern

00:19:39.080 and we'll be monitoring

00:19:40.520 how they deal

00:19:42.520 with the complaints

00:19:43.280 and whether they

00:19:44.040 put their heart into it

00:19:45.160 and be ready to make

00:19:46.360 another complaint

00:19:46.960 to the labor board

00:19:47.740 to keep their feet

00:19:48.520 to the fire if they don't.

00:19:49.900 Well, I'm glad to hear that.

00:19:51.260 Now, I know there's

00:19:52.160 a different set of unions

00:19:53.680 for different types of workers

00:19:55.440 at Air Canada.

00:19:57.240 I understand the pilots

00:19:58.060 have their own union

00:19:59.480 and there's, frankly,

00:20:01.080 I was a little surprised

00:20:01.840 to hear that CUPE

00:20:02.600 was the union

00:20:04.140 for Air Canada

00:20:04.800 but maybe that dates back

00:20:05.980 to when Air Canada

00:20:06.940 was a state airline.

00:20:09.000 Do you know offhand

00:20:10.220 if other unions

00:20:11.840 have taken

00:20:13.780 a different approach?

00:20:15.480 For example,

00:20:16.060 let's say there was

00:20:16.720 a pilot

00:20:17.280 who was in the same position

00:20:19.160 as this flight attendant.

00:20:21.180 Do they have any help

00:20:22.440 from their union

00:20:23.600 or do you think

00:20:24.560 we should replicate

00:20:26.080 what we're doing

00:20:26.740 for this flight attendant

00:20:27.620 for the pilots too?

00:20:28.720 Well, there's certainly

00:20:32.600 a debate in the union world

00:20:34.040 right now

00:20:34.620 about this issue

00:20:35.840 and there are some unions

00:20:37.200 you see in the complaint

00:20:38.480 that we cited

00:20:39.340 the TTC in Toronto

00:20:40.860 which are taking on

00:20:42.080 these issues

00:20:42.460 very aggressively

00:20:42.980 and there are others

00:20:43.720 that seem to be

00:20:46.900 aligning with their

00:20:47.700 political views

00:20:48.380 with Justin Trudeau.

00:20:49.980 And so some unions

00:20:52.260 are taking this seriously

00:20:53.500 and others are putting their,

00:20:54.780 it seems to be

00:20:55.340 that they're putting

00:20:55.720 their political views

00:20:56.480 ahead of other duties

00:20:57.620 that they have

00:20:58.240 and I think

00:20:59.800 this is going to be

00:21:02.060 a warning shot

00:21:02.620 to all of them

00:21:03.080 that they need to

00:21:04.060 focus on

00:21:05.280 what their

00:21:06.020 legislative duty is

00:21:07.540 under the law

00:21:08.040 which is to represent

00:21:08.880 their members fairly

00:21:10.080 and that

00:21:11.120 and if they don't do that

00:21:13.020 they're going to face

00:21:13.600 consequences before the board

00:21:14.820 because of people like

00:21:15.680 you and who are

00:21:17.560 defending their members

00:21:18.340 when they aren't

00:21:19.400 or if they aren't.

00:21:21.260 I want to be fair

00:21:22.280 to Air Canada

00:21:23.040 that they're doing this

00:21:25.040 I think because

00:21:25.920 they're being pressured

00:21:26.660 into it by the government

00:21:27.560 in fact

00:21:27.980 Trudeau has been

00:21:29.400 made it very clear

00:21:30.540 that he doesn't even

00:21:31.520 want to let anyone

00:21:32.100 fly on a plane

00:21:33.100 who's not vaxxed

00:21:34.180 let alone work on a plane

00:21:35.660 so part of me

00:21:37.520 sympathizes with

00:21:38.500 Air Canada

00:21:39.020 that they're caught

00:21:39.620 in the middle here

00:21:40.400 if these cases

00:21:44.180 are grieved

00:21:45.240 by the union

00:21:46.280 against Air Canada

00:21:47.460 what happens there?

00:21:49.680 What happens if

00:21:50.520 you know

00:21:51.980 to Air Canada

00:21:52.900 because they got

00:21:53.620 their back up

00:21:54.140 against the wall

00:21:54.820 with Trudeau

00:21:55.600 and they were looking

00:21:56.860 to take it out

00:21:57.480 on their members

00:21:58.120 but now thankfully

00:21:59.700 CUPE's going to grieve

00:22:00.720 on behalf of the

00:22:01.340 flight attendants

00:22:02.020 this could take some time

00:22:03.780 I don't know how long

00:22:04.600 a grievance like this

00:22:05.480 would take

00:22:06.060 but it may go past

00:22:07.560 Trudeau's deadline

00:22:08.700 it may

00:22:09.200 like I wonder

00:22:10.060 if Air Canada

00:22:10.740 itself has a viewpoint

00:22:11.780 on this

00:22:12.580 maybe they don't like

00:22:13.840 being caught in the middle

00:22:14.700 I know a bunch of

00:22:15.400 US airlines

00:22:16.260 got really between

00:22:18.000 themselves

00:22:18.500 and their own

00:22:19.840 you know

00:22:20.840 flight attendants

00:22:21.960 what do you think

00:22:23.160 is going to happen

00:22:23.720 or is that

00:22:24.260 just beyond your

00:22:25.060 I guess

00:22:25.860 as anyone's guess

00:22:26.540 maybe

00:22:26.940 well Air Canada

00:22:28.500 has

00:22:29.060 assigned this

00:22:31.360 complaint

00:22:32.020 to a

00:22:32.820 lawyer there

00:22:33.720 so they have

00:22:34.460 they're an interested

00:22:35.080 party

00:22:35.480 and we'll see

00:22:36.760 what they say

00:22:37.420 and

00:22:37.820 I am sympathetic

00:22:39.500 to them

00:22:40.040 in some ways

00:22:41.460 because

00:22:41.880 they are caught

00:22:43.040 in the middle

00:22:43.460 but this underscores

00:22:44.900 why everyone

00:22:45.500 has to fulfill

00:22:46.340 their roles

00:22:47.240 in this process

00:22:47.860 and that's what

00:22:48.440 we're doing

00:22:48.840 is pushing the union

00:22:49.640 to fulfill

00:22:50.580 its role

00:22:51.600 you know

00:22:51.860 I think an important

00:22:52.600 thing that people

00:22:53.200 don't understand

00:22:53.900 is that

00:22:54.820 a member of the union

00:22:56.600 can't go to court

00:22:57.440 their access to justice

00:22:59.640 is completely taken away

00:23:00.780 by operation

00:23:01.340 of the collective agreement

00:23:02.700 and the relevant

00:23:04.420 labor legislation

00:23:05.480 and so if the union

00:23:07.180 doesn't

00:23:08.220 stand up for members

00:23:09.280 it's not just

00:23:10.080 oh well

00:23:10.440 they don't get their support

00:23:11.240 they actually have no

00:23:12.200 members have no other

00:23:13.440 recourse

00:23:14.120 to the courts

00:23:15.720 other than

00:23:16.540 through the union

00:23:17.180 and

00:23:18.040 and that's

00:23:19.420 I think very important

00:23:20.020 that's why

00:23:20.300 it's good

00:23:20.560 what you're doing

00:23:21.060 in terms of Air Canada

00:23:22.100 they're aware of the process

00:23:23.100 they're given notice

00:23:24.860 and I'm sure

00:23:25.620 they're going to

00:23:25.940 take it seriously

00:23:26.600 but I think

00:23:27.120 they're already

00:23:28.080 caught in the middle

00:23:29.120 and probably not

00:23:29.660 wanting to

00:23:30.100 get any more

00:23:31.340 mud on their face

00:23:32.640 you know

00:23:34.240 I got to tell you

00:23:35.020 we're looking at

00:23:37.780 a lot of different

00:23:38.400 unions that are

00:23:39.300 balking at supporting

00:23:40.580 their members

00:23:41.140 and I'm frustrated

00:23:42.520 by that

00:23:43.080 if you would have

00:23:43.620 told me two years

00:23:44.500 ago

00:23:44.840 that a right winger

00:23:46.080 like me

00:23:46.700 would be crowdfunding

00:23:47.860 money

00:23:48.280 to take on

00:23:49.560 the case

00:23:50.000 of union members

00:23:50.920 to get stronger

00:23:52.000 union representation

00:23:53.000 against their bosses

00:23:54.260 at multinational

00:23:56.220 corporations

00:23:56.780 I would have said

00:23:57.360 you're talking to me

00:23:58.620 from an alternative

00:23:59.700 universe

00:24:00.340 but here we are

00:24:01.220 I mean

00:24:01.500 Matthew

00:24:02.060 I don't know

00:24:02.560 your politics

00:24:03.160 you've

00:24:03.920 you know

00:24:04.560 mentioned Trudeau

00:24:05.680 a couple times

00:24:06.620 critically I think

00:24:08.540 so I presume

00:24:09.180 you're not a fan

00:24:10.300 of the liberal party

00:24:10.920 I don't know

00:24:11.440 your politics

00:24:11.980 if you're in labor law

00:24:12.820 maybe you're a man

00:24:13.680 of the left

00:24:14.140 but I find it

00:24:15.520 heartbreaking

00:24:16.180 that people who

00:24:18.220 traditionally have

00:24:18.800 called themselves

00:24:19.260 progressive

00:24:19.800 are not standing up

00:24:21.740 for actual

00:24:22.420 working class people

00:24:23.540 they're siding

00:24:24.880 with big pharma

00:24:25.900 that's weird

00:24:26.700 and ideas

00:24:28.900 of my body

00:24:29.600 my choice

00:24:30.360 personal privacy

00:24:32.060 civil liberties

00:24:32.840 the left used

00:24:34.000 to really own

00:24:34.960 those things

00:24:35.780 and I wish

00:24:36.920 there were more

00:24:37.540 voices on the left

00:24:38.540 you mentioned

00:24:38.960 there's some unions

00:24:39.760 that are doing a good job

00:24:40.660 you mentioned a few

00:24:41.260 of them

00:24:41.400 I appreciate that

00:24:42.200 I don't know

00:24:43.420 if you want to make

00:24:43.900 a comment in general

00:24:44.860 because all I want

00:24:47.080 is strong unions now

00:24:48.740 and those are words

00:24:49.380 I wouldn't say

00:24:50.340 but you've got

00:24:51.360 thousands and thousands

00:24:52.700 of people

00:24:53.180 like you say

00:24:53.740 no access to the courts

00:24:55.080 and the bosses

00:24:57.180 are in league

00:24:58.200 with the companies

00:24:58.920 the union bosses

00:24:59.840 are in league

00:25:00.320 with the companies

00:25:00.980 I can't imagine

00:25:02.100 a more frustrating thing

00:25:03.080 what's happened

00:25:03.580 to our world Matthew

00:25:04.540 well what a world

00:25:06.540 we live in

00:25:07.040 where Israel Levant

00:25:07.800 is a leading labor

00:25:08.840 activist in Canada

00:25:09.720 I wouldn't say

00:25:11.460 I'm the leading

00:25:12.100 labor activist

00:25:12.980 but I feel like

00:25:14.220 I have a role

00:25:15.720 it's not me

00:25:16.580 by the way

00:25:16.980 I want to

00:25:17.440 you're nice to say

00:25:18.520 you're flattering me

00:25:19.300 but let me correct you

00:25:20.300 it's our viewers

00:25:21.880 who are the donors

00:25:22.880 who God bless them

00:25:24.660 have crowdfunded this

00:25:25.820 and I think

00:25:27.080 that they would

00:25:27.560 this flight attendant's 1.00

00:25:28.940 name will remain

00:25:29.660 private

00:25:30.260 for the reasons

00:25:31.000 you alluded

00:25:31.640 but I think

00:25:33.680 that our viewers

00:25:34.400 if they had

00:25:35.560 historically called

00:25:36.280 themselves right wing

00:25:37.200 or left wing

00:25:37.880 or big business

00:25:38.800 or farmers

00:25:39.580 or everybody

00:25:40.120 they would think

00:25:41.400 of a flight attendant

00:25:42.500 an exemplary worker

00:25:45.160 who's done nothing wrong

00:25:46.160 who's about to be sacked

00:25:47.260 even though she had

00:25:48.420 natural immunity

00:25:49.580 and recovered

00:25:50.280 and has strong immunity

00:25:52.020 they wouldn't think

00:25:53.380 of her as right wing 0.99

00:25:54.160 or left wing

00:25:54.700 they would just think

00:25:55.820 of her as a Canadian

00:25:56.640 who's being treated

00:25:57.280 unfairly

00:25:57.860 and in a way

00:25:59.000 I like this realignment

00:26:00.960 I like getting to know

00:26:02.640 this flight attendant

00:26:04.020 as a human

00:26:04.900 not left wing

00:26:05.880 right wing

00:26:06.280 union member

00:26:06.920 or whatever

00:26:07.860 I think what you're doing

00:26:09.320 Matthew

00:26:09.640 is very important

00:26:10.380 so you gave me

00:26:11.500 a compliment

00:26:11.960 I'll run right back

00:26:13.000 to you

00:26:13.280 and I know

00:26:14.200 that our friend

00:26:14.740 Sarah Miller

00:26:15.400 has been involved

00:26:16.440 with this

00:26:16.700 she's been a great

00:26:17.400 civil libertarian

00:26:18.260 and Robert Hawks

00:26:19.040 as well

00:26:19.400 are you going to

00:26:21.200 keep up this fight

00:26:21.900 will you take other

00:26:22.740 work like this

00:26:23.540 Matthew

00:26:23.920 absolutely

00:26:25.600 I think there are

00:26:26.260 very important issues

00:26:27.240 here at play

00:26:27.840 as I talked about

00:26:28.660 this is really

00:26:29.740 about some

00:26:30.920 fundamental

00:26:32.200 constitutional rights

00:26:34.120 including access

00:26:34.780 to justice

00:26:35.340 and ensuring

00:26:35.860 all Canadians

00:26:36.560 have that

00:26:37.520 and we're going

00:26:37.900 to keep doing

00:26:38.320 that and fighting

00:26:38.760 for them

00:26:39.100 well I want

00:26:40.380 to thank you

00:26:41.000 when I heard

00:26:41.840 last night

00:26:42.620 that the union

00:26:43.800 blinked

00:26:44.320 and that they're

00:26:44.760 going to grieve

00:26:45.240 for this flight

00:26:45.800 attendant

00:26:46.120 I almost couldn't

00:26:47.040 believe it

00:26:47.580 because Air Canada

00:26:48.600 is really one

00:26:49.420 of the large

00:26:49.920 institutions

00:26:50.600 of this country

00:26:51.420 it's a flagship

00:26:52.640 company

00:26:53.300 it's political

00:26:55.040 as we've seen

00:26:55.800 in Quebec lately

00:26:56.640 and if we can

00:26:57.880 fight the battle

00:26:59.280 there then there's

00:27:00.080 hope for everyone

00:27:00.780 Matthew McDonald

00:27:01.940 it's great to talk

00:27:03.060 to you

00:27:03.340 I hope we can

00:27:03.980 catch up with you

00:27:04.780 later on

00:27:05.380 hopefully it'll be

00:27:06.300 for good news

00:27:06.920 again

00:27:07.260 and perhaps we'll

00:27:08.220 have you battling

00:27:08.800 other cases too

00:27:09.820 great looking forward

00:27:11.840 to it

00:27:12.300 all right well

00:27:13.120 great to have you

00:27:13.780 and keep up the

00:27:14.340 great work

00:27:14.740 and please give

00:27:15.420 the regards

00:27:16.280 from all our

00:27:17.060 viewers

00:27:17.500 to the flight

00:27:18.540 attendant

00:27:18.900 whose name

00:27:19.580 we're not

00:27:19.880 mentioning

00:27:20.220 tell her

00:27:20.920 that she may

00:27:22.000 feel alone

00:27:22.740 but she is 1.00

00:27:23.500 not alone

00:27:24.160 I will

00:27:25.800 I'll pass that

00:27:26.600 along

00:27:26.800 I know she

00:27:27.140 appreciates it

00:27:27.760 all right

00:27:28.460 there you have it

00:27:28.960 Matthew McDonald

00:27:29.620 labor lawyer

00:27:31.240 in Calgary

00:27:32.040 who had a bit

00:27:33.020 of a victory

00:27:33.500 yesterday

00:27:34.360 stay with us

00:27:36.060 more ahead

00:27:37.000 what a week

00:27:49.680 I tell you

00:27:50.020 ups and downs

00:27:50.780 the news

00:27:51.260 is always bad

00:27:52.200 but actually

00:27:52.960 you know what

00:27:53.620 little flickers

00:27:54.420 little green shoots

00:27:55.520 little flickering

00:27:56.560 candles of hope

00:27:57.440 I tell you

00:27:58.020 of all the

00:27:59.280 institutions

00:27:59.880 in this country

00:28:00.660 Air Canada

00:28:01.220 is so key

00:28:02.020 during this

00:28:03.060 lockdown

00:28:03.500 and pandemic

00:28:04.400 and forced

00:28:04.960 vaccine season

00:28:06.020 I mean the

00:28:06.740 government is

00:28:07.220 using Air Canada

00:28:08.020 as a way

00:28:08.940 to punish

00:28:09.600 people who

00:28:10.600 want to fly

00:28:11.120 if you don't

00:28:11.580 get vaccinated

00:28:12.100 you can't fly

00:28:12.720 so Air Canada

00:28:13.360 it's a real

00:28:13.940 battleground

00:28:14.460 we saw that

00:28:15.100 in Quebec

00:28:15.760 when the new

00:28:16.320 boss of Air Canada

00:28:17.300 admitted he

00:28:17.720 doesn't speak

00:28:18.200 French

00:28:18.500 national crisis

00:28:19.500 my point is

00:28:20.120 Air Canada

00:28:20.840 is a big prize

00:28:21.900 and if we can

00:28:23.600 make Air Canada

00:28:24.840 blink on forced

00:28:26.300 vaccines

00:28:26.840 especially for this

00:28:27.860 flight attendant

00:28:28.420 who has natural

00:28:29.400 immunity

00:28:29.840 she's of no

00:28:30.680 harm to anyone

00:28:31.520 in fact she's

00:28:32.460 safer according

00:28:33.640 to the CDC

00:28:34.320 than people who

00:28:35.020 don't have

00:28:36.140 the disease

00:28:36.780 and just take

00:28:37.360 the vax

00:28:37.920 as the CDC

00:28:39.260 admitted

00:28:39.760 no one who

00:28:40.800 has recovered

00:28:41.280 naturally

00:28:41.780 ever transmit

00:28:42.780 the vax

00:28:43.180 there's ever

00:28:43.480 been a case

00:28:44.040 of that

00:28:44.440 so this

00:28:45.220 flight attendant

00:28:45.800 is actually

00:28:46.140 safer

00:28:46.800 than vaxed

00:28:48.380 people

00:28:48.740 and yet she's

00:28:50.100 about to be

00:28:50.500 fired because

00:28:51.200 she won't get

00:28:51.720 vaxed

00:28:52.340 to have

00:28:53.140 QP blink

00:28:54.040 and agree

00:28:54.700 to grieve

00:28:55.080 this

00:28:55.380 I think

00:28:56.440 that is

00:28:56.940 reason for

00:28:57.580 hope

00:28:57.800 and maybe

00:28:58.660 others will

00:28:59.480 find the

00:28:59.900 courage to

00:29:00.280 come forward

00:29:00.780 I wanted to

00:29:01.600 tell you this

00:29:02.000 big news

00:29:02.460 today I

00:29:02.800 really think

00:29:03.180 it's a great

00:29:03.560 way to end

00:29:03.980 the week

00:29:04.360 listen have

00:29:05.240 a great

00:29:05.500 weekend

00:29:05.960 I'm going

00:29:06.700 to say

00:29:07.240 goodbye to

00:29:07.680 you now

00:29:08.040 and I'm

00:29:08.420 going to

00:29:08.560 leave you

00:29:09.000 with our

00:29:09.780 video of the

00:29:10.400 day

00:29:10.680 until I

00:29:11.400 see you

00:29:11.620 on Monday

00:29:12.020 from all

00:29:12.800 of us here

00:29:13.280 at rebel

00:29:13.580 world headquarters

00:29:14.220 to you at

00:29:14.660 home good

00:29:15.020 night and

00:29:15.960 keep fighting

00:29:16.360 for freedom

00:29:16.920 do you

00:29:17.840 do you think

00:29:18.080 do you think

00:29:18.100 that someone

00:29:18.500 who is

00:29:18.880 unvaccinated

00:29:19.700 should have

00:29:20.340 a tracking

00:29:20.840 device on

00:29:21.500 them

00:29:21.720 I think

00:29:23.160 that is

00:29:23.980 a step

00:29:24.760 too far

00:29:25.580 in compromising

00:29:27.720 personal freedom

00:29:29.580 and liberty

00:29:30.200 this is

00:29:34.900 Lewis Brackpool

00:29:35.700 for rebel

00:29:36.360 news and what

00:29:36.960 if I told you

00:29:37.800 that flight

00:29:38.440 attendants are

00:29:39.780 being forced

00:29:40.540 to wear a

00:29:41.220 type of tracking

00:29:42.020 device on their

00:29:42.860 wrist if they

00:29:44.120 leave their

00:29:45.020 hotel after a

00:29:46.260 quarantine you

00:29:47.580 probably think

00:29:48.160 that I'm a

00:29:48.520 conspiracy

00:29:48.940 theorist that's

00:29:49.900 usually the word

00:29:50.740 that gets thrown

00:29:51.980 about a lot

00:29:52.820 we're seeing a lot

00:29:53.960 of people fall

00:29:54.540 prey to

00:29:55.000 disinformation

00:29:55.700 and if these

00:29:56.260 and others want

00:29:57.040 to start talking

00:29:57.880 about conspiracy

00:29:58.540 theories well

00:30:00.780 that's their

00:30:01.360 choice

00:30:01.740 well today in

00:30:04.140 this report I

00:30:05.060 have an exclusive

00:30:06.100 photograph that

00:30:07.740 was taken of a

00:30:09.620 flight attendant

00:30:10.420 who was down

00:30:11.280 route after

00:30:12.140 their shift and

00:30:13.800 was forced to

00:30:14.500 wear a type of

00:30:15.620 tracking device

00:30:16.500 with a QR code

00:30:17.560 okay so I'd

00:30:18.140 like you to

00:30:18.500 take a look at

00:30:19.380 this image for

00:30:20.120 yourself so as

00:30:22.140 you can see there

00:30:22.940 you can see the

00:30:23.860 white wristband

00:30:24.920 around this

00:30:25.520 person's wrist

00:30:26.540 with a QR code

00:30:28.220 on it and of

00:30:30.520 course a little

00:30:30.980 symbol above

00:30:32.220 that's the symbol

00:30:33.480 of the Barbados

00:30:35.100 flag so I have a

00:30:36.920 pretty rough

00:30:37.740 estimate on what

00:30:38.820 hotel is

00:30:39.760 implementing this

00:30:40.640 and that is the

00:30:41.500 Hilton hotel

00:30:43.200 in Barbados

00:30:44.800 where flight

00:30:46.620 attendants usually

00:30:47.480 stay on there

00:30:48.340 overnight stays

00:30:49.300 there and I

00:30:50.660 want to go

00:30:51.040 towards the

00:30:52.220 caption that this

00:30:53.200 person put up

00:30:54.140 it says now

00:30:55.660 fast forward and

00:30:57.320 here are the

00:30:57.960 second class

00:30:59.040 citizens of

00:30:59.820 2020 and

00:31:01.360 2021

00:31:02.360 discrimination

00:31:03.720 bullying

00:31:04.780 denied basic

00:31:06.220 human rights

00:31:07.180 it says yes

00:31:08.520 that's a tracker

00:31:09.640 on my wrist

00:31:10.480 because I refuse

00:31:11.380 to comply with

00:31:12.220 their tyranny

00:31:12.920 lies and

00:31:13.980 scaremongering

00:31:14.920 tactics

00:31:15.820 tagged like a

00:31:17.160 dog

00:31:17.480 tagged like

00:31:18.480 cattle

00:31:19.140 tagged like

00:31:20.320 the poor

00:31:21.460 Jews from

00:31:22.360 World War

00:31:23.100 II

00:31:23.540 if we are not

00:31:24.600 careful the

00:31:25.620 history will

00:31:26.440 very easily

00:31:27.400 repeat itself

00:31:28.760 now I've gone

00:31:30.180 to question this

00:31:31.060 individual on

00:31:31.940 this photograph

00:31:32.980 but they

00:31:33.380 unfortunately

00:31:33.760 haven't been

00:31:34.360 responsive on

00:31:36.200 this I

00:31:36.780 understand if

00:31:37.940 I used to be

00:31:39.140 a flight attendant

00:31:39.980 myself so I

00:31:40.840 understand the

00:31:41.380 rules and

00:31:41.780 regulation on

00:31:42.500 speaking to the

00:31:43.180 press but this

00:31:44.680 isn't on and

00:31:46.540 if anyone has

00:31:47.180 more information

00:31:47.960 upon this please

00:31:49.020 get in touch

00:31:50.040 with me at

00:31:50.540 lewis.brackpaw

00:31:52.340 at rebelnews.com

00:31:53.800 whether this has

00:31:54.960 been happened to

00:31:55.620 you that you're a 0.78

00:31:56.200 flight attendant or

00:31:57.260 you know of

00:31:58.200 someone you need

00:31:59.700 to start presenting

00:32:00.800 this forward and

00:32:01.620 your identity is

00:32:03.000 completely protected

00:32:04.020 here at rebel news

00:32:05.100 we of course

00:32:05.860 conceal that

00:32:06.720 identity because we

00:32:08.080 don't want you

00:32:08.940 getting in

00:32:09.840 trouble I of

00:32:11.280 course in in

00:32:12.280 conversation with

00:32:13.560 british airways

00:32:14.680 and I've also

00:32:16.880 emailed virgin

00:32:18.100 atlantic on

00:32:19.260 getting their

00:32:20.220 take on this

00:32:21.560 image and

00:32:22.600 whether it is

00:32:23.260 policy for these

00:32:24.320 airlines to

00:32:25.600 implement or to

00:32:27.020 let this even

00:32:27.900 happen to their

00:32:29.340 own employees

00:32:31.240 now british airways

00:32:34.300 have gotten back

00:32:35.020 to me and said

00:32:35.840 that they need to

00:32:36.540 investigate this

00:32:37.360 further so

00:32:37.980 hopefully this

00:32:38.780 will sort

00:32:40.820 itself out

00:32:41.460 very soon

00:32:42.120 but it is a

00:32:42.840 big concern

00:32:43.380 because if

00:32:43.880 flight attendants

00:32:44.880 whether they've

00:32:45.680 had the vaccine

00:32:46.380 or not are

00:32:47.080 going to be

00:32:47.660 tracked outside

00:32:48.780 of their

00:32:49.360 hotel this

00:32:52.140 is against

00:32:53.080 basic human

00:32:54.760 rights you

00:32:55.600 shouldn't be

00:32:56.060 treated like

00:32:56.900 cattle and

00:32:57.980 from other

00:32:58.360 sources this

00:32:59.180 person has

00:33:00.060 actually had

00:33:00.600 one dose of

00:33:01.520 the vaccine

00:33:02.080 so it's

00:33:04.100 not a case

00:33:04.760 of whether

00:33:05.260 you've had

00:33:05.940 the vaccine

00:33:06.500 or not

00:33:07.140 or this is

00:33:08.240 just mistreatment

00:33:09.100 of someone

00:33:09.660 who is

00:33:10.400 unvaccinated

00:33:11.300 this is

00:33:11.860 happening to

00:33:12.500 someone who's

00:33:13.100 even had

00:33:13.840 the vaccine

00:33:14.920 but I think

00:33:15.680 it's a serious

00:33:16.440 message to

00:33:18.120 airline staff

00:33:19.740 or anyone

00:33:20.380 else in other

00:33:21.120 workforces that

00:33:22.320 if this does

00:33:23.100 continue to

00:33:23.860 happen that

00:33:25.280 we are going

00:33:25.860 to see a

00:33:26.420 long winding

00:33:27.480 road towards

00:33:28.500 more

00:33:29.260 totalitarianism

00:33:30.940 and other

00:33:31.820 mistreatment

00:33:33.100 of basic

00:33:34.480 human rights

00:33:35.480 so if you

00:33:36.640 think that

00:33:37.000 this will only

00:33:37.600 apply to

00:33:38.200 workers such

00:33:39.060 as flight

00:33:39.680 attendants

00:33:40.200 unfortunately

00:33:40.700 you are

00:33:41.440 mistaken

00:33:42.040 this is

00:33:42.580 happening to

00:33:43.100 visitors when

00:33:44.120 they arrive

00:33:44.940 at the

00:33:45.280 island's

00:33:45.960 airport

00:33:46.520 you can see

00:33:47.740 by this

00:33:48.260 image here

00:33:49.160 a red

00:33:49.920 wristband

00:33:50.500 saying

00:33:50.900 welcome to

00:33:51.700 Barbados

00:33:52.400 stay safe

00:33:53.600 at your

00:33:54.120 hotel

00:33:54.740 the same

00:33:55.540 wristband

00:33:56.160 underneath

00:33:56.560 this other

00:33:57.500 image

00:33:58.380 underneath

00:33:59.300 a tracker

00:34:00.020 the blog

00:34:00.800 states they

00:34:01.420 were met

00:34:01.960 by an

00:34:02.420 airport

00:34:02.780 concierge

00:34:03.680 who then

00:34:04.060 tied a

00:34:04.680 red

00:34:04.980 bracelet

00:34:05.640 they were

00:34:06.460 told then

00:34:07.000 to line

00:34:07.640 up in

00:34:07.960 a single

00:34:08.480 file

00:34:09.020 so I

00:34:09.860 had to

00:34:10.160 stand

00:34:10.460 behind my

00:34:11.060 husband

00:34:11.440 even if

00:34:12.120 we were

00:34:12.400 together

00:34:12.860 and it

00:34:13.740 says I

00:34:14.180 suppose it

00:34:14.940 was because

00:34:15.460 it made

00:34:15.920 it easier

00:34:16.540 for them

00:34:16.920 to spot

00:34:17.560 if each

00:34:18.120 passenger

00:34:18.700 has a

00:34:19.240 wristband

00:34:19.780 bracelet

00:34:20.380 we had

00:34:21.320 our

00:34:21.480 valid

00:34:21.820 negative

00:34:22.500 covid

00:34:22.980 19

00:34:23.540 PCR

00:34:24.060 test

00:34:24.600 results

00:34:25.140 and

00:34:25.620 certificates

00:34:26.180 to present

00:34:27.180 to the

00:34:27.660 first health

00:34:28.480 screening

00:34:29.140 now back

00:34:30.100 to this

00:34:30.400 tracking

00:34:30.740 device

00:34:31.120 it's

00:34:31.360 actually

00:34:31.720 being

00:34:32.140 programmed

00:34:32.820 by a

00:34:33.860 application

00:34:35.080 called

00:34:35.580 BIMSafe

00:34:36.680 so it

00:34:37.920 says here

00:34:38.580 to download

00:34:39.180 and install

00:34:39.740 the BIMSafe

00:34:40.440 app on

00:34:40.920 your mobile

00:34:41.460 phone

00:34:41.900 and this

00:34:42.500 is a

00:34:42.860 mandatory

00:34:43.280 requirement

00:34:44.160 that has

00:34:45.000 recently

00:34:45.480 been introduced

00:34:46.480 way back

00:34:47.220 into

00:34:47.560 February

00:34:48.120 2021

00:34:49.040 for monitoring

00:34:50.500 and tracking

00:34:51.360 each

00:34:52.180 visitor

00:34:52.780 to

00:34:53.460 Barbados

00:34:54.440 and a

00:34:55.500 bit more

00:34:55.860 information

00:34:56.420 it says

00:34:56.760 BIMSafe

00:34:57.520 is a

00:34:58.020 location

00:34:58.620 and

00:34:58.960 symptoms

00:34:59.600 monitoring

00:35:00.360 mobile

00:35:01.000 app

00:35:01.540 developed

00:35:02.220 by the

00:35:02.840 Ministry

00:35:03.260 of Health

00:35:04.020 and Wellness

00:35:04.680 to assist

00:35:06.000 in the

00:35:06.420 prevention

00:35:06.900 of the

00:35:07.700 spread

00:35:08.140 of

00:35:08.560 covid-19

00:35:09.580 in

00:35:09.860 Barbados

00:35:10.480 and upon

00:35:11.420 more

00:35:11.880 investigation

00:35:12.560 you can

00:35:13.800 find out

00:35:14.420 that this

00:35:14.980 BIMSafe

00:35:15.940 technology

00:35:16.900 is from

00:35:18.160 the UK

00:35:18.620 and the

00:35:19.900 website as

00:35:20.560 you can see

00:35:21.040 is here

00:35:21.580 and all

00:35:22.380 more

00:35:22.600 information

00:35:23.200 about what

00:35:24.040 this

00:35:24.760 application

00:35:25.700 does

00:35:26.260 and how

00:35:26.640 it works

00:35:27.440 now I'm

00:35:28.800 not a

00:35:29.060 conspiracy

00:35:29.440 theorist

00:35:30.060 at all

00:35:30.520 I don't

00:35:31.160 really need

00:35:31.680 to make

00:35:32.020 that any

00:35:32.440 clearer

00:35:32.880 but it's

00:35:34.200 quite a

00:35:34.740 scary

00:35:35.140 prospect

00:35:35.760 that you

00:35:37.240 could be

00:35:37.740 tracked

00:35:38.320 and monitored

00:35:40.260 if you're

00:35:41.000 unvaccinated

00:35:41.860 we now know

00:35:42.620 after the

00:35:43.300 booster rollout

00:35:44.000 anyone who

00:35:44.480 is double

00:35:44.860 vaccinated

00:35:45.580 that status

00:35:46.880 is now

00:35:47.380 meaningless

00:35:47.840 it doesn't

00:35:48.840 mean anything

00:35:49.580 anymore

00:35:50.340 do you think

00:35:51.220 we're going

00:35:51.580 to see

00:35:51.860 future

00:35:52.240 development

00:35:52.780 of

00:35:53.220 tracking

00:35:53.820 devices

00:35:54.380 here in

00:35:54.880 the UK

00:35:55.260 let me

00:35:56.440 know

00:35:56.580 what

00:35:56.720 you

00:35:56.820 think

Rebel News Podcast - November 13, 2021

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