Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ On a list of the world’s happiest countries, Canada falls to a new low

00:00:00.120 Hello, my rebels. Interesting story today about the world happiness rankings.

00:00:06.040 Did you know that Canada, well, I'm not going to give it away.

00:00:09.020 Do you know what our rank is this year?

00:00:12.140 Well, I don't think you do know because I don't think any media are telling you

00:00:16.100 because the answer is not an answer Trudeau would want published.

00:00:20.180 I'll take you through that today. I'll show you some charts.

00:00:23.480 They measure sadness, anxiety, things like that.

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00:01:14.320 Tonight, on a list of the world's happiest countries, Canada falls to a new low.

00:01:28.500 It's August 10th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:30.940 You're fighting for freedom.

00:01:34.260 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:37.420 This popped up on my Twitter feed today.

00:01:49.360 It was a tweet from Bloomberg.

00:01:51.060 It says, what is the world's happiest country?

00:01:53.980 Now, they don't tell you.

00:01:54.800 They want you to click the link to find out.

00:01:57.060 And then they say the secret, social support, generosity to one another, and honesty in government.

00:02:03.680 Well, that spells bad news for us, eh?

00:02:05.460 Now, normally, Canada does pretty well on lists like this, semi-scientific lists that are in

00:02:12.720 some ways like PR agencies promoting some globalist or socialist scheme.

00:02:17.360 I've seen this before.

00:02:18.360 The lists are almost always about measuring inequality, which sounds pretty good until you

00:02:25.620 realize that in North Korea, everyone is equal in their misery, whereas, say, in America,

00:02:32.140 people are unequal in their happiness.

00:02:34.700 That's the United Nations list, the HDI.

00:02:39.520 They call it their Human Development Index.

00:02:43.440 The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate

00:02:49.820 criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone.

00:02:54.420 That's what they say.

00:02:55.320 Like I said, it was designed to say America bad, socialism good.

00:02:59.360 Now, I'm not saying it was completely devoid of merit.

00:03:02.740 Life expectancy was a big part of that UN list, and that is a pretty good measure for

00:03:08.020 many things because nutrition and health require prosperity.

00:03:12.580 Literacy was another one of their measures, and I agree with that, obviously. 0.96

00:03:15.680 I don't think anyone would dissent with the ranking that a poor, illiterate country where

00:03:21.700 life expectancy is, say, 45 is much worse off than a rich, educated country with life

00:03:27.040 expectancy of, say, 80.

00:03:29.000 But I know that one of the main uses of that UN list system was to nitpick between the US

00:03:36.060 countries versus, say, the socialist Nordic countries that always were on top.

00:03:40.680 So it really felt political to me.

00:03:43.560 But I had never heard of the World Happiness Report before, have you?

00:03:48.160 And frankly, I'm even more skeptical of it than the UN's Human Development Index.

00:03:53.780 And then how do you measure happiness?

00:03:55.740 How do you take a reading on it?

00:03:57.280 I think it's hard.

00:03:58.100 I think to a degree it's subjective.

00:03:59.980 It's psychological and philosophical.

00:04:01.340 Someone can have a small job with a small income and live in a small house and drive

00:04:06.100 a small car and be truly, truly happy.

00:04:10.120 Someone can have a big job and a big income and live in a big house and drive a big car

00:04:14.420 and be absolutely miserable.

00:04:15.940 In fact, maybe they're more likely to be miserable.

00:04:19.440 That's an old saying, who is happy?

00:04:22.120 He who is content with their portion.

00:04:24.940 So how do you measure that?

00:04:27.640 Well, there are some ways.

00:04:29.020 I guess one way to start is simply by asking people and to try to show some attempted standardization.

00:04:36.740 You know, in science, one of the tests of an experiment is, is it replicable?

00:04:40.620 That is, if you do the same experiment again, will it yield the same results?

00:04:43.800 It's a test of if you're doing it right.

00:04:46.180 That's an attempt to bring rigor to social sciences.

00:04:49.920 It's a bit of art.

00:04:51.380 But with that disclaimer, take a look at this.

00:04:54.980 This is what was behind that tweet I saw.

00:04:57.740 Turns out this World Happiness Report is a UN project too, but it also has private companies

00:05:04.940 and private donors funding it.

00:05:06.800 A lot of participation from Canada.

00:05:08.660 As a matter of fact, Canadian universities, a Canadian government grant, of course.

00:05:13.720 They're trying to be science-y, I think.

00:05:15.260 I'll give them some credit.

00:05:16.100 They're working with Gallup Poll, which at least tells you something about their methodology.

00:05:21.100 So they've been at it now for 10 years, and obviously the pandemic has cast a shadow over world happiness.

00:05:28.360 Or if you ask me, the lockdowns and government abuses in response to the pandemic have cast a shadow over happiness.

00:05:35.500 It wasn't COVID that banned people from going to work or school or seeing each other.

00:05:41.520 It wasn't the pandemic that forced churches to close and funerals to cancel and weddings to cancel.

00:05:47.600 Or bizarre anti-human punishments like hugging loved ones through walls of plastic.

00:05:54.860 Do you think this school child is happy in band?

00:05:59.040 Band should be really fun.

00:06:00.280 Do you think he was happy?

00:06:02.160 It wasn't the virus that did that.

00:06:03.800 It was other people.

00:06:06.000 I thought this was interesting.

00:06:08.500 Genetic studies involving twin or family designs reveal that about 30 to 40 percent of the differences in happiness between people within a country are accounted for by genetic differences among individuals.

00:06:20.260 The other 60 to 70 percent of differences between people result from the effect of environmental influences that are independent of the genes.

00:06:27.580 I think that rings true.

00:06:29.660 Look at this.

00:06:30.380 In 2020, for the first time, the Gallup World Poll asked questions on the experience of your life being in balance, feeling at peace with your life, experiencing calm for a lot of the day, preferring a calm life to an exciting life, focus on caring for others or self.

00:06:51.360 The majority of people in almost every country prefer a calmer life to an exciting one.

00:06:57.880 That preference is no higher in eastern countries than elsewhere.

00:07:01.760 However, it is particularly high in the poorer countries, especially in Africa, where actual calm is low.

00:07:09.140 Both balance and peace contribute strongly to a satisfying life in all regions of the world.

00:07:15.220 Isn't that interesting?

00:07:16.340 You know, maybe there's some signs here after all.

00:07:18.460 These are some good questions, don't you think?

00:07:21.280 Anyways, you can find the whole study online.

00:07:23.000 We'll put a link to the full report on the website beneath this video.

00:07:26.660 So here's why I'm talking about this, other than I thought, well, how do you measure happiness?

00:07:32.020 And I think some of the answers were thoughtful.

00:07:35.960 Well, it's like I said before, though.

00:07:38.380 Canada always does well in rankings like this, especially rankings done by the United Nations, especially rankings paid for by Canadian tax dollars like this one.

00:07:47.880 I mean, Canadians think we're nicer than other countries, don't we?

00:07:52.160 Come on.

00:07:53.580 But I think some of that is narcissism or vanity or snobbery.

00:07:56.880 We just know we're better people than those Americans. 0.93

00:08:00.900 In fact, they're in real life more charitable than we are.

00:08:04.220 Did you know that?

00:08:05.780 In many measurable ways, they are actually nicer than we are.

00:08:10.320 Did you know that?

00:08:10.920 I think it's just a kind of snobbery up here in Canada, like our belief that you used to hear a lot of 20 years ago.

00:08:17.460 You don't hear a lot anymore that we have the best health care in the world.

00:08:20.840 You really don't hear anyone say that now, not even politicians.

00:08:25.300 No one would believe them.

00:08:27.480 So what are we best at in the world now?

00:08:29.680 Sanctimony?

00:08:30.480 I mean, official Canada.

00:08:31.880 Ordinary Canada is still wonderful.

00:08:34.300 I mean, I'm talking about the official people, the politicians and the media and the banks and the big companies.

00:08:40.100 What exactly are they better at?

00:08:42.440 Best in the world, I mean.

00:08:43.560 Best brand in the world.

00:08:45.540 Ambassadors to the world.

00:08:46.640 I'm not sure if that's just true anymore.

00:08:50.540 We're persona non grata in China.

00:08:53.560 They literally kidnapped our citizens.

00:08:55.520 Trudeau humiliated us in his India antics and was never invited back.

00:09:01.040 Trudeau failed at getting a seat in the U.N. Security Council despite spending millions in bribes.

00:09:07.660 No one stops to look at his fancy socks anymore when he goes to a G7 meeting or a NATO meeting.

00:09:13.720 That was sort of funny once, but now it's just pitiful.

00:09:17.500 Trudeau has taken a lot of photo ops.

00:09:19.520 In Ukraine, he raised the flag at the Canadian embassy there with some difficulty, but it was a fake.

00:09:25.280 The embassy was not actually open.

00:09:27.260 It was a media trick.

00:09:29.040 Trudeau just broke his own sanctions, sending critical gas pipeline turbines to Russia to help them make billions in natural gas sales to Europe.

00:09:39.900 I wish Trudeau without Western Canada have natural gas pipelines, oil gas pipelines, too.

00:09:46.480 So, yeah, we've fallen in the world a bit.

00:09:48.960 But the whole world saw Trudeau go full banana republic on the truckers, invoking martial laws, seizing bank accounts, sounding like a bit of a fascist sometimes.

00:10:00.120 So, yes, we're going to get out of this pandemic by the vaccination.

00:10:04.160 And we know all those people who are trying to hesitate a little bit.

00:10:08.560 We're going to continue to convince them.

00:10:10.400 But there are also people who are far away from the vaccination.

00:10:13.980 Who are extremists.

00:10:14.980 Who are not in science, who are often misogynes, who are often racist as well.

00:10:19.600 It's a small group, but who takes place.

00:10:24.560 And there, there is a choice as leaders, as a country.

00:10:27.560 So, yeah, we've come down a bit in the world, haven't we?

00:10:33.940 Which brings us to the happiness rankings.

00:10:37.140 Where is Canada on the list?

00:10:40.640 And it's not all on politicians, of course.

00:10:42.820 But what are the things that make you anxious or angry or sad or stressed?

00:10:48.000 I don't know.

00:10:48.720 I can think of one being demonized by your politicians, being forced into isolation for months or years,

00:10:53.640 being put under a kind of house arrest, being forced out of your job, out of your school, out of society,

00:10:58.980 to be banned from restaurants, banned either by a lockdown of your business or because you're not vaxxed.

00:11:04.800 I don't think anyone is happy now other than the ruling class,

00:11:08.560 the staycation class who got pay raises to work from home for the government,

00:11:12.920 even if they weren't actually working.

00:11:15.620 We'll talk more about that later in the show.

00:11:17.320 So, how is Canada doing in the happiness rankings?

00:11:20.860 Well, let me tell you.

00:11:22.040 I'll quote.

00:11:23.800 France reached its highest ranking to date at 20th,

00:11:27.920 while Canada slipped to its lowest ranking ever at 15th,

00:11:32.400 just behind Germany at 14th,

00:11:35.360 and followed closely by the United States and the United Kingdom at 16th and 17th.

00:11:38.320 Ten years ago, Canada ranked fifth.

00:11:47.700 How could we have fallen?

00:11:49.420 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:50.300 Can you imagine?

00:11:51.100 Next year we'll be below the United States.

00:11:52.740 What will Trudeau say then?

00:11:54.360 How could it be that ten years ago, under the evil Stephen Harper,

00:11:58.100 Canadians were so happy,

00:12:00.220 according to this taxpayer-funded, UN-funded survey?

00:12:02.880 Well, some things were better back then.

00:12:05.580 The economy was stronger.

00:12:06.700 We weren't pitting West against East.

00:12:10.360 We weren't pitting Anglophone against Francophone.

00:12:13.560 We weren't demonizing entire industries and their workers.

00:12:16.160 We had pride in our armed forces.

00:12:18.340 We weren't denouncing each other as racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic.

00:12:23.200 We were working at reconciliation with Indigenous people,

00:12:26.260 not calling Canadians genociders,

00:12:28.980 who were cutting taxes, not raising them.

00:12:31.540 Things were more normal.

00:12:32.700 From fifth place to fifteenth.

00:12:37.160 You'd think that would be on the news.

00:12:40.560 Oh, it would be on the news if Stephen Harper were presiding over our unhappiness.

00:12:45.660 No surprise, the news is buried,

00:12:49.900 given Trudeau's in power and cutting the bailout checks.

00:12:52.440 And don't get me wrong,

00:12:54.080 we're obviously still a better place to live than many third-world countries,

00:12:57.620 at least until Trudeau goes full Castro and censors the internet

00:13:01.540 and seizes your bank account,

00:13:03.340 shuts down farms and farmers and oil workers, 1.00

00:13:06.820 and brings in mandatory digital ID surveillance,

00:13:09.100 all these things he's proposing.

00:13:11.780 There really is a Cuban level of misery. 1.00

00:13:14.980 Two quick charts from the study.

00:13:16.580 Here's one on page 92.

00:13:18.280 Look at that chart on the left.

00:13:20.580 Anxiety.

00:13:22.380 Canadians are almost 25% more anxious now.

00:13:26.220 Do you think so?

00:13:27.240 I think so.

00:13:29.060 Look at sadness on the top right.

00:13:31.560 Imagine measuring our national sadness.

00:13:33.420 It's almost 15% more sad.

00:13:36.860 I guess we're a bit less angry now,

00:13:38.960 which is a plus.

00:13:39.860 I'm a bit surprised.

00:13:41.500 But there's a net negative change in life.

00:13:46.020 Here's a chart on page 95.

00:13:47.640 A couple of them.

00:13:48.060 It's a bit hard to understand.

00:13:49.600 But when you understand it,

00:13:51.120 it's a bit shocking.

00:13:51.940 Do you see Canada on the anxiety chart on the left?

00:13:55.340 Here's what this chart is called.

00:13:58.260 Time intervals for which anxiety and sadness

00:14:01.380 remained continuously above their median level

00:14:05.780 in 2019 in each country.

00:14:07.180 In other words,

00:14:08.880 how long were you anxious compared to 2019?

00:14:12.820 How long were you sad?

00:14:15.180 Look at Canada there.

00:14:16.820 35 days of anxiety in a row?

00:14:20.440 More than any other country,

00:14:21.800 if I'm reading this chart right.

00:14:23.760 And look at sorrow.

00:14:25.820 Only the UK and New Zealand were sadder.

00:14:28.400 A virus didn't do that.

00:14:32.180 The lockdown did.

00:14:33.380 The punishments did.

00:14:34.360 The fear-mongering did.

00:14:35.800 That's Trudeau and Theresa Tam

00:14:37.900 and the media party

00:14:39.200 and the entire establishment.

00:14:42.680 Trudeau made us sad and anxious.

00:14:44.680 He made us depressed.

00:14:45.940 He demoralized us.

00:14:47.200 He's made us miserable.

00:14:49.280 Don't take it from me.

00:14:51.260 Take it from a study that his government funded.

00:14:56.040 Stay with us for more.

00:14:57.180 How did you do during the lockdowns?

00:15:12.160 Well, I guess the answer depends on who you are.

00:15:14.460 If you were in the internet business

00:15:16.640 like Amazon or Netflix,

00:15:20.020 it was the best thing that ever happened to you.

00:15:22.620 Those folks doubled their value.

00:15:24.860 Not because they provided an amazing service,

00:15:27.600 but rather because their local competitors

00:15:29.400 were legislated out of work.

00:15:32.180 You couldn't go to your local shop.

00:15:34.020 You had to order from Amazon.

00:15:37.340 DoorDash and other online food delivery companies

00:15:40.000 did well, and I don't begrudge them that,

00:15:41.840 but it was because you were banned

00:15:44.100 from going in person to restaurants.

00:15:47.220 There were certain people who made out like bandits.

00:15:49.820 Typically, they were well-connected,

00:15:52.140 but there were many people who were left

00:15:54.800 with very little or with nothing,

00:15:56.900 working-class people who couldn't do their job 1.00

00:15:59.100 as a store clerk or a cashier from home.

00:16:03.640 Government workers had the best of all worlds.

00:16:07.600 If they had to work at all,

00:16:09.540 they could work from home,

00:16:11.280 and of course, there's never a recession

00:16:13.480 in government land.

00:16:14.880 Many government teachers didn't have to work at all.

00:16:18.320 Schools were closed.

00:16:19.600 Do you think they weren't paid?

00:16:21.240 I can tell you people who work at gyms

00:16:23.300 or theaters were not paid,

00:16:25.460 but government workers didn't miss a cent.

00:16:28.760 Look at this headline in a new press release

00:16:30.980 by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:16:33.460 45,000 more federal bureaucrats

00:16:37.880 receiving six-figure salary

00:16:40.260 than before the pandemic.

00:16:43.580 You think you've lost ground?

00:16:45.520 You think inflation has taken away

00:16:47.340 your spending power?

00:16:48.700 You lost your job altogether?

00:16:50.520 Well, you just got the wrong job, bud.

00:16:52.980 You've got to work for the government.

00:16:54.340 Let me read you a sentence from the press release,

00:16:56.140 and then we'll invite its author on to say it.

00:16:59.000 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation

00:17:00.500 is calling on the federal government

00:17:01.800 to implement a sunshine list

00:17:03.760 as government documents reveal

00:17:06.220 114,433 employees

00:17:10.080 received more than $100,000 in 2021.

00:17:14.220 We're not all in this together,

00:17:16.060 said Franco Terrazzano,

00:17:17.520 federal director of the CTF.

00:17:18.980 It's not fair to ask the Canadians 1.00

00:17:21.080 who lost their job

00:17:22.060 or took a pay cut during the pandemic

00:17:23.540 to pay higher taxes

00:17:25.160 so the federal government

00:17:26.260 can add thousands of highly paid bureaucrats.

00:17:30.160 And joining us now via Skype

00:17:31.340 is our friend Franco Terrazzano.

00:17:33.400 Frank, great to see you.

00:17:36.180 What's so astonishing,

00:17:37.900 and it's an astonishing number,

00:17:39.340 45,000 new sunshine list,

00:17:43.240 100,000 heirs.

00:17:45.100 But in just since the pandemic,

00:17:47.520 the list has grown to 114,000.

00:17:50.540 So it almost doubled in size.

00:17:52.620 The number of $100,000 earners

00:17:54.360 has almost doubled in government land

00:17:58.220 under the pandemic.

00:17:59.140 That's amazing.

00:18:00.820 It's absolutely crazy.

00:18:02.260 And really,

00:18:03.400 it's more evidence to show that

00:18:04.980 we're not all in this together.

00:18:07.040 What we have seen

00:18:08.420 is a tale of two pandemics.

00:18:10.440 One full of private sector pain

00:18:12.400 where people who are working for a business

00:18:14.380 who are self-employed

00:18:15.520 may have lost their job,

00:18:17.200 may have taken a pay cut,

00:18:18.440 maybe even lost their small business.

00:18:21.200 And then the other side of the pandemic

00:18:22.740 was full of economic gain

00:18:24.520 for government bureaucrats

00:18:26.180 and for politicians.

00:18:27.420 Now, the federal government

00:18:29.400 doesn't have a sunshine list,

00:18:30.840 so we had to dig these documents up

00:18:33.340 through access to information requests.

00:18:35.460 And what we found

00:18:36.240 is absolutely eye-popping.

00:18:38.580 In 2021,

00:18:39.660 there was more than 114,000

00:18:42.180 federal government employees

00:18:43.380 that received

00:18:44.240 more than $100,000

00:18:45.720 in annual salary.

00:18:47.900 And that means,

00:18:48.700 as you pointed out,

00:18:49.760 that more than 45,000

00:18:51.700 more federal bureaucrats

00:18:53.260 are receiving six-figure annual salaries

00:18:55.420 than there were before the pandemic.

00:18:58.560 Yeah, and by the way,

00:18:59.600 we're thinking six-figures,

00:19:01.040 okay, $100,000.

00:19:02.060 Some of these folks,

00:19:02.900 like Teresa Tam,

00:19:04.080 are close to the half-million-dollar mark.

00:19:08.500 You know,

00:19:08.620 I just was scribbling some numbers.

00:19:10.020 100,000 people

00:19:11.460 earning $100,000.

00:19:14.320 You know what the math is on that?

00:19:16.080 I can't even believe it.

00:19:17.620 It's $10 billion.

00:19:19.820 And that's, again,

00:19:20.900 if they were just making $100,000 even.

00:19:23.260 Like I say,

00:19:23.800 some of these folks,

00:19:24.540 like the Teresa Tams,

00:19:25.420 are making quadruple, quintuple that.

00:19:28.380 That's such a large number.

00:19:30.380 That's such a large number.

00:19:31.640 That's almost Bezos money.

00:19:34.220 And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

00:19:36.320 And, of course,

00:19:37.020 we're talking about costs here

00:19:38.220 of billions and billions of dollars

00:19:40.080 when it's all added up.

00:19:41.180 And who has to pay that cost eventually?

00:19:44.460 Well, the burden is going to fall

00:19:45.760 on the taxpayers

00:19:46.460 who struggled in the private sector,

00:19:48.680 lost their job,

00:19:49.540 took their pay cuts,

00:19:50.380 did everything right their whole lives

00:19:52.080 to save that money,

00:19:52.940 to invest in their business,

00:19:54.320 and their business

00:19:55.160 may have got shut down

00:19:56.260 during the pandemic,

00:19:57.280 got shut down during the lockdowns,

00:19:59.260 and now they're going to have to face

00:20:00.760 a higher tax burden

00:20:02.060 because we have all these

00:20:04.080 highly paid bureaucrats

00:20:05.620 that the federal government

00:20:06.760 is hiring.

00:20:07.940 But again,

00:20:08.580 this is just the tip of the iceberg

00:20:09.720 because, Ezra,

00:20:11.000 these are just talking about

00:20:12.480 the salary.

00:20:13.420 Of course,

00:20:14.440 then there's pensions,

00:20:15.420 there's other types of perks

00:20:16.800 like bonuses

00:20:17.680 that the government's throwing around.

00:20:19.520 And here's another slap

00:20:20.460 in the face to taxpayers.

00:20:22.280 During the pandemic,

00:20:23.420 the federal government

00:20:24.460 gave more than 300,000

00:20:27.020 federal employees

00:20:28.120 at least one pay raise.

00:20:30.320 And guess what?

00:20:31.260 The federal government

00:20:32.000 has no records

00:20:33.220 of ever reducing

00:20:34.900 its employees' pay.

00:20:36.380 Yeah.

00:20:36.820 Well,

00:20:37.260 maximum number

00:20:38.380 of bureaucrats

00:20:39.460 of all time,

00:20:41.180 maximum pay

00:20:42.020 of all time.

00:20:43.060 You know,

00:20:44.580 there may be a recession

00:20:45.560 looming for ordinary people,

00:20:47.520 but it's boom times

00:20:48.760 in government land.

00:20:50.380 You know,

00:20:50.540 I was looking for the stats.

00:20:51.740 I saw a report

00:20:53.960 a few weeks ago,

00:20:54.720 I don't know

00:20:55.020 if it's still true,

00:20:56.540 that a majority

00:20:57.760 of the people

00:20:59.300 who work for the passports office

00:21:00.680 are still working from home.

00:21:02.440 Now,

00:21:02.760 that may have been remedied

00:21:03.960 in the last few weeks.

00:21:04.780 I haven't seen an update on that.

00:21:07.020 But just stop and think about it.

00:21:08.240 I mean,

00:21:08.440 there's these huge lines

00:21:09.780 of passports office.

00:21:10.820 People are literally

00:21:11.520 camping overnight.

00:21:12.420 There's months-long waits.

00:21:15.020 Last time I was

00:21:15.880 in a passport office,

00:21:16.820 you have to see the person.

00:21:18.220 They have to,

00:21:18.820 like,

00:21:19.060 you need to meet the person.

00:21:20.300 I don't know how

00:21:20.740 you could do that from home.

00:21:22.080 That would be like

00:21:22.600 being a waiter from home.

00:21:25.140 How does that work?

00:21:25.880 You have to be at the place.

00:21:27.660 And,

00:21:27.860 I mean,

00:21:28.720 there's not a lot of ways

00:21:30.300 that we interact directly

00:21:32.640 with the federal government

00:21:34.040 every day.

00:21:34.680 Like,

00:21:34.840 with the city government,

00:21:35.820 you can tell,

00:21:36.400 okay,

00:21:36.520 there's garbage pickup,

00:21:37.620 there's the police.

00:21:38.880 With the provincial government,

00:21:40.160 it's sort of easy to know

00:21:41.220 schools and hospitals.

00:21:43.040 Like,

00:21:43.400 really,

00:21:44.140 how do we interact

00:21:45.180 with the federal government

00:21:46.160 on a regular basis?

00:21:47.260 It's not quite as often.

00:21:49.080 But passports and airports

00:21:50.500 are two that come to mind.

00:21:52.200 Those are the two biggest

00:21:53.500 operational disasters

00:21:55.680 in Canada.

00:21:56.260 Franco,

00:21:56.460 I don't know if you saw it,

00:21:57.120 but Toronto Airport

00:21:58.000 was ranked as the world's

00:21:59.540 worst airport

00:22:00.620 for delays

00:22:02.020 in the world.

00:22:03.280 And they had a strike

00:22:04.600 at Paris' airport.

00:22:06.220 They were still better.

00:22:07.580 They had a strike.

00:22:09.160 And it's not on the airlines' fault.

00:22:10.880 Don't think I'm blaming

00:22:11.720 the airlines.

00:22:12.580 It's this Arrive Can app.

00:22:14.660 It's the,

00:22:15.180 it's the,

00:22:16.000 still the vaccine rules.

00:22:18.340 The two things

00:22:19.080 government's supposed to do 0.58

00:22:20.200 that we come into contact

00:22:21.180 with,

00:22:21.480 they're failing.

00:22:22.140 But I bet everyone's

00:22:22.940 getting raises all around.

00:22:24.820 Yeah,

00:22:25.140 there's really two issues

00:22:26.640 that we've been talking about.

00:22:28.020 The first one,

00:22:28.920 which we've been highlighting,

00:22:29.880 is that it's not fair

00:22:31.140 to ask the person

00:22:31.940 who may have lost their job,

00:22:33.360 who may have taken a pay cut,

00:22:34.780 to ask the person

00:22:35.480 who may have lost

00:22:36.240 their small business

00:22:37.040 to pay higher taxes,

00:22:38.380 to fund all these pay raises,

00:22:40.020 to fund all these

00:22:40.760 government bureaucrats

00:22:41.620 that they're adding.

00:22:42.360 That's issue number one.

00:22:43.560 Issue number two,

00:22:44.420 which you just nailed,

00:22:45.940 is that why are taxpayers

00:22:47.520 paying higher costs

00:22:48.600 when Ottawa is failing

00:22:50.240 on performance?

00:22:51.800 And get this,

00:22:52.560 over the last few years,

00:22:54.140 federal bureaucrats

00:22:55.120 haven't even been able

00:22:56.420 to meet half

00:22:57.440 of their own

00:22:58.540 performance targets.

00:23:00.120 And on top

00:23:00.620 of the pay raises,

00:23:01.600 on top of

00:23:02.720 the new bureaucrats,

00:23:04.520 taxpayers have also been forced

00:23:05.940 to spend buckets of cash

00:23:07.520 giving these

00:23:08.700 government bureaucrats

00:23:09.880 bonuses.

00:23:11.100 Ezra,

00:23:11.680 this one really irks me.

00:23:13.740 The Bank of Canada

00:23:14.800 has one job,

00:23:16.680 one job,

00:23:17.400 keep inflation low.

00:23:18.640 Well,

00:23:18.800 if you've been to a gas pump,

00:23:20.280 if you've been to a grocery store

00:23:21.640 in the last year,

00:23:22.540 you know that the Bank of Canada

00:23:23.860 failed.

00:23:24.600 Well,

00:23:24.900 what did the Bank of Canada do?

00:23:26.480 It was busy

00:23:27.160 patting itself on the back,

00:23:28.980 handing out

00:23:29.400 $45 million

00:23:30.580 in pay raises

00:23:32.300 and bonuses

00:23:33.140 during the pandemic.

00:23:34.760 Can you believe that?

00:23:36.400 Well,

00:23:36.620 unfortunately,

00:23:37.200 I can.

00:23:37.900 It's incredible.

00:23:38.520 I remember when Pierre Polyev,

00:23:39.720 who is a candidate

00:23:41.020 for the Conservative Party,

00:23:42.220 he's been a critic

00:23:43.100 of the Bank of Canada.

00:23:44.060 Put aside his leadership

00:23:45.000 campaign,

00:23:46.780 he's been a critic

00:23:47.360 of the Bank of Canada

00:23:48.080 for months,

00:23:48.760 actually for years.

00:23:50.280 And everyone

00:23:51.300 in the establishment

00:23:52.460 jumped on him for it.

00:23:54.140 But Tiff Macklem, 0.99

00:23:55.340 the absurdly named

00:23:56.360 boss of the Bank of Canada,

00:23:58.580 admitted,

00:23:59.100 yes,

00:23:59.600 he needs to be held

00:24:00.720 accountable.

00:24:01.200 He actually said that,

00:24:02.680 which I thought

00:24:03.540 was surprising.

00:24:05.000 But of course,

00:24:05.660 he wasn't held accountable.

00:24:06.640 He said,

00:24:06.980 yes,

00:24:07.160 I should be held accountable.

00:24:08.240 And then he wasn't.

00:24:10.140 He certainly would never resign.

00:24:11.960 He wasn't held to account

00:24:12.880 by anyone.

00:24:13.800 So he needs to be held

00:24:15.180 to account.

00:24:15.760 He agrees,

00:24:16.460 but he isn't held

00:24:17.200 to account.

00:24:17.980 And bonuses all around.

00:24:19.600 Champagne.

00:24:19.860 I wonder if they had

00:24:20.520 champagne and caviar.

00:24:21.880 It's very frustrating.

00:24:23.660 You know,

00:24:23.980 it's hard.

00:24:25.380 It's hard to accept

00:24:28.120 the establishment

00:24:29.100 because they're all

00:24:31.100 in it together,

00:24:31.860 it feels like.

00:24:32.880 I don't know.

00:24:33.400 I don't want to start

00:24:34.080 sounding like a Marxist,

00:24:35.200 Franco,

00:24:35.860 but I think the government

00:24:37.860 has failed us

00:24:38.540 in many ways.

00:24:39.640 Last question.

00:24:40.200 How can people

00:24:40.800 get on your email list?

00:24:42.800 How can people

00:24:43.400 on a more regular basis

00:24:44.840 see what you're apt to

00:24:45.680 if you've got press releases

00:24:46.560 like this?

00:24:47.220 What's the best website

00:24:48.160 for folks to go to?

00:24:50.400 Taxpayer.com.

00:24:51.660 Check out our newsroom.

00:24:52.720 Sign some petitions.

00:24:53.640 You can join to get

00:24:55.020 email action updates

00:24:56.300 free of charge.

00:24:57.200 So please head over

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00:24:59.420 Taxpayer.com.

00:25:00.180 There you go.

00:25:00.580 Last question for you

00:25:01.380 just because I'm so curious

00:25:02.320 and I bet our viewers are too.

00:25:03.480 What's your pin

00:25:04.180 on your lapel?

00:25:06.320 Taxpayer.com.

00:25:07.540 Are you serious?

00:25:08.240 I couldn't see it.

00:25:09.220 I just thought that's sort of

00:25:10.160 I didn't quite

00:25:11.380 Taxpayer.com.

00:25:12.740 Always on brand.

00:25:13.960 Isn't that great?

00:25:15.020 You're on brand.

00:25:16.140 You know what?

00:25:16.500 You guys have been doing

00:25:17.600 the heavy lifting

00:25:18.340 of defending the interests

00:25:19.720 of the little guy

00:25:20.360 of ordinary taxpayers

00:25:21.780 for decades

00:25:22.660 and I think it's because

00:25:24.100 you don't take a dime

00:25:25.140 from Trudeau.

00:25:25.740 The minute you start

00:25:26.320 taking government money

00:25:27.260 you're going to pull

00:25:28.240 your punches.

00:25:28.840 You're going to

00:25:29.460 tailor your message.

00:25:30.860 It's hard not to take

00:25:32.160 government money.

00:25:32.760 We're in the same boat

00:25:33.500 and that's why

00:25:34.420 we love you guys

00:25:35.360 at the Taxpayers Federation

00:25:36.300 and I really encourage

00:25:37.820 all my viewers

00:25:38.440 if you have a few extra bucks

00:25:40.660 give them to

00:25:41.700 the Taxpayers.com

00:25:42.740 sorry

00:25:43.520 Taxpayer.com

00:25:45.560 because they're one

00:25:46.900 of the few

00:25:47.400 independent voices left.

00:25:48.540 Thanks Franco.

00:25:49.040 We'll look forward

00:25:49.360 to talking again soon.

00:25:51.040 Thanks for having me on.

00:25:51.840 All right.

00:25:52.360 Anytime.

00:25:52.860 There you have it.

00:25:53.380 Franco Teresano

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00:26:08.520 Hey welcome back.

00:26:09.440 Your viewer feedback.

00:26:11.000 Arepsicas, 0.99

00:26:11.520 I think that's Shakespeare

00:26:12.300 backwards,

00:26:12.900 says

00:26:13.180 there is no doubt

00:26:14.780 about that.

00:26:15.540 They are absolutely

00:26:16.480 terrified of him

00:26:17.380 and are doing

00:26:18.680 and will continue

00:26:19.440 to do absolutely

00:26:20.280 anything,

00:26:21.340 anything at all

00:26:22.000 to be Smirch's 0.62

00:26:22.740 excellent name

00:26:23.340 and his outstanding

00:26:24.320 abilities of President

00:26:25.320 when you're talking

00:26:25.900 about Donald Trump.

00:26:27.320 You know,

00:26:27.860 I was looking

00:26:28.720 at a lot of coverage

00:26:29.380 especially up here

00:26:30.060 in Canada on that.

00:26:31.720 A raid,

00:26:32.420 FBI raid

00:26:33.080 on Donald Trump.

00:26:34.180 I see Andrew Coyne

00:26:35.480 in the Globe and Mail

00:26:36.000 thinks Trump's

00:26:36.640 going to prison

00:26:37.180 for sure.

00:26:37.940 This time,

00:26:38.960 Andrew Coyne says

00:26:39.740 that every few months.

00:26:42.040 Many of the reports

00:26:43.040 neglected that it was

00:26:44.240 the Presidential

00:26:44.780 Paperwork Act.

00:26:45.960 When you say that,

00:26:48.300 you almost think

00:26:49.100 it's a joke.

00:26:49.700 Is that a real thing?

00:26:50.760 Yeah.

00:26:51.400 So Donald Trump

00:26:52.260 had some papers

00:26:53.120 that he says are his

00:26:54.320 and the government

00:26:54.760 says,

00:26:55.080 no,

00:26:55.240 they're ours

00:26:55.680 and they're having

00:26:56.600 a dispute.

00:26:57.260 It's not a criminal matter.

00:26:58.800 It's not high crimes

00:26:59.980 or treason

00:27:00.580 or insurrection.

00:27:01.980 They're literally

00:27:03.260 having a paperwork

00:27:04.760 disagreement.

00:27:07.040 Could you imagine

00:27:07.720 not putting that fact

00:27:08.900 in your breathless reports?

00:27:10.680 Trump's almost in jail.

00:27:12.120 We'll get him this time.

00:27:13.460 Sure you will.

00:27:14.520 Miss Sparkles and Glitter

00:27:17.440 says this is exactly

00:27:18.560 why he needs to run again

00:27:19.780 and win.

00:27:20.920 The system will spend

00:27:21.660 four more years

00:27:22.680 of panic

00:27:23.220 of what he could do.

00:27:24.520 Go Trump.

00:27:25.840 Well,

00:27:26.200 you know what?

00:27:26.700 They're proving

00:27:27.300 every allegation

00:27:28.480 and accusation he makes.

00:27:29.880 He calls them

00:27:30.480 the deep state.

00:27:31.580 He says they're biased

00:27:32.640 and partisan

00:27:33.280 and rule breakers

00:27:35.280 and they just went ahead

00:27:37.400 and proved it.

00:27:39.160 David Faulkner says

00:27:40.280 absolutely shocking,

00:27:41.940 shocking to the core

00:27:42.700 of freedom.

00:27:43.180 The British government

00:27:44.420 are even talking

00:27:45.380 about a new constitution

00:27:46.720 for us

00:27:47.480 even though we already

00:27:48.660 have one.

00:27:50.720 Well,

00:27:51.220 I'm not sure

00:27:51.700 I've heard about that

00:27:52.600 and I don't think

00:27:53.700 the UK has any power

00:27:54.860 to change our constitution.

00:27:57.780 I think that's been

00:27:58.320 fully repatriated here

00:27:59.780 in 1982.

00:28:00.740 That sort of ended

00:28:01.520 the UK's role here

00:28:03.440 other than the role

00:28:04.520 of the monarchy

00:28:05.140 which would never

00:28:06.500 devise a new constitution.

00:28:08.160 it's interesting

00:28:11.320 tyranny on the march

00:28:12.980 and I think that

00:28:14.280 what happened

00:28:16.120 to Donald Trump

00:28:16.800 I mean,

00:28:17.160 it's a presidential

00:28:17.740 paperwork act

00:28:18.700 but raiding

00:28:19.620 a president's house

00:28:20.820 I wonder

00:28:22.900 what precedent

00:28:23.520 they're setting.

00:28:24.560 I think they're

00:28:25.300 getting lawless

00:28:26.080 down there.

00:28:26.700 It's almost like

00:28:27.200 they're watching Trudeau.

00:28:29.580 That's our show

00:28:30.240 for today.

00:28:31.540 Until tomorrow

00:28:32.260 on behalf of all of us

00:28:33.300 here at Rebel World

00:28:34.040 Headquarters

00:28:34.560 to you at home

00:28:35.220 good night

00:28:35.660 and keep fighting

00:28:37.120 for freedom.

00:28:38.200 Welcome back

00:28:38.900 to Rebel News.

00:28:39.560 This is Andrew

00:28:40.300 outside of the

00:28:41.660 University of Toronto

00:28:42.580 Student Commons area

00:28:43.480 where they've instituted

00:28:44.780 a booster requirement

00:28:46.260 for any student

00:28:47.420 who is coming back

00:28:48.280 to live on residence.

00:28:49.280 Now,

00:28:49.560 is it because of

00:28:50.200 the university's

00:28:50.920 connection to

00:28:51.560 Moderna research?

00:28:52.920 Nobody knows.

00:28:53.940 We're going to go

00:28:54.420 in to find out

00:28:55.080 and let's not forget

00:28:56.040 our land acknowledgement.

00:29:04.540 Hello there.

00:29:05.660 Hey guys,

00:29:06.480 we wanted to ask

00:29:06.940 you guys a question

00:29:07.640 about if it's true

00:29:10.100 that there's a booster

00:29:11.200 requirement to live

00:29:12.700 into the U of T dorms.

00:29:14.780 Is that true?

00:29:15.580 We don't have comments

00:29:17.060 for that

00:29:17.380 because we're not

00:29:17.840 with the University

00:29:19.080 of Toronto.

00:29:19.940 Okay.

00:29:21.020 Is there anyone here

00:29:21.700 that wants to speak

00:29:22.320 to us?

00:29:24.020 Probably not

00:29:24.740 in the spot.

00:29:25.560 Yeah, probably not

00:29:26.220 in the student union.

00:29:27.180 I mean,

00:29:27.480 I do have my

00:29:28.280 University of Toronto

00:29:29.900 shirt.

00:29:31.400 We're going to have

00:29:31.980 to blur out my age

00:29:33.000 on that in the year.

00:29:33.900 But as we can see,

00:29:35.100 this was a gift

00:29:35.600 from my brother

00:29:36.340 a long time ago.

00:29:38.880 I'm much more

00:29:39.600 handsome now.

00:29:40.420 What's best

00:29:40.980 for their situation?

00:29:42.480 And yeah,

00:29:44.160 I hope everyone

00:29:44.720 stays healthy.

00:29:46.140 So that's not

00:29:46.700 really a real answer.

00:29:47.760 I'm going to give you

00:29:48.220 one more chance.

00:29:49.180 Do you agree with it?

00:29:50.180 Do you not agree with it?

00:29:50.900 Or you just don't

00:29:51.240 want to say?

00:29:51.660 I don't want to say.

00:29:55.900 Well, I think

00:29:56.420 that's unfair.

00:29:57.080 As someone who was

00:29:57.560 unvaccinated myself,

00:29:58.740 like I was affected

00:29:59.520 by it.

00:29:59.900 I had lost my job

00:30:00.700 for a little bit

00:30:01.320 and definitely I think

00:30:02.340 it's unfair forcing

00:30:03.120 people.

00:30:04.020 Like, fine,

00:30:04.900 if you want to say

00:30:05.380 the first round,

00:30:06.140 okay, but the booster

00:30:06.820 shot I feel like

00:30:07.300 is a little excessive

00:30:07.920 because where does

00:30:08.460 it stop?

00:30:08.940 You continue on,

00:30:09.800 like is there going

00:30:10.120 to be a new booster

00:30:10.560 every year?

00:30:11.200 Like, that's something

00:30:12.080 that a lot of people

00:30:12.540 are concerned about.

00:30:13.320 So definitely I think

00:30:14.000 it's unfair.

00:30:14.840 I think it's unfair.

00:30:16.200 Unfair?

00:30:16.640 Why is that?

00:30:17.620 I think that decision

00:30:18.620 should be left

00:30:19.180 to the students.

00:30:20.680 Yeah, I would say

00:30:21.540 I partially agree with it.

00:30:22.980 And why is that?

00:30:24.400 Because it's like,

00:30:25.980 it's more about a concern

00:30:26.880 of, like I might prefer

00:30:28.300 not to have it,

00:30:29.100 but like I might be

00:30:30.700 the vector for COVID

00:30:32.760 to spread to others too.

00:30:33.700 So I'm putting others

00:30:34.220 at risk.

00:30:35.340 But do you recognize

00:30:36.440 that even when people

00:30:37.280 have the vaccine,

00:30:38.240 they still spread it

00:30:38.880 and they still get it?

00:30:39.800 Okay, I guess the spread

00:30:40.780 rate is much lower

00:30:41.620 when they have the vaccine.

00:30:44.220 So, and it's,

00:30:45.340 I mean, in that way

00:30:46.380 we can have an argument

00:30:47.080 that it's better for me

00:30:47.760 to recover once I have

00:30:49.700 the vaccine

00:30:50.120 because my body

00:30:50.680 is used to that.

00:30:51.380 It has the necessity

00:30:51.960 antibodies to fight

00:30:52.900 against the virus

00:30:53.540 as opposed to

00:30:54.620 without having the vaccine.

00:30:55.880 So yes, spread,

00:30:57.380 you can talk about that.

00:30:58.260 But at the same time,

00:30:58.900 it's good for me

00:30:59.480 as well personally.

00:31:00.380 I mean, I'm kind of

00:31:01.360 against it to be honest

00:31:02.620 because I'm against mandates.

00:31:05.220 I'm against any kind

00:31:06.340 of mandates for anything.

00:31:07.880 So I wouldn't feel

00:31:09.540 good about that at all.

00:31:11.420 I think it's a really

00:31:12.000 interesting question

00:31:12.980 because I do think

00:31:14.580 that everybody should

00:31:15.420 be triple vaccinated,

00:31:16.600 but I don't think

00:31:17.420 it's like ethical

00:31:18.080 to force people to do it.

00:31:19.380 But I think everybody

00:31:20.020 should just because

00:31:20.780 of how good it is

00:31:21.780 for like the betterment

00:31:22.680 of the community

00:31:23.300 and like for everybody

00:31:24.400 around them,

00:31:24.800 they should take it.

00:31:26.080 But like,

00:31:26.520 you're not into forcing people.

00:31:27.760 I'm not into forcing people.

00:31:29.100 But I do,

00:31:29.740 that being said,

00:31:30.260 I do think everybody

00:31:30.980 should have it.

00:31:31.740 I personally don't agree

00:31:33.200 with it,

00:31:33.540 but I'm moving out.

00:31:34.460 So I mean,

00:31:34.920 it doesn't affect my life.

00:31:36.380 But I just think

00:31:37.000 that, you know,

00:31:38.880 maybe like,

00:31:40.160 I don't know.

00:31:44.600 It's like a great line.

00:31:45.760 Like, I just think

00:31:46.520 that if the,

00:31:47.440 if the residences

00:31:48.280 are making it mandatory,

00:31:49.740 then the university

00:31:50.400 should make it mandatory.

00:31:51.960 And if the university

00:31:53.580 is not making it mandatory,

00:31:55.220 maybe the residents

00:31:56.540 shouldn't make it mandatory.

00:31:58.320 I don't know.

00:31:58.820 You don't want to say

00:31:59.360 where you're from?

00:32:00.740 Ukraine.

00:32:01.840 Ukraine, okay.

00:32:03.000 You want us to talk

00:32:03.600 about Ukraine at all?

00:32:05.140 We support Ukraine.

00:32:06.300 Anything you want to say?

00:32:07.320 Yeah, yeah.

00:32:07.880 Support for Ukraine, everyone.

00:32:09.120 Ukraine is the best country

00:32:10.280 in the world.

00:32:10.760 In the world?

00:32:12.920 Oh, um...

00:32:16.960 I don't really know

00:32:18.380 because I'm not

00:32:19.340 a resident student,

00:32:20.600 but extra precaution, I guess.

00:32:24.460 I'm not sure

00:32:25.020 if a third one is necessary

00:32:26.420 because currently

00:32:27.060 I think the situation

00:32:28.040 is better.

00:32:29.220 And so I'm not sure

00:32:30.000 if anything is required.

00:32:32.580 It's ridiculous.

00:32:33.440 After two, you're good.

00:32:35.160 And why do you think

00:32:36.220 they're doing that?

00:32:37.820 I'm trying to justify

00:32:38.560 their existence

00:32:39.240 trying to make themselves

00:32:40.320 feel busy, I guess.

00:32:41.360 Astronomy and astrophysics,

00:32:42.560 Mauricio,

00:32:42.940 if there's ever been

00:32:43.680 a department

00:32:44.180 where I can just walk in

00:32:45.220 and get straight A's,

00:32:46.180 it's that one.

00:32:47.360 All you got to say,

00:32:48.340 flat Earth.

00:32:50.080 The University of Toronto

00:32:51.560 has a research agreement

00:32:52.680 with Moderna,

00:32:53.580 the vaccine manufacturer,

00:32:55.160 to further research

00:32:56.680 their mRNA vaccines.

00:32:58.140 Do you think

00:32:58.480 that influences

00:32:59.200 the decision

00:32:59.960 to mandate vaccine

00:33:01.340 requirements or no?

00:33:02.900 Oh, yeah, absolutely.

00:33:04.140 For sure.

00:33:04.980 Yeah.

00:33:05.200 I mean,

00:33:06.460 if they're working

00:33:07.000 together with them,

00:33:07.780 obviously they'd want,

00:33:08.880 they'll be like,

00:33:09.740 they'll be on their side

00:33:11.620 and they'll influence

00:33:13.060 the students

00:33:13.620 in the same way.

00:33:14.840 All right.

00:33:15.160 Anything else

00:33:15.560 you want to say?

00:33:17.420 No, but I think

00:33:18.440 people should think

00:33:19.140 critically.

00:33:19.840 No, that's fair.

00:33:21.140 Do you think

00:33:21.560 it has anything

00:33:22.060 to do with the

00:33:22.820 U of T agreement?

00:33:24.020 They have a research

00:33:24.660 agreement with Moderna

00:33:25.700 to further research

00:33:27.540 mRNA vaccines.

00:33:28.620 Do you think

00:33:28.860 that plays into it

00:33:29.620 at all

00:33:29.880 or do you have

00:33:30.140 an opinion on that?

00:33:31.180 I didn't know

00:33:31.860 that fact,

00:33:32.600 but if that is true

00:33:33.780 and they do have

00:33:34.560 a research agreement,

00:33:35.340 I wouldn't be surprised

00:33:36.540 if it does.

00:33:37.500 But that being said,

00:33:38.120 all the data does say

00:33:38.920 that vaccines are beneficial

00:33:40.200 and there hasn't really

00:33:41.520 been anything to say

00:33:42.320 that it isn't beneficial.

00:33:43.440 So I don't really

00:33:44.200 see an issue

00:33:45.060 with, I guess,

00:33:46.340 making us test subjects

00:33:47.500 for it,

00:33:48.060 especially for the betterment.

00:33:49.120 Let me tell you

00:33:49.960 what the head doctor

00:33:51.420 of Ontario,

00:33:51.980 what's his name again?

00:33:52.560 Do you remember?

00:33:53.900 Anyways,

00:33:54.360 Dr. Kieran Moore,

00:33:55.900 who makes the announcements

00:33:56.720 for the vaccine mandates,

00:33:58.480 the last time

00:33:59.000 he promoted

00:33:59.460 the third booster,

00:34:01.200 as in the third vaccine,

00:34:02.200 he said for people,

00:34:04.280 men particularly,

00:34:05.340 between 18 and 25,

00:34:06.440 there's a 1 in 5,000 chance

00:34:08.220 of myocarditis,

00:34:09.200 which is a severe

00:34:09.860 heart condition.

00:34:10.620 If we're an 18-year-old

00:34:11.760 healthy individual,

00:34:12.720 the risk of getting

00:34:13.280 hospitalized,

00:34:14.840 if we have no underlying

00:34:15.820 medical illness,

00:34:16.940 is very, very low.

00:34:18.640 We know there is a risk,

00:34:20.060 a very small risk,

00:34:21.020 1 in 5,000,

00:34:21.860 that may get myocarditis,

00:34:23.200 for example.

00:34:24.480 And you'd have to have

00:34:26.080 that discussion

00:34:26.580 on the risk-benefit

00:34:27.500 of a complication

00:34:28.700 from the vaccine

00:34:29.480 versus a benefit

00:34:30.300 of decreased hospitalization.

00:34:31.500 For a young,

00:34:32.620 healthy person.

00:34:33.760 1 in 5,000

00:34:34.480 is 100 divided by 5,000,

00:34:36.220 that's 1 over 50,

00:34:37.560 so that's 0.01%

00:34:39.660 of a chance.

00:34:40.500 When you actually

00:34:40.960 look at it statistically,

00:34:42.040 like, there are more people

00:34:42.840 who die as a result

00:34:44.060 of COVID

00:34:44.520 compared to the people

00:34:45.640 who could potentially

00:34:46.520 contract, like,

00:34:47.640 mitochondria.

00:34:48.900 So I...

00:34:49.160 I don't count to you, though,

00:34:50.640 but the amount of people

00:34:51.700 under 20 years old

00:34:53.020 who have died from COVID

00:34:54.040 is extremely low.

00:34:55.180 We're talking in the hundreds

00:34:56.240 in the entire country

00:34:57.080 in this whole time.

00:34:58.000 So if there's 5,000 people

00:34:59.320 in this residence,

00:35:00.020 then one of them

00:35:00.840 is going to get

00:35:01.220 a heart condition

00:35:01.840 where they may not

00:35:02.500 have had any effect

00:35:03.280 from COVID at all.

00:35:04.380 Do you want to counter that?

00:35:05.240 I have accounted for that.

00:35:06.580 I like this.

00:35:07.920 If you look at it

00:35:08.600 from a utilitarian perspective,

00:35:10.500 a majority of the people

00:35:11.360 who are contributing

00:35:12.140 the most to the economy

00:35:13.120 are above 30+.

00:35:14.600 They're the most of the people

00:35:15.580 who are in positions

00:35:16.420 of leadership,

00:35:17.460 positions of power,

00:35:18.900 and I guess the risk

00:35:20.060 that it poses to them

00:35:21.380 far outweighs it.

00:35:22.880 And again,

00:35:23.340 even though we aren't

00:35:24.820 considered in that

00:35:25.720 category of people

00:35:27.220 that are most at risk,

00:35:28.320 eventually we would become

00:35:29.440 in that category

00:35:30.220 and vaccinating would,

00:35:31.580 I guess,

00:35:31.880 help our community

00:35:32.720 and help us

00:35:33.260 as we grow older.

00:35:34.520 Maybe when you get

00:35:35.220 to that age group,

00:35:36.260 but I think from now

00:35:37.100 and the reason why

00:35:37.700 they have the multiple

00:35:38.520 boosters and everything

00:35:39.280 is because the antibodies

00:35:40.960 wear off over a certain

00:35:42.000 amount of time,

00:35:42.700 which is why they're

00:35:43.360 asking you to get it,

00:35:44.200 you know,

00:35:44.740 every three months to start

00:35:45.860 and then every nine months

00:35:46.840 now is what they're saying

00:35:47.640 to be up to date.

00:35:48.680 So I think that if you

00:35:49.780 were to get it at your age,

00:35:50.940 for example,

00:35:51.380 I'm guessing you're

00:35:51.900 like under 22 or something,

00:35:53.700 that the antibodies

00:35:54.660 you develop are shown

00:35:55.760 to last much longer

00:35:57.120 from an illness

00:35:58.520 that doesn't affect

00:35:59.740 your age group as harshly.

00:36:01.020 You want to do

00:36:01.360 one final point?

00:36:02.500 One final point.

00:36:02.940 I do have to get food anyway.

00:36:05.140 I would still say,

00:36:07.040 like, it's kind of

00:36:07.680 like a flu shot,

00:36:08.540 whereas, like,

00:36:09.120 people have to consistently

00:36:09.880 take flu shots

00:36:10.720 because it makes us feel better.

00:36:12.000 And, like,

00:36:12.440 from what I know

00:36:12.940 from my friends

00:36:13.400 who are in life science,

00:36:14.420 like, the whole consensus

00:36:15.200 with COVID is that

00:36:16.380 eventually speaking,

00:36:17.480 it'll turn into, like,

00:36:18.420 more of the common cold

00:36:19.280 through these, like,

00:36:20.160 continual boosters.

00:36:21.100 So I would still advocate

00:36:22.200 for, like, you know,

00:36:23.340 continual boosters,

00:36:24.140 but, like,

00:36:24.360 you do have a valid point

00:36:25.460 in that you say

00:36:26.200 that we aren't the category

00:36:27.600 that's at risk.

00:36:28.760 But I think for society

00:36:29.720 to function,

00:36:30.620 we need to kind of, like,

00:36:31.540 accommodate for the people 0.59

00:36:32.520 who are at risk for it.

00:36:34.460 I have no idea

00:36:35.520 what the maternal controversy is.

00:36:37.880 I think it does

00:36:38.860 because U of T

00:36:39.560 is a research-based institution,

00:36:41.380 so anything to do

00:36:42.940 with research

00:36:43.580 or involves research

00:36:46.160 will really influence

00:36:47.200 U of T's decision.

00:36:48.460 I mean, listen,

00:36:49.980 on the surface,

00:36:51.540 yes, I could see it

00:36:52.580 playing a role.

00:36:53.660 Would it surprise me

00:36:54.440 if it's playing a role?

00:36:55.500 But I don't know,

00:36:56.240 to be quite honest with you.

00:36:57.100 Guys, wrapping up

00:36:58.020 on the University of Toronto campus,

00:36:59.640 now, 99% of the people

00:37:00.980 we asked don't agree

00:37:01.900 with forced boosters

00:37:03.020 for people having

00:37:04.120 to live in residencies.

00:37:05.220 Even if they believe

00:37:06.100 in the booster

00:37:06.560 and think other people

00:37:07.400 should get it,

00:37:08.000 they don't exactly think

00:37:08.940 that people should be forced.

00:37:10.340 Now, is Moderna 0.66

00:37:11.300 influencing their decision

00:37:12.700 on whether or not

00:37:13.340 they should force this?

00:37:14.380 Most people don't know,

00:37:15.560 but we try to provide

00:37:16.380 more information to them.

00:37:17.820 What we want you guys to do

00:37:18.860 is go to noforceboosters.com,

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Rebel News Podcast - August 11, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ On a list of the world’s happiest countries, Canada falls to a new low

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