EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Crisis of the Young Canadian Male： Anger, Disconnection, and Misguided Solutions
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A new survey shows that young men are angsty and angry, and a feminist outlet like CTV is trying to figure out who to blame. Is it the government, the media, or society itself to blame?
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hello my friends the ctv has a study that shows that young men are angsty and angry i think
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they're right i think it's obvious but what do we do about it i'll show you ctv's view
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tonight why does society make it so hard for young men i'll show you a new survey that tries to answer
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that and a tv station trying to figure out who to blame it's november 12th and this is the azure
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i saw this tweet on ctv which i am increasingly of the view is just as much a mouthpiece of the
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liberal government as the cbc is here's a tweet here half of young canadian men are at risk of
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problem anger survey finds and my antenna are out for what a feminist outlet like ctv would do here if
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if men have mental health challenges obviously blame the men there's a little bit of that undercurrent
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here i think in the wording but let me read the story a bit for you which says half of young
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canadian men risk letting their anger interfere with their daily life relationships and work
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new research suggests a survey conducted for intentions consulting and the canadian men's health
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foundation found that 50 percent of men between the ages of 19 and 29 are at risk of quote
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problem anger compared to just 22 percent of all canadian men
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the findings reveal a troubling reality and warn of deeper stress
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and disconnection from support system for young men the cmhf said in a wednesday press release
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all right i suppose it's sort of neutral so far let me read some more because the next line actually
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surprised me a little bit and it surprised me that ctv published it it's startling but not shocking
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cmhf president and ceo kenton boston told ctv news channel on wednesday boston said young men like
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many canadians experience economic stressors including affordability concerns job insecurity
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and a lack of housing options now i think that's true and i'd add in more like the entire entertainment
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industry demonizing men especially young men as toxic like the entire world denigrating masculinity
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and promoting i don't know transgenderism instead that health foundation spokesman mentioned affordability
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jobs and housing i can combine those words all into one immigration that's why wages are low that's why
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inflation is up that's why housing is so high it just is let me read some more there's also the switch
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that's happened in society about masculinity and the negative conversations that are often associated
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with that now and that all combines to put pressure on young men in particular he said
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right like ctv a feminist leftist anti-male advocacy group posing as a news station the story then quotes
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some results from the study the survey found that 39 percent of canadian men between 19 and 29 reported
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a violent impulse when getting angry within the last month compared to 16 percent of all canadian men
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boston said it's important for young men to develop ways to deal with their anger before an impulse turns
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into action incidents of where your fuse is shorter than it normally is those are the real signs about
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things to be challenged and looked into to make sure there is support to help to alleviate that angst and
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anger so he's saying that young men are angrier than older men i actually think that's been true for all
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history young men are full of vim and vigor and instinct to travel and explore and fight and go on
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adventures and prove that they're men young men traditionally join the army or they you know found
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other adventures in business that had similar mindsets like thoughtful risk-taking and endurance
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i have no doubt that young men are angrier at a system that is jacked up housing beyond their reach
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which then makes marriage less feasible marriage of course transforms male impulses into productive
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ones earning a living protecting the family you can't do that without a family you can't get a
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family without a house but what's the advice of this expert he wants it to be sure that there is
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support to help to alleviate that angst and anger you know maybe i'm just a skeptic but i don't know if
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therapy typically that's with a middle-aged female psychologist i don't know if therapy is an answer for
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young men feeling stressed and angsty i just don't think that calling some government helpline
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is how it works in the real world with young men i don't think sharing your feelings with an expert
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works in many cases let alone for young men i think men have traditionally hung out
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with other men role models colleagues peers not whining and crying but just being guys
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in pubs in a club a men's club there used to be those and i'm not talking about a dance club i mean
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for generation there were men's clubs and women's clubs i suppose but mainly men's clubs a place where
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they could get away it's sort of like the man cave in a house rotary club lions club even a bowling
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league there were male things to do a ton of different clubs some of them were a little bit
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quirky to be sure but it was a place for guys to be guys just even for a few hours a week these days
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those are all called sexist and often a same-sex club has been soothed into oblivion fraternities
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are practically banned from colleges groups like the proud boys started by our alumnus gavin mckinnis
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that's basically a masculine club that venerated the west that was actually deemed a terrorist group by
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justin trudeau with no basis by the way i don't know i think the study is right men are angry
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especially young men i think the study halfway gets the explanation for why i think it failed in the
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what are we going to do about it part i think part of the reason that young men are becoming nihilist
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trolls like that nick fuentes is because the usual outlets for male aggression having a healthy
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relationship with a wife and building a family and shouldering the heavy burden and making a living
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for the whole family that would take all a man's energy and angst you'd be exhausted but all of
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those things have been removed as they've been removed for women too no wonder the birth rate is
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plummeting and the globalist left solution replacement immigration only makes the problem worse
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hi everybody remember yesterday when i told you about this big idea for mark carney to expand the
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size of our military not by actually hiring more soldiers who are ready to fight as warriors but by
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calling existing civil servants soldiers for the purpose of tricking the united states and say no
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no donald trump you see we have doubled our defense budget because we're simply calling paper pushers
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in the department of whatever we're calling them part of the reserve now it's sort of ridiculous
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um one of you know here's the phrase from david pugliese's report in the ottawa citizen you heard me say
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this yesterday they'll shoot guns drive trucks and fly drones i have to tell you i have done all three
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of those things and they're fun it's like the old joke about the american atf alcohol tobacco and firearms
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bureau that does sound like a party um is it good defense is it good economics is it is does it make any sense
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joining us to talk about this is someone who thinks a lot about firearms it's our friend tracy
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wilson with the canadian coalition of for firearms rights tracy great to see you again
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thanks for uh having me i'm really happy to be here you know it's a very strange story uh my first
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thought was this is wacky i don't even get it my second thought was ah this is a trick to re
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reclassify paper pushing bureaucrats as military expenses it's just an accounting trick my third idea
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my third thought that i thunk was maybe it'll get people who would never in their lives have touched
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a firearm maybe it'll get them some firearms training maybe it'll normalize gun ownership i
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thought i mean those are some of my thoughts what did you think of when you heard this sort of
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cockamamie idea to get paper pushing bureaucrats to become a kind of reserve well i can tell you that
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although i have never personally served in the military i'm not a veteran there's about 70 years
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of military experience sitting at my dining room table and you know hearing this it sounds like
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something out of south park it was you know it all relates back to a directive signed by the chief
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of defense staff general uh jenny kerrigan where she's looking for ways to increase the reserve force
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of course it's not only is the army completely understaffed in canada but so are our reserve force
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and our supplementary supplementary reserves and she's looking to boost that by 300 000 which is insane
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so this would include one week of training they'd learn how to handle firearms drive trucks fly drones
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um they would prioritize public servants over regular average citizens by reducing those entry requirements
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such as age and physical ability and fitness so i personally i think it's a recipe for disaster i think the
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canadian military has a rich uh solid history in producing some of the world's greatest warriors
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and i think that this idea sort of diminishes that i took a little run over to the reddit thread
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um with the public servants on there and they're pretty much saying the same thing so it's hilarious
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they're making fun of their own co-workers in there and you know at the end of the day i see what carney's
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trying to do here you are right he is trying to fluff up those numbers to show that he is investing in defense
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spending but at the same time our existing regular force uh uh members are working with broken or out of date
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kit you know they're missing things they're eating expired moldy rations you know there's all kinds of places
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where we can invest money in our military aside from uh crossing over paper pushers to uh to call them uh
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you know makeshift warriors you know i think it's designed to trick trump although i don't think it'll
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trick him i think it's designed to trick the public but mainly it's to it's to fool ourselves i mean
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no one thinks that this will be part of a fighting force i mean and i really don't i have a tough time
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imagining someone who is you know the average age of the civil servants is 45 and listen i'm not saying
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45 year olds can't do things but when when i think of the military i think of young men in their 20s
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physically top fitness who can run who can march who can do pull-ups who can like i think of
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the same thing when i think of firemen if you're not able to to carry someone over your shoulder
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down the stairs don't become a fireman it's not quote discrimination other than in the true meaning
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of the sense if you can't do it you you're not allowed to do it i don't know i just i think that
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it's the most unserious thing i've heard in ages yes and it's so contrast so starkly
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with pete hegeseth's warrior culture that he's bringing back in the states yeah i would agree
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with you on that and and like look there are a lot of positions within the military that are
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administrative that are you know people sitting at a desk doing paperwork like that but those people
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don't need firearms handling or learn how to fly a drone so if you're looking to repurpose
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as public servants as a measure to reduce spending in the public service and increase your military
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spending that's you know presented as that but don't try to pretend that you're going to take
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you know 50 or 60 year old people and like i mean i'm in that category right and and send them out
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there to be soldiers um yeah i i think it's dishonest and i think that on the world stage it's sort of
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it looks like buffoonery and i worry about um you know the degradation of our canadian military
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history when it's almost become like an internet meme at this point yeah you know i don't want to
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make light of it even though it's so goofy but it does sound like a low budget movie starring eugene
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levy as some you know 70 year old civil servant who somehow through a type typographical error gets
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recruited into the military or something like i could just picture yeah him and his eyebrows just
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going full tilt and maybe catherine o'hare again you know basically the crew from schitt's creek
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um like it's so goofy there's so many rich storylines but that's because it's all making the canadian
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forces the punchline of a joke and i whenever i see something in the military about you know we want
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to reduce the carbon footprint of our military vehicles we have to be aware of the carbon footprint
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i think what would xi jinping think what would vladimir putin think what would be and both of
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those countries by the way are trying to make claims in the arctic like this is not all theoretical
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both china and russia have ambitions for the far north how does training you know a pink collar or
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white collar civil servant in ottawa to drive a truck have anything to do with protecting our arctic
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there's also this other uh theory that i have you know it's almost like a dystopian
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idea of disarming your trained and tested uh civilians at the same time that you're militarizing
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your bureaucratic public service wow wow wow wow and i i'd like i'm not you know i'm trying to loosen
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the tinfoil in my hat here but i can't help but think about this you know over the last six years
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of this liberal regime we've got gun ban after gun ban on people like me who are already tested we are
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trained we are vetted we already know how to use those things then they decide to ban those then they
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decide to talk about maybe taking them away from us confiscating them and sending them to ukraine
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and now all of a sudden in the midst of all this instead of dropping that plan and maybe looking
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at the civilian firearm ownership community for the possibility of reservists now they're looking at
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a bunch of uh paper pushers and talking about arming them up so i don't know i think when you have a
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government that is disarming its tested and trained citizens at the same time that it's arming up
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it's bureaucrats i don't know it just it it makes it even worse than a south park joke you know uh you
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that's a very uh dystopian scenario you've just outlined i just came back from the ostrich farm in bc
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where there was an enormous amount of government firepower the protesters the farmers completely
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peaceful not even a hint of resistance or force but the cfia the canadian food and conspection
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agency the rcmp had a huge show of force and then there was these anonymous marksmen as they
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were called that were brought in to shoot hundreds of birds overnight well and it sort of speaks to
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that property rights issue you know when we started our federal court challenge against the gun ban we
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looked at it excuse me as more of a a property rights thing like can the government come into your
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home or into your space right and take away things from you that you've legally owned with no you know
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you've done nothing to warrant that and unfortunately so far in the uh in the court battle we've seen
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that the the truth is yes so whether it's your firearms or your ostriches the government can take
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or destroy anything it wants from you and that's you know that's something that all canadians should
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have a look at i what what's next down the line i feel like gun owners were just the canary in the
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coal mine and uh we may we may see more of this type of behavior you're so right and and i think it
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a lot of political extremism by the government is only possible with a disarmed population like i i'm not
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sure if that absurd nonsensical anti-science bullying ostrich massacre would have happened in a place like
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texas or florida i think it it would more likely happen in a place like canada that is completely
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disarmed and where the government is getting more and more audacious and and of course let me just
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clarify if anyone misunderstands me i'm not saying that anyone should have used firearms to stop the
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government i'm not saying that but there is some reason in the second amendment and the united states
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that the people have some power reserved to them in case all hell breaks loose like the the u.s
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revolutionary war has been lawfully you know vindicated in the form of the u.s constitution
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i don't know i just think a lot of bad things are happening because we are becoming physically
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weaker and weaker and the government is becoming physically stronger and stronger yeah well that's
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another reason why canadians should really have a look at this i mean look i i get it there you know
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with the budget and the state of the economy that 10 years of the trudeau government and now the
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carny government has put us in yes there needs to be cuts to the bloated uh public service i i
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understand that and yes we need to uh find better ways to recruit people into the military and to
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retain the people that are already there who are good soldiers this i don't believe is the way so i you
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know i i think that um unfortunately it's it makes a fool of us on the world stage and sometimes that
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matters more than anything so i worry about those things tracy thanks so much for spending some time
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with us good good luck out there keep up the fight thanks ezra all right there it is tracy wilson
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from the canadian coalition of firearm rights stay with us more ahead
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hey welcome back your letters to me about this scheme to turn bureaucrats into soldiers let me read
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those letters jojo pags 6667 says sounds like a new movie like police academy coming soon that's exactly
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what i was thinking i thought it would be sillier than that because i mean you could just imagine i
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mean and i'm not picking on civil servants really but the average age of a civil servant is the average
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demographic is a late 40s woman who works at a desk uh i got nothing against late 40s women who work at a
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desk but that's not a demographic that's going to go to war it just isn't papa bear 187 says how many of
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those public servants are new canadians that won't pass a security check well that's another
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thing is we've reduced the standards to be in the canadian military i'm not smart enough to have an
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opinion on should people who are permanent residents or applying to become citizens join the army but
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these days i would be nervous if we had foreign nationals who haven't sworn an oath of allegiance to
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canada i'd be nervous if they were in the military and i don't know the answer off the top of my head
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but i bet that they are allowed in and i don't know if that makes sense in this day and age
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entity 752 says you are missing the big picture the cost of these employees will be woven into
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canada's two percent contribution to nato this is how they will go from 1.3 percent to two percent
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now that was my first instinct that's my biggest point is it's all an accounting trick it's just like
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what mark carney did when he claimed he was going to hire a thousand new border guards to stop
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migration and drugs across the border no he just renamed all paper pushers in the department as
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border guards even though none of them had ever been near the border and didn't guard anything
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exact same thing here the question is will trump be fooled i don't know i don't think trump pays a lot
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of attention to canada but every once in a while he certainly does i think this is just a trick
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that's our show for today until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to
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you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom
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absolute horror that is what i captured for you and what i witnessed firsthand on november 6th and 7th
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in edgewood british columbia at universal ostrich farms the farmers their loved ones their neighbors
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and supporters screaming through the evening as hundreds of bullets riddled through the night
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impaling what was their healthy vibrant flock of over 300 ostriches what some of the supporters
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are seeing and i'm going to make a phone call to katie's cousin who is also
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breaking it sounds as though gunshots are being heard at the pen my birds are getting shot slowly
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and dying they're suffering they're not getting shot in the head they're not doing it humanly
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the cfia canadian food inspection agency under the liberal government hired professional marksmen
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to corner these ostriches in droves into a pen and hunt them down many of you saw some of the horrific
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footage from that night it symboled the end of the save the ostriches battle and the beginning
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of avenging the ostriches i'm dreya humphrey with rebel news and to start that at our special website
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called avengetheostriches.com today i interview a whistleblower of sorts who was brought to my
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attention by sean rickard a canadian businessman who's still challenging the federal government
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over covet 19 overreach this whistleblower whom i identified is a seasoned person in the industry
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who will be keeping anonymous who is an expert when it comes to calling he is going to speak to the
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canadian food inspection agencies claims that what they did on that night was humane here's what he
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has to say tell us why it was so important for you to come forward with what you're feeling and what
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you believe when i saw what happened having such experience in the industry i knew that there was
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no way it was humane it was done at night under floodlight and those animals would have been running
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around normally when you euthanize an animal you have it in a confined space some animals do get
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stressed but you normally have it confined where it can't run around or move consistently because if
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you don't get a direct shot you don't euthanize the animal instantly to put two guys in towers as i
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believe it and just take random shots at an ostrich is not fair an ostrich runs at i think it's 43 or 45
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miles an hour i don't believe there's any marksman in the world that would get a direct hit into the brain
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of an animal that's running 43 to 45 miles an hour with an ostrich head being probably 10 square
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centimeters and it just outraged me and in your expert opinion could you please describe what you
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think would have been the most humane way to have gone ahead and done this the most humane way would
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have been to round all the animals up put them in through a shed and walk them through a crack like
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you do with most animals when you drench them or you shorn them and then put the bag over the head
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walk them into a confined area and then put a euthanasia gun directly on the head pull the
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trigger one shot bang dead you wouldn't take your pet dog or your cow to a place and let someone take
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four or five shots and putting it to sleep when you take your dog to the vet they give an injection
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that's humane when you put a cow down on a farm you shoot it in the head that's humane when you
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slaughter meat for human consumption you shoot it once straight into the brain that's humane you
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would not stand a cow out on a farm and say we're going to eat it and just take nine or ten shots at
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it and hope you hit a bottle open and kill it what can you say about how fast it was done everything i
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had researched ahead of time indicated this was going to take a while i would say it probably took
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around six hours uh for them to go ahead and slaughter hundreds of ostriches do you make
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anything of that no that was not the quickest and most humane way to do it i think it was done as a
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message to serve a lot of people i think there will be more to come when they start looking at
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poultry and also the other thing is i don't really notice ostriches are not poultry they are red meat
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there is a difference yes that's what the farmers tried to argue even our canadian government
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specifies that yet the cfia would not budge when it came to these healthy ostriches this is definitely
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planned because they said that for starters the appeals court wouldn't even look at it they kicked
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it out before they got there and why wouldn't the cfia let the people retest it that would be like
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saying sorry your dad's got cancer and then we can give him made and you say well let's get a
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second opinion and they say oh no we just can give him made so sad too bad he's dead now you don't do
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that you just don't do that now you're an expert you've come forward what can you tell us is it just
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you or do you know that other people in the industry are feeling the exact same way people that own
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slaughterhouses are outraged as well but they cannot be seen to come forward the cfia can shut
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them down and as we know if you go against a government in this country you tend to not do
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very well in the future well again i thank you so much for your bravery for coming forward
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uh we will of course conceal and protect your identity very important information
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humane or horrific you tell me in the comments whose side of this story you believe i'm drea humphrey
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with rebel news and you can support our ongoing investigation into the canadian food inspection
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agency's handling of this so-called call at avengetheostriches.com we appreciate your support