EZRA LEVANT | Theresa Tam cost Canadians $120 million in 90 days, so why hasn't this failure been fired?
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Dr. Teresa Tam made a mistake that cost the taxpayer $120 million just in cargo flights over the course of three months. And for some reason, it's not a bigger scandal than it should be, and yet, that abject failure still has her job. I ll go back through the historical record to explain how this all got to this point, and then we re talking to Rebel News reporter Selene Gallis. She s based out of Calgary, and she went undercover at a drag queen story hour so we didn t have to.
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Oh hey, it's Sheila Gunn-Reed. I bet you're expecting the melodious vocal stylings of
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Ezra Levant since this is the Ezra Levant show, but no, I'm filling in for the boss today as he
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is busy. Today we are talking about how it is absolutely insane that Dr. Teresa Tam made a
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mistake that cost the taxpayer $120 million just in cargo flights over the course of three months
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and for some reason it's not a bigger scandal than it should be and for some reason that abject
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failure still has her job. I'll go back through the historical record to explain how this all got
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to this point and then we're talking to Rebel News reporter Selene Gallis. She's based out of Calgary
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and she went undercover at a drag queen story hour. Yes, she did so we didn't have to. Now, the show
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One Dr. Teresa Tam cost the taxpayers $120 million over the course of three months. So why hasn't
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this abject failure been unceremoniously fired yet? It's August 22nd, 2022. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed,
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The Public Health Agency of Canada exists to prepare the country for pandemics. It was formed
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in the wake of a pandemic, the SARS outbreak, about two decades ago, and its only job, its only real
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reason for being, is to be ready to mobilize a national response to an abnormal outbreak of
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disease. That's it. But like any government agency, it experiences mandate creep. It starts a mind
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business that it was never supposed to. But the Public Health Agency of Canada has that one single
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mandate, be ready for a pandemic. And to do that, they must keep six months of essential medical
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supplies on hand. But as we've learned over the course of these last two years, the Public Health
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Agency of Canada wasn't ready for anything. Let's go back to the very beginning of the coronavirus
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pandemic. And before I go on, I'm not disputing or agreeing with the severity of the coronavirus
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pandemic. I'm looking at this through the severity lens that the Public Health Agency of Canada
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looks at the pandemic. And they say the coronavirus was severe enough to lock us in our homes,
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fine us for being outside, close our churches, spy on all the cell phones in the entire country
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without the cell phone users' knowledge or consent. They banned us from traveling. They locked us both
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inside and outside of our own country. They think it's pretty damn serious. So let's remember how
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serious they think the pandemic is as we go through all these failures. Do you remember at the beginning
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of the pandemic, when the Public Health Agency of Canada had a sudden shortage of gowns and other
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personal protective equipment for medical professionals in this country? I sure do. Now, the reason for
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that was a failure at the agency. The pandemic preparedness agency just simply forgot or failed to
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rotate the national stockpile in several warehouses, including one in Saskatchewan, which resulted in the
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gowns and gloves expiring and then just being tossed in the garbage. And this was happening as the agency
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was closing warehouses as a cost-saving measure because, you know, the government can't even be
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fiscally responsible properly. Now, in the wake of all that, the government was forced to then
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overpay for replacement PPE as costs were driven up through pandemic demand. The Canadian Taxpayers
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Federation estimated the inflation of the PPE cost to have nearly tripled the cost of a single N95 mask.
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Oh, but that's not all. It's never all. What Canada did have on hand in the strategic stockpile,
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then Justin Trudeau voluntarily gave it to China to deal with the coronavirus outbreak there on the
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assurance that we would get masks back from China when we needed them. And Trudeau did this all without
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an objection from Dr. Theresa Tam, the person in charge of pandemic supplies. But then when we did
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need those masks, again, need according to the federal government's determination, the cargo planes we sent to
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China to retrieve our supplies languished on the tarmac before coming back empty. Between empty cargo
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planes the first time around and tossed out supplies, Canada had to go fishing around the world to get
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access to medical PPE to deal with the pandemic and mask mandates suddenly popping up all across the
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country because it wasn't just doctors and nurses anymore wearing masks in a medical setting.
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They wanted everybody to do it. Kids in school, flipping burgers, grocery shoppers, cashiers,
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everyone everywhere all the time wear a mask or you'll get a ticket, which takes us to how much
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money the federal government had to spend to fix the mess. Dr. Theresa Tam, the person in charge of all
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of this and her lack of oversight created at the Public Health Agency of Canada. Now this is going to blow
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your mind. It's from Black Locks today, a subscription that is absolutely worth every penny. Air cargo
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flights of Chinese medical supplies cost taxpayers $120 million in the first 90 days of the pandemic,
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say access to information records. Federal agencies said they had no choice but to charter planes after
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failing to maintain a national stockpile of masks, gloves and medical gowns. The Department of Public
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Works in a June 10, 2020 staff memo detailed millions spent on cargo fees to fly emergency shipments
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of goods from suppliers in China. Contracts included $15 million each to Air Canada, WestJet,
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First Air and PAL Aerospace and $60 million to cargo jet of Hamilton, Ontario. Political aides at the
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time complained of costly air cargo fees. The cost of flying one cargo plane from China to Canada is
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between $600,000 and $800,000, said an April 1, 2020 staff email in the Prime Minister's office.
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Belori Logistics was paid $30 million to arrange China deliveries and warehousing. Deloitte was paid
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$9.6 million to manage shipments of COVID supplies. Teresa Tam screwed the Canadian taxpayer to the
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tune of $120 million in the first 90 days of the pandemic just on charter flights. That doesn't
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include the cost of supplies at an inflated cost to replace the ones that she oversaw the disposal of
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because her team didn't rotate the national stockpile properly. What a failure. Imagine making a
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$120 million screw-up, probably closer to $300 million at your job and still keeping your job.
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But not just keeping your job, being lauded as a hero. What planet are we on? And that doesn't even
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take into account the economic fallout all across the country because the nation was suddenly caught
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flat-footed without medical supplies and nobody knew how bad it was. So the government
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just overreacted and locked people down. You don't think Teresa Tam's failure of maintaining the
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national stockpile played into any of that at all? I'd say it's the number one contributing factor
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outside of government's desire to control everything you do in a day. $120 million worth of FUBAR in 90
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days. Your family thrown into out-of-control debt, your small business forced to close, but
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no matter because Teresa Tam just got a raise two months ago, a $60,000 raise up to $324,000 a year
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after she cost the taxpayer a cool $120 million for her ineptitude. I think she should be fired and
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that's why I'm proud to say we started a petition over two years ago. You see, at Rebel News, we're
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early adopters of good ideas. You can still sign that petition at firetam.ca. But it's nice to see
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after two years of more facts rolling in and hindsight being 20-20, Tam is even worse and
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more fire-worthy than we could have ever imagined. But Liberals being Liberals, they've rewarded her
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for being a loyal foot soldier in the war on Canadian freedoms. Stay with us. Rebel News reporter
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Selene Gallis joins us to update us on her story about the war for the minds of Canadian children
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This past summer, the season that lasts three months long, really wasn't called summer anymore. It was
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called pride season. Instead of having a week or even a month devoted to pride-related activities,
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the whole summer was co-opted. And I think I'm one of those people who says live and let live, just
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leave me alone, don't use the government to make me care. But I start caring when public funds are used
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and little kids are involved. And as you know, there has been a real uptick in the idea of a drag queen
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story hour in municipal libraries all across North America. I've yet to see any credible evidence about
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having a drag queen read to little children and having that somehow relate to increased childhood
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literacy rates that would necessitate government spending on such a program. And my friend Selene
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Gallis, who is one of our Calgary-based Rebel News reporters, dug a little deeper on this issue
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to find out exactly how much municipal money is going to drag queen story hours. And Selene joins us
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Great. Now, you did a little bit of undercover work over the course of the summer. I don't want to give
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too much of it away. But you attended a drag event. Tell us a little bit about that without,
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I was shocked. And I kind of, you know, I planned beforehand what I what I thought it would be like
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before going in, and I was still shocked. So there's that. Just like you're saying, there's not
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much in the way that I find that it's helpful in any way for children to be exposed to stuff like that.
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Um, the reading in general isn't like Dr. Seuss, or, you know, there's definitely no green eggs and
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ham. It's, it's books where it's, it's straight up right in kids faces. It's about, um, transgenderism.
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It's about, you know, dressing up if you're a boy making it okay. There was some titles like
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sparkle boy, my, my mom, my dad, and my other dad and, and all these obscene, obscure titles that
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children don't have any business reading or being privy to it, in my opinion, at least. So,
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uh, beyond that, just the overall thematic sense of being there, the being exposed to just that
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energy and watching the parents like clap and have their parents, their, their children, part of me,
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um, go forward, encouraging them to participate in the behavior. I think that was the hardest part for
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me, um, to like keep my cover and not, uh, not blow it myself because it was very difficult to,
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to be quiet and watch parents, um, literally incite this, uh, this propaganda, this indoctrination.
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Yeah. It does feel a lot like indoctrination and, you know, the, I, I, as a mom, I I've raised three
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fairly normal, depends on the day it is though, and what they're wearing kids. Um, and I just feel
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like this is an early introduction into confusion that little kids don't need. It's a topic their
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little brains cannot understand yet. They don't understand the concept of being alive. They don't
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understand the concept of death. They're just kind of, for some of these kids that are so little,
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they're just sort of becoming self-aware and already we're starting to confuse them about
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things. And I, I just, I worry so much about what I think is a bit of a societal experiment on the
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youngest, most vulnerable amongst us. Yeah, no, absolutely. Um, to touch on that more, I think
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the worst part again, is just seeing that there's, it's children that are like toddlers or even younger
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than that. There's like literally new newborn babies that, that families brought in. And then
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there is, you know, older children that are obviously in like junior high. And then the
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people that are in high school, obviously, you know, if you're above 18, you can go and do whatever
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you want to do, participate how you will. Um, but it's all age ranges. And I didn't see one child that
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was, maybe some of them were confused, you know, like sitting in front of the, the two drag Queens.
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Um, I'll have videos to include, uh, in the next a tip that I, uh, will be releasing as well. But
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without going more into that, um, the children, some of them were confused and some of them were
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just like, I think it's the, I think it's the shock, especially because when you're so young,
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I don't think that they're actually realizing that it's a man and it's not a woman that's actually
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reading to them or is underneath that wig and all the makeup, especially because, you know, they,
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they have the, the synthetic body parts that they like to put on. Um, it's, it's really outlandish
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and wild to me. It's, um, I think that it sets children up to think of women in a sexualized
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manner as well. And then when you're encouraging that behavior and you're encouraging kids to
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come in, um, not just be a part of story time, but again, I'll throw to those videos that we've
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seen before children that go to these all age events and they're exposed to, uh, nudity or partial
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nudity. If they're the ones that are dancing and being encouraged to, you know, not have as many
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clothes on for the sake of inclusion, because it makes them seem like, uh, they're a part of the
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show and it's a fun thing. All of that encouragement is, is really sick. And I think that, uh, in the
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future, we're going to see a lot of, uh, repercussions for stuff like that, but also the
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damages, I think we don't even understand them because when you're that young and you're being
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programmed to that extent, I mean, it's the building blocks for who you becomes an adult. It's
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shaping their views right now. And they don't have a chance unless we, we do some more work to
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expose this agenda. You know, you made a really interesting point right there and you just sort
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of glossed over it because it was so common sense, but, um, we are teaching young people
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that women are this cartoonish costume. Um, and it's really odd because it comes from the same
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side of the argument who's so like body positivity, like that's also their side of the debate and that
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nobody can define what a woman is. But then you also have on the same side, this cartoonish
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stereotypical female costume that we are teaching little kids. That's actually a woman. I think that's
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a really interesting point. No, exactly. And like, why is it okay for a man to dress that way? Um,
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just to point out, um, and I don't want to know, no, for the sake of this, I feel like I should just
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touch on it because I thought it was the hypocrisy was insane to me, but one of the drag queens that
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was there, um, his dress, their dress was shorter. Um, and he had super dark, long leg hair. It was very
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apparent. It was very obvious. And yet, you know, he presumed to dress as a woman, to appear as a
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woman. If let's say, for example, this is just so minute and it's really just scratching the
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surface. But if a woman decided to don hair like that, because some women do, uh, they would be
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judged. Right. But for the sake of inclusion, men can do stuff like that, or they can literally show
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their fake body parts off, you know, to whatever extent that they would like to not just in front of
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adults, but in front of children and not be dressed, uh, not be, um, criticized or ostracized
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for it, but encouraged. And if a woman did that, you would never hear the end of it. Like, that's why
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like using the example of, of never bringing your child to a hetero bar or strip club, if you
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wouldn't do that, then why is it okay for you to do it in front of a man or bring them to an LGBTQ
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situation where they say it's all ages, but it's, it's absolutely not. I know that Alexa Lavois,
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she interviewed, um, one of the drag queens in the community that had a lot to say about
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it. And, and, uh, and they agreed entirely that it's totally inappropriate. And why would
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you even want to bring a child into such a raunchy, uh, nighttime club setting that has
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Yeah. I think it's just so strange that, you know, this is the same side of the argument
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that says we shouldn't be sexualizing women, um, depicting women, or at least people who dress
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up as women in this hyper sexualized, overly exaggerated femininity way with over the top
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makeup and over the top costumes and, you know, prosthetics all over the place to make your
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body appear more female. Um, but those are also the same people who say, you know, that
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you shouldn't be sexualizing women, but yet they depict us in the most over the top sexualized
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ways. Now getting to some of the investigative work that you've done. So you went undercover,
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we've got a report coming out about that so that people like me who would never attend one of these
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things in a million years can see firsthand what actually goes on instead of what the media and
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the activists tell you goes on in these things. But you also filed for access to information. One of
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my very favorite things to do. And you discovered just how much money I think it is the city of
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Calgary puts up, um, with regard to promoting and facilitating drag queen story hours in municipal
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libraries. So it's not just enough that this stuff is happening and that people could choose to take
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their children there. There's a moral argument for why you shouldn't, but if it's, it's not my
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concern largely if I'm not paying for it, but the city of Calgary taxpayers are paying for it. So
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why don't you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah. So the, the total came up to, uh, I believe
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it was just over $70,000 that they were allotted to allow these people to travel around and to spread
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this false information and to go into, I believe that they also it's, it's all those books that were
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like a conglomerate. So each time that they went to these libraries, they also, they dropped off,
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you know, how many of these books where it's again, sparkle boy is always the title that stands
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out to me because it's just, it's so insane. And they did also come under budget about, uh,
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$10,000 as well. We're not sure where that money goes, obviously. Um, if it'll be put back into the
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next, uh, drag queen show of, of readers that want to go and indoctrinate children, I'm not entirely
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sure, but $70,000 is absurd for something like that. Um, how the costs are broken down and how
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it's even how it's allowed in general, it just is so nonsensical to me. Like, I'm not sure if,
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you know, I know that you agree, Sheila, but for the audience as well, you know, these are some
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questions that I think that we need to be asking the people that are in control of these different
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things that happen within our government, why they're allowing this, what their agenda is.
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I think it's, it's very valid in that we should definitely have people understand that on a,
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on the most deep and intrinsic level. Yeah. And again, as I said off the top,
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if they could prove to me that there's some sort of result in increased childhood literacy rates
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that you have a man dressed as a woman reading to your children, I'm willing to hear that argument.
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Again, I have a moral disagreement with it, but at least if you can demonstrate some sort of
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positive outcomes by way of childhood literacy, at least, at least you'd have some net positive
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there somewhere, but I'm not seeing that nobody's ever produced that. They just want to read to
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little children dressed as women. I think that's peculiar and I'm not sure the Calgary taxpayers
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should be paying for it. Um, but you're not done investigating this. Why don't you tell us what
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you still have in the works? Oh gosh. Yeah. So deep breath, right? Um, a little bit more undercover
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work. Um, there's going to be, there's some different pride events taking place in Calgary,
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uh, just in the next little bit here that I hope to cover. Um, if I will don a disguise the entire
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time, I'm not entirely sure. And I won't give that up entirely either, but, uh, there's also some
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other ATIPs that, uh, we've filed for access to information for, uh, so to be able to provide
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that to the audience so that everyone is aware of how much their cities are spending on this program,
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I think is very worth noting. Um, as well, by the end of it, I'd like to put together a conglomerate
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so that, uh, we know in general how much Canada is, uh, paying for this narrative to be, um,
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indoctrinated into the children. So yeah, lots to come, but, uh, we'll see what happens.
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Yeah. Remember this every time you're driving down your road and there's a huge pothole that
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the city hasn't fixed. And it's so deep that it knocks the hubcap off your car and your earrings
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out of your ear. Remember that they decided to spend $70,000 to pay drag performers to read to
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little children in the public library. And when they say, Oh, we don't have any extra money to build
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a skate park so that kids play outside. Remember where the city opted to spend your money. Uh,
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Celine, thank you so much for, um, trying to dig down and bring some transparency to this. Um,
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I think no matter where you fall down on this issue, uh, I think one side of this argument is
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not entirely honest about what is transpiring at these events and why they're happening. And I'm,
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I'm so excited for you to bring some clarity to the taxpayers of other municipalities. Um, you know,
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your cities are wanting more of your money than ever, and they should be accountable for where they're
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spending that money. Celine, thanks so much. We'll have you back on again, very, very soon.
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Stay with us. Your letters to Ezra up after the break.
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So we do take your questions. We take your comments. We take your feedback. Now on a monologue I did
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last week when I was also filling in for Ezra Levant on Queen Romana Digila. For those of you who don't
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someone who has tried to attach herself to the freedom movement here in Canada. She claims that
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Queen Elizabeth was executed by the Canadian military. No, sorry, the American military. It's a
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very complicated story. But then the American military installed her as the new Queen of Canada,
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John Ben Jehovah writes, Klaus Schwab said in one of his World Economic Forum videos,
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be prepared for an angry world. Mad, meaning insane. You know, she is probably crazy. Although I'm not a
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doctor and I'm not sure I can make that medical diagnosis. But she is simply, as I said in my monologue,
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a creation of the failings of all the institutions of Canada that should have defended people and their
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rights over the last two years. Times have been so crazy and so unsettling and so disorienting and
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people could not rely on the things they knew to be true, that their reality has been shattered and
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blown apart. They couldn't count on the politicians. They couldn't count on the court system. They
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couldn't count on the police. They couldn't count on academia. They couldn't count on their jobs.
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They couldn't even count on their local burger place. They couldn't even count on their families.
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Some of them were thrown out of their families for certain medical choices.
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So when all the things you knew to be true are suddenly untrue, it shakes your stability and
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reality. And when that happens, people like Queen Romana just step in to pick up the pieces and
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exploit the damage that other people have caused. And unfortunately, instead of showing some
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understanding and some grace to people who are struggling during these times, politicians and
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the media are mocking them and maligning them and making it worse. And that is only driving people
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deeper into the clutches of a cult predator like Queen Romana. And so I think the politicians,
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they bear some responsibility for just how many followers she does have. Because I think the
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politicians have probably created some of those people. Now, Rouser writes on the same story,
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she burned a Canadian flag at a protest, referring again to Queen Romana. And that's no surprise.
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Although that doesn't really seem like something the new Queen of Canada would do.
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I also saw online that the new royal diet in Canada includes cut up vegetables and cans of sardines.
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I did see that when Queen Romana pulled up in her crowdfunded mini Winnie Winnebago, she popped out and
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she had offered cut up vegetables and sardines to the people who had gathered there to greet her. And
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again, seems crazy. But for some people who have been tossed aside by their families,
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because of their medical choices, that might be the only act of kindness those people have received in
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a very long time. And the good reminder here is that we probably should be nicer to each other,
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because along will come a predator to be nice to people and curry loyalty from those people.
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And it could end poorly. On David's interview regarding a veteran offered physician assisted
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suicide by Veterans Affairs, the old one writes, the UN World Economic Forum agenda for depopulating
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the world and eliminating useless eaters was put into action some time ago. It has escalated since
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the pandemic. They're killing seniors and people with disabilities, including children. You know,
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eugenics always finds a way to rear its ugly head. And it was progressives back in the early 1900s who
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thought that they could create a better class of humanity through, for lack of a better term, animal
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husbandry. But when you also think that you can create a better class of humans, that leaves the
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problem of what to do with the people who are not in that better class of humans you've created.
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And, you know, that leads us into the whole Nazi agenda. But it also has some overlays with
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environmentalism who see people like me who love our SUVs and burning our garbage as a plague upon
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society. People like me who have three happy, healthy children instead of just one. And we've seen it now
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with medically assisted suicide. When you see people who are calculating the cost to the healthcare
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system, the rationed healthcare system here in Canada, looking at a sick person and seeing the
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dollar signs instead of the humanity and saying, well, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just end this
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problem now? It's creating a culture of death. And I'm old enough to remember not all that long ago
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when social conservatives like me were being called reactionary when we said medically assisted death
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is going to take the society in a bad place where it is not just reserved for the sickest amongst us. And
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here we are. We have veterans who have already been told by Justin Trudeau that they're asking for
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more than he can give being offered medically assisted suicide just to get them off the cases
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of Veterans Affairs. It's revolting. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for
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tuning in. Thank you to everybody in studio in Toronto who puts the show together and everybody
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who works behind the scenes all across the country here at Rebel News to make sure that the show is
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clickable and ready for you when you're ready for it. Thanks to Ezra for trusting me to fill in
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for the show tonight. And as Ezra always says, keep fighting for freedom. I'm Jeremy Lafredo for Rebel
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News in Burdenham, Pennsylvania, a remote Amish village home to Miller's Organic Meat and Dairy Farm.
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Recently, armed federal agents raided the farm and demand they cease operations and pay over $300,000 in fines.
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Miller's operation is entirely holistic and natural. Whether it's the water buffalo, the cattle,
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or even the camels, the animals live, as Miller argues, how God intended and eat fully organic diets
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munching only on wild plants, flowers, and the bugs in their pasture. The federal government is arguing
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that Miller's farm isn't adhering to federal regulatory requirements for food. Miller, his
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community, and his thousands of customers counter that the federal government mandates food be prepared
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in ways that make it less healthy and nutritious. Federal agents continue to pay him visits and
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threaten his farm, crippling the business economically with over $300,000 in outstanding fines. Veteran
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journalist Michael Yoder is a longtime customer of Amos Miller's farm and has been closely covering the
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story for a local newspaper. Yoder explained that he believes the government wants to use a successful,
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independent farmer as an example for other American farmers who aren't dependent on some larger
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institutions such as the federal government or a multinational corporation. Personally, I think they
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want to use Amos as an example to make sure that other farmers, especially farmers in this area,
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do not try to do what Amos has done, which is to sell directly to the customers. When you have
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direct-to-consumer right from the farmer to the customer, there's less control that the government can
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have over the operation. He also explained that the Amish farmland in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is some of
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the most productive, highest yielding, non-irrigated farmland in the world and that the people there
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have a special familial connection to the land, land that special interests would very much enjoy to
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get their hands on. This land has been in production for 250 years. Many of the farms are still in the same
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families. The farmers are tied, literally tied to the land and want to do the best for the land. They're
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not out there to try to destroy the land. They want their land to be productive and they know that if
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it's more productive, then they can feed more people. The courts are demanding Miller fork over
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more than a quarter million dollars in fines and cease operations until he begins to go through USDA
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processors to process his meat. It's Miller's view that these government-approved facilities are
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actually less sanitary than his own private operation, which I saw as extraordinarily clean,
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and he argued the way the government facilities process meat actually kills or, quote,
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sanitizes important nutrients. Miller explained that because his farm doesn't use chemical fertilizers,
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herbicides, or patented seeds, which are chiefly manufactured by industry giants with strong
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ties to the government, they're using the power of the government to shut him down.
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I think the problem we're having in this country is that corporate America is taking over,
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and the corporations, I think, put the people in government through lobbying. They're having the
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government on their side and basically making it hard for farmers to be farmers.
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Miller is legally arguing that because he's selling to what he calls a private food club,
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not the open market, certain rules and regulations of the federal government don't apply to him,
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and the customers are buying meat and dairy from his farm explicitly because the food isn't processed
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and manufactured at these giant industrial facilities and instead are grown, fed, and processed right here on the land.
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Some come from Florida, California, North Carolina, basically all over. They are seeking
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nutrient-dense foods, raw meat, raw buffalo milk, raw camel milk. So far they trust us for
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the animals being out on grass and they can actually see the color in the fat of the beef
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and the milk. Actually, there's no food coloring added. It has its nice color and that actually
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comes from the nutrient density of the animals feeding grass. I think customers come here because they know
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that they can get an honest product that they know is being produced here. It's not just words on a label that say
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it's organic or it's local, that you can come here and you can see this is as local as it gets.
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Amos, despite being raided by armed US marshals and facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines,
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explained that farmers need to stand strong. We farmers need to stand together and stay strong and
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we need to make sure the government, we can't just fall for the government's rules and regulations
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because the big corporations want to take over. And at the other note, we need consumers,
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we need their support and stand strong and just tell the senators, the congressmen how important small
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farms are. No farmers means no food. So we all need to work together in this.