Coronavirus continues to spread and threatens global trade. The feds try to deport 50,000 illegal immigrants. Plus, the Woke Left takes aim at the sport of hockey. And we ll talk conservative leadership, and fake news.
00:00:42.180He just interacted with someone at work who had recently visited Wuhan, China.
00:00:47.440So this is a 33-year-old man in Bavaria who contracted it during a workplace training event with a visiting Chinese colleague.
00:00:55.340He is now put under quarantine and observation at a Munich hospital.
00:00:59.960So really, like I said in the last program, this is more of a case of just hysteria over this sort of mysterious new virus that's quickly spreading.
00:01:09.120The major problem and concern with this kind of virus isn't so much the virus itself.
00:01:13.440You know, it's affecting very few people.
00:01:14.740So far, there have been 132 deaths and 4,600 cases, which may seem like a lot.
00:01:35.200So the novel coronavirus case fatality rate is currently estimated around 3%, somewhere between 2% and 4%.
00:01:41.740So for comparison, the seasonal flu rate is less than 0.01%.
00:01:47.640And if you can compare this with some of the other major respiratory syndrome viruses that were occurring, the SARS rate was 10%.
00:01:56.820And the MERS rate, the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome rate was 34%.
00:02:02.160And just for comparison, I wanted to put this into perspective.
00:02:04.720So according to the World Health Organization, this is what they have to say on influenza.
00:02:10.120Worldwide, these annual epidemics, this is talking about the common flu or influenza, are estimated to result in the 3 to 5 million cases of severe illnesses annually, which result in somewhere between 290,000 and 650,000 respiratory deaths.
00:02:26.320So again, the coronavirus, for all the hype and all the hysteria around it, it's nothing compared to what happens every single year with the common flu.
00:02:35.000But again, the concern is over the idea that we just don't really know what's causing it at this point, what the origin was, and how to treat it.
00:02:41.900And, you know, the concern at this point has nothing to do with, you know, individuals catching, being affected by this coronavirus.
00:02:50.840The biggest concern, you know, by far is how this will impact global trade.
00:02:56.400So already, you know, countries are reacting and, you know, overreacting by stopping trade, stopping anything that's coming from China.
00:03:06.420So Ford and Toyota will both idle their vast Chinese assembly plants for an extra week.
00:03:14.420Starbucks has closed thousands of stores and is warning of a financial blow.
00:03:19.000On Wednesday, British Airlines suspended all flights to mainland China, while United and Air Canada are joining the growing number of carriers reducing services.
00:03:26.700Japan's leaders are bracing for a possible hit.
00:03:28.960Hotel and tour operators across Asia are watching fearfully as the world's largest source of tourism dollars tightens its borders.
00:03:36.420This is all because of the mysterious pneumonia-like coronavirus that has killed more than 100 people and the second thousand virtually shut down one of the world's most important growth engines.
00:03:48.240Desperate to slow the fast-moving virus, the Chinese authorities have extended the country's national holiday to February 3rd.
00:03:54.820Crippled land, rail, and air transport.
00:04:00.940And, you know, even if you just look at the location of Wuhan, it's right on the Yangtze River, very close to Shanghai.
00:04:05.280This is a very important strategic location, not just for, you know, China itself, but for global trade.
00:04:12.500It's a huge port city that allows so much of what's manufactured for global trade to get to market, to get through the Yangtze out to Shanghai, where the global port takes the rest of the world.
00:04:24.140So, again, you know, the biggest fear at this point isn't so much with, you know, individuals contracting this virus, but it is how we react, how we tighten restrictions, stop trade, stop travel, and you start to learn just how interconnected the global economy really is.
00:04:38.880So that's more of a fear for people watching the stock markets and worried about, you know, getting their products to market and going back to business as usual.
00:05:04.680And so, you know, this is the major problem when you have so many people entering the country illegally making that refugee claim.
00:05:11.680So they claim they ask for asylum after it goes through Canadian courts.
00:05:16.120If a judge determines, no, you're not a refugee, the person gets ordered deported.
00:05:21.360The problem is at that point they have the ability to appeal.
00:05:24.420The appeal process can take more than two years.
00:05:26.700And so as a result, you have all of these people who are just sort of like living in limbo in Canada.
00:05:31.540Some of them choose to sort of go dark, go on the lam, and continue to live illegally outside the boundaries, outside the confines of our immigration system.
00:05:39.160Others just continue to sort of waste resources, waste taxpayer money by appealing and appealing and saying, oh, this isn't fair.
00:05:48.020And stretching it out for as long as possible.
00:05:50.100You know, you know, their immigration lawyers and consultants are urging them to do this and saying, you know, we can get past the law if you just continue to press.
00:05:59.040And because of it, you know, Canada has this huge problem with illegal immigration.
00:06:02.540And now it's Justin Trudeau's government that has to deal with it.
00:06:05.220I mean, 52,000 people who are supposed to be deported, just for comparison, a total of 648 illegal immigrants were deported last year.
00:06:22.040Again, this is the problem when you don't enforce the law in the first place.
00:06:25.260When you have an area like Roxham Road in rural Quebec where thousands of people are just walking illegally across the border only to be intercepted by the RCMP and then transported to basically a taxpayer-funded all-expenses holiday where they're waiting for their case to be heard, all at the expense of the taxpayer.
00:06:44.560You know, and again, this is the problem with Trudeau's approach to immigration.
00:06:47.940Instead of stopping people in the first place from crossing illegally, he just continues to let it happen.
00:06:53.060He's made no effort whatsoever to stop that flow of illegal immigrants coming across the border at Roxham Road.
00:06:59.020Instead, he's only facilitated it by stationing permanent presence of RCMP, creating these shuttle buses that take people to their choice, Montreal or Toronto.
00:07:08.580And then from there, they get placed into hotels.
00:07:11.400They get sort of the taxpayer-funded royal treatment like a holiday, probably the nicest holiday they've ever had in their lives, all courtesy of the taxpayer.
00:07:19.080They're only, you know, a few years later, once they finally had their case heard, to be told, no, you're not a refugee.
00:07:24.740You don't meet any of the definitions.
00:07:53.440Canada's not very good at deporting people.
00:07:55.200We're not very good at handling illegal immigrants in our country, which is why it is better to just stop them from entering the first place.
00:08:01.760If someone's coming into Canada illegally and you know that they're from a country that they have no chance of being determined to be an actual refugee.
00:08:08.280I mean, the fact that they're coming from the United States should be a pretty big red flag to begin with.
00:08:12.480They're already in a safe country and they're going to another safe country.
00:08:17.620And this is an example of the Trudeau government just being absolutely horrible when it comes to enforcing our immigration laws and maintaining the rule of law, which, again, has a ripple effect.
00:08:26.680Because Canadians start to distrust the immigration system because of this surge of illegal immigration.
00:08:32.720It makes them doubt the entire immigration system, not just the ability to stop illegal immigrants, but the ability for the government to manage a large-scale immigration program.
00:08:41.660And that's why we've seen real skepticism towards Canada's immigration policies in the last couple of years.
00:08:50.400This story just drives me absolutely crazy.
00:08:52.440So, a hockey coach was removed for refusing to take a mandatory gender identity course.
00:08:59.540Taking a course on gender identity became mandatory for Hockey Eastern Ontario volunteers.
00:09:04.800This is an exclusive over at TNC.news.
00:09:07.960As the woke left comes for hockey, one Ontario man has found himself no longer permitted to coach because he refused to take a course on gender identity.
00:09:15.420So, this individual did an interview with Collette Magazine, and the man said that he was formerly a volunteer with his son's hockey team, but he claimed he was no longer a volunteer because he just refused to take this course.
00:09:30.700Even just to help on the ice, you need to have this training, said the man, who wishes to remain anonymous.
00:09:35.400Taking a course on gender identity became mandatory for Hockey Eastern Ontario volunteers following a 2017 legal settlement with a transgender hockey player who alleged discrimination.
00:09:44.760The former assistant coach said he is opposed to discrimination and that he was going to take the course until he saw the 33-slide module on gender.
00:09:54.020I would be fine taking an awareness course if it were factual and based on science, he said, but I felt this was too ideological.
00:10:01.000Included in the presentation was the claim that biological sex and gender are unrelated to one another, as well as detailed explanations of identities such as polygender, genderqueer, and agender.
00:10:12.960The presentation also alleged that the gender binary was invented by Europeans and imposed on the rest of the world through colonialism.
00:10:23.280According to hockey, according to just minor hockey where, you know, everyday Canadians are playing, little kids are playing hockey, you have to believe in ideological far-left nonsense.
00:10:35.220The idea that biological sex is a social construct invented by Europeans, you know, this is what it's saying.
00:11:10.060And, you know, by going after hockey, it hits at the heart of our culture and it really takes aim at sort of this central institution in our society.
00:11:18.820This is far from their first attempt to do this.
00:11:21.500We have seen sort of mainstream media and left-wing figures go after hockey.
00:11:25.820It started, of course, with Don Cherry and him being removed from Coach's Corner in Hockey Night in Canada for using what is supposedly, what, a discriminatory term saying, you people, encouraging all Canadians to wear the poppy.
00:11:37.020And then after he was removed, his co-host, Ron McClain, just sort of went like full woke left and started lecturing us all about white privilege and structural racism in hockey and blah, blah, blah.
00:11:48.740So, again, this is just, you know, political correctness run amok and taking aim right at the heart of our culture and going after the sport of hockey.
00:11:58.900So the conservative leadership race is beginning to take shape.
00:12:02.580We have, you know, the frontrunners again at this point are Peter McKay and Aaron O'Toole.
00:12:07.000And unfortunately, already early in this race, the mainstream media is already shaping this debate.
00:12:13.000They're already trying to sort of paint all conservatives with the same brush as what they did during the election with Andrew Scheer.
00:12:19.600So the thing that everyone's talking about this week is who will and who won't march in pride parades, as if this is like the most important thing to know about a conservative candidate before they're selected.
00:12:29.500This is what the mainstream media care about.
00:12:32.840And it certainly is not what conservative delegates who will be selecting their next leader care about.
00:12:37.540It's just a huge distraction designed to plant the seed in people's heads that conservatives are kind of bigoted and they kind of hate gay people.
00:12:45.040And so that's what they're that's what the media is trying to do.
00:12:47.980If I were advising leadership campaign or if I was, you know, working on a campaign, I would advise a candidate to just not talk about this issue to just like, you know, the media is obsessed with it.
00:12:57.740Good for them. They can kind of dwell on it because service should be talking about the important issues in Canada, talking about the economy, talking about debt levels, talking about how to sort of restore fiscal responsibility in the government.
00:13:10.380And if you want to talk about social and cultural issues, it should be a critique on the left wing sort of mainstream media values and not allowing the mainstream media to attack and condemn social conservatives.
00:13:22.340But alas, this is not what's happening.
00:13:24.420So here we have Aaron O'Toole put out a statement saying that he will not march in the Pride Parade.
00:13:30.900He writes, in uniform, I stood up for the rights of all Canadians.
00:13:34.660And in Parliament, I have always, always voted for liberty and equality as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:14:09.520So Peter McKay and Marilyn Gladue have both committed to marching in the Toronto Pride Parade.
00:14:15.640While Aaron O'Toole says that he won't unless police are allowed to march in uniform.
00:14:20.080Again, this is allowing left-wing mainstream media to dictate the terms of the Conservative leadership debate and dictate the conversation.
00:15:02.800And instead, we have this, like, weird game where we play where it's almost become, like, a mandatory thing for not just Conservative leaders.
00:15:11.100Like, not just all leaders, but Conservative leaders.
00:15:33.380You know, no, we live in a free society, so you can choose.
00:15:36.580Some people can choose to go to church on Sunday.
00:15:38.520Some people can choose to go to a pride parade.
00:15:40.260I mean, that's the whole idea of living in a free society.
00:15:43.280And this idea that every single leader must participate in an event that is, frankly, pretty raunchy doesn't add up.
00:15:50.960So, you know, I guess good for Erin O'Toole, I guess, for pushing back a little bit and saying, hey, you guys are not very inclusive since you don't allow police officers to march in your parade.
00:16:00.600But, again, that doesn't really hit at the major issue for most Canadians, which is, you know, two things.
00:16:06.060One, not everyone's interested in going to a parade that's celebrating sex in that way.
00:16:10.660And two, you know, we live in a free society, so you can't force or coerce people to attend an event that they don't want to attend.
00:16:18.240So no one's really showing any courage so far in the leadership race and showing a willingness to fight back against, you know, those two very principled issues.
00:16:29.740Let's talk about this week in fake news because we have a lot of fake news going on right now.
00:16:34.760This one's not exactly a news story, but it just shows this sort of crooked, corrupt relationship between the CBC, the Liberal Party, and the federal government, the Trudeau government.
00:16:45.120So this is another exclusive over at Black Locks Reporter.
00:16:49.680So the federal government paid a liberal CBC pundit five figures in order to provide media coaching for a single cabinet minister.
00:16:58.920So the feds paid $22,120 to an individual called Amanda Alvaro, who did not respond to questions.
00:17:06.900CBC ethics guidelines require disclosure of special interests of any pundit.
00:17:35.780She goes on the CBC to mimic Justin Trudeau's talking points.
00:17:39.660And then, of course, because this kind of stuff is just commonplace in, you know, the corrupt world of auto politics, she gets paid by the federal government, not by the Liberal Party, but by the federal government using taxpayer dollars.
00:17:52.620She gets hired to come in and coach Maryam Monsef, the Minister of Status of Women, on how to be a better, more media savvy communicator.
00:18:03.080So, again, why is this something that Canadian taxpayers are paying for?
00:18:06.620How come the liberal government is allowed to hire liberal pundits who also get paid by the CBC?
00:18:12.540It's all just really insider baseball-y.
00:18:16.060And it makes you realize, yeah, you know what?