00:05:26.440That's me. I forgot to shut it off. My bad. I apologize. What was I doing here quickly? I felt like I've forgotten something all day long. You ever have that feeling? It's like, ah, shouldn't I be doing something else?
00:05:40.960And the reason for that is another postponement happened to the show today.
00:05:46.340Benita Peterson was supposed to come on tonight,
00:05:48.300talk about her overwhelming success last week in Westlock, Alberta,
00:05:52.400regarding the rainbow paintings on the streets and on the curbs and whatnot.
00:05:58.620And it's not even banning anything, really.
00:22:52.960A few days ago, my colleagues gave me a heads up that a Twitter account was calling me out as a
00:22:57.980cacozotic Jew in charge of a Jew charity.
00:23:03.220I take the word cacozotic to mean I'm a fair-skinned Jew.
00:23:06.740The latter part is a bit more confusing because the charity I direct has no religious or ethnic affiliations.
00:23:12.460I laughed and blocked the account, but the Liberals' newly proposed law suggests
00:23:16.540that not acting on these kinds of tweets could leave Elon Musk on the hook for 6% of X's global revenues.
00:23:25.640That's just one example of the absurdities that could result if Minister of Justice Arif Farhani's revamped Online Harms Act passes in Parliament.
00:23:34.640It's Bill C-63. It's aimed at regulating a wide swath of undesirable online conduct from child sexual exploitation material, already criminalized, by the way, so this is redundant, to the more amorphous content that foments hatred, which is something we still can't figure out.
00:23:53.620The Liberals' decision to deal with this range of conduct in one fell swoop
00:23:57.940perhaps distracts from the reality that the Online Harms Act
00:24:02.160is a profoundly anti-free expression bill that threatens draconian penalties for online speech,
00:24:09.460chilling legitimate expression by the mere specter of a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission
00:24:14.540or the new Digital Safety Commission of Canada, which has yet to be formed.
00:24:20.900The bill beefs up criminal penalties for instances of hate speech
00:24:24.840and creates a new standalone offense motivated by hatred.
00:24:28.840The hate crime of advocating genocide,
00:24:31.080previously punishable by up to five years imprisonment,
00:24:33.580now carries a possibility of life in jail,
00:48:34.020one of the scientists who was fired from canada's top infectious disease laboratory intentionally
00:48:41.320i mean how many failures how many scandals does this government have to have before people start
00:48:51.200going hey wait a minute that 24 percent of people who intend to vote for the liberals
00:48:55.120Hello, Bueller. What the heck is going on, man? How can you vote? More scandals than I've ever seen from any government combined in the history of Canada.
00:49:10.300Intentionally shared scientific information with China, potentially putting people's health in jeopardy, says an assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
00:49:19.660The intelligence assessment was released late this afternoon by the federal government,
00:49:23.840along with hundreds of other documents about the mysterious dismissal of Dr. Q and her husband,
00:49:28.380Ki-Ding Ching. The scientists and their students worked in the Level 4 virology facility at
00:49:34.480Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab, which is equipped to deal with the most serious and
00:49:39.300deadly human and animal diseases. The couple were marched out of the facility in July of 2019,
00:49:46.180just a few months before COVID hit. Remember? Remember that? You don't? Yeah. Yeah, I was
00:49:54.660right around that, I think, wasn't it? They were stripped of their security clearances. Their
00:49:59.000dismissals were announced in January of 2021, triggering concerns about Chinese espionage
00:50:04.420and leading to heated demands in Parliament for more information. According to the document,
00:50:09.560CSIS conducted multiple security screenings of the couple. The document showed the service
00:50:14.280had a more rosy initial assessment of Q's motivation,
00:50:18.440noting in the spring of 2020 that she could be susceptible,
00:50:23.100based on the belief in the power of science, to help humanity.