Western Standard - HANNAFORD： Trudeau s distant relationship to the truth

00:00:00.000 Fish swim, dogs bark, and Prime Minister Trudeau spins his yarns.

00:00:05.120 So it's hard to conceive of him saying other than what he claims,

00:00:09.280 but he didn't force anyone to get vaccinated.

00:00:12.760 All of the scientists and the medical experts and the researchers,

00:00:17.840 not just in Canada but around the world,

00:00:21.840 understood that vaccination was going to be the way through this.

00:00:25.480 And therefore, while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated,

00:00:31.540 I chose to make sure that all the incentives and all the protections were there

00:00:37.560 to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.

00:00:40.300 And that's exactly what they did.

00:00:41.740 We got vaccinated to a higher level than just about any other of our peer countries.

00:00:46.080 And that's why we had...

00:00:46.940 Unfortunately, Mr Trudeau is precisely the kind of goat

00:00:50.560 who can successfully cling to the narrow ledges that truth has to offer.

00:00:56.660 For him, it's sufficient that the RCMP were not actually ordered

00:01:00.920 to break into people's houses and hold down the unvaccinated occupants 1.00

00:01:05.040 while nurses squirted vaccines into their arms.

00:01:09.260 In that narrow sense, he's correct.

00:01:12.420 See? Never forced anyone.

00:01:14.380 However, if truth has a spirit,

00:01:18.820 it was absent from the room that day.

00:01:21.240 For what Mr Trudeau offered the unvaccinated

00:01:24.620 was the same deal you get from the mugger.

00:01:28.020 Give me your wallet or else. 0.57

00:01:30.640 Specifically, if you were a civil servant,

00:01:33.580 worked for a federal contractor,

00:01:35.540 or for a federally regulated industry,

00:01:37.740 and you didn't give up your wallet...

00:01:40.060 Well, we're picketing because it's been more than a year

00:01:42.600 since we've had a contract,

00:01:44.480 and we're trying to get a fair wage increase

00:01:47.420 that matches the price of living, or increase in living.

00:01:50.720 You were done.

00:01:52.400 Out of a job.

00:01:53.860 Placed on administrative leave without pay.

00:01:57.440 Denied your livelihood.

00:01:59.400 And whether he likes it or not,

00:02:01.780 that is forcing people.

00:02:04.260 But there are far more people who obviously have died

00:02:07.980 due to COVID.

00:02:09.660 Died from not getting vaccinated.

00:02:12.880 And the idea that people can fly in the face of science?

00:02:18.300 Well, individuals are allowed to make their own choices.

00:02:21.160 There may be all sorts of different reasons

00:02:22.560 why someone is hesitant to get vaccinated.

00:02:25.860 But I make a distinction, and I always have,

00:02:29.560 between someone choosing for personal reasons

00:02:32.780 to choose not to get vaccinated.

00:02:35.400 And someone deliberately using misinformation

00:02:43.120 to mislead and scare other people

00:02:49.020 with so-called facts that aren't facts at all.

00:02:53.400 Private companies took the cue, as they generally do,

00:02:56.940 and started making similar demands.

00:02:59.100 Hospital administrations, desperately short of staff

00:03:04.300 as the emergency rooms filled up,

00:03:07.180 would still rather lay off non-compliant nurses

00:03:10.180 than accept people with medical training

00:03:12.580 who should be relied upon to make good judgments

00:03:15.740 for themselves.

00:03:17.340 BC laid off 2,500 medical staff

00:03:20.080 who wouldn't take the jab,

00:03:21.900 and Alberta laid off more than 1,600.

00:03:24.800 As for dissident doctors,

00:03:26.420 they obviously knew nothing

00:03:28.140 and were persecuted by their professional colleges,

00:03:30.920 which for practical purposes

00:03:32.140 had become enforcement arms for the government.

00:03:36.840 Ask these people whether they felt forced,

00:03:40.040 or those people in some provinces,

00:03:42.240 notably Quebec and briefly New Brunswick,

00:03:44.840 who were denied access to supermarkets

00:03:47.140 if they could not produce a QR card

00:03:49.820 indicating that they were vaccinated.

00:03:52.060 Their option was to pick up essentials

00:03:54.720 in the more expensive dépannules.

00:03:59.280 The Prime Minister also insulted people

00:04:01.640 who disagreed with him.

00:04:03.040 You were variously anti-social,

00:04:04.900 a bigot, probably a racist, 0.61

00:04:07.380 and likewise somebody who didn't treat women very well,

00:04:11.240 or all of the above.

00:04:12.280 Yes, we're going to get out of this pandemic

00:04:14.920 for the vaccination.

00:04:16.240 And we know all those people

00:04:18.420 who are trying to hesitate a little bit.

00:04:20.640 We're going to try to convince them.

00:04:22.520 But there's also those people

00:04:23.360 who are harshly opposed to the vaccination.

00:04:26.040 Who are extremists.

00:04:27.060 Who don't believe in science,

00:04:28.400 who are often misogynes,

00:04:30.140 who are often racist too.

00:04:31.660 It's a small group,

00:04:34.800 but who takes place.

00:04:36.660 And there, there's a choice

00:04:38.040 as a leader, as a country.

00:04:39.580 And that apparently is consistent

00:04:57.140 with the Prime Minister's mind

00:04:58.940 with making sure all of the incentives

00:05:01.660 and all of the protections were there

00:05:03.820 to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated.

00:05:07.020 that he subsequently regretted what he said

00:05:10.900 merely speaks to his irresponsible

00:05:13.580 shoot-from-the-lip style

00:05:15.300 that has caused so much embarrassment to himself

00:05:19.160 and irritation to hard-working, decent Canadians.

00:05:23.600 One of the saddest consequences

00:05:25.720 of the COVID years

00:05:27.160 is the much diminished trust

00:05:29.800 that Canadians have 1.00

00:05:31.140 for the institutions they depend upon.

00:05:33.580 the health care providers,

00:05:35.600 the provincial governments,

00:05:37.240 and federal leadership itself.

00:05:39.960 It's comments like this,

00:05:42.620 by turns deceitful and self-serving,

00:05:45.740 that do it.

00:05:47.920 Heaven forbid we should ever give up

00:05:50.080 on what is a very fine country,

00:05:52.520 this country of ours, Canada,

00:05:53.940 for all the abuses its people

00:05:56.500 have suffered at the hands

00:05:57.800 of this government

00:05:58.560 and the monstrous folly

00:06:00.160 of its financial decisions.

00:06:02.420 It remains an inspiration

00:06:03.840 everywhere to people

00:06:05.340 who want to live a better life.

00:06:07.820 But dear heavens,

00:06:09.060 we must place it

00:06:10.260 in the hands of more honest custodians.

00:06:14.280 This man is unworthy

00:06:15.820 of the office he holds.

00:06:17.340 For the Western Standard,

00:06:21.000 I'm Nigel Hannaford.

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00:06:36.740 And more importantly,

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Western Standard - April 28, 2023

HANNAFORD： Trudeau s distant relationship to the truth

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