Nova Scotia’s Forest Fire Rules： Hiking Banned, First Nations Exempt
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the ridiculousness of the government's new ban on First Nations hiking and fishing in the woods, and why it's a good thing it's not a fire hazard. We also talk about how stupid governments are when it comes to safety.
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But what really just made this chef's kiss for me was when the Nova Scotia government created an exemption for First Nations.
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So, you know, going for a hike in the forest, going fishing, these things could inadvertently start a forest fire.
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But if you happen to belong to a First Nation, then the risk might not be so great.
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I don't know. Is this the difference? I'm going to get in trouble on this one.
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Is this the difference between an Indian fire and a white plant fire?
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I don't know where to go with the answer with that one.
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But I mean, they're inviting this kind of discussion because the absurdity of this.
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They're just getting so bold and blatant and showing that this has absolutely nothing to do with the fire risk.
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What's it about? What is it about then? I don't understand.
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It's control. I mean, I brought many, many safety guys to tears during my 20 years in the oil field.
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No, I was the surveyor who defied the safety guy who fought with the safety guy who would battle with them.
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I like to see the guy who shows up in his pickup truck drunk, fired.
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I like to see the guy who's blasting down the cut line on a quad with no helmet on and jumping off the stumps, disciplined.
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I don't like the twits and morons, though, who start imposing stuff where there really wasn't a risk to begin with.
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Like, for example, they started with ATV bans in the woods and things like that, chainsaws.
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Okay, those are hot items that could start a fire and there could be a problem.
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But when you start to ban hikers, that's safety guys gone wild where they just go to the length of the absurd.
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And then it also shows that they tend to be also the ones who are woke to the max as well.
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Well, oh dear, we've got a First Nations play that's coming up and they're going to be very upset if we cancel this.
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If there had been any other play, or heaven forbid, a Christian singer.
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It was a digital interpretation of Shakespeare, which I think is cultural appropriation.
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Which I think most of us don't mind or care, but it is.
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And they're just scared of canceling that to upset them.
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There's no race less likely to light a fire than another.
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Or if we wanted to dig down into some stats, we might find some stuff they really don't want to find out.
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Oh, we're going to have to cap our spiciness right there.
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But it's just bureaucrats gone wild and they've got the authority.
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And I'm glad this happened with this because it exposed just how stupid it is.
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And to your point about control, there is the thing that locks that into place.
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It's when governments don't have an imagination, then they start restricting people.
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But they want you to become a partner with them in enforcement.
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And I'm just amazed that people will even tolerate it for a moment.
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Well, and real safety is difficult, but bans are easy.
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You know, if, but it's funny that most often, at least we could do a bit of a cost benefit.
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I mean, how many children die in swimming pools every year across the country?
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If we wanted to reduce it to zero, there's only one way.
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You'd make reasonable mitigations like white gardens.
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Fencing around the pools, training, lots of things.
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But you do have, we have accepted that as it sits right now, a number of children are going
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To be honest, I won't be shocked if it gets to a point where they start banning the bloody
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If you're going to ban people from walking in the woods, because that's the only way they
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think they can reduce the human ability to light a fire to zero, as ridiculous as that
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sounded 10 years ago today, apparently it's just a shrug of the shoulders.
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Well, it'd be the same with the only way to eliminate auto accidents.
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Of course, we've decided that that is not reasonable.
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There's things we can do to mitigate things, but people are still dying every single day
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I think this is actually, this kind of government overreach actually creates danger.
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You know, I remember saying during COVID that I hope to God we don't actually get the big
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Like if we, if we got a real, you know, like one of, you know, one of these movies where
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it's like, it's the black death and it's a genuine crisis, you know, I mean, a restriction
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of your freedoms can in some circumstances be justified if the trade-offs are appropriate.
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If you're not going intentionally too far, there is a circumstance under which lockdowns could
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But the abuse of government power by virtually nearly every government around the world and
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especially in Canada during COVID made sure that it destroyed our trust in institutions.
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It destroyed social trust to the point where if we got the big one, if we got, you know, black
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plague coming, um, so many people, uh, if it, if it happens within, I think 15 years of COVID
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here, people are going to say, ah, you got, you got us last time.
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People are, people will not follow, uh, reasonable recommendations or reasonable restrictions.
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Uh, you know, you do have to curtail some activities during a forest, uh, for high risk of forest
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Like I ride my quad every single day around my own land here, but if we were under a fire
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watch, I understand that, okay, maybe that could create a grass fire on my land.
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But if the government's always, if the government's going around banning me from hiking or fishing,
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clearly things that have no impact whatsoever, I'm less likely to trust the more reasonable
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restriction that, Hey, right now you probably shouldn't ride your quad because it could cause