Democracy Dies in Darkness..

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[00:00:00]Democracy dies in darkness in Canada under its current leadership is learning just what that means. Now it seems to be happening at every level of government from your federal government to the provincial governments and maybe even your municipal government right in your hometown. This is what's happening across the board. Here's a clip from CT city news. chaos and yelling as government in Canada makes themselves exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests. This is unreal. So now they won't be able to get the phone records uh between politicians and I don't know their crony friends that are swinging deals behind the scenes. An omnibus budget bill secretly included a statute exempting themselves from foyer requests. Records on cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants, and their offices, including staff, are now largely exempt from foyer requests. This is just absolutely insane. And this is brought to you by Doug Ford and his conservatives in on terrible.

[00:01:06]MPPPs from the opposition yelling shame and FOI while the vote was taking place.

[00:01:12]That's why members of the Ford government voted in favor of the FOI changes and the rest of the budget bill.

[00:01:19]The FOI law will limit public and media access to certain government documents, effectively keeping records and information and data involving Premier Ford, his cabinet from scrutiny, and that's going to be retroactive as well.

[00:01:34]So any requests that have been made before now may not come forward. The new legislation would normally go to a committee. The public would have a chance to weigh in at that point before any proposed changes. But after a late night session in the legislature last night, that was fasttracked to a vote today and it's gone forward.

[00:01:56]>> We're not taking people's rights. Uh you folks will have lots of access. You have lots of tools that will continue. We'll continue to debate bills in the House.

[00:02:04]We are going to continue to I'm out every 90 days telling the people how I spent their money.

[00:02:10]>> Premier, >> we just don't want you to know if we've been talking to the Chinese or something like that. This is absolutely ridiculous. Of course, Ford saying that it's it's it's about it's about people's privacy. That's exactly what's going on.

[00:02:22]Doug Ford claims that the FOI changes that he added to the budget bill. It's why not just make it its own bill? You got to add it to the budget bill. So, it definitely will pass. Are only controversial to two groups. That's it.

[00:02:36]Only two groups. Have a listen.

[00:02:37]>> Well, let me let me tell you something.

[00:02:38]It's only controversial with two groups.

[00:02:40]The media and with the opposition.

[00:02:42]Folks, this is nothing new. We are pulling a rap. The media is supposed to be holding you to account and the opposition is supposed to do the same thing. That's that's the whole point. Of course, it's controversial with them.

[00:02:54]>> But out of our hat, all other province are doing exactly what we're doing. The federal government >> that doesn't make things better.

[00:03:01]Everybody everybody else is is going into secrecy. This is crazy.

[00:03:06]>> Has been doing it for years. 95% I'm gonna repeat this. 95% is fiable. So that will keep you folks uh happy. The other 5%. So if I get a a call for example about someone's health or family issues, which I get a thousand a day, I'm behind 6,743 as of right now, but they want that information out in the public. There isn't one person in Ontario that wants their personal information uh exposed.

[00:03:36]especially those uh Communist Party leaders from China that are calling you on late night calls. Perhaps they don't want their stuff uh to be seen either.

[00:03:48]That's that's the big deal here.

[00:03:51]>> Ford has throughout all of this said that 95% of information would still be accessible and that it would be limited to 5% that wouldn't be made public.

[00:04:02]>> Just got to make sure that 5% is remained secret. That's all. just got to make sure that we can't get access to I don't know maybe the actual inner workings of the government.

[00:04:13]>> However, there has been dispute over that and the idea that some information would still be made available.

[00:04:20]He's talking about how it would be to protect personal information. That's the type of information that would be redacted at that point and wouldn't be made available anyway. So, there's lots of dispute over that. And of course, the opposition leaders, both the NDP and the Liberal, had something to say about that as well.

[00:04:40]>> Democracy dies in darkness, and this government has used their budget bill, and I will say budgets are moral documents. They have used their budget bill as a way to do to hide from the people of Ontario.

[00:04:52]>> People of Ontario aren't going to know what's going on in their government. And it's not just for the premier's government. It's for all governments.

[00:04:59]It's for all parties. It's for all people working in the public service.

[00:05:04]Right? That's why we have those things so people know how the government is using the billions of dollars that they send them they send to government every year.

[00:05:15]>> So the vote happened today as a result of the legislature taking another break tomorrow and all next week before returning. However, the Liberal Party has said at that point they plan on trying to introduce more motions to bring the FOI back to the surface to try and have more debate to and see what more they can do to try and stop this from happening.

[00:05:37]>> Yeah. Well, good luck with that. Doug Ford doesn't seem to have that sort of uh prerogative going forward. Oh, and DP leader Merritt Styles on Doug Ford's proposed FOI changes. These are these changes are simply to shield Doug Ford and his government from accountability over the things like the green belt carve uh the green belt carve up. So this is a controversy uh where they were just giving away land that was supposed to be public land uh all of the uh preferential treatment that that they've been giving to companies.

[00:06:14]>> Let me ask you this too. It's been 40 years since the FOI regulations and since the law has been updated. So, I think, you know, it's fair to say it was probably in need of an update. And what do you make and and your response to the government saying to that they're trying to get it in line with other provinces and then the federal uh ATIP uh as well too, which has been they both have been a mess to be perfectly honest with with how they operate in particular, but trying to bring it in line with what the federal government is doing as well.

[00:06:41]>> I think it's baloney. I just think it's complete poppycock. I I could think of another word for it, but you know, this is this is absolutely uh well beyond uh any kind of tinkering to update or modernize. This is plain and simple an attack an attack on transparency. And this is a government that does not willingly uh offer transparency or accountability to the people of Ontario.

[00:07:07]So these changes just simply shield Doug Ford and his government from accountability over things like the green belt uh carb up all of the preferential treatment that they've been giving to companies like >> yes the cronyism the cronyism that's absolutely what it is is you're hiding the cronyism so when they get a call from some mobster that says hey I want you to do a thing it doesn't have to go out to the public that's really what's happening when they get a call from the Chinese Communist Party saying hey we want you to do a that it doesn't have to go out to the public. And that's really what they're hiding. Doug Ford says his cell phone uh records must remain hidden to protect people's privacy. Well, of course, we're trying to protect the privacy of the of the Chinese Communist Party. Is that who we're protecting? This is the way it's going. Now, uh where we got CTV News saying anti-Dford rallies take place across Ontario to protect OSAP FOYA changes. About 55 demonstrations are expected across the province as people protest various measures. But we know how protests go in Canada. If they don't like you protesting, well, they're just going to come out and beat you up. Even declare a state of emergency. Come beat you up. This is how it goes in Canada.

[00:08:24]But that's that's where we are now. On the federal side of things, it's not much better. Conservatives call on the auditor general to investigate a $250 million prescribe IT program. What is that? A program launched in 2017 to modernize the way doctors and uh prescriptions to pharmacies. This is this came out ages ago and it was a boondoggle. It just the money was wasted. The money was sent out. And who got it? We don't know. We don't know who got it. What did it do? We don't know.

[00:08:56]It didn't really do anything.

[00:08:58]Conservative MPs are calling on the auditor general to probe the federal government's handling of a $250 million program, which reportedly is set to be scrapped next month. Now, the where' the money go? Prescribe it was launched in 2017 to modernize the way doctors send prescriptions and pharmacies. Basically, they wanted to get away from going to fax machines. That's it. $250 million spent on a program to get people to stop using fax machines and start using emails essentially. And did they how much success did it have? Well, very little. And here's the thing. As soon as we want to find out about it and we have a committee to talk about it, this is what happens. So, well, we'll get to this in just a second. This was at the committee. The liberals just decided, hey, we're going to turn off the cameras right now. And we're not going to let the public know about this. Tables help put this out there. Holy f. The Liberals just used their new majority to turn off the effing cameras to the par at a parliamentary committee meeting. This meeting was to uncover details about $350 million that was lost in a government program. This is just insane.

[00:10:13]We'll have a look at this right here.

[00:10:15]>> Thank you, chair, and um uh congratulations. Uh we look forward to working together um all around the table with you and looking forward to your guidance uh and our committee. Uh with that I move uh to uh uh to have the meeting in camera.

[00:10:30]>> Thank you.

[00:10:31]>> The meeting is in in camera already.

[00:10:33]>> It is in camera.

[00:10:34]>> No public. Oh, sorry. It is in public.

[00:10:37]Uh uh is there will of the committee to go?

[00:10:40]>> No, we have to vote. save you the the time of watching them vote. Yes, they voted to have this in secret. They turned off everything and the public was no longer allowed to watch. Table salaw also putting this out there. Maggie Chi, a Chinese-born MP, has just voted to turn off the all the cameras and recording devices in the parliamentary health committee be bar bearing the public barring the public from ever accessing any records of what occurred. The topic $300 million is wasted on prescribed it.

[00:11:16]That's right. There we go. Awesome.

[00:11:19]Isn't that fantastic? So, oh boy. Let's get back to what was being said by Bruce here. Liberal MP Maggie Chi explains why non-citizens should have This is also what she did. That's just uh why non-citizens should not have to surrender their passports after being charged with a serious crime. I'm not kidding. This is uh this is our government. Let me now turn to one of the most troubling aspect of Bill C242, its treatment of non-citizens. The bill presoses mandatory passport surrender and distinct bail conditions based solely on citizenship status. But Mr. Speaker, we're not the United States in >> it's based on nonitizenship status.

[00:12:00]>> Canada, the charter guarantees equality before the law. Creating different bail rules for non-citizen risk violating these protections.

[00:12:09]>> I love this. They're all about the charter until it harms uh them. That's it. They they don't care about the charter of rights and freedoms. This is just the reality of this. I'd love to hear your comments on that in the comments section down below. Speaking of the charter, well, people have charter rights and they don't care about that.

[00:12:29]Here we are. Another provincial government. This is from this from Nova Scotia. The premier Tim Houston response to a Supreme Court ruling that found his government's ban on walking in the woods. We heard about that, right? Just last year during last year's wildfires as unconstitutional. It was unconstitutional to do so. Finally had our day in court. And he says, "Yeah, he'll do it. He'll violate people's charter and constitutional rights again no matter what." It's just it's just what he wants to do.

[00:12:57]>> Think it's I'm not I'm not aware of an appeal being prepared. It's kind of come and gone. And as we move forward, I as premier will certainly look at circumstances in that are in front of me at any given moment in time. And I will always do what is necessary to keep people safe, to keep property safe every single time. We'll make that decision.

[00:13:18]We'll do that again if if necessary.

[00:13:19]>> It's for your safety, folks. It's just for your safety. Isn't that the old the old adage? You know, trade uh your liberty for just a little bit of security. And guess what? You'll end up with neither. This is the reality. So, Conservative MP or premier, sorry, scoffs at the Supreme Court ruling that is that his banning people from walking in the woods was unconstitutional. Says they'll do it again. Canada's tyrant leaders see themselves as above the law.

[00:13:46]And they are if there are no repercussions for this kind of behavior.

[00:13:50]So, this is the thing. And it was actually good friend of mine Jeff Eively that was the one to challenge this this decision and go to the courts. and he lost the No, well, Jeff didn't lose. The government lost. Uh, Mr. Houston lost in that in that fight, but Jeff Eively got that. And guess what? We're going to have a chance to chat with him tonight. Tonight on the live show, so tune in for that. Marty and the Marty and Clyde show will be postponed by one day. Marty had to be at another thing for Alberta Prosperity.

[00:14:21]So, we'll be doing that Thursday night.

[00:14:23]Tonight, come check out the show. I'm gonna have Jeff Eively on. and we're going to be talking about this and a few other subjects. So, love to hear what you guys have to say about the government wanting to be in secret with all of this. Uh, leave your comments in the comment section down below and of course, we'll see you in the next one.

[00:14:38]Keep on tracking.