A FORM OF COLLECTIVE DEMENTIA

 In this episode, Rex Murphy and Jordan Peterson discuss the strange times in current Canadian politics, the perpetual scandals of Justin Trudeau, media censorship and the appalling Bill C-11, fascism on the Left, Zoom parliament, and much more. Thanks for watching.

CANADA- THE COUNTRY OF THE LONG WAIT

   A few days ago my wife and I brought her mother, who was suffering from a serious leg infection, to the local ER. We were worried about the possibility of gangrene, which an acquaintance some years back had contracted under similar circumstances, resulting in the amputation of his leg. As expected, the ER was jam-packed, and it soon became clear that my mother-in-law would have to wait at least six and even twelve hours before she could be seen. No triage had been performed to determine rank of urgency. Meanwhile, a youngish man in a wheelchair, doubled over and clutching his chest, was bitterly complaining that he had suffered a heart attack. But he too would have to wait before being attended to — assuming he would still be alive by then.
     This is publicly funded “single-payer” Medicare, the pride of the Canadian medical system, though in reality, an institutional atrocity equaled only, perhaps, by the British National Health Service (NHS). Even our doctors are suffering, six having died suddenly within a period of days, apparently following the mandated fourth jab (though the likely cause of death was strenuously and predictably denied by hospital administrations). What are they waiting for, we might ask, to recognize the folly of failed medical policy? After all, the Grim Reaper is no slouch.

ARRIVECAN APP DESTROYING BORDER ECONOMY

 By the mid-summer of 2022, a lot of tourism businesses near the Canadian border started to notice something: Where is everybody?

Pandemic restrictions are lifted, but there aren’t nearly as many Americans blowing money at Niagara Falls casinos. In May 2020, just before COVID started, almost a million people crossed the border near Buffalo, N.Y. In May 2022, it was about half a million.

If you ask basically any politician whose constituency is near the U.S./Canadian border, they know exactly what to blame for all this: The ArriveCAN app.

FREELAND BLOWING HOT AIR

Canada has a “political responsibility” to step up as Russia strangles flows of natural gas to European allies — and that includes a role for Ottawa in advancing a potential East Coast LNG plant, says Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Speaking with journalists from Saint John, N.B., on Wednesday, Freeland was asked about whether Canada should be doing more to supply European countries with LNG — liquefied natural gas — as those countries rapidly scale back their dependence on Russian fuel following its invasion in Ukraine.

On whether she backed a plant in Saint John specifically, though, Freeland did not say.

“I think this is not the moment to pick specific projects,” she said.

WHAT TRUDEAU'S FERTILIZER REDUCTION PLAN WILL MEAN

Justin Trudeau demonstrates a total lack of practical understanding of how our food is produced, where it comes from and how it gets into the Provigo down the block. He acts as if it is magically produced in the back of the store and just appears as needed on the shelves.

Another sign of Trudeau’s disconnect from the real world (and an indication that nothing matters to him as much as the cult of climate alarmism) is that he has proclaimed his new fertilizer-reduction regulation in the middle of the worst food inflation Canadian consumers have faced in 40 years.

No fertilizer means lower yields, less food and higher prices.

ICED TERRORIST CHIEF'S INFINITE BLOODLUST

 Al-Qaida chieftain Ayman al-Zawahiri’s bloodlust knew no bounds. It was limitless.

Even as a U.S. drone turned the maniacal monster into a grease spot on a filthy Kabul street this past weekend, his fanaticism never wavered for a moment.

The mastermind of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 that killed almost 3,000 men, women and children in New York City, a farmer’s field in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon was finally taken off the board.

OF TRUCK CONVOYS & THE PM's JET

 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s month of feverish jet travel consumed roughly enough fossil fuel to power a good-sized convoy of trucks.

In July, as calculated by the National Post’s Bryan Passifiume, there were only 11 days where Trudeau was not travelling aboard the official prime ministerial jet.

In 20 trips — almost all of which were for photo ops or goodwill visits — Trudeau logged 26,238 kilometres of jet travel. This included a 5,500-km flight to spend six hours at the Calgary Stampede, and a 62-km hop between Penticton and Kelowna in order to avoid rush hour traffic.