Fireside Chat Ep. 227 — Is Canada Lost?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

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Self-improvement, Education, How To

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Is Canada lost? Dennis addresses Canada’s rapid descent into authoritarianism—suspending and violating basic human rights and freezing bank accounts of those supporting dissenters. Worst of all, many Canadians support this crackdown. Dennis explores whether there is still hope for our neighbors to the north. Read Dennis’s column on this topic: Is Canada Becoming North America’s Cuba? https://dennisprager.com/column/is-canada-becoming-north-americas-cuba/ Note: This episode was recorded before Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here with Otto. Some may think it's the opposite.
0:05.0	Hi everybody, this is the Otto show with Dennis Prager.
0:10.7	It's all your your call. How you like it? It's the fireside chat number.
0:15.8	227. 227. And as all of you know, there's a special meaning to 227.
0:25.0	Can't think of it off hand, but I'm sure there is. So I got something on my mind,
0:36.1	which I usually do. And then I take your questions. It's on my mind.
0:41.2	Believe it or not, right now is not Russia and Ukraine.
0:46.4	It's certainly an issue, but Canada. Canada is essentially lost to the Western world as a free country.
1:00.0	The speed with which a country can become an unfree country is frightening.
1:08.2	Now, in a sense, it's it's not speedy. It's been happening over time with the
1:17.4	wokeness that prevails Canada even more so than the United States.
1:22.4	Many of you know Jordan Peterson. This wonderful remarkable brilliant man.
1:28.2	Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto until very recently.
1:33.2	When he I think I believe he he left.
1:39.2	And it was his opposition to wokeness in Canada being ordered to say certain pronouns
1:46.2	that brought him international fame, especially his interview.
1:50.2	I think it was with the BBC where his he answered the woke BBC interviewer
1:58.2	so effectively that he got an international following.
2:03.2	Would that I be interviewed by the BBC? Oh, gods above.
2:09.2	May you arrange that. By the way, I believe in one god just to get this.
2:18.2	You never know what'll be taken out. Prager declares himself a polytheist.
2:23.2	I could see it. It's hard to joke these days.
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