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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, February 15th, 2022.

I'm John Poppore. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a Greenwald Hyade. Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hi Christine. Hi John.

And associate editor, no, Rossman, Hi Noah. Hi John.

So much to talk about today. We have Marshall Law in Canada. We have approaching a

Marshall action in Ukraine. We have the Los Angeles Times arguing that kids have no problem

being in masks. So why is everybody complaining that kids are in masks? They seem to be doing

just fine and they don't mind, which is an interesting act of mind reading of 75 million

people in the United States who don't have an independent voice and don't publish op-eds

and things like that. So I don't know, I don't know where to go. So the teeny-bopper prime minister

of Canada has decided that he had no more, no more Mr. Nice idiot and he's applying a

Marshall Law executive order used by his father, the prime minister 50 years ago, to quill

an actual terrorist group, a Quebec separatist group that was bombing all over Quebec.

And here we have Marshall Law being declared to clear the streets of Ottawa and other places of

the trucker convoys. Canada does not have our Constitution. Canada is not a state of the

United States. Canada does not have our constitutional structure or our commitment to civil liberties

in the same way as a Commonwealth state and not an independent nation with its own

set of traditions of free speech, free assembly and all of that. Those are certainly permitted

and indulged in and all of that but not defended by the highest laws and principles of the state.

So why should we care? We should absolutely care. First of all, it's not the exact same law

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