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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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0:00.0 | You mentioned you were in Canada. Let's move to Canada because there's some action |
0:04.2 | going on there too. So this is from Alberta. This was just last summer, the headline from |
0:09.2 | CBC. So mainstream, role of politicians in pandemic restriction decision-making breached |
0:15.2 | Alberta Public Health Act. |
0:17.2 | The judge there ruled all of the restrictions, remember non-essential businesses, basically prohibited people from making a living. |
0:24.8 | They ruled those ultra-varies, which means it's beyond the legal authority. |
0:28.6 | They did not have the legal authority to make those decisions, those politicians. |
0:32.2 | So what happened now is this has set up one of potentially the largest class action lawsuits in Alberta history from a company called Rath in company. |
0:41.0 | These are legal representatives and they are putting forth |
0:45.2 | this class action just starting within the last couple of weeks here. You can go into it and |
0:51.4 | read it and it reads this it says this is a proposed |
0:54.4 | class action on behalf of all individuals who own and or operated businesses in |
0:58.6 | a province of Alberta and whose business operations were fully or partially restricted as a result of the measures contained in the |
1:05.2 | CMOH, that's a chief medical officer of health orders, and who suffered losses as a result. |
1:11.1 | So this is going to be ongoing. This is going to be |
1:13.9 | stretching out probably for some time now because I don't see Canada or Alberta really |
1:18.2 | caving to this. I think they're going to fight this. But that is that is a |
1:21.8 | positive thing because people in Alberta, and throughout the world, let's be honest, lost |
1:26.5 | businesses, lost livelihoods, led to the size as well. |
1:30.8 | So there's real consequences here for economies from what what has happened |
1:35.0 | that they did not have the authority to do so yeah some of the other things that |
1:39.2 | happen obviously we covered this the vaccine mandates that happened over the last three years really just |
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