CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER, ROCCO GALATI: LOCKDOWN MEASURES VIOLATE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

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all right
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good day everyone and welcome to bright
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light news um i’m tanya cazale and we
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are honored to have as our
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very first guest the esteemed canadian
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constitutional lawyer
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rocco golotti so welcome rocco and thank
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you so much for joining us today
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um now rocco can you just tell us a
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little bit about yourself and what you
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do
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oh well i’m not used to talking about
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myself
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i’ve i’ve been i’m i’ve been practicing
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law for 31 years
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i’m a constitutional lawyer i only do
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cases against the government
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and i’ve done some doozies in my career
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i
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i single-handedly uh constitutionalize
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the supreme court in the nade on
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reference
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i challenge justice nadan’s seat on the
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supreme court
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which ended in a 7-0 decision that said
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that
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if they can’t do anything to the supreme
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court without the unanimous consent of
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all 10 provinces
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i uh in nine in 2012 i had
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17 federal court judges fired who were
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sitting per diem past the age 75
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a practice a corrupt practice that had
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been going on
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since 1927. in 1999 i was co-counseling
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a case called baker that rewrote
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administrative law
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that decided that anytime a government
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official
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made a decision that affected your life
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for livelihood
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they had to give you written reasons
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prior to that they could just say no and
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they’re not required to give you reasons
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so you can never go to court when the
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government denied you something because
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you have no basis to go to court so
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that’s the kind of work i do
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it’s mostly it’s it’s mostly superior
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court and appellate court and supreme
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court work
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you know i’m a former bencher of the law
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society i’ve been
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named twice one of the top 25 lawyers in
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the country by canadian lawyer magazine
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and in 2015 i was a recipient of the
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uh ontario bar association’s
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president president’s award which is the
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most prestigious award given by members
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of the park
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i was the first lawyer to get that prior
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to me getting that award
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only judges and organizations had been
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recipients so i was the first lawyer to
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get that award
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can we start with what the role of the
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government is so
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governments while they’re supposed to
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reflect
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the will of their citizens and the
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democratic process and protect
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their citizens spend most of the time
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doing the opposite governments need to
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be feared and mistrusted
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and i mean a lot of constitutions that’s
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why they have
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bills of rights and charter of rights
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the charter of right
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is there to protect the citizens of
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canada against the government
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that’s why it’s there if governments
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didn’t commit these atrocities against
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their own citizens
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we wouldn’t need a charter of rights
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okay
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right thank you now rocco can you tell
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me which
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constitutional rights and freedoms have
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been violated
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well how long is this broadcast first of
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all
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first of all first of all
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they have violated the constitutional
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right that’s been in place since 18
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1688 under the english bill of rights
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which is read into our constitution
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of dispensing with parliament under the
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pretense of royal prerogative
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so they’re they’re they’re governing now
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through ministerial
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and cabinet orders and they’ve basically
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dispensed with parliament
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number one constitutional infringement
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and that’s structural that’s not under
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the charter they can’t do a section 33
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ever
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override or claim reasonable limit on
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the section one of the charter that is a
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structural breach
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that they cannot uh cure
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number two they’ve they’ve
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uh relinquished the duty to govern by
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dispensing a parliament which is another
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constitution structural constitutional
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breach
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number three they’ve abused their
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authority because if you look at the
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legislation in ontario for existence the
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example in order to call an emergency
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you have to have two prerequisites
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they didn’t meet the two prerequisites
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so they’re acting illegally
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totally renegade uh
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so past that the measures breach
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the charter of rights sections 2
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7 8 9 and 15.
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under section 2 they breached the right
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of freedom of
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freedom of association freedom uh
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freedom of thought conscience
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expression uh under section seven they
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breached
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section seven of the charter to life
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liberty and the security of the person
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which which includes being
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hampering the way you pampering your
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breathing literally
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and telling you how to breathe without a
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master with a mask
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uh they’re gonna infringe your section
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seven rights when they bring in
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mandatory vaccination under section
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eight
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they engaged in unlawful and
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unreasonable search and seizure of
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businesses by ordering them closed
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so ma and post hardware stores
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clothing stores shoe stores were closed
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but walmart and costco
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got to sell everything under the sun
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just because they were selling a bit of
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food in the corner that makes no sense
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to me that’s an unreasonable search and
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seizure
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of the mom and paw independent
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businesses by the way
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uh the association of independent
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businesses in british columbia just
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announced that
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21 000 businesses in british columbia
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alone
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have closed down as a result of the
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coveted measures meanwhile the big
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the the multi-national corporations are
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doing a booming business
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which is part of this agenda they also
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are infringing section 9 of the charter
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by these are
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against arbitrary detention
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by these by-law enforcement officers
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who are enforcing illegal
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who are illegally enforcing the law so
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for instance the masking law
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all the masking laws say that you have
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you should wear a mask unless you’re
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exempt
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so when people invoke an exemption that
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exemption
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is not being respected so the people who
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don’t respect the
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exemption are in fact breaking the law
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and so when a bylaw officer or police
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officer
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detains you or even a store person
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detains you arbitrarily
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and furthermore is not respecting the
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exemption in the law
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that’s an arbitrary detention contrary
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to section 9 of the charter
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then you have a vicious ugly vile
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depraved
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infringement of section 15 of the
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charter with respect to two
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vulnerable groups the physically and
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neurologically disabled whether they be
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adults or children
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and the aged senior citizens so
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the physically and neurologically
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disabled including
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and especially children with special
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needs
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while they protect they’ve imposed the
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general lockdown and covert measures on
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them
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they have made absolutely no provision
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to help these poor kids and these poor
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adults
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and they’re left out there to to
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vanquish
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do you think a severely autistic child
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knows how to enter
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do you think a mentally disabled adult
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knows
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or can adhere to these measures they
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have not accommodated them
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they have not accommodated them by
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putting in measures that
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keep up their social contacts their
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places to go and get therapy
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and all of that that is very vicious and
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very severe
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and of course given that 84
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of all people who died from the povid
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died in
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long-term term care facilities their
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equality rights to be protected under
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this so-called pandemic
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have been severely breached with the
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with the
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uh uh vast vast bulk of the
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impact falling on them so those are the
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charter rates that have been breached
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you