Queen of Canada doc director talks about the isolation to ‘cult’ pipeline

I did not know I was in a cult. Romana DiDolo is a cult leader who has convinced tens of thousands of followers. She is the Queen of Canada. This is for the Kingdom of Canada. Yeah, it is 100% a cult. It is really controlled by Romana and a couple of people who are her left-hand people. They dictate what goes. They don't really have a concrete ideology. It constantly shifts. it's really whatever romana wants covid was like a mass um trauma that a lot of people endured um especially these people they're isolated from their friends and their family they you know they didn't take the vaccine so then they couldn't work they were going through economic hardship and romana sort of arrived as like a savior you know she was like well you can join my canada where all of these things don't matter um and you can have a community again like here's bunch of people who who think exactly like you think who let you voice your opinions who won't push you aside and it's very appealing she told us that our phones had been bugged and she was taking away people's power you can't manage a camp with 10 people how can you fix the world i really feel horrible for the former members of the group because all like they see these other these people who they went through covid with in chat rooms um who event they eventually transitioned into real life like they see them as their family members like they see them as their like close friends um and as soon as they stop getting along with Romana they're cut off from all those people and they have to start again so again they're isolated again they're pushed to the fringe again and that's a point i make with the doc sort of is like at the end of that one of our main characters, Kim, is basically saying, I couldn't find salvation in Romana, but I'm looking for the next thing.