YouTube SSL certificate verify failure (python?)

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Hi, very recently youtube-dl gives me this error everytime I use it. Can someone please help to solve this? What can I do to fix it please? I installed python 3.6 hoping to fix it but still doing it.

"J:_Food Videos_Chinese\Happy Wok>youtube-dl -cit -v -f bestvideo+bestaudio "ht
tps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUR4ViaAVLLzKQ2ex6u1Sg" --download-archive FILE.
txt
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-cit', '-v', '-f', 'bestvideo+bestaudio', 'https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUR4ViaAVLLzKQ2ex6u1Sg', '--download-archive', 'FILE.t
xt']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.01.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-80924-gb450b82
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:channel] UCaUR4ViaAVLLzKQ2ex6u1Sg: Downloading channel page
WARNING: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAI
LED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)>
[youtube:channel] UCaUR4ViaAVLLzKQ2ex6u1Sg: Downloading page #1
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILE
D] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL
: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)'),))
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9qq9vblw\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 406, in _request_webpage
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9qq9vblw\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2001, in urlopen
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp9qq9vblw\bu
ild\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 1041, in https_open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open

J:_Food Videos_Chinese\Happy Wok>pause
Press any key to continue . . ."

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