After seven months of fighting the fines, it's time to face Canada's second lockdown
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Why should others go to jail when you don't pay a fine for getting a lockdown ticket? It's my bloody right to do so, and I d love to hear your reactions to it. If you get a ticket for not wearing a mask, for having a friend over, for hugging your grandmother, for opening your restaurant, for trying to earn a living, or for having Christmas dinner, come to me. We will fight your fine.
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Hello, my friends. I got a big announcement today. I know you're going to laugh at first.
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You're going to say that's impossible. We're announcing a project to hire lawyers
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for the first 1,000 people to get lockdown fines. And I know you're thinking that's impossible.
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You can't do 1,000 cases. Well, the crazy thing is we've actually taken 161 complaints from
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members of the public, and we're working our way through that. We're helping some of them
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in a bulk legal action. The others we're helping one at a time. So if we can handle 161,
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why can't we hire a few more lawyers, use our system, and help 1,000? I'll tell you my plan,
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and I'd love your reaction to it. Before I do, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
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That's this podcast, but the visuals of it, it's actually designed as a TV show. I think it's
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better that way. You also get Sheila Gunn-Reid's weekly show, David Menzies' weekly show. And I
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think it's important. I mean, you get a lot of good stuff out of it, but we get the right to live
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and do journalism because we don't get any money from Justin Trudeau. This subscription fee is actually
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a very important part of how we pay our bills here. So maybe that is a reason to subscribe too.
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Tonight, we're vastly expanding our Fight the Fines Legal Aid Project. I hope you'll support us.
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It's November 25th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I have an important announcement, and I'd be grateful if you help me share it with everyone
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you can. I am hiring a team of lawyers to defend every single Canadian who gets a lockdown ticket
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for not wearing a mask, for having a friend over, for letting kids play with each other,
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for hugging your grandmother, for opening your restaurant and trying to earn a living,
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for having a Christmas dinner, for living your life. If you get a ticket for any of that,
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come to me starting right now and continuing on through the Christmas season into the new year.
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Normally, the words free lawyer don't go together, but that is what we're doing.
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If you get one of these outrageous, unconstitutional lockdown tickets,
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don't pay it. Don't plead guilty. Don't do it. We're not going to pay your fine. We will fight
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your fine. What have you got to lose? You can find out the details at fightthefines.com.
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You can go to that website right now and fill out a form telling us what happened to you.
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We'll have a lawyer reach out to you to get more information, including a copy of your ticket.
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We reserve the right to not take every case, but it is my plan to literally fight 1,000 tickets
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across Canada. 1,000. One of them could be yours. I know this sounds incredible,
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but we've been practicing on a smaller scale for seven months now. We've worked out a system.
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We've set up a software program to keep track of all the cases. We've built an assembly line of
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lawyers, really. We're ready. And this insane, bullying, unscientific second lockdown wave means
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we've got to launch our new program right now. Go to fightthefines.com to check it out. If you need
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our help, fill out the form. And if you don't need help yourself, but want to help other people,
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please consider helping us crowdfund the cost of these lawyers. I believe there are enough cases here
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to keep several lawyers and paralegals busy full-time and a senior lawyer to manage them.
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I expect the next few months alone will cost $200,000 in legal bills, but we've got a system
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now that can handle 1,000 cases. I want every case because I want to save Christmas for everyone
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who's about to be hit with a $1,000 fine. And I want to show these tyrants, these premiers and mayors,
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and especially the unelected health czars, that they're wrong to think they can pick on people
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who can't afford a lawyer. I want to show the police and the prosecutors that they're not going
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to have a compliant and submissive population that just rolls over. This isn't going to turn into a
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cash grab for them either with all these fines. And if they really are going to issue these absurd
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illegal tickets, I want these government bullies to know that no one's going to plead guilty and make
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it easy for them. We're going to have a thousand trials of these cases. So you better start building
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a couple of new courthouses now. If Canada's little dictators are really going to prosecute
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everybody, they need to know that the system will implode under the weight of this until a common
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sense judge throws them all out, which I think is quite possible. So do not pay your fine. Don't do it.
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Fight your fine. Go to fightthefines.com to get help for yourself or to help others through
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crowdfunding. This isn't just a pipe dream. We've been preparing for this for seven months,
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perfecting our system. We started this Fight the Fines project back in April. Our first case was a
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Christian pastor named Arthur Pavlovsky, who was fined $1,200 for literally feeding the homeless.
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What kind of cop does that? The police actually pushed the pastors around. They said feeding the
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homeless on the street was an illegal gathering. I'm serious. That's what they said. So we hired a
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lawyer for that pastor and we fought the ticket. And you know, the crown prosecutor dropped the case
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without even a trial. They knew it was legal junk. It was just a purely political fine. It was just
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trying to scare the pastor into obedience, but they never counted on this pastor being able to hire
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a serious lawyer willing to fight it all the way. So they dropped the ticket completely.
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They didn't want to go to court with such an outrageous ticket. Same thing for a case we took
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in May for Walter Matheson out in New Brunswick. A cop gave Walter a ticket, forget this, just sitting
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in his car at a Tim Hortons parking lot, drinking his coffee. Take a listen.
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No, that's just one here in Hampton. Just this one. So if you come back, you're trespassing.
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There's your ticket. Leave the parking lot now, sir. Let's have another one. Next one goes up to $1,000.
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You're lucky. You're the first. You're the first ask for what happened.
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The cop gave Walter a fine and he swore at Walter. We took the case. Then the cop tried
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to scare us, sending us a threatening letter. We published his letter and it backfired on
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the cop. Next thing you know, the prosecutor dropped the whole case against our friend Walter.
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Same with our friend Tamara Ugolini, who was actually charged with a crime just for walking
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on a beach. All charges dropped. You see a pattern here? Police are giving out abusive,
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insane fines because the politicians are ordering them to do it. So they're expecting citizens
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to pay. I don't know. Out of fear and compliance, don't do it. Don't pay these crazy tickets.
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Let us hire lawyers for you to handle the tickets, to handle the stress. I predict many of these
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will be dropped without even a hearing. And those that go to court, let us handle that for you
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two for free. We've been working out a system, how to handle a lot of cases, how to manage the
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lawyers, how to keep track of everything. We now have a network of civil liberties lawyers across
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Canada ready to fight. I want a thousand cases. Nobody pay. At fightthefines.com, you can see a
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dozen of the cases we've taken in Canada so far. And our Australian reporter has now started the same
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project down under. It's been really bad there. I don't know if you've been following the news.
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They had a total lockdown for months. Curfews, police checkpoints on the street. It's terrible.
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We've already taken plenty of cases, like a homeless man who was being given a fine
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for being out past the curfew. But he's homeless. Police fined him more than $1,500 because he wasn't
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at home. He's homeless. We took the case. Or this lady who was fined just for being outside
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alone with her mask on because she was carrying a political sign criticizing the government. You see
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what I mean about police bullying? We've had our first victory down under, too. A security guard
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who got a huge fine just for going for a hike in the wilderness with his family. We got the charges
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dropped. We've got so many cases in Australia, we've actually filed a constitutional challenge
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to the worst of the laws. We might get hundreds of tickets thrown out in one fell swoop.
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And we've just taken our first case in the United Kingdom, too.
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But I live in Canada. This is my country. And I'm trying to show you that we've been preparing
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for this moment. We've been practicing. And we're very encouraged by how it's going.
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And so are the people we've been helping, by the way.
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stood behind me for this, especially Rebel News, of course. And you, Sheila, you're my
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And we're going to fight for some justice for you. What do you think about that?
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That's amazing. Best news I've heard all week. Thank you so much.
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I appreciate it just for the simple fact that I can't afford to have a lawyer. But if I had
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to go to court by myself, I'd still take them on. We're going to crowdfund this case so that
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you two get some justice here. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart.
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This morning, I checked our project management software and counted up all the cases in Canada,
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Australia, and the United Kingdom. We have had more than 150 people ask for our help. And we've
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been able to handle it methodically with our system. So it's time to get serious.
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1,000 cases. I want to fight every ticket in Canada for free. Go to fightthefines.com,
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especially the most abusive jurisdictions like Manitoba, friendly Manitoba. Not now.
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Their premier is literally naming and shaming businesses that are just trying to survive.
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He's actually set up a snitch line for families to inform on each other or their neighbors who just
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want to have a Christmas dinner. Going forward, if you break the public health rules,
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there's a good chance you might get your name mentioned on TV.
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That's so gross. And I promise you we'll show that video to the court. What a bully.
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He's boasting about how punitive he is. It's for political purposes, isn't it? That's not legal.
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He's boasting that he intends to cancel people and their businesses. He's threatening to ruin
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people's livelihoods, just like that bully Doug Ford, who now mocks ordinary working people.
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You know, Doug Ford himself went to a big wedding during the lockdown. No mask,
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no social distancing. He's a hypocrite. He's nothing like his late brother, Rob Ford,
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who actually loved the little people. Doug Ford sneers at them. He despises the grassroots he once
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called Ford Nation. Remember this? We have, you know, a bunch of yahoos out in the front of Queens
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Park sitting there protesting that the place isn't open. And then all of a sudden we hear what's
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happening. They gather these organizers and as for the organizers, you know, something guys,
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I don't get it. I just don't get it. If we weren't so backlogged on MRIs, I'd send you to the MRI to get
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your brain scanned because I just, I don't think there's anything in there. Yeah. Don't pay his fines.
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Don't give him your money. If you have a fine, go to fightthefines.com, fill out our simple form.
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We'll review your case and we'll give you a lawyer. We reserve the right not to take every case,
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but it is my hope to take all of them. If you don't have a fine yourself, but you want to help,
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please go to fightthefines.com and click on the crowdfunding button. We need that. And finally,
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if you are a lawyer or a paralegal or even a law student yourself, we need your help to,
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to handle a thousand cases, to demand disclosure from the government, to push back against the
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prosecutors. And if these things aren't thrown out on mass to run a trial, likely sometime next year,
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this is it. This is the fight back because I'm sorry, I don't see the official opposition doing
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the fight back federally or provincially. They're not opposing this. It's the name of their job,
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official opposition. I don't see it. I see the media. They're not pushing back. They're the
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lockdown cheerleaders. They want harsher lockdowns because it doesn't affect them.
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And I don't see even the traditional civil liberties groups like the Canadian Civil Liberties
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Association. They're not pushing back on the lockdown. They actually love the lockdown. It's
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so weird. Let's keep Canada free. We don't want to live under martial law. You don't quarantine
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healthy people. You don't punish people for having Christmas dinner with the family. You don't ruin
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10,000 small businesses. Go to fightthefines.com. We'll help you and you can help us. And so help me
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God, as fast as these bullies can issue the tickets, we'll fight them.
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There's three of them in the greater Toronto area.
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I truly believe it's the best barbecue in Canada
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because they knew they weren't going to get it.
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But whether those fines are going to go through,
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It was like something out of a Monty Python sketch, almost.
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like they did with those illegal cannabis shops