Rebel News Plus is a premium membership that gives you access to all sorts of great long-form news and commentary produced by your favourite Rebel hosts. This week, we look back at some of the best commentary of the week, including the Wuhan virus, the Mounties, and a girl s birthday party that was actually raided by police.
00:16:57.720The practice of law is not always full of success and wonderful stories, but obviously there was a big round of applause down at the Williamson Law offices this morning
00:17:10.220on account of the fact that the Crown has withdrawn two significant charges under the Public Health Act against our client, Natalie Klein.
00:17:18.480Again, as we've discussed before, we're experiencing resounding success in multiple areas in fighting for liberty and freedom across this province.
00:17:30.520And as much as I'd love to credit the talent in my firm, specifically one of my good friends and close associates and fellow lawyer, Yoav Niv,
00:17:40.500who has been deftly handling many of these FightTheFines cases,
00:17:44.980we were able to call our client, Natalie, this morning and advise her that these charges have been dropped.
00:17:52.020Now, that's not to say that the war has been won.
00:17:55.660As you know, an army can win many battles but still not win the war and there is much work left to do.
00:18:03.840As I've mentioned before, we have opened dozens of files and we are fighting vigorously and aggressively
00:18:11.580against government overreach and oppression in this province.
00:18:16.060But today, specifically, and this is reason for everyone out there to smile,
00:18:22.140as I'm sure if Ralph were around today, he'd be smiling and we know that our client is smiling.
00:18:28.920This is a success for freedom and liberty in the province of Alberta.
00:18:32.320And our office will continue to fight for the civil liberties of not only our clients,
00:18:38.840but for all Albertans and will attempt to continue to score these resounding successes.
00:18:44.920Now, that's not to say that we're always going to win,
00:18:47.420but every single victory pushes the slider a little closer to the mark of freedom on the dial.
00:18:57.040And we thank Albertans for their support.
00:19:00.240We thank our clients for their trust and their courage in these cases.
00:19:05.720And we are so excited and enthusiastic about representing Albertans in all areas of law.
00:19:11.840And today is a reason for everyone out there to smile.
00:19:15.960Well, it sounds like Alberta Health Services and the government knew exactly what was good for them.
00:19:20.040And today they withdrew the charges against Natalie Klein.
00:19:23.440So I ran into Natalie and some of her supporters, including one of our other Fight the Fines cases,
00:20:29.380So, Sheila, before we dive deep into Natalie's story, it came to light after you recorded this piece that the Mounties somehow don't think she is the victor.
00:20:40.980And par for the course, of course, the mainstream media is getting things wrong yet again.
00:20:50.400So after the fact, the mainstream media, it seems like they just really want Natalie to be punished for opening her business and trying to keep her business afloat and cutting hair in her town.
00:21:04.740They really don't want her to be able to just not have these charges.
00:21:08.740So they contacted the RCMP to see, well, what happened?
00:22:02.120And so the only time that any news of a clerical error came up in the days between the charges withdrawn and our video going to air was that the video went to air, that we took a victory lap around the government.
00:22:19.100And so now all of a sudden the story is changing.
00:22:22.420So, Sheila, if there is no clerical error and we can't find any evidence of that, then why is the RCMP and why are members of the mainstream media saying that this is a clerical error?
00:22:34.340In other words, where are they getting this information from or are they just making up stuff now?
00:22:39.640I don't know where the RCMP are getting their information from.
00:22:42.420I mean, they said that they're doing now an internal investigation.
00:22:45.560At least that's what I read in some of the local news coverage of this.
00:23:06.940And there's an interesting side note here in all of this.
00:23:11.320The Crown Prosecutor on Natalie's file, at least according to the letter that we received, that Natalie received and that she sent to me, is Karen Thorsrud.
00:23:22.660Now, some of you might know that name as the Crown Prosecutor who insists on remaining anonymous, but I'll say her name because she does not have a publication ban on her name.
00:23:33.760And she's the Crown Prosecutor who is insisting that Pastor James Coates remain in the maximum security remand center because she won't lift those bail conditions that prevent him from not just preaching at a church that violates the health restrictions, but attending a church that violates the health restrictions.
00:23:57.600And so because of Karen Thorsrud, Pastor James Coates will remain behind bars until his trial in May on an offense for which, if he's found guilty, jail time is not a punishment.
00:24:10.240That's the same Crown involved in Natalie's case.
00:24:16.500But, you know, in the bigger picture, you mentioned earlier you visiting Natalie to do the victory lap.
00:24:25.360And to me, that's what this story should be, a victory.
00:24:30.440But it seems that certain members of law enforcement, perhaps, certain members of the bureaucracy, definitely certain members of the mainstream media, they don't see this as a victory.
00:24:42.080They see this as someone, you know, getting away with something.
00:24:48.580Well, much like Alicia Herter at Chrome Artistic Barbering in St. Catharines, Ontario, she's had the temerity to keep her business running and service a grateful clientele, not forcing people into her barbershop.
00:25:07.520So it's kind of funny to me, Sheila, that when we see a victory in the name of freedom, this is to be condemned?
00:25:16.120They see this as some sort of miscarriage of justice, akin to, you know, a sex offender getting off on a technicality and is now loose in the community.
00:25:30.600Natalie's loose in the community now to cut hair.
00:25:33.960I mean, that's really what this is all about.
00:25:36.720They think there should have been punishment for Natalie for standing up for herself, for defying the lockdown, and there isn't, and so they want a mulligan.
00:25:46.780Well, they're not going to get a mulligan.
00:25:48.480And if they try a mulligan, God help them, because we're going to have Chad Williamson standing shoulder to shoulder with Natalie to help her in that instance, too.
00:25:58.580So if Karen Thorsrud wants to go up against Chad Williamson, good luck, sister, because I think she's going to be in for a real fight.
00:26:09.840They just really, they want a redo on what they did to Natalie, and that's not how it works.
00:26:16.000You know, it's amazing, and yeah, Chad is absolutely fantastic, as you said, Sheila.
00:26:21.220But, you know, we've been told for a year now all these decisions are being driven by science.
00:26:27.520And yet we know that a small salon catering to one or two people at a time, a salon or a barbershop that before the pandemic has always been dictated to by hygiene and sanitation standards, that far outclass anything you'd see in a Walmart or a Costco.
00:26:50.380Yet the little mom and pa business has to be shut down that adheres to sanitation and hygiene, but we can pack them to the gills at Walmart and Costco.
00:27:01.140Sheila, I can't make sense of this anymore.
00:27:04.660Well, and we're talking about a barbershop where Natalie was doing her best to follow COVID regulations while reopening her business in defiance of them.
00:27:15.240What I mean is she was only seeing one client in a chair at a time.
00:28:12.020Jason Kenney lifted those restrictions on her industry just days later.
00:28:16.240So somehow, these people in the mainstream media still want her to be prosecuted, even though it really comes down to a date on a calendar.
00:28:27.980It was just like a day here, two days there, three days there before she was allowed to reopen.
00:28:33.080And they still want her prosecuted for what?
00:28:39.260Very quickly, Natalie does run a business and the bottom line when you run a business is indeed the bottom line.
00:28:45.100Do you think for her taking such a prolific rebel stance, this is good for business or will her clientele and Innisfil punish her by avoiding her shop?
00:28:57.360I think with so many of our first, so many of them came to us through iwillopen.com.
00:29:05.140That was our portal for businesses like Natalie.
00:29:08.600So before Natalie got a fine, we were telling the story of this brave hair salon that's willing to open.
00:29:15.920We've seen time and time again, these places who are willing to reopen see an immediate uptick in business, like so busy that it's hard to get an appointment.
00:29:27.700I know the nail salons that I covered in Alberta.
00:29:30.020One of them who's a regular super chatter on our daily live stream, Catherine from Pink Phoenix Nails, she was able to renovate her salon based on the business that she got.
00:29:41.620But we had another hair salon in Red Deer, whose house was in foreclosure because the salon was in her house and she's obviously not able to open.
00:30:01.920If businesses are willing to reopen, boy, there's a lot of people willing to stand in solidarity with them because we don't, for those of us who don't have small businesses, we want to help.
00:30:14.900We just don't know how, and so we want the opportunity to help you by spending some money and patronizing your business.
00:30:23.240Well, there you go, small business community.
00:30:24.880I know you're facing a lot of intimidation from politicians and the bureaucracy and the health directors and whatnot, but as you just heard from Sheila, being brave, taking a rebel stand is indeed good for business.
00:30:39.680Sheila, thanks so much for weighing in on this.
00:30:43.000I just want to say, if you are one of those businesses who's willing to open and you do open and you do get a ticket, now look, I can't encourage you to, I can't encourage you to open, but if you do get a ticket, guess what?
00:30:54.620We'll help you with that through fightthefines.com.
00:31:44.660But the question arises, is it possible that Premier Ford is in a bit of a conflict of interest position?
00:31:54.020Because it has been noted that Deco Labels produces the types of signage and decals that stores need for all those Wuhan virus protocols.
00:32:05.960You know, the signs that tell you to sanitize your hands or to put a face diaper on.
00:32:11.300And, of course, there's those directional arrows because the Wuhan virus is very concerned about which way customer traffic flows in stores, don't you know?
00:32:20.620Well, we did reach out to Ivana Jelic.
00:32:23.980She's the spokeswoman for the Premier.
00:32:27.700Well, it looks like not only are we not allowed to take part in those daily pressers, now the spokesthingies aren't getting back to us either.
00:32:36.880So we've come right here to Deco Labels to hopefully get some answers and to address whether or not the Premier is in a conflict of interest.
00:32:47.020Because what I'm getting at, folks, is that the longer this lockdown goes on, the more lucrative it is for people in the lockdown signage business.
00:33:44.340Okay, I just wanted to get one question answered.
00:33:46.980Is Premier Ford in a conflict of interest situation in that your company supplies these signs and decals and labels for the COVID-19 protocols?
00:33:58.560I want you to leave the property or I'll have the police here.
00:34:33.980I think this is a textbook case of what the hell happened to Doug Ford?
00:34:39.760It was only a few short years ago that Doug Ford, before he became Premier Ford, he actually proposed a weekly show at Rebel News.
00:34:48.900And it's gone from that to not returning our calls to banning us from press conferences.
00:34:58.020And as you just saw, we went to the door and whoever that man was on the other end of the phone, they said they were going to phone the police if we didn't get off the property.
00:35:07.960So, again, I have a question that is going unasked, which is simply this.
00:35:15.060Could it be that the Premier is in a conflict of interest position?
00:35:18.820Because, obviously, the longer the lockdown continues, the more need there is for the kind of signage his company, Deco Labels, produces.
00:35:29.240Talk about customer service excellence.
00:35:32.320And you had plenty to say about the guy who used to be the common man driving the common van, only to show his true colours once he got into the Premier's office.