In this episode, we talk to Councillor Jexy lee, who was one of the first to arrive on the scene of the protest and assist in the release of protesters and truckers from an injunction that was in effect at the time of this interview.
00:00:38.520And did you ever also assist, and I'll move on to yourself, Councillor, but with the distribution of the release agreements and the request of the protesters and truckers to leave,
00:00:53.520under the asbestos of signing, a release from the injunction and claim that was filed by Ms. Lee?
00:01:20.520But prior to that, I understand that from some of the information that you were handing out some of those leaflets for them to sign and to leave.
00:01:32.520If they signed it, they would be released from the class action lawsuit if they left.
00:01:40.520Yes, that was, at the time, I had not met Zexy Lee.
00:01:46.520I had friends who had been working in the community, and I agreed to go out with them to try to encourage some of the people who were parked on Kent Street to move along to avoid being part of that class action.
00:02:40.520And so just to clarify, so when you made that motion in the special counsel meeting with respect to having the Ottawa Police Service be taken over by the RCMP, that was on February 7th, 2022.
00:05:50.520And he asked these, like, plain language, common sense questions of these absolute crazy people who are testifying at the Emergencies Act Commission.
00:06:00.520They call it the Public Order Emergencies Act Commission.
00:06:04.520We're calling it the Trucker Commission here at Rebel News because really that's what it is.
00:06:08.520The Emergencies Act Commission is designed to examine whether or not the government had any sort of justification in invoking an anti-terrorism law on peaceful protesters.
00:06:22.520I can't even believe I'm saying that in our nation's capital to euthanize the street protest of bouncy castles, hot tubs, concerts, shinny hockey, and soup kitchens and street cleanups.
00:06:36.520But the problem was they were, you know, embarrassing Trudeau internationally, and they remained peaceful all the way through, no matter what sort of force was brought to bear on them and what sort of lies were told about them.
00:06:48.520They were peaceful the whole way through.
00:06:52.520They had their bank accounts seized, they had their property seized, they had their trucks towed, and still completely peaceful.
00:06:58.520And today is the second day of the hearings, and we saw a rotating cast of absolute loons testifying today.
00:07:08.520And Brendan Miller cut through them like a hot knife through butter.
00:07:12.520It was really something to watch today.
00:07:14.520We're going to go through some of the things today and break down what we saw.
00:07:18.520Those two people there that Brendan Miller was cross-examining that is, if I recall correctly, that's Matthew Fleury.
00:07:26.520He's a city councilor with the city of Ottawa.
00:07:29.520And the other one there is Catherine McKinney.
00:07:32.520She's a councilor, and she was, well, she is running to be mayor.
00:07:37.520God help you people in Ottawa if you elect that woman.
00:07:40.520Those two testified today that they sent a series of letters to Mayor Jim Watson, who is not known for his restraint, demanding that the Emergencies Act be invoked, or at least they wanted to Emergencies Act these people.
00:07:56.520Well, they didn't have that language, though.
00:07:58.520What they wanted was martial law after six days of the protest.
00:08:04.520That's how quick they wanted a crackdown to be done.
00:08:08.520They wanted a curfew imposed on the city.
00:08:13.520So while they're sitting there complaining that people couldn't go about their lives because of the weapons of the trucks, the fortress of the trucks, laughable joke, all of Alberta would give these people a heart attack.
00:08:25.520But they wanted actually the whole city put under a curfew.
00:08:28.520So the whole reason they wanted the Emergencies Act invoked was because of the inconvenience of a traffic snarl.
00:08:36.520So their plan to just imprison the entire city, you know, like pick a lane.
00:08:41.520You can't complain that the city is imprisoned by trucks and then want a law to imprison everybody in the city in their homes because you don't know how to deal with this.
00:08:50.520They also this I didn't know, but I think what a horrible, horrible, evil bunch of people.
00:08:57.520They lobbied actively those two maniacs, and they lobbied the city to reduce the temperature in the idling bylaw.
00:09:09.520So a lot of these more progressive, ridiculous cities, they have a bylaw wherein you can't idle your vehicle until it's under a certain temperature.
00:09:18.520As though people are just out there wasting gas, just idling their car at plus 22.
00:09:24.520Anyway, they had the city reduce the temperature like drastically so that the truckers, if they idled their trucks to prevent themselves from freezing to death, they would receive a substantial ticket.
00:09:42.520Those two had that done, but the police, to their credit, I think it was under former police chief slowly, who seems to be a level headed individual, and to, I think, is no longer the police chief there because he wouldn't do the things those sorts of maniacs wanted him to do.
00:10:00.520They were upset because they were upset because the police were not going around and enforcing that idling prohibition.
00:10:08.520So they were mad that the police were not going around ticketing people for not freezing to death.
00:10:13.520A bunch of humanitarians these people are.
00:10:16.520Earlier in the day, we saw some people from the business community offering testimony.
00:10:23.520Um, her name was Natalie Carrier, although I'm sure she says it with a very French accent because she did that whole, um, Alec Baldwin's wife thing where she forgets to use the English word, even though she's been talking in English all day.
00:10:37.520Um, so we heard from her and Kevin McHale.
00:10:40.520He's also a sort of a president of a business association.
00:10:44.520Um, those two, uh, there's a lot of white saviorism coming from those two.
00:10:51.520Uh, Natalie Carrier testified repeatedly that she was concerned about racialized people in the business community and the LGBT community and business owners and LGBT employees, because, um, in a stark admission of her own bigotry.
00:11:11.520She felt that these people could potentially be harassed or discriminated against because of their race or their sexual preference.
00:11:22.520I, but she's was assuming bigotry on behalf of other people based on their political stance, which actually makes her the bigot.
00:11:31.520But anyway, she said she was really concerned about the people who worked at the Starbucks because she said there's a lot of gay people who work at the Starbucks.
00:11:38.520I hope she didn't out them, but, um, uh, it was just fascinating because then she also testified that, or didn't give evidence, or I guess you don't need evidence in these things.
00:11:49.520You can just give anecdotes, which is what I listened to a lot of today.
00:11:52.520Uh, she said she never gave any instances of anybody ever being harassed or discriminated against because of their, uh, race or sexual identity, which was, um, quite something.
00:12:06.520Um, I guess you can just make things up out of whole cloth.
00:12:13.520The first two people who testified were, um, people who were behind the lawsuit against the truckers.
00:12:21.520Um, and one lady said that she had was forced to go to sleep.
00:12:29.520I laugh because I'm from Alberta and I'm the only person in my yard who doesn't drive a diesel vehicle, but even my 16 year old daughter does.
00:12:37.520And, um, she said that she had to sleep in her bed wearing a mask because of the fumes of diesel out on the street.
00:12:57.520Um, and then the other lady, uh, I forget how to say her name, but, uh, Zexy Lee, uh, she was the key lady behind the no honking injunction.
00:13:10.520She testified today that actually she wasn't deterred from going out on the street.
00:13:17.520And, uh, she listed some of the horrors she experienced at the hands of these truckers.
00:13:21.520And one of them was people telling her to smile underneath her mask.
00:13:54.520Um, what's our first clip of the day here, Olivia?
00:13:58.520Um, oh, very first one, very important.
00:14:01.520By the way, if you'd like to send us a, a paid chat to help keep the lights on, because we are not crowdfund or we are not funded by Justin Trudeau to report these ridiculous anecdotes verbatim as though we're like the worst terror attack to ever happen on Canadian soil.
00:14:18.520We're approaching this skeptically like normal people would.
00:14:22.520If you'd like to pitch in to help us, uh, you can do that at trucker commission.com.
00:14:27.520We have a rotating cast of, uh, journalists who are going to be staying at an Airbnb in Ottawa.
00:14:36.520So that just like the convoy itself, we will be covering this from beginning to end because you absolutely just cannot trust the mainstream media.
00:14:45.520The flawed reporting actually has been, uh, instrumental, at least according to the government's, uh, own submissions that they relied on the flawed reporting of the mainstream media, that this was some sort of foreign funded operation, which meant that they could invoke the emergencies act to euthanize the truckers protest.
00:15:07.520Because, uh, that would be, uh, sort of jeopardizing Canadian sovereignty, having all this like foreign actors or at least foreign funding flowing into Canadian actors in Canada.
00:15:21.520Um, now the whole point of this commission is to examine the actions of the government, not the actions of the truckers, although you wouldn't know that if you watch the testimony today.
00:15:33.520And, you know, the buck stops at the top. So if the emergencies act invocation was not justified, should heads roll? Yeah, you'd think so. I mean, it's the single largest civil liberties violation in Canadian history. You think somebody might be held accountable if they got it wrong, but oh no, no, no, no, no. Not Justin Trudeau. Let's roll to that clip.
00:15:58.140This is over 30 days. You know, when it's all wrapped up and the commissioner, if he finds that, uh, the, uh, there was no justification for the federal government to invoke the emergencies act, should there be consequences for the federal government, including your resignation?
00:16:16.140But we knew from the very beginning, uh, that invoking the emergencies act is a big step. It had never been done before, but given these unprecedented illegal protests, uh, we needed to take action.
00:16:27.140And we took it in a way that was measured, that was responsible, that was time limited. And we knew full well that there needed to be a public inquiry. Canadians need that level of transparency and accountability.
00:16:38.140Uh, and that's why, uh, we launched this inquiry. That's why I'm so happy to be, that I offered from the beginning, uh, to be part of, uh, part of appearing at this commission.
00:16:47.140And we're going to make sure that Canadians see, uh, the situation we were facing and how the tools we used were appropriate.
00:16:54.140It's found that there was no justification for it. Again, what, what should the consequences be for that?
00:16:59.140I think the important thing is for Canadians to understand, uh, the, the situation we were in and the choices we make.
00:17:07.140We didn't enter, uh, into using the emergencies act lightly. We used it, uh, with a sense of, uh, it was the necessary tool at the time.
00:17:16.140Uh, we used it in a way that was measured and proportionate. Uh, and we're really pleased that the commission is going to be able to hear from all these witnesses. And that was why I offered to appear.
00:17:29.140He didn't offer to appear. He was subpoenaed and he didn't offer to have the inquiry. It's built into the invocation of the act. It's an accountability measure built into the act that if you invoke this thing, you're going to have to answer and produce reasons for it.
00:17:44.140And it's very specific in the act that there are things that limit the behavior of the government. It has to be like the, to invoke the act, the situation before you has to fit into a very specific box.
00:17:59.140And that box is like this big and the convoy is all out here. It does not fit into that box, no matter how you try to shoehorn it into there. But if you listen to Justin Trudeau, I think this is going to be just another learning lesson for all of us, right? Just like blackface, just like all those trips he took with the AgaCon, it's going to be, you know, something we can all just learn from.
00:18:20.820He makes the mistake and then we just learn from it and pay the consequences. And I think it's very interesting that he said that it was measured and the response of the federal government was measured and it was sort of in line with what was happening in Ottawa.
00:18:36.480Bouncy castles. He invoked a terrorism law on bouncy castles. But for him, that's in line because the real emergency was his reputation being harmed internationally. And that's what these truckers were doing. They were embarrassing him on the international stage.
00:18:50.820And if we know anything about Justin Trudeau, he likes to be the leader of the progressive cabal globally, although he's falling out of favor these days. Even his progressive friends think he's as ridiculous as I do, I think.
00:19:06.280Now, I alluded to this next video. This is an Ottawa resident. Let me just bring up her name here. Her name is Victoria de la Ronde. And she is, I think, purposefully, I think she's selected because she is a sympathetic character based on her health conditions.
00:19:29.560But, and I hate to use the language of the left. I think that's quite ableist, actually, to assume that people with health conditions like blindness or, you know, being frail, that they can't lie or make things up or be a hypochondriac or be ridiculous or be an exaggerator and a malingerer, which is exactly what I think this woman is.
00:19:53.380And let's roll that clip about how this lady said she went to bed at night while the trucks were in town.
00:20:02.900But the idling continued under my window, just with these huge vehicles, the sound of the idling echoing down in the canyon of our buildings all night.
00:20:16.380So, there was no respite from an assault on hearing. I tried to wear earplugs, but they kept falling out. And then I worried if I wore an earplug, I wouldn't be able to hear the smoke alarm.
00:20:32.520I wouldn't be able to hear if somebody was pounding on my door to evacuate because there was something, a fire or an explosion outside our door.
00:20:41.000So, I was caught in between. And, of course, I slept with a mask on because of trying to abate the smell of the diesel and the other smells that were coming up and in through the vents.
00:21:02.280She slept... Okay, first of all, she slept with the earplugs in and then the earplugs kept falling out.
00:21:06.820Those little foam earplugs that you twist when you go to the gun range or if you're, like, on the tractor, you twist them, you put them in, and then they unfurl in your ears. Those were falling out. Really?
00:21:18.740But then she said she couldn't wear them because then she was worried that she wouldn't hear the smoke alarm, that her building would be set on fire.
00:21:28.640These people live in constant fear and anxiety, but that's not everybody else's problem.
00:21:35.740That's not a reason to violate the civil liberties of peaceful protesters.
00:21:43.760I think whoever brought them to testify at this should be deeply embarrassed of bringing that woman out, trotting that anxious, frail woman out to make her the face of the anti-convoy sufferers.
00:21:57.740She said diesel was seeping in through her vents. Is she crazy? She has to be crazy.
00:22:05.540You know, like, when a delivery man pulls up to drop stuff off at her Tim Hortons, does she just, like, have a conniption in the parking lot?
00:22:13.940Like, these... I've never seen a bunch of people so scared of trucks and everything they own got to them on a truck, but they just live in fear of these big vehicles.
00:22:25.620Like I said, if they ever set foot in Alberta with our trucks and our tractors and our heavy haul equipment and our, you know, just the way we live, they would die of anxiety attacks, obviously.
00:22:38.820You'd be walking around with masks thinking they'd block diesel.
00:22:41.840It's just... It's so ridiculous. I can't even believe it.
00:22:45.080Uh, let's move on to the next one because I also alluded to this, um, when I was just doing my quick debrief of all the madness, just the madness today at the, uh, commission hearings.
00:22:56.360Um, this Ottawa resident, this is the Zexy Lee, who, uh, you'll, you'll see in a, in a further clip with our friend, young William Diaz.
00:23:08.500Um, anyways, let's, uh, let's throw to this clip because she was testifying to just the horrors, the horrors people that the good folks of Ottawa had to live through when the truckers were there just having fun.
00:23:24.940What must be, it's just a boring city, by the way, the truckers seemed fun.
00:23:28.580Uh, I think maybe that's what these people are most upset about is that they just came and lived free and had fun and they just couldn't believe it.
00:23:35.280But anyway, uh, she testified that, uh, people were talking to her about her mask.
00:23:41.780And so terrorism, I guess, you know, seize those bank accounts.
00:23:48.660Further to that, it was unpleasant to say the least to exit my home, but it was something I did anyways, as I didn't feel like it was, the whole situation was wrong.
00:24:01.320And I felt almost a little bit of a defiance wanting to go outside and continue to live my life as best I could.
00:24:08.640And when I did, oftentimes I was harassed for wearing a mask or being, I was told to smile more under my mask or, you know, just these kinds of comments that wouldn't have otherwise occurred.
00:24:21.760And on a quiet, normal walk, day by day.
00:24:25.360Um, and I think what was one of the worst things was whenever you chose, well, whenever I chose not to engage with the individuals that were occupying, uh, my neighbourhood,
00:24:39.060they would, they would blast their horns at me with a smile on their faces.
00:24:57.380Um, but yeah, she's detailing the horror.
00:25:00.320So the first, they want you to believe that they're trapped in their house and too scared to go outside because the intimidation of the fortress of trucks.
00:26:12.380They'll have you believe in Ottawa, except insofar as maybe someone's going to ask her some questions, but, uh, she didn't give up on loving to wear a mask outside.
00:26:24.080So pandemics all of it over, even, I think the left admits this, but, uh, I'm not sure why she wore that mask outside.
00:27:34.920She could go sit in that commission, give the most ridiculous anecdotes, say horrible things about people she never met, accuse them of, you know, being terrorists, basically.
00:27:52.940But the second somebody asks her, why did you say those things?
00:27:57.580Why did you accuse people of criminality when the only, even the police reported crime statistics say that crime actually went down while the truckers were in the city?
00:28:13.300You know, and if a mainstream journalist got shoved the way our sweet William did, boy, oh boy, they'd be having a full-blown Rachel Gilmore-style conniption on Twitter.
00:28:27.580But it happened to our guy, and so it's perfectly fine.
00:28:32.200You know, saying William is being intimidated by asking questions where he starts off with addressing her as miss.
00:28:43.480I think he's aggressively polite, which is exactly how I like him to be.
00:28:48.560But yeah, she, outside of that commission where the questions are friendly, she doesn't have a damn thing to say.
00:28:56.260And I think that says a lot about these people.
00:28:58.840We should move on to our next clip, because this is really something I have never heard an adult man use the word microaggression as frequently as I did today without even a bit of irony.
00:29:12.800Like, I would hear somebody, I've heard people say it to make fun of people who use the word microaggression.
00:29:19.380Like these, like, I think it used to be called passive aggressiveness, but now it's microaggression because, you know, you control the language, you control everything, including the meaning of the language.
00:29:30.880So this is Ottawa city councilor, the guy who wanted the curfew and wanted people to freeze to death in their trucks or face a ticket.
00:29:40.740The guy who wanted martial law in the nation's capital, he wanted the feds to take control of the nation's capital after just six days complaining about microaggressions.
00:29:52.940And he said it multiple times, again, these people should be deeply, deeply ashamed of how fragile and unresilient they really are.
00:30:03.540They're still suffering from honking dementia.
00:30:39.880Everything that Councillor McKinney is describing is what we were both hearing from any resident that was within the red zone or on the periphery of the red zone, plus a number of microaggressions that are described.
00:30:52.140People were scared to leave, even if they weren't in the red zone.
00:30:55.020And when they left, there was a number of incidents near the red zone, which created additional anxiety.
00:31:02.700The noise, the smells, the fumes nonstop.
00:31:09.640I have two teenage daughters, 13 and 16.
00:31:13.340And I think they are more resilient than this man, much stronger than this man and able to tackle the day better than this man.
00:31:47.100And if you don't like repeated protests against the federal government, might I suggest you don't live in the nation's capital where the seat of the federal government is?
00:31:56.180Go to Prince Albert, although that might be a little bit too conservative for these people.
00:32:02.520But just go to some Laurentian backwater if you don't want people showing up to protest Justin Trudeau.
00:32:34.840Just as we were coming on air, Matthew Fleury, for some reason, decided he was going to respond to a question asked in English by Brendan Miller.
00:32:52.540He has been questioned in English all day.
00:32:55.640But once the trucker lawyer started asking questions, then all of a sudden we've got to pull the bilingual card for some reason and respond in a language that Brendan Miller doesn't speak.
00:33:06.420And I just thought, what a, what a microaggression, right?
00:33:11.460Wouldn't you call that a microaggression?
00:33:19.320But speaking of unbecoming men, let's continue on with Matthew Fleury, because this guy, I just, all of Alberta would just send him into a tizzy, because he said the trucks were weaponized.
00:35:05.180So there's, there's that, those incidents of, of people not following the rules of the road in pickup trucks, which is a different vehicle, which is a weapon in itself.
00:35:15.460But the, the weaponized description to me is really the rigs who take space on, on the, on the street and, and make noise through the horns that you've shown in video.
00:35:26.780And, and I know, um, reading through the evidence, preparing for this, we weren't informed of Ottawa public health and the risk to, to the health, but we were getting a lot of complaints from
00:35:37.060business operators and residents in the area of the smells, the intoxication of that, those smells.
00:35:42.220So the compounding effect of noise, smells, the fees, physical presence, the inability for folks to, in some areas, walk on the sidewalk, walk safely at a crosswalk.
00:35:52.500Uh, we have, uh, like any community folks with mobility needs and getting on and off a curb anywhere and everywhere, it doesn't work, uh, safely.
00:36:01.780So that's the description of the weapon is that, that, that truck took space on the road.
00:36:07.660The truck itself created an environment that was unsafe for the immediate neighbors and made it impossible for the, what we, what we, what we, what is our responsibility in terms of safety and wellbeing of, of residents and businesses in our community to safely, uh, live and be in the zone.
00:36:31.780He thinks that trucks just by nature of being on the road are weaponized because he saw people not following exactly all the rules of the road.
00:36:44.780How does he survive rush hour traffic?
00:36:48.720You know, what if a, a big rig pulls up beside him?
00:36:52.380What if he gets a whiff of exhaust fumes?
00:37:00.140You know, I'm not one to say that we should put medication in the water, but I'm willing to hear arguments about what we should do with the water system in Ottawa.
00:37:09.860Uh, we should just maybe take all the strong, um, sturdy, mentally resilient people out of that city.
00:37:20.640And maybe, maybe we do need to consider medicating the water supply.
00:37:25.220Although I don't want to think that what I've seen today is indicative of Ottawa as a whole.
00:37:29.920I'm willing to have my mind changed, but I am very, very disappointed.