BREAKDOWN: Trucker Commission Rebel wrap-up with Ezra Levant & special guest Eva Chipiuk
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In this episode of our live stream talking about the Trucker Commission, we are joined by Canadian civil liberties lawyer and lawyer-turned-lawyer-activist, Peter Bousquet, who joins us to talk about his experience as a member of the Commission and as a lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom and other freedom oriented groups.
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welcome to a daytime version of our live stream talking about the trucker commission even great
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to see you again how you doing oh nice to see you nice to be home a little bit tired but uh
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just the beginning i think yeah well we just wrapped up the public hearings as in the sworn
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witnesses and the subpoenaed documents and the cross-examinations but the trucker commission is
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not yet done there's going to be a public policy phase and and other things but the drama of the
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last month has come to a close even you were one of a number of lawyers from the justice center for
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constitutional freedom and other freedom oriented groups including our friends at the democracy fund
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um how long was it i mean you were out there half of the civil liberties lawyers in canada by which
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i mean democracy fund jccf canadian constitution foundation and even the liberals at the canadian
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civil liberties association finally thought they'd wrap up their two-year vacation and uh and engage
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in the freedom file thankfully uh tell me what it was like actually being a lawyer associated with
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the commission you were granted standing you were given access early access to privileged documents you
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were given interactions with the judge and of course you cross-examined witnesses what was it like
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i don't know where to start i can't believe it's all come to an end it feels like it it just started
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and then it it was just a daily grind it was 31 days non-stop of evidence and you know when we are
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having long days like we did and then you're still preparing for the next day and of course my clients
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were a huge focal point in all of this um the protesters the reason uh everything came to head
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as these protesters came to ottawa to hear from their federal government and we know how the federal
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government responded so this was all about whether or not this was justified um you asked a few
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questions and quickly in the intro and i you know getting all these documents like you said
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we did but the the way this was set up and how quickly this all transpired it was hard almost to
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assess everything that was happening as it was happening i think i'll be decompressing and we're all
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going to be thinking about this for months and possibly years to come um let me ask you do you
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think it was i mean we we'll see what the report says we'll see what the judge's findings are and what
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any recommendations are so of course we don't know how it's going to end i mean it could go a number of
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ways but the process itself is an outcome a sort of outcome having police answer questions under oath
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and i think generally the police told the truth having politicians under oath and i frankly think
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generally the politicians lied i'm sorry i just that's just what it looked like to mean lied or at least
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evaded avoided um talked out the clock i suppose that's different than lying but there was lying too
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i think in general the process was positive and anyone who looked at it uh directly or through
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the filter of rebel news or other freedom-oriented groups probably learned a lot but there really are
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two solitudes reading the coverage in the toronto star or the cbc or global news which has just become
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the worst media outlet in the country it's hard to believe um they're engaging in revisionist history
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of this trucker commission just like they engaged in revisionist history the trucker convoy itself
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so although i think the trucker commission was very useful if your only source of info about it was a
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toronto star or global news you remain in the dark about what was really happening that's my thoughts what
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do you think yeah no it's unfortunately still the same um people are watching two different movies and
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that's how it was since the beginning of the protest in ottawa truckers going to ottawa if you looked at
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some of those mainstream media outlets you were talking about versus social media it was a completely
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different story and then it's unfortunately still the same so what we've learned i hope is that you really
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need to get firsthand information number one be way more involved be way more active really investigate
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things for yourself and i really hope at least that is something that people have learned throughout the
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process and i agree with you very much it was really interesting to see um the police give evidence and also
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senior officials so not the politicians but senior levels in government at least on a municipal scale
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it was quite different to see what they had to say well listen we have a half dozen clips of your own
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involvement and i'd like to show that uh like i say you were granted standing uh you and other civil
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liberties lawyers so there were a lot of lawyers there and sometimes the cross-examination of
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politicians or police was you know you had five minutes or 10 minutes and frankly you ask one question
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for a minute every politician worth their salt can give a four minute evasive maneuver um
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let's let's let's go through we've got it we've got a half dozen clips let's just belt through them
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the first one was when you were asking justin trudeau the prime minister that must have been exciting
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first of all that you you uh not every lawyer had a chance to have a go at trudeau you asked him
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i think questions i mean you sort of knew he was just gonna duck speak his way through things
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so you put more thematic questions less sort of legal cross-examine things here let's show the
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first clip and i'll show people what i mean people have testified in this inquiry referencing your widely
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published comments and calling the unvaccinated racists and misogynists and we have heard testimony
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in this inquiry about how some of your officials wanted to label protesters as terrorists would you agree
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with me that one of the most important roles of a prime minister is to unite canadians and not divide
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them by engaging in name calling uh i did not call people who were unvaccinated names i highlighted
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there's a difference between people who are hesitant to get vaccinated for any range of reasons
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and people who deliberately spread misinformation that puts at risk that life and health of their fellow canadians
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and my focus every step of the way and the primary responsibility of a prime minister
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i'm not sure if the primary job of the prime minister is to keep me alive i think if that was his job i'd be dead by now
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um he's really not good for much uh even being a substitute drama teacher he didn't finish his full term
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um he's a wicked liar of course he called people names in english and in french uh he even said should
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we tolerate them i um i think you've got to be a bit of a sociopath to tell a bald-faced lie like that
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uh your next one again it it it didn't go to the technical legal matters of the emergency act
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but i think it it summed up um their insane response to oh my god working class people they're
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so grubby and dirty maybe they have guns in their trucks uh deploy their tanks these people you know
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here in king's landing we only have sophisticated people with fine silk suits and expense accounts
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for lunch here come the walmart people here come the gun owning people the peasants are storming the
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capital um you know trudeau despises ordinary people he's a an elite son of an elite son of an elite
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um three generations since the last trudeau actually worked for a living and here's your question why are
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you so afraid of people here take a look minister blair public safety minister minister mendicino
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national security intelligence advisor jody thomas and rcmp commissioner brenda lucky and today you
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testified that the federal government was committed to exhausting all alternatives to a resolution prior
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to making a decision to invoke the extraordinary powers of the emergencies act do you agree that that
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accurately describes your government's position that the invocation of the emergencies act was a
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measure of last resort was not something to be taken lightly thank you and something to do when
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when uh other options uh were not effective and you are aware that the opp along with others developed
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an engagement proposal and you were advised of that proposal at the irg meeting on february 12th correct
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um it was a proposal but we had and it was presented to us we had more questions uh about uh how it would
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actually work uh there it was not a complete proposal my last question mr prime minister when did you
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and your government start to become so afraid of your own citizens
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that's a very i am not and we are not those are my questions i think he is i think he is afraid of
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people he deployed they talked about deploying the army they talked about tanks they deployed hundreds
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maybe thousands of riot police they stomped people with riot horses they invoked martial law for the first
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time in 50 years of course he was afraid of people i think he was actually more to be precise he was
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afraid of what the people were doing uh that they were politically finding their voice i don't think he
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was afraid of them physically i don't think he was afraid of them you know um as a danger to sovereignty
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like like the emergencies act is built for when the prime minister is afraid are you afraid of danger to
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groups of people are you afraid of revolution it is uh for prime ministers who are afraid for the country
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i don't think justin trudeau was actually afraid for the country i don't think he was afraid of an
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insurrection he was afraid that these working class people were embarrassing him because they
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weren't obeying him so he was afraid of losing face not afraid of them i very much agree and his own
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evidence says that he said there was a threat or a potential for the violence so he confirmed in his
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own evidence there was no violence there was a potential for it of course there's a potential
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for violence any day any anywhere you are and then if you heard christia freelance evidence too
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somebody was mean to her they weren't violent towards her they said mean things to her and maybe an
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expletive um body language and it was a woman trucker all in addition so um when you hear the evidence
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that they were giving it goes exactly to your point there it it was an embarrassment for them
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more so and a threat of um losing control which they did yeah clearly you know i want to get through
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a few more clips you had some great little exchanges with him here's one where trudeau says i wish i
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would have done more well what more was there i mean he actually shot our reporter um alexa
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lavois his bodyguards physically beat up our other reporter david menzies i mean the only thing that
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they did not do was actually deploy the tank though they certainly seem to talk about the canadian
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forces a lot let's play clip number three you have now heard the statements from some of the many
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concerned canadians who felt compelled to support the protesters do you now understand the reason so many
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canadians came to ottawa with such resolve in the midst of a harsh cold canadian winter
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because of the harms caused by your government coveted mandates and they wanted to be heard
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i am moved and i was moved as i heard uh these testimonies as i saw the depth of um
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um hurt and anxiety about the present and the future expressed by so many people that covid pandemic
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was unbelievably difficult on all canadians and my job throughout this pandemic was to keep canadians
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safe and the way that i chose to do that was to lean on public health officials lean on experts and
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science on the best way to keep canadians safe and because canadians got vaccinated to over 80 percent
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we had fewer deaths in canada than places that didn't reach that and every heartbreaking story
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i hear of a family who sat beside the bed of a loved one dying because they had believed that the
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vaccines were more dangerous than the disease i take personally because i wish i could have done more
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more and i don't convince people to get vaccinated i wish i could have done more to save lives i saved
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so many lives of course that doesn't talk to the use of the martial law i don't know if martial law
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would save one life i i don't know if it would save any lives i think um you know you could shoot
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more people eat more easily you can deploy more guns um i think he's a sociopath um i don't know
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what what did he make of him he's got that when he starts talking his sexy voice
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and he hopes that people can feel the raw emotion of the substitute drama teacher and this is an
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opportunity for us to all reflect on being women respecters and respecting visible minorities and
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this is an opportunity for you to learn not to wear blackface this is an opportunity for you
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to learn not to grope rose knight in creston bc this is really an opportunity for all canadians to
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improve themselves like like he just gets in this drama teacher mode and he changes from being the
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decider who made a terrible decision to like some third-party observer as if he's not the central
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decider he has this really gross way of doing things and it seems to work for seven years he's
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skated i'm worried eva is it eva i like saying eva but how do you say it it's eva eva sorry about
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that eva um i'm worried he's going to skate i'm worried that that dramatic thespian voice of his
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and the the media party they just they're lapping it up i i'm worried that no matter what the judge
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is i think the judge is going to say he had no legal basis for it i think the judge unless this
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judge is so completely in the tank for trudeau there simply was no evidence that this met the
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the legal requirement from marshall just there was none there was none every cop every every person
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who knows security like there was no security threat there were no
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violence threats there was just none of it the all he has was well there was a potential
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i don't think the judge is going to come back with anything other than there was no legal basis for
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it but i think trudeau's going to skate because he's going to roll out his heartfelt message track
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like he just did there eva yeah i don't know what to say about that it like watching it back now um
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i didn't imagine that he would go on a tangent like that but i guess i should have seen it coming what
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else was he going to say and and we knew that this was just for him to he was going to be trying to score
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political points like it wasn't going to be about the law because that's not something that he's
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really qualified to speak on anyway um but i do hope that the commission like we were talking about
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earlier is an opportunity to for people to see firsthand what was going on and maybe they can
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start to see the disconnect between this government and what they're doing and their talking points and
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reality it was very much um fiction over facts in my opinion feelings over facts is what we learned
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the reasons behind invoking the emergencies act yeah well unfortunately most of the media in this
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country is very feelings oriented and they're feeling grateful to trudeau for bailing out their failing
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tv stations radio stations and newspapers so uh they're all about feelings also and and trudeau makes
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some feel warm and fuzzy eva i'm grateful to you and your fellow lawyers there was some great
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lawyering done i really believe that if the freedom lawyers that you and the rest of the team from the
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justice center for constitutional freedoms if the freedom lawyers and the democracy fund were not there
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this would have been a very very different commission um it really would have not had so many
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important interactions with with the this the national security deep state which is very rarely
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subjected to scrutiny so on behalf of canadians let me thank you and your team for that eva great to
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catch up with you and thanks for joining our live stream so many uh days over the last month as you
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and the rest of your team did i really appreciate it my pleasure it was great to be on and getting the
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truth out so happy to and so happy to be part of the team right on well thank you for that we're going to
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take a short commercial break and we'll be back with our chief reporter sheila gun reed eva great to see
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again thank you thanks so much all right the collective of many diverse groups across can
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across the country the protest in ottawa brought so many canadians from all different walks of life
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together it was an opportunity for reconciliation for unit uniting and forging friendships despite so
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many differences the protest in ottawa gave people hope and it humbled all of us what we saw in
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ottawa is emblematic of what it means to be canadian and that is what terrifies the current government of
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canada yes there was honking and diesel and noise and that was not only challenging for residents in ottawa
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but also for protesters but the protesters were not extremists or terrorists they are fellow canadians
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neighbors and each person is the thread that holds us together in a peaceful and loving society we have
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all suffered in our own unique way because of the pandemic the virus the sickness the lockdowns the job
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losses loss of livelihood the mandates and mental health on the first day of this public order emergency
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inquiry commissioner rouleau you said uncovering the truth is an important goal when difficult events
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occurred that impact the lives of canadians the public has the right to know what happened
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so the call of this common inquiry is to shed a light on this situation which occurred and to make
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recommendations so that this situation will not occur again let this inquiry be the starting point for all
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canadians and that means all canadians including government leaders to hold the executive branch of canada to
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account if there ever was a time for a prime minister to step down now is that time
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yeah of course trudeau will not step down why would he why would he step down now he's never stepped
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down anything before he's been convicted multiple times of violating the conflict of interest act the first
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prime minister ever but why would he step down he doesn't believe in stepping down he's not really a liberal
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in the uh traditional term of that that's just the name of his party that he wins sheila how are you
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doing i'm doing great i'm sort of happy that the testimony is all over you know trying to sift through
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the lies can be exhausting but i'm so proud of our team for how hard they worked to fact check some of
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these snakes in real time yeah uh now you covered it probably more than anyone other than um william
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diaz berthium who's based in ottawa so he's right there this was the circus coming to his town we had
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a number of reporters who cycled through our airbnb pop-up studio which was super fun you covered it from
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out there but mainly you covered it from your home because one of the things i'll salute this commission
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for doing they really made it easy for people around the country indeed around the world to follow
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i've actually never seen a public proceeding that was so citizen friendly documents were made available
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online the video was live streamed french english like you could show up and be in the room but
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frankly there was no need to and in fact there were some times when the the physical room wasn't even
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full because not because there was no interest in this but because people could cover this from the
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comfort of their own offices or homes right yeah and i think the public nature of all of this
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is really doing a number on the mainstream media as though the convoy didn't do a number on the
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credibility of the mainstream media to begin with right um they couldn't come out of their office towers to
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talk to the truckers that were in ottawa to find out why they came there so they just sort of made it up as
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they went and i think the fact that this was live streamed in real time in both languages the documents as
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soon as the lawyers were discussing them became available for you to leaf through you could see
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how the media was purposefully twisting testimony again in real time i would see the tweets the
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mainstream media were sending out and realizing you know i'm i'm literally watching the same proceedings
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and they're taking things out of context but people didn't even have to believe me and my tweets this
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time they could see for themselves just how much of a bunch of liars the mainstream media are
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yeah you know what and that's what that's how we succeeded rebel news i think really was our our
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finest hour covering the trucker convoy we had more eyeballs on that than anything else we've ever done
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and it was simply because we turned our cameras on and pointed and i mean i i was in ottawa for
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only a few days i was most of my time at our head office but we had teams i think in particular
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alexa lavoie and lincoln jay 23 days straight just walking the streets with extra batteries in their
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phone just live streaming and sometimes it was sort of boring but sometimes it was extremely exciting
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but what it never was was filtered and so you literally felt like you were there uh i remember
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watching our people encounter these whimsical east berlin style police check stops every corner
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and filming their interactions oh boy was i mad sometimes i would call into the reporter also if
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i felt they were they were being legally roughed up but the reason i could do that is i knew exactly
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what was going on i had a personal interest because it was our reporters our company but millions of
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people had a public interest and they were following along too and it's interesting that
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when foreign news uh outlets wanted to know what was going on i'm sure the propagandists called up
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cbc of course but so many and i'm not just talking about right-wing media like fox news like deutsche
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well deutsche well as the name sounds it's a german it's actually a state uh broadcaster if you can
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believe it why would a state broadcaster in germany why would sky news in australia why would um
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yeah i think alexa did the french language state broadcaster also if i recall correctly
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good memory there's so many i can't even keep track but why would they i mean there was this
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great one of lincoln just standing in the street you know with this toucan because it was so cold
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live live live broadcasting from the street well that gives you the answer why because even if
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lincoln is not as seasoned a journalist as some of these superannuated you know regime journalists
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at the cbc he actually was standing there he actually wasn't hiding under his desk in his uh tower
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oh my god the peasants are coming the peasants are revolting who they most certainly are the truckers
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are revolting and they certainly are revolting you know i mean the this i i i watched too much of that
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show called game of thrones and the name of their capital city was king's landing and it was a squalid
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corrupt incestuous capital and and that's what the good denizens of ottawa felt like when these
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revolting truckers how dare they can't you keep your protest out out in the colonies why are you coming to
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king's landing you know that's what it was like and uh and you you know the very first day of the
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commission you had this low level government bureaucrat named zexy lee who was who was talking
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about all the microaggressions and i worked for the government there was these truckers and they
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honked and i really felt like i was assaulted oh my god zexy were you assaulted no but i sort of felt
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like it well did anyone touch you no well were you afraid to go on the streets well no actually i spent a
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lot of time out there and took a lot of photos and filmed them and talked to people but i was
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terrified oh so you just thought they were low class because they were truckers not someone with
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a fancy government unionized uh you know desk job doing it for services canada or whatever her job was
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like it was such a classism thank you how dare you people don't know a know your place b don't you know
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that your job is to listen to the media not be citizen media yeah and how dare you honk your
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horns at us sure we have locked you in your homes for two years and now we're banning you from cross
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border travel which is necessary for the truckers by the way we saw a minute ago justin trudeau lying
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about 80 vaccinations i thought he said it was 90 he's changing his numbers now but we know that
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christia freeland in her notes said with truckers it was less than 50 so they're lying they're lying to
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you to try and make you feel like everyone's on board with this oh how dare you honk your horn
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you honk your horn at me i mean i locked you in your house i banned you from cross-border travel i
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banned you from taking airplanes or trains or boats in the second largest country in the world i banned
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you from the public square i banned you from restaurants gyms and stores but how dare you honk your
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horn sir do you not know who i am sir i am sexy lee was actually what who are you well i'm a 23 year
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old who works for the government and i didn't like the honking not one bit sir yeah okay well better
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throw the whole country into martial law because sexy lee heard a horn honk yeah she heard a horn honk
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people where's your sense of compassion yeah you know that that line of classism and bigotry runs
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through all of this they want those westerners that came to their fancy city to just stay away they
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didn't like their trucks they didn't want to have to look at their trucks or the things that the
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blue-collar people do for fun like have street parties play hockey and have hot tubs that grossed
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them out what a boring city but also uh we saw in testimony and then it was supported in some
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documents that black locks published today that they were really worried about having useful people
00:28:32.100
within the convoy and what i mean by that is they were frightened at the sheer number of caf canadian
00:28:39.700
armed forces active members and former members that were in the convoy they were sort of worried about
00:28:47.620
this insurrection which seems like absolute bigotry assuming that because you were in the caf you're
00:28:52.740
inherently um violent by nature but they couldn't get their heads around the fact that these people
00:28:58.900
who are willing to fight and die in a uniform with our flag on it would go to ottawa to defend freedom
00:29:05.460
here yeah you know what um true if you if you compare the hatred and fear that trudeau had for our
00:29:13.780
veterans with how he describes the people our veterans were fighting i if you how trudeau
00:29:20.260
talks about isis terrorists coming back to canary sorry to interrupt you mary montseff
00:29:25.620
the now former mp for peterborough she described them as her brothers the taliban remember they were
00:29:32.340
her brother yeah but our veterans are potential insurrectionists give me a break yeah um
00:29:39.060
um you know they despise the military except for as a pr i was just looking today i mean trudeau
00:29:46.180
was announcing billions more for foreign militaries in the indo-pacific he can't just he can't do a foreign
00:29:52.100
trip without spraying our money around uh he's given who knows how much to the ukrainian army but when
00:29:57.860
it comes to canadian soldiers um they're asking for more than he can give um it really is an eye
00:30:04.660
opener i um there was i think my if i had to name my favorite moment or least favorite moment in the
00:30:11.300
in the whole commissioner inquiry uh it's clip number seven and this trudeau does this sometimes
00:30:17.220
when he's had too much to to think and by himself without i mean he's used to having a script writer
00:30:23.140
around i mean he's a he's an actor i mean sometimes we think that actors are the personality they play in a
00:30:28.900
movie forgetting that no actors just read a script i mean occasionally some brilliant actors might ad
00:30:35.300
lib especially comedians they might ad lib some great movies are done that way but um generally
00:30:42.420
actors are uh as hitchcock said like cattle and they just do exactly what they're told which is why
00:30:48.740
you know the editor and the the script writer and the producer are so important um trudeau is like that
00:30:55.380
yes gerald butts writes a script for him katie telford writes a script for him he's very good at
00:31:00.660
memorizing a few lines um but whenever he but if you could ever get him to think about something new
00:31:06.900
he hasn't been briefed on then he says something really dumb like remember that question i guess it
00:31:12.580
was eight years ago now what country do you most admire there was no way he had ever been asked that
00:31:18.900
before in a formal setting so he actually thought about it and said well china because of their
00:31:24.980
basic dictatorship verbatim that's what he said so there's an actor free freelancing without a script
00:31:32.900
and that same thing happened this is clip number seven when he started thinking in a way that had
00:31:38.260
not been gamed out by his handlers and he says and he starts thinking yeah well maybe maybe you shouldn't
00:31:46.020
really be allowed to protest if if you're trying to change the world this is and then and then he says
00:31:51.140
did oh and then there's a little an alarm clock that went off in his head ring ring ring ring ring
00:31:56.340
you stepped in it you stepped in it alert alert alert or maybe who knows maybe actually had an earpiece
00:32:01.460
in it and he started walked it back like he did with the original china quote here take a look at clip
00:32:05.620
number seven but in terms of uh responding to their demands uh or or legitimizing them by engaging i'm
00:32:16.180
highlighting that i'm worried about setting a precedent uh that a blockade on wellington street
00:32:19.940
can can lead to changing public policy people need to be heard uh but we need to get that balance right
00:32:27.300
and then she agreed that i need to be cautious and i don't want to set any bad precedents
00:32:32.900
okay so fairly self-explanatory there's there's a a willingness to to discuss but you you were
00:32:38.660
concerned about setting a precedent where uh a blockade could equal a a change in public policy
00:32:46.020
is that fair yeah i mean i think we we have a robust functioning democracy and uh protests
00:32:55.060
public protests are an important part of making sure we're getting messages out there and canadians
00:33:00.420
are getting messages out there and highlighting how they feel about various issues uh but using protests
00:33:07.300
to demand uh changes to public policy um is something that that i think is is is worrisome
00:33:16.020
okay thank you mr although sorry to assert no no please go on you know protests if you're out
00:33:20.180
protesting that the government is you know shutting down a safe injection site or something you are
00:33:25.060
asking for changes in in public policy but there is a difference between uh occupations uh and and
00:33:33.460
and you know saying we're not going until this has changed uh in a way that is massively disruptive
00:33:41.220
uh and potentially dangerous uh versus just saying yeah we're protesting because we want uh we want
00:33:48.340
public policy to change and we're trying to convince people to get enough of them that politicians will
00:33:52.980
listen to enough people saying okay uh i'm going to lose votes if i don't change this that's the usual
00:33:59.220
way uh protests uh can be effective in in our democracies i don't think i've ever seen justin trudeau
00:34:07.220
condemn a protest from the left that's being disruptive black lives matter i don't know more
00:34:14.500
the tamil tigers greenpeace and other eco radicals against forestry against um the seal hunt against
00:34:25.540
pipelines against lng i don't think i've ever in my entire life seen justin trudeau speak out against
00:34:31.940
a left-wing protest disruptive or not shutting down the railroads in this country in fact they
00:34:36.820
literally sent negotiators to negotiate with the watsuitan um false tribal leaders not the real
00:34:44.740
ones um there is no protest on the left that trudeau won't bend the knee to and he realizes that he sort
00:34:51.060
of stepped in it there where he says right oh you know if you're if you're protesting to change public
00:34:55.140
policy and then something said oh but we do that too and he tried to draw a distinction they tried to
00:34:59.540
mop it up later didn't he yeah but he made it worse because then he hinted that it's not just
00:35:05.220
all protests that try to change public policy that are the problem it's just your protests that try to
00:35:10.980
change public policy that are the problem he said it's perfectly fine to protest the closing of a
00:35:16.580
safe injection site where people poison themselves into a slow death but he used a word occupation there
00:35:23.060
he said an occupation is not acceptable now i don't know about you ezra but i am old enough to remember
00:35:28.500
when he met with chief chicken noodle theresa spence who was occupying a park in ottawa and she
00:35:34.660
was lobbying to change public policy in fact she was lobbying for an end to a law that would have
00:35:40.660
brought accountability to her reserve that she was driving into the ground between her and her sticky
00:35:45.540
fingered boyfriend at the time um and he met with her he went into the occupation site went inside of
00:35:52.820
her tp and i don't know if they ate chicken noodle soup together what went on in there but he made it
00:35:59.380
of and he invited the media right to join him when he went to meet with her and he basically said why
00:36:06.340
isn't stephen harper meeting with her and and she was running her reserve at a wapiskat into the ground
00:36:12.580
there's mclean's there he is with chief theresa spence i forget the park that she was in in ottawa
00:36:18.580
but again this goes over to the point that actually that buffoon was making himself that
00:36:24.180
some occupations and protests are fine and some aren't and we're not allowed to have him but he is
00:36:29.460
yeah you know it's funny as eva was saying a moment ago um it's like we're watching two different
00:36:36.820
movies i mean the the regime media who we learned through this trucker inquiry were being managed on
00:36:42.020
a daily basis by the government um oh i'll i'll talk to this reporter she's really receptive i'll
00:36:48.900
talk to that like we need to get this reporter to use the word neo-nazi like you you could see that
00:36:54.740
you could see the orchestration of it as i said if there was a real national emergency you wouldn't
00:36:58.820
need to spin the media on it for the flq crisis which i acknowledge was an emergency 50 odd years ago
00:37:05.300
they were blowing up they were they were detonating bombs they were kidnapping people they were they
00:37:10.420
were murdering there was murder murder kidnapping um there there really was the flq really was
00:37:20.020
connected to cuba like there was a foreign meddler it was trying to cause a literal
00:37:26.900
insurrection in the province of quebec to destroy the sovereignty of the canadian government there
00:37:30.660
actually was i'm right now i think that the deployment of martial law was over broad over long
00:37:35.700
uh trudeau senior his rcmp took advantage arrested hundreds of people who had nothing to do with it
00:37:42.420
other than they were political enemies of pierre trudeau uh the rcmp famously burned down barns
00:37:48.980
of trudeau's political opponents in quebec so even back then the martial law was absolutely abused by
00:37:57.220
pierre trudeau and i'm sure that's how justin trudeau learned that you can really get away with
00:38:01.300
anything as long as you don't blink just don't blink just have your confidence and the other side will
00:38:08.260
huff and puff and you got a house of bricks they won't blow it down i think justin trudeau
00:38:13.380
learned from pierre trudeau that you can violate civil liberties and call yourself a liberal and the
00:38:18.900
media won't care if they didn't care 52 years ago when the only government media was the cbc they're
00:38:24.340
certainly not going to care today when all the media is on the government payroll well and that is the
00:38:30.260
reason the emergencies act was re rewritten from being the war measures act is because there was
00:38:35.860
an acknowledgement that it was over abroad it was used to attack political enemies instead of enemies
00:38:40.820
of the state and yet still even after all that even after that law had to be rewritten by the actions
00:38:46.580
of his father justin trudeau comes along and abuses the emergencies act against his peaceful opponents
00:38:52.900
and uh you know that the idea that these people were even remotely insurrectionist as keith
00:38:58.660
wilson lawyer for the convoy pointed out it's a hell of an insurrection when they don't even break a
00:39:03.220
window on the way out you know not even a window was broken in ottawa when every time that the convoy
00:39:12.180
was met with violence at the hands of the state that's one thing eva pointed out and i thought it was
00:39:16.340
very very poignant in her closing statement where she said at every opportunity the government chose state
00:39:23.540
force state violence instead of engagement and that was an act of choice every step of the way
00:39:28.500
but every time the government chose force the convoy didn't choose force when they were beaten with
00:39:34.980
clubs they never reacted and every step of the way the cops in the city of ottawa and a coots were
00:39:41.140
overwhelmed if those truckers and convoyers wanted to take the city of ottawa it was full of angry useful
00:39:49.380
people and they could have done it but they never did we saw how they peacefully ran off the rcmp and
00:39:55.060
coots they sang to them and they ran away these were not violent insurrectionists and shame on the
00:40:01.140
regime media for painting that them that way without a shred of evidence to the contrary yeah that's a
00:40:07.300
great point you know i i was down there on parliament hill and the center block of parliament that's the
00:40:13.300
that's the most famous one with the big peace tower that's right on the lawn um it was under
00:40:18.980
renovations and there was sort of a an eight foot high wooden fence the kind of thing you see around
00:40:24.260
a construction site sure um no one even touched it like you could have pushed that fence over and broken
00:40:30.980
through and stormed into the building i presume if you tried if you had a thousand people if you had a
00:40:40.020
hundred people maybe if you had 20 people who were dedicated but no one even touched the wooden wall
00:40:44.740
they didn't even touch it right and these are the kind of people who do things with their back in
00:40:49.140
their hands for a living they could take down a wall yeah like it's when i say wall it was just like you
00:40:53.780
you know around a construction site they put up a a fence with you know some two by fours and some
00:40:58.100
plywood yeah like it wasn't a riot wall it was a don't step here because you can get hurt as a
00:41:03.140
construction zone wall no one even touched that wall so the idea that they were like i saw pictures of
00:41:09.220
ray epps the fbi informant whipping up people to storm into congress and you know uh as a conservative
00:41:17.140
and a pro-trump conservative i acknowledge that they did enter into the actual buildings of congress
00:41:22.500
i also know that the police opened the doors and welcomed them in and there was a lot of funny
00:41:28.340
business but i i cannot dispute that they physically went into the congress itself they never even entered
00:41:35.860
a building in ottawa they never even tried to like like you say there was no window that was smashed
00:41:42.900
there was no unlocked door that was open nothing they were content to be in their trucks and on the
00:41:48.100
street well sheila i'm so glad you you helped us anchor our coverage on this for the past month i
00:41:54.500
appreciate that and you spent some of the time in ottawa but you like i say this was a very citizen
00:42:01.220
friendly project last question to you what was what was your impression of the airbnb pop-up studio
00:42:06.820
because we crowdfunded that we haven't received the final bill yet so for those who want to help out
00:42:12.100
not just for the airbnb cost us about 15 grand for the airbnb and then we were constantly flying
00:42:17.140
journalists in to the airbnb from uh they usually drive from toronto but we flew in some folks from
00:42:24.500
calgary and elsewhere so our total bill i haven't seen it yet it wouldn't surprise me if our total bill for
00:42:29.140
that pop-up studio for the month was 30 000 so we we made a big investment in it what was how was it
00:42:36.340
i mean just being in that house with the pop-up studio and the guys i it had a tiny bit of a
00:42:42.820
fraternity feeling not in that it was parties but you got a bunch of guys away from home having fun
00:42:47.620
working together um what was it like when you were there i thought it was great um you know it it's
00:42:54.740
modest it's very modest that's how we roll around here but you know it was great to have a fixed
00:43:00.020
location where we could bring the lawyers to help us analyze right what happened that day and it was
00:43:05.220
someplace warm instead of working out on the street which is new for our team that works in ottawa right
00:43:10.660
um so that was great but it was also as you say a place where you know it was collegial you know you're
00:43:15.860
working late you're leaving early when i was there selene and i were out of the airbnb like before
00:43:20.980
eight um but it was a place where you could save some money grab a coffee you know if you're working
00:43:26.500
late there was a little bit of food in the fridge um instead of having to constantly eat out so i
00:43:31.220
think it was it was a great way to help our team feel a little bit like they were at home while they
00:43:37.300
were gone for so long yeah you know i was there and in january february it was so bitter cold part of
00:43:44.020
my thinking was i don't know how cold it's going to be wasn't that bad but just to get out of the
00:43:48.580
cold just to warm your hands and feed up a bit and and of course batteries cell phone batteries
00:43:53.860
and camera batteries don't work as well when it's minus 20. so luckily it wasn't that brutal but
00:43:58.260
boy i wish we had that airbnb back during the convoy so well sheila thanks so much for joining us and
00:44:03.460
thanks for uh participating so uh deeply in the project over the last month we're going to take a
00:44:09.700
very quick commercial break and then we're going to come back with celine glass who started her work
00:44:15.700
with rebel news in the convoy she was embedded in the convoy as it made its way from calgary to ottawa
00:44:21.780
and she's been in ottawa for weeks covering it there when we come back we'll talk to sling glass
00:44:31.860
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we started off this convoy calling it taking back our freedoms
00:45:48.260
but our freedoms are nobody's to take away so we're going to restore everybody's freedoms
00:46:02.820
you know lots of people came here wanting to only do a day and uh the word with all the truckers is
00:46:15.380
they're now staying for many days you know like a lot of people now are planning on days and days in
00:46:21.220
auto us so we are here to end them out i am not leaving so we get what we want we're not going to give
00:46:47.380
well very exciting i tell you the trucker convoy was what finally broke the fever of the lockdowns in
00:46:53.700
this country broke the group think showed that not everyone was being compliant and celine glass was
00:46:58.660
there from the beginning great to see you again you're back in alberta but you spent a lot of time
00:47:03.220
in our pop-up studio that's what i'm calling it in ottawa just it was very close to the to the hearing
00:47:08.900
like it really was like a three-minute walk or something i think that really made it useful so
00:47:13.940
you didn't have to take an uber you didn't have to take a cab and it wasn't brutally cold so i i thought
00:47:18.740
it was really convenient it was also convenient the other way around for lawyers and others and witnesses
00:47:23.620
from the commissioner inquired just to walk to our little airbnb i thought it worked out pretty well
00:47:30.100
yeah i did too i think it was fantastic yeah the the back and forth commute was super short um
00:47:35.140
especially for those early days getting to the commission and as you said it made it very convenient
00:47:40.020
a lot of the lawyers that we had for the the freedom corp organizers um as well as i guess um yeah we
00:47:47.060
have like andrew lawton on there too so any of our friends that we talked to they were all really really
00:47:52.020
close to it which worked out perfectly so yeah and the fact that it was sort of obviously in in
00:47:57.220
the kitchen i don't think anyone minds i mean everyone has conversations in the kitchen i thought
00:48:01.300
i had a homemade kind of feel to it uh so how long were you there all together
00:48:06.500
um i believe i was there for 22 days straight 22 or 23 days yeah i don't know if you had a chance to
00:48:13.460
see any of the city uh while you're out there i mean that that commit commission was pretty intense
00:48:18.660
it worked some weekend days too didn't it oh it did for sure and it's also post-production
00:48:23.620
as well right so wrapping up those reports making sure that we're planned for the week ahead
00:48:27.540
the daily content etc so yeah there wasn't a lot of downtime and i by the way i give the judge some
00:48:32.820
credit everyone's piling on him he he had a a very difficult job imagine herding all those cats
00:48:39.380
everyone has their own lawyer everyone's you know and all under a very intense time pressure from what i
00:48:45.300
saw i mean i didn't watch it as intensely as you did but from what i saw i'm going to give the judge
00:48:49.940
certainly the benefit of the doubt i mean um i thought he he certainly tried to to be even
00:48:56.020
handed that's how i felt i know there were some moments that it didn't quite seem that way i want
00:49:00.660
to play for you just a couple of clips and get your reaction um here's a funny one i know you're from
00:49:06.500
alberta like i am originally clip number five you know jason kenney who used to be a really close
00:49:13.220
friend of mine and used to be the one of the leading freedom politicians in this country he
00:49:17.460
he really fell down on this one and um he started talking like trudeau you know he was calling the
00:49:26.420
truckers crazies or conspiracy theorists he was using trudeau's ottawa language in alberta it just
00:49:32.980
sounded not just hollow it sounded like a kind of mutiny against albertans it was sort of crazy
00:49:38.820
clip number five that is i think i'm gonna miss clip number five um has kenny uh reportedly
00:49:46.580
describing the alberta truckers many of whom i've met and they're the most straight-up guys you'll ever
00:49:51.540
see play clip five i'd like your reaction this lee boldened or digging in uh to their illegal behaviors
00:50:01.700
and that enforcement of public order is actually a threat and this is actually something that
00:50:09.940
jason kenney brought up at the fmm highlighting that these are not rational actors there are
00:50:15.780
conspiracy theories and he was concerned as we were that the invocation of the emergencies act
00:50:22.180
could have people who are irrational overreact but at the same time um we had to balance that risk
00:50:30.740
against the risk that uh people who uh were already starting to get fed up and engage in
00:50:38.660
encounter protests uh would start taking more and more into their own hands which was a greater risk i
00:50:44.900
think you know jason kenney had decided that these people were the bad guys and uh and i'm sure he he
00:50:53.700
believed that i think he was surrounded uh with people who were sort of in a bunker mentality at that point
00:50:59.700
he wasn't getting outside opinions it was like the palace guard uh in you know cut off from the
00:51:05.620
world and they were probably relying on official i don't i just thought it was a it was sad to see a
00:51:11.460
freedom fighter like jason kenney become really trudeau's man in canada what do you think
00:51:17.220
i totally agree with you i think it's always really harsh um it's a harsh reality to come to
00:51:21.540
when you see that there's somebody that has the potential to really stand up for people
00:51:25.460
that like has those traits in the beginning um it was like the first time when when we saw
00:51:30.020
on video that he you know denounced the vaccine passport and he didn't even know what it was
00:51:35.060
allegedly and then you know what happened in alberta the same as everywhere else in canada so i think
00:51:40.900
that he could have been our greatest opportunity looking back to have a different reality when it came
00:51:46.020
to how the alberton government um handled the lockdown restrictions and mandates but gosh listening to
00:51:52.500
trudeau again i i'm not fully out of the ottawa mindscape i feel like i have hives after listening
00:51:58.580
to trudeau talk again but uh it's harsh it's really harsh and and i kind of think i mean trudeau's kind
00:52:05.460
of just throwing him under the bus as well like i kind of feel bad you know like just i i know that he
00:52:10.980
touched on a lot of other people's testimonies but i i dare say i don't think that it was as brutal or
00:52:15.620
harsh as that and regardless of what jason kenney did it's probably because trudeau knows he's from
00:52:21.380
alberta so why not right just salt to a little bit of extra pain alberta could have been the
00:52:27.060
florida of canada could have been especially since health care is so um clearly a provincial
00:52:32.580
jurisdiction under the canadian constitution section 92 it really is up to alberta and for
00:52:38.980
whatever reason and i think it's because jason kenney always had his eye on returning to ottawa
00:52:43.700
as prime minister so he didn't want to be too province oriented too he didn't he was worried that
00:52:48.980
in the future that would make him look too small time and too partisan and not national and grandeur
00:52:54.500
enough and he missed the opportunity well listen selene it's great to see you thanks again for uh
00:53:00.660
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remember free tamara well tamara leach is certainly on my mind as she is not anywhere near done her
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entanglement with the law she's been charged with inciting mischief which is really the most minor
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offense to be found in the criminal code it's the kind of thing that you know if you vandalize a sign
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you're you know you're there's no time in custody there's likely no criminal record you're just told
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to paint the sign um get rid of the graffiti and apologize to the owner that's what attempt incitement
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to mischief is the fact that she served nearly 50 days in prison is outrageous but she's not the
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only victim of overwinning police alexa lavoie joins us now alexa great to see you and you were
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on my mind during the commission of inquiry because for all the talk of the potential violence of the
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truckers there was no violence from the truckers there there was no shooting there was no smashing
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there was no rioting but there was a person who was shot and it was you you were shot with a riot gun
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you were hit by riot police and so the violence came from the government side and as you know we're
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suing the government people who don't know what i'm referring to can go to stand with alexa.com in
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fact i just want to show a brief clip of that and i'm sorry you probably hate to see it and i hate to
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look at it but we can't forget it we can't let it be swept under the rug we can't let trudeau gaslight
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us if you know what i mean here's a clip of that terrible moment and i'll come back and i'll share
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some quick thoughts with people and then i'll bring you in alexa it's great to see you here's
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here's a clip of that terrible day and i'm sorry to show this because it was a an atrocity that was
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done to you but people have to see it take a look
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what are you doing what are you doing what are you doing what are you doing
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notes they knew who you were. They knew your name.
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So, I collapsed just like a couple of minutes after.
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And I remember I had it in my mouth and my eyes.
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That was the worst thing that ever happened to us.
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protesters, journalists, observers in the streets.
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And the coincidence that you were the only one shot,
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And then once they committed the atrocity of shooting you,
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they committed a second atrocity of literally not helping.
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And all I could think about was the police horses
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All the violence in Ottawa came from the government.
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I don't even understand that weird hypothetical situation.
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How did it feel when you saw that prince of lies
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if I didn't have like invoked the emergency act.
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and the hypocrisy of Justin Trudeau's testimony
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His you could sum up every one of his answers was
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It shows what he thinks of the peaceful protestors.
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But but he thinks, oh, they're they're truck drivers.
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And and and especially when he said I never called
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especially you allowed us to talk to the Quebec truckers
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because, of course, Ottawa is just across the river from Quebec.
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And it was very encouraging for me as a English Canadian,
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originally from the West, to see that Quebec truckers,
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French speaking truckers were they cared about freedom, too.
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So thank you not only for your coverage during the last month
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of the Trucker Commission, but for your original work
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Sandra Lavoie, who suffered greatly at the hands of Trudeau's riot police.
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And as you know, we are seeking justice in the courts for her.
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Well, this wraps up our recap of the last month's trucker commissioning of inquiry.
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I should tell you that while the public judicial hearings are over,
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there will be no more witnesses in the form there has been.
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There will be another phase of the commission of inquiry
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where they have sort of a public policy submissions section.
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I'm not as familiar with it as I should be and as I will be.
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But just because the court style inquiry is done, they are not yet done.
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Thanks again to everyone behind the scenes who put...
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Our friend, Fraser McBurney, who I had the pleasure of having dinner with a couple of months ago, says,
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Fraser and all the crew of Rebel News, I want to congratulate you on the fine work you did to bring the world the truth.
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Let's hope the commissioner brings the right verdict.
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Well, I hope YouTube feels the need to become more free to compete with Twitter.
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Did you notice his distraction after Ava talked about testimony of harm to regular people?
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He asked for repetition, appeared to have lost focus.
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As you know, we've been demonetized by YouTube, but we fight on with the strength of your support.
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If you want to help us in other ways, you can also go to trucker commission.com.
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That way you can help us pay for the Airbnb and the travel.
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But between the travel and the accommodation and the food and the gear, that's just how it is.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home.
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So are you drawing a distinction there between, okay, the premiers may say it's under control here, but that doesn't mean it's under control everywhere.
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So they would have had to come to you with something that would have solved the big problem as you saw it?
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I think there just would have been a sense that the measures I was proposing weren't going to be useful or effective.
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And what I heard on the contrary was concerns that we'd shared that this might inflame the protesters to declare a public order emergency and bring in martial law, which was one of the concerns or that they would interpret it as that.
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Of course, it wasn't martial law, and it did not suspend people's fundamental rights and freedoms.