DAILY ｜ Calgary mayor, counter protesters trying to end Freedom Rally over police enforcement
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Summary
Sid Fazza joins us to talk about the weekend, Ezra Levant's new job, and why we're expanding the Rebel News Daily Livestream to five full days a week. Also, we talk about why we think it's a good idea to have a paid chat on one of the three main social media platforms, Rumble, Odyssey and Superview.
Transcript
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Good afternoon. Good morning. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and this is the Rebel News Daily Livestream
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and I'm joined by my co-host who's not my usual co-host on Mondays. However, he's still
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a co-host from Calgary, Sid Fazard. Sid, how's it going? Hey, doing all right. How are you doing, Erin?
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You know what? It's great. You had a very busy weekend and we'll get to that. We sort of threw
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you into the fire on Sunday, but I think you did a great job and we'll talk about that as well.
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But before we get into that, I'll tell everybody exactly what we're doing here because otherwise
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I'll forget. And then no one will know. So for our not already carefully cultivated stable of viewers,
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if you're new here, this is the Rebel News Daily Livestream. It used to just be hosted on Friday,
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just hosted by the big boss man Ezra Levant. However, then the pandemic struck, there was
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more news than ever, but you wouldn't know it if you got all your news from the mainstream media who
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in some instances like CBC, they declined to do local news because it was just too darn dangerous.
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I think they took the subsidy though for local news because it's not too dangerous to be cash in
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those checks from Justin Trudeau. So we decided to extend the live stream from just Friday to Monday
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through Friday because there's more news than ever. Olivia, there's some buzzing in my ear or static in
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my ear and I hope our viewers aren't experiencing that. So maybe you can check that out.
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Perfect. It's fixed now. Nope, it's back. It's fixed. Okay, great. So anyway, we extended the
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live stream five full day or five full work days during the week. It's hosted by me on Monday,
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Tuesday and Thursday. And then we have a rotating stable of guests on Wednesday and Friday. Sometimes
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Ezra pops in also. So, you know, make sure you're watching because you never know when that's going to
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happen. It used to be a great way for our viewers to support the work that we do,
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completely willingly because YouTube allowed us to accept something called a super chat.
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But then Biden got elected and big tech didn't really have to pretend to be free speechy anymore.
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And so big tech demonetized a whole slate of conservatives, including us. So we weren't
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able to take super chats anymore. But because YouTube doesn't want us there, we insist on staying
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there as long as possible. So there will come a time where they just completely purchase from the
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platform. But in the meantime, we're going to be a thorn in their side by existing on YouTube.
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But we also want to support other free speech platforms that allow us to say the things we want
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to say and think the things we want to think. And so we are also simultaneously broadcasting on
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Rumble, Odyssey and Superview. And those are great free speech, independent platforms where they believe
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in the free and liberal exchange of ideas. And on those three platforms, unlike YouTube,
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you can support the work that we do. So through a Rumble rant, if you send us one of those,
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we'll read it on air. Through Odyssey, if you send us a hyper chat, we'll read it on air.
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And on Superview, if you send us a Superview shout, we'll also read that on air. So now's your chance,
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dear viewer, to have your say. And we'll try to stop about every 15 minutes to read the paid chats.
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And we're also, correct me if I'm wrong, still live streaming on Getter, which is great. I think
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this is our fourth week on Getter and it seems to be going well. And I'm going to try to spend a
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little more time on Getter because Twitter is a censorious hellhole. And I don't know why I'm giving
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them my thoughts and energy. So I think that's all the nuts and bolts. If you want to have your say,
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please consider sending us a paid chat on one of those other platforms. I think that's it. Maybe
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we should get into the news of the day. What do you think, Sid?
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No, that sounds good. And there was a lot that happened over the weekend. So I'm happy to cover
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that. Okay. First things first, though, because I think this is just kind of an interesting story
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and it shows how out of touch the Laurentian sort of Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal bubble of fancy people,
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how out of touch they are with the rest of the world. And I think you might have a unique
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perspective on this, Sid, because you moved from Toronto to Calgary and Calgary is a car city.
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We love our cars. We love our trucks out here in Western Canada. And a lot of that has to do with
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the weather and things are so far away and we have different jobs. But for some reason,
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the people who live in that little like Bermuda triangle of government elites, they really think
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that we should be in an electric car. Because I guess if you can't afford to fill up at the pump,
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obviously, you can just afford to spend $40,000 to $70,000 on an electric car. And I see this story
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out today in the CBC. Olivia, if you want to bring that up. Electric vehicles face roadblocks
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as feds try to boost sales and then CBC gets it all wrong. Cost, well, that's a little bit true.
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Cost, scarcity and a shortage of charging stations are undermining Ottawa's efforts. I think cost is
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one. Scarcity is because supply is in fact meeting demand here. People don't want to buy these things
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because they don't make sense. And a shortage of charging stations, I'm not sure that's true either.
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I think they just don't make sense in Canada where they don't work well in the cold. Everything's so
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far away. And again, if you can't afford the increased price at the pump, why do these people
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think that you can afford to just buy a new car? Like if you can't afford your 1995 Toyota Tercel,
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you can't afford a Tesla. But this is what the government thinks. They're really pushing this
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and they want half of all new cars sold in this country to be zero emissions vehicles by 2030.
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And for context, I think we're about at 5% of cars. Eight years out, 5% of cars are electric or
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electric hybrid. I just want to talk to you about this because you have a unique perspective on this
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because you move somewhere where you don't really need a car to live to somewhere where a car sure
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makes life more convenient. Yeah, no, to say the least. And especially in Toronto, I mean,
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it's still a vehicle, but you have Uber, you have the subways right there, wherever you are,
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you can just hop on public transit, you can practically bike anywhere you need to.
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Um, and it's, it's not really in focus, the necessity of a vehicle as much as it is in a
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place like, uh, Calgary. Um, so there is certainly a distinction made in the minds of the people who
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live in either place. Um, and I think that's something that, yeah, it's just a lack of
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understanding on their part, uh, what is needed and why it is so essential to have these vehicles
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that run on, uh, fuel as opposed to electricity. Uh, and as well, I think they talk about the, uh,
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the output of these vehicles, they want, you know, net zero with these electric cars. Uh,
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but it also negates the amount of, uh, effort that's put into creating these cars and these
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large batteries. Uh, well, there's a lot that goes into that and it's usually neglected now those
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efforts. Yeah, it's true. If you've ever seen a, like a lithium mine, a cobalt mine,
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they are, they're, these minerals are mined in places of the world where they have no regard for
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human rights or labor laws or wages or child slavery. That seems to be something that they
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don't care so much about. Um, and then there's no remediation. There's no reclamation. It's just,
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here's this open pit of toxicity. Let's move on to the next open pit of toxicity and take our slaves
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with us. Um, that's what happens. That's what it means for the Western world to pat themselves on the
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back about how green they're going and driving an electric vehicle. And it really is virtue signaling
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for rich people. Um, there's a reason why these cars make up less than 5% of new vehicle sales.
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They are expensive and they don't make sense. I think I saw Bruce Anderson the other day. He's sort
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of a, one of those Ottawa fancy people. I think he used to even claim to be conservative. I'm not sure.
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Um, but, uh, he said, you know, it's, it's no big deal. If you cash in on the taxpayer subsidized
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rebates of these things, by the way, what, by the way, why am I paying rebates for rich people to buy
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their virtue signaling cars? But he said, you know, it's basically, you can really subsidize these
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things down to about $30,000. Okay. That's great. But how much chicken feed can I get in that?
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And I don't know. I don't know if they've ever seen the roads outside of the city, but half the
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time I drive by memory because I remember where the road was because you can't see where the road
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is because it's completely drifted over. Um, but it's just, they're so out of touch. They think the
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entire country exists within Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. And I'm pretty sure those places get snow
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too, but when you only have to drive from your government job to your government suburb,
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I guess it's fine. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing is when you're in these centralized locations,
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especially the GTA, uh, these electric charging stations are all over the place. You have access
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to them, but I just imagine if I had that electric vehicle in the drive from Toronto to Calgary,
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there are places like if you were to drive through Northern Ontario, uh, I almost imagine you would be
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lucky to make it all the way through without, uh, losing charge all the way when the tow truck
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come pick you up. And I saw a video over the winter time of a Tesla, I believe it was here in Calgary,
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um, that ran out of juice while in the middle of a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere. Um, and that's
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the thing is these cars, they're trying to drop the price of them, make them more, uh, easy for the
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masses to get ahold of. Uh, but at the same time, you're spending twice as much for half the value
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because they aren't, um, fully usable throughout the country. Yeah. I don't even know if there's a
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charging station in Fort Saskatchewan. Okay. I don't know. I don't think so. And it's not
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a tiny town. I think there's about 25,000 people there, but I don't think there's a single
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public electric car charger there. Correct me if I'm wrong. Somebody might send me an email.
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There might be one like at some virtue signaling place, but it's a very blue collar town. There's
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not a lot of virtue signaling happening in Fort Saskatchewan. Um, I just thought I would touch
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on that because it's so outrageous, um, that, you know, you hear the, um, the, um, Jen Psaki,
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I think is how you say her name, uh, Joe Biden's press secretary when people are saying, well, you know,
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like, wouldn't it be helpful if there were more supply of oil and gas to deal with these high prices at
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the pumps? And she says, you know, the answer is not more supply. It's green energy. Okay. That's
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great. Even if that were the case, what does that do to help the people with gas powered vehicles
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right now? Nothing. They just quietly go broke trying to get to work every day.
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Exactly. And I think you can kind of parallel it to public transportation where, uh, like you
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mentioned, uh, Montreal, Toronto, they have very large public transportation systems, but if you
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go out to a small town, well, maybe you've got a bus route or two. And then if you go to a place
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like Coutts, Alberta, there isn't any public transportation. Uh, and I think that same premise
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applies to electric vehicles and the feasibility of it, uh, where the further you go away from these
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central locations, the less and less practical it is to use these things on a daily basis.
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Yeah. And for the harder to say, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, not everybody can live in a big
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city. If I move to a big city who grows your food, right? Everybody's thinks, Oh, just move closer to
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the city and then your life won't be so carbon intensive. Okay. That's fine. But we're, your beef is
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not grown on an apartment patio. It has to be grown somewhere. Right. And people forget that
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there are people producing things that live outside the big cities and without them, you will starve to
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death. Yeah, that's exactly right. Now let's talk to, you had a very exciting weekend and I think
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maybe, um, Olivia, we can bring up some clips of Sid's, uh, excitement on Saturday, but why don't you
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tell us sort of what unfolded at the weekly freedom protest? Because it was more eventful than normal,
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uh, because a handful of left-wing activists decided that they were going to take back the
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streets. I think they said, like take back the streets from whom other Calgarians, they're not
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your streets. Anyways, I'll let you get into it. No, exactly. Um, and these, the freedom rally protests,
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they've been going on basically since the beginning of the pandemic across the country. Uh, and only for
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the last couple of weeks now, uh, we've seen this counter protest arise. And at first, uh, they were
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standing in a park as the protest, the freedom rally went through, uh, the week after that, they
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had blocked, uh, that same location off, uh, on the road so that the protest group, uh, the freedom
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rally, I should say, had to find an alternative route around them. Uh, and this past weekend, what
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happened was at first there was a couple, I guess, stragglers from the counter protest group,
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uh, that were, they formed a sort of blockade. I guess there's just a few of them standing on the
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road, uh, and police formed a line near the beginning of where the freedom rally would
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march. Uh, and then later down, uh, the way the, the rally route, the rest of the counter
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protesters were all on the streets and there was a police line, uh, set up. You can see it on camera
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there right now. Uh, so there's the police line and you can see the freedom rally in the back.
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And then you can see another police line behind the police line is the counter protest group.
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Uh, and then behind the counter protest group were more freedom rally protesters. So,
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um, it, it, it was kind of all over the place that intersection. Uh, but that is where the
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protest group, the freedom rally group, I should say, and the counter protest, uh, met on the
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streets. Uh, and shortly after the freedom rally group did make its way through, uh, with the aid
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of police who had opened up the sidewalk for them to make their way past. Um, but it was,
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uh, a bit of a mess, I guess you could say for a little while.
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I don't understand why police kettled everybody on onto one intersection. Um, you know, there's
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room on the streets for everybody. And if, you know, these are two sort of adversarial opposing
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groups, why let them get to the same place and cause a big kerfuffle? Why not hold one back,
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let one walk through and then let the other one walk through? Cause it's my understanding
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that the weekly freedom protest people, I've covered them too. I covered them for quite a long
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time. Um, before we had a Calgary team, I would come down every weekend. They follow the same route
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every week. They just go around, come back, you know, they gather, they make the walk and then they
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come back and, um, they're not disruptive. They're orderly. Um, it happens like clockwork. They start and
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they wrap it up and they're done. Um, so I don't understand why police allowed the chaos to happen
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at that intersection. I fully believe the counter protesters have a right, um, to protest and be
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there and have their, um, voices heard. That's perfectly fine. But I think there was a better way
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for police to deal with this because I feel like a lot of the chaos on the corner here is created.
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It didn't have to be this way. Well, and I think a lot of this comes from a last minute response
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by the Calgary police where, um, they, I don't think they really knew what to do or how to handle
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the situation. Uh, I believe a block prior to where the counter protest group was, there was a
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very weak attempt by Calgary police to have the freedom rally make an alternate or change the route
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slightly. Um, but that didn't pan out. Uh, so the freedom rally went straight head onto the police
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line that was blocking them from, uh, mingling, I guess you could say with the counter protest group.
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Um, so they, it was a very weak attempt though, I think. Um, and inevitably they had to call in for
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backup so that they could resolve the situation by opening up the sidewalk on the one side and
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letting, uh, the freedom rally protesters go through. Although that said, um, many in the freedom rally
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were able to get around the police barrier, um, just by walking like a little ways over and they
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ended up on the backside of the counter protest. Um, now nothing really happened. It was just like
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a back and forth, like talking people being like, Oh, your idea is wrong. Your idea is wrong. Um,
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but there was no police line between the counter protesters and the, uh, freedom rally on that side.
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Um, so it was, it was weird. It was, everything felt like it was in shambles. And I talked to one
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of the higher up, uh, police officers who was there kind of managing the situation. And he,
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I asked him, it seems like you've created a bit of a logistical problem for yourself,
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uh, because it's, uh, uh, there's the freedom rally and then there's a police line and then
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there's another police line and then there's the counter protest and then there's the freedom
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rally protest. So if they were trying to stop the two groups from mingling, they failed in that
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regard. Um, it was just, it was a big mess on the Calgary police's hip hop part. Although,
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um, and as you saw as well, they were using the bicycles and pushing the counter protesters back.
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Um, they, and they did inevitably let the freedom rally through. Um, so I don't necessarily know
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what to make of it, but I think, uh, for next weekend, cause I'm sure this is probably going to
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happen again. That's my expectation. Um, they, they should act sooner or at least have a better plan,
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uh, in how they're going to allow both of these groups to protest and what they're trying to
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protest. So maybe can you give me an estimate of the size, uh, one versus the other?
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I'm really bad at guessing. Um, I did put out a little drone video that does show the whole,
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uh, freedom rally and the counter protest, the counter protest, maybe there was 30 or 40 of them.
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Um, and the freedom rally group, um, like maybe 20 to one, I think, to be honest, at least. So
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quite the disparity there, uh, in the size of these groups. Yeah. Thousands come out for the freedom
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rally every single week. And, you know, there's 30 troublemakers show up and, you know, it didn't
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erupt into violence. So, I mean, whatever I might even be pushing it to call them troublemakers, but
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it's, um, it's the thing every week goes off without a hitch until 30 antis show up. And then
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all of a sudden the street corner descends into chaos and you can tell who's who by their masks,
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right? I saw on Twitter, somebody say at this point, if you're wearing a mask, that's basically
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an NDP lawn sign on your face. Yeah. Well, and I think the big difference between these two groups,
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like, uh, we go to the freedom rally protests quite often and they know who we are. And we
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ask people, Hey, do you want to like, do you have time for questions? This and that. Uh, and there's
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people that say yes. There's people that say no. Um, they're very much of an individual mindset.
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Although when you try and ask the counter protesters, like what exactly are you protesting? What, what are
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you counter protesting against? They usually don't have a good answer or they stick to this kind of
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line that they've been told where they've been told they're not allowed to answer questions for
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people like us. So they're very much in this state of group thing, uh, which is, I think the big
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difference between them and the freedom rally protesters. And that's why I think the counter
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protest, which one individual was, uh, hesitant to give me an answer, but he did give me a vague one
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where, um, they don't like the fact that the freedom rally protesters are walking through the streets,
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uh, disrupting them. And they disagree with the stance on vaccine mandates. So it's very much so
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a, uh, pro government narrative stick to what we are told. And then there's the freedom rally
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protesters who are very much like, I deserve to have bodily autonomy. I deserve to have a voice and
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have the opportunity to make choices in my life. It's weird how the left-wing anarchists are out there
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enforcing the government narrative. Like how did that happen? How did that switch get flipped? Um,
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you know, it's interesting to see the responses of the politicians. So Jason Kenney, uh, maybe we
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can show that clip. He doesn't even know why people are out there anymore. Um, but I'm pretty sure I
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know. Um, but Olivia, if you have that clip, can you show it? This is from the, um, press conference
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over the weekend that, uh, um, where Jason Kenney says he doesn't even know why the freedom protest
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takes place every weekend. I think this was a clip from Efron's Twitter.
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And, uh, I, I would just say, I, I'm not quite sure what the protest is about because Alberta
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effectively does not have any more public health measures. They, they've all been lifted some time
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ago. And, um, I, uh, would suggest that, that maybe people could find more productive ways of,
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uh, expressing their, their frustration, but maybe here's an idea. How about we all just move on
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from the frustration of COVID? How about we leave it in the rear view mirror? I mean, there are still
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some remaining federal travel restrictions, which we think are, are wrong. Uh, we, we have a
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motion in the legislature calling on the federal government to drop the pointless federal travel
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restrictions. Um, but I guess the point I would make is we could spend the rest of our lives in
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this society arguing over COVID, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, or we could just move
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forward. Here's the good news. Alberta's emerging into a period of dynamic economic growth.
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There's lots of good news now and on the horizon. I say, let's embrace that, that positive future,
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as opposed to, uh, getting stuck in the division of the past two years, every family, every community,
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business, faith group, they've, we all know people have been divided over COVID. Uh, let's
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stop accentuating the division. Let's find ways to come together, uh, as Albertans.
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He's trying to remove the damage that's been done over the last two years. And not only that,
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but if you talk to the people at the freedom rally, uh, which Jason Kenney, I don't think has made any
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handful of offenses. Exactly. He doesn't know why they're protesting. Why don't you go down there and
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talk to them? Ask them. Well, he doesn't know why they're protesting. Just like he doesn't know what
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a vaccine passport is. Right. So, and it's unfortunate because if you go down to these
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protests, you find that people are still struggling to find jobs. People are like, uh, he mentioned,
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he's apparently against the federal travel restrictions. Well, those are still in place.
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There's so much damage that's been done. If you think about the education sector, well,
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post-secondary education, I don't know if this is still the case. Uh, but while I was in Coots,
00:23:25.220
I interviewed some students, I believe they were, I'm not exactly sure what university they were
00:23:29.260
with. It was in Alberta. Um, but they still can't go on campus. So they really just want to shrug
00:23:34.780
all of this COVID stuff under the rug. And he says, this is about COVID, but really it's not. It's about
00:23:39.540
the overreach that we've seen from our federal municipal and provincial governments over the
00:23:43.700
last two years. And even though they've dropped some restrictions and some mandates, they've essentially
00:23:49.060
left the door open for this to happen again in six months or however soon they think they can get
00:23:54.100
away with it once the population is forgotten. Well, and he just wants us to move on from COVID.
00:24:00.440
What he means is I want you to forget what I did to you, what I did to your business, what I did to
00:24:06.100
your church, what I did to your pastor, what I did to your job, what I did to your family's finances,
00:24:12.320
what I did to every family celebration over the last two years, the third party in all of that was
00:24:18.220
the government. Um, there are still people in Alberta who are laid off, constructively fired
00:24:25.840
because Jason Kenney has allowed the private sector to impose vaccine passports on their employees.
00:24:32.320
There are people who work for WestJet who are fired. There were people who worked for Alberta Health
00:24:38.360
Services who were fired. There were people who worked in the oil patch who were fired. CN fired.
00:24:45.320
Uh, CP Rail fired. CNRL fired. There were people all over this province who were fired because they
00:24:53.720
refused to participate in the biomedical police state for whatever reason. They either refused to get
00:24:58.800
vaccinated or to divulge their vaccination status. He wants us to move on from the segregation.
00:25:05.100
They are out there protesting what their government has done to them or has allowed to be done to them
00:25:11.160
for the past two years. And what I have not heard from Jason Kenney is I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We did
00:25:19.980
this to you. I'm sorry that the division your family's experiencing. I'm sorry. We did that as a
00:25:26.240
government. I'm sorry that you lost your job because of an unscientific government policy. He's never said
00:25:32.340
that people are out there protesting because even though Jason Kenney wants to move on from the damage he did
00:25:38.760
to himself through his COVID measures, the people are still experiencing the fallout and they have
00:25:45.080
every right to be out there in protest. Well, and one of the things especially, which I know we're
00:25:50.800
going to get into in a little bit, uh, but at these freedom rally protests, as of late, they've been,
00:25:55.400
uh, what would you say, uh, calling to free pastor Archer Poblowski, who he's been in behind bars for
00:26:01.880
over 30 days now. Uh, and I think Jason Kenney would probably like you to forget about that as
00:26:06.220
well. And, uh, hopefully we can, uh, not see that he is forgotten because as, uh, our Calgary-based
00:26:15.080
reporter, Adam Sosa said, he's probably the most persecuted man in Canada. Um, so I really hope
00:26:20.840
there's some resolve on that front, but as Jason Kenney alludes to, this is not a political maneuver,
00:26:25.840
uh, but we'll get into that a little more of it. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that in a second
00:26:31.740
before we move on from the, uh, protest chaos over the weekend, which was hardly chaos except for the
00:26:36.620
police actions causing chaos because 30, uh, people on the street should not be able to disrupt
00:26:43.580
thousands, but the police, I think caused that a little bit. Um, the mayor of Calgary who somehow,
00:26:52.080
somehow through some miracle of ineptitude, she is worse than the previous mayor, Naheed Nanchi,
00:26:59.280
Jodi Gondek. She has a little bit of, uh, Jim Watson in her, uh, Jim Watson being the mayor of Ottawa
00:27:07.860
and she wants more enforcement. I'm not sure of what, um, she wants a police crack down on the freedom
00:27:18.420
protest that has been happening there longer than she's been mayor by the way. So she doesn't get to
00:27:23.200
just come in and rewrite history. These people have always been peaceful. Always. The only time
00:27:28.980
chaos happened was over this weekend and it was hardly chaos because, uh, 30 counter protesters showed
00:27:36.620
up. Um, that's when the problem started happening. She's just tired of these people protesting for their
00:27:42.920
freedom. And so she's sick of it and she doesn't want to look at it anymore. Um, so she, her series
00:27:49.820
of tweets, maybe we can bring those up. Jodi Gondek is the worst. Uh, she's apparently spoken with
00:27:55.820
Beltline residents, but not the protesters. And let's be clear. Some of these protesters are
00:28:01.460
from the Beltline, but anyways, she says, I spoke with Beltline residents and businesses this morning.
00:28:07.520
I was in the Beltline this afternoon. Okay. So why didn't you go talk to the protesters? Anyways,
00:28:12.420
this weekly disruption, this community faces is not a protest. It's a parade at Central Memorial
00:28:18.900
Park. It's a festival with merch and food vendors yet no permits or licenses. Ah, so the government's
00:28:24.540
not getting their cut. That's the problem here. There's what does it matter? What do you need a
00:28:29.360
permit for really? Like I it's the government wants their cut. They want their little, um, involvement
00:28:35.440
and all of this. They want to give the okay. And what they want to be able to say is, uh,
00:28:40.780
apply for a permit, deny the permit, and they give you a ticket for not having a permit when
00:28:45.320
you have your, when you're giving away food or whatever. She goes on to say, why not enforce
00:28:50.940
the bylaws? Why is the standard response that this will fizzle out? It won't. This is not
00:28:57.640
about mandates. Those are gone. Uh, by waiting for this to die out, enforcement agencies have
00:29:03.760
allowed it to grow. Telling residents, businesses to wait it out is shameful. Um, this is how you
00:29:10.760
get more protests lady. Like, you know, like if you don't want people to show up and protest
00:29:17.060
government overreach, the answer is not more government overreach. You're going to have
00:29:21.080
more people out there protesting you and you're going to have more vendors and more food and more
00:29:25.620
merch. Well, that's the problem is anybody who's in government wants everything to be controlled by
00:29:31.340
government. Um, it, it's a misunderstanding of what their position is in this world. And I think for
00:29:38.080
a lot of people coming from Toronto, I can tell you that it feels very much. So like the government
00:29:43.240
is the man in the clouds, so to speak. Uh, he is the one that it, the government is the one that
00:29:48.460
controls the life of us, of all of us. Um, but that's just not the case. They're there to kind of
00:29:54.020
maintain order to a degree, but they're not there to control our lives in every aspect of them.
00:29:59.160
Yeah. She goes on to say community members standing their ground are not counter protesters.
00:30:06.520
I venture to guess how many of those people are actually from the Beltline, by the way,
00:30:11.160
they are people with a right to a self and welcome, a safe and welcoming community. And while council
00:30:16.320
has no formal ability to direct police or other enforcement bodies, we can be vocal and stand with
00:30:23.040
our fellow Calgarians. So she's on one hand saying we don't have a right to demand more enforcement.
00:30:29.160
But her next tweet demands more enforcement. And it's the mayor. So she's flexing her muscles
00:30:35.320
here. The next one says it's past time to deal with people not following the law. Oh, G.O.D.,
00:30:41.420
what are you going to do? You're going to run over them with a horse. You're going to pepper spray
00:30:45.560
them. What are you going to do? These are peaceful protesters. There's never been an instance of
00:30:50.240
violence in two full years. The only time things devolved was when the counter protesters showed up.
00:30:57.820
And that's exactly what they are, because I venture to guess that not many of them are
00:31:00.780
actually from the Beltline. It's past time to support people in their own communities and
00:31:05.240
businesses. Yeah, I agree. That's why I was against the lockdown that she was in favor of.
00:31:14.300
Sorry. And that's why the protesters are out there, because they want businesses to open without
00:31:18.740
these restrictions by the government. They want to go in and shop at these restaurants and other
00:31:23.540
stores. But they haven't been allowed to because of the government. The government has effectively,
00:31:27.840
over the last two years, shut down small businesses for the sake of larger companies who,
00:31:32.720
for whatever means, can continue operating while the small guy is basically getting destroyed by
00:31:38.140
our government. Yeah. She goes on to say it's past time to face the fact that this, quote,
00:31:43.020
protest requires more than, quote, crowd control. What does that mean? What are you going to do to
00:31:50.040
these people, Gioti? What are you going to do? You know, what do you want the Calgary police to
00:31:56.640
do to these peaceful protesters, you absolute maniac? And then she says, enforcement must stand
00:32:02.200
with the community. They are. They are. They're keeping everybody safe while allowing them to
00:32:08.080
practice their civil liberties. Well, and especially if you consider the numbers of either crowd,
00:32:13.760
well, if you want to stand with the community, I think that leans in a certain direction that
00:32:18.080
she might not find favorable. Yeah. Yeah. She just doesn't like people exercising their civil
00:32:24.520
liberties and they've been doing it longer than she's been mayor. So she can just take a backseat
00:32:28.140
here and let people continue to do what they're legally allowed to do in a free country. This isn't
00:32:32.840
Hong Kong. They can go out on the streets and protest the government. And I don't care if Jason
00:32:38.680
Kenney doesn't know why they're out there anymore. They're still allowed to be out there. They can be
00:32:42.960
out there for whatever reason they want. 30 people counter-protesting or 3,000 on the other
00:32:47.820
side. They're all allowed to be there, even if they don't have a reason, which they do.
00:32:55.240
It's funny too, because I mean, perhaps now the protest group, I mean, they might have their
00:33:00.180
two years of experience in having the burden of the government of Jason Kenney and of municipalities
00:33:06.700
is welcome down on them. But now it's less targeted towards municipal and provincial government. Now
00:33:13.180
it's mostly the federal government. So the Freedom Rally group is perhaps less inclined to be angry
00:33:18.820
with people like the Calgary mayor or Jason Kenney, the premier, and that their concerns may be more
00:33:24.960
redirected to other groups. So it's funny that they're trying to come down on them now when they're
00:33:29.200
probably less inclined to go after these politicians.
00:33:32.300
Yeah, that's true. That's a great point. This might not even be about G.O.D. Gondek anymore,
00:33:39.040
and yet she's going to make it about herself, isn't she? And that's going to blow up in her face,
00:33:43.480
I think. Now, moving along to politicians who are completely tone deaf and just lacking
00:33:50.520
self-awareness whatsoever. Yesterday, so Sunday, the Alberta government, Jason Kenney,
00:33:56.700
announced the doubling of funding to protect places of worship from hate crimes. And I was quite
00:34:01.820
interested in this because there's been a real spate of hate crimes against Alberta Christian
00:34:11.120
churches, namely locking them up, chaining the doors, putting fences around them, arresting their
00:34:17.540
pastors in front of their children, real civil liberties violations. And I thought, boy, if we could
00:34:23.720
only catch the people behind all of that. But that's not what Jason Kenney meant, because he's that
00:34:29.460
guy. So yesterday, they announced an increased funding from the Alberta Security Infrastructure
00:34:35.720
Program, increased from $2 million to $5 million annually. And I'm not against this. I just think
00:34:41.920
you're lacking a little bit of self-awareness. This has a lot to do with the church burnings,
00:34:49.440
vandalisms that happened last summer to protect churches, not-for-profit agencies, registered
00:34:57.160
charities and other organizations. They can apply for grants for security and technology
00:35:01.420
improvements. And so I'm not mad about this. I think this is a good thing. And I'm usually
00:35:09.640
generally against government spending. And they announced it at a church that was targeted for
00:35:17.960
arson last year at the Calgary Vietnamese Alliance Church in Forest Lawn. And so the announcement was
00:35:24.660
made there. And I think that's great. The church was one of 50 Christian churches targeted by vandals
00:35:30.040
across the country last summer. I think it was closer to 60, actually. And so, yeah, great. Because
00:35:37.680
there, I think maybe there have been two or three arrests related to this. And they were, I think the
00:35:43.400
one was like a busybody, white leftist girl, privileged, highly privileged girl. So I'm not against this,
00:35:53.560
but I'm just sort of astounded at how Jason Kenney is now painting himself as, you know, the defender
00:36:02.600
of Christian churches in this province when he was the most heavy-handed against Christian churches
00:36:11.040
who decided that what the government was asking the churches to do was in strict contradiction with
00:36:20.500
what their faith mandated to them. And so you were actually on the call yesterday. You were on the
00:36:28.160
call. It wasn't, you weren't in person, right? No, that was in person. Oh, you were in person. I
00:36:33.520
don't know why I thought you were on the call, on the press conference call. So even better, you went
00:36:38.120
down to this press conference in person and you put a question to the premier and it was a mealy-mouthed
00:36:44.820
response. And I'll go through why I think that is the case, but your question was great. So let's maybe
00:37:03.820
Right now, of course, you're investing in religious infrastructure, but I think many around the province
00:37:07.900
have the concern that you may not be best protecting their religious freedoms. As we've seen with
00:37:12.920
Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, he still remains behind bars. This is well over 30 days. If you could just
00:37:17.840
comment on that situation and maybe perhaps ease some concerns or just give some light to that
00:37:24.920
So in Canada, we have something called the rule of law, where courts are responsible for adjudicating
00:37:31.560
criminal charges against individuals, not politicians. So we have an independent judiciary.
00:37:37.340
That individual, I understand, has been detained under, by the police because of multiple breaches
00:37:45.360
of terms of release, court orders, as well as an incitement to, an alleged incitement to violence
00:37:52.420
at the Coutts border crossing blockade. And so that individual has all of the rights of any individual
00:38:00.020
under the Canadian legal system. They are presumed guilty and, sorry, excuse me, presumed innocent until
00:38:06.580
proven guilty, of course, in our system of law. And they have a right to access to counsel.
00:38:12.300
They have all of that individual or any other individual who has all of the same legal rights
00:38:15.760
as anybody. So this is a matter that is before the courts. And, you know, as a more general
00:38:23.080
comment, I would just suggest that going to a very tense combustible situation and inciting
00:38:31.300
people to be willing to die and commit acts of violence for their cause is very likely to have
00:38:42.320
legal consequences. And I would suggest that, you know, nobody is above the law. No politician,
00:38:48.680
no person that calls himself a pastor is above the law. The rule of law applies equally to everybody
00:38:54.780
in our system of the rule of law. So is he defining what a pastor is? I'll just on that last line. I
00:39:02.380
mean, I guess people who call themselves pastors, I guess they need permission from the government to
00:39:07.020
be a pastor. But it's real, real interesting to hear Mr. Nobody's above the law want to rewrite his
00:39:14.440
own history with regard to the Sky Palace. The Sky Palace, whatever they were doing up there, it was going
00:39:20.200
on for long enough for someone to get fed up enough to fly a drone up there to take pictures. And
00:39:25.900
instead of turning himself into the Alberta sheriffs and demanding that they ticket him the way they
00:39:31.200
ticket pastors and peaceful protesters and people trying to have birthday parties, nothing happened
00:39:37.740
to him. Because he is above the law, isn't he? Well, and something incredible, too, that he says is
00:39:44.060
he's speaking to Artur Poloski and saying that Artur was calling for violence. Well, it's my understanding
00:39:49.580
that that's never been the case. And multiple times, and he's reinforced this multiple times,
00:39:54.240
Pastor Artur has said over and over again, it has to be peaceful. That's the way it has to be done.
00:40:00.100
And I think he conflated an incitement to violence with what Pastor Artur was actually charged with.
00:40:05.780
And he was the first person ever to be charged with this. And I believe you would know more about
00:40:10.360
this, especially the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act. What was it exactly?
00:40:13.600
The Critical Infrastructure Defense Act. He's the first person ever charged under it. And the law is
00:40:21.180
there to prosecute pipeline saboteurs, wellhead bombers, the Weibo Ludwigs of the world,
00:40:30.040
eco-terrorists. That's really what it's for. But they got creative and used it on a pastor who gave
00:40:37.300
a sermon to truckers who were blockading the Coutts border. What's interesting in all of that is
00:40:42.220
the truckers were never charged with anything under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
00:40:50.360
So how do you charge the pastor who simply said, hold the line, which I guess is now a crime in this
00:40:56.880
country based on the treatment of Tamara Litch. But he went down there, gave a sermon, said, hold the
00:41:04.240
line, said it has to be peaceful. Ezra went back and rewatched Pastor Art's sermon from the blockade.
00:41:11.920
And he reiterated multiple times that it had to be peaceful. This is not the first time that Jason
00:41:18.520
Kenney has said that there had been violence and or calls to violence from Coutts border blockaders.
00:41:27.180
We can just go back a little bit to remember when he said that a police officer or law enforcement,
00:41:34.280
anyway, was assaulted at the border by blockaders or their supporters. And that absolutely wasn't the
00:41:42.820
case. It was a minor fender bender. But Jason Kenney, once again, not knowing all the details,
00:41:47.660
or maybe even knowing all the details, but not caring, stood up in a press conference and made
00:41:53.980
that allegation, just like now, where he is saying that Pastor Art engaged in incitement to violence.
00:42:00.880
He absolutely did not. In fact, he reiterated calls for peace.
00:42:05.920
Yeah. And that assault actually took place between two civilians, not an RCMP officer. So
00:42:15.880
Yeah, it's just, it's really, it's fascinating to watch him just play fast and loose with the facts.
00:42:23.520
And he just keeps going. Like he, you think that you would do your best to get this right. And if you
00:42:32.200
don't have all the details, say, I'm sorry, I'm leaving that in the hands of the courts. I don't
00:42:36.060
even have all the details there. Fine. But there's another layer here because Jason Kenney can't wash
00:42:42.040
his hands of this and say, ah, it's independent, independent judiciary. The government does not get
00:42:47.640
involved with the courts. That's not the case here because Pastor Art's troubles subsequent to his
00:42:56.260
troubles with feeding the homeless and the poor in downtown Calgary, what the government called an
00:43:02.080
illegal public gathering, ridiculous. But it stems from his contempt of a court order stems from
00:43:09.380
a court order sought by the government. It wasn't sought by police. It was enforced by police. It wasn't
00:43:17.640
sought by prosecutors. It was, again, enforced by the police. It was sought by Alberta Health Services. Alberta
00:43:26.040
Health Services, an agency of the government under Tyler Shandro at the time, Health Minister Tyler Shandro, who
00:43:33.740
was under the premier of this province, Jason Kenney, went to court, got a secret court order
00:43:40.240
restraining the rights of peaceful protest of all Albertans and named several people in that court
00:43:48.580
order by name. And then they also got a court order demanding entry into Pastor Art's church. That
00:43:56.180
came from the government. So Jason Kenney cannot wash his hands and say, oh, this is the independent
00:44:02.120
judiciary. It's got nothing to do with us. This has everything to do with us. That court order or
00:44:07.860
those court orders set off the cascade of events where we are today. And what's worse, too, is I spoke
00:44:14.480
with Nathaniel Publowski when I was at the Saturday Freedom Rally. And he'll tell you very clearly that
00:44:19.900
the government or the independent judiciary, I guess, I'm not sure, but they're basically keeping Arthur's
00:44:26.520
legal defense in the dark, for the most part, at least. They're not laying out the facts. They're
00:44:32.540
not doing what they need to do for Arthur's legal defense, what they were supposed to be doing.
00:44:37.620
So it is unfortunate. And it does seem like this is being done in a vindictive manner rather than a
00:44:44.260
neutral one, which expected the law to be upheld in a neutral way. It's just, this is the law. We're
00:44:49.860
going to go through the proceedings. We're going to figure out what happens. But that doesn't seem to be
00:44:52.880
the case with us. Olivia whispers in my ear that we have some chats to get to. I know that we were
00:44:59.860
supposed to check on those at every 15 minutes, but then we were talking and then we forgot. And
00:45:05.500
I apologize to anybody who was expecting us to get to those sooner, the way I promised. I broke my
00:45:11.940
promise. I'm sorry. We've got one from Paul Otto Newman. Let's just get this out of the way here.
00:45:18.240
We've got one from Paul Otto Newman. Hi, guys. Does Rebel News plan to have somebody up in Fort
00:45:24.180
McMurray tomorrow to cover the by-election? The results could be a barometer for the leadership
00:45:27.800
review in April. I think the results are going to be a barometer for the leadership review in April.
00:45:32.980
And Brian Jean's going to win handily. I think I might cover them just sort of out of the corner of
00:45:41.920
my eye. I might live tweet them. But I think it's clearly a shoe in and Brian Jean is winning
00:45:49.860
this by-election as a UCP candidate running against the UCP, running against Jason Kenney.
00:46:01.460
He basically, his entire platform is, I'm going to win and then I'm going to challenge Jason Kenney for
00:46:06.820
the leadership. It's really been fascinating to watch. And he won that nomination as he won the
00:46:12.920
nomination against Jason Kenney's handpicked candidate on a platform of getting rid of Jason
00:46:19.040
Kenney. So that should tell you something about that leadership review coming up in exactly a month,
00:46:24.680
I think. A month and two days. So it's very interesting. I think Jason Kenney's in a lot of
00:46:29.460
trouble. I think it's going to be very tight-faced. Yeah, he might be running out of time. We'll see.
00:46:34.720
Well, that's the thing. If they are going to change leaders, they got to do it right away.
00:46:38.860
Right away. They're running out of runway on this. Because the NDP, they're just running in the same
00:46:43.600
old, same old. Rachel Notley, she's just there. She's back. She's just going to run again. They
00:46:50.800
never do anything new or interesting over the NDP. So like I said, if Jason Kenney, if the party's going
00:46:58.880
to change leaders, they have to do it immediately, because they're headed into an election campaign.
00:47:07.460
B Bapis gives us a buck. Hey, Rebel, your live stream keeps freezing. Oh, I don't know. Things
00:47:14.700
seemed fine on my end, except I had a little bit of a Skype lag. But sorry to hear that. Yankee
00:47:21.440
sends us a buck and sends and says, just testing this. You know, there's no escaping Yankee
00:47:29.920
talking, is there? He just gets in the live stream and talks to, gets on the Skype calls
00:47:36.720
and talks to. Just kidding, Yankee. You're the best. Joyful from the heart gives us a buck.
00:47:41.460
Hey, Sheila and Sydney, do you know Canadians can submit a claim if they were injured by the
00:47:47.960
COVID jab? And then she sends a link to vaccineinjuriesupport.ca. I'm not sure if that's
00:47:55.980
an official website. So don't, but I'm just reading the chat. Fraser says, Bill S223 is currently
00:48:04.080
waiting for third reading in the Senate. If you're not vaccinated, you will not receive EICPP
00:48:09.960
OHS social services pension that you paid into. Okay. Bill 233. The reason it says S, a lot of
00:48:20.160
people, this is a sinister bill. Don't get me wrong. But I think this is the UBI bill, the
00:48:25.180
universal basic income bill. And the reason people are freaking out because they're like,
00:48:30.920
oh my gosh, it's already in the Senate. It's a Senate originated bill. So bill, here's a civics
00:48:38.020
lesson. So bills can originate in either house, in the Senate or the House of Commons. So because
00:48:45.820
it has an S in the front, it originated in the Senate. So it'll pass one, two, third reading
00:48:51.440
in the Senate. Then it goes to committee and then it goes to the House to pass. So this might
00:48:58.540
die in committee. It might go to the House and not pass at all because the basically things
00:49:05.620
that originate in the Senate, there's no accountability. So they can originate the
00:49:10.520
wildest things ever because they don't have voters to answer for. So it's always some sort
00:49:15.660
of liberal crank. A lot of times their pet project, they originate those as Senate bills. And then they
00:49:22.560
go through third reading in the Senate because nobody cares. And then they end up in committee
00:49:28.060
and they often die or they end up in going to the House of Commons. And then the MPs who
00:49:33.880
are, yeah, so livable basic and this is the UBI bill. So things sometimes will go to the
00:49:41.420
House and the House MPs are thinking, holy smokes, my constituents are going to think that I'm
00:49:49.800
absolutely insane if I touch this with a 10 foot pole and things will often die there.
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And so a lot of the Senate originated bills end up as Senate busy work. Don't get me wrong.
00:49:58.800
This is sinister. And the liberals, CERB basically was UBI. I think CERB was the test for UBI.
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So this one could get much further than other Senate originated bills, especially with the
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support of the NDP who have been rattling the chains for UBI for a very long time. So we'll keep
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a very close eye on this. But just because it's in the Senate doesn't mean that it's going to be passed
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like tomorrow. This bill, because it has an S in the front, means it's a Senate originated one. So
00:50:28.260
if it has a C, that means Commons originated. And if it has an S, that means Senate originated bill.
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Okay, let's keep going. Aaron Burton, 32, gives us 20 bucks. Wow, thanks so much. That's very generous.
00:50:46.920
I found Rebel last summer and I've never looked back. It's so nice seeing real news. And I wish
00:50:51.760
I'd found you sooner. Keep up the amazing work. And thank you to you all. You know, we have a lot
00:50:55.860
of new people here. People who maybe had heard things about us in the mainstream media, but never
00:51:03.040
bothered to like check us out for themselves. And a lot of them were looking for alternative viewpoints
00:51:10.460
on COVID lockdowns and found us that way. A lot of people who, you know, were not COVID skeptical at
00:51:18.700
the very beginning because they didn't know anything about it and China lies. And so I was one of those
00:51:26.040
people where I was like, this thing is way worse, way worse than China's even telling us because China's
00:51:31.220
a bunch of liars. But then, you know, you change your viewpoint as more evidence rolls in. And there are a
00:51:38.360
lot of those people who have come to us that way and we welcome all viewpoints. And I think generally
00:51:44.600
our viewpoint on most things is leave people alone, let them make up their own minds and let them think
00:51:50.700
what they want. I think that's a viewpoint on issues that sort of transcends politics. My politics are
00:51:59.760
alone. Well, I just want to thank you as well, because unlike most media outlets, it's because
00:52:06.420
of our viewers that we exist. So likewise, just want to thank everyone who's watching and everyone
00:52:11.040
who stays tuned. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if we weren't doing a good job, we would know about it right away.
00:52:18.520
We wouldn't exist because we don't have bailouts propping us up when we get everything wrong, CBC,
00:52:24.060
including at least two stories about the convoy that they had to completely retract. But anyway,
00:52:31.140
AMT 60, a buck. Politicians never apologize for any wrongs. They do look at our PM who walks out of
00:52:36.660
parliament when an apology was demanded by a Jewish conservative member. All our politicians are
00:52:44.080
pathetic and many under the World Economic Forum. Yeah, that was Melissa Lantzman, whom we've been
00:52:51.620
critical of in the past. But I'm pretty sure that she's not standing with neo-Nazis. And I'm pretty
00:52:56.640
sure that the convoyers weren't neo-Nazis, nor were they Russians, CBC, by the way.
00:53:06.540
Is it, correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not a narcissistic trait to never apologize?
00:53:10.820
I think you're right. And, you know, it's interesting to watch Justin Trudeau try to rewrite his own
00:53:21.940
history. You know, he's accusing other people of being sexist, misogynistic, homophobic,
00:53:29.440
blackface groper. I'm not sure that's a fair criticism. You know, and when his MPs, I think it
00:53:36.100
was Mark Gerritsen, who is, again, a lot of contenders for the dumbest MP out there, but he's
00:53:43.240
right up there. He's giving Seamus O'Regan a run for his money these days. Maybe you can bring up
00:53:48.160
that tweet where they are so threatened by Pierre Polyev's candidacy for the leadership of the
00:53:59.220
Conservative Party of Canada. They're digging up Pierre Polyev's, like, high school yearbook
00:54:05.860
photos, which make me like him more because he's, in his high school yearbook photos, he's complaining
00:54:12.560
about the welfare state. And I was like, he clued into the welfare state a hell of a lot sooner than
00:54:17.060
I did. Smart guy. Wait, you're telling me he's been consistent with his ideology over the years
00:54:24.220
since he was a youngster? You're trying to make me not like him for that? I think that's great.
00:54:30.300
But Mark Gerritsen should maybe be more concerned about the yearbook photos of his boss. Because how
00:54:38.840
many blackface yearbook photos does your boss have to have before you're like, ah, ah, maybe he is a
00:54:45.020
white supremacist? I don't know. Something to think about. Uh, AMT 60 gives us a buck. My sister has a
00:54:55.100
paralegal in her freedom group and said that not getting CPP or pension, et cetera, is not true
00:55:02.320
unless government changes it because I was worried about it as retired, as I'm retired. Um, I, I think
00:55:11.100
that's in regards to bill S 233. Um, yeah, I'm not, I'm not sure what the vaccination requirements are
00:55:20.720
in that bill. I, in my brief reading of that bill, it was simply about the creation of a universal basic
00:55:29.080
basic income, which is of course a disincentive to work and be productive for everybody, including the
00:55:37.480
people who are currently working because you're like, why am I working? Uh, I can just get UBI
00:55:41.940
like those people I'm already paying to not work. It's a huge disincentive to the economy and it would
00:55:47.740
be catastrophic, absolutely catastrophic. But that doesn't mean the liberals won't do it because
00:55:53.480
if it's a bad economic idea, that's never stopped them. Look at the carbon tax. They're raising that in
00:55:58.480
14 days, 15 days, 16 days, uh, prices at the pump are out of control. And they're like,
00:56:05.180
you know, what would help raising the prices at the pump with the carbon tax?
00:56:10.180
Just buy an electric car. It's fine. Um, I think that's all of our chats. We should get to
00:56:18.340
one last thing and it is sneaky Patrick Brown over the weekend. He announced that he is running
00:56:24.900
for the leadership of the conservative party of Canada, because why won't he just go away?
00:56:31.580
Just go away, Patrick Brown, stop. Um, but he doesn't have anybody in his life who's telling
00:56:38.620
him to stop doing this thing. Um, so he's going to run for the leadership of the conservative party
00:56:44.280
of Canada. And, um, I think we have that clip from Efron where again, talk about a, a politician
00:56:53.960
with little to no self-awareness. Um, when he's talking about how he was anti-lockdown,
00:57:00.740
which is crazy. He was so hard locked down. Anyways, maybe we can roll that.
00:57:07.780
And when COVID lockdowns threatened the freedoms of families and businesses and the mental health
00:57:12.700
of Canadians, I was one of the only big city mayors to speak out and demand an end to
00:57:17.000
restrictions. And when COVID lockdowns threatened the freedoms of...
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I can't, the gall of this guy. The, he was the guy who put up chain link fences around
00:57:30.020
soccer parks outside. And then when that wasn't enough to keep the little kids from playing,
00:57:36.440
he put private security guards at the parks to keep the little kids from playing soccer,
00:57:43.280
all the while keeping an ice service in a publicly funded arena where just him and his stupid friends
00:57:53.000
could play hockey while criminalizing soccer for little kids and militarizing the parks.
00:57:59.320
The gall of this guy, he wasn't anti-lockdown. He was Dr. Lockdown.
00:58:04.800
Yeah, I know that, that report from David Menzies was, uh, quite something to see.
00:58:10.400
Uh, and it is truly incredible. It's, I guess it would be elitism where it is one rule for the,
00:58:15.260
and one rule for me. And I think he'd probably like to keep it that way. Although right now it
00:58:19.720
does seem, uh, uh, popular to advocate for no lockdowns and advocate for the free movement of
00:58:26.920
people within our society. So it seems more like he's just playing to what he hears might sound
00:58:32.060
good as opposed to what he actually believes in. Yeah. I mean, we're not all hard of remembering.
00:58:39.540
The people of Brampton are not hard of remembering. They know about the millions of taxpayer dollars
00:58:45.640
that Patrick Brown spent keeping little kids out of parks outside during the early days of the pandemic
00:58:53.580
when we caught him at an arena playing hockey, when he told all the little kids,
00:58:59.920
you can't play hockey. And then his big excuse, he did exactly what Justin Trudeau does when he gets
00:59:06.120
caught doing something wrong or when people try to speak truth to power, instead of saying, yeah,
00:59:11.400
I'm really sorry. I did that. And, uh, let's let everybody play hockey. Let's pull down the fences
00:59:16.220
at the parks. This is crazy. I'm a hypocrite. Instead of just like completely owning his mistake.
00:59:22.340
He said, ah, those people who caught me, they're a bunch of far right extremists. So disregard what
00:59:29.260
they're saying. Disregard your own eyeballs watching that video. Disregard it because you
00:59:36.000
shouldn't like the people who were saying it about me, which is exactly what Justin Trudeau does all
00:59:42.160
the time. It's such a Trudeau thing to do. Get caught doing something, get criticism, and then
00:59:47.960
attack the messenger instead of owning up to your own mistakes. Very Trudeau. Yeah. This video here.
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Oh, he's just checking out the rink with his hockey bag that had his name on it.
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I wish there was a way to quantify how much damage was done to our children because of actions like
01:00:09.140
this. It's, it's truly an incredible thing. And for how long it had gone on for, I can only imagine
01:00:15.100
how hard it was for our younger ones, but, um, I don't think that's something that's fully been
01:00:19.840
quantified even though it is no. Yeah. I think that this will be one of the great crimes against
01:00:28.900
young people. Um, I think of a generation, what was done to little kids in the name of public health
01:00:37.600
for disease that hardly harmed them at all speech delays, socialization delays, um, young athletes
01:00:45.880
having their dreams stolen from them or young athletes being injured because of a medicine that
01:00:52.320
they were forced to take to do the thing that they loved. And I'm dancing around the words here. So we
01:00:56.460
don't get kicked off of YouTube. Um, and the teachers who are still trying to enforce these things
01:01:04.540
be above and beyond the will of parents who are saying, leave my kids alone. We have hypochondriac
01:01:11.720
parents in a battle or hypochondriac teachers in a battle of will with the parents who are really
01:01:18.480
the ones in charge of the education system and of their children. Um, they just won't give up. They
01:01:25.220
won't give this power back easily. That's for sure. Um, I think we are all caught up Olivia, unless I'm
01:01:31.800
missing out on some chats. Okay. We're good. Um, we are at 11 o'clock here in Alberta, uh, one o'clock
01:01:41.980
in the center of the universe in Toronto. I want to thank you, Sid, for filling in for Adam on such
01:01:48.440
short notice. You did a great job, um, and great work again over the weekend. I pointed it out in
01:01:53.700
the staff meeting this morning, but you really ripped it up this weekend. You were the right guy
01:01:56.880
in the right place on the right stories. I want to thank everybody. I just wanted to thank our
01:02:14.060
viewers as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. We don't do anything without the support of our
01:02:21.160
viewers. Good grief. The Skype leg. Okay. I want to thank all of our viewers for tuning in. I want
01:02:27.060
to thank everybody who pitched in, uh, to keep the lights on here at Rebel News. Uh, thank you to
01:02:31.200
Olivia and the producers in the office and to the web team who let you know when we're going live.
01:02:38.240
Um, and I'm back here tomorrow, I think with David Menzies. Um, and as David Menzies always says,
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stay sane. Uh, there will be no occupation in Victoria, uh, based on what I've heard
01:02:50.980
from, uh, uh, Del Manic and the city of Victoria. And I would just say to these people, goodness me,
01:02:56.960
get a hobby, find something else to do with your time. Uh, we are removing restrictions at a pace
01:03:02.840
that is consistent with the work we've done for the past two years. Uh, and 94% of adults in British
01:03:09.300
Columbia are vaccinated. So we're spending an awful lot of time with a small group of people who seem to
01:03:15.100
have nothing better to do with their time, but to drive around in circles honking their horns.
01:03:18.840
I wish they'd take some time to watch television and see the evening news about real tragedies and
01:03:25.160
real disruptions in freedom that are going on in Europe right now. Give your head a shake,
01:03:29.700
find a better way to take your energies and put it to positive outcomes. That's my recommendation.
01:03:33.960
And, and I'm hopeful that some of the people who were planning to come here will take my heart,
01:03:38.180
that to heart and do the right thing. Find positive, uh, pursuits for your excess energy.