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Rebel News is looking to hire 7 new employees, including a new technical director, a new reporter, and a new editor-in-chief of staff. We also talk about the trucker convoy, and why it s the biggest media story we ve ever covered.
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You know, I haven't done live streams in a long time.
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I've been so busy doing stuff, but it's great to get back in this chair at least just once
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I mean, the news, there couldn't be more of it.
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There's so much I want to get through, but one of the reasons I've been busy is because
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Rebel News has grown, not just because of the trucker convoy, which was seriously the
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Well, you could see how many people go read your YouTube videos or watch your YouTube videos
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or read your stories, social media impressions, things like that.
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I tried to tabulate it all up for the month of February, and my estimate, my rough calculations
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were 400 million impressions, which I think is how many views we would get in an entire
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We had a year's worth of traffic in a month, and Rebel News has grown.
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In fact, Olivia, can you go to rebelnews.com slash careers?
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We have, I think, A10 said 53 or 54 people now.
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And we are looking to hire seven more positions.
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But I just want to invite you to join our team first.
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Some of them are in Toronto or Edmonton or Ottawa.
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At the very top there, we're hiring a technical director.
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That's someone who has some particular skills at operating a piece of hardware called a TriCaster.
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So that's a fun media job where you would basically work on the shows and the live streams.
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That's probably the most technical of all the positions.
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We have to hire someone in Edmonton to cover the Alberta legislature and Alberta provincial politics.
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So that's a position for someone who would have to be in northern Alberta.
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The next one is, what do we have the next one there?
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I just want to whip through them so you don't even have to open them all up.
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I know, for example, we are hiring video editors.
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That's a fancy way of saying a free speech lawyer.
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Honestly, we've been looking for that position for about a year.
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Anyhow, all together, and we've got the Ottawa-based reporter.
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So I would like to invite you to seriously consider joining us because we, you know,
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sometimes people come to us in a certain corporate kind of way.
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But a lot of the talent that joins us, joins us, they're viewers, they're followers of ours.
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And then they just say, you know, it's like that old commercial.
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You know, I liked Rebel News so much, I joined the company.
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So thank you for letting me talk about housekeeping matters like that.
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But there is so much news out there, it's unbelievable.
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And I know that most of the truckers have sort of left Ottawa.
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Although Danny Balford, the ex-RCMP officer who quit because he didn't want to get jabbed.
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But I want to tell you a few things that are on my mind about the truckers.
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The people who keep warning you about misinformation and fake news, those liberals, they were the liars.
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So Go Fund Me was the fundraising engine that crowdfunded $10 million for the truckers
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until they were pressured by the liberals to cancel it.
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They had executives testify before the Canadian Parliament yesterday.
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And one of the things they said was that, no, it was not big American interests that were manipulating Canada.
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In fact, around 90% of the donations and 90% of the donors were Canadians.
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It is simply a lie, as Trudeau and Mark Mendocino and Christy Freeland said, to say that they were American meddlers.
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Justin Trudeau, they lied about the truckers in order to get emergency powers.
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The second piece of news we've heard in the last week is about something called Fintrack.
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I don't know if you've ever heard about Fintrack.
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It's a police surveillance of financial transactions.
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It's allegedly to stop terrorists and drug dealers and other criminals from money laundering.
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For example, if you move more than $10,000 or something, your bank has to report that.
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But the idea is to try and trace and capture illegal funds.
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And obviously, there is some role for that in the world.
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We don't want drug dealers or criminals or kidnapping or theft.
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But one of the things that Christy Freeland and David Lamedi and Justin Trudeau all said was that they were going to scrutinize this crowdfunding through the lens of terrorist fundraising.
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And that chilled a lot of people because about 100,000 Canadians said, OK, I'll chip into the truckers.
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And they were demonized as terrorists, again, to justify the Emergency Act.
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Well, here's the story in this case from TNC News, our friends at True North.
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Convoy donations came from fed up people, not terrorists.
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This is a story from our friends at True North.
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Canada's chief financial intelligence agency has once again shut down claims by Trudeau government, by the Trudeau government.
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The donations given to the truckers' freedom convoy constituted terrorist funding.
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Black Lock's reporter reported Friday that Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada, nicknamed Fintrack, Deputy Director of Intelligence Barry McKillop, had declared the money raised for the convoy protest came from people supporting a cause they believed in.
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Does that little video play if you click on that and get the volume up there?
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So this is the Q&A where you hear McKillop say, no, no, no, it's not terrorists.
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Without the elites of GoFundMe, without that, are you able to find out who the donors are, all of those who funded?
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Thank you so much for your question, Mr. Chair.
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Certainly, we don't use elites, nor do we speak of elites.
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But as far as crowdfunding platforms are concerned, unfortunately, they are available to everyone.
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Anybody can donate with respect to one like Stripe.
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Well, certainly there were people who supported the cause before it was declared illegal.
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So I think that there were people around the world who were fed up with COVID, who were upset and saw the demonstrations against COVID.
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And I believe that they just wanted to support the cause.
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But there was one thing he said that I'll take issue with.
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He said, before the cause was declared illegal.
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So this was the deputy head of intelligence for FinTrack.
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He's the spy, really, whose job is to catch money laundering and things like that.
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He said, before the cause was declared illegal.
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Except in Canada, you don't really declare causes illegal.
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Because a cause is something that motivates you, causes you to care, causes you to act.
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There actually are no illegal beliefs in Canada.
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For example, if you supported a terrorist group, if you materially support a terrorist
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group, if you promote them, if you fund them, if you go join them.
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But you'll notice all of those are action words.
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So, when that fellow there, that basically financial spy for Fintrack says, most of these
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people donated before the cause was declared illegal.
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The cause was actually not declared illegal in any way other than by Trudeau and Lamedi and
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You know, Trudeau repeatedly said illegal protests.
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There are no illegal protests in Canada, if they're peaceful.
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I mean, I suppose there are some parking tickets.
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But a peaceful protest in Canada is the essence of legal.
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It's so important that we put it in a section of our constitution called fundamental freedoms.
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If you've ever looked at our constitution, section two is called fundamental freedoms.
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Freedom of thought, expression, belief, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of
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Then they list other ones later down, like the right to vote, right to mobility, right to
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But those fundamental freedoms, they're so important because the other freedoms are built
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So the idea that a cause could be declared illegal, that's just not how it works in Canada.
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Now, I'm not being mad at or mean to that FinTrack guy because he's not an expert in, you know,
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He's an expert in money laundering and terrorism.
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So he probably just chose a word that popped into his mind without thinking about it too carefully.
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But what we have seen just in what I've shown you here is that 90% of the funds did come
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And that is, it's so obvious the money was just people fed up with what was going on.
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They weren't gathering, they weren't bundling terrorist money.
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And this is all coming out after the defamation.
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You know, by the time truth laces up its boots, the lie has run around the whole world.
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I want to show you one more thing about Tamara Lich.
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I've never met or spoken with Tamara Lich, but she is...
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She can credibly be claim to be sort of the mama bear of the trucker convoy.
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She's the one who set up the first GoFundMe that really went viral.
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I'm not sure if I would call her the organizer of the...
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I don't think it was like a highly regimented, highly controlled thing.
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But do we have a video of her being arrested on the street?
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She's a Métis woman from Medicine Hat, Alberta.
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I don't think she's done a violent thing in her life.
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And there she was just walking at night on the snowy streets of Ottawa.
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And it reminded me of police states where people just disappear.
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They go for a walk and then they get snatched up and they disappear.
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If you're going to take her, you've got to take you after.
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Why didn't they ask her to just present to the police station?
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She said, hold the line, and her friends who were recording said, hold the line.
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Not break the law or shoot someone or revolution or socialismo o muerte.
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It was just hold the line, which was just basically means stand strong.
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You know, um, you know, just for a second, I remember it's a little anecdote.
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You know, I was, um, I used to be a lawyer a long time ago.
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And when I was called to the bar, uh, Buzz McClung, Nellie McClung's grandson,
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And his job was to sign the little law society thing.
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And he, but instead of just signing, I've gotten to my office.
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He, instead of just signing, you know, a judge just signs, you're a lawyer now.
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You're like, it's a little, it's a swearing in.
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I'm not going to get up and get it now, but I'll do it.
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He was a judge on the Alberta Court of Appeal at the time.
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Like I say, Nellie McClung's grandson, one of the famous five suffragettes.
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But because she said, hold the line, a judge who was Trudeau's friend, Judge Bourgeois is
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her name, who ran as a liberal in the 2011 elections and Trudeau campaigned with her, threw
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her in prison without bail because, in part, she said, hold the line, which the judge said,
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It's just like when Buzz McClung wrote, stand firm, Ezra.
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So she was in jail, I think, for 12 days until she had her bail hearing heard two days ago.
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Judge keeping Freedom Convoy organizer in jail previously received high praise from Trudeau.
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It's that she was a liberal candidate with Trudeau.
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Justin Trudeau expresses support for Julie Bourgeois, failed liberal candidate in 2011.
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Bourgeois, a judge, just denied Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Litch her bail.
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Let's just take a quick look at that video there.
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Oh, it sounds like he got two versions going at the same time.
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Sounds like he got one embedded on the website, one blown up.
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Anyways, what you saw there was Trudeau praising this judge for being a great liberal candidate.
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On Wednesday, they had a review or an appeal of the bail conditions.
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I have never in my life heard of anyone who has been jailed for inciting mischief and then inciting mischief or counseling mischief, whatever it's called.
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And the factual basis for that was, hold the line.
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Bail is do you keep someone in jail until their trial?
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Do you keep them in jail until their trial or do you let them go on the promise to come back?
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Sometimes you have to put a lot of money in the court.
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Traditionally, the most important is will you come back?
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So I don't think Tamera Litch was going to run away from court.
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I think she was, and they could pick her up any time.
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By contrast, for example, Jeffrey Epstein was denied bail because he had private jets,
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multiple passports, enormous means, homes in many countries.
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Second test, are you a risk, are you a danger to the public?
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And the third is, you know, the justice system in good repute.
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People in Canada who are accused of murder are routinely let out on bail.
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Sometimes they have to give up their passport, like I say.
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People who are on bail for rape and then rape again, that's not even rare in Canada.
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What's extremely rare is someone charged with inciting mischief.
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So go back to that last headline you had there because that's what I was working up to.
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So she was jailed, denied bail indefinitely because she said, hold the line.
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Tamera Litch to remain in jail at least five more days.
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Litch denied bail February 22nd, judge to decide on appeal on Monday.
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And the judge said, all right, thanks, everybody.
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So, you know, I just got a few things I got to do.
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So even though we're done the hearing on Wednesday, I need Thursday and Friday, that's today.
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And I need Saturday and I need Sunday and I need Monday to really think it over because
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So, hey, sweetheart, is it OK if you stay in prison for five more days?
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Just because I got a few things I got to I got to pick up my dry cleaning and, you know,
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I've had this haircut appointment for a while and then there's that thing I got to do and
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OK, so so you're in prison longer than any Canadian in history has ever been jailed for
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Oh, and by the way, she was brought into that courtroom in leg irons, in ankle, ankle
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You know, I've seen that a few times in my life.
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It's typically for people who are enormous and violent or a risk of violence and it's so
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It's so they don't like like it's it's shocking to see a man brought in and it's almost always
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men brought in and leg irons because you can't run.
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Why was she arrested and handcuffed in the first place?
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Why did this judge decide that, oh, you know, OK, we've had that.
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We've had the review and boy, your lawyer did a really great job.
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But guys, I just won't be able to get around to this because I've got a bunch of more important
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So can you stay in prison for five more days until I get around to to telling you if I think
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It is absolutely true that this woman is a political prisoner and it is absolutely true
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that if you cross Justin Trudeau, this is what will happen to you.
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And it's funny because I mentioned the the the three grounds.
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Are you a flight risk as in are you going to run away?
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And so you hold would it bring the justice system into disrepute?
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Keeping this peaceful woman in prison for coming up on a month now, frankly.
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The fact that that first judge, Trudeau's bestie, didn't recuse herself, that brings the
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The Alberta court of Queen's Bench put out an announcement saying that they don't care
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They don't care what the public health officer says.
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They're going to keep their mask mandate on for everyone who goes to court.
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They just decided because apparently Alberta's judges are also Alberta's doctors, or at least
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they know better than Alberta's doctors, as if masks worked in the first place.
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But the court announced, I don't know if you can find it.
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The judges said, court attendance is often compulsory, even for vulnerable segments of
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Consequently, Alberta's courts are maintaining access restrictions, mandatory face masking,
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social distancing, courtroom capacity limits, and vaccination policy.
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They love, you know, that case, you know, a lot of court has been done by Zoom or Skype
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There was an Ontario judge who went down to the Caribbean, had, you know, in your Zoom
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background, you can choose like a fake background.
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He would like choose like a court, but he was in the Caribbean ruling on cases in Canada.
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They get to, you know, I'm, I'm wearing pants right now, but you wouldn't know, right?
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Like I'm wearing shorts when I'm wearing pants.
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Ontario judge presided over cases remotely from the Caribbean.
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It would be like he would have, he would have his robe on top, but his swimming suit underneath
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and he would have the fake backdrop that he was in court.
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Or if they do, everyone has to be obedient and on one knee and, you know, with, with masks
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This is a political statement, a superstition, really.
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It's a group of old, scared, reclusive elites showing just how disconnected they are from
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And it's a signal that the courts will never give a fair hearing to those challenging the
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Sometimes people complain that judges are men, judges are white, whatever.
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If you're a judge and you're 70 or 65, that means you went to law school 40, 50 years ago.
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There just weren't that many women in law school.
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And now there are more women than men in law school, minorities, new immigrants, whatever.
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50 years ago, the demographic complexion of Canada was different.
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So if you're complaining, why aren't there more of this minority or that minority on the
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It's like I say, more than half of medical schools, more than half of law schools are
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Now, whether or not they continue in the profession is up to them.
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I mean, many women drop out of those professions because they choose to have a family instead
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But put aside the race and the religion and the gender, that's irrelevant to me.
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This virus has done very little risk to young, healthy people.
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The people who are most at risk from the virus are old and to be candid, fat and people with
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Well, so you've got this group of old fat people who are terrified, who are compliant
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They're going to be the most panicky people in the entire society.
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And if they go out, they go out to fancy, fancy places.
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They're not going to, you know, they're not out, they're not mixing with severely normal
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So you've got these Zoom judges, including that one guy who went down to the Caribbean
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We're going to keep this insane superstition crisis going forever because we sort of like
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it and we're also the afraidest people in society.
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And my point is, if you go to court to challenge any of these health laws, do you have a chance?
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The judges have just signaled together like a pack that they're afraid and they don't
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Good luck getting a fair day in court there, eh?
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I just literally while I'm sitting here, I just someone sent me something that I think
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I just literally right now saw a news story from Ohio.
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Resolution introduced in Ohio legislature urges Canada to be placed on religious liberty watch
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That goes to what I'm saying about these crazy, terrified judges, especially in Alberta,
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where they arrest again and again and Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky, where they arrested his brother
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Resolution introduced in Ohio legislature urges Canada to be placed on religious liberty watch
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Ohio state representatives have taken note of the abuses of religious liberty in Canada,
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State legislators introduced a resolution in the Ohio House of Representatives on Tuesday
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urging the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms to add Canada to its special
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As a Canadian pastor remains jailed, they're talking about Arthur Pavlovsky.
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The resolution, which was introduced by Republican state representatives Reggie Stolfus and Timothy
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Ginter, was co-sponsored by 11 of their colleagues.
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Why has no, why has not a single legislator in Canada done that?
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Like you've got, what, 87 MLAs in Alberta going from memory?
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Oh, look, and they have a little, they embed a rebel tweet in that Fox News story.
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And how many Alberta MLAs going from memory, 87?
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And there's been Christians arrested in other places, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New
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Um, these different provincial legislatures in our federal parliament, I just mentioned
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You're coming up 700, 800 politicians in Canada, elected legislators.
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And I haven't even talked about mayors and city councillors.
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Has a single one put a motion forward like you just saw there in the Ohio State Legislature?
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If you know of one, let me know and we'll toot that horn.
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But wouldn't you say it's an unhealthy thing for a country like Canada that claims to believe
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in rights and freedoms, that claims to believe in liberties, wouldn't you say it's sort of
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awful that, um, Americans care more about our civil liberties than we do?
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Like that, like that, there's something deeply wrong with our political class and our so-called
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You know, I, I haven't had a chance to chew it over yet, but you might recall, um, in
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December, Rebel News applied for a mortgage to buy a building in, um, uh, in Calgary.
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So a commercial mortgage and, uh, applied with the Royal Bank and they said they loved it.
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I recorded the call with a banker because I knew I would never get it in writing.
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He said the Royal Bank rejected us because we're conservative.
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And I, and I pressed him on and he, and he told me several times in several ways.
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There was not a single Canadian conservative politician who spoke out against that.
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I'm not asking for them to say, we love Rebel News and Ezra LeVant's our best friend.
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But you don't see a problem with banks bringing in a China style social credit system where
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Is there, is there a YouTube down or did we log off?
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We logged off because we were getting into spicy territory.
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Uh, hello to our friends on Rumble and I'm sure we got friends on Super U.
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Um, don't you think it's weird that not a single Canadian conservative said, hey, yeah, maybe
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we ought to, maybe we ought to, and that was in December.
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I wouldn't, you know it, in February, in comes Trudeau and Christopher Freeland and David
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Lamedi and Mark Mendocino for seizing and freezing bank accounts.
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Um, and I tell you that because a few days ago, the ranking Republican on the House Financial
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Services Committee, um, he actually made an issue out of it.
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He, uh, he wrote a letter to the head of the Federal Reserve.
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Saying, um, I'm just going to blow my nose, pardon me.
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Saying, I demand to know why banks are politically injecting politics into mortgages.
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And he made specific reference, specific reference to my case.
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And I say again, and the reason I mentioned that, I, I haven't really done the, uh, story
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No Canadian senator, no Canadian, and maybe say, oh, well, they're afraid of this or that.
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Um, I'm going to see if I can find this and, and send it to you, Olivia, to show.
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So, and, and I think the fact that these Republicans are not afraid to, to do a battle.
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I'm going to, I'm going to send you this letter right now.
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Olivia, this, I'm going to break a little news here.
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So I just sent you a letter from the, now in Canada, we might not use this term.
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Remember there's Democrats and Republicans down there.
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And do you control the majority or the minority of the Congress?
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And that makes a big difference because if you control the Congress, then you control the
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But the minority party, um, the leader of the minority party is called the ranking member.
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Plus you got to realize that the Congress changes hands.
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And I think most polls suggest that Congress is going to flip back to the Republicans in
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So this ranking member, Patrick McHenry is his name, who is really mad about politicization
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He's going to be the boss of the banking committee in like just over six months.
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He's a very powerful guy and I've never met him, never talked to him, never like he's
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just, I don't even, I'd have to Google what state he's from.
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He cares more about stopping China style social credit banking in Canada than any Canadian
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Like, don't you think it's a problem that some guys in the Ohio state legislature care
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more about religious freedom in Canada than Canadian politicians do?
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Let's throw it up on the screen as big as possible.
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So you can see right at the top there, the United States House of Representatives Committee
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So it's sent, do you see it's sent to the chair of the Federal Reserve?
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Dear Chairman Powell, the Obama administration launched Operation Choke Point to apply pressure
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on financial institutions to cut off financial services to certain licensed, legally operating
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After years of congressional investigation and civil litigation, the record with respect
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Political appointees and bureaucrats of the Justice Department and several independent federal
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agencies use threats to force banks to terminate their relationships with politically disfavored
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What remains unclear is whether those agencies have taken steps to ensure the federal government
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cannot abuse its authority to regulate the financial sector in other ways.
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So they're talking about Operation Choke Point.
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This is where it gets really exciting if you can grab that second page.
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So he's talking about when Obama said, we're going to cut off banking to people we don't
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I really don't think that some of the banks would have done that on their own.
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And, you know, they don't want to just bank for Republicans or Democrats.
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Like, it would be like a restaurant saying we only serve Democrats or we only serve Republicans.
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Let me know when you got that second page, because, yeah, here we go.
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There are, however, other forms of leverage and financial surveillance that the federal
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government can use to chill constitutionally protected activities.
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For example, in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a national emergency and instructed
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banks and other financial services providers to freeze accounts associated with any person
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attending an illegal protest or providing supplies to demonstrators pursuant to the Prime Minister's
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However, any suspicious transactions must also be reported to the Financial Transactions and
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And then skip and then look at the, just skip a little bit and then go to the fourth.
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Again, recent events in Canada show what can happen absent such protections, according
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to an audio recording, a representative for Royal Bank of Canada, RBC, told a longstanding
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customer, that's me, who is seeking a mortgage, that's Rebel, quote, the bank is being, you know,
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trying to pry away from certain, you know, clients because of their controversial nature.
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The RBC representative subsequently identified the customer's conservative media organization
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and companies involved in oil and gas exploration as subject to the bank's new policy to scrutinize
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And then go to the third page, the final page, if you can.
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So, anyway, that's the last reference to me and us.
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But the ranking member of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
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So, this is not just some backbench, as we would say, congressman.
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This is the top dog in the Republicans who will likely be the chairman in the fall.
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He's saying to the boss of the American banking system, chairman of the Federal Reserve, are
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banks using politics to set up, really, a Chinese-style social credit system?
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And then on his last page, he basically has some questions.
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Has the agency reviewed and clarified, as appropriate, existing policy and guidance pertaining to
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the provision and termination of banking services?
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Does the agency have existing policies and guidance pertaining to freezing or otherwise
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restricting access to the assets and accounts of U.S. citizens?
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Because remember what Trudeau's emergencies order said.
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It said any bank doing business in Canada had to obey.
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But any foreign bank registered to do business in Canada, there were literally dozens.
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There's about three dozen American banks that are registered to do business in Canada.
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You've probably heard of Wells Fargo or Citibank.
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But there's literally dozens of American banks that do business in Canada.
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And if you remember what the Trudeau's Emergencies Act order said, any foreign bank had to do
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I'm going to pass an order that you can't be sued for this.
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So we're going to seize and freeze your customers' money.
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That might feel a little banana republic-ish, but we'll just put the banana republic part
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one degree further by saying you can't even sue us for this.
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Except for that doesn't work when your bank's in America.
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Justin Trudeau can stop you from suing a bank in Canada when they seize your money for them.
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But he can't tell American banks, hey, guys, go ahead and seize money of your customers
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If you've got an American bank with an American customer and that American bank is registered
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to do business in Canada and Trudeau says you've got to turn over all your customers
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who gave money to the truckers, that's the law in Canada.
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But it clearly violates a number of laws in the United States, including privacy and the
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Customers are allowed to have political opinions without some foreign dictators saying seize
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You're an American bank operating in both countries.
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Frankly, you're a Canadian bank operating in both countries because the Royal Bank of
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Canada, RBC Bank, as it's called in the US, RBC Bank has customers in Florida too.
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RBC Bank, are they going to turn in their American customers?
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So my point, and thank you for letting me indulge it a bit there, was that the world is noticing
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The world is noticing that we're becoming less free with regards to Christians and religious
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The world is noticing that we're politicizing banking and financial services in a way that's
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The world is afraid that that Canadian virus of martial law is seeping elsewhere.
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That's what that House Financial Services letter was about.
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It's about saying to the boss of the American banks, the head of the Federal Reserve, are you
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making sure this Trudeau banana republicness isn't seeping into our country?
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Okay, I'm going to open up Slack and I'll just go to live stream.
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Guys, I'm a little bit out of touch because I haven't done the live stream a lot.
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I'm just scrolling down for the rumble rants, right?
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Ezra, if you had to vote for one party right now, would you vote for the new blue party or
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I think Derek Sloan is the leader of the Ontario party and Jim Karahelios is the leader of the
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It's a tough call because neither of them have a chance to win.
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There's just no way I could possibly ever vote for Doug Ford.
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On the other hand, the alternatives, the mainstream alternatives of the liberals and the NDP are
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I do not know what I would do, I suppose, voting for one of those two minor parties.
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It's funny you ask me that question because that's a question without an answer.
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That's like saying, what's the square root of minus one?
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But I want to tell you some good news because I speak like seven words of French.
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French, but those seven words, and of course, menu is one of them.
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There's a new party out there called the Quebec Conservative Party.
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It's run by a friend of ours who used to appear on this show from time to time named Eric
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I met him when I was a kid working for Preston Manning in Parliament.
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He was a kid working for Gilles Deceptre, the leader of the Bloc Capital Court.
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Join with me and the Conservative Party of Quebec.
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He's about my age, but obviously much more handsome.
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And he's attracting candidates almost every week who are really well known.
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He's taking candidates from other parties, too.
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But I follow his account on Twitter, even though it's in French mainly.
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Very much small C, Conservative, you know, in terms of size of government.
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And if I recall, he's in third place in the polls, which doesn't sound like much.
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But there's the Coalition Avenue in Quebec, the CAC party, which is the government.
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And he's just a great operator, a hard worker, very strategic, very principled, tapping into
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Upstart Quebec Conservative Party leader surges in the polls.
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Duen was elected leader of the party last April.
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More than any other provincial party in Quebec?
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People who know Duen told CBC he's a brilliant political strategist with a particular gift for communicating.
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Former Liberal Deputy Premier Natalie Normandeau worked with Duen as his co-host on Quebec City radio station FM 93.
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Eric Duen, when he became a leader last year, found himself with a party that was unknown in Quebec with barely any members, Normandeau told CBC in an interview.
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Anyway, I won't spend too much time, but let me tell you, in closing, Eric Duen took a party that was at New Blue, True Blue Ontario or Ontario party levels.
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And I didn't know that they had 52,000 members being the largest in Quebec.
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Eric Duen has and he's done all that in a year.
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He's been an opponent to the curfew, an opponent to the lockdownism, but he hasn't seemed wild about it.
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I think he, at the very least, will be the next leader of the opposition in Quebec.
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And I do not know why Jim Carahelios or Derek Sloan or whoever is leading these parties has not been able to capture the moment in the same way that Eric has.
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Boy, I had so many things I was going to talk about.
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I got this whole list of stories we were going to cover, including Chrystia Freeland.
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And I wanted to talk also about the big pharma talking about what he calls gene therapy.
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Why don't we do that gene therapy video because we're not on YouTube anymore?
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And I'm not going to try to explain how it works.
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But let me just tell you, it's a genetic technology that has not been used before.
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And that's one reason I think some people are a little nervous about it because you've got a new gene technology.
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And you're just sort of skipping straight ahead into it when there's still five years more testing that the FDA has ordered.
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And when the companies who are making it have been granted legal indemnification, you can't sue them.
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And some people say, well, that's gene therapy.
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And anyone who said that was called a liar, a conspiracy theorist, a fake news misinformer, and was promptly banned from most social media, which makes it incredible to hear the head of the pharmaceuticals division at Bayer, who's on their management board, give this speech.
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This is not Naomi Wolf or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or some anti-vaxxer.
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Now, we're not on YouTube because if we put this on YouTube, we'd be nuked in a second.
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We're really taking that leap, us as a company buyer, in cell and gene therapy, which to me is one of these examples where really we're going to make a difference, hopefully, moving forward.
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There are some, ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy.
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I always like to say, if we had surveyed two years ago in the public, would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body, we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate.
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I think this pandemic has also opened many people's eyes to innovation in a way that was maybe not possible before.
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So, basically, they're saying, had we said, hey, guys, we've got some gene therapy for you, 95% of people would have said, yeah, pass.
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I'll let you try that out on lab rats, not on me.
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But he said, well, what a great opportunity we had because we got this into a couple billion arms.
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If you had said those things, you would be banned.
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What do you call it when Big Pharma literally admits it?
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Because if you try it, because I found that on Twitter.
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But if you look at how this appears on Twitter.
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And Aaron says, the head of pharma at Bayer proudly proclaims the COVID mRNA vaccine is gene therapy.
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And that misleading the public was useful to create widespread adoption.
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Would you say that's an accurate summary of what he said?
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But I'm pretty sure that says, I mean, other than the word misleading.
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Like, the pharma guy didn't say, ha ha, we misled them.
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Because I want to show, look at what's underneath it.
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So, Twitter puts underneath it that this is misleading.
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And if you try and click retweet on the original, this is a photograph of the original.
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I'd say, well, you know, even journalists on the other side, if they're sort of reputable,
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they won't lie because, you know, they'll get a bad reputation.
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So, I would probably even trust things in left or center media.
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Especially the New York Times or the Globe and Mail who, even though I disagree with their editorial outlook,
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they're so big and they're so established and they're reputable and they're authoritative
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and they're good people, even if I disagree with them, they're not going to lie.
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And if you asked me about doctors, I'd say, well, a doctor might be a little out of date on certain things,
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And the court, you know, I might disagree with them or agree with them, but they're not going to lie.
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And academics, you know, they might be a little bit in their own planet, but they're not going to lie.
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But is there a single institution that has not smashed its own reputation in the last two years?
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How do I take the media at face value on anything now, including, for example, this war in Iraq,
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You just heard that Bayer executive say, ha ha, we got people to take gene therapy
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And then when you write that, Twitter says, no, that's misleading.
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Like we're seeing you lying to us in real time about something that touches our own lives and health.
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Diagalon is a fictional country conjured up by Jeremy McKenzie.
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Ottawa is claiming him to be a threat to Canada, but in fact, he's a patriot to the max.
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You know, there were a number of feds in the trucker movement.
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I identified the Line Canada as a group of feds about a year ago when I started seeing them showing up with their prefab signs in Toronto.
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I mean, look at how insane the government has done, seizing money, freezing bank accounts, bringing in a martial law.
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Of course, they're going to do simpler things like having agents provocateurs and having undercover feds there.
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I don't know if I'm going to spend time trying to dig around to see if Diagalon is fake or not or if Jeremy McKenzie is a fed or not.
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I know that Pat King is a disreputable fed, and you can see that his damage to the movement, because he would say absurd things in obscure Facebook posts that would be left like little Easter eggs.
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And then the government war rooms would go through and collect, oh, look, here's Pat King talking about bullets and talking about violence, and let's now use that to discredit 100,000 truckers.
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So Pat King was a fed from long ago, and we spotted him a year ago here.
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I don't think I'm going to focus on the 1% of this movement that's clearly feds, informants, agents, or just people who are a little bit nutty.
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I think I'm going to focus on the 99% who really saved this country.
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The truckers accomplished more in two years than any other political force.
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The cross-border long-haul trucking mandate is still in effect.
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The no-fly zone for unvaxxed people is still in effect.
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Thousands of people were fired for not being vaxxed.
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Millions of people were pressured into being vaxxed.
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There's still ridiculous mask mandates out there.
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But whatever liberalization we have had over the last month is because of the truckers.
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And look, and we started the show with how they've been smeared.
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I'm going to talk more about this pharmacy guy on my show tonight, so tune in if you can.
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If you don't know about my show every day at 8 p.m., I do a TV-style show.
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I do a monologue, and then I interview a guest.
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And then I read my fan mail and my hate mail, so it's sort of fun.
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If you go to rebelnewsplus.com, you can subscribe to it.
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But in addition to my daily show, you also get weekly shows, including by Sheila Gunn-Reed,
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David Menzies, Andrew Chapitose, Annette and Kat, who have their own show.
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So there's actually four weekly shows in my daily show.
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That's a lot of stuff for $8 a month, which is half the price of Netflix.
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And the reason we need that, though, is because we don't take any money from Trudeau.
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Thanks to those folks who made rumble rants or other tips or super chats.
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And have a great weekend, everybody, and we'll talk to you next week.