Rebel News Daily is a daily show hosted by Alex Blumberg and co-host Adam Sosa, where they discuss the news and opinions of the day. Today we discuss the latest in the war on police brutality, including the recent actions of Canadian police in response to a peaceful protest in the nation's capital, Ottawa.
00:03:39.420We hear so often and it's been particularly difficult backing the blue when you see what cops are doing.
00:03:47.140And these are not just Ottawa cops, but cops from police forces all across the country who ended up in Ottawa to deal with the quote unquote occupation of Ottawa.
00:03:59.320You mean Canadian citizens going to their nation's capital to protest nationwide policies?
00:04:03.960Where else are they supposed to do it?
00:04:06.220But, you know, cops were trucked in from all over the country and they went there and they engaged in some pretty ugly behavior,
00:04:13.960both against journalists, but also against peaceful protesters, pummeling them, arresting them, smashing their truck windows in,
00:04:21.220pepper spraying them, shooting them at point blank range, running over them with horses.
00:04:29.020And it makes you wonder, where are all the good cops?
00:04:31.160Well, getting forced out of the police force, actually, either through quietly going away because they can't tolerate how woke the force is becoming.
00:04:43.360So they just quietly take early retirement, disappear.
00:04:46.640And then there are others who are not necessarily vaccine objectors, but people who say, you know what?
00:04:55.900I'm not going to participate in the biomedical police state, so I'm going to keep my medical privacy to myself.
00:05:00.820And those people get suspended from the police force.
00:05:04.280And then there are cops who say, I signed up for the police force because I care so deeply about protecting the civil liberties of my fellow Canadian citizens that I want to wear a uniform to do it.
00:05:48.400So he went to the convoy at Cootes, and both cops, Constable Elena Golosheva, I hope I'm saying that right, they spoke at the rally, and they've both been suspended now.
00:06:05.880But had these two taken a knee at a Black Lives Matter protest and wore a rainbow patch on their uniform, fine and dandy.
00:06:16.880It's all about woke politics and left-wing politics.
00:06:20.840But if you express support for the civil liberties you put on a uniform every day to protect, you're fired, basically.
00:06:27.960I mean, when you're suspended without pay, that's constructive dismissal.
00:06:34.800And, you know, the absolutely wild thing here, the unbelievable thing here for me, is the fact that what media should be concerned about and reporting about is the brutality witnessed in Ottawa.
00:06:47.040We saw a massive stain on policing that will endure for decades.
00:06:52.320Policing as it exists will not be able to return.
00:06:58.020They're going to need new mechanisms and protocols.
00:07:01.060Anyone who was still backing the blue, a large majority of those people very often sort of working class trucker people wearing those back the blue stripes, they've lost that group as well.
00:07:13.780It is permanent damage, and we've seen virtually no little coverage from mainstream media outlets when our own journalists were attacked.
00:07:22.120Journalists from other outlets were attacked, so it's not just rebel news.
00:07:28.040And yet you see a police officer standing up for, say, the law of the land, the criminal code, our charter rights.
00:07:34.460You see an officer trying to de-escalate, which is the language they use, even offering a hug.
00:07:40.820We've seen officers not get in trouble for that brutality, for trampling people, for kneeling on people, for all this absurd, ridiculous conduct.
00:07:52.140But if you dare give someone with a different perspective a hug, or if you dare in your own personal time show support to a very freedom and charter-oriented movement, well, then you're canceled.
00:08:04.300I'm going to even go to the point of saying this isn't even, we've almost lost the plot.
00:08:08.400It isn't even about woke ideologies anymore, because this is about sort of reinforcing whatever Justin Trudeau is saying at the moment.
00:08:15.780That's where these agents of the left, this is where they've wound up.
00:08:19.900Because standing up against police brutality was a woke, liberal talking point.
00:08:25.540It was one of the things they espoused.
00:08:28.000No, they just don't want to get beaten up.
00:08:30.540I don't think they've ever actually, sorry to interrupt, I don't think they've ever actually been against police brutality.
00:08:34.680They just don't want to be on the receiving end of it.
00:11:27.380You look at the situation with the Ottawa police chief.
00:11:30.520We saw crime literally go down in Ottawa.
00:11:35.060What he wasn't willing to do is beat the crap out of, excuse my French, truckers, smash their windows, destroy their property.
00:11:42.400He wasn't willing to, say, violate our basic charter rights, violate the criminal code, because what we saw there was criminal.
00:11:49.540Some of the content, what happened to Alexa, and this is going to be fleshed out in court, but some of that conduct is criminal.
00:11:54.460None of that happened under the prior police chief.
00:11:56.540Don't get me wrong, people were honking, some people were upset, but on the scale of things,
00:12:01.440people being upset about honking and him not coming in with a SWAT team versus the escalation that occurred under the new police chief,
00:12:10.100it's an indicator of the way that things are going.
00:12:13.120A former constable, Brian Dennison, was one of the first police officers.
00:12:16.900I've had a chance to speak with him, and I'm going to speak with him again about what happened in Ottawa.
00:12:21.380But the conscientious objectors, the one thing that I will say that is incredibly interesting is when we started covering these protests two years ago,
00:12:30.540there might be one or two police officers who kind of give us the nod, or when they had their mask on,
00:12:35.800they'd come up to us and kind of give you the elbow bump and say, good work, keep it up.
00:12:40.120After I interviewed Brian Dennison and then attended a rally, every single cop, barring the one or two exceptions who are giving you just the stink eye from a mile away, said, thank you, Adam.
00:12:52.460They came up to me and said, thank you, Adam.
00:12:55.100They rallied behind this guy, and I think the unfortunate threshold is the truckers had the courage to do what they had to do to take that action.
00:13:03.540I think the sort of rank and file mentality, pseudo-military mentality within police forces, I think that probably at least half, if not more, are starting to say enough is enough.
00:13:17.560But then unfortunately, what we're seeing is those people, they aren't being called out to these rallies.
00:13:22.200We saw at Coots and Milk River, and I'm sure it was the case in Ottawa as well.
00:13:26.720They bussed in and flew in out-of-area officers, out-of-area RCMP people, because the local people won't do that to their own people.
00:13:37.720And what does that tell you when they need to bring people in because the local officers are starting to say enough is enough?
00:13:43.160But there does need to be a unified response to this from police.
00:13:47.160And the fact that police chiefs are being thrown out because they're not enforcing military action,
00:13:52.020the behest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ridiculous.
00:13:55.640And I think that's probably the principal indicator of the way things have gone wrong.
00:13:59.980To your point, there are good cops out there, but the leadership is corrupt.
00:14:04.060If there are good leaders, they're often being thrown out.
00:14:06.500People like Mark Neufeld, who have Pastor Artur Pawlowski behind bars for everything under the sun,
00:14:11.420this new police chief who is a radical, and there must be legal action after all of this for what has happened to Alexa,
00:14:18.700these truckers, some of the wild things that have happened and continue to happen despite the Emergencies Act being dropped.
00:14:23.880This is extremely troubling, some of the things that we're seeing.
00:14:28.040And the police are being 100%, as are the courts, weaponized as an ideological wrench, so to speak,
00:14:36.160to drive these narratives, to drive these ideologies within society.
00:14:40.120Yeah, that's Ottawa Interim Police Chief Steve Bell.
00:14:45.840He's the crony who was brought in to do the bidding of the state against the peaceful protesters in Ottawa.
00:14:53.860And he is currently investigating the hurt feelings of several journalists who were yelled at by Canadian citizens for lying about Canadian citizens.
00:15:03.560And so he's opened investigations with regard to that and promised that he's going to look into the fact that, I guess, Evan Solomon, somebody swore at Evan Solomon.
00:15:15.480I wish that that was the least bad thing that happened to me sometimes when I'm at work.
00:17:16.060So, let's roll this because this is really something else.
00:17:19.440Like, I just don't understand how you could be saying, on one hand, there's all these strong ties, and this is a national emergency for public safety.
00:17:28.940And I walked every day by these protests.
00:18:41.800Ottawa police say we never pointed guns at anybody.
00:18:44.860And then they're literally, there's all these videos of them pointing guns at people.
00:18:49.220Ottawa police says that someone threw a bicycle at Ottawa police.
00:18:53.820Turns out they ran over a lady on a mobility scooter.
00:18:56.540In almost every instance, every major incident that took place, Ottawa police, and I can say this, it's not debatable.
00:19:03.360They either were completely misinformed, in which case this interim chief needs to resign because he's utterly inept,
00:19:11.100or they were flat out lying, given the pattern and how many instances we saw where they were saying the literal opposite of what there was footage circulating of.
00:19:20.660I'm inclined to suspect that it is the latter.
00:19:24.260These people have clearly never been to these protests.
00:19:26.920These people have never talked to these truckers.
00:19:29.240When I was in, the boys down in Coutts can testify to the same thing, but when I was in Milk River, you'd be offered food.
00:19:37.820You'd be offered, oh, do you need anything?
00:21:24.680But this vitriol and this rhetoric, it's as though you were to take the...
00:21:30.780And I think there's probably more extremists on the left who threaten violence on the regular basis,
00:21:35.080but you don't see mainstream media outlets running that some of the BLM organizers are saying we need to kill and enslave all the whites, for example.
00:21:44.220That isn't part of the narrative, even though that's probably more than the one odd guy who says something crazy like this.
00:21:50.960They're simply the media, the police forces, they're all complicit in feeding this narrative that makes these people who are utterly peaceful...
00:22:00.280You know, I have to tell you one thing from this weekend, and it was at this exact spot that you're looking at from the screen.
00:25:36.380And she is upset that in Calgary, yeah, this is Calgary.
00:25:41.660She says it's unbelievable that some Canadians are still rallying and calling for freedom while an actual war started by an actual dictator ravages Ukraine.
00:25:51.220And even after mandates have been lifted, truly unreal.
00:25:53.920So you can't be concerned that you can't travel domestically within your own country without participating in the biomedical police state.
00:26:02.340You can't be concerned that some of your fellow Canadian citizens are not yet free in their own provinces that still have vaccine passports,
00:26:11.540that still have forced masking, that little kids in some provinces still have to wear masks.
00:26:16.340You can't care about this because Putin, what the hell kind of argument is that, that you can't hold two ideas at the same time in your head?
00:28:08.900And I think the reason that she blocked me ultimately is one, progressives don't like to engage in dialogue.
00:28:14.480But two, I ultimately called her out for not caring about a marginalized community right now.
00:28:20.200And I actually care about these people.
00:28:22.200Unlike so many of these ivory tower, elite, progressive folks, media outlets who haven't been affected at all by COVID or COVID restrictions.
00:28:31.680I actually talk to the people whose lives have been destroyed.
00:28:35.300And I've talked to people who got the first jab, had a vicious, so they had no anti-vaccine mentality whatsoever.
00:29:25.000Thousands of people have had that experience, whether for medical or religious reasons.
00:29:29.020They were unable to be vaccinated and they have been excluded from society, marginalized categorically.
00:29:35.720And this isn't some sort of, well, there's an underlying issue or there's some underlying racism.
00:29:41.020This is overt marginalization of a group by the government actively.
00:29:46.600And people there attending these protests, many of them vaccinated, are saying enough is enough.
00:29:52.060We're not going to sit idly by while our Canadian brothers and sisters suffer at the hands of an unruly government and medical bureaucracy that gives no regard to the rights of individuals and is completely set aside the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:30:06.020So people are gathering in a movement that is unprecedented in Canadian history.
00:30:10.500We have seen thousands of people week after week.
00:30:13.760If you calculate the man hours, it is categorically unprecedented in the history of Canada, this movement.
00:30:19.660These people are not risking their jobs.
00:30:25.000They aren't standing in solidarity with those people who have broken down mid-interview.
00:30:28.900And I've had to hug so that they could get through the rest of the interview because their lives have been destroyed.
00:30:34.300These people aren't doing this because they're, and I'm going to quote her, because they're ass hats, as she called them.
00:30:39.740They're doing this because they're Canadians.
00:30:42.060You're the one who's lost touch of what it means to be Canadian.
00:30:44.840You're the one who's lost track and lost touch with caring for those marginalized and outed communities.
00:30:50.740These people, along with the truckers, along with those police officers who are doing the right thing and are being shown the road, they're the ones showing their Canadian colors.
00:30:59.260And for the first time in a long time, I'm hearing people at these rallies say they're proud to be Canadian.
00:31:04.020And it's not because of Justin Trudeau.
00:31:05.920It's not because of that Ottawa police chief who's laying the hammer down.
00:31:09.260It's because of these people who are standing in solidarity, no matter the cost.
00:31:14.080I've got a message for Julie Van Rosendahl if she's hate watching, and I'm sure she is because I'm sure they pay people at the CBC to watch us to make sure that we don't say anything controversial.
00:31:25.620But Julie, if you're watching, next time, instead of being a coward standing across the street, badmouthing people, why don't you walk across the street and ask them why they're standing there?
00:31:37.580Hear their stories instead of bashing them like a coward from across the street and writing them off and making bigoted assumptions about why they're there.
00:31:47.140And by her own logic, we should drop any investigation into the mean words said to Evan Solomon by protesters in Ottawa because Putin, because what's happening in Ukraine, because everything hinges on Ukraine.
00:32:04.320We're not supposed to care about the wrongs that happen here, according to her.
00:32:07.460All things are, you know, all things considered, we have to go with the balance of what's the worst thing.
00:32:13.960And we can only care about that thing.
00:32:16.280And so if she wants it that way, let's dance, Julie, because then I don't want to hear a single word about somebody sent me a mean tweet on Twitter, which is probably exactly what she's doing, complaining behind that block about you.
00:32:29.200Yeah. Yeah. Well, and it's, it's, it is so sad to see how far these people, these are like, you expect nonsense like this from progressive activists.
00:32:41.120But lots of these people are mean, you're repeating yourself.
00:32:44.860So she is a progressive activist. Exactly. But so many people who are, who are meant to be sort of sensible center grounded people have become radical militant ideologues.
00:32:55.700And it is absolutely shocking. The core of this though, the reason why these people can only focus on one issue to your point is because they aren't human beings with feelings on these issues.
00:33:08.800What they are is marketing firms, their virtue signaling. And the current issue of the day is their brand.
00:33:16.480That's what this comes down to, because if you genuinely concern, we're concerned for the people of the Ukraine and for civil liberties in Canada, you'd focus on things at different times, but they would still all weigh heavy on your heart.
00:33:29.480And this is a time in the world that weighs heavy on the hearts of many.
00:33:32.660But I think for these people, I don't think issues way too heavily on their heart for many of them, because all they're doing is what's the latest thing that I'm supposed to be commenting on.
00:33:42.000You can go back and I can, I can mark this, look at some of these ongoing persistent voices and see if they ever have an original thought that isn't what Justin Trudeau is telling them to say.
00:33:52.880These people, when Justin Trudeau was ranting about mandates, it was all mandates. Now, Justin Trudeau is talking about the Ukraine. All they talk about is the Ukraine.
00:33:59.880Like these people stopped talking about COVID the second Justin Trudeau did. They were manic about it while Justin Trudeau was talking about it. A day later, oh, we only talk about this because this is what Justin Trudeau is talking about.
00:34:11.180They don't care about these issues. They care about looking like they care about the current issue of the day.
00:34:16.560I don't doubt that they see, instead of creating the news that's trending, they go look at what's trending and then they comment on it.
00:34:23.280Speaking of people pretending to care, how's that for a segue, Adam?
00:34:30.340BC Premier Hogan, he said, John Horgan, excuse me, he said that, and this is echoing something that our former energy minister here in Alberta once said, just go to BC.
00:34:48.400You know, you don't have a job in Alberta, just go to BC. We'll just destroy the oil industry in Alberta. And if you need a job, you can just get on a bus and go to BC.
00:34:56.960Well, now, John Horgan says that gas prices getting you down, just get on the bus. Sure, it might not go to where your job is. And sure, you might have three kids that you need to take to hockey, rugby and basketball simultaneously at the exact same time.
00:35:15.520And maybe you need to do a grocery run and maybe you live rurally and maybe a grocery run looks like a trunk full of Costco groceries. That's fine. You can just take public transportation.
00:35:26.480What world do these people live in? How about get rid of a carbon tax? How about that?
00:35:32.880These are the very people who have the ability to instantly make gas cheaper. It's within their power. But instead of doing something about it, they say, oh, just take the bus. It's fine. Take the bus. He doesn't take the bus. I guarantee you that.
00:35:47.720I can tell you which world they live in. And that's what I was going to say. They live in a world where they've never taken public transit or maybe they haven't taken public transit since high school.
00:35:55.280And it was sort of a whatever thing like these people. It's so rare that any of them practice what they preach.
00:36:01.520If there is the odd kook green party or liberal candidate who bikes to work every day or uses public transit.
00:36:07.680Hey, kudos for actually practicing what you preach. But that the vast majority of these people echoing these nonsensical talking points, they don't live it out categorically.
00:36:16.260Rachel Notley said the same thing. She's like, oh, the UCP, you're driving up the costs and people can't afford this stuff. I'm like, like, so carbon tax helps like everything they do increases the cost of living for middle class people or people who are trying to enter the middle class.
00:36:34.300It's all just more taxes. And then the rich still managed to find loopholes and donate and get around this or they they use lead certification grants to get their money back for their massive downtown building, despite being millionaires.
00:36:47.840And average Joe is like us pay way more for gas. And then we have to take the bus with our groceries.
00:36:51.660It's it's it's they're living. There's this ivory tower glass that that throughout almost all these stories, it permeates all these things.
00:37:00.620There are people telling everyone else how to live, but they're not living in the real world.
00:37:05.180They're living in this other sort of bubble where, yeah, you can just take the bus, like give them cake.
00:37:10.440It's give them cake. Literally, it's Mary Antoinette looking down from the tower saying, well, just let them eat some cake.
00:37:17.580They'll be fine. Yeah, it's weird how they think that everybody in this province lives in downtown Edmonton or downtown Calgary.
00:37:28.600I don't know how someone's going to get their chicken feed home from the feed store on the bus when you live on a gravel road like I do.
00:37:35.840Like it's just it's insane. And, you know, B.C. B.C. is pretty spread out once you get outside of the, you know, the the lower mainland.
00:37:48.320It's pretty spread out. Well, I think the underlying issue with this is like these cities like Vancouver and Calgary, not the people in them,
00:37:59.500but the elected officials, they want to pretend these cities are New York City and Sao Paulo, where there is such a dense pop.
00:38:07.900And I've been to these cities so I can speak to it. There is such a dense population and traffic is so bad that there's a train every 30 seconds.
00:38:16.160And it literally goes and the train goes within walking distance of everything. So you can get anywhere faster.
00:38:22.480They go to the airport. They go absolutely everywhere because everything is so dense.
00:38:25.680And there's so many people that for relatively cheap, you throw in a buck, it's so much cheaper down there.
00:38:30.880I mean, you throw in a buck or less and there's so many people participating in it that it works.
00:38:35.200And it's just like sort of organic pulsating network within the city. That's how people get around.
00:38:41.080People, progressives, very often who haven't been to this city, these people get elected.
00:38:45.800They maybe have heard about New York or they visited it once and they're like, oh, this is cool.
00:38:50.680I want this where I live. Well, unfortunately, when your city is much bigger than Manhattan,
00:38:55.680with one 20th of the population, it's completely untenable to have functional transit.
00:39:03.300It doesn't work. I use transit for many years when I was going to school.
00:39:06.380I lived way on the burbs. I went to downtown. It took me an hour and a half to go 20 minutes, like both ways.
00:39:12.460I lost three hours every day. If you have kids, if you're working, you can't do that. It's untenable.
00:39:17.360And the costs are so high and you have, if we're going to pretend we care about the environment and we're going to pretend we care about gas causes, costs rather.
00:39:27.100How often do you see giant empty buses driving around? It's nonstop everywhere.
00:39:34.040Just gigantic buses. Sometimes you'll see accordion buses with one person on it.
00:39:38.280It's great for the environment. Real solid.
00:39:42.380Now, speaking of the environment, something that's near and dear to my heart is energy independence and building pipelines because Russia rises and falls on the price of oil.
00:39:54.620And yet, I think every year, Canada buys a half a billion dollars worth of Russian oil to be refined on our East Coast because we can't get a pipeline built from Alberta, which is the Saudi Arabia of North America.
00:40:10.620We can't get a pipeline built from here.
00:40:12.720And the Keystone XL, as first order of business, Joe Biden canceled it, even though it was basically all but done.
00:40:19.640But not only did he cancel reliable, ethical, democratic Canadian oil in a pipeline that would have alleviated some pressures on the American system and driven the cost of oil or the cost of living down in the United States.
00:40:38.120He also began yanking permits for drilling in the United States, all in pursuit of the Green New Deal.
00:40:43.760And one of the quickest fixes would be to just turn on the taps, just open up drilling, flood the market, create American jobs and starve Putin's war machine of the funds that it needs to do what it's doing, if that is the end goal.
00:41:03.960But we have a spokesperson, Jen Psaki, telling us what they plan to do when somebody asked her, hey, you know that pipeline from Alberta that's just like basically done?
00:41:15.780You just have a little this much left to do and we could just do it.
00:41:19.380And you guys would have reliable oil that isn't Russian?
00:41:23.140Because actually, I think I saw today, it was like 700 barrels of 700,000, I think, around that barrels of oil per day the United States gets from Russia.
00:41:32.940Now, Keystone XL, 830,000 barrels of oil from Alberta.
00:41:39.840We can fill it every day, every single day, all day long.
00:41:42.960It would completely offset Russian oil.
00:41:47.800On oil leases, what this actually justifies in President Biden's view is the fact that we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, on oil in general,
00:41:56.300and we need to look at other ways of having energy in our country and others.
00:42:01.440One of the interesting things, George, we've seen over the last week or so is that a number of European countries are recognizing they need to reduce their own reliance on Russian oil.
00:42:10.960On oil leases, what this actually justifies in.
00:42:13.360Like, it's like you keep the question is effectively, you keep giving money to Putin's war machine.
00:42:23.240And her response is, well, like, we need to go green.
00:42:33.960Just the cognitive dissonance of Biden's principal concerns right now are the war in Ukraine, supply demand issues, and gas prices.
00:42:43.400You just put the little bit of pipe in and almost all of your, like, the heaviest sanction you can impose is just being like, we're buying Canadian oil instead because it's ethical.
00:42:51.340But this underlying, and it's no longer conspiratorial, but the World Economic Forum stuff, the George Soros stuff, Trudeau, what makes sense for Canada, what makes sense for Canadian jobs is to get a pipeline.
00:43:20.160They continued to buy Saudi and Russian oil when the pipeline is right here and it would resolve all of these problems.
00:43:27.320It's completely irrational and it is categorically ideologically driven.
00:43:31.020It's like being like a low-level employee and you know there's a better way to do something, but your boss just said you can't do that one thing.
00:43:41.320It can be irrational, but you can't do this one thing even though it's the best solution.
00:43:45.240That's what they've been told by their bosses.
00:43:46.500Well, and pursuing more green energy is exactly how you got in this mess in the first place, Germany.
00:43:54.540Germany, I think, gets 40% of their natural gas from Russia's Gazprom, which enriches the Russian war machine.
00:44:02.000And that's why when they kicked Russia off the SWIFT payment system, the monetary exchange, they didn't put fossil fuels like gas and oil into that because it would be catastrophic to Germany.
00:44:24.080Because Germany said, we need to go green so we're stopping coal, but Germany also needs to fuel its economy and heat homes.
00:44:33.080So where are they going to get their energy from?
00:44:36.580Certainly not from wind turbines, certainly not from solar panels.
00:44:40.380They had to get natural gas and they could get it from Russia.
00:44:44.640And so pursuing green energy is exactly what gave Russia the power to do what they're doing now.
00:44:54.420And so what does the Biden administration say?
00:44:59.480These are the dumbest people that have ever run the free world ever.
00:45:03.660And I'm including Jimmy Carter in that assessment.
00:45:06.320And like her response, like she's the like media response person and she defers to broken, nonsensical talking points worse than Justin Trudeau does.
00:45:19.240Like that response is categorically embarrassing.
00:45:22.320And it's not only that she could have very easily said in ambiguous terms, like, but they're so ideologically driven.
00:45:30.640She could have said in very ambiguous terms, like we are exploring alternative possibilities and we absolutely no longer want to fund Russia's war machine, but we are facing supply to it.
00:45:41.220She could have said some ambiguous political speak like that and kind of moved on.
00:45:46.100But no, she had to get in that, well, we need solar panels to defeat Putin talking point, which is just absolute nonsense and doesn't do anything to alleviate this.
00:45:56.320Ultimately, the other thing, too, is so many of the sanctions, obviously, they're hurting Putin.
00:46:02.880Some would argue that they're pushing Russia to become more extreme because with the pushback they're experiencing in the Ukraine, they thought this would be over overnight.
00:46:11.640They're now being devastated financially.
00:46:13.880Some are arguing they're being radicalized.
00:46:15.980But the fact is none of these sanctions, they all go to undermine the economic situation, but none of them directly help the people of the Ukraine who are suffering.
00:46:25.620They're arbitrary sanctions against the class of Russian citizens, but they don't do anything to interfere with the front lines other than make a point and impose some financial sanctions on Russia.
00:46:36.520But they don't they don't do anything right on that front line.
00:46:41.240Now, we do have a petition that we will eventually deliver to the American consulate in Calgary, in the heart of oil and gas country at buildkeystonexl.com.
00:47:10.340And it will benefit the safety and security of the free world.
00:47:14.680And yet they're hung up on solar panels.
00:47:17.280But anyway, if you want to sign that petition, just go to buildkeystonexl.com and myself or maybe Adam, we'll mosey on down to the American consulate and hand deliver your signatures to the American consulate there to send the American administration a message.
00:47:39.520If everyone on stream who hasn't already signed that petition goes and signs right now, we're on all these platforms, share it with a friend.
00:47:46.420We can get a ton of signatures on there.
00:47:47.920If we could get 100,000 signatures, that would be incredible.
00:50:38.440So he is utterly persistent that he will feed the homeless, that he will open his church to everyone, no matter the cost, because that's a commitment that he made.
00:50:46.020He wants to be left alone, and he wants to do those things.
00:50:49.220But for daring to feed the homeless, I understand in contravention of COVID guidelines, but for feeding the homeless and opening the church, he's now been in jail for weeks.
00:50:58.660And this is his fifth arrest and his third incarceration for committing the heinous crimes of feeding the homeless and of opening his church.
00:51:11.280Sorry, and sorry, and speaking out against the government, which is your right as a Canadian citizen to do so.
00:51:16.580Well, and the latest charge stems from, and to be clear, the truckers who were blockading the Coutts border were not charged under Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
00:53:13.520He is eating now because they were trying to make it seem as though he was making a political point and needed to be committed because he wasn't eating.
01:07:37.600I just think the people who pay too much money to smear an oily vegetable or maybe it's a fruit on toast have no right lecturing people who wear coveralls for a living about freedom.
01:08:45.820I guess they set their own target for what daily coronavirus infections have to be.
01:08:53.360So I guess all the bedroom communities and suburbs, thank you for your business, because that's where it's all going to go.
01:09:00.000And so if I were an Edmonton business owner, I would be raising holy hell about this, because all of your staff and customers, you're going to have people who want to work in the bedroom communities.
01:09:12.280And there are a ton of them in the Edmonton area and people are going to do their shopping there.
01:09:17.140Like when Edmonton and Sherwood Park are right, they're divided by a highway.
01:09:23.740But you could just go across the highway and live your life free.
01:09:29.280But Amarjeet Sohi, the mayor of Edmonton, is Justin Trudeau's former natural resources minister, can get a pipeline bill of his life dependent on it.
01:09:35.940And now he's doing Trudeau's bidding by reinforcing the COVID lockdown that Trudeau refuses to let go of.
01:09:42.740Wasn't there like a component to the reopening process that municipalities couldn't overrule?
01:09:47.820Like within law, I think it's called Paramount.
01:09:50.340Like the larger health jurisdiction has say over that.
01:09:55.000I thought they implemented something where the cities, which is why GOT Gondek sort of reluctantly went along, tried to have a vote anyways.
01:10:00.920But I thought that there was some safeguard in place against that.
01:10:04.940What I do know is, yeah, what I do know is the moral of the story, I think, for a lot of people over the course of the pandemic has been that your municipal council counts.
01:10:19.540We should be actively involved in making sure that there are normal people running your town, because it ended up being a patchwork quilt of restrictions all the time.
01:10:33.520And it didn't really follow any sort of rhyme or reason.
01:10:36.640I don't want to say science because that'll get us kicked off on YouTube and we're still there.
01:10:40.360But it didn't follow any rhyme or reason.
01:10:43.480So it was like one road would be what on one side, one sort of form of restriction.
01:10:49.080And over there, it was completely different.
01:10:51.400And it was because some municipalities were more sane than, well, Edmonton, I guess.
01:11:00.140And so as conservatives, if you want to be free, you got to get involved on politics at the local level.
01:11:06.620I know it's easy to focus on the big pictures of, you know, provincial and federal, but really those municipal politicians, those have been the ones controlling your life for two years.
01:11:17.400Well, and I think progressive activists recognize that people aren't as engaged on a municipal level.
01:11:25.340So they're pushing and spending hard in those municipal areas.
01:11:29.160And that's why you can see an entirely conservative province where they're largely conservative province where the two city hubs have extremely progressive mayors because they launched concerted efforts within those areas to garner that power.
01:11:42.340So good point, Sheila, and get involved on that level as well.
01:13:22.940That's why he took Crimea in 2014 when Joe Biden was VP.
01:13:29.440That's why, you know, China is already looking at Taiwan with lust in its eyes because, you know, there's no peace through power this time around.
01:14:25.960That's when people are really going to start to care about the supply chain is when the people who love their avocado and toast have to pay $10 for an avocado.
01:14:35.100And then, because they take a bus, they don't care.
01:14:39.800But eventually, eventually, it's going to hit them.
01:14:43.120And eventually, they're going to be mugged by reality.
01:15:24.380For example, Grace Life Church, the mandate resisting church in Edmonton, they have a sister church up there.
01:15:30.220And basically, they decided, both as a local government, but also the business community, which is strange.
01:15:39.600So the local government, the chamber of commerce, the people and the churches.
01:15:42.980So what usually makes up a community, they decided we're going to forge our own way forward.
01:15:50.940Thankfully, I think because they are largely religious, also largely because they're rural and so far that you have to rely on your neighbors for things because civilization is far away.
01:16:03.700But also because they are a 14-hour round trip from heavy-handed enforcement.
01:19:06.280I'm on the show tomorrow, and David is on the show tomorrow,
01:19:08.920back here at the same time, in the same place.
01:19:11.740We'll see everybody tomorrow, hopefully.
01:19:13.640And as David Menzies always says, stay sane.
01:19:17.220Thank you very much for that introduction.
01:19:25.340Honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends.
01:19:29.160Our beautiful European continent is facing the rise of a new empire.
01:19:34.100An empire ruled by bureaucrats in Brussels with the proud capitals of our nation states
01:19:39.920reduced to little more than administrative centers for the provinces of the European Union.
01:19:46.040Before I continue, I would like to thank the organizers of this conference hour for creating an international podium
01:19:53.200during which politicians, scholars, and those with a love for sovereignty
01:19:58.140can discuss the superiority of our nation states over the bureaucracy of Brussels,
01:20:03.320a place where we can share ideas for the future and try to build a network of parties that respect the diversity of cultures and languages in Europe
01:20:13.740while passionately defending their own.
01:20:16.440A place for those of us who understand that in the European context, one size fits none.
01:20:26.800One only has to visit the buildings of power of the European Union in Brussels to understand what is at stake.
01:20:33.340The buildings, like any aesthetics, have no discernible identity, no soul and no beauty.
01:20:41.560This is intentional and is also symbolic for the ultimate goal of the European Union,
01:20:47.400to strip nation states of their unique histories, of their languages and of their cultures,
01:20:52.540to uproot citizens from any sense of home in order to erase any sentiment that our sovereignty is worth fighting for.
01:21:02.460Local identities are to be replaced with a contrived hegemonic narrative of a European identity
01:21:08.820founded on the imagined superiority of the EU over nation states in providing peace, safety and a stable future.
01:21:16.960However, this pipe dream of a singular European identity comes at a price.
01:21:25.120And it is up to the citizens of our once proud nation states to decide whether it is a price that we are willing to pay.
01:21:32.880We need to decide whether we are going to abandon hope and leave,
01:21:37.780or whether we are ready to dig a trench and fight for liberty in Europe.
01:21:42.480For the price that the EU is asking of us is our freedom.
01:21:48.540While a hegemonic European identity might still take years to achieve and to forge,
01:21:54.420the speed of the centralization of power to Brussels has increased at a rapid pace over the past two years
01:21:59.980under the guise of a so-called pandemic.
01:22:03.360A narrow window of opportunity, as it was called by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum,
01:22:08.240an organization that has been under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist Party
01:22:13.280and that is seeking to roll out a neo-communist agenda across the world through its Great Reset.
01:22:20.120Under the guise of a contrived and permanent state of crisis, like COVID and climate change,
01:22:26.420it seeks a total transfer of power from citizens to a technocratic elite.
01:22:31.740It seeks a world in which the state will monitor and control every aspect of their citizens' lives.
01:22:39.340It is a world without democracy, a world without privacy.
01:22:43.680For the EU, this pandemic was an opportunity, the perfect excuse,
01:22:50.560to enact a plan in line with the Great Reset,
01:22:53.380a plan that they have been working on for many years.