Rebel News Podcast - January 31, 2022


DAILY ｜ Trudeau tests positive for COVID, Freedom Convoy still parked in Ottawa


Episode Stats

Length

34 minutes

Words per Minute

150.2356

Word Count

5,197

Sentence Count

425

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

A few days after the protest in Ottawa, Ezra Levant returns to the city to talk about what he saw, heard, and saw on the day of the protest. He's joined by a large contingent of Rebel News staff to discuss the events of the day.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Oh hey everybody, Ezra Levant here in Toronto. I am back from the peaceful protest in Ottawa.
00:00:21.240 I was there with a large contingent from Rebel News. It was so biting cold, but it was actually
00:00:26.400 very warm in feeling. I had a chance to meet people from all over the country who had come
00:00:31.620 there and local people from Ottawa too. There was a lot of people from Quebec there. A great number
00:00:37.640 of flags, including American flags. I saw some historical flags, old flags from traditional
00:00:43.520 flags in Canada and Quebec. A lot of Aboriginal and Indigenous flags. What was so interesting to me
00:00:49.600 was to realize how much of the trucking industry is people of color, Indigenous folks. It made it all
00:00:59.680 the funnier that critics of the protest went to that liberal go-to of you're racist or whatever.
00:01:08.860 When so many of the truckers and the protesters there were visible minorities and so many of the
00:01:13.600 defamers were old stock Canadians, white people like Justin Trudeau themselves. I want to show
00:01:22.000 you one of my favorite clips from the moment, from the weekend. I think you saw this before. We're
00:01:25.180 going to do, we're going to talk about a lot of things today. One of my favorite clips is when
00:01:29.340 Lincoln Jay was talking to some little woke counter protester and in comes someone who was
00:01:37.500 definitely off script. I'll let it speak for itself. Take a look. What did it say, sir?
00:01:45.700 So it says, F your white nationalist agenda. I am not a white. This is nothing to do about white.
00:01:55.520 This is nothing to do with truckers. This is about freedom for all of Canadians. It can be brown,
00:02:00.780 black, white, blue, whatever color you want to be. This is about freedom. And Trudeau has no right to
00:02:07.000 put us in this condition of mandates throughout the country, children are not going to school.
00:02:12.340 It's a terrible thing to do.
00:02:15.200 What a good guy. What a good egg. And I, you know, the use of the word freedom, I heard the word
00:02:22.420 freedom said more often in the last 48 hours than I have anywhere outside the precincts of the Rebel
00:02:28.780 World Headquarters in years. And I kid you not, I was walking down Spark Street, which is a couple blocks
00:02:34.060 south of Parliament Hill. I was just walking. And there's two folks walking about 20 feet ahead of
00:02:38.420 me. And I swear to God, as God is my witness, they were just spontaneously singing, oh, Canada.
00:02:46.300 When was the last time you've seen that? Just people spun. They weren't putting on a show.
00:02:52.780 I was about 20 feet behind them. They didn't see me. They were ahead of me. There was no one else on the
00:02:56.440 street there. They were just singing it. That's what was that's what they were thinking about. That's how
00:03:01.460 they were feeling about things. I saw more Canadian flags there. And I saw more homemade signs. There
00:03:07.380 were a few prefab signs from our friends at the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms,
00:03:11.400 saying things like informed consent or fight for your rights or whatever. I saw that. But other than
00:03:19.960 those, you know, and maybe I saw 100 of those prefab signs from the Justice Center. But other than that,
00:03:25.440 they were all homemade. This was a protest by people, 99% of whom had never been to a protest before in their
00:03:35.100 life. I can tell you that. And you could sort of see that because they didn't really know what to do.
00:03:40.880 Was it a celebration? What was, what were they going to do? Was there going to be official speeches?
00:03:46.060 There really weren't official speeches at first. There was no stage. There was no program. There was
00:03:56.040 no MC for the proceedings. I've, you know, used to work in Parliament Hill, actually, about 20 odd years
00:04:04.020 ago. And quite often, there were formal protests on the lawn with a stage and a PA system. And someone
00:04:11.620 would call it to order and there would be some dignitaries or politicians. There was none of
00:04:16.700 that. About halfway through the day, I think it was on Saturday, someone found a PA system, pretty
00:04:24.600 low powered PA system, frankly, and put it on the back of a flatbed truck. And it was turned into sort
00:04:29.400 of a makeshift stage at the last moment. But they were literally inviting anybody up to talk on it,
00:04:35.300 which was fun. And they invited me to go up. And I didn't really have a, I didn't, I didn't have
00:04:42.300 anything prepared. And I didn't want to, I didn't want to take up too much time. It was not my show.
00:04:48.960 I was there as a journalist, really, but I also as a supporter, obviously. Oh, my God, it was cold.
00:04:54.020 I got to tell you, it was so cold. And it was minus 22. And the thing is, to use, I don't have gloves that
00:05:01.220 work on a cell phone, you know, like, I mean, we do our work on our phones, we film on our phones,
00:05:05.840 and we type. So I had to take my glove off, because I didn't have the fancy gloves to work on the phone.
00:05:11.800 I swear, in like 30 seconds, you would start to get frostbite. I was so worried.
00:05:16.960 And yeah, so I'm not complaining. I'm just saying it, the fact that there were tens of thousands of
00:05:23.420 people there in minus 22 degrees Celsius, I think it dipped down to minus 24. When you're that cold,
00:05:29.540 it may as well be minus 40, really. That's incredible. Like, if the weather was like zero
00:05:35.360 or plus 10, I don't know how many people would have been there. Like, to have that many people
00:05:41.060 when it was minus 22 or whatever. Anyway, I kept my speech mercifully brief. You can see
00:05:45.260 the steam from my mouth. But can I play for you the speech I gave? It's only three and a half minutes
00:05:52.120 long. But I think the speech was well-received. You take a look and let me know what you think.
00:05:58.320 Here's the speech I gave from the back of a flatbed truck, just on the invitation of the
00:06:03.180 truckers. I'm not a trucker myself, obviously. Sort of the opposite. But take a look.
00:06:07.800 Does anybody know the name Ezra LeVant?
00:06:18.160 Does anybody know the name Ezra LeVant?
00:06:24.260 Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Ezra LeVant of Level News.
00:06:28.440 Thank you very much. Hello, everybody. It is cold today. It is cold today. Almost as cold
00:06:39.520 as Justin Trudeau's hearts. It's great to be here. And on behalf of Rebel News, I salute
00:06:48.140 you. And I say keep speaking truth to power. But I want to tell you what excites me the most about
00:06:54.800 this crowd. I see a lot of cameras, a lot of independent journalists. Because when people say,
00:07:02.280 what do we do about the media, I say, you become the media. That's what you do.
00:07:10.440 The media acts like a party. The media party. It's a subsidiary of the Liberal Party. So you've got to tell
00:07:19.760 the story yourselves. Everyone who was here, everyone who was along the road, has to bear witness
00:07:27.360 and testify to what they saw. Because there's two competing narratives. The government says
00:07:34.120 you're racist. The government says you're sexist. The government says you're violent.
00:07:40.000 In the meantime, I've never seen a more diverse group of Canadians.
00:07:45.200 And far from violence, people want to not be violated anymore.
00:07:54.640 Justin Trudeau says you're extreme. But he's the one who has violated our civil rights.
00:08:02.080 He says you're a fringe. Well, that's a pretty bloody big fringe.
00:08:07.300 Let me close by saying this. Someone asked me this morning, what's the point?
00:08:16.660 What's going to happen? Why did we all gather in Ottawa? Is he going to listen? Is he going to resign?
00:08:24.480 Is the governor general going to ask him to step down? No, he'll hold on to power as hard as he can.
00:08:30.740 Let me tell you what I think the point is. The point is the convoy itself. To show that you're not alone.
00:08:40.740 To show that you're not the crazy one they are. To show that you're not the un-Canadian one they are.
00:08:48.200 You've already achieved your goal just by being here.
00:08:55.880 And the fact that millions of dollars came into the GoFundMe for the truckers, even if they would have cancelled that, it was still a success.
00:09:08.340 Because it was a measurement of how much people cared. You have succeeded just by being here.
00:09:20.340 You've got the fight. Congratulations to the organizers. But really, it was millions of Canadians along the way in the convoy and watching today from home.
00:09:33.440 Tell them what happened. Tell them what you saw. Because they will not hear the truth from anyone else.
00:09:43.040 Keep up the fight, everybody. Keep fighting for freedom.
00:09:47.440 Well, that was pretty friendly reception. I'm surprised at how that seemed to resonate.
00:09:56.240 I mean, I believe in those things and I talk about them on the show. But I think people there, I mean, I really was asked that question.
00:10:04.620 What are we doing? We're all here. We're all freezing. We're all having fun. We're all singing O'Connor, waving our flags.
00:10:10.820 There's a feeling of community. When I came into the town on Friday night, it really was like going into a Stanley Cup victory parade.
00:10:17.180 The streets were packed. People were driving around honking their horns, flying flags, cheering, sort of high-fiving strangers.
00:10:22.900 Like it really had that feeling of a community moment, almost a historic moment.
00:10:30.180 And, OK, it spilled over to the next day and the next day. And I tell you, the horns were honking the whole time.
00:10:34.760 Like I was in a hotel on Queen Street, just three blocks south of Parliament.
00:10:40.160 And the horns didn't stop honking until, you know, the wee hours.
00:10:44.000 But, OK, so what, right? And there was one fella, and I told that story there. One fella said, well, so what are we all here to do?
00:10:55.660 I didn't get into that in my speech there.
00:10:57.860 But Justin Trudeau is not going to step down because 50,000, 100,000, a million people stand on Parliament Hill.
00:11:09.380 He just wouldn't do that. He is not a Democrat. He's certainly not a populist.
00:11:15.460 He believes in authoritarianism, and he believes that he is special and destined to be a ruler, not a politician even, or a leader, but a ruler.
00:11:27.260 There's a difference between a leader and a ruler, isn't there?
00:11:31.720 So Trudeau would never step down. In fact, I understand that he just, in fact, maybe in the middle of it right now,
00:11:37.540 a press conference where he's denouncing the protesters with wicked lies.
00:11:44.620 Do we have any of those clips? I understand that Mariso has cut one or two already.
00:11:50.060 Do you have those, Andrew?
00:11:53.220 All right, let's take a look at some clips from Trudeau.
00:11:55.700 So far from saying that the protesters may have a point, far from saying that he may reconsider his policies,
00:12:04.220 he's smearing them and defaming them, calling them counter-revolutionaries, so to speak, as Fidel Castro might do.
00:12:11.480 Take a look.
00:12:11.880 I know you're wondering about what you saw in our capital city this weekend.
00:12:20.680 As my friend Erwin Kotler said on Saturday,
00:12:23.880 freedom of expression, assembly, and association are cornerstones of democracy,
00:12:30.140 democracy, but Nazi symbolism, racist imagery, and desecration of war memorials are not.
00:12:37.960 You know, the desecration of war memorial, I don't know if you have a picture, but the Ottawa police tweeted in response to that.
00:12:50.120 So there was a picture of a couple of cars parked, not on the war memorial itself, but like on a larger plaza around it.
00:13:03.540 Yeah, I think that's it there.
00:13:04.560 Can you zoom in on that picture there?
00:13:06.720 So, and make that picture as big as possible.
00:13:09.740 So, there's the war memorial, it's that arch on the top left there, and there's a little plaza there,
00:13:17.980 and you can see there's a few cars parked, not on the war memorial, but sort of on the steps to it.
00:13:24.380 You see those two cars there?
00:13:26.980 And that's not good.
00:13:30.920 So, can you see the Ottawa police response right underneath it?
00:13:35.120 Hi there.
00:13:35.800 When asked by police to move, they complied and are no longer there.
00:13:39.920 Thank you.
00:13:41.240 So, those, so scroll up again to show the picture.
00:13:44.200 So, those, you can see there's some cars on the right, and I think, I can't quite make it out,
00:13:48.520 are there two cars that are actually on the steps of the war memorial?
00:13:53.320 Looks like two cars.
00:13:54.740 So, you don't want to be parked on those, on that little entryway there.
00:13:59.500 Because that's, you know, don't do it.
00:14:01.340 That's a war memorial.
00:14:02.440 Now, you can see it's not the actual edifice itself, which is about 50 feet over, but that's not good.
00:14:09.620 Don't do that.
00:14:11.120 And they immediately complied.
00:14:12.520 So, that, what you see here is the height of the, what did Trudeau just say,
00:14:18.920 the desecration of our national war memorials.
00:14:21.820 This is from the guy who gave $10.5 million to Omar Khadr, the al-Qaeda terrorist.
00:14:26.800 All of a sudden, he's, this is the guy who told the veterans, they're asking for more than we can give.
00:14:31.320 He's using his sexy voice, his first date voice.
00:14:34.320 Oh, baby.
00:14:35.580 I mean, it's, when, when Trudeau puts on his first date voice, be careful, because here comes the lies.
00:14:40.560 So, he said that that was desecration of the war memorial.
00:14:45.920 Two cars parked on stairs, like a flat plaza, 50 feet away from the war memorial, who immediately moved them when the police asked them to.
00:14:58.080 Trudeau says, that's the desecration of our national war memorial.
00:15:01.660 You wicked liar.
00:15:02.700 He said, Nazi symbolism.
00:15:06.300 There was one Nazi flag, but not on Parliament Hill.
00:15:10.680 There were photos circulating.
00:15:12.120 It was somewhere else in the city.
00:15:14.700 Candace Malcolm, or True North, I forget which, tweeted an image of that swastika flag that she identified.
00:15:23.560 She thinks it was the Chateau Laurier Hotel.
00:15:26.360 I used to live in Ottawa, and even for those who don't.
00:15:28.460 I know you're wondering about what you saw.
00:15:30.360 You may have, you may know the Chateau Laurier Hotel.
00:15:34.100 It's, it's one of the oldest hotels in Ottawa.
00:15:36.900 It's an old CP Rail hotel.
00:15:39.620 So, it's magnificent.
00:15:42.220 It's very close to Parliament.
00:15:43.940 It's just across the canal from Parliament Hill.
00:15:46.860 It's so prestigious.
00:15:48.240 It looks a little bit like Parliament.
00:15:50.960 And it is the most expensive hotel in Ottawa.
00:15:54.700 And, um, someone said to me that these days rooms are about 800 bucks a night, and he explained the reasons why I haven't checked.
00:16:02.900 The idea that some trucker with a swastika flag would be staying at the Chateau Laurier for $800 a night is so far-fetched and so absurd and so laughable.
00:16:19.440 You have to be a Trudeau liberal not to be alive to that.
00:16:23.540 I mean, these truckers, they often sleep in their cabs, and if not, they're sleeping in a motel.
00:16:27.800 They're not spending 800 bucks a night.
00:16:30.000 And if you have a swastika flag, and you're at the Chateau Laurier, Chateau Laurier isn't just the most expensive hotel.
00:16:37.800 It's the ultimate insider establishment hotel.
00:16:39.960 Um, there's never a moment where there isn't some cabinet minister or some lobbyist or some insider, um, in the lobby bar there.
00:16:49.560 It's so obviously a false flag.
00:16:52.420 But that's all the media talked about.
00:16:55.320 And so now Trudeau is citing it as fact.
00:16:58.760 I want to show you one more thing.
00:17:00.180 I tweeted this video.
00:17:01.180 There's a great TikTok vid.
00:17:02.420 I tweeted, um, I think I just said on Terry Fox.
00:17:05.820 If you can grab that from my Twitter feed, Andrew.
00:17:08.020 Um, so Terry Fox, there's a statue of Terry Fox, and I saw it when I was there.
00:17:14.700 And, um, someone put a Canadian flag over his shoulders.
00:17:20.560 And then someone else put a sign in his hands that said, Freedom.
00:17:23.500 That's it.
00:17:25.060 No one knocked it over.
00:17:26.460 No one painted it.
00:17:27.280 Here, take a look at this.
00:17:27.940 Take a look at this.
00:17:28.400 Here's a guy doing it.
00:17:29.860 And see how big you can get that.
00:17:31.000 Here's a guy I found on TikTok who had a great response.
00:17:33.120 Take a look at this.
00:17:33.640 You know, I don't remember anybody crying foul when you guys were using Terry Fox to promote
00:17:38.880 your, uh, your little agenda for your masks.
00:17:42.380 By the way, it's not even an N95.
00:17:45.080 I'm sure Terry didn't appreciate that.
00:17:47.180 I don't remember liberals crying foul when they put a beanie on his head.
00:17:51.380 Yard bombing Terry.
00:17:53.060 No issues there?
00:17:54.220 No?
00:17:54.940 Respect to the LGBTQ, but I don't remember Terry Fox being part of, uh, that movement or
00:18:02.440 running in any pride marathons.
00:18:04.700 Although I guess, you know, if it suits the liberal agenda again, no problem.
00:18:09.000 But if you think putting a Canadian flag on a national symbol of hope is desecration,
00:18:15.380 then I, I bet you voted for Trudeau.
00:18:17.820 So, in closing, I'm going to just quote Terry.
00:18:21.840 I do what I do for the people who believe in me, not for the jerks who don't.
00:18:27.940 And how many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?
00:18:33.560 I know a lot of people that showed up yesterday, heck, that are still there today.
00:18:37.760 They believe in something.
00:18:39.760 They believe in each other.
00:18:41.640 So, trolls do your worst.
00:18:43.100 And Terry, I'm pretty sure, but hope we're making you proud, bud.
00:18:50.020 I really like that guy, but he nailed it.
00:18:53.220 I mean, I don't know if you can find an image of the desecration of the Terry Fox, uh, statue.
00:18:59.980 It wasn't desecrated.
00:19:01.320 First of all, desecration, you can see the words there.
00:19:03.880 It means to take away the, uh, to take away the sacredness of something.
00:19:08.960 So, you desecrate a church.
00:19:10.920 You defile a church.
00:19:12.200 Um, so look at that.
00:19:13.920 So, they've, they've got a flag there.
00:19:15.560 There's a flag, uh, and then he's holding a sign that says freedom or mandate freedom.
00:19:21.600 And that was taken down shortly thereafter.
00:19:24.320 And I, I mean, I don't think it does any harm.
00:19:27.340 It's not, that's not an anti-Terry Fox.
00:19:30.380 That's not painting him red.
00:19:32.620 That's not beheading him, decapitating him as Sir John A. McDonald has had done to him, as, uh, as countless other, um, historic figures in Canada have had done to their statues.
00:19:45.860 That's not, first of all, you can't desecrate a Terry Fox statue.
00:19:50.780 He's not a saint.
00:19:52.060 He's not a church.
00:19:53.920 He's, he's a great Canadian who did something great, um, overcoming tremendous adversity, inspiring a nation.
00:20:00.720 I accept all that.
00:20:01.720 But he's not actually sacred.
00:20:03.420 I mean, maybe you mean that in the secular sense.
00:20:05.120 Fine.
00:20:05.340 I mean, you're a great Canadian for sure.
00:20:07.380 He belongs on our $10 bill.
00:20:08.860 Um, you, you put a, a, a, a, a, a Canadian flag cape on him.
00:20:17.960 That's not desecration.
00:20:19.800 Um, the lies being told by the media party and the liberal party to be smirched.
00:20:26.980 Yeah.
00:20:27.300 See, that's desecration.
00:20:29.300 That's, I mean, and by the way, at Queens Park, which is the, um, provincial capital in Toronto, there's a statue of John A. McDonald.
00:20:37.380 They put in a giant coffin, like the government itself built a wooden coffin around it.
00:20:43.740 So you didn't have to be triggered by looking at it.
00:20:46.340 That's desecration.
00:20:49.120 Yeah.
00:20:49.780 Uh, Trudeau's lying, of course.
00:20:51.180 Well, we had a great, uh, weekend.
00:20:52.820 We had a lot of, uh, folks down there and I tell you, just walking around, it felt great.
00:20:57.780 A lot of people recognized our rebel news teams or even just the rebel news microphone flag.
00:21:02.100 And, and it, it felt wonderful.
00:21:05.400 Sheila hosted a, um, live stream on the weekend.
00:21:09.140 I just checked on Rumble alone.
00:21:11.020 It got over 300,000 views.
00:21:13.980 I bet that's more views than the number of people who watched, um, the national on CBC that night because no one trusts the CBC.
00:21:23.680 Um, I see that Trudeau's, do we have any more, uh, clips?
00:21:28.660 I see that Trudeau has said he refuses to meet with the truckers.
00:21:33.580 And the reason he gives for that is he disagrees with them.
00:21:39.060 Um, apparently he'll only meet with people who agree with him.
00:21:41.840 That's going to be tricky given that he only got 32% of the vote in Canada, implying that 68% of Canadians don't agree with him.
00:21:50.460 And that was in 2019.
00:21:52.320 I think he's gone downhill since then.
00:21:54.340 I'd be surprised if, um, I haven't looked at the latest polls, but let's say 70% of Canadians disagree with them.
00:22:01.080 Is he not even going to talk to the 70% of people who disagree with him?
00:22:04.460 That's a tyrant for you.
00:22:05.520 Take a listen.
00:22:07.920 Oh, well, I think we got it live.
00:22:09.440 Go ahead.
00:22:09.800 Play, play what you can live.
00:22:10.980 Go ahead.
00:22:12.660 We need to know.
00:22:14.720 I get onto it.
00:22:16.520 We had other things.
00:22:18.440 We talked to him about the Americans.
00:22:20.260 We have a very good job.
00:22:21.740 I demonstrated and insisted that every country can and must make its own decisions
00:22:27.740 regarding its public security.
00:22:29.740 But obviously, since we follow the same science and the same kind of expert conseils,
00:22:38.740 it shouldn't be surprising that the same principles are in play when we take measures to protect citizens.
00:22:51.740 Thank you. Merci. The next question from Sandra McCharles.
00:22:57.740 Please go ahead.
00:22:59.740 Prime Minister, you said that Aaron O'Toole has to think carefully,
00:23:05.740 but he did meet with some truckers on Friday.
00:23:10.740 Do you think that was an inappropriate gesture of support to truckers?
00:23:16.740 Can you speak specifically about anyone else in terms of his caucus?
00:23:22.740 And can you speak to McEnany's participation?
00:23:26.740 As part of our job as politicians, every single day we make decisions about who to meet with,
00:23:37.740 who to respond to, how to respond to them, who to engage with,
00:23:42.740 how not just our engagements but our example impacts on public discourse.
00:23:49.740 If we choose to put up with and tacitly support conspiracy theorists and folks peddling disinformation,
00:24:03.740 that's a reflection on what we choose to do as politicians and who we are as leaders.
00:24:09.740 Obviously, I'm going to trust in Canadians' understanding of the kind of responsible leadership that is needed right now.
00:24:23.740 And I'm sure Canadians are watching what all politicians are doing right now
00:24:28.740 and remembering who is choosing to stand up for what and for whom and what choices they are making as leaders.
00:24:37.740 Turn down the volume on him just for a second, Andrew.
00:24:42.740 You know, what's fascinating about what we just saw there is it's a question for Justin Trudeau, about Justin Trudeau.
00:24:51.740 But even when you have Trudeau besieged by 100,000 truckers or whatever it is, you notice that question from the media party?
00:24:58.740 It's an attempt to hold Aaron O'Toole to account.
00:25:01.740 Aaron O'Toole is a pitiful, lame duck opposition leader.
00:25:05.740 But even in a Trudeau press conference, the media party tries to hold the opposition leader to account.
00:25:11.740 What a sick thing our media is. Turn up the volume again. Let's hear it more.
00:25:15.740 ...get back to work, that citizens can go to their jobs, that parliamentarians can continue to do the important work of serving Canadians, of upholding our democracy.
00:25:32.740 Yes, there is a right to protest. There is a right to make your voices heard loudly and clearly.
00:25:40.740 There is not a right to shut down our democracy, our democratic processes.
00:25:45.740 There is not a right to abuse, intimidate and harass your fellow citizens who are trying to go about their business,
00:25:54.740 trying to live their lives and not necessarily in agreement with what you are doing.
00:25:59.740 Operatrice, next question?
00:26:02.740 Thank you. Thank you.
00:26:04.740 The next question, Rafael Pirro, Agence QMI.
00:26:07.740 The word is to you.
00:26:09.740 Yes. Hello, Mr. Trudeau.
00:26:12.740 I wanted to know what the Minister of Transport said recently.
00:26:18.740 All right.
00:26:20.740 There's some irony there.
00:26:22.740 I don't know if there's a translation on this feed.
00:26:25.740 So the question for him was about the Trekkers.
00:26:29.740 And he says, we've got to get back to work.
00:26:31.740 You've got to stop shutting down business.
00:26:33.740 Businesses have to get back to work.
00:26:35.740 Parliament has to get back to work.
00:26:37.740 You're shutting down democracy.
00:26:39.740 No, actually, they haven't shut down democracy.
00:26:43.740 The parliament has met less often than it ever has in its history.
00:26:47.740 That was at Trudeau's direction.
00:26:50.740 The lockdowns across Canada have happened for two years, not for two days.
00:26:55.740 The chutzpah of Trudeau saying that these truckers are what shut down, locked down the economy or parliament is such a big lie.
00:27:08.740 Only a media party journalist could believe it.
00:27:11.740 All right. Let's hear what he says.
00:27:15.740 And if it's still on the table, you think that it's going to throw oil on the fire?
00:27:20.740 I don't want to go too far.
00:27:24.740 Can you find a feed that's in English or translated so we can hear the French part too?
00:27:28.740 Let's read some Super Chats in the meantime while we find a feed that has some English in it.
00:27:35.740 Harper will always be my PM says, laugh out loud, Justin Trudeau following rules for the first time, eh?
00:27:41.740 I do not think he knows how to follow rules in the first place.
00:27:44.740 Harper, again, three bucks.
00:27:47.740 That brainwashed mask character holding the FU sign should really mask up when it's not enough.
00:27:54.740 Kameda, 20 bucks. Thank you.
00:27:57.740 Done with the COVID-19 health emergency hoax?
00:27:59.740 Then remember to laugh.
00:28:00.740 The virus may be real, but the emergency is not.
00:28:03.740 Truck on truckers. Yeah.
00:28:04.740 How many years does a permanent emergency, can you still call it an emergency?
00:28:08.740 Or that's just a new authoritarian way of living?
00:28:13.740 Private property, 10 bucks.
00:28:15.740 Viva Frye is live right now on the streets of Ottawa and he said you Ross Mesra.
00:28:19.740 That's nice of him to say.
00:28:20.740 Shauna Marie, 10 bucks.
00:28:22.740 Can you air and comment on the live Justin Trudeau now, Ezra?
00:28:25.740 Yeah, we'll get back to that in 30 seconds.
00:28:27.740 I just want to read a super duper contribution from David Berg for a hundred bucks.
00:28:31.740 Hope to see a local convoy head to Tofino where it's believed he's hiding out.
00:28:34.740 If he has COVID, then why is he traveling?
00:28:36.740 Well, as we see, he's actually, I think he's in Ottawa.
00:28:39.740 So let's go back to that live feed now.
00:28:41.740 On, sorry, I'm trying to mute my phone.
00:28:49.740 I'm just trying to follow up on some of your responses about the protesters.
00:28:53.740 I understand the concern around many of the actions for many of the protesters.
00:29:00.740 But I'm wondering if you as the prime minister need to engage with the fears and the concerns that others in the crowd raise about the vaccine.
00:29:10.740 There seems to be a real concern for many of them about the safety of that vaccine.
00:29:15.740 And I'm wondering if you are avoiding addressing that by only focusing on the much more hateful and nefarious elements of the protests this weekend.
00:29:25.740 Marika, anyone who thinks that I haven't been talking about how safe vaccines are, has been listening to everything I've been saying over the past two years.
00:29:37.740 Vaccines are safe and effective.
00:29:41.740 The way we get through, the way we get through this public health crisis, get back to the things we love, is by trusting science, by trusting the facts, by being there for each other, by stepping up for each other.
00:30:00.740 We have been hearing people hesitant about getting vaccinated for well over a year now.
00:30:06.740 And we have been reaching out to them community by community, individual by individual, at the highest level, but also in interpersonal contacts to reassure people that vaccines are safe and effective and that they are the way to get through this pandemic.
00:30:25.740 So, yes, the concerns expressed by a few people gathered in Ottawa right now are not new, not surprising, are heard, but are a continuation of what we've unfortunately seen in disinformation and misinformation online, conspiracy theorists about microchips, about, you know, God knows what else that go with the tinfoil.
00:30:54.740 Go with the tinfoil hats.
00:30:55.740 We have been clear every step of the way that the work our frontline health workers, the work our scientists and researchers are doing, the people at Health Canada.
00:31:08.740 You know, I was there, Andrew, and I saw hundreds of signs, I saw thousands of people.
00:31:13.740 I didn't see a single person talk about microchips.
00:31:19.740 Am I, is my, is my, is my screen coming through there on the shot?
00:31:31.740 Folks, sorry, we've, we've lost some power on, on the, on the, on the video.
00:31:36.740 Why don't we put Justin Trudeau back on?
00:31:39.740 ...historique sur la colline du Parlement et envisagez-vous d'une quelconque façon ajustez votre politique.
00:31:45.740 Je pense que ce qu'on a vu, c'est que oui, il y a des gens qui hésitent encore à se faire vacciner, mais en même temps, dans la réaction des Canadiens d'un bout à l'autre, pas seulement aux expressions de haine et d'intolérance qu'on a vues parmi ces manifestants, mais aussi dans le message de liberté et de choix.
00:32:11.740 Les Canadiens sont en train de dire, moi, ma liberté, c'est la liberté de retourner à des choses que je voulais faire avant et la façon d'assumer cette liberté, c'est de se faire vacciner.
00:32:21.740 Moi, mon choix, c'est d'être là les uns pour les autres parce que c'est comme ça qu'on a créé ce pays, c'est comme, c'est en étant là les uns pour les autres qu'on définit ce que c'est d'être Canadien.
00:32:33.740 Alors, en même temps qu'une petite minorité marginalisée est en train de rouspéter, de manifester, la vaste majorité des Canadiens sont en train de dire, bien, voyons donc, c'est en continuant d'être là les uns pour les autres qu'on va passer à travers.
00:32:55.740 On est tous d'accord. On veut en finir avec cette pandémie. Mais la grande majorité des Canadiens savent très bien que la façon qu'on va en finir, c'est pas en manifestant contre la pandémie, c'est en se faisant vacciner.
00:33:18.000 Les abords du Parlement, M. Trudeau, les abords du Parlement sont-ils sécuritaires et les policiers devraient-ils évacuer le secteur?
00:33:30.380 J'ai énormément confiance dans nos services de sécurité publique qui font un travail remarquable dans des situations extrêmement difficiles.
00:33:42.260 Je veux remercier la police d'Ottawa, la GRC, le service de protection parlementaire et tous ceux qui ont travaillé avec acharnement cette fin de semaine
00:33:53.020 pour s'assurer de minimiser les dégâts et l'harcèlement et l'intimidation des citoyens qu'on a vus à Ottawa.
00:34:03.020 C'est pas fini, mais ils vont continuer de faire leur job.
00:34:05.580 Et je sais que les Canadiens à travers le pays peuvent avoir confiance dans ceux qui choisissent de servir le bien du public.
00:34:15.900 Operator, would it be possible to put Marika Walsh on the line so she didn't get her follow-up?
00:34:21.000 Perfect, thank you.
00:34:27.820 And we don't have Marika Walsh in the queue anymore, I'm sorry.
00:34:32.100 Thank you.
00:34:34.560 Merci tout le monde.