Alexa Lavoie was shot point blank by a trigger-happy thug wearing a police uniform. Thankfully, the projectile was a tear gas canister, as opposed to a bullet. Otherwise, I fear we'd be having a different conversation today.
00:10:25.580Well, it's a disturbing trend to say the least.
00:10:28.580Now, what was equally disturbing, Alexa, you were there at the press conference given by interim police chief for the Ottawa Police Service, Steve Bell.
00:10:37.580And I have to tell you, I thought my jaw dropped to the linoleum when he said he wasn't aware of your incident.
00:10:48.580This is getting international media attention.
00:10:51.580In fact, a half an hour before that police conference, because I was there with you, RT, Russian television, they were there interviewing you.
00:11:00.580Do you believe that that chief was not aware of your incident?
00:11:07.580And if he's being less than truthful, why is he being that way, Alexa?
00:11:12.580Oh, so you know that people have been injured.
00:11:59.580Yeah, I'm not buying it either, Alexa.
00:12:01.580And it should be noted that after the press conference was concluded, the Q&A part, the chief goes on to applaud how well the media, i.e. the mainstream media, were in terms of the coverage.
00:12:15.580And then says investigations have been launched regarding verbal abuse of some of the journalists.
00:12:23.580So if you hurt Evan Solomon's feelings over at CTV with some slurs or whatnot, oh, that's a crime against the state.
00:12:34.580But if you're Alexa Lavoie of Rebel News and you get a canister shot right in your thigh, nothing to see here, folks.
00:14:26.580And they will be obligated to come up with some response when they're served with a lawsuit for what happened, because evidently that's the way we got to go in Justin Trudeau's Canada of 2022.
00:14:38.580I got to tell you, Alexa, you know, have you had any outreach from fellow journalists, you know, from journalist associations, the free expression associations, et cetera, et cetera?
00:14:48.580Because I can tell you if what happened to say Rosemary Barton of the CBC, if your incident, if that had happened to her, I think we're looking at a Royal Commission being struck right now.
00:15:00.580You know, the assault against journalists in Canada.
00:15:05.580I'm going to go out on a limb here and say nobody has come to your defense in terms of fellow journalists or any of these free speech organizations.
00:15:14.580And a fun fact, you know, a member of Radio Canada, CBC, they came to me and say, oh, you've been injured.
00:15:24.580I've just after that, I had my interview with the RT International.
00:15:44.580I told you when I when you got inquired about giving your contact information, I said, I will be shocked if anyone ever calls you back from the CBC.
00:15:55.580Because soon as I see link your name with Rebel News, that's it.
00:18:05.580Thank you to everyone out there. I'm okay. Bumped and bruised and sore, but I live to stand another day.
00:18:15.160Well, folks, last weekend there was plenty of bad behaviour occurring near Parliament Hill.
00:18:20.620And no, I speak not of the Freedom Convoy demonstrators, but rather about certain members of law enforcement,
00:18:28.140such as, well, you know, the Toronto Police Mounted Unit, who thought it would be a jolly good idea to have their steeds gallop into a throng of peaceful protesters,
00:18:38.100trampling a few of them in the process, including Candice Serro. Great policing, guys. Amazing.
00:18:46.080And joining me now is the rebel videographer who was stationed at Point Zero when the Freedom Convoy first rolled into our nation's capital more than three weeks ago.
00:18:56.060And that would be Lincoln Jay. How are you doing there, Lincoln?
00:19:00.380Good, David. Thanks for having me on. How are you?
00:19:02.480Fantastic. I'm so glad you're back from Ottawa and ready to have some home cooking and hospitality.
00:19:09.760But Lincoln, I don't know about you, but when I saw the Toronto Police Mounted Unit galloping into the protesters,
00:19:18.280my first thoughts were, uh-oh, this demonstration is really getting out of hand because with the horsemen here,
00:19:25.320this surely means someone has opened an illicit barbecue restaurant a la Adam Skelly.
00:19:34.460Yeah, well, it's funny you bring that up because it was the same sort of tactics that we saw at Adamson Barbecue that day.
00:19:42.240So, like with Adamson Barbecue, we saw the horses come in and then they swiftly or coincidentally at the same time brought out Adam Skelly.
00:19:50.260But what they were doing with the Chakras Convoy is they were rallying those horses into that huge crowd, extremely dangerous.
00:20:15.900And, you know, Lincoln, the kind of force we saw on display, the kind of weaponry, and my goodness gracious, look what happened to our colleague, Alexa Lavoie.
00:20:58.540And the fact that they, after, you know, being on the ground since the 20th of January, seeing three weeks of peaceful protests, you know, people that wouldn't hurt a fly.
00:21:09.800And to see that sort of reaction from the police, like I was saying to you yesterday, you know, they could have just came in there just as normal patrol officers and, you know, one by one arrested them and detained them.
00:21:22.060And the truckers would have went with them.
00:21:57.620And secondly, I think Justin Trudeau wanted to ramp up the narrative that these were very vile individuals that were part of the demonstration.
00:22:13.680They're supposed to be racist and anti-Semites and Islamophobes and haters and racists, you name it.
00:22:19.420And he wanted to, you know, contribute to that demonization by basically saying, look what we need to shut down this hate fest, a hate fest that never existed.
00:22:40.380It's a tough situation overall for police.
00:22:42.260You could tell that a lot of police didn't want to be there.
00:22:44.780But then at the same time, there were so many police that were just, you know, acting so inhumane.
00:22:50.820It's just the whole situation was just crazy to see.
00:22:53.800Like I said, after three weeks of completely peaceful protests, you know, protesters.
00:22:58.200I've never, the streets of Ottawa were completely clean the whole time.
00:23:01.560You know, we've all heard of kids bouncing around in bouncy castles.
00:23:04.260And just to see them just, you know, breaking through truckers' windows, you know, we've seen the videos of them, truckers getting taken out of their cars at gunpoint.
00:23:15.480At the end of the day, there's just simply no excuse for these actions.
00:23:20.240And I think it was a way to justify the Emergencies Act by bringing in the full heavy-handed police force like we saw.
00:23:28.580You know, that's a very good point, Lincoln, Justin Trudeau bringing in the Emergencies Act and then at the 11th hour doing a shocking about-face, presumably because he knew or he reckoned it was not going to get royal assent by the Senate.
00:23:47.580As far as I can tell, Lincoln, the laws being broken in Ottawa were very minor.
00:23:53.380Most of them were bylaw infractions, illegal parking, for example.
00:23:58.560Was there any justification in your mind to bring in the Emergencies Act in the first place?
00:24:06.980If Justin would have came down and saw for himself, he would see that there's no reason to bring it in.
00:24:12.820Obviously, we know that's not the case.
00:24:14.620But I think a lot of the problem lies with the, well, it comes from the top down.
00:24:19.000So the politicians feeding the media, then the media are feeding this narrative that, you know, the people, a part of the Chuckers convoy are dangerous.
00:24:26.000You know, they're going around harassing people, yelling at people, put on your mask.
00:25:03.500And it's just, it's kind of just like a spinning cycle.
00:25:06.720And you know what I found perversely ironic, Lincoln, was that when you looked at the people in Ottawa that were so against the convoy and so willing to demonize them.
00:25:18.260And in fact, many of them vandalized those rigs and slashed their tires and what have you.
00:25:24.180They tend to be the members of the hard left, the Antifa types, who, Lincoln, just months ago were all part of the defund the police movement.
00:25:33.940But suddenly, when the police can be useful idiots in terms of getting the truckers out of town, oh, they're down with the revolution in terms of supporting the blue.
00:25:47.120Yeah, you hit the nail on the head with that because, like, it's just like I'm just down there and I'm just confused because the amount of, like, harassment that I received alone from people, you know, which I'm assuming are on the left.
00:26:03.020They give me the finger, you know, flip me the bird.
00:26:05.640They, you know, I was called, I said I should be publicly shamed for not wearing a mask, that I was a selfish prick.
00:26:12.400I don't know if I could say that on here, but, you know, all I got was abuse and not by everybody.
00:26:18.560But there was, like, multiple instances, I think five different instances where I was sworn at, you know, for for not for having for having my mask on my chin, for not wearing my mask, for wearing this hat, you know.
00:26:29.980And I didn't see anybody from the truckers convoy, you know, giving that kind of that kind of attitude to anybody.
00:26:37.840But if I'm being honest, they were a little they we've all seen the videos of them with the legacy media.
00:26:43.220But I think that's just because they're fed up.
00:26:45.540And at the end of the day, they're just talking to them.
00:26:47.700They're just giving them their peace of mind.
00:26:49.220They're not swearing at them or anything like that, as far as I saw.
00:26:52.500So there's just a huge difference, you know, on both sides.
00:27:24.140Now that the convoy is gone, the demonstrators are gone, we must look at this whole three week demonstration and determine, was it a success or failure?
00:27:35.180Personally speaking, Lincoln, I think it was a success.
00:27:38.000You saw many provinces during that time span roll back the mandates, not ending them completely, but certainly rolling back the various lockdown mandates.
00:27:48.100You saw the departure of Aaron O'Toole.
00:28:17.140But I think it did put a lot of pressure on politicians to, at least at a provincial level.
00:28:23.940But as far as it being a success, I think it is a success because they've exposed the federal government.
00:28:30.840They've exposed how low they're willing to go.
00:28:34.140You know, like I said, it's just crazy to see them.
00:28:37.580Literally, it felt like they were bringing in the army.
00:28:39.580Obviously, it wasn't the army, but it was the police force.
00:28:42.040But it had that total feeling and, you know, and to see what they did to Alexa, to see how the horses trampled over those people, to see the countless beatings on peaceful protesters.
00:28:52.000I think at the end of the day, it's a win-win no matter what, because we're now able to see the government, you know, for what they really are.
00:29:00.480And I think a lot of us already had those ideas, but to see it, you know, with our own eyes and to show the world it, it's something else.
00:29:07.540And it just shows you how low of a level Justin Trudeau and his federal government are willing to go just to clear out some people who don't share the same opinion as them.
00:31:29.960Law enforcement isn't supposed to profile people.
00:31:33.720But I guess, folks, in Canada, in 2022, if you're driving a pickup or a rig and it has a Canadian flag on it, my goodness, that must be an expression being put forward by a deplorable, if you will.
00:31:47.600Well, Jim, why, I guess you pled your case to the cops that you're out of here as soon as possible.
00:31:54.620Why wouldn't they give you time to get your tires fixed?
00:32:23.340And then they supposedly, I've heard a rumor, I don't know for sure, but it'll be there for seven days.
00:32:27.860So that'll be seven more days of me staying here before I can take it home.
00:32:31.220So they want you out of here, they want you out of Dodge as soon as possible, but we're going to hold, you know, confiscate your vehicle for seven days.
00:32:39.340And I assume there'll be a storage charge per day.
00:32:48.420So this is another guy's truck that offered to send it down here.
00:32:51.700I jumped on it because I needed a volunteer and I was doing nothing.
00:32:55.120So I came for the cause kind of thing.
00:32:56.600And at the end of the day, this truck, since I've been here, got trapped in McDonald's, got in here the next night and the tire was slashed while it slipped in the truck.
00:33:05.300So we don't know if it was shot out or there's two holes in the tire.
00:33:09.200And then every night it's been graffitied and vandalized with spray paint and it's been nonstop.
00:33:14.860I saw those pictures you showed me in addition to the tire slashed, the spray paint.
00:33:20.180It may be something that could have been bullet holes.
00:33:23.120Those eggs that were thrown at your rig, kind of perverse, isn't that, folks?
00:33:28.860Those protesters against the truckers, how do they think the eggs got on the store shelves?
00:33:33.840It was because of people like this gentleman that drove them there.
00:33:39.520Jim, I'm so sorry this has happened to you.
00:35:31.520Well, Il, welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada in 2022, a dominion in which hardworking and law-abiding truckers are targeted, harassed, fined, and have their rigs towed away.
00:35:45.540Disgust and horror are perfect descriptors.
00:36:50.480Thank you, Jim, and all the other heroic truckers.
00:36:55.040Indeed, Tame Thing, heroic is the proper descriptor for truckers, even though it is fashionable in certain circles to vilify truckers these days.
00:37:04.140Yeah, I'm looking at you, Liberal Party of Canada, and at you, members of the Canadian mainstream media.
00:37:11.120Put another way, if you bought it, a trucker brought it.
00:37:14.680From food to medicine and so much more, truckers are the reason we are alive.
00:37:20.660That makes them heroes, not zeros, in my book.