DAVID MENZIES ｜ How the mainstream media covered the Freedom Convoy anniversary
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The mainstream media's coverage of the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy was appalling. Not a single mention of the brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters. Not even a single word about the shooting of journalist Alexa Lavoie.
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Tonight, did you catch the mainstream media's coverage of the one-year anniversary of the
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I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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For those seeking to feast their eyes and ears upon an orgy of misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies,
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one need looked no further than how the mainstream media covered the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy,
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or as this event is labelled in MSM land, the so-called Freedom Convoy.
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But journalists have skin in the game when it comes to that concept called freedom, after all.
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You know, that little nugget known as freedom of the press.
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Then again, their dismissal of freedom fighters and their bias in news reporting when it comes to the Freedom Convoy
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The MSM journalists receive much of their paycheck content from Justin Trudeau these days.
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And we know the media's sugar daddy loathed the 2022 Freedom Convoy.
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Thus, the Convoy's one-year anniversary is not something to remember fondly,
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nor was the brutal crackdown something to lament.
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Instead, the narrative some 12 months later is,
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thank God those barbarians at the gate were dealt with so that sleepy Ottawa can get back to normal.
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And so it was in the media coverage going back to last weekend
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that there was virtually no condemnation of the federal government outrageously invoking the Emergencies Act
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There was no condemnation of police horses trampling peaceful protesters.
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Not even a single mention of my dear colleague Alexa Lavoie being shot in the thigh
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with some sort of cylinder by a trigger-happy cop.
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there are five vacancies at the Memphis police force right now.
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Maybe you ought to apply for one of those positions.
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And by the way, had the target of that projectile been CBC's Rosemary Barton,
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I think we'd still be in the midst of a Royal Commission right now, you know, regarding violence against journalists.
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The idea of Rosemary Barton getting off her fat ricotta cheese candy ass
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and actually doing some reporting in the field when the temperature is freezing
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and violence might take a lot of money is not going to happen.
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Rather, the copious copy served up regarding the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy
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is best summed up by Colonel Kurtz's most notable quote from Apocalypse Now.
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Yeah, it was a real monster chiller horror theatre show that took place in Ottawa for almost a month last year.
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If you believe the mainstream media coverage then and now.
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Indeed, did you know that certain Ottawa residents to this very day suffer from a form of PTSD?
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And that they are triggered if they hear a horn honking or get a whiff of diesel fuel?
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To this day, certain sights and sounds cause certain Ottawa residents to curl into the fetal position.
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Thank goodness so many government employees are still working from home.
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I think they need to play it safe these days and not get out of bed for, oh, I don't know, another couple of years.
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So, in our autopsy of journalistic awfulness, let's start with the biggest media pig slurping from the taxpayer trough,
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a.k.a. that billion-dollar-plus hog known as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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CBC went out of its way to note the psychological effects certain Ottawa residents experienced during the demonstration.
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Take, for example, Debbie Owusu-Akiah says, Debbie, quote,
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We never want to go through this ever again, end quote.
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Debbie, by the way, is the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity.
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So, you know for sure this source is at the top of the CBC reporter's Rolodex when it comes to important people to interview.
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By the way, if her name does ring a bell, that might be because Debbie's group was one of 36 Ottawa organizations
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that pressured the Canadian Tire Centre to cancel the Dr. Jordan Peterson event last Monday.
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So, while Debbie's Spirit Unicorn organization is all about sexual diversity,
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they do not champion a diversity of opinions, it would seem.
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Indeed, my suggestion is for Debbie to reach out to Dr. Peterson for help.
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If she is still psychologically traumatized by the sound of a horn honking,
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me thinks Doc Peterson can help her and any other uber-sensitive Ottawa citizen
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By the way, folks, I was stationed in Ottawa for most of the Freedom Convoy last year.
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I stayed at a downtown hotel right in the thick of things.
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Then again, I was working hard in the field during the day.
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I'm not some desk-bound paper pusher for an organization like the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity.
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As well, CTV News went out of its way to paint Prime Minister Blackface McGroper in a positive light one year later.
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CTV reporter Evan Soyboy Solomon worked for CTV during the Freedom Convoy.
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Today, he now works for Justin Trudeau's best friend, Gerald Butts.
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Man, they don't even bother hiding their conflicts of interest anymore, do they?
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Anyway, CTV, being a well-trained media seal, reported the following,
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Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Saturday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he understands the anger and concerns protesters have.
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Yeah, lots of Canadians are indeed hurting thanks mostly to your policies, Mr. Prime Minister.
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And no, they clearly do not have every right to express themselves and protest.
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Did you forget that you invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the streets of the so-called fringe minority with unacceptable views?
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Well, CTV sure as hell wasn't going to remind blackface, given that they know full well who's buttering their bread these days.
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Oh, and this just in, did you catch that so-called academic study by Carolyn Orr Boino of the University of Maryland, which was just released the other day?
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Because Russia today covered the freedom convoy, the Russian government must have been involved.
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And because telegram channels that covered the convoy supported Russia regarding Ukraine, it must all be a Russian propaganda operation.
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The demonstrators were not salt-of-the-earth Canadians who were having their lives ruined by the awful policies of the Trudeau liberals,
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but rather they were bad actors hired by Moscow.
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You would think that surely by now the Russian collusion argument would be thoroughly debunked and discredited.
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every time you think the Russian collusion crackpot theory is dead and buried,
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Nevertheless, this crazy hypothesis sounds good to the Ottawa Press Gallery sluggos,
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who were retreating this nonsense upon release.
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Oh, by the way, Mayher described himself as a Canadian journalist and a woke moralist.
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It is reasonable to infer that RT's extensive coverage of the convoy might be just the most visible sign of a broader influence campaign
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encompassing other actors and activities, including proxy sources, cyber operations, social media accounts.
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Yep, your tax dollars hard at work yet again, folks.
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Speaking of tax dollars, I know this might come as a shock, but it turns out that over the years,
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Caroline Orbueno has received funding from the Justin Trudeau liberals too.
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But who am I to suggest that, as they say in Vegas, the fix is in?
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By the way, can you possibly guess which mainstream media sluggo was responsible for the absolute worst coverage
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of the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy?
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Yes, it was indeed Rachel Kilmore, or I mean Rachel Gilmore of Global News,
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perhaps the most vapid and vacuous journalist to ever venture upon Parliament Hill in the history of Parliament Hill.
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Now, if you're not familiar with Gilmore, here's the skinny.
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She was essentially a nobody until she decided to latch onto a gimmick, and the gimmick was this, embrace victimhood.
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And so it was that she would incessantly take to social media and complain and whine about all the hideous violence she was enduring as a female reporter.
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Who would savagely punch the lovely Miss Gilmore simply for doing her job?
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To the best of my knowledge, absolutely nothing physical has ever happened to Gilmore while she was covering her beat.
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You see, her definition of violence is mean tweets on social media.
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And for enduring such mean tweets, I think she wants us to lower the flags to have staff or don white ribbons in her presence or something like that.
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But this woe is me crybaby act is kind of working for her.
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No one really knew anything about Rachel Gilmore until she started playing the victim card.
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So she sort of emerged as a real-life female Rupert Pupkin, not someone famous for an actual talent or achievement, but rather being infamous as a self-manufactured victim.
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By the way, if you're uncertain about the Rupert Pupkin reference, I beg of you to view the 1983 prescient masterpiece that is the king of comedy.
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Alas, Rachel's bailiwick is more akin to the queen of tragedy.
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Let's take her one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy story from the top.
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Oh, by the way, if you have access to a recording of melancholy violin music, I strongly suggest you play that in the background to enhance the wannabe effect of Gilmore's putrid prose.
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Quote, Sarah Chown's car now rolls seamlessly through the busy downtown Ottawa intersection that, just one year ago, was made impassable by massive trucks and screaming protesters.
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Geez, one sentence in, and it's already time for a fact check.
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No, the streets were not made impassable by trucks, but rather police security checks.
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Even if you were a pedestrian, check out the encounter we endured when we went by a police checkpoint.
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If you have a reservation on your phone for your hotel that is down here, then we can let you through.
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But if you don't, then we can't let you through.
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I would have to get Alexa to send it to me because it's both under her name.
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Because you know we're not demonstrators, ma'am.
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If you're through for the media purpose, you can get that authorization through the Ottawa City Police.
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Please give them a call and they give you an authorization to get down here.
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Our colleague, Abby Yamini, always has to get a permit to perform journalism down under.
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You know, we can work around it somehow as far as if we see the reservation in your boss's name
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and then we talk to your boss and confirm that you are who we are and they're staying there.
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You know, like it'll be a long process, but we can do it.
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I think we'll just collect our thoughts maybe and talk with Paul Luxon.
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Yeah, so we can get the information number sent us.
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Quote, but to this day, her drive to the Metropolitan Brasserie, a restaurant she co-owns
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just 200 meters from Parliament Hill, is marked by memories of the so-called Freedom Convoy.
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Not a day goes by still that I don't drive through that intersection and remember what happened there,
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The Metropolitan Brasserie is located on the corner of Redoux and Sussex Streets.
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That intersection was one of the main gathering points during the convoy protests,
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which snarled Ottawa streets for weeks, on end one year ago.
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Sound systems were set up in the middle of the intersection in front of Chown's business,
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blaring music as demonstrators danced and drank late into the night.
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Shortly after the convoy's arrival, she closed down her restaurant,
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which had been open for takeout after months of the ups and downs with COVID-19 public health measures.
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Eyeing the large glass windows in front of her business,
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she packed up any valuables, wine and liquor, that could be seen from the crowds outside.
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Yeah, that's right, Sarah packed up all the valuables, there'd be Huns lurking outside after all.
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I'm being facetious, of course, because had this restaurant remained open,
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You see, when you have thousands of protesters who are a stone's throw away from your eatery,
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guess what? They get hungry, they get thirsty, they would have packed Sarah's restaurant.
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You see, while I was reporting in Ottawa last year,
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I would estimate that at least 90% of downtown restaurants voluntarily closed their doors
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out of completely unjustified fears that the demonstrators would have been violent.
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Yeah, they bought the bogus narrative hook, line and stinker that was being passed around
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by the federal government and their lapdogs in the MSM.
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Check out my report from a closed Tim Hortons restaurant near Parliament Hill,
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which sacrificed thousands of dollars worth of sales on a daily basis.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here near Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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Well, folks, it looks like at the one-week mark of the trucker protests,
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it could be that, yet again, more than 100,000 people are going to assemble here.
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There are reports of another 200 to 300 more trucks coming in.
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And, you know, I couldn't help but notice the missed opportunity.
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As my cameraman, Maricu, and I walked down towards Parliament Hill,
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This place is usually packed during normal times.
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It would be a lineup out the door if they decided to open up.
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There might be another 100,000 people on the street.
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Why are they closed when there's so much business to be had?
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Well, you know, there's a lot of fear being spread on the news.
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There's a lot of information that they decide to share.
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And the thing is, they've created so much fear that people think we can't be here.
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But if people came and actually saw the love and acceptance,
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there's no reason that these restaurants should be closed out of fear of what's happening.
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I mean, Ottawa is set up for big events, right?
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But I don't know, you know, whatever's influencing them, it's not a good decision.
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It would have been official for everybody for them to be open.
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We could warm up and they can have a great business.
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Quote, Catherine McKinney spent much of their time walking the streets of their Centre Town Ward.
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At the time, they were the city councillor representing Somerset Ward,
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which was one of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods in Ottawa.
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What they remember most vividly are the looks in people's eyes,
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the fear in people's eyes, just as they went about their business,
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going home, coming back from running an errand or from work.
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I'm sorry, folks, but I'm so distracted by the pronouns Gilmore is using here.
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Say, is McKinney one half of a Siamese twin, perhaps?
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Turns out she's one of those two-spirit thingies.
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Thanks to Stephen LaDrew, we all know what that is.
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Well, two-spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're, you know, fish or fowl.
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They don't know whether they're frick or frack.
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After that report aired, his employer, Bell Media, fired him.
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Apparently, you can't call people who might very well be mentally ill as being confused.
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Yep, there's your tolerant, loving, accepting left for you.
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Anyway, more Gilmore Krapola, if you can take it, folks.
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Gilmore then goes on to quote various people from the Capital City crybaby community about the so-called lingering trauma.
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You know, folks, was it really just 80-something years ago that 15-year-old boys were lying about their age to enlist in World War II?
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In a few generations, we've gone from having minors willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to adults in Ottawa being forever traumatized by horn honking and diesel fumes.
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Looking forward, Ottawa's new mayor, Mark Sutcliffe, says the city has a clear focus, making sure the freedom convoy doesn't happen again.
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Yeah, unless the protesters are Trudeau-supported, such as those who say compromise Black Lives Matter, of course.
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The Ottawa police have been working very hard and collaborating with other police services to make sure that we're prepared for any events in the next few days, the next few weeks, in the next few years.
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Let's make certain all that messy business like peaceful protesting and democracy never again take root in the nation's capital city ever again.
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By the way, did you know there's a section of Wellington Street in front of the Parliament buildings that remains closed to vehicle traffic to this day?
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Oh, it's not due to a blockade mounted by 18-wheeler trucks, uh-uh.
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Rather, it's due to the city of Ottawa never bothering to remove those cinder block barriers from the area.
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But much like her other comrades in the mainstream media, the Gilmore girl knows who's paying her salary to offer up an unbiased news report and to, oh, God forbid, reach out to the Freedom Convoy participants to see what they have to say one year later.
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And what we have today is a mainstream media serving as a propaganda mill, the prime directive being to keep the Liberal Party of Canada in power.
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Because they all know what is lurking behind door number two, that being Pierre Polyev and his promise to defund the media of government subsidies.
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And that's the very worst part of the grotesque and brutally biased reporting by the mainstream media vis-a-vis the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy.
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It is being brought to you by, well, you, the ever-beleaguered taxpayer.
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Well, folks, the reason I'm in this seat for Ezra Levent tonight is that the big boss man, he's all the way over in Lethbridge, Alberta, covering the latest Pastor Art Pawlowski trial.
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Check this out. It is Ezra sitting down with Pastor Art and his lawyers for an interview.
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I'm outside the courthouse in Lethbridge, Alberta, where there is a first recess in the trial of Arthur Pawlowski facing three charges,
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two criminal code charges, and shockingly, an offense under the Criminal Infrastructure Defense Act, an anti-eco-terrorism law, the most baffling of them all.
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And I'm joined by two out of the four members of the Legal Dream team, a fan favorite, Sarah Miller from JSS Barristers,
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Chad Haggerty, former cop, now fighting for the good guys against overweening police.
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And there were two other lawyers on the team, Emily Amir Canney and Yori Spencer Millis.
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So I am so proud. I was sitting behind the Dream team, and just seeing them there gave me such encouragement.
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Let's go straight to the lawyers. Sarah, can you explain what happened in court today?
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It wasn't a normal trial. Everything was sort of agreed to in advance in terms of facts, right?
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Yeah, so we entered a agreed statement of facts as Exhibit 1 to the trial.
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It essentially sets out what everybody already knows.
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There's a speech that Arthur gave February 3, 2022.
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And the question now for the court to decide is whether that speech that we've now exhibited is criminal
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or if it's an expression of political beliefs and otherwise constitutional.
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So it was really that 19-minute video, which was played on a TV in court, and that's pretty much it.
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I read the agreed statement of facts. No one is even claiming that he blocked a road, that he has a truck, that he was an organizer.
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It really was. Is this 19-minute speech a crime?
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Am I simplifying things too much, or is that where we are?
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Unbelievable. Now, Chad, it's great to see you again.
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You've got an interesting path because you were a policeman for many years, and now you're defending against what I consider overreach by police.
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I thought there would be more meat on the bones on the government side.
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I mean, to come at them with that Critical Infrastructure Defense Act, I remember when that law was brought in.
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It was to stop Greenpeace from, you know, sabotaging a pipeline, to stop railways from being blocked,
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and to use it in its first instance against a sermon from a pastor.
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So one of the things that you're aware of, and I think many are, is that we've challenged the constitutional validity of the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
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What we found out in recent days and what everybody in court found out today is that we are not going to have the opportunity to challenge the constitutionality,
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If it comes to pass that Art is found guilty, which we don't expect, but it is a process,
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if he's found guilty, the Crown will be entering a stay of proceedings in respect of the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
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So namely, they're not going to enter a conviction.
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If that's the way it's going, essentially that charge will come off the table.
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So that looks to me like they don't have confidence in it, like they're almost regretting making the charge
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because seriously, this is your test case, the Christian pastor giving a fire and brimstone sermon.
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I watched that and I thought the Crown doesn't want to have that tested.
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Well, one of the things that happens with police officers, you mentioned overreach by the police or by the state.
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Shotgunning charges are laying multiple charges that cover the same action is a common tactic.
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And what they've done here is they've conceded that there's a case called Regiana and Kynap, or Rex and Kynap.
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It says you can't be convicted for multiple things for the same act.
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So what they're saying is that if he's found guilty of mischief,
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the exact same action is essentially the exact same offense under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
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So essentially, they're saying we've hit him twice with the same blow.
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That's what the Supreme Court has said, and that's what the Crown has conceded today.
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I was not impressed with the prosecutor, but maybe I'm a tiny bit biased.
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Sarah, I know that you guys have to get back in gear.
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No one was swearing an oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
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because there was nothing other than that video that Arthur himself published to the world.
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But I watched that video, and we put it up on our website, savearthur.com.
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I mean, you've gotten to know him over the last three years.
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He uses the language, the metaphor of militarism,
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but he was crystal clear that he meant it to be peaceful.
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Do you think that the Crown is acting on a political mission here?
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I just, I'm a fan of Arthur's, but I do not see him stepping over the line here,
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and I don't think any good judge is going to say, yeah, it's a crime.
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I don't know if there's even a question in there, Sarah.
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It is understandably frustrating to see what is a video that is posted to the Internet
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Not only the use of the Crown's time, the use of the court's time,
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but to put somebody at risk of, well, actually not at risk.
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He has pretrial custody of 51 days, all related to this.
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So he served time in jail for the Coutts speech already?
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Well, he was detained pretrial, so he's got pretrial custody.
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I'm mad about this, but I'm very proud to see you two
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I'm going to let you go because I want you to spend all your mental energy preparing,
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but give me 30 seconds of what the procedure will look like.
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The judge is going to ask some questions of the Crown.
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Then what happens, and what's on schedule for tomorrow?
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So the Crown's going to give their closing arguments, oral arguments.
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And then we will either, depending on how much time we have left in the day,
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we'll either start our closing arguments, or we'll adjourn until tomorrow,
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and we'll start our closing arguments tomorrow.
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Well, I'm so proud of you two, and let me look in the camera at our viewers
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because for almost three years, Sarah and her dream team have defended Arthur.
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There is no way a normal person could afford to pay for excellent legal assistance.
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And even a very wealthy person would say it's not worth it, just plead guilty.
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Like, to have a man of principle like Arthur fight with a team that can win is almost impossible.
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The only way that is possible is because our viewers in Canada and around the world have chipped in.
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These are people who are worried about police overreach.
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If you want to help keep this team going, I think we're going to win this one.
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You'll get a tax receipt from the Democracy Fund that you can use at tax time.
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As for LeVant here for Rebel News, as you can see, I'm standing outside the Lethbridge Courthouse.
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With me, the man on trial today, Arthur Pawlowski, the pastor who would not shut up when the state told him to shut up.
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And what's incredible is you are on trial today for giving a sermon.
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That is the only evidence that was shown in court.
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Well, like I said to other people, I am not on trial.
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If I would go down, Canada effectively would lose its right to freely express themselves.
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You can criminalize then any public meeting, any private conversation, any church sermon, any rally, just because.
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If the Crown Prosecutor would not like what you say, hey, we can charge you with mischief.
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A second one is a shocker to me that my speech, while during that speech three times, I said to the Canadians, to the truckers, to the farmers, to the people of Alberta to rise up, to stand up, hold the line, but do it peacefully.
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And I am being compared, or my speech is being compared, to a Rwanda genocide.
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I've been to many trials in my life, and most of them have a witness, and they're cross-examined.
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But there was nothing else, because it really just was the speech.
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They had, the government and your lawyers had an agreed statement of facts.
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But for the government to throw this many resources at it, police, two prosecutors, this court for two days,
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And do not forget that just before Christmas, they dumped thousands of pages of so-called disclosure
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on the lap of my defense team, just to frustrate.
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And I remember Sarah was telling me that the people that dropped it, they were laughing,
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and it says defense will never be able to go through that.
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So here is what I believe they were planning to do.
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They are cowards, they are tyrants, they have agenda, and they hate anyone that dares to call them out,
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anyone that dares to stand against what they're planning to do, that you own nothing,
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you will be munching on the crickets, and you will be riding a bicycle.
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Anyone that dares to say the other side of the story becomes a target.
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So it's very disappointing from so many levels.
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It's disappointing that the government will be willing to waste millions of dollars on this persecution and prosecution,
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and also that this was not stopped with this new government in power right now.
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I was really hoping that the conservative government is going to do what they promised that they're going to do.
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But here I am today, not just me on trial, but you as well.
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You know, I was watching your video, and I had watched it before, and it was a pep talk.
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It was a history lesson about Poland and Lech Walesa, the Solidarity Movement.
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You thrice, three times, you said, keep it peaceful.
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And I thought to myself, you know, I give speeches sometimes, too.
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In fact, I gave speeches to truckers, a speech to truckers in Ottawa just for a minute.
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And I thought, if they can prosecute you, why can't they prosecute me?
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Why can't they prosecute anyone that they simply disagree with?
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If what you did was a crime, then I'm a criminal, too.
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And I put it to any Canadian who disagrees with the establishment as a criminal.
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And I think a lot turns on this, much more than just your freedom.
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Like I said at the beginning, this is truly a trial of the century.
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I don't think Canadians realize how serious this trial is.
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I was very proud that, you know, you were there.
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You were willing to risk your life, risking being arrested.
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If I'm guilty, you're guilty, and anybody else is guilty as well.
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Now imagine a pastor trying to deliver a sermon, a fiery sermon to his congregants.
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After, if I would be convicted of a criminal offense, there you go.
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You have no right to even privately communicate your feelings peacefully,
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because the government might deem that speech criminal.
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A lot of these folks have come in from out of town.
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Do you think it's a statement that this prosecution is out of touch with the people?
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Give me a word about the folks who came to show you support.
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We started, of course, everything with our national anthem.
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I'm very grateful for this land that gave me a second chance, if you will, another opportunity.
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Now I've got three children and I'm worried about my children.
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What kind of a nation are we going to pass to the next generation?
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So in a few minutes, we're going to continue singing.
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We're going to do a Holy Communion, a Lord's Supper together.
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I think I saw your son in there asking very good questions for your lawyer.
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Do you think your son's going to become a lawyer?
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If after all the trials and ordeals of the last three years, if one thing that came out
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of it was that a Pavlovsky were to become admitted to the law society and become a freedom-fighting
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I saw him asking very smart questions of Sarah Miller, your lawyer.
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So, my God, why can't you just, you know, up my game a little bit and give me a little
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bit more wisdom so I can sound a little bit better?
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We are, with my wife, extremely proud of our son, Nathaniel.
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As you remember, he was the one with my brother David that organized the longest ongoing protest
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in a history of the Riemann Center outside of Calgary's Riemann.
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And every day for 47 days, they were right there fighting for my life and showing to the whole
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So, he is already applying for the lawsuit, for the law school.
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And, you know, people are laughing because, as you remember, many years ago, I was called
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And now, people say, well, you need an in-house lawyer.
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He has been witnessing his father going through over 340 citations, over 100 court cases, 16
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I once listened to his interview that he gave to some American big network.
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My father is in and out of jail, in and out of court.
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He wants to fight for people that are facing injustice at the hands of the bullies.
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Well, when he's called to the bar, I want to be a client of his because I know he'll
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And, folks, we do have a legal dream team in there.
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As you know, we've been defending Arthur for three years.
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And I want to say to your listeners, I want to tell you,
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I thank you so much for every penny, for every dollar you have donated.
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I mean, the truth is, and that's the truth, I would not be able to do that without the
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support of the Rebel News, without the Democracy Defense Fund.
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We paid over a million dollars right now, by my estimation, of the legal fees just to
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If it was not for you, I'll probably be in prison.
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I'm probably dead because you know what they tried to do to me when I was locked.
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Well, listen, we're grateful to you because we can give $100 or $250, but you are giving
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I don't know the Christian theology, but it's Christ-like to offer your physical body as
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And so the least we can do is chip in a few bucks because you're the one on the firing
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You know, Jesus was the biggest freedom fighter ever.
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The Bible says that who comes to him is free indeed.
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If he died for my freedom, I'm willing to be jailed for your freedom.
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Arthur Pawlowski, if you want to chip in, go to saveArthur.com.
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We will defend you until the end because you are defending us until the end.
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I'll have more updates from the Lethbridge Courthouse today and tomorrow.
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Well, folks, lots of feedback regarding last night's monologue by Ezra LeBant pertaining
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to that university paper linking Russian collusion to the Freedom Convoy, which I mentioned earlier
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Yeah, I think that when it comes to the war in Ukraine, that's a bit of a red herring.
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The main point of this paper is the fact that there are somehow, I don't know, people in
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Moscow directing what happened on Wellington Street in Ottawa last February.
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We didn't get any whiff of this ridiculous and debunked Russian collusion theory.
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Yeah, I have to admit, I'm a big Donald Trump fan.
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On this particular point, he's wrong, and I wish he'd drop it.
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But we'll see what happens in the months ahead when it comes to the Republicans having a nominee
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Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of the Ezra LeBant show.
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I believe my colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed, is substituting for Ezra tomorrow.