DAVID MENZIES ｜ Jason Kenney Resigns; COVID Protest Court Victory for Albertans
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Sheila Gunn-Reed offers her thoughts on the future of the United Conservative Party. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms secured a major court victory, which saw Judge Michael Dinkle rule that a Chief Medical Officer of Health order under which their client, Brad Carrigan, was charged does not apply to protesters. Adam Seuss has all the nitty gritty details and letters.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.
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I'm your host, David Menzies. Wow, what a bombshell.
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Unexpectedly, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced that he'd be stepping down as leader of the UCP.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed will offer her thoughts on the future of this party.
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And score one for freedom, the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms secured a major court victory, which saw Judge Michael Dinkle rule that a chief medical officer of health order under which their client, Brad Carrigan, was charged does not apply to protesters.
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Adam Seuss will have all the nitty gritty details and letters.
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We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day, and I'll share some of your responses about a tale of two cities, the biker version, that is.
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Namely, why were those motorcyclists who comprise Rolling Thunder demonized and vilified by the Ottawa authorities, yet bikers were warmly welcomed with open arms to Port Dover's Friday the 13th gathering last week?
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Wow, looks like little Port Dover trumps the nation's capital when it comes to respecting our rights and freedoms.
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Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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While 51% of the vote passes the constitutional threshold of a majority, it clearly is not adequate support to continue on as leader.
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And that is why tonight I have informed the president of the party of my intention to step down as leader of the United Conservative Party.
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I'm sorry, but friends, I truly believe that we need to move forward united.
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We need to put the past behind us, and our members, a large number of our members, have asked for an opportunity to clear the air through a leadership election.
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And I recommended, therefore, that the provincial board schedule a leadership election in a timely fashion.
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Jason Kenney, the man who saved Alberta from Rachel Notley, a.k.a. the Queen of the Destroyers, is now yesterday's man.
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In an announcement that surely caught most political observers completely off guard,
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Premier Kenney resigned on Wednesday evening after only getting a 50-50 approval rating from his party.
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And now the question arises, who will be the next leader of the UCP?
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And joining me now for more on this stunning announcement is our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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Most political observers, and I count myself as one of them, I don't think we saw this coming.
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Jason Kenney had sort of changed the leadership review criteria that 50% plus one was good enough.
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And I thought, okay, he's downrigging that so that he can pass by the skin of his teeth,
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say the majority of party members support him, which would be true upon a technicality,
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So I was shocked to see after two years of doing the wrong thing and reacting constantly wrong to every impulse,
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Jason Kenney finally, finally did the principled thing.
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Isn't it something, and you know, pardon me, Sheila, when we look at the rise and dramatic fall of Jason Kenney,
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if we rewind the tape, can you point out to our viewers, I guess, those events that led to his resignation in the first place?
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It started with, you know, Jason Kenney saying, we're going to take, and these were his words,
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a more South Dakotan approach to COVID protocols.
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South Dakota, as you know, Governor Kristi Noem, she didn't lock down.
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They protected the vulnerable and then let everybody else live their lives
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and recognize that they were grownups who could make their own decisions.
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Jason Kenney promised Albertans that he would be that guy.
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And we expected him to be that guy because I think that's the conservative approach,
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that you don't need big government to help you make your health choices.
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Then all of a sudden, he was locking us down, closing our businesses, closing our restaurants,
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and limiting our churches and canceling activities, making people wear masks, kids wear masks.
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And so people thought, oh my goodness, that's a lot.
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But then he reopened and apologized, saying, I should not have made some businesses essential and others not.
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And then Jason Kenney, who said he didn't know what a vaccine passport even was,
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and once he figured it out, decided, well, those things are unconstitutional, brought us in one of his own.
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Something he said would be illegal, he was then doing himself.
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He also said if Albertans ran out and got a vaccine that they didn't actually want,
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that he would open the province up and open it up for good.
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It was called the best summer ever, but the best summer ever led to the fall and winter of discontent and disappointment
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when Jason Kenney, after promising people, just get your vaccine and everything will be open again,
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locked everything down again and brought in that vaccine passport.
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And I think it was the flip-flopping, the flip-flopping, the flip-flopping, and the icing on the cake.
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I think good for about 10% or 15% in that leadership review was the locking up of pastors,
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the confiscating of churches, the confiscating of businesses,
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seeing pastors like James Coates and Tim Stevens and Pastor Art Poloski
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perp-walked out of their homes, their churches, like common criminals,
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seeing the arrests of business owners, the shuttering of businesses,
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Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop having his property seized
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and then arrested for holding a protest against the government seizing his property
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I think seeing that sort of stuff, the sort of stuff that we saw then Jason Kenney do
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to the convoy to Ottawa, and then Jason Kenney say
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Justin Trudeau was wrong when he did the convoy to Ottawa,
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but was perfectly fine when he was doing it to pastors and business owners and resistors here.
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I think that is what really cost him the two-thirds that you really do need
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I think that last little bit, people just couldn't stomach and they couldn't get over it.
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Here in Ontario, we've seen a similar narrative.
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We saw Doug Ford, he was not going to be about lockdowns.
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like the provincially owned Liquor Control Board of Ontario
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What I'm getting at is when you listen to Doug Ford,
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he basically says, you know, folks, if it were up to me,
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I'd open everything up tomorrow, et cetera, et cetera.
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But it's the team, you see, it's the team making these decisions.
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My question to you, Sheila, in terms of Premier Kenney and Alberta,
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is this Premier Kenney acting on his own political instincts?
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Or are there people behind the scenes that kind of like, you know, puppet masters,
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No, I think Jason Kenney is his own man who made his own bad decisions.
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And finally last night or Wednesday night, he made a good one when he resigned.
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It is Jason Kenney and nobody else who is making the decision to be up on the
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As private social gatherings were banned in Alberta,
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Jason Kenney was up in a building that we've dubbed the Sky Palace here in Alberta
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He was up there having a private dinner and a whiskey party with some of his MLA's
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And, you know, Jason Kenney has said all along that it's him making the decisions.
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He listens to the advice of his public health officers.
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But ultimately, it's him and cabinet who are making these decisions.
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And on Wednesday night, you know, he fell on his sword.
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And I think it's the right thing to do because Alberta is one year,
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almost exactly, to our next provincial election.
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And the UCP needs to get a new leader, get somebody in place, start the apology to her and start
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campaigning because Rachel Notley, she's there and she's ready.
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And Alberta is in the midst of an economic recovery.
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We're starting to balance the budget after, you know, the better part of a decade of just
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The woman is a scarecrow for oil patch investment.
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She's just standing out in the field and the oil patch investors say, you know what, we're
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And so the UCP really has to get its act together, get someone with name recognition
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and start making amends with the people of Alberta.
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You know, but Sheila, I can't help but think when if we bring this back to Kenny, to me,
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And I have no reason to denounce your instincts here that Kenny was the author of his own
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misfortune in terms of all these terrible decisions, the lockdowns, the back passes, locking
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I mean, he these seem to be things that I would guess the majority of Albertans would
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So how did he think this was going to lead to him being a popular premier?
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You know, Jason Kenny, when he campaigned to be the premier and also to be the leader of
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the UCP, he sort of campaigned as I'm one of you guys.
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I may have been working in Ottawa for the better part of the last two decades, but I'm still
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And can't you tell by my true blue Ram pickup truck and my plaid shirts and my cowboy hat
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and my cowboy boots that I'm wearing to every rodeo and farm fair all across the province.
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And but at the end of the day, I think he surrounded himself with a bubble of hangers on.
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There's a lot of people still kicking around from the Redford days.
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And even after that, these people who just want to be in power and that's their only ideology
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And I think some of that may have infected Jason Kenny, too, whereas it was really easy
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to take a principled stance in favor of religious freedom when you're in the federal government
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and talking about defending religious freedom over in Iraq, over in China, over in Afghanistan.
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For him here in Alberta, when he was the guy in charge, he just couldn't find those principles
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And I think, you know, a principled person, their principles shine when it's tough, not when
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And Jason Kenny failed every time that he was tested there, except for Wednesday night.
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The other day, Daniel Smith threw her hat in the ring.
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She wants to be the leader of the US UCP and presumably the next premier of Alberta.
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How do you think things are going to shake out in the months ahead, Sheila?
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You know, Daniel Smith is saying the right things.
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Also, former Wild Rose leader Brian Jean, I think, is going to throw his hat into the
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He hasn't announced it officially, but he ran as an MLA in his riding of Fort McMurray
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Now, Daniel Smith, she held a press conference over Zoom on Wednesday, saying a lot of the right
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things are Adam Sos questioned her on the treatment of the pastors and the lockdown resistors here
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And she directly acknowledged those people as the reason the rest of us are able to enjoy
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She said if she were elected the leader of the UCP, that she would go on an apology to
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her to try to make this right to Albertans and try to make right their treatment at the
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She said that the persecutions of churches, which are ongoing still, those legal cases
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She said that those charges should immediately be dropped.
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She also said the charges against business owners should also be dropped.
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Um, so she's saying a lot of the right things and she is one person who is not only acknowledging
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the wrongs done by the government and the party that she is a member of, but also she's
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willing to try to do her best to make it right.
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Well, Sheila, these are fascinating days ahead indeed in terms of the Alberta political landscape.
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And I know you and Adam will be, uh, on this, uh, and, and giving us the, the real
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Can't wait to see what happens next in wild rose country.
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And you have yourself a great weekend, my friend.
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And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the Northern hinterland of Alberta.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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And, uh, last week I was very fortunate to be joined by Sarah Miller, who observed a
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landmark decision, which effectively determined that the, uh, chief medical officer of health
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in Alberta, the orders under which many people were charged for protesting and gathering,
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uh, under, under a very specific window, do not actually apply to protesters in any way,
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What we've seen previously, I think by large is people equating, disagreeing with somebody's
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principles about, you know, being an anti lockdown person, just the court disagreeing
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with that and then deciding, well, because I disagree with your principles, you, you must
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be, you know, guilty or you must be at fault here.
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We can disagree about principles and still apply the correct legal analysis this morning.
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I think the correct legal analysis was applied.
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Obviously the language utilized within that decision and within that specific order discusses
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And the judge ruled effectively that protests are clearly not private social gatherings.
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A judge has ruled that protests are not so-called private gatherings.
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Indeed, recently, Hatim Kerr, a lawyer with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms,
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secured a major court victory, which saw Judge Michael Dinkle rule that a chief medical officer
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of health order under which their client, Brad Kerrigan, was charged does not apply to protests.
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Apparently, the doctator forgot that freedom of assembly and freedom of speech and the freedom
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of peaceful protesting are indeed charter rights.
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And joining me now for more on this ruling is our Calgary-based reporter, Adam Seuss.
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So, Adam, ever since the mayor of Calgary essentially called the Freedom March's downtown
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non-events and that they were punishable by law, we were stunned by this sort of overreach.
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And now here's a major court victory, thanks to the JCCF, that states the banning of peaceful
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protests is not a thing in this country, thank goodness.
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But why did we have to go through these shenanigans in the first place?
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Surely politicians and bureaucrats must have known that they were on thin ice with this
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So, I mean, first off, I just want to clarify, there's like a little bit of nuance in the
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So this court proceeding was actually set to span two days.
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And the second day would have been an in-depth dive into the constitutional arguments and all
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But what wound up happening is on the very first day, the judge reviewing the document said,
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well, the charges here, this order pertains to private gatherings.
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In fact, this order, which spanned December 2020 to January 2021, and a number of other
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CMOH, or Chief Medical Officer of Health, orders, they all included language which related to
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Now, what the judge determined, they didn't even get to the second day and they didn't get
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What the judge determined was that, in fact, no crime had been committed because a protest
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is categorically and clearly not a private social gathering.
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It is by its very definition open to the public.
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And he went to a very sort of basic definition of what is private, what is public.
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So in relation to this case, it is very clear and very particular that a number of these
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orders, particularly the one spanning that term we discussed, but potentially other ones
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that include that very same language may see a great many charges, tickets that were handed
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out to protesters or protest organizers, hopefully thrown out because basically what they're going
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So this is likely to see a number of tickets just simply scrubbed, thrown away and not necessarily
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But you're very right that this is wonderful news.
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We also saw in respect to Jyoti Gondek, the Calgary injunction thrown out thanks to the
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Democracy Fund's efforts and Chad Williamson of Williams and Law.
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So we're seeing a number of legal victories that are starting to sort of incite and inspire
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in some people some hope that the courts are starting to put aside their biases, put aside
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maybe the fact they don't agree with some of these protesters or some of these pastors
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and saying, well, they actually didn't break the law here, both in the spirit of the law
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in that you have a right to protest, but also per the letter of the law, the way it was
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You know, and let's speak honestly and frankly here, if these protests were, say, in the
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name of Black Lives Matter, if this was some kind of a Greta Thunberg environmental demonstration,
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if this was a pro-choice rally, these injunctions, these heavy handed efforts by law enforcement,
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But it seems to me, my friend, that we're living in a country where increasingly, yeah,
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you have the right to protest if your protest is politically correct by the ruling elites.
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And I do think that maybe the political class is waking up to this glaring double standard.
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I think Canadians broadly, if you look at Justin Trudeau's popularity, are saying, hold
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on a second, this isn't the Canada I grew up in.
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Originally, the sort of politically correct movement was making sure that everyone had a
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space in society and people weren't being stifled.
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And very often, for all their talk of the margins, what they do is stifle people who
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are on the margins, who have been victimized either by governments or authorities or have
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faced religious persecution, as we have seen repeatedly here.
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But we've seen on a federal level with the leadership race, there's been a significant
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And they are now coming out in support of that.
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Just mere minutes ago, I was in a presser with Danielle Smith, who has announced her
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candidacy for the leadership of the United Conservative Party after Jason Kenney's announcement.
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She flat out said that she's willing to tour the province if made leader and visit the people
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who were incarcerated wrongly and personally apologize.
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She also talked about how there's likely to be some sort of legal remuneration for people
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who are incarcerated, and she was going to put an immediate freeze in whatever capacity
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she could as leader without sort of trampling on the framework of the court systems.
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But she would actually actively cease to whatever capacity she could investigations and
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incarcerations going back as a result of COVID-19.
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So I think, I'm hopeful that the majority of people, that the public opinion, and that
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even politicians now, it took them a while to catch on, but the opinion has shifted.
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And they're saying, you know what, enough is enough.
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If someone wants to protest for freedom, if someone wants to protest for a pride parade,
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if someone wants to do this, we as a Canadian society, we have space for everyone to express
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their opinions, not just the pre-approved Justin Trudeau opinions.
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Yeah, and in the case of Daniel Smith saying that, that was incredible, Adam.
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And she's already, I guess, positioning herself on those files as the anti-Jason Kenney candidate.
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But, you know, I want to get back to this whole realm of cancel culture, which is really a
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And I mean, if you're a social media company, you can engage in that.
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If you're a corporation like Disney saying, we're not going to say, ladies and gentlemen,
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So we don't, you know, insult anyone in the trans community.
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But this is the state in the role of a cancel culture, Mandarin, if you will.
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Picking and choosing which protests are correct and which protests are incorrect.
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This is a complete, it's completely egregious to me, Adam, that we would have elected officials,
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bureaucrats, law enforcement, being the censors of what is right and wrong in the public square.
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Thank goodness we had this decision go the way it did.
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Yeah, well, and I think the thing that people need to realize, if you're thinking like, well,
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maybe it isn't quite so bad, or maybe they are picking and choosing, people are just overly
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Literally, I think it was towards the end of May 2021, when there was a number of pro-Palestinian
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Dina Hinshaw literally modified her order in order to allow for those types of protests.
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They were ticketing people who were protesting the government, protesting for freedom, ticketing
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Various groups were being targeted, but largely it was anti-mandate, anti-restriction groups
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And then another group decided they're going to start having these great big protests.
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And the government literally publicly goes out of their way to write an exception that
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protests are actually allowed, but just make sure you throw your masks on.
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It is so categorical and undeniable, and it's so always unilaterally targeted, without exception,
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Like, members of every faith denomination, congregations, were completely acting like total
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They completely disregarded any of these measures and protocols.
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Dina Hinshaw, if I remember correctly, I think it was her, said, we investigated those
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Meanwhile, you have 20 or 30 people gathering at Pastor Arthur Pawlowski's church.
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It wasn't this massive gathering until they drew so much attention to it and targeted it.
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This enforcement, this pressure, this demand from government authorities for people to bow
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the knee, when they themselves, they're breaking the rules.
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There was a, I think it was a Daily Wire article with Jason Kenney at one dinner, broke his
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If a pastor does it, if Chris Scott does it, and they're in a certain demographic and they're
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Listen, the right to protest is not when things are easy.
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It's specifically in order to protect people's rights to criticize their government.
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The government allowed people to break the rules.
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It wasn't ever really about protecting people's health because they allowed people to break
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And those were, according to the government, risks to people's health.
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The only time they came down and hammered down was when people were actually exercising their
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charter rights to criticize the government directly.
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And finally, as you say, we are starting to see politicians, we're starting to see the
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courts, and we're starting to see society broadly at large say enough is enough.
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Progressivism and this cancel culture that you talk about pushes and pushes and pushes.
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Most conservatives are like, listen, if you're an adult and if you don't push it on kids and
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you're living your life, I don't care what you do.
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That's sort of a sensible live and let live mentality that I think most conservatives will
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share, even if they don't personally agree with someone's lifestyle.
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And I think with progressivism becoming so rampant in corporate America, broadly in society and
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in politics under Justin Trudeau, they push too far and people are now saying enough is
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Well, that is indeed good news, as is this decision.
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It's welcome good news, Adam, because I think in this day and age, there are too many on the
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There are too many in government and in the bureaucracies who consider freedom to be the new
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So it's good to see some blowback against this kind of Orwellian attitude.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Well, folks, last week we ventured out to Port Dover.
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Every Friday the 13th, there was a huge gathering of bikers.
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We're talking tens of thousands of bikers that descend upon Port Dover to celebrate life,
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And I couldn't help but notice that what a change of scenery it was compared to a few
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Remember when Rolling Thunder came into Ottawa?
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This downtown core of Ottawa was sealed off with roadblocks.
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Everywhere you went, no stopping zones were put up for a special event.
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And all these lawful bikers wanted to do, many of whom are veterans, was to do a circle
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around the National War Memorial and lay a wreath.
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And yet, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, they were persona non grata.
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But in Port Dover, the bikers finally were welcomed with open arms.
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But what do you think of the reception, it was two weeks ago today, that Rolling Thunder
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And all they wanted to do was ride around the National War Memorial and lay a wreath.
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Well, I guess the same reason that they were afraid of the same occupation all over in Rome.
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And I'm sure they knew that wasn't going to happen.
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Well, that's probably what they were afraid of, right?
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They basically fenced off the entire downtown court.
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And why they couldn't let them go around the War Memorial.
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One of the longest lockdowns in the world, I think.
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When you look at the bureaucrats, when you look at the politicians, when you look at Mayor
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In fact, I think a lot of them got raises in the last two years.
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They didn't have to suffer their doors being closed.
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Because they didn't have to suffer all the king's horses and all the king's men coming
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If I'm not mistaken, anybody that had a government job got to keep their job.
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And it was the bureaucrats that shut down everybody else.
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So whether you're a municipal worker, a federal worker, a provincial worker, across the board,
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But if you're in the private sector, the government said who and couldn't burn a living.
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Why is it that we have a government right now that is picking and choosing causes and
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Some are okay to demonstrate or celebrate and others are not.
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It all depends on if it aligns with your WM standards.
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Truly a tale of two cities, at least when it comes to the rights and freedoms of Canadians
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In Ottawa, for certain events, including a gathering of patriotic bikers, the capital remains a no-go
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Justin Trudeau and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson should be ashamed of themselves.
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In any event, you had plenty to say about the Friday the 13th gathering in Port Dover last
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Indeed, Mark, be it the Freedom Convoy or Rolling Thunder, the people in these peaceful gatherings
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Despite all the putrid propaganda and demonization that was directed their way.
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Not one government worker missed a paycheck during the lockdowns.
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Actually, my friend, I think many politicians and bureaucrats actually gave themselves raises
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Ueber writes, I like Rebel News, but this video seemed a bit one-sided.
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Rebel News, don't turn into CBC Global and so on.
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Well, Ueber, I am not sure the point that you're trying to make here.
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Namely, what, pray tell, is the other side when it comes to this story?
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Motorcyclists were welcomed in Port Dover last Friday, but essentially they were shamefully
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We merely ventured out onto the streets of Port Dover to ask folks why they were taking
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I can guarantee you if we came across anyone saying that the Friday the 13th assembly was
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awful for whatever reason, we would have included that response on camera.
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In fact, we reached out to Norfolk County Mayor Crystal Chop.
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She's the COVID Karen that declared last year's Friday the 13th event in Port Dover as a non-event.
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To date, we have yet to hear back from Mayor Chop.
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I suspect she's still curled up in the fetal position in her basement.
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But as far as I can tell, this is the only killjoy person in the Port Dover area when it comes to
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But she seems to be taking a page out of Ottawa Witchy Poo's playbook.
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Do you mind me asking, what do you do for a living?
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.