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00:06:21.840J'ai vu certaines réponses qui ont circulé dans les derniers jours.
00:06:26.000Je ne suis pas la première à nous poser la question.
00:06:28.100Donc, comme tout processus de police normal, lorsqu'on ferait une arrestation, la personne n'a pas besoin de présenter de preuve vaccinale catastrophe arrêtée, évidemment.
00:06:37.720Maintenant, pour ce qui est du traitement, des gens spécifiquement qui demandent l'asile à Roxham, c'est une fois qu'ils vont être avec l'ASFC que là, ça va être déterminé.
00:06:48.100C'est pour ça que je vous encouragerais à les appeler eux autres, en fait.
00:06:51.040Donc, le travail de la GRC, c'est de faire l'interception des gens qui rentrent de façon illégale ou irrégulière.
00:06:56.180Une fois qu'on a fait notre enquête policière, s'il s'avère que ces personnes-là demandent l'asile, on les remet à l'ASFC et là, ils font leur demande auprès de l'ASFC.
00:07:06.000Oh, sur le taxi marqué Rocks and Road Border.
00:07:19.960Don't forget to bring the luggage, hein, because you can't go back.
00:07:25.000Once you cross, it's over, you're not going back.
00:08:19.660Do they have been trained before coming here to know like what to say?
00:08:25.660Yeah, I just tell them when they get, like when they get here, they need to listen to these people, what they say, then they decide what they want to do on their own.
00:08:36.660And do you know if they need to be, do you have a PCR test or vaccination proof or anything for coming here?
00:10:06.660From what I gathered, the people, like the main border, the legal ports, because there's American police, they just turn them around and send them back.
00:11:38.660And I just heard the question from the police to them, do you have a vaccination card?
00:11:47.660And I just saw the woman say, no, she's not vaccinated.
00:11:54.660Uh, we let people enter here and they will contribute to spread probably the virus when we have a health system that is collapsing and we put more measure for protecting it.
00:12:09.660So we put more measure for protecting our health system.
00:12:15.660We let them enter without vaccination or anything else.
00:12:24.660Well, millions of Quebec residents are currently being subject to unscientific curfews to stop the spread of the highly transmissible, but also way less severe, Omicron variant of COVID.
00:12:36.660Yet, the illegal border crossing at Roxham Road remains open for arrivals.
00:12:41.660While normal Canadians cannot board a plane or train to visit loved ones in other parts of one of the world's largest countries, at the end of a residential road in Quebec, cabs from upstate New York are taking cash to bring illegal migrants to Canada to be greeted by the RCMP before they step illegally across an international border.
00:13:02.660And no one's doing anything about it, except for Alexa, our Quebec based reporter who has been shining a light on this issue.
00:15:42.900Yeah, we receive a lot, a lot of people.
00:15:45.900And we know that our health system is collapsing.
00:15:48.900It's why Quebec put the curfew and some insanity like now the health tax and everything.
00:15:54.900But we put that for the resident of the province of Quebec, where in the province of Quebec, we have a illegal port of entry where immigrants come and most of them test positive to come in.
00:16:10.900We bring them in Montreal and we will impose some more measures to the residents of the province and a tax because because of them, they say that they cost a lot for the health system.
00:16:27.900They would not probably pay the health tax.
00:16:31.900They would not probably pay any services from our health system because we are taking care of them.
00:16:36.900And now it's the resident of Quebec to pay the bill.
00:16:41.900Not just pay the bill, but live with the consequences.
00:16:45.900So, you know, residents of Quebec are basically subject to checkpoints and check stops and they have to show their papers.
00:16:54.900And this happens to you when you're doing the lawful activity of reporting.
00:16:59.900The police will come up and hassle you and tell you, even though you're out and about reporting for us, carrying a piece of paper that says, I'm Alexa Lavoie, I'm doing my job.
00:17:12.900They still would very much like you to go home.
00:17:14.900They tell you when you're reporting on mass arrests where you can stand in your own country on the street as a free woman to do the work of journalism.
00:17:25.900And yet at the border where someone is arriving illegally by a guy who takes money, who makes a living trafficking people to the Canadian border.
00:17:47.900But what I don't understand why the U.S. don't do anything for that.
00:17:52.900It's advertising that it's actually an illegal market like to bring people to the illegal portal entry.
00:18:01.900And what the taxi drivers say, it's because they don't have RCMP from the U.S. border, because if it was the case, they would be turned back to U.S.
00:18:10.900It's why they come to Roxanne Road and because they have been arrested in the side of Canada with the RCMP because I called there.
00:18:21.900They say because they have been arrested.
00:18:23.900We don't ask for anything like no proof of vaccination, nothing.
00:18:27.900They don't need to prove anything to us because they are in under arrest.
00:18:34.900We have the the COVID that is spreading all over and all the citizens of Canada are paying the price of this illegal like activity that nobody seems caring.
00:18:49.900But I know that Justin Trudeau say that they want to stop this activity, but it renew for five years the facility that is at the border.
00:19:14.900They're leaving that hole in the road and making sure that there's permanent infrastructure there for at least the next five years.
00:19:21.900That signals to the traffickers in upstate New York that for the next five years they can do brisk business bringing people to the Canadian border while Canadian grandparents who spend the winter in Florida or Mexico, they're having a tough time getting back into their own country where they're citizens because of Justin Trudeau's travel restrictions.
00:20:17.900Can we know who is this person that's crossed into our country?
00:20:22.900We will never know because everything is so hiding from us.
00:20:26.900Well, and one thing I thought was really remarkable from the taxi driver, you know, I appreciate how upfront he is as much as I disagree with what he was doing.
00:20:38.900But he did try to justify what he was saying by what he was doing by saying, you know, they've got very sad stories.
00:20:47.900You know, as I saw these families coming across, I thought to myself, are those really families or are those children being trafficked across the border?
00:21:16.900And especially because what he say, he say he trained a little bit them until they arrived to the border to say, you should say that you should stand there and don't forget your luggage.
00:21:29.900And it's like you train them, you train them to to know how to act when you arrive there.
00:21:38.900And when I call the RCMP officer, they say, oh, but they are under arrest.
00:21:43.900And the one that claimed for asylum will bring them to another place.
00:21:49.900And they have three lawyers from Canada to debate for themselves.
00:21:54.900And I was like, but it's probably a hundred percent of the people who cross Roxanne road that claim asylum.
00:22:05.900So and what I heard from the news, because I did call the immigration place and I did call the border place and both of them doesn't answer at all.
00:22:40.900I say why the RCMP at the border say to call you for answering my question if you are not able to answer anything of what I'm asking.
00:22:51.900Yeah, I mean, it seems like there's such an easy common sense solution to this.
00:22:57.900We've got taxis with their phone number on the side, trafficking people to the border.
00:23:03.900Let's call those people, deal with that, maybe charge them.
00:23:06.900But secondarily, let's just put a wall up.
00:23:10.900I don't understand why they just don't put a wall up.
00:23:14.900You can put a wall up for a lot cheaper than you can hire lawyers for every single person who walks.
00:23:19.900I think you could put a wall up for a lot less money than hiring a lawyer for the taxi loads of people who came in just on the day that you were there.
00:23:28.900Yeah. And what he said to me, every day he's coming to Roxanne Road and all his colleagues too.
00:23:33.900So I asked, is it a good business for you to come to Roxanne Road?
00:23:39.900And it seemed like to be pretty good money for them.
00:23:44.900And you heard what he said, he said, oh, I'm the cheaper one.
00:23:48.900And sometimes I got trouble because I charge less than all my other colleagues.
00:23:54.900And I was like, you don't you don't see that for us is really a big problem.
00:23:58.900And for now, your 60 bucks cost us probably a hundred times more to us just to make them enter in our country.
00:25:47.900I just would really appreciate it if they did it the right way.
00:25:50.900When someone breaks a law coming into my country, I don't think you respect our country.
00:25:55.900It's just because I'm thinking about all these other migrants that are applying legally are waiting and they came in and they take their place.
00:26:08.900And some people are waiting for years to come into Canada.
00:26:11.900I'm just so sad for them because they decided to be right to do the right thing.
00:26:20.900But at the end, it's not good for them.
00:26:24.900No, no, some of the largest some of the loudest voices against illegal immigration are the people who came here legally, especially in the lower sort of mainland of Vancouver, where there's a high population of Chinese people.
00:26:44.900Many of them came here legally and they were the ones raising the issue of people coming here to have a baby so that they could stay.
00:26:52.900They were the ones that wanted that law change.
00:26:54.900But if you or I mentioned it, we'd be a bunch of racists.
00:27:01.900The other big issue is because they bring them to Place Dupree in Montreal and YMCA, where the Quebec homeless people had the shelter to stay.
00:27:13.900But now they are back in the street to put these illegal immigrants there.
00:27:20.900So we put one of our problems back to the street, our own citizens back to the street, to being able to make a place for them.
00:27:37.900Like I said, just build a wall and the problem is solved.
00:27:40.900And maybe arrest a couple of taxi drivers to send a message to the rest of them.
00:27:45.900Alexa, tell us how people can find some of the work that you're doing on the lockdown issue in Quebec.
00:27:52.900And more importantly, how they can support the work that you're doing.
00:27:55.900Because I know you're out on the streets covering the lockdown and the curfew and you're at Roxham Road and you're the only journalist there.
00:28:03.900It seems like it's a pretty important issue, both of these things.
00:28:06.900You would think the mainstream media might be interested in it, but they are completely absent.
00:28:10.900So how do people find the work that you're doing and support it?
00:28:14.900I know that a lot of people like our job.
00:28:18.900And seriously, sometimes I would need more manpower here in the ground.
00:28:23.900So it's always appreciated when I have my colleague from Toronto that's coming to help us.
00:28:29.900And so it's true that people can go to lockdownreport.com to help us to chip in and help me with all these travel expenses.
00:28:39.900Because sometimes I'm really like at night, especially for covering the disobedience for a curfew.
00:28:45.900Like tonight where I'm going to, I'm going to cover one that is two hours and a half from my home.
00:28:52.900And since the beginning of the curfew, zero media mainstream did cover it.
00:29:00.900As if it's normal to have a curfew in 2022 in Canada.
00:29:09.900It's supposed to be normal, I think, because no mainstream went to industry to cover that.
00:29:15.900And especially for Roxham Road, sometimes we have like a quick report from the mainstream,
00:29:21.900but it disappeared after nobody talked about it afterwards.
00:29:24.900So what's the point to show, okay, we have a problem, but reserve the problem.
00:29:29.900Bring it like further more, further and do an investigation more deep on this.
00:30:34.900So by the end of the month, my four year old boy with leukemia is getting evicted because we don't have a vaccine.
00:30:42.900Like I'm reading comments that say, I'm ashamed to be a Canadian.
00:30:46.900Like complete wickedness and just on and on and on.
00:30:49.900Just these powerful, this is weeping of the community of like, how did they get this far?
00:30:54.900And for them to just be like, you can just see how their consciences are dead because, because when I was talking to the manager, it's like, she's surprised that this isn't even happening.
00:31:11.900Yesterday, a family reached out to me to tell me how they're being treated by the Ronald McDonald house behind me.
00:31:18.900If you're not familiar with Ronald McDonald house, it does great work.
00:31:22.900This is a 74 bed location where kids who are struggling and trying to survive with things like cancer and need treatment for that can come and live with their families.
00:31:33.900This cuts back on the expenses and on the overall stress of going back and forth.
00:31:38.900The family who you will see interviewed here would have to drive four hours at least to get treatment if something like this wasn't there for them.
00:31:52.900The dehumanization we're seeing of people who are not yet vaccinated for a vaccine that has zero long term studies and the CEO of Pfizer, who is also a friend to the Ronald McDonald house, thanks to their large donation there.
00:32:08.900Just said provides little if any protection if you have two or more.
00:32:13.900And we know that the three, the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any.
00:32:19.900The three doses with a booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and deaths.
00:32:31.900And less protection against the infection.
00:32:35.900The policy which came out on January 10th here says that anybody who is not vaccinated will not be able to enter their building to visit a loved one.
00:32:44.900And if they are a family member who's unvaccinated, whether or not it's a child five years or older or the adults, they will not be able to stay here.
00:32:55.900That video you put up on Facebook has really tugged on the hearts of many people.
00:33:02.900You reminded me that our paths crossed earlier when you asked for prayer about Jack and his situation.
00:33:08.900So for people who are not familiar with Jack's story, why don't you tell us why, what brought you here to having to stay here?
00:33:15.900Yeah, so our family, we rented out a log cabin out of D Lake in Lake Country.
00:40:19.400You get to this place of refuge, which, by the way, little Jack loves.
00:40:23.400He loves living there and staying there.
00:40:25.400And they're supposed to stay there till June.
00:40:27.400So this isn't just a two week, one month thing.
00:40:30.400And they've already been there for a while.
00:40:32.400So imagine you're dealing with all that.
00:40:34.400You get to this place where you can breathe, this sense of normalcy, and you get this document that says that.
00:40:38.400Since that policy went out and since there was viral outrage, international levels, that is when only after that did Ronald McDonald House make it clear now that they intend to help relocate these families.
00:40:58.400So, but I think that's getting lost on a lot of the new reports.
00:41:04.400They're saying things like, here's why, or they're relocating.
00:41:08.400And it's like, no, they put that family through that stress.
00:41:14.400And it's never easy to be suddenly ripped from your home less than 30 days notice, especially when it's a home that your child with leukemia loves.
00:41:24.400Yeah, it looks like Ronald McDonald House is doing their best to save face because they were not relocating them up until this was basically an international bear trap they put their foot into.
00:41:38.400And the community, people who see this, they've really rallied around this family.
00:41:46.400Their GoFundMe has basically exploded because people like me, I don't know what to do except send a journalist to tell the story.
00:41:56.400But there are other people who just say, I don't know what to do to express my disgust for what I see.
00:43:16.400This is a dangerous precedent to inconvenience sick children battling cancer in their families when you could take other measures.
00:43:26.400So if you go to letthemstay.ca, that's a petition to let them and the other families that apparently this is affecting be able to stay where they want to stay,
00:43:35.400where they're loving staying, and it also prompts you really quickly if you'd like to do an email to the CEO so that, you know, they know you're watching.
00:43:44.400You're watching closely about what they're going to do and how they're going to handle this situation.
00:43:48.400You know, I think that last piece that you mentioned there is so important.
00:43:52.400Send a message to the CEO because it sounds like this was a local decision.
00:43:57.400This isn't necessarily happening at all Ronald McDonald houses.
00:44:01.400This was a local decision, and not only should you let your dollars do the talking, but we are giving people an opportunity to send a message directly to the people who made this decision at letthemstay.ca.
00:44:16.400We need to nip this in the bud right now because there are other families that are probably watching this with horror saying, well, I'm in a Ronald McDonald house in Edmonton.
00:44:27.400When are they going to evict me and my child?
00:44:30.400So we need to, this might be a message to this CEO, but let it be a message to all of them that we will not stand for treating families who are, this is literally any parent's worst nightmare.
00:44:43.400This is the hardest thing this family will ever go through.
00:44:46.400And they have been told that they can rely on this children's charity to help them get through part of it.
00:44:52.400And then the rug was ripped out from underneath them.
00:44:56.400I will throw in there, I suppose it's not totally surprising, but apparently Australia, a Ronald McDonald house there is also doing the same thing.
00:45:05.400Um, so we'll update on that and, and it's just important that, uh, people look at the report too, because you get to hear a full, um, you know, interview with the family.
00:45:15.400I'm seeing snippets of, of what they said going up in other reports.
00:45:19.400And so it's nice to actually hear their side of the story, um, rather than the narrative that's going out.
00:45:25.400No, and, and one last thing, we're not calling for a boycott, a boycott, excuse me, of Ronald McDonald's children's charities.
00:45:33.400We, we think they do good work and they do help families when they need it, but we want them to maintain their mandate to help all the families they promised to help.
00:53:22.400Quebec is bringing in a sin tax on the unvaccinated because of their alleged burden on the healthcare system.
00:53:28.400But diabetes and high blood pressure are among the top comorbidities predicting bad outcomes for those who catch COVID, unvaccinated or otherwise.