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00:03:59.180They think they care about hospitals, but this person can't even keep two meters away from me.
00:04:04.720Like, I understand two meters is hard to understand, but yeah, so yeah, that's a good thing.
00:04:10.000Second of all, look at these double-standers.
00:04:11.960They are crybabies who are like, oh, honking is like audio terrorism.
00:04:16.280But then there were like, a few minutes ago, there's more people, and they were provoking honking, and then they were cheering it.
00:04:22.780Convoys for freedom are taking place across the country, and you're going to get fact-based reports from Rebel News because our boots are on the ground at convoyreports.com.
00:04:41.280I'm Drea Humphrey. I'm covering what went down February 5th in Vancouver's Freedom Convoy, and I'm actually just in front of some counter-protesters who are here to protest the individuals who routinely, in Vancouver's Freedom Movement, have always been peaceful.
00:04:58.220So you're not going to want to miss this report, and you're not going to want to miss any of them at convoyreports.com.
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00:05:20.680All right, so it looks like we're at the checkpoint where counter-protesters are here to protest the protesters of the Freedom Convoy.
00:05:29.080If you don't know that the Freedom Movement in the Lower Mainland has been going on for nearly two years. It's always been peaceful.
00:05:37.940There are signs about white supremacy. No one seems to want to be talking. I'll just read what they are gathering here for, according to their posts on Reddit.
00:05:47.000Goal one is to show the convoy that there are lots of people in the city who will loudly oppose them and their message.
00:05:55.860When I tried to ask what they think their message is, I stand with health care workers.
00:06:03.140Okay, what about the health care workers who are in the convoy? Do you stand with them too?
00:15:50.280So it's just this I think that a lot of it has to do with the propaganda that's going around.
00:15:56.460And when people see, you know, a politician or even a journalist from the CBC or something say something with a straight face,
00:16:06.000I think they automatically assume that that must be true.
00:16:09.960Like if Trudeau labels people in this way, it has to be truth or based on truth because they wouldn't say that in front of the whole, you know, world to see if it wasn't.
00:16:20.260So I think people just think because it's such a brazen message, it just has to be reality.
00:16:26.780Yeah, let's let's face facts here, Drea.
00:16:29.940The prime minister has lied through his teeth about this.
00:16:35.500Going back to what you said earlier about the percentage of people that support these trucker protests.
00:16:40.740It's actually a greater percentage than those who voted for the Trudeau liberals last September.
00:16:49.340So, again, you know, if you're getting your facts from the government, if you're getting your facts from the mainstream media, I think you're being duped.
00:19:39.560You have to have a stronger sense of community and a stronger tie to your neighbor when help and resources are not necessarily right around the corner.
00:19:47.540La Crete's also the Mennonite capital of the north.
00:19:50.980And if I know anything about my Anabaptist friends and neighbors, they love to stick together.
00:19:55.760A sense of community is part of their religion.
00:19:57.820And because of their strong ties to their faith, they see a moral obligation in opposing government mandates when those dictates run afoul of biblical teaching.
00:20:06.840But not everybody in La Crete is a Mennonite.
00:20:09.920For example, La Crete is home to a sister church of Edmonton's lockdown-resisting Grace Life Church.
00:20:15.220Grace Bible Fellowship, headed up by the very kind, Pastor Mike Hovland, has that same Christian worldview as his brothers and sisters in Christ over at Grace Life Church.
00:20:24.920These Christians feel a moral obligation to honor the laws of God over the laws of man when the laws of man conflict with those of God.
00:20:32.740For these folks, they say they are commanded to meet in person unrestricted every week.
00:20:39.920So it should have come as absolutely no surprise from the very beginning that when lockdowns and business closures and church restrictions came to Alberta, little La Crete, well, they just carried on the way they always have.
00:20:52.200And now I thought at the time about going up to visit this miraculous little town where life just went on as normal, but I didn't think they needed all the attention.
00:21:01.380What they were doing, well, it was truly wonderful, but I didn't want them to become a spectacle wherein suddenly the locker-downers called for the hammer of government to smash down on La Crete.
00:21:14.120So I let them be and I watched with awe as something fascinating and beautiful played out far away from the prying eyes of the lockdown mainstream media.
00:21:37.180And unlike other communities, the local government and the local chamber of commerce was completely on board with the decision of the citizens to live the way they wanted.
00:21:46.260Now, in the county, Mackenzie County, a stretch of land larger than New Brunswick, where La Crete is located, only 35% of the population is fully vaccinated to COVID-19.
00:21:56.640Because to live your life in La Crete, you didn't have to get vaccinated.
00:22:00.060So La Crete serves as a snapshot of people who would actually make the choice freely to be vaccinated if they weren't coerced by the government.
00:22:08.600This is another reason why La Crete is so important.
00:22:11.160It shows where people are really at once you remove the force of the state.
00:22:15.580At the beginning of the pandemic, when La Crete didn't lock down, the media was kind of mad.
00:22:21.160They treated La Crete like a bunch of religious weirdos, these backwards people at the end of the road.
00:22:26.120And I think the media watched with a little bit of hope for, and I told you so, a catastrophic disease event to unfold and La Crete to prove their points about lockdowns and vaccines.
00:22:45.580Until this past December, when CBC tried to stoke division in the community.
00:22:49.620Two months after the province of Alberta brought in a vaccine passport system, they say they never would.
00:22:55.140CBC ran a story where they found somebody in town who wears a mask when he feels like it, which is all anybody ever wanted in the first place.
00:23:24.860The pandemic is over in Little La Crete, situated in northwest Alberta.
00:23:30.280But it seems so counterintuitive, doesn't it?
00:23:33.260After all, this town ignored the edicts of health bureaucrats who insisted on people masking up and all that other stuff.
00:23:41.160They also insisted that facilities should never be full capacity and so on and so on.
00:23:47.820Indeed, if one were to believe it, the doom and gloom dogtators would paint La Crete as a place that is destined to become a super spreader town,
00:23:59.140given its lowest vaccination rate in the entire province.
00:24:03.640But nothing could be further from the truth.
00:24:06.840And with more on this story is our chief reporter herself, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:24:18.000Sheila, I got to tell you, I think that was one of your very best reports ever.
00:24:22.400And the story of La Crete should be front-page news.
00:24:25.580But, of course, it won't be because it goes completely against the mainstream media narrative.
00:24:30.900But here's the thing, when it comes to the science element of the, let's call it the La Crete miracle, what's the deal?
00:24:40.000Why did this town do so well by ignoring the advice of the health bureaucrats?
00:24:47.060You know, they did so well specifically because they are so far from the city.
00:24:51.540So they're so far from the tattletales and you couldn't, I don't think, get local cops to enforce the mandates on them
00:25:00.980because they have to live and work in these communities.
00:25:03.620So what saved them was just distance and a sense of community and they're tied to their faith.
00:25:09.800All those things that sort of make rural Alberta so great.
00:25:14.180They just decided from the very beginning, no, we don't live here at the end of the road so that people in Edmonton can tell us how to live our lives.
00:25:24.560And so they rejected the fear, they rejected the division, and they just carried on the way they always did.
00:25:33.220And as I say in my report, the media was cheering for a catastrophe.
00:25:37.720The catastrophe never came, so then the media stopped paying attention to La Crete because they were counter to the narrative that the locker-downers in the mainstream media
00:25:48.640and the politicians wanted everybody to believe.
00:25:52.980And for them, what I think is most important about La Crete is with their 35% vaccination rate,
00:26:01.340I think that is the most accurate snapshot of how many people in this province would have gotten vaccinated
00:26:13.360if there weren't government coercion involved because in La Crete, you could just choose to get vaccinated.
00:26:20.760But you didn't need to get vaccinated to watch your kids play hockey, to go to the gym, to participate in everyday life,
00:27:58.700So they might want to take that out of their name when you're reliant on the government for subsidies so you can keep your doors open.
00:28:06.280But in La Crete, it was the Chamber of Commerce that facilitated the testing, that showed the world that there was another way.
00:28:15.080Instead of Chamber of Commerce agreeing with the lockdowns, this Chamber of Commerce said, we didn't lock down, we didn't force any businesses to do anything.
00:29:00.120And we are obligated to listen to the people who elected us.
00:29:03.480So whereas all these other institutions all across the country failed to represent the people, in La Crete, the institutions we expect to represent people actually did the right thing.
00:29:16.200And Sheila, let's talk about another institution, the mainstream media, which I think in this story achieved yet another despicable benchmark in terms of reporting that they weren't depicting this as a good news story.
00:29:30.320There were so many tattletale COVID Karens saying, hey, look at this, look at this, when there was nothing to look at.
00:29:41.600Back in the day when you saw the credo of so many journalistic outfits, such as the Toronto Star, was afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
00:29:51.840It seems to be the opposite these days.
00:29:54.760As you said in your piece, the media isn't skeptical of government anymore.
00:30:00.640They're skeptical of people who are skeptical of the government.
00:30:23.600They kind of like not having to get up and go to work, do all your work by Zoom, tune into a press conference, ask a politician a question over Zoom.
00:30:35.320You don't actually have to do very much anymore, which is good for us because we actually have journalists out in the field, which means that we have more eyeballs on our work than ever because the mainstream media is falling down on the job.
00:30:48.440I think a lot of the mainstream media stoking this fear is because they just don't want to get back out there into the world and work.
00:30:57.620I think a lot of it has to do with laziness.
00:31:00.360But there was at some point a switch, as you point out, where the media went from holding the government to account on behalf of the people to holding the people to account on behalf of the government.
00:31:15.300And that switch, while I think it was voluntary, it's being reinforced by government bailouts and subsidies, in particular the CBC.
00:31:32.400And I don't know how they're even selling advertising, considering how few people actually watch them.
00:31:38.660If I were a company looking to get eyeballs on my product, I'm not sure that I would be reaching out to the CBC and saying, how much for an ad buy?
00:31:46.840Because it's a statistical rounding error of Canadians who actually watch that content.
00:31:51.800So, CBC, of course, enforces the government fearmonger lockdown line because they work for the government at the end of the day and not for the people.
00:32:07.100I think it's a philosophy of don't bite the government hand that feeds them, especially in what is a sunset industry in terms of many aspects of the media these days, especially print.
00:32:18.360I also think there's an ideological element at play here, Sheila.
00:32:25.100We have so many progressive Marxists in the media, and that tells you all that you need to know.
00:32:31.960Well, you know, we've got to wrap it here.
00:32:33.040I want to urge our viewers, please go and watch Sheila's entire piece.
00:33:24.260More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:33:26.380David Menzies for Rebel News here near Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
00:33:35.800Well, folks, it looks like at the one-week mark of the trucker protests, it could be that, yet again, more than 100,000 people are going to assemble here.
00:33:45.140There are reports of another 200 to 300 more trucks coming in.
00:33:50.400This city is jammed like I've never seen it.
00:33:53.640And, you know, I couldn't help but notice the missed opportunity as my camera member, Rich, who and I walked down towards Parliament Hill.
00:34:02.940Restaurant after restaurant was closed up.
00:34:31.760Why are they closed when there's so much business to be had?
00:34:35.400Well, you know, there's a lot of fear being spread on the news.
00:34:38.320There's a lot of information that they decide to share.
00:34:41.520And the thing is, they've created so much fear that people think we can't be here.
00:34:47.560But if people came and actually saw the love and acceptance, there's no reason that these restaurants should be closed out of fear of what's happening.
00:35:52.360You know, there are so many angles when it comes to the Ottawa Freedom Convoy protest.
00:35:57.540And one of those storylines is the supposed negative financial impact being inflicted on so many downtown Ottawa businesses because of the convoy.
00:36:07.660But the question arises, who is really to blame for that fiscal pain?
00:36:13.560Well, if you believe the mainstream media narrative, these businesses had to close due to health and safety concerns.
00:36:20.960You know, the idea that the Freedom Convoy supporters are violent and prone to assault and vandalism.
00:36:31.840And yet, about 90% of downtown Ottawa restaurants closed shop last weekend because they believed the hype.
00:36:39.600That's too bad because the eateries that remained open had lineups of customers out the door.
00:36:46.760And the demonstrators who patronized those eateries were brandishing wallets, not weapons.
00:36:53.400Don't expect the likes of the CBC to report on that, however.
00:36:57.420In any event, you had plenty to say about this missed opportunity for so many business people who bought into the fear factor, missing out on a jackpot in the process.
00:37:09.540Greg M writes, I'm quite certain that the businesses that chose to close will be receiving government checks for whatever arbitrary amounts the big thinkers on Parliament Hill decide.
00:37:22.360And you can bet that they are fully aware of this.
00:37:25.800It's going to end up being a paid vacation for the owners, but probably not for the minimum wage employees.
00:37:32.540Well, you know, you might be right, Greg.
00:37:38.440That seems to be the whiz-bang slogan of the Liberals these days.
00:37:42.880Besides, the budget will balance itself, right?
00:37:46.980Terry W writes, can't wait to hear the opened restaurants bragging of exceptional weekend business to those that remain closed.
00:37:55.280Oh, believe me, Terry, those restaurants that remained open enjoyed record sales last weekend.
00:38:01.020And it's a simple supply and demand equation when there are some 100,000 people in the downtown core, but 9 out of 10 restaurants close their doors for no good reason.
00:38:11.880Well, that is a missed opportunity for those scaredy cats due to buying into a completely false fear factor.
00:38:33.860It's almost as if most of the downtown Ottawa restaurants are owned and operated by lazy government bureaucrats as opposed to hardworking entrepreneurs.
00:38:45.720And Skedi Kostin writes, so why is the mayor squawking about the businesses being hurt by the protests?