EZRA LEVANT ｜ Bringing you every moment from the Trucker Commission
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The Trucker Public Order Commission of Inquiry gets underway in Ottawa, Canada on October 13, 2019. Rebel News will be there covering the proceedings every day for the next six weeks, making sure that Justin Trudeau does not flip the script and put the truckers on trial.
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Hello, my rebels. Maybe you can hear the traffic in the background. I'm not in the studio. I'm
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actually on the street, the intersection of Wellington and Bay Street in downtown Ottawa,
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outside the public inquiry into Trudeau's invocation of martial law. We are here not
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just today, but for the next six weeks, covering this commission of inquiry, making sure that
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Trudeau is not able to flip the script and put the truckers on trial. The whole purpose of this
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commission is to hold his feet to the fire for his invocation of martial law. I'm here,
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and over the course of the next six weeks, 15 Rebel News journalists will cycle through. It's
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going to be very exciting. It's a visual story, too, and that's why I want you to go to rebelnewsplus.com.
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which I think is so valuable. So go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, the Trucker Commission of Inquiry gets underway in Ottawa, and Rebel News will be there
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every day. It's October 13th, and this is The Ezra LeVance Show.
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You're fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug!
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I'm in Calgary this morning, but by the time I land in the afternoon, I will be in Ottawa. I will be
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going to our special Airbnb studio. We have rented a private home for the duration of the Trucker
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Public Order Commission of Inquiry. That's the judicial inquiry into Justin Trudeau's use
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of a form of martial law under the Emergencies Act. Let me just backtrack a bit and give you some
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background. As you remember, in late January and February, thousands of truckers spontaneously
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converged on Ottawa and other places too, like Windsor, Ontario and Cootes, Alberta,
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to protest against the violation of our civil liberties inherent in the vaccine mandates and
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other lockdown laws. It was beautiful because it was so real and so authentic and so Canadian and so
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organic. There was no master organizer of it, certainly no political party. Every political
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party in Parliament, both government and opposition loved the mandates and the lockdowns. None spoke
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against it. Every judge in every court supported them. Every mainstream media outlet absolutely
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propagandized for it. The colleges of physicians and surgeons hunted down any doctors who dared have a
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second opinion and the police enforced it all. But these truckers alone, working class,
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independent-minded Canadians from all across the country, from every racial and ethnic background,
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from Quebec, it was wonderful to see so many Quebec truckers converged in a very peaceful way
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in Ottawa. And Trudeau was embarrassed and shocked and he tried to demonize them as violent and he whipped
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up misinformation and hoaxes, trying to blame them, saying they were violent, they were not violent. In fact,
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crime in Ottawa decreased as the truckers occupied. I use the word occupy very loosely. I went down there
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and there were a few blocks of the city where the truckers took up most of the road, but they always
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left a lane free for emergency vehicles. And I should tell you, having been down there myself, it was the
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police that shut down the downtown. It was police that blocked the roads because they didn't want anyone
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else to come. It was not an occupation. It was a peaceful protest in the nation's capital. Not a
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single act of violence reported, let alone charged. It was beautiful. It was patriotic. It was hot tubs
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and bouncy castles. It was people spontaneously singing the anthem and waving Canadian flags. I have
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never been to such an event in my life. It felt like a festival of patriotism. And it was wonderful.
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One of the highlights for me was when I was asked by the truckers to stand up on their
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stage and give a few words. Here's a speech I gave about how I felt that moment that the truckers had
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an enormous victory. Take a look at my one minute on the stage at the trucker convoy.
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...to not be violated anymore. Justin Trudeau says you're extreme, but he's the one who has violated
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our civil rights. He says you're a fringe. Well, that's a pretty bloody big fringe.
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Let me close by saying this. Someone asked me this morning, what's the point? What's going to happen?
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Why did we all gather in Ottawa? Is he going to listen? Is he going to resign? Is the governor
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general going to ask him to step down? No. He'll hold on to power as hard as he can.
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Let me tell you what I think the point is. The point is the convoy itself. To show that
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you're not alone. To show that you're not the crazy one they are. To show that you're not
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the crazy one there. You already achieved your goal just by being here. And the fact that millions
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of dollars came into the GoFundMe for the truckers, even if they would have cancelled that, it was
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still a success. Because it was a measurement of how much people cared. You have succeeded
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He got the fight. Congratulations to the organizers. But really, it was millions of Canadians along the way in the convoy
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and watching today from home. Tell them what happened. Tell them what you saw. Because they
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will not hear the truth from anyone else. Keep up the fight, everybody. Keep fighting for freedom.
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I enjoyed being there. I was only there for a few days, but Rebel News reporters covered that convoy
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more comprehensively than any other media organization. In Canada, we had reporters Lincoln Jay and Alexa Lavoie,
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both fairly new to Rebel at the time. I think they worked 23 days straight in Ottawa. Alexa herself got shot
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in the leg by a riot cop who clearly knew who she was and just hated the fact that she was telling the truth.
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Take a look at this awful moment. This was the lowest moment in the seven and a half years of Rebel News.
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Can you believe it? I called up Alexa 20 minutes after she was shot and I said, go to the hospital now.
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the hospital now. And she said to me, no, I will stay to report on the rest of this protest
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before I go. I can't believe her courage. But that courage was the same as all of our rebel
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journalists, Celine Glass and Mocha Bazirgen, who embedded themselves with the convoys and went
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across Canada. Sidney Fazzard, Kian Simone, who went down for nine days straight in the same set
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of clothing to cover the Coutts blockade. David Menzies and Isabel Rivoche, who went to the
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Windsor blockade. I'm not going to try and name everyone, Drea Humphrey. We had a total deployment
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of our team. I remember one weekend we had 19 rebel reporters covering the truckers. It was
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our time to shine, the moment we had been preparing for our entire company life. When we started,
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our motto was telling the other side of the story. And our style was citizen journalism. And our rule
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was take no money from the government. We didn't know it at the time, but the first five years of
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Rebel News existence was practicing and training and preparing for this great crisis. For when it
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came, we were the only major media organization. I call us major. We're tiny compared to the big guys.
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But we had 19 reporters on the ground and it showed. All around the world, people looked for
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the facts about the trucker convoy and they went to Rebel News, not the CBC, which is merely Trudeau
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propagandist. Our journalists were on Fox News, Sky News, ITV, Deutsche Welle, all over the world. It
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was a wonderful moment. And we helped tell the truth and stop the regime media from smearing this
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protest, which was clearly their ambition. They wanted to say these people were terrorists. They
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were extremists. They were white supremacists. They were violent. None of those things were true.
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There was violence, as I mentioned, but it was violence against the truckers and against reporters.
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There was no racism. In fact, many heroes of different backgrounds were born during the
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trucker convoy. One of my favorites is Palminder Singh, the great Sikh trucker who showed just
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how diverse this was. It was wonderful. Anyways, it was a disaster for Trudeau on a policy level
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and a PR level. And he panicked. He made an unforced error. He brought in a form of martial law
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under the Emergencies Act, a law that has never been used in Canada before and was intended
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to fight off a war or a violent insurrection. Trudeau invoked it because there was some horn honking
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in Ottawa by some truckers. What a pitiful excuse for a leader he was. And he overdid it. He deployed
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horses to stomp on people. Remember this awful, awful moment that was shown around the world.
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Oh, come on through. Come on through. What is happening here? Wow. What is this lady doing?
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Trampling. Trampling horses. Trampling. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. What? Oh, my God.
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That was dramatic, deploying horses to stomp on protesters. But there were countless small
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moments of tyranny, things that belong more in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, China, not Canada. Remember when
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this elderly man, five foot feet high, was physically abused simply because he honk honked his horn
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in support? This was one of the most disgraceful moments I saw of police brutality at Trudeau's
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Hey. Hey. Hey. That's assault. I've got it all on video.
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And I went to turn away to walk away to the van. And I went to turn and he grabbed me by
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the shoulders and then said, you are under arrest. I'm afraid to go out of the house. I'm afraid of
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Of course, the great overreach was the invocation of martial law, seizing bank accounts. Apparently
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only 200 of Trudeau's opponents had their bank accounts seized, which is atrocious. No one should
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have. But those 200 spooked probably 2 million Canadians who thought, well, I'm a conservative.
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I oppose Justin Trudeau. I may have donated to the truckers. I may have donated to the Conservative
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Party or Maxime Bernier's People Party. Am I going to have my bank account seized? We don't
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know the total number, but it wouldn't surprise me if billions of dollars was withdrawn from
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Canadian banks and relocated to the U.S. or another jurisdiction with the First Amendment
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beyond Trudeau's reach. Luckily, even some of Trudeau's own senators were shocked and appalled
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by his misconduct. And they balked and they refused to support the Emergencies Act when it went to the
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Senate. And Trudeau had to walk it back. But the spell was broken. The false consciousness that
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all Canadians supported the lockdowns and vaccine mandates and Trudeau's brutal language. That was
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broken. I mean, this was actually considered acceptable. Remember when Trudeau said, do the
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unvaccinated take up too much space? Should we even tolerate them? Aren't they just misogynistic?
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Here's a few video clips that were considered normal and that, if anything, got cheerleading
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from the media party. None of these atrocious, bigoted statements I'm about to show you
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were condemned by the media. They loved it. Remember these?
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Des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.
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Qui croient pas dans la science, qui sont souvent misogynes, souvent racistes aussi. C'est
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un petit groupe, mais qui prend de la place. Et là , il faut faire un choix en tant que leader,
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Get vaccinated. And you know what? If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice.
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But don't think you can get on a plane or a train besides vaccinated people and put them
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at risk. We need to be strong in the decisions we're taking going forward.
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Truckers pierced that balloon, not just the thousands of truckers, but the hundreds of thousands,
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maybe even a million Canadians who went out along the highways and overpasses to watch them and see
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them. And they weren't just watching and seeing this amazing democratic phenomenon. They themselves
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were realizing that they had been lied to by the regime media, that there was this artificial
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unanimity. Trudeau kept saying 90% of people support this. 90% of people took the jab. I don't
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believe that statistic is true, actually. But if it is true, it's because people were forced to on
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pain of being terminated. The people who went out to cheer for the truckers, this was their way of
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proving that they weren't the crazy ones, even though everyone said they were. But Trudeau,
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who was destroying our civil liberties, was the crazy one. A lot of good things started to happen.
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Justin Trudeau, of course, showed his true face. He bared his fangs. And I think people don't look
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at him the same way since. Aaron O'Toole, who initially told his caucus never to talk to the truckers,
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he was thrown out by his conservative caucus that was sick of him being a liberal Me Too.
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Jason Kenney, who bizarrely became one of the most abusive enforcers of the lockdowns,
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he was thrown out by his party as well, replaced by Danielle Smith just last week, who has repeatedly
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said that the lockdowns were a civil liberties disaster and who, in fact, said she would apologize
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to Albertans who were punished by the lockdowns and the mandates. The truckers did a lot of things.
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And Trudeau didn't forget that. Trudeau is a vengeful man. He has vendettas. He wants to get
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even. It's one reason why he extended the ban on travel for unvaccinated people longer than any other
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country in the Free West. Only China and countries that abusive and totalitarian, North Korea, had those
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kind of punitive rules against the unvaccinated as long as Trudeau did. Trudeau failed in large part
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because of our coverage, but now he's getting a do-over. This judicial commission that I referred
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to that is now six weeks in the going to run in Ottawa. If you actually look at the mandate,
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the terms of reference, you'll see that what was supposed to be putting Trudeau on trial
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for his violation of our civil liberties. Well, Trudeau has told the judge, nah, I'm not much
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interested in that, mate. I want you to put the truckers on trial. I'm going to read now from the
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official mandate letter that was given to the judge by Trudeau.
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A, the evolution and goals of the convoy and blockades, their leadership organization
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and participants. Let me back up a bit. Let me read the preceding line. The commissioner must
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examine issues to the extent relevant to the circumstances of the declaration and measures
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taken. So Trudeau is ordering the judge to focus on these things. The evolution and goals of the
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convoy and blockades, their leadership organization and participants, the impact of domestic and foreign
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funding, including crowdsourcing platforms. C, the impact role and sources of misinformation and
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disinformation, including the use of social media. Hang on, none of those things there have anything
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to do with what Trudeau did. Putting the truckers on trial for misinformation is a laugh. I mean, the CBC
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went with this crazy story of misinformation and foreign meddling. Look at this nut bar. By the way,
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she is since being promoted at the CBC. Here she is saying that Putin, Vladimir Putin was behind
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the truckers. I'm laughing, but it's so deeply embarrassing for the regime media. Remember this?
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Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia. I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask,
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but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows,
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but perhaps even instigating it from the outset. She's being promoted. But my point is this trucker
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commission has been instructed by Justin Trudeau not to scrutinize too closely Trudeau himself,
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but rather to put the truckers on trial and their misinformation, as if misinformation or as if
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the trucker leadership in some way would justify the suspension of our civil liberties. You know,
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Trudeau doesn't really believe in the rule of law. We know this from countless examples. I'll give you
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a few of them. He doesn't believe that norms about sexual assault apply to him. You'll remember when he
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was caught having sexually assaulted Rose Knight in Creston, BC, he just shrugged and told journalists,
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well, she experienced it differently. Remember that? This lesson that we are learning in, and I'll be
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blunt about it. Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate,
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and a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently, and we have to respect.
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He's been doing it his whole life. He gets away with things. You know, he tells the story of
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when his own family had a run-in with the police. His father just made a few phone calls
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as a child and made the whole thing go away. He was grown up believing that he was above the law.
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Remember this shocking interview? I think this was with Vice. He got in a terrible, terrible car
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accident, and his truck tumbled, and a Sucretes box went flying across the highway. And when the
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police were helping him clean up and tow, they opened up the Sucretes box, and there's a couple of
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joints inside. So he was charged with possession. When he got back home to Montreal, my dad said,
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okay, don't worry about it, reached out to his friends in the legal community, got the best
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possible lawyer, and was very confident that we were going to be able to make those charges go away.
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We were able to do that because we had resources. My dad had a couple connections.
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You don't have to reach back into ancient history. Trudeau fired his attorney general,
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, the first Indigenous justice minister in Canadian history,
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because she wouldn't let him rig a criminal trial for bribery and corruption of his pals
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at SNC-Lavalin. He literally fired the justice minister because she wouldn't let him meddle in
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that trial. Remember that? And of course, his repeated corruption and violation of the
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Conflict of Interest Act. He just won't stop taking gifts and benefits, a hundred thousand dollars
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on a secret vacation on Billionaire Island in the Bahamas. He is rebuked again and again and doesn't
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give a damn. Why should he? The laws are for the little people. Even Rebel News shows that he doesn't
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care about the law. Twice, Justin Trudeau's hand-picked debates commission banned our reporters
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from going to cover those debates. Twice, the federal court ordered us in. And when our reporter,
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Alexa Lavois asked him about that, he didn't care. He simply did not believe that he had to obey a
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judicial ruling merely hours old. Remember when Alexa and Tamara put questions to him? Here's a
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reminder of that. The only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the federal
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court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not a journalist.
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This is the second election in a row that the court had to overturn your government. Do you still insist
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on being able to make that decision and why? First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by
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the press gallery and the consortium of networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism
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and the important information that is shared with Canadians. The reality is organizations
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organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science
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around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic and be there for each
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other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger and lack of
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understanding of basic science. And quite frankly, I won't call it a media organization, your group of
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individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this
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country. And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we
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take about the kind of country we want to see. And I salute all extraordinary hardworking journalists
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that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure
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that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing
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that you guys do. Yeah. So Justin Trudeau, why would he think this judicial inquiry about his misconduct
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during the truckers is of any interest to him? His goal is to pervert it, to turn it around and put the
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truckers under the microscope rather than his own conduct. It's my mission that he does not succeed with
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that. I believe that Rebel News journalists helped foil Trudeau's propaganda plans when the convoy came to
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town. I know this to be a fact because we had such an enormous viewership of our videos and tweets and
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Facebook posts and Instagram posts. We had more eyeballs on our coverage of that story than we had
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in the entire year of 2021. People were interested and they were interested, as our motto says,
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in the other side of the story. That's why we're going back to Ottawa. We've rented the Airbnb. We've
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turned it into a local studio. I'm going to be there as many days as I can. We've got 15 Rebel News
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reporters who are going to rotate through this little Airbnb. They're going to stay there in the
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Airbnb. We're going to use the living room of this Airbnb as a little studio. We're not just going to
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analyze what's going on in this commission of inquiry. We're going to have reporters on the
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streets. We're going to interview witnesses and lawyers. I should tell you, we know there are a few
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good guys on the inside of this commission. Keith Wilson, a lawyer for the truckers. He's with the
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Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. Alan Hohner, also a lawyer for some truckers. He's with
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the Democracy Fund. Both of them have been granted intervener status with this commission of inquiry.
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So it's not just government lawyers engaging in a Trudeopian cover-up. There's a couple of lawyers
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whose mission is to elucidate, not obfuscate. So if you're wondering what we're up to, well,
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there's a lot going on in Rebel News. We have a team of journalists going overseas right now to
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cover the World Health Organization Summit at the giant United Nations Conference in Berlin.
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That's very important. In fact, some of our best reporters are headed over there. Guillaume Ra and
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Alexa Lavoie, Tamara Ugolini, Ed Crawford, and of course, Drea Humphrey. So we've got five journalists,
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three on-air talent and two producers and video editors. So we're covering the World Health
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Organization in Berlin right away. But we are going to put through 15 different reporters over the
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next six weeks in Ottawa. And if you can help me out, please do, you know, renting that Airbnb
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for a month and a half, that big, that location, that close to the inquiry. It's about $15,000.
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And when you add in the other costs of supporting our team, flying them there, helping keep them
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going. You know, we have other costs in the city, whether it's Ubers or food and just getting our
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people in and out because no one's going to do all six weeks together. I think we're going to wind up
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spending about $30,000 covering this Trucker Commission. And if you want to follow the Trucker
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Commission or help us chip in to cover it, please go to truckercommission.com. Anyways, I'm here in
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Calgary reporting, recording this. I've got to go right away. I'm going to get on a plane right now.
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I'm going to fly to Ottawa and I'm going to join our head of video, Efron Monsanto,
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and our wonderful young reporter based in Ottawa, William Diaz Bertheon, who's on the ground already.
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So when I see you next, I will be in our nation's capital and I'll tell you what the Airbnb is like.
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So goodbye from Calgary and I'll see you in a minute from Ottawa.
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Well, hello. When I recorded my monologue this morning, I was in Calgary. That's where we were
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doing the documentary premiere of our movie called Ungovernable. It was about Alberta sovereignty.
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That was a great event last night. Started the day in Calgary. I'm here in Ottawa. It's not nighttime
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yet. I'm standing in front of 395 Wellington Street, the intersection of Wellington and Bay.
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This is the Library and Archives of Canada, which is the forum for the Commission of Inquiry,
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run by a judge into Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act. And with me is our friend
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William Diaz Bertheon, our on-the-ground Ottawa reporter who has been here all day. In fact,
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he lives in Ottawa, so he's become quite good at spotting politicians on these streets,
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running after them and putting great questions to them. William, I think you've been doing an
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amazing job and you've continued that today. Great to see you. Good to see you too, Ezra.
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Now tell me a little bit about how the day has gone. I want to tell you one of the most exciting
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things to me. I don't have it in my pocket. Oh, I think I do. I'm talking about the accreditation.
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I'll show you mine. The accreditation of 13 Rebel News journalists. And I see you have yours as well.
00:27:11.040
That feels great. So we are officially part of this process. Yeah, no, exactly. So we're basically
00:27:16.880
sitting in the media room alongside all the other mainstream media reporters. I know Western Standard
00:27:21.360
also got accredited, so we're going to be able to see them. So you know it's great. We have access
00:27:25.120
inside the building. We're able to scrum the people coming out when Omar al-Jabra is going to show his
00:27:29.920
little face in the building. When Justin Trudeau is going to be here as well. We're also going to be
00:27:33.440
able to scrum them. I don't think they're going to be happy to see us, Ezra. Right, because they do
00:27:37.440
their best to block us. They've blocked us from the leaders debates, although twice the federal court
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is accredited to us. You know, the fact that I'm talking about this, I shouldn't have to talk about
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this. We're in a free country and we have the right to ask questions of our political leaders.
00:27:50.800
The fact that the government is so obsessed of restricting questions gives us a hint
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about how badly needed this inquiry is. Justin Trudeau simply doesn't believe in civil liberties.
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And the fact that you and I will have a chance to put questions to him will infuriate him. And
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frankly, it'll infuriate a lot of the media party because remember, they are the ones who have blackballed
00:28:12.080
us from the parliamentary press gallery. Tell me about some of the scrums you actually started.
00:28:18.880
I saw the video clips. Why don't you set up the Tamara Leach clip and then we'll talk about the
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Keith Wilson clip. And because there's a story behind both. Go ahead and tell us what happened
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when you saw Tamara Leach. Yeah, so basically Tamara Leach was coming
00:28:32.000
into the building after one of the recess that were there. And I saw her and she saw me,
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so she kind of came and shook my hand. But she didn't talk to any other reporter. I think because
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of her bail condition, she's not fully allowed to talk to reporters, which I find absolutely outrageous.
00:28:46.560
You know, in Russia, it's not even that bad. It's Vladimir Putin's Russia, right. So she couldn't
00:28:51.280
talk to the reporter, but her lawyer actually agreed to speak to me. And later on, I asked him if he
00:28:56.000
could give us an interview and he agreed to have the interview. So I started doing an interview with
00:28:59.280
him. And you see in the video, about two minutes after, not even two minutes after I started questioning
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him, some mainstream media reporters, CTV, National Press, Global Mail, CBC News reporter,
00:29:10.000
come around us and actually came to the scrum that I initiated. That was pretty funny to watch, yeah.
00:29:15.360
Well, that's pretty fun. Let's take a quick look at that Tamara Leach interaction.
00:29:18.480
That was a brief one, but here's how your Keith Wilson interview went. We won't play the whole thing,
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but I want to show the point you made. You, no one was talking to these people. You went up to them
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and it, I would say it was a benefit to the other media that Rebel News and you in particular showed
00:29:58.960
them who the newsmakers were. They would have ignored these people. I don't know why the rest
00:30:03.200
of the media keeps us out other than ideological differences. And maybe they think we're a competitive
00:30:07.680
threat. Yeah. Well, I think it's because we ask tough questions, right? You talk about the media,
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but I think there's more to the media. There's also the government and above it,
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right? You got Omar Aljaba that I always put a mic up to his face and he's not able to answer
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a single question. He's not used to questions that aren't so loving. Yeah. Well, you saw,
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you saw him have a meltdown, a literal meltdown. When I saw him for the fourth time in front of
00:30:27.440
parliament, he was meltdown. He said, I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you.
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I never saw him scream before. And that's the first time he actually scram at me.
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Let's take a quick look at that for those who don't remember. Take a look.
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You know, I don't want to talk to you. I really don't want to talk to you.
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Why don't you want to talk to Canadians that you're supposed to represent?
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Canadians every day. No, you don't because we've got a million viewers watching us on YouTube
00:30:45.920
and you absolutely refuse to answer the question. Why do you have so much contempt for conservative
00:30:49.440
Canadians? I don't want to talk to you. You don't want to? No. Is it because it's too hard?
00:31:00.160
Why do you have so much contempt for conservative Canadians across the country to the point that you
00:31:04.400
refuse to even address them when we ask questions? I love Canadians. It's just you do so much harm to
00:31:09.680
Canadians with your misinformation. What did I say that was misinformation? Name me one thing.
00:31:13.920
But I wish you all with your career. One thing. I wish you all with your career because
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this is a great job for you. This is incredible, folks. Name me one thing that was misinformation.
00:31:30.240
Well, that's exciting. I'm thrilled that we're here. I'm going to be here. I want to tell you
00:31:34.240
that every night we can we're going to have a live stream on the day's experiences. So we are going
00:31:40.560
to we just came from the Airbnb. We rented a really big Airbnb just a few blocks away from this building.
00:31:48.160
It couldn't be closer. Like it's so fast to walk here. It's faster than taking a cab. And we did that
00:31:52.880
on purpose. So we're very close access to here. It's got four bedrooms. So we're going to rotate
00:31:58.000
through Rebel News journalists for the next six weeks. And and we've got a little mini TV studio
00:32:03.600
set up in there. So every day we're going to talk to people, talk to reporters, talk to witnesses and
00:32:08.000
look as well. Right. We're going to have a daily live stream. We're going to be able to explain
00:32:11.440
exactly what exactly happened during the day and what what you need to know about the inquiry.
00:32:15.760
Yeah, I'm very excited. This is a big project for Rebel News. I mean, just booking this Airbnb alone
00:32:20.800
was about fifteen thousand dollars, which sounds shocking. But when you realize we're getting it for a month
00:32:25.520
and a half and it's right downtown and we're using it as a studio, I think it's a good investment.
00:32:30.240
We're going to cycle through 15 different reporters and producers. So we might actually have to get a
00:32:37.040
few more press accreditations. And it's not just witnesses and lawyers. I mean, there's a lot going
00:32:44.480
on. There's going to be street protests. You were here and you said there were protests on the street
00:32:47.760
this morning. Is that right? Yeah, this morning there were about five people that were here this morning
00:32:51.120
with a Canada flag to basically protest, you know, the federal government. Same thing as we saw during
00:32:56.240
the convoy. And I just want to mention one more thing. As you know, we love the Democracy Fund.
00:33:02.480
That's a registered CRA charity that supports a lot of trucker lawyers. And Alan Honor, one of the lawyers
00:33:10.720
for the Democracy Fund, he actually received intervener status. So has the JCCF, by the way.
00:33:17.280
So there are some good guys on the inside. We already mentioned Keith Wilson. I just want to show you a clip
00:33:23.200
of Alan Honor's statement today from the Democracy Fund. Take a look at this guy. My name is Alan Honor and I am
00:33:29.840
the litigation director for the Democracy Fund. The Democracy Fund is a registered charity and a civil liberties
00:33:37.520
organization. As you've heard, we're sharing standing with the JCCF and with Citizens for Freedom.
00:33:43.440
Our interest in this inquiry arises from our legal work. In February of 2022, we sent lawyers to Ottawa
00:33:53.280
and to Windsor to provide demonstrators with legal information about their rights when protesting,
00:34:01.520
as well as the limitations of those rights. Around the same time, we were granted intervener status
00:34:08.640
as a friend of the court at the Superior Court of Justice in Windsor over the Ambassador Bridge injunction
00:34:17.600
proceeding. Currently, we represent dozens of persons who have been criminally charged in relation to the
00:34:25.440
protests at Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts. And we represent thousands of others who've been charged under the
00:34:33.520
quarantine act or provincial offenses related to the pandemic. We've also brought applications between
00:34:41.520
before Superior Courts and the Federal Court of Canada, challenging laws related to the pandemic.
00:34:49.200
Our objective is to participate in the fact-finding process of this inquiry, particularly as it relates to
00:34:56.000
uncovering the truth about why the federal government invoked a public order emergency and how they used
00:35:03.440
their powers. From our perspective, the government did not meet the requisite legal grounds to invoke
00:35:10.400
a public order emergency for the same reasons you heard from Council for the Freedom Corps.
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It follows that the extraordinary measures the government invoked were therefore inappropriate and
00:35:23.200
indeed outside their jurisdiction. Our questions and our submissions will focus on these central issues. Thank you.
00:35:33.200
Well, there's a lot going on. It's a bit of a drizzle here. You and I are getting a little bit wet, but
00:35:37.440
but we're both waterproof, so it's no problem. It's very exciting to be in the heart of Ottawa and to be
00:35:43.360
accredited to cover this and to have some good lawyers on the inside. Keith Wilson, Alan Hohner,
00:35:49.200
and I think there's a couple others. So I think this is a very important project for us because I think
00:35:54.080
that Justin Trudeau wants to use this inquiry to flip the tables, turn the tables and put the truckers on
00:36:00.000
trial, whereas the whole point of it is to put him on trial, a sort of trial, for his decision to suspend
00:36:05.680
our civil liberties. The regime media, the media party are going to try and help Trudeau turn it around on
00:36:11.520
the truckers. It's our job to shine a light of scrutiny on the truth and to ask the questions
00:36:17.680
that this commission should ask. Why did Justin Trudeau suspend our civil liberties? Why did he
00:36:23.840
deploy riot police against peaceful protesters? Why did he seize bank accounts? Why did he put us in a
00:36:29.440
form of martial law? That's what's interesting, not what some truckers said. Yeah, well, that's exactly
00:36:34.000
the point. You know, the point of the commission is not to see if the what the convoy protesters did
00:36:38.240
were illegal or if it was justified or if it was all right. It's see if Justin Trudeau's response to
00:36:43.120
a protest was justified if that was something legal to do. Well, William, we're so proud of your work on
00:36:49.440
the streets of Ottawa, en Francais and in English. You're doing a great job. I love your interactions
00:36:55.120
with the cabinet ministers, especially your best friend Omar Alcabria. Great to see you. I'll be here
00:37:00.320
today and tomorrow. And we're going to have Rebel News reporters cycling through
00:37:05.040
from Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa with my friend William Diaz Bertiom.
00:37:19.600
Well, when I said back to the studio, it's just me actually standing here in Ottawa because I didn't
00:37:25.280
go back to the studio. I'm here. Listen, I'm very excited to be here and William and our friend
00:37:31.680
Efron Monsanto and Kian Simone are here and more journalists on the way. We really are going full
00:37:37.920
tilt like we were during the convoy itself. If you want to help us out, go to truckercommission.com.
00:37:44.240
That's where we're going to compile all of our journalism from this event. So it's going to be a
00:37:48.560
very valuable resources for that alone. And if you want to chip in to help us cover our Airbnb and travel
00:37:53.760
and other expenses, please do. It's not a fancy Airbnb. It's just large enough that we can stay
00:37:59.600
there and have a little studio in the living room. So if you want to go to truckercommission.com,
00:38:05.040
I'd appreciate it. All right. Until next time, until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at
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the Public Inquiry, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:38:16.160
We've rented a giant Airbnb right next to the Trucker Commission of Inquiry for the whole six
00:38:23.760
weeks. We are going to staff it with Rebel News journalists. We're taking shifts. 15 of our
00:38:29.280
reporters are going to cycle through this Ottawa studio and we are going to cover the Trucker
00:38:34.240
Commission of Inquiry as carefully and comprehensively as we cover the convoy itself. But I need your help.
00:38:40.720
Please go to truckercommission.com to help me cover the extraordinary costs of this important
00:38:46.560
journalistic mission. The Trucker Convoy was the greatest force for freedom in Canada during the
00:38:54.080
entire pandemic lockdown. They did more for freedom than any political party, any opposition leader,
00:38:59.920
any judge or court, any mainstream media. And they won and they did it in a beautiful, peaceful,
00:39:05.280
Canadian way, a very patriotic way with their bouncy castles and hot tubs. It was wonderful.
00:39:10.960
And Trudeau raged against it. He sent his riot police. He declared a form of martial law under
00:39:17.280
the Emergencies Act. He even started to seize the bank accounts of his political opponents. But the
00:39:22.080
truckers won. They made Trudeau blink. And another thing happened is that by using that form of martial
00:39:28.880
law, Trudeau started a process where he now has to answer for it in front of a judicial inquiry. Here's
00:39:35.760
the thing, that inquiry is starting now in Ottawa and we have to be there every day to cover it as
00:39:44.080
intensively as our Rebel News reporters covered the original trucker convoy in the first place.
00:39:50.000
Because this trucker inquiry, this judicial inquiry is being used by Trudeau to revise history,
00:39:57.520
to rewrite what happened in February, to try to demonize the truckers in a way that didn't happen.
00:40:03.680
Trudeau lost the first round and so he has rigged this inquiry to have a do-over. Let me prove it to
00:40:11.040
you. This judge can't inquire into anything he wants. He has to follow a list sent to him by Trudeau
00:40:19.040
himself. Let me read to you the five points that this judge is directed by Trudeau to look at. Isn't
00:40:26.080
that quite something? Trudeau can set the terms of his own review. Here's an example of what's going
00:40:32.080
to be done at this commission. The judge has to look into, A, the evolution and goals of the convoy and
00:40:39.520
blockades, their leadership, organization, and participants. B, the impact of domestic and foreign
00:40:46.240
funding, including crowdsourcing platforms. C, the impact role and sources of misinformation
00:40:53.040
and disinformation, including the use of social media. And there's two more points,
00:40:58.560
but those first three points, do you see what he's doing? Instead of Justin Trudeau himself being put
00:41:04.240
on trial for his abuse of our civil liberties, he's trying to flip it around and put the truckers on
00:41:09.760
trial. But the truckers didn't destroy our civil liberties. The truckers didn't seize bank accounts
00:41:15.120
or deploy riot horses against unarmed civilians. We have to be there every day during this commission
00:41:21.360
of inquiry to report what's being said, to rebut the lies, and to spread the word, just like Rebel
00:41:27.040
News did during the convoy itself. Rebel News was the most important news source for the entire world
00:41:34.000
during the truckers. In that month, we had 400 million views and impressions of all our videos and
00:41:40.320
stories and social media. That's as much as the state broadcaster, the CBC gets on any given month.
00:41:47.120
We helped save the truth and we have to do it again. Here's my plan, and I need your help for it.
00:41:53.280
We have rented an Airbnb right next to the judicial inquiry, and we have turned it into a temporary
00:42:02.880
Ottawa studio. Every day we're going to live stream the proceedings of this commission of inquiry.
00:42:09.920
We're going to have journalists both inside, we've been accredited, and outside the commission talking
00:42:15.600
to witnesses, talking to lawyers. They're probably going to be protesters. We'll film that too.
00:42:20.560
If you want to know what's going on in the commission of inquiry, you've got to follow it
00:42:25.920
at our specialty website, truckercommission.com. We're not just having a little studio. We are
00:42:34.400
sending, over the course of the next six weeks, 15 of our reporters, not all at once. We're going to
00:42:40.720
rotate them through two, three, four at a time in this Airbnb. All your favorite trucker convoy
00:42:47.280
correspondents, Alexa Lavoie, Lincoln J. In fact, people from other cities at Rebel News are coming to
00:42:54.000
Ottawa. I'm going to be there a lot too. It is our job to tell the truth about the truckers and to
00:43:00.480
stop Justin Trudeau and his hand-rigged commission from revising history. We can't let him get away
00:43:07.520
with it. Justin Trudeau has to answer for his bonfire of our civil liberties. He's trying to push it off
00:43:14.720
onto the truckers and make them explain themselves, but the truckers aren't the ones who seized the bank
00:43:20.720
accounts or deployed riot horses. We need to be there, but it's expensive. This Airbnb for six
00:43:28.000
weeks, a big Airbnb like that with four bedrooms for our journalists and room for our studio, that's
00:43:33.520
costing us about $15,000 to fly in or drive in our journalists and to keep them going for six weeks.
00:43:42.160
That's probably going to be another $15,000 too. We're going to have 15 journalists there.
00:43:48.240
I need your help to cover this. Unlike the CBC state broadcaster, I don't get paid
00:43:52.880
from Justin Trudeau. I can't just call him up and ask for more money. We don't have big advertisers.
00:43:57.920
We've been demonetized. It's 100% up to you. If you think Rebel News did an important job by telling
00:44:05.120
the truth during the trucker convoy, and I think we did, well then please help us tell the truth about
00:44:10.320
this trucker commission. Go to truckercommission.com and chip in to help cover the cost of our Airbnb,
00:44:18.000
our travel, and our 15 truth-telling journalists. You know, the commission of inquiry, I want to give
00:44:25.440
them a chance to do the right thing, but so far they're off to a weak start. They sent around this
00:44:30.640
bizarre email to other journalists saying, hey, let's have fun, people. Have fun. This is a deadly,
00:44:37.840
serious commission of inquiry into what Justin Trudeau did. Have fun. This is not about fun.
00:44:43.200
This is about truth, and it's about justice, and only Rebel News will give that to you. You simply
00:44:49.920
cannot trust the mainstream media. If you want to help me and my 15 journalist friends,
00:44:56.240
go to truckercommission.com. You can follow all of our reports there. You can watch our live stream,
00:45:01.520
see our interviews with the witnesses and the lawyers, and if you feel so moved, please help us
00:45:07.840
cover the costs of this extraordinary journalistic effort. Please go to truckercommission.com. Thank you.
00:45:17.280
We've rented a giant Airbnb right next to the Trucker Commission of Inquiry. For the whole six weeks,
00:45:23.920
we are going to staff it with Rebel News journalists. We're taking shifts. Fifteen of our reporters are
00:45:29.840
going to cycle through this Ottawa studio, and we are going to cover the Trucker Commission of Inquiry
00:45:35.600
as carefully and comprehensively as we cover the convoy itself, but I need your help.
00:45:41.200
Please go to truckercommission.com to help me cover the extraordinary costs
00:45:45.760
of this important journalistic mission. Thank you.