EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada wants to deport Tommy Robinson… but they’re not quite sure how to do it
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After a speech in Calgary, Tommy Robinson is arrested by border police and given conditions that prevent him from leaving the city. Rebel News is working to find him and get him back on the loose. Sponsors! Rebel News Plus - Go to Rebel.news/Become a Member for exclusive ad-free, 24/7 access to all new episodes of the Rebel News Podcast.
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Hello, my friends. I'm in Calgary with Tommy Robinson, who's scheduled to give a speech in Edmonton tonight and Toronto on Sunday.
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Alas, he was arrested by border police and given conditions, he cannot leave the city.
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I'll tell you the whole legal saga, but first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
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Tonight, after his first speech in Canada, Tommy Robinson is arrested.
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I'll tell you exactly what happened and what we're doing about it.
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It's June 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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I came to Calgary because this was the first stop in our three-city tour of Tommy Robinson speaking in Canada,
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We were very excited. We were looking forward to Edmonton.
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I was excited to show Tommy Robinson around my home province, or the province of my youth.
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And then out of nowhere, four plainclothes police undercover, I guess,
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and four uniformed police grabbed Tommy, handcuffed him, arrested him,
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piled him into a couple of vans, and took him away.
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You're too forced to go on that Sunday morning.
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Where can I go to help him get a lawyer and get bail?
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I'm standing outside the carriage in Hotel in Calgary, Canada, where Tommy Robinson just finished giving a major speech to 150 Calgarians about freedom of speech and lawfare and his battles in the UK.
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No sooner did he finish that speech and walk outside, but he was swarmed with 10 police officers, half of them undercover in plain clothes, half of them uniformed, who put him in the back of an SUV.
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There were three police vehicles and they drove him off.
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Tommy was in town as part of a three-city speaking tour for Rebel News.
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Police have obviously jumped in to upset this and to do who knows what.
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I immediately got on the phone with one of Calgary's top criminal lawyers who himself jumped on the phone.
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He could be at a number of different holding centers depending on what the alleged offense is.
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I am now going to see what I can do to assist in finding him, deploying the lawyer, and freeing Tommy.
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Not only so he can finish his speaking tour in Canada, but that he can fight what's another obvious political stitch-up.
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I am not surprised that the Canadian government, which takes orders from Justin Trudeau,
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would engage in censorship of a free speech activist like Tommy Robinson.
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That seems to be Canada's reputation these days.
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But as you know, it's Rebel News' reputation to fight back.
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In fact, I think the good guys are just getting started.
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Well, I was lucky I hadn't gone home for the night.
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And a whole team of ours followed him downtown to the federal building.
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I didn't know they took arrested people to the federal building.
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I mean, Rebel News will put up a surety bond for him.
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We can insist and assist, rather, with accommodations for him.
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We can sort of be his guarantors or his sureties.
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I just got a phone call from one of Calgary's most senior criminal defense lawyers, Alain Heppner.
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I interrupted him at his home, of course, at 9.30 p.m., moments after Tommy was arrested so unceremoniously after his well-received speech in Calgary.
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For those who are just joining this insane story, Tommy was speaking in Calgary to a great crowd.
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It was a wonderful speech about censorship, about government lawfare.
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And he steps out feeling great after a standing ovation, and he's swarmed by police, half of them undercover, half in uniform.
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They bundle him up in a SUV, and they drive him here of all places.
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It's the federal building called the Harry Hayes Building, and if you can see over here, they have a sign of what's banned.
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And political speech that Justin Trudeau doesn't like is banned.
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I've never heard of people being detained at the federal building, and that's a whole new question we've got to look into.
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But I, moments ago, received a phone call from Alain Heppner, and I got some details on the reason for Tommy's arrest.
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Right now, the lawyer is working with the police to see if there is a way that Tommy can be released under a set of conditions,
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rather than being held in jail for an undetermined period of time.
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That means to put up a bond to guarantee that he would be of good behavior.
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He's in a holding situation here at Harry Hayes, but if they transfer him to the Remand Center, that is an atrocious place for anyone.
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So priority one is get him out of this building.
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Priority two, once that is achieved, is to find a set of conditions or orders that Tommy can live with to get out of jail.
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I'm absolutely delighted that our lawyer is working at this late hour.
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I'm really amazed that he's able to jump on this case within minutes.
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Hopefully, the lad will be out and not spend even a single night in custody.
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If you can help me crowdfund that fee, I'd be grateful to you.
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We set up a little crowdfund page at TommyTrial.com.
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If you can chip in a few quid or a few dollars, I'd be grateful.
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Frankly, as a Canadian, I'm a little bit embarrassed of what happened to him.
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The candidate I know and love believes in free speech.
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What Tommy saw today was the candidate of Justin Trudeau.
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Let's get that lad out and let's get him doing what he does best.
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We were there until very late trying to get in.
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And Tommy was eventually released after midnight,
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after we managed to hire a lawyer to connect with the arresting officers.
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I'm out, but I'm banned from leaving now, but I'm banned from leaving Calgary.
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I have to see, they want my, I have to hand them apart.
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So if there's certain conditions, I'm not allowed to,
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I have to come here every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
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And they have to, I have to give them the address of where I am,
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But not, I don't understand it in the sense of.
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And they said, well, you don't automatically, you can't go home, basically.
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You don't automatically have permission to go home.
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We're taking your passport and you're awaiting a hearing.
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Now, obviously, fixing these problems is priority one.
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It says, turn in your passport no later than 11 a.m.
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Remain in southern Alberta, Red Deer to the USA border at all times.
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The sole purpose of this is to stop me having discussions
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and talking in the cities I was meant to be in.
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Maybe we'll have to reschedule that Edmonton event in Red Deer.
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Maybe we'll have to get a bus to bring our Edmontonians down to Red Deer.
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So they said originally, they were talking about holding me here.
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So in a jail for 48 hours and then transport me in a plane to Vancouver.
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I'd done a three-hour interview in immigration to come in here.
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I said that I went through immigration to come in here.
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I don't want you to say anything that you think is confidential
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Did you get my recording from in the back of the car?
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Can I ask you who's made the order for my arrest?
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In my experience, he's one of the top criminal lawyers in Calgary.
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Now, and if this is more an immigration matter, he'll know the right people.
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I believe, just based on what you've told me in the last five minutes, that it may be possible
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to get an expedited hearing in front of a judge to alter these conditions.
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Because these were just conditions placed on you by the police, right?
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These were by the police to, if I want to get out.
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So, if I want to get out, agree to these conditions.
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You did the right thing by agreeing to it, just to get out of there.
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The idea of sending you to Vancouver is insane.
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They probably would have put you at the Remand Centre, which is an awful, awful jail here in town.
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So, you made the right decision by agreeing to those.
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I'll be back here by 11 in the morning to give them my passport.
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We'll work with Alain or whoever immigration expert he advises to see how quickly we can
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And they had custody of you, so they really had you...
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I'm not an expert in immigration law, but I'm glad it's a Monday as opposed to a weekend.
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We should be able to get you into court quickly.
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Well, I don't want to make light of things, but I got to say, I mean, I was born and raised
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What I asked him, I asked him specifically, I said, look, your borders are open like every
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I said, is this normal to come and pick someone up?
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I've just met family, spoke to them, and today I was talking about freedom of speech.
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You were talking about the very things that happened to you in the moment you can finish
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They mentioned the threat to national security.
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One of the reasons you could be being detained is for this reason.
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I had them out, because I was sort of thinking, not again.
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Well, let me tell you, we've posted a few tweets and a few short videos.
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So it's that time when North America and Europe are sleeping.
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But despite that, the videos that we've posted about your arrest have been seen hundreds
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And they've been retweeted by people who were shocked, including Jordan Peterson, by the
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And I understand you're scheduled to meet with him?
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Now it doesn't look like I'm possible to, does it?
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So I recorded him in the back of the car with my phone in my pocket and just said, tell
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You're probably still jet lagged because you just got in the country.
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See if we can get these conditions all through.
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I certainly wanted to meet Jordan Peterson and Tammy Peterson.
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And they were waiting outside till it was over?
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I went upstairs and as I come walking outside, they just come running over.
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Yeah, I said that to them as well as I was back in the back of the car.
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At least unlike the Metropolitan Police, they didn't pepper spray you.
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I'm going to say, I don't think they liked what they were doing.
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He said, look, I can't comment on our country's situation.
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And I can't comment on any of these things, Tommy.
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See, they all shook my hands on the way out of the door as well.
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They just said, look, like, this is what it is.
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You hand your passport in, whether you can leave the country, it's not down to us.
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Well, it's pretty late, and I know you'll be wanting some sleep.
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I wonder if they try and hold me in the country until I miss July to 8th 7th.
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I wonder if they're going to try and hold me in Canada for months.
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Are they going to detain me and keep me here for months?
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Because he said, like, it's not up to you when you go home.
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Listen, what they said, that's their opinion as police.
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You came to this country to do public interest journalism, speaking.
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You came by invitation of Gadsad and Tammy and Jordan Peterson.
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I said to them, I've been in Montreal for a week.
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I said, I went to the Bad Badawis yesterday for dinner.
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I said, so I've come to thank their supporters.
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There wasn't a single protester at the event tonight?
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We just found the name of the best steakhouse in the city.
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I mean, I'm from this town, so I think we've got some friends that we can get together to help.
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Folks, if you want to chip in to help cover the criminal lawyer who did his work tonight
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and the immigration lawyer that we'll likely need.
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I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems to me that step one is to get before an actual judge
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I do not believe it makes sense to keep you here indefinitely.
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So we're going to get right on this first thing in the morning.
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If you want to help cover the lawyers, the criminal lawyer, the immigration lawyer, go to TommyTrial.com.
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I was planning on spending tomorrow going up to Edmonton with you, so we'll spend the day lawyering.
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I don't know what we can do with our Edmonton event other than cancel it.
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I mean, we could try and bust them down to Red Deer, but I think we've got to focus instead on getting you a legal solution.
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Well, one of Tommy's instructions was to present himself to the same federal building this morning
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to hand in his passport, but that's a strange thing because he can't go home.
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They want to deport him, I suppose, but he can't leave if they have his passport.
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I think, no exaggeration, the last seven days I've had 680 pieces of bacon.
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I'm on the way to the police station, which is one of my conditions upon release from last night, to surrender my passport.
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I have to report to the police station three times a week.
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I'm sort of a bit conscious that I may well get here this morning because I've seen it's now blown up all over.
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So I may turn up this morning and they may just grab me again.
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I don't know what that means because, yes, I was concerned yesterday because they said you'll be getting detained into custody, which is a prison.
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I don't know what a prison's going to be like here.
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I don't know what it's going to be like for Islamic prisoners.
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If it's an immigration centre, it's going to be full of probably Islamic migrants.
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It was a lovely event, a really peaceful, nice event with great people.
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And I was detained for three hours at immigration on the way in it.
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If there was any problem, they could have sorted it out then.
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This is a control order they've given me to limit my movement in Canada from going to other cities and having discussions.
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I was meant to meet Jordan Peterson and his wife, Tammy Peterson, for discussions.
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I was supposed to be in Edmonton for an event today.
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It seems like they're just trying to control that, which is controlling free speech, which is controlling people's movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press.
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Tommy, we were at this exact building last night.
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It's now the following morning, and you have to present your passport, surrender it.
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Tell me how you're feeling today and what's going on.
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When I landed in Montreal, I spent three hours in immigration.
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Even when they've detained me last night, it seems like this is to control where I can and can't go because I'm not allowed out of this city.
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I was due to meet Jordan and Tammy Peterson in Toronto.
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I'm also a bit conscious that I may walk in here now.
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I've got to surrender my passport, but I think they may detain me.
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You're here to do public interest journalism, to tell us the story of your journalism, to learn about Canada.
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You are, I guess you could say, a tourist or a visitor.
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I saw migrants absolutely off their head on drugs, with no shoes on, running around the street, acting crazy.
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That's who, it's like I said to the gentleman last night, you seem to get really, really heavy-handed on the wrong people.
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You do need to monitor who's coming into your country.
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But the minute, you've got lots of dangerous people entering on a daily basis without any papers or passports.
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Well, we're going to go in because we want to make sure we're not late.
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You've got that 11 a.m. deadline to hand it off.
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God forbid, if you are detained, we have an excellent lawyer named Alain Heppner, who did work with him last night.
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We've got a meeting with him scheduled that we're going to try and revise the conditions that you're under.
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The crazy thing is, I said to him, yes, okay, so it's my daughter's birthday coming up.
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I said, so if I want to go home, I've got a flight booked to go home.
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Hopefully, it's just handing the passport and you're free.
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But if you are detained, we'll get straight to work in getting you out.
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We are scrambling to try and rearrange things so you can do some public interest work here in Calgary.
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And maybe even fit in a trip to Banff, Alberta, which is allowed in your conditions.
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As I said, if I'm stuck here, I want the same as well.
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At breakfast in the hotel today, people were coming up to you to say hello, ordinary people.
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Even thousands of miles away from the UK, people know who you are.
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And all they're going to have done is raise my profile.
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And hopefully, if they raise my profile, people don't listen to the headlines and the smears.
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We're way ahead of the curve on the problems that open border immigration are going to bring you,
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Give Canadians a warning, but also to tell them to wake up and stand up.
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We did hire the top criminal lawyer in Calgary.
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If you can help me crowdfund the legal bills for Tommy, I'd appreciate it.
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I don't want to give away all of the details of what we're doing, but we have meetings with him.
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If you can help chip in to crowdfund that cost, I'd be grateful.
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So whatever legal avenue there is to try and get me to Toronto, if we can try and maneuver these conditions,
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I've come to Canada and I know there's hundreds of people who have already paid to attend an event.
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So we went there to drop off his passport, but they wanted to do more than that.
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It's clear they want him out of the country, but they're not quite sure how to do it.
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Here's an update on how that interesting conversation went.
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So all the federal agencies, it looks like they have all their offices.
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I'm in the fairly secure office of the Canada Border Services Agency.
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These are the people who arrested Tommy last night and held him until we were able to get him released on conditions just after midnight.
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Tommy was required to present himself this morning before 11 a.m. to surrender his passport and to have a discussion.
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He has surrendered the passport and is now being fingerprinted.
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I'm not a practicing lawyer, but I was a lawyer in the past, so I'm aware of certain legal issues.
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I asked if I could get a proper lawyer on the phone, and they said yes.
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I made a phone call, and we think that we can get a really top immigration lawyer to join the conversation.
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We think we can get a top immigration lawyer just so we have the best advice possible from people who do this every day.
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While we're waiting for that second lawyer to come through, they're fingerprinting Tommy.
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They say they're going to come back for me in about five or ten minutes, and we'll have the discussion, really.
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They're going to come and grab me any minute to go back in, and I definitely want to be in there.
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They took note of the massive global media footprint.
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So they are extremely aware that all eyes are on Calgary.
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I have to say they have been exquisitely friendly with me.
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Maybe they're just friendly people by nature, but I think they know the eyes of the world are on this.
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And if there's a path forward, I hope we can find it.
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To me, that would include allowing Tommy to go on with the show.
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He has a speech planned for Toronto in less than a week.
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He has other appointments, including a podcast with Jordan and Tammy Peterson.
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So the option has been given that, obviously, I'm not allowed to leave Calgary, but they asked what my plans would be and when I'd leave.
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I've had an event planned about freedom of speech.
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And Ezra then offered to put up a bond for that to say, because I have to sign in here on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
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So I could go to Toronto on a Saturday, be there Sunday, come back on Monday, and I can still meet their conditions.
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So Ezra put forward and said he'd offer a bond.
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You know, if I'm putting myself in the shoes of that frontline immigration cop, he looks at Tommy and say, that guy's a handful.
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If you're worried about Tommy complying, put it on me.
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I'll be, I'll guarantee that he shows up where he's supposed to.
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I'll guarantee that he gets on the plane when he, I'll drive him to the airport.
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And I even offered to put up a bond, which is basically signing a check to the government that they hold as ransom for your good behavior.
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And I think that they were sort of pleasantly surprised by that idea.
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And we got on the speaker phone a very senior immigration lawyer, Kevin Zemp, who sort of walked us through it.
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Because Tommy is here to talk about free speech, which in itself is an act of free speech.
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And it is so crystal clear to me that this arbitrary rule that Tommy can't go north of Red Deer or south.
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There is only one reason for that weird geographical rule, and it's to stop Tommy giving the speech.
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So the lawyer chimed in then, a very polite lawyer, but very sound.
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And he said, Tommy has his free speech rights too.
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So we've got a half hour lunch break and we're going to, they're going to take it up the food chain.
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The first comment he made is, look, we see how big this has gone.
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I think that when, yesterday in the truck, the cops said to you that the director of the CBSA ordered your arrest.
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This is Trudeau's handpicked boss of the border police, who from Ottawa would have ordered your arrest.
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And it, the way you described it, the cops who picked you up, they really, they, they, they, they, when we got down here, they couldn't have been nicer.
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So I think you've got the frontline border police who realize you're not a threat.
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There are actual illegal migrants to Canada every day.
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And frankly, they'll be happy when you're gone, but they don't want to put you in jail.
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But the bosses in Ottawa, and so that, so let's see what the, I make a good faith offer.
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Put me in charge of Tommy, make me responsible for him following the rules.
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We put to them the idea that I would become the surety, that I would become the guarantor of Tommy's good behavior.
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When Tommy worked for Rebel News, I was sort of in charge of him following the rules.
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It's a tough thing to be sure to manage Tommy Robinson.
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But I offered to do that and basically to take the problem off of the cops and onto myself.
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And they seemed to like the idea, but of course it wasn't theirs to make.
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They had to kick the decision upstairs to their bosses in Ottawa.
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Not saying, they don't even, they're not telling me when I need to go home either.
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They just said, you're not allowed to leave the city.
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I thought they, no, no, they really seemed like they were going to let us go.
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I think the local cops thought, get Tommy out of our hair, stop the hurricane of global bad press and get him on his way.
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I thought they would take the deal where I basically say, make me the cop.
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I said, once I go to Toronto, I'll fly straight home.
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They were obviously having a back and forth debate with their Ottawa bosses.
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And then they come back and, because we had the immigration lawyer on the phone, they come back and said, no, you're only allowed five days.
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From when you do a speaking event, you're allowed five days.
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And the immigration lawyer said, no, you're not.
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We thought you guys were going to wait for him.
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So if you guys go to the lawyer, that's when you print it off.
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Officer Jobin is not going to be available after tomorrow.
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So I'll be covering until Wednesday and then he's back Wednesday.
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So when I say give all this to our solicitors, because they said, well, now we're not letting you do that.
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And obviously the immigration lawyer is on the phone.
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I mean, you can see those were them right there.
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We have to give us some paperwork here because we're retaining Kevin Zemp, who's the leading immigration lawyer in the city.
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I feel like we've had some really good representation.
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They say you're not allowed to talk for five days.
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He said, no, you're not allowed to do a seminar of more than five days.
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Tommy gave a speech and he's going to give another speech.
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That was obviously a trick that someone in Ottawa cooked up.
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These two here were like reading from a script they were handed.
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Yeah, and I don't know who's pulling the strings in Ottawa, but I know this.
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We have an excellent lawyer who on the phone said, let's go and rumble.
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I'm excited about it because we are, I think we have the moral high ground here.
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Tommy is exercising free speech and they're stopping him from talking about free speech.
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This is a battle that's happening in the UK, happening in Canada, happening around the world,
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Alain Hefner on the criminal side, Kevin Zemp on the immigration side.
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If you can go to SaveTommy.com, because I think we're going to be in court as soon as
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I said, say we go to court tomorrow and we beat them and we win.
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And then we go to Toronto for our speech and our event.
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They don't want the public hearing what we're coming to say.
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But again, I don't know how much all the lawyers are going to cost, but we're hoping we're in
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If you've contributed, I'm personally grateful.
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It's a battle for free speech and it's a battle we want to win.
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If you have tickets for the Toronto event, don't give up.
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So we're not refunding your tickets yet until we have our day in court.
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Well, unfortunately, the proposal we had was not accepted.
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And so in the days ahead, we're going to try whatever we can to get those conditions
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amended so that Tommy Robinson can indeed finish his speaking tour in Toronto as scheduled
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We have a lot of people who have signed up at TommyTour.ca to hear him speak.
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And it would be a shame if he isn't allowed to do that.
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In addition, he had events scheduled, for example, an interview with Jordan Peterson and
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That's being scuppered now because of this geographical restriction, which feels like
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There's no real reason why he can go to Red Deer or Lethbridge, but not Toronto.
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He can't leave the country anyways because he doesn't have his passport anymore.
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And as usual with Tommy, millions of views follow.
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I mean, the video I uploaded of his arrest outside our event was seen millions of times.
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And by my rough estimate at this point, all the different videos of the different moments
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And in fact, one of the very first things that the cop mentioned to us when we met with
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him was how much media coverage this has received.
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Obviously, the Trudeau government wants Tommy Robinson out of here.
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The question is, will they be reasonable with him while he's here or will they be political
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And I'm going to stick around Calgary for another day to see if I can help the legal
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Of course, there's a lot of stories going on across the country and around the world.
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An absolutely stunning, shocking rebuke of the Liberal Party and Justin Trudeau and the
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Toronto riding of St. Paul's, which has been liberal since I was a child, going conservative
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Just an absolute referendum on the Trudeau government.
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I think he might be saying that now and planning a graceful exit.
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I can't believe that there is anyone happy in the Liberal Party.
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To lose St. Paul's in the heart of Toronto to a conservative means that every seat in Toronto,
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every seat in BC, every seat in every city is up for grabs.
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This could be the Kim Campbell 1993 election for the Liberals.
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And, you know, that's my report from out here in Calgary.
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I will stay out here because I think that it's incumbent upon me to try and fix things
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If you want to chip in to help us cover the legal fees, feel free to go to SaveTommy.com.
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It reminds me of the wild times when Tommy worked for Rebel News, and we had these wild moments
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But I think it behooves us as his host here in Canada to help him out.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News, to you at home, good night, and keep