Rebel News has access to documents showing the RCMP's damage control operation when their riot cops were caught laughing at police brutality against the truckers. It s a gross, gross moment in RCMP history, discrediting the force. And why would the media cover it two months later?
00:00:00.000Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through an access to information request, 165 pages of inside the RCMP emails and chatter about one of the worst moments in the Ottawa crackdown by police.
00:00:17.520You remember when those RCMPs staying at the Chateau Laurier laughed and smirked at people getting smashed by horses and they loved the humiliation?
00:00:26.880This was all captured on a police WhatsApp group that was leaked. Well, we broke some of the news on that.
00:00:35.340And then we did an access to information request of what the police were saying internally.
00:00:38.960Well, we've got their internal notes, 165 pages of damage control. I'll take you through that today.
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00:01:15.060Tonight, exclusive documents showing the RCMP's damage control operation when their riot cops were caught laughing at police brutality against the truckers.
00:01:39.840It's April 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:42.820Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:48.560There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:52.640The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:58.520We've got some access to information documents, a Rebel News exclusive.
00:02:08.620Sheila Gunn-Reed broke the story earlier today.
00:02:11.120And I think it's important enough for me to talk about it a second time.
00:02:15.100It's more than 100 pages of internal RCMP chatter, damage control really, when their officers were caught laughing and mocking peaceful protesters who were stomped on by riot horses.
00:02:28.260Just absolute cruelty, laughing at the public, dehumanizing the public.
00:02:33.960Really a gross, gross moment in RCMP history, discrediting the force.
00:02:40.080So we've got access to information documents.
00:02:42.820And as you know, sometimes if you get important news on a Friday, sometimes it's best to hold that news until the next week.
00:02:50.140Because on a Friday afternoon, people are already starting to think of the weekend.
00:02:53.560They're not really focused on news and politics.
00:02:56.660It's one reason why politicians like to release bad news at Friday at 5 p.m.
00:03:00.780But I said to the team this morning, let's rush this news out today.
00:03:04.380Maybe, even though it's access to information documents, other news organizations may have put in the same access to information request at the same time we did.
00:03:14.600Because it's such an obviously newsworthy story.
00:03:17.560Let's not wait, I said, because that happened to us once before.
00:03:21.920And so what we thought was an exclusive document was released to a second news agency on the same day because they thought of the same question.
00:03:29.220And we were both answered on the same time.
00:05:02.880Trudeau's brutal and cruel and unconstitutional invocation of a form of martial law in response to a completely peaceful protest by Canadian truckers and their supporters.
00:18:02.980On veut revenir aux choses qu'on aime faire.
00:18:05.980C'est pas ces gens-là qui vont nous bloquer, mettons.
00:18:08.980En fait, the real victims here weren't the police, sorry, weren't the people who were shot, weren't the people who were stomped on or tear gassed.
00:18:17.980You see, the real victims here were the police themselves.
00:18:21.980Twelve of the police said that they were, quote, feeling threatened, paranoid, and demonstrating anxiously-like symptomology because their cruelty was exposed to the public.
00:22:18.980The only mainstream media item I noticed in the hundred and sixty five pages was CTV complaining about how the media were being treated by the truckers and demanding that the RCMP investigate the truckers.
00:22:42.980Would have been as if it didn't happen.
00:22:44.980There was one inquiry by a mainstream journalist, an anti trucker, sort of emotional extremist named Justin Ling, who is occasionally published in newspapers as a freelancer.
00:22:56.980So he saw these horrific leaked WhatsApp pictures.
00:23:23.980Covered it with a pillow until it stopped breathing.
00:23:26.980They would have shut this story down completely if we're if it were only up to the media party, Trudeau's media, the bailout media, the official narrative media.
00:23:34.980I mean, the pesky New York Times reporting on the armed raids on truckers and they were furious.
00:23:40.980And we and True North and a few others broke the cartel of silence here.
00:23:44.980You can read the entire access to information document on our website.
00:26:44.980It is because, you know, they've been, you know, attacking him, you know, on various fronts.
00:26:51.980So they've been comparing him to Marine Le Pen, that he's a far right white supremacist and so on and so forth.
00:27:00.980But, you know, they always go to this old chestnut, as I like to call it, which is, you know, who are the people showing up at Pierre's events?
00:27:12.980And I was struck by this one comment by journalist Stephen Marr, who tweeted, you know, it's a whole lot of white people.
00:27:19.980If I was Poitlevres, I would be wondering why I'm only attracting white people.
00:27:25.980And this reminded me of when the Freedom Convoy was in town in Ottawa, and that was the accusation that was made against them, that these are mostly white people, these are white people's issues.
00:27:37.980And so they're not representative of, you know, mainstream Canadian opinion or what would be deemed as being acceptable.
00:30:15.980And that really speaks to the fact that they really have nothing substantial to say, really, because, you know, it's reaching at this point.
00:30:26.980And absolutely, you know, 70 percent of this country is white.
00:30:33.980And, you know, let's face it, you know, a lot of people that live in semi urban and rural parts of Canada are mostly white.
00:30:43.980And I would say that that, you know, most most people who've been the losers from globalization and from, you know, where the pandemic is really hard.
00:30:53.980These are people who live in these areas and they happen to be mostly white.
00:30:57.980So, you know, if they're showing up at his events because something, you know, because what he's saying resonates with them, what what is what is the crime in that?
00:31:09.980You know, why why is it why is it why is it such a big deal?
00:31:14.980And also, Ezra, you know, I'd like to say that, you know, a lot of people reacting to my piece and Mars piece, you know, tended to be very defensive.
00:31:24.980You know, I don't think white people should be defensive of the fact that many people showing up at these rallies are white.
00:31:31.980And I agree with you. Not all of these rallies are like this.
00:31:34.980I think Pierre, you know, I suspect he has a wide appeal.
00:31:40.980I think people from various backgrounds across many different ethnic backgrounds probably support him.
00:31:49.980But but, you know, I just don't think white people should be defensive.
00:31:53.980Yeah. I mean, I'm just thinking of one of the fun events that Pierre Polyev did was he was at a falafel restaurant and he made a purchase using Bitcoin.
00:32:05.980And it was an Arab owned restaurant, which a lot of large Arab community in the greater Ottawa area.
00:32:12.980And it was just sort of fun and natural. And they weren't emphasizing any ethnicity.
00:32:15.980The emphasis was actually on this really cool Bitcoin app that lets you buy food in a restaurant with Bitcoin.
00:32:23.980And I don't know, I didn't I didn't I didn't emphasize in my mind that it was an Arab restaurant.
00:32:29.980I thought, well, that's a Bitcoin thing. I just don't think that Pierre is animated by issues of race and culture as much.
00:32:37.980He's more an economics guy, a finance guy. He does have something to say about housing prices.
00:32:42.980Yeah. And I think that is driven in part by immigration.
00:32:45.980But he's never really like he's always been on the dollars and cents side of things.
00:32:50.980And I think so. He's like there are some more cultural warriors, folks who might be a little more divisive.
00:32:56.980I just haven't. And I've been following Pierre Polyev for 20 years. I just don't. That's just not him.
00:33:02.980I mean, Jason Kenney was a real culture warrior. And and there are some in the party who are.
00:33:07.980I just don't think Pierre Polyev is. I think they're workshopping.
00:33:10.980They're trying out attack angles. Stephen Maher is famous for that.
00:33:18.980Yeah. See, what does it matter what color the people are, you know, who are coming to his rallies?
00:33:23.980That's the fundamental. That's my question. You know, why why does that matter to you?
00:33:28.980And I think there's this peculiar affirmative action idea that something is only acceptable.
00:33:33.980Something is only legitimate in Canada if minorities are over overrepresented.
00:33:39.980But here's the thing. Our system doesn't work that way. Our system is one person, one vote.
00:33:45.980And it doesn't matter what the color of that person is, what their ethnicity is, what they had for breakfast.
00:33:50.980It just doesn't matter. And I think Pierre is, you know, he's he knows what he's doing.
00:33:58.980He has to maximize his odds of winning. That's how these leadership campaigns work.
00:34:04.980And honestly, you know, this fixation on race, it's a kind of woke apartheid, you know, where we have to parse the demographic makeup of people showing up at these events to see to see if the support is legitimate.
00:34:19.980Yeah. And it's also a bit weird coming from Stephen Maher, who's so white, he's pink.
00:34:24.980I mean, a lot of these critics, I mean, if you look at the board of directors of half the media companies.
00:34:31.980And again, I don't have a problem with white people. I think I'm whiter.
00:34:35.980I'm, you know, I don't know. Jews are considered white. But like if you're going to make that an issue, it's typically people who themselves, if if they were really adamant in minority representation, they would have to quit because they're typically liberal white men.
00:34:50.980I don't know. I think part of it is that white people, straight people, you know, people who don't tick some box for affirmative action.
00:34:59.980I think some of them are just sort of getting a little tired of being demonized for no reason at all because they're not racist.
00:35:05.980They've done nothing right. It's like Rex Murphy when he defended Canada.
00:35:08.980He said, sure, there's problems, but no country in the world is more bend over backwards.
00:35:13.980This multiculturalism, immigration and the rage directed at him for saying these things like it's it's a little crazy.
00:35:22.980And I think the reason that was a popular column for Rex is because a lot of white guys and older white guys said, yeah, I have no beef with minorities.
00:35:31.980And why are you saying I'm a racist? And I'm sort of sick of, you know, I don't want to be superior to anyone, but neither do I want to be demonized.
00:35:39.980And I think it's a sign that wokeness is overplayed at its hand.
00:35:43.980I don't know. I think it's interesting. It'll be fascinating to see if Pierre really does pull ahead as the front runner.
00:35:50.980He'll start to shift his campaign from running against John Charest and running against Patrick Brown towards running against Justin Trudeau.
00:36:00.980Like it may it may get to the point where he's just all right, let's skip to the end.
00:36:05.980It's a final battle between me and Trudeau.
00:36:07.980I don't think Trudeau is going to have the same luck going after Pierre Polyev, who's younger than Trudeau, who who's smarter or at least better briefed on policy, who hasn't shown a lack of judgment in blackface or groping that reporter Rose Knight.
00:36:24.980I think that Pierre Polyev could be the Trudeau beater. Last word to you.
00:36:29.980I think so, too. I think I think they fear him so much that this is a sign of desperation that they have to resort to these kinds of attacks.
00:36:39.980And they, you know, his opponents really have his opponents within within the Conservative Party and and outside don't really have anything substantial to say.
00:36:51.980And this is what this is what they've they're reaching for, that he's a populist, that he's like Trump or that he represents the interests of white supremacists.
00:37:01.980And that's where we are. And but but I think Pierre is is going to surprise us all.
00:37:07.980Yeah. Well, I think he already is. And that's that's what's got these folks sort of spooked.
00:37:12.980Yeah, it's great to see Rupa. I always read your column in the National Post and I look forward to every week.
00:37:17.980It's great to see you again. Have a good weekend and keep keep your eye on this.
00:37:21.980I think that's, you know, and getting back to the truckers, just a final thought.
00:37:26.980I think we have to credit the truckers for the defenestration of Aaron O'Toole.
00:37:31.980I don't think he was set to be turf from the party until his mishandling of that sort of blew up.
00:37:38.980And the truckers allowed the party to have a renewal.
00:37:41.980And Pierre Polyev, who I wished had run last time, stepped up.
00:37:45.980Who knows? Maybe those truckers not only inspired us back in February to stand up and be free, but maybe they set in motion a complicated chain of events that might actually lead to a to a different election result in a couple years.
00:37:58.980Very interesting times. And I look forward to talking about it.
00:38:01.980My first tweet reacting to the protests was that the protests are going to change the political landscape of Canada.
00:38:07.980And that's exactly what is happening right now.
00:38:10.980Yeah, you're so right. Rupa Subramania, keep it up. You're doing great. Nice to see you again.
00:38:17.980My pleasure. All right. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.
00:38:20.980Hey, welcome back. Your mail to me. Ghetto Trout 2011 says,
00:38:37.980I'm kind of blown away that Microsoft is taking any stance on this.
00:38:41.980The only fiscally responsible option to respond to this would be to shut off Canada entirely.
00:38:46.980That's a terrifying thought. Well, I got to tell you, I just skim the surface, scratched the surface in that document.
00:38:53.980And I haven't checked our website, but I think we posted the whole thing online.
00:38:58.980TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Google, like every big social media company and some little ones had some very thoughtful and very well researched and well expressed responses.
00:39:14.980Lots of professors did, too. Lots of legal aid organizations, including some that have been hibernating the last two years.
00:39:22.980You even had racial minority groups saying, hey, this could hurt us because of them.
00:39:26.980And for example, I'm giving you an example. And you can agree with it or not, but I'm going to give you an example of an objector.
00:39:33.980And there was a lobby group for for prostitutes, a sex work something something group. I forget the name of it.
00:39:39.980And they said that this kind of preemptive takedown could target our people if they're talking about sexuality or whatever.
00:39:49.980And and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, I don't have a lot of time for them, but they were saying that this could target them as if it's overbroad targeting them as terrorists.
00:40:00.980And then there were other groups. There was a there was a black advocacy group.
00:40:04.980And and one of the arguments was, you know, there's some offensive words like the N word that can be one of the most hurtful, hateful words around.
00:40:16.980But if it's used in another way, including by a black person, it can actually be sort of empowering and taking the word back.
00:40:22.980Same thing with a lot of gay words. It can be used as an epithet against a gay person or could be used like to to to come up with massive algorithms to ban certain words.
00:40:37.980It's dystopian. It's anti free. But these groups I've just mentioned, they're saying this is going to hurt us.
00:40:44.980You're claiming you're going to help us. But your new anti hate speech algorithms that have to be resolved in 24 hours, they're going to silence us.
00:40:53.980And it's true. Whatever your thoughts are on the different groups I've just listed.
00:40:57.980They're all against this censorship because they just think it's the dumbest thing they ever heard.
00:41:01.980It's it's really a remarkable document.
00:41:04.980And to see tick tock and Microsoft and Google and Twitter, I mean, tick tock was a little bit weak, but but there was some amazing stuff in there.
00:41:12.980And I think it was it's quite remarkable that the government tried to hide these because it's so overwhelmingly negative.
00:41:23.980And they said, oh, we had some criticism. No, no, no. You were scorched. You were scorched.
00:41:30.980Yeah. If you have time, look through the document.
00:41:34.980H Dragon Girl says, you are not boring us whatsoever.
00:41:37.980Thank you for showing us the reactions to Trudeau's ridiculous proposed legislation and antics.
00:41:42.980Thank you. And I knew I wasn't boring. But the thing is, how much of a lawyer's letter do you want to read?
00:41:47.980I just wanted to show you how interesting it was to see companies that I I mean, I don't have a lot of time for these companies.
00:41:54.980I I think many of them are monopolistic. Many of them are woke.
00:41:57.980But Twitter's especially that was a bold, bold letter.
00:42:02.980And I think Twitter knows that it is the one that Trudeau hates the most.
00:42:06.980I think it actually is the freest of the social media.
00:42:12.980If Elon Musk takes it over, it'll be even freer.
00:42:15.980Rob Charters says, funny, the mosque down the street was open 24 seven with lines up two blocks every day during the entire pandemic.
00:42:23.980Never saw the police show up. Well, I confirmed with Sheila that this church hunter killer squad that Jason Kenney set up only went to churches.
00:42:32.980Didn't go to mosques or Jewish synagogues or Sikh temples.
00:42:48.980But let me leave you with our video of the day by Lincoln Jay, who asked folks on the street, should Canada drop vaccine mandates for air travel?
00:43:58.980I mean, right across the border in America, on the same land that I'm standing on right now,
00:44:03.980you can go on a plane, no vaccine requirements.
00:44:06.980Now, you don't even have to wear a mask on those planes.
00:44:09.980Yes, I understand things are starting to look better in Canada.
00:44:13.980Almost all the mask mandates are dropped.
00:44:15.980Almost all businesses are back to full capacity.
00:44:18.980But the reality is, there's many Canadians who are not able to simply board a flight and leave this country.
00:44:26.980I mean, when you really start to look into the matter, you see that this might not make that much sense.
00:44:31.980I could literally get on a bus right now in Toronto, take it to Montreal, and they will not check my COVID-19 vaccination status at all.
00:44:40.980But if I were to try to take that same trip on a flight from Toronto to Montreal, I may not be allowed to board it depending on my vaccination status.
00:44:49.980So, I'm here in Kensington Market, I want to find out what some of the people here in Toronto think about this.
00:44:54.980Is the government going to remove the mandates anytime soon?
00:44:56.980Just get their overall opinions and ask, does this make sense to them?
00:45:01.980So, right now you need two doses to get on, two vaccine doses to get on a plane.
00:45:15.980Do you think the Canadian federal government has any plans to lift that?
00:45:19.980What are your thoughts on that situation?
00:45:20.980I don't think they have any plans to lift that, and I think COVID is still a very real concern, and I think that we're still in a very precarious situation.
00:45:30.980So, I don't think that the government has any plans to ease those mandates, and as it stands, requiring two COVID vaccines has been proven to reduce the effects of the COVID virus in a lot of cases.
00:45:42.980I think they do eventually, they're going to feel the pressure and they're going to lift it.
00:45:46.980It's not going to change anytime soon, I think.
00:45:49.980You know, like they want to just give us a bit of freedom, and then so that people just get all excited, and then soon it's going to just get back to the mess, you know?
00:46:01.980I think it's maybe going to be six months to another year until this turns into an endemic, not a pandemic.
00:46:07.980So, I think it's going to be like that for a while.
00:46:09.980Knowing Canada, it's one of the strictest countries with regards to the COVID laws, and I don't think they're going to actually ease the restrictions that quick.
00:46:22.980I don't know, but I do think that they might remove it soon, especially because I think the travel regulations have been changing quite quickly.
00:46:32.980I definitely think it's a little taste of freedom, but what's the state right now? Can you travel if you're not vaxxed? No, you can't, right? So, I don't know. I want to be hopeful. Is it realistic? I don't know.
00:46:47.980Hopefully, they have plans to scrap that shit, yo, because I pay a fuck with that, you know?
00:46:53.980Why do you think that other countries are dealing with COVID in other ways?
00:46:57.980They're kind of moving past it. Like, the U.S. just dropped their mask mandate, so you don't need a vaccine or a mask.
00:47:03.980Why is Canada taking a different approach?
00:47:05.980Health care system is very different down in the States than it is here.
00:47:08.980Honestly, I'm trying not to think about it too much.
00:47:10.980I just hope that we can make some better decisions, and ultimately, I think it's all of our faults,
00:47:16.980because we've got to vote better authorities into, I don't, you know, I'm not an anarchist by any means.
00:47:21.980I just think we have to vote better decision-makers into Parliament.
00:47:26.980I can't tell you. I think that there are political, like we have an election coming up,
00:47:31.980which I think holds a lot of weight. Personally, I think masks should be allowed on planes,
00:47:35.980or should still, the mask mandate should still be in effect on planes. But I can't tell you.
00:47:42.980I have no idea, actually, but I think it's a different style of governance, and also, I don't know,
00:47:50.980I think Canadians, or like the Canadian government is just so strict with laws, and don't see the other point of view of it.
00:47:57.980I have decided to not keep up with the news, because it's no longer my interest, because it's been wishy-washy, right?
00:48:04.980Like, when your source of information is not reliable, then it becomes difficult to keep track of what they're saying.
00:48:11.980The king government is just an entity, and there is something much deeper behind that,
00:48:17.980so I think they are just wording certain things from other entities that are actually the decision-makers.
00:48:25.980Trudeau has major stock investments in the VACs, so that's the simple answer.
00:48:32.980I don't really know, yo. Like, as long as I have my fucking vaccines, I'm good, you know?
00:48:38.980If other people don't want to fucking take their vaccines, it's a fucking problem, you know?
00:48:42.980If you want to travel, take the fucking vaccines. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
00:48:46.980So, why are you able to go, so right now you can get on a bus in Toronto to Montreal, no vaccines, packed bus.
00:48:52.980But if you were trying to go on a flight, right, from Toronto to Montreal, same thing, packed, you need vaccines to go on the flight.
00:48:58.980But if it was really dangerous like that, how come you're allowed to go on the bus, spread the virus, but you can't go on a flight?
00:49:35.980Because you're not, you're limiting people coming in that are possibly bringing in, you know, COVID, so.
00:49:40.980How come right now you could get on a bus from Toronto to Montreal, you can get on a bus, right?
00:49:45.980But if you were to try and go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine.
00:49:49.980But if the point is to stop the spread, if it's dangerous to get on a plane without a vaccine, why are they allowing human beings to pack buses that are unvaccinated, but they can't go on a plane and do that?
00:50:07.980And I'm right up against other people.
00:50:10.980My response to that is that there should be some level of requirement to do the same on a bus.
00:50:15.980Because if we're supposed to be trying to curtail the spread of this virus and it has been out of control, then we should be willing to take more steps to do that.
00:50:27.980There's blatant hypocrisy in some of these decisions.
00:50:30.980And even with the streetcars being packed, masks are on, masks are off.