Rebel News Podcast - April 11, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Flags, frustration and freedom： Inside the growing revolt against Trudeau’s carbon tax


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

165.54727

Word Count

8,364

Sentence Count

747

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

A new trucker convoy gathers at the Trans-Canada Highway 1 interchange near Banff, Alberta, to protest the proposed carbon tax on trucks and other industrial vehicles coming and going from Alberta to the BC border. It s a major artery, and this is where, eight days ago, a carbon tax protest coalesced across the country.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, are we seeing the rising of a new trucker convoy, this time against the carbon
00:00:22.320 tax? It's April 9th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:30.000 Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
00:00:41.600 Oh, hi, everybody. I'm standing next to Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway from Calgary.
00:00:48.500 Down that way, you'll go to Canmore, then Banff, and then if you keep going, you'd reach the BC border.
00:00:53.900 This is about 15 minutes west of the city of Calgary, but it's still pretty close to Calgary.
00:01:00.000 That way is a Petro-Canada truck stop, and it's a major artery, not just for tourists, but of course for industrial trucks, trucks coming and going, even bringing things from British Columbia.
00:01:13.720 It's a major artery, and this is where, eight days ago, a stop the carbon tax protest coalesced.
00:01:25.600 You might recall that there were protests across the country, basically in every city in the country, and they were championed in many ways by Pierre Polyev, the leader of the Conservative Party, who's making the carbon tax a central issue in his campaign.
00:01:42.180 He's calling the next election a carbon tax election, I think it's very wise to do so, and incredibly, a variety of provincial premiers have joined his side of the argument, including liberals.
00:01:54.980 Who'd have thunk it? Liberal premiers like, for example, the premier of Newfoundland, saying, please, relent, Justin Trudeau.
00:02:03.160 We just can't handle the additional 23% carbon tax on our cost of everything.
00:02:10.700 It's not just what you see at the pump when you fill up for gas. It's everything that you use that rode on a truck, everything that was grown in a farmer's field, everything that was shipped.
00:02:23.720 I don't know if you can hear it, but I would say at least a quarter of the big trucks that are passing by Highway 1, as they see this protest, give it a honk.
00:02:34.200 You can hear that one honking right now, and that one, too.
00:02:40.700 It's very affirming for these protesters. Now, I come here, I say, eight days after the protest really got started in earnest, and then it lingered for another day, and I thought, oh, well, they're just having fun.
00:02:55.320 But here we are nine days into it, and there is still a core crew here.
00:03:01.680 I estimate there's about 50 to 75 people right now on this side of the highway, and a similar number on that side of the highway.
00:03:12.780 We're going to walk through it and look at some of the signs and the flags, but what I've learned is that because it's a Tuesday, obviously, it's a skeleton crew here.
00:03:24.140 It's not the largest because the thing about Albertans is they tend to work for a living, so a lot of the folks who are here right now are retired or they're masters of their own schedule.
00:03:36.020 I understand to expect a very large crowd on the weekend as there was this past weekend.
00:03:42.080 In fact, I kept seeing these. Our friend Robert Krejcik joined Angelica Toy to cover this event on the weekend, and I thought, I've got to get out there to see with my own eyes.
00:03:52.280 Another thing that concerned me in the early days of this protest was the police response.
00:04:00.360 As you may know, Alberta does not have its own provincial police force.
00:04:05.140 It contracts with the federal government to deploy Justin Trudeau's RCMP.
00:04:10.800 You may say it's unfair to call it Trudeau's RCMP.
00:04:13.840 After what we've learned at the Chinese Influence Commission, I think it's fair to call all the police and security agencies Justin's boys.
00:04:23.860 We saw how the police were weaponized and politicized during the trucker convoy.
00:04:29.600 And here's some imagery of stone-faced scowling and, in some case, masked RCMP, basically doing the stormtrooper march.
00:04:42.340 This is from a week ago. Take a look.
00:04:44.180 This is from a week ago.
00:05:14.180 Well, today, I could not find evidence of police right here, but I do spot a trailer vehicle that we're going to go inspect that I've been told is either a spy vehicle or a jamming vehicle to jam live streams emanating from here.
00:05:32.700 We'll go and check it out.
00:05:34.320 But let's now walk through this part of the protest.
00:05:39.720 Then we're going to go over to the other side of the highway and see what's there.
00:05:43.900 And then I see a group of vehicles parked about two kilometers away.
00:05:48.460 Now, that's a sort of a staging area.
00:05:50.880 This interchange is a busy place.
00:05:53.280 You can see it's actually the interchange of two different highways.
00:05:57.020 There's a truck stock.
00:05:58.100 There's a parking lot.
00:05:59.460 Now, I have a hunch that the police have actually decamped from right here and are about a kilometer away.
00:06:08.160 It's just a hunch.
00:06:09.420 Nothing more than speculation.
00:06:10.840 So we'll make that as part of our trip.
00:06:12.800 So let's go and talk to the people now.
00:06:15.120 The first thing you notice when you come to this, you see it from half a mile away, are the flags.
00:06:20.780 And the flags, sometimes they're normal Canadian flags.
00:06:24.740 Sometimes, like that lady over there, they're waving a flag upside down, which is regarded as a sign of distress.
00:06:31.660 Standing by the side of the highway, giving us a friendly wave with our friendly doggie.
00:06:37.020 Especially in nautical situations, an upside down flag means distress.
00:06:41.940 Of course, there are specialty flags, the F. Trudeau brand.
00:06:48.340 I tell you, if I would have thought of that two years ago, I'd be a millionaire.
00:06:51.980 The number of people in Canada who express their patriotism and their disgust with Trudeau simultaneously with the F. Trudeau flag is astonishing.
00:06:59.920 But it's more normally just proud Canadians.
00:07:03.400 And I like the fact that Canadians are reappropriating the national symbols.
00:07:10.200 I don't know if anyone under the age of 40 knows this.
00:07:13.920 But I recall in the 1990s, the Liberal Party tried to own the symbols of nationalism.
00:07:21.060 You might recall there was a referendum in Quebec in 1995 that came within half a percent of leaving Canada.
00:07:28.760 And so the Liberal Party poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Quebec in flags and logos and branding.
00:07:37.700 And it really blurred the lines between the Liberal Party and the country.
00:07:42.640 In fact, the fact that our flag looks the way it does is a choice, the colors and everything, of what they call the Pearson pen.
00:07:50.220 And it was Lester Pearson, the Liberal, who chose our flag this way.
00:07:53.540 And I remember that a reaction to that by some conservatives was to reject those symbols because they had been co-opted by the Liberals.
00:08:01.860 Well, we're co-opting them back.
00:08:03.700 And it's a delight to see that the patriots who believe in freedom and our symbols are small government critics of lockdowns and carbon taxes.
00:08:14.740 And it's amazing to see some of the regime media actually say that the Canadian flag or the word freedom are hostile, conservative, conspiracy theory comments.
00:08:26.380 It tells you how successfully our side is at co-opting the symbols.
00:08:31.020 You can see there's some vehicles.
00:08:32.240 This vehicle is from beautiful British Columbia, if I'm reading the license plate correctly.
00:08:36.360 Lots of flags.
00:08:37.620 And look at this.
00:08:40.120 An Alberta view.
00:08:41.180 Let's just look at some of the expressions there.
00:08:43.420 Axe the tax.
00:08:46.860 Freedom.
00:08:48.440 I support Alberta oil.
00:08:51.220 F Trudeau.
00:08:52.000 We've got one, two, three of those.
00:08:55.840 Mandate freedom.
00:08:58.020 Camp Hope.
00:08:58.920 Follow me to freedom.
00:09:01.080 Live in fear.
00:09:01.920 It makes you easier to control.
00:09:03.340 We did that.
00:09:04.080 That's a carbon tax.
00:09:06.320 There's the Canada goose.
00:09:08.700 Wow.
00:09:09.360 There's a lot of stickers on this car.
00:09:12.180 Hold fast.
00:09:13.100 It's not about pro or anti-vax views.
00:09:15.860 It's Canadian United for the freedom to choose.
00:09:18.520 This is a freedom vehicle.
00:09:21.100 Absolutely.
00:09:22.780 Truck off, Trudeau.
00:09:24.560 You know what?
00:09:25.080 We got to get some of this merch in the Rebel News store.
00:09:29.340 Look at that one.
00:09:30.140 I choose to stand.
00:09:32.560 I choose to stand.
00:09:34.600 I'm having some troubles reading that one because it's waving in the wind.
00:09:38.480 Freedom convoy.
00:09:39.700 I put it to you that the overlap between people who went to the trucker convoy in Milk River or in Coutts, Alberta, or even who went all the way out to Ottawa, the overlap in freedom orientation between them and this stop the carbon tax manifestation is a very high correlation.
00:09:58.960 It's like a Venn diagram that's a complete overlap.
00:10:01.660 Now, you can see there's some fun stuff here.
00:10:04.160 There's some golf putting, and I forget the name.
00:10:07.320 That game is Plinko or something.
00:10:09.300 That's, I think, a leftover from when there were hundreds of people here, including kids.
00:10:15.340 Like I say, on this side and on that side combined, I think it's probably down to about 150.
00:10:20.940 But the RVs are here.
00:10:22.780 And, you know, let's take a look here.
00:10:24.300 Of course, you can hear it.
00:10:25.600 I don't know if you can pick it up on the microphone, but you can hear in the background.
00:10:28.920 I think one out of every four vehicles with a big industrial horn that goes by gives it a honk.
00:10:35.620 Now, of course, my favorite part of any protest would obviously be the kitchen.
00:10:41.620 There's lots of dry goods here right now, and they had, I see, some propane barbecues.
00:10:47.360 They're not barbecuing right now, but they've got lots of food here.
00:10:51.640 And the fact that these RVs are, like, look at this RV.
00:10:54.800 It's up on blocks.
00:10:56.980 These folks aren't just here for a few hours.
00:10:59.820 Some of them have been here for eight days since this thing started.
00:11:02.980 Here, let's keep walking.
00:11:04.820 I just want to show people the feeling of it.
00:11:07.540 Now, don't get me wrong.
00:11:09.120 When I landed in Ottawa, when the trucker convoy arrived there, I got there on a Friday night just when it started.
00:11:16.500 It was astounding.
00:11:18.720 There were thousands of people that were all circling, driving, honking their horns, waving flags.
00:11:25.280 It really felt like a Stanley Cup victory parade or something.
00:11:29.100 It was electric, and it was the entire downtown.
00:11:32.860 This is a fraction of that, but like I say, it's a weekday, and it's sort of the skeleton crew.
00:11:41.480 I don't know what the future of this is, other than it's the only time I can think of in probably two decades that Canadians have had this kind of a protest over tax matters.
00:11:57.060 Now, there's other issues here, too, of course.
00:11:59.780 F. Trudeau mandate freedom.
00:12:02.280 Lots of folks here.
00:12:06.860 Axe the carbon tax.
00:12:09.000 F. Trudeau.
00:12:10.340 Looks like some firewood.
00:12:12.140 I'm not sure if that's for a barbecue or staying warm, but we've got some firewood.
00:12:17.280 A little bit of guitar.
00:12:19.860 Looks like they're inflating a bouncy castle.
00:12:25.060 Axe the tax.
00:12:26.580 It's quite a manifesto here.
00:12:27.960 Citizens are angry.
00:12:30.560 They've truly had enough.
00:12:31.500 A carbon tax imposed on them.
00:12:32.680 This existence is getting tough.
00:12:33.920 Oh, it's a rhyme.
00:12:34.920 It's a poem.
00:12:36.140 The people are gathering coast to coast.
00:12:37.420 Their messages are loud and clear.
00:12:39.080 Axe is taxed for Canadians as their livelihood is in arrears.
00:12:42.620 Tents popping up across these lands.
00:12:44.760 Look at my makeshift home, barely making a living, so on the streets I roam.
00:12:48.460 That's very sad, but it's true.
00:12:50.720 Food bank usage is out of control, for example.
00:12:54.300 Housing is out of control, the prices of it.
00:12:56.280 The food banks can't satisfy the masses.
00:12:59.440 Got my hand out for a dime.
00:13:01.160 Wandering, scrounging, and praying, I feel I've lost my mind.
00:13:03.940 Once upon a time, I had a home, was comfortable and free.
00:13:06.460 Then government got greedy.
00:13:07.620 Oh no, it could never happen to me.
00:13:09.780 That's not a bad poem, by the way.
00:13:11.440 And I think it illustrates the shift.
00:13:14.440 The parties of the left in Canada, the NDP, the Green Party, and of course the Liberals, they always claimed to stand for the working man.
00:13:22.660 I mean, when you think about it, the NDP was formed through the coalition of farmers and factory workers.
00:13:28.220 They really were for the working man.
00:13:30.540 They're not anymore.
00:13:31.620 They're led by an elitist snob, Jagmeet Singh, in the case of the NDP, or an American radical activist in the case of the Green Party, Elizabeth May.
00:13:40.800 Not that I've got anything against Americans.
00:13:43.180 And Justin Trudeau, his elite lifestyle, his...
00:13:47.220 I remember when he went to Jamaica and got an $80,000 vacation this last Christmas from a friend as a gift.
00:13:54.040 And he said, oh, we were just staying at a friend's place.
00:13:56.240 Every Canadian does that.
00:13:57.320 Every Canadian stays in an $80,000 luxury hotel over Christmas.
00:14:02.920 They couldn't be more out of touch with ordinary working people.
00:14:05.580 And it's interesting to me to see Pierre Polyev pivot towards a kind of working class conservatism.
00:14:11.880 That was one of Trump's innovations as well.
00:14:15.040 You'd think Trump is a billionaire.
00:14:17.060 He's flashy, gold everything, private jets.
00:14:20.840 But he had the sensibilities of the working class because he actually was a builder.
00:14:26.660 He was comfortable around working class people on a job site.
00:14:30.240 He knew how to get things done.
00:14:31.780 And he had a respect for working people.
00:14:34.080 Even Michael Moore, the hardcore left-wing filmmaker, had a wonderful clip about that in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
00:14:42.980 I don't know if you've ever seen this.
00:14:44.180 Listen to Michael Moore, who I regard as a communist, talk about why he thought Donald Trump would win.
00:14:52.080 And when Michael Moore said this in 2016, people gasped.
00:14:55.880 They said, what are you talking about?
00:14:57.400 They called him disloyal for saying it.
00:14:59.020 But listen to his reasoning, how he describes Donald Trump, and compare that to Pierre Polyev and how Polyev talks about people's issues like inflation, what Polyev calls housing hell, and other things.
00:15:13.340 Take a look at this video of Michael Moore.
00:15:14.740 I don't often throw to his videos.
00:15:16.460 Take a look.
00:15:16.860 Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said,
00:15:26.520 If you close these factories, as you're planning to do in Detroit, and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody's going to buy them.
00:15:39.700 It was an amazing thing to see.
00:15:43.460 No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives.
00:15:50.760 And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
00:15:59.660 The Brexit states.
00:16:00.840 You live here in Ohio.
00:16:04.860 You know what I'm talking about.
00:16:06.400 Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who are hurting.
00:16:13.560 And it's why every beaten down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump.
00:16:22.520 He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for.
00:16:27.800 The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them.
00:16:35.240 And on November 8th, Election Day, although they've lost their jobs, although they've been foreclosed on by the bank,
00:16:43.860 next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone, the car's been repoed, they haven't had a real vacation in years,
00:16:50.860 they're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you can't even get a fucking Percocet.
00:16:57.800 They've essentially lost everything they had except one thing.
00:17:05.140 The one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution, the right to vote.
00:17:13.660 They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be fucked over and fucked up, it doesn't matter.
00:17:22.200 Because it's equalized on that day.
00:17:25.600 A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job.
00:17:30.900 One.
00:17:31.360 And there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.
00:17:37.420 So on November 8th, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain,
00:17:47.400 and take that lever or felt pen or touchscreen and put a big fucking X in the box by the name of the man
00:17:54.960 who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives.
00:18:03.520 Donald J. Trump.
00:18:05.440 Yeah, I think that there is a working class rebellion against the carbon tax.
00:18:11.040 If you recall the whole ideology behind the carbon tax, the thesis behind it,
00:18:18.100 if you listen, if you actually listen to what Justin Trudeau and Stephen Gilbeau and Catherine McKenna and the likes of them have said,
00:18:24.560 they've said it's to change people's behavior, to put a price on pollution.
00:18:29.600 That's what they call any emanation of carbon dioxide.
00:18:32.360 My point is, they want it to be painful.
00:18:35.560 Being painful is the whole point.
00:18:37.640 It's what causes you to use less fuel.
00:18:40.460 Make your house colder in the winter.
00:18:43.020 Don't put your air conditioning on in the summer.
00:18:45.840 Take fewer vacations by airplane.
00:18:48.500 Take the bus instead of a car.
00:18:50.120 All of those nudged behaviors are the point of the carbon tax.
00:18:54.980 If you actually listen to Trudeau and his like, the whole point of the carbon tax is to be painful,
00:19:03.820 to shift your behavior to other things that don't use carbon.
00:19:08.020 What a pleasure to hear the horn talking as they'll go by.
00:19:10.360 Let's keep walking around.
00:19:12.780 How are you?
00:19:13.760 Good.
00:19:14.840 Where did you come in from today?
00:19:16.080 I came in from Adrie.
00:19:17.700 Adrie, yeah.
00:19:18.340 And how long have you been here?
00:19:19.640 I've been here since Tuesday.
00:19:21.440 Tuesday, yeah.
00:19:22.200 And are you staying out here or are you going home to sleep?
00:19:24.560 I'm a little too old to stay in the Dodge Hotel, so I go home at the end of the day, yeah.
00:19:29.000 Why would you come back here so much?
00:19:31.700 I've got to support this, man.
00:19:33.080 I mean, I'm hearing stories of single moms that can't afford groceries,
00:19:39.660 and they've got to pick between groceries and buying gas for their kids.
00:19:42.840 And this is the stories I'm hearing.
00:19:44.920 It's sad.
00:19:45.580 It's a sad situation.
00:19:46.960 I hear that the numbers are expected to increase on the weekend.
00:19:49.700 Is that how it was last weekend?
00:19:51.340 That's how it was, yeah.
00:19:52.060 This weekend was a real good turnout, so we keep up the pressure.
00:19:55.900 Hopefully, they'll get the message, right?
00:19:57.680 Now, I remember the trucker convoy a couple years ago.
00:19:59.920 This has the same sort of vibe.
00:20:01.620 The bouncy castle right over there, if you want to take a shot of it.
00:20:04.680 I mean, that's really reminiscent of what we saw in Ottawa.
00:20:09.420 Back then, politicians were afraid of the trucker convoy at first.
00:20:16.060 I remember Aaron O'Toole, the leader of the Conservatives, wouldn't allow his MPs to go visit.
00:20:19.980 That's right.
00:20:20.400 Have there been any politicians of any level who have visited that you know of?
00:20:25.600 Not that I know of, no.
00:20:27.360 No.
00:20:27.600 Now, Pierre Paulyab himself, the leader of the federal Conservatives, he uses the phrase, axe the tax, spike the hike.
00:20:34.940 He really is emphasizing this.
00:20:37.000 He says he wants the next election to be a carbon tax election.
00:20:40.720 No one from the Conservative Party has come by, even to shake hands and handle flyers.
00:20:45.900 Nobody has.
00:20:46.680 Nobody has.
00:20:47.400 I wonder why that is.
00:20:48.100 Do you think they're afraid of it, or do you think they're just busy doing other things?
00:20:52.200 You know, I don't really know.
00:20:53.700 I don't know either, and I'm just asking you.
00:20:55.280 I mean, all I know is I've got to do it for my kids, because my kids today, they'll never afford a house, and I don't like the way Canada's going.
00:21:03.020 I just don't like it.
00:21:04.200 You know what I see in polling?
00:21:05.580 Most people think it's headed in the wrong direction.
00:21:07.940 Most people think the next generation will do more poorly than we have, and it's, you know, all of progress is our kids do better than we do, and I don't think a lot of people think that's going to be how it is now.
00:21:19.180 Yeah, you're right on that.
00:21:20.260 You're right.
00:21:20.640 And I tell you, I have to say to you guys, you guys are doing a great job, because I don't listen to the mainstream media no more.
00:21:27.260 It's all bull.
00:21:28.740 I assume I come to you guys and stuff like that online.
00:21:31.800 Way more, way more information.
00:21:33.980 I appreciate that.
00:21:34.960 Our reporter, Angelica Toya, has been here all week, and we had our reporter, Robert Krejcik, come in on the weekend.
00:21:41.420 He's down in Lethbridge covering the Coutts prosecutions.
00:21:46.100 They're prosecuting some of the men who were at the protest two years ago, and I'm a little bit worried that the police want to get involved here.
00:21:57.980 There were some police really heavy in the first few days.
00:22:01.760 Has the police had a lighter touch since then?
00:22:04.320 Well, I remember on Monday, it wasn't too bad.
00:22:07.240 That was the first.
00:22:08.640 The second is when we had, I think it was either 20 or 30 officers lined up in the ditch.
00:22:14.140 There was a gentleman who went down there to shake their hands, and they wouldn't acknowledge him.
00:22:19.060 They wouldn't shake his hands.
00:22:20.160 They didn't have any badge numbers on or nothing like that.
00:22:23.140 And it's just wrong.
00:22:24.940 Yeah, we saw a video of that.
00:22:26.760 We'll show a clip of that right now.
00:22:28.160 Take a look.
00:22:29.640 Must be pretty proud of yourselves.
00:22:31.460 Morning, officers.
00:22:33.120 Yeah, I'll film you too.
00:22:34.000 Don't worry.
00:22:38.400 You get a good view?
00:22:44.500 They came in marching.
00:22:45.960 Left, left, right, left.
00:22:47.620 Apparently, we're not allowed to protest, people.
00:22:50.160 People.
00:22:54.940 Oh, yeah, they're in there, left, right, left, marching.
00:23:01.580 Here's Justin Trudeau's army right here, guys.
00:23:05.560 Look at them, smiling on their face.
00:23:07.500 You're not allowed to protest.
00:23:09.100 They already know who I am.
00:23:11.180 They're going to know who you are too.
00:23:14.340 We'll zoom right in on them.
00:23:15.500 Look at that.
00:23:19.560 Pretty proud man right there today.
00:23:24.940 Oops, sorry, guys.
00:23:42.040 There's tons of them here today.
00:23:43.440 There's, these are peaceful people.
00:23:46.480 There's even some kids here.
00:23:48.220 I understand that the protesters worked with the RCMP to limit one lane on that first day,
00:23:55.760 so it was all in constant communication with the cops.
00:23:59.140 To have that sort of show of force moment is a kind of political bullying.
00:24:04.180 There's no criminal element here.
00:24:06.160 No, exactly.
00:24:06.980 I mean, we're peacefully protesting here.
00:24:09.320 I mean, that's what we're doing.
00:24:10.380 It's our constitutional right to do that, right?
00:24:13.760 So, you know.
00:24:14.860 Well, listen, thanks for talking with me.
00:24:16.420 You betcha.
00:24:16.820 Keep up the good work.
00:24:18.040 Right on.
00:24:19.260 All right.
00:24:19.680 Well, let's keep walking around.
00:24:21.080 Hey, let me just take a look at this sign.
00:24:22.380 There's a lot of great signs here.
00:24:24.760 I am a Canadian.
00:24:26.060 I will not sit down.
00:24:27.040 I will not shut up.
00:24:27.760 I will not comply.
00:24:29.100 I want my country back.
00:24:31.820 Yeah, we should all want our country back.
00:24:36.620 Justin Trudeau, or as I refer to him, Mini Z, like mini me.
00:24:41.400 Mini Z is referring to him as Canada's chairman, like China's chairman.
00:24:49.240 But him and Tseng and the rest of the WEF puppets want us to believe that we will own nothing and we will be happy.
00:25:00.660 Well, no, we won't be.
00:25:01.960 And that's why we're out here fighting this.
00:25:04.400 I see some more vehicles are arriving, even as we're talking one, two, three, four more vehicles.
00:25:10.560 Looks like they're decked out.
00:25:11.800 They've got some flags.
00:25:13.020 I'm not sure if those are painted on the hoods or just a fabric flag, but that's pretty fun.
00:25:18.520 You know, you're not wrong when you talk about the World Economic Forum.
00:25:22.460 Carbon taxes are just assumed that everyone's...
00:25:25.580 I've been to the World Economic Forum, not inside the sessions, but Rebel News sends reporters outside to scrum the politicians.
00:25:32.960 Every single one of them supports a carbon tax.
00:25:35.480 But I've never met a real person who says, yeah, jack up my carbon tax.
00:25:39.600 It's quite a distinction between the ruling elites and normal people.
00:25:43.400 It's so stark, the difference.
00:25:45.840 Well, listen, nice to meet you, and thanks for showing us your sign.
00:25:50.000 You're welcome.
00:25:50.720 Right on.
00:25:51.540 Well, let's keep walking around a bit.
00:25:54.140 She's the organizer.
00:25:55.420 Hi, I'm Ezra.
00:25:56.280 Hi, nice to meet you, Ezra.
00:25:57.740 What's your name?
00:25:58.500 My name is Judy Martins.
00:26:00.300 And, Judy, have you been here since the beginning?
00:26:02.340 I've been here since the night before the beginning.
00:26:04.660 Oh, wow.
00:26:05.720 Haven't gone anywhere.
00:26:06.800 I've been working on my sunburn and, yeah, holding the line.
00:26:10.540 You know, it's pretty gorgeous out here.
00:26:11.980 I'm born and raised in this part, and just seeing the mountains, and it's a bit of a breeze, but it's sunny.
00:26:17.720 Absolutely gorgeous.
00:26:18.960 What's the weather like being this past week?
00:26:21.120 Has it been cold, or what's it been like?
00:26:23.080 Well, we had quite a bit of snow last week.
00:26:25.640 Yep, a couple of days of snow, and a couple of people brought out the shovels.
00:26:29.640 They shoveled everything from, like, the scale to right up to everybody's campers.
00:26:34.080 So, yeah, we've had all sorts.
00:26:36.440 It reminds me of the trucker convoy.
00:26:37.940 When they were in Ottawa, they swept the streets, they tidied up.
00:26:41.640 Yep, picked up garbage, fed the homeless, clothed the homeless, all of the above.
00:26:46.100 Yeah, it's been that kind of experience here, the way people have just come together with donations.
00:26:50.820 And it's been wonderful.
00:26:52.360 I'm so happy to be here.
00:26:53.700 I've seen, I mean, we're here on a weekday, so obviously a lot of folks in Alberta work.
00:27:00.140 What was the attendance like on the weekend?
00:27:02.540 I saw some estimates.
00:27:04.780 What would you say it was?
00:27:05.980 At least 200 people.
00:27:08.580 I heard even higher.
00:27:10.100 Oh, well, definitely.
00:27:11.260 Well, I didn't want to overestimate.
00:27:13.160 So, yeah, definitely 200 people, but not including horses and children.
00:27:17.360 Yeah, so I guess we could go up to probably 220, 250.
00:27:22.060 What did you hear, Ezra?
00:27:23.540 Well, I heard 500, but that's just what I heard.
00:27:27.280 And that's why I want to check the facts with you.
00:27:29.500 I love the fact that, and I don't know if it's being picked up on the mic, but there's
00:27:34.520 a constant affirmation with the honk-honk.
00:27:38.420 And, like, I mean, you could get bored out here.
00:27:42.000 You could start to think, how much time am I going to spend out here?
00:27:44.840 But, like, by the way, some of these honking, like, some of these professional serious horns
00:27:51.660 that send my trailers, it's not like a meep-meep.
00:27:54.500 It's like they have musical, like, they're really funny, actually.
00:27:59.140 It's like they're saving them just for us.
00:28:01.580 Yeah.
00:28:01.760 Yeah.
00:28:02.260 I mean, it's like a song, some of the honking, and...
00:28:07.340 A symphony.
00:28:08.200 A symphony.
00:28:09.960 Yeah, absolutely, a symphony.
00:28:11.700 Yeah, we have all sorts of honks going, and honestly, it's all through the night, too.
00:28:17.380 So, I've been here since, yeah, like the night before April 1st, and it's been at night,
00:28:23.160 people going by honking, and it's lovely.
00:28:26.200 It's like such a great lullaby for all Canadians.
00:28:30.000 Now, there's a lot of RVs here.
00:28:31.180 Are you staying in an RV?
00:28:32.180 Yeah, I've got that one right there.
00:28:33.840 I've been staying in the back there.
00:28:35.940 Now, I haven't seen RCMP officers here now, but I saw a video of them before.
00:28:43.760 Yeah, I'm the liaison, too, so I've got their phone numbers, and ever since I got here,
00:28:49.300 yeah, the Monday morning, ever since, yeah, it's 7.15 a.m., I met them down at the A&W
00:28:54.880 at the Petro Pass, and we've had six different ones, three sets of two, keeping the communication
00:29:01.560 going.
00:29:02.340 Honestly, what happened on Tuesday, they were mortified because I had just finished telling
00:29:07.400 them that we weren't going to be going and blocking any kind of lane, and unfortunately,
00:29:11.600 the call had already come out, and those, yeah, the people standing in the mud there,
00:29:16.160 they really didn't want to be there, so, and it was pointless.
00:29:19.180 And actually, it worked against them because we had way more support, and it made quite
00:29:24.380 a spectacle.
00:29:25.200 Oh, they looked like assholes.
00:29:26.180 Let me just say it.
00:29:27.440 Yeah, well, yeah, for lack of a better word, yeah, they looked like assholes.
00:29:31.600 You know, I'm absolutely certain that a number of the same police who were dispatched to the
00:29:38.780 Milk River and the Coutts protests two years ago are here as well.
00:29:42.900 And there was some police misconduct there, and they were absolutely pressured by the
00:29:49.040 prime minister's office to gin up a story.
00:29:51.400 You might recall that the arrests in Coutts were one day before Trudeau invoked the Emergencies
00:29:57.520 Act.
00:29:58.220 They needed a pretext, and that is bad behavior.
00:30:01.820 Police should never take political instructions or run political errands.
00:30:04.900 Other than that moment of the cops doing their little stormtroopers thing, has there been
00:30:11.480 any police misconduct?
00:30:14.000 None that I've seen whatsoever.
00:30:15.620 In fact, they've gone above and beyond, and they got signs down that way and the other
00:30:20.580 way to kind of just let the public know.
00:30:22.580 I saw those.
00:30:23.240 Yeah, those are the liaisons.
00:30:25.680 We didn't even know they were going to do that.
00:30:28.000 They had to go through the Alberta Ministry of Transportation.
00:30:30.880 They kept getting shut down, shutting down.
00:30:32.400 But they made it happen, and that was above and beyond.
00:30:35.960 So they've been more than accommodating and really good, in my opinion.
00:30:39.820 Well, I'm very glad to hear that.
00:30:41.880 I think the national temperament has changed.
00:30:45.460 I think the freedom movement has awakened.
00:30:48.740 And I think that unlike last time when the leader of the opposition, Aaron O'Toole, didn't
00:30:54.280 have a lot of time for protesters, Pierre Polyev is very much on the file of Acts the Tax.
00:31:01.140 I asked one other gentleman earlier, and he said that no politicians have come by.
00:31:07.500 No, we haven't had any politicians come by.
00:31:09.960 There was a gentleman, a former MP.
00:31:12.300 Who's that?
00:31:12.860 Do you remember?
00:31:13.360 I can't remember his name, but we've managed to kind of convince him to show.
00:31:18.680 So I told him to come and break bread with us and kind of just, you know, just hang out
00:31:23.460 with us and get the stories.
00:31:25.240 Because, you know, it's one thing to do lip service and another thing to, like, talk out
00:31:29.100 of both ends of your mouth.
00:31:30.620 I'd like to see Danielle Smith here, actually.
00:31:32.920 It'd be really nice to see her.
00:31:34.240 You know, and there's no reason why not to.
00:31:36.000 Because, you know, there's a few F. Trudeau flags, but nothing we all haven't seen before.
00:31:40.820 And frankly, it's a healthy expression of dissent.
00:31:44.360 It's a peaceful expression.
00:31:45.880 We have the right to say F. Trudeau in Canada.
00:31:48.380 I'm not saying it's polite.
00:31:49.700 Well, it's not just in Canada.
00:31:51.720 It's all over the world.
00:31:52.640 I had a video from New Zealand sent to me where somebody had an F. Trudeau bumper sticker
00:31:57.520 on the vehicle in front, and she sent it to me.
00:32:00.080 In New Zealand?
00:32:00.760 In New Zealand.
00:32:01.600 In New Zealand.
00:32:02.300 I can show it to you, Ezra.
00:32:03.800 Absolutely.
00:32:04.160 So, I mean, it's a general feeling around the world.
00:32:09.240 Definitely, when he invoked the Emergencies Act, illegally, I may add, and then froze people's
00:32:14.780 bank accounts, he will never live that down, and he really, I'd love for him to resign.
00:32:20.000 I don't think he'll get any kind of dignity back at this point.
00:32:23.720 You know what?
00:32:25.000 My view is he's an authoritarian who actually doesn't care what people think about him.
00:32:29.640 If he can be popular, great.
00:32:31.180 But he really is about the power and exerting his will.
00:32:35.500 In fact, there's sort of a sick joy I think he sometimes gets when people are swearing at
00:32:39.740 him or protesting him.
00:32:40.880 It's sort of like he's laughing at them, saying, you can't touch me.
00:32:44.200 Rage all you want.
00:32:45.240 I think there's a sick aspect to him.
00:32:49.060 When he says he admires communist China, when he embraces Fidel Castro, I think he's
00:32:56.300 showing us his role models.
00:32:58.200 Absolutely.
00:32:59.120 No, I know.
00:32:59.680 People can be booing and hissing.
00:33:02.060 It doesn't matter if you're supporting, you know, you've got your Palestinian flag flying.
00:33:06.760 You've got your Israeli flag flying.
00:33:08.460 It doesn't matter.
00:33:09.780 He, classic narcissist.
00:33:12.960 It just goes in one ear and out the other.
00:33:15.340 And it's probably because there's nothing in between his ears to begin with.
00:33:20.040 Let me ask you one last question.
00:33:21.360 I'm based out east, so I came out here.
00:33:24.840 I wanted to see with my own eyes.
00:33:26.320 But we've had reporters here since actually the Monday.
00:33:30.880 My colleague, Angelica Toy, and then over the weekend, Robert Krejcik.
00:33:35.480 So we're interested in this sort of thing because we like populism and conservatism and freedom.
00:33:41.860 And we're skeptics of the carbon tax and environmental extremism.
00:33:45.140 That's us.
00:33:45.680 Can you tell me how you feel the coverage from the mainstream media has been?
00:33:51.420 Has it been fair?
00:33:52.720 Have they got your side of the story?
00:33:56.780 What do you think of their coverage?
00:33:59.400 Well, they've definitely been out here since Monday.
00:34:01.520 Because I'm the admin for the Facebook group for the nationwide protest against the carbon tax.
00:34:07.720 They wanted to make sure that because I've been living and breathing it for a month now.
00:34:13.060 They were out here.
00:34:14.420 I took it upon myself to kind of just, you know, so that there's a cohesive message.
00:34:18.540 They have been more than fair.
00:34:20.080 All of them are 100% against the carbon tax.
00:34:23.320 It's affecting every single Canadian, every walk of life.
00:34:27.380 And it's something that can unite us all.
00:34:28.740 And it will.
00:34:29.500 Even Trudeau's CBC?
00:34:31.520 I spoke to them.
00:34:32.680 Yes, they were here yesterday.
00:34:34.260 CBC out of Calgary.
00:34:35.620 They were here and they did an interview with a few people.
00:34:39.520 Took them around, showed them around, and invited them to have some food with us.
00:34:44.740 And, yeah, no, they asked me a couple of interesting questions.
00:34:48.400 They were the ones who asked me if there's been any politicians of Pierre had come out.
00:34:53.020 And I said no.
00:34:54.060 But you know what?
00:34:54.820 It'd be interesting to see if Trudeau actually is even watching this.
00:34:58.420 I doubt it, but it'd be interesting to know.
00:35:01.040 Well, I think he is watching this.
00:35:02.820 I think he's hypersensitive.
00:35:04.840 And I think he still has a grudge because some of these people were people who protested against him two years ago.
00:35:11.140 I just want to add something.
00:35:12.600 We've had so many people, not just this location, but in all the locations where we have this carbon tax protest, people who have never protested in their life.
00:35:21.980 Coming out, showing support.
00:35:23.280 There was a gentleman here with a van.
00:35:25.120 He was here for five days.
00:35:26.520 Never protested before.
00:35:28.160 So definitely people rolling up the trucks because we're on a scale right now.
00:35:32.320 So they pull up.
00:35:33.320 They use the scale.
00:35:34.120 They roll down their windows.
00:35:35.140 And they say, yep, we don't want this carbon tax.
00:35:38.020 Well, and we hear the honking continuously.
00:35:40.760 Can you tell me your name one more time, please?
00:35:42.480 My name is Judy Martins, J-U-D-Y-M-A-R-T-E-N-S.
00:35:46.760 Great to talk with you.
00:35:47.500 Thanks for your time.
00:35:48.200 Of course.
00:35:50.220 All right.
00:35:51.020 Well, why don't we just walk down a little bit more, see what we see.
00:35:55.780 And then we'll hop across to the other side of the road, just see what it's like there.
00:35:59.940 And then I want to go take a look and see what we can see if there's any police in a staging area.
00:36:06.960 So let's go and do that.
00:36:09.880 There's a generator here, so I'm going to move a little bit away from it as I talk.
00:36:13.760 But I saw this giant poster board of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:36:19.580 And I ask you, when was the last time you've seen any sort of left-wing protest
00:36:24.100 that talked about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and actually showed it?
00:36:29.380 I've never seen that before.
00:36:32.200 There's about five more vehicles and some more tents here.
00:36:38.220 There's some serious tents, including tents with stovetops in them.
00:36:45.300 The RVs are a great sign because when you've got the RVs, those folks have staying power.
00:36:51.580 They can cook.
00:36:52.980 They often have showers and, of course, bathrooms.
00:36:55.520 And, of course, just half a kilometer up that way is the Petro-Canada,
00:36:59.940 which has sort of a convenience store section to it.
00:37:02.880 And there's an A&W there.
00:37:05.200 Lots more flags.
00:37:06.320 I see a Quebec flag, Alberta flag, Canadian flag.
00:37:09.720 What other flags?
00:37:10.440 There was kind of a New Zealand flag we were pointed to earlier.
00:37:14.400 I saw the stars and the stripes.
00:37:15.820 Lots of Freedom Deck House.
00:37:23.580 I assume that's for firewood.
00:37:25.500 What else could it be for?
00:37:29.160 Hi.
00:37:29.640 How you doing?
00:37:31.860 Great.
00:37:32.560 Looks like you got a whole operation here.
00:37:34.560 Go grab yourself something to eat.
00:37:36.660 The lady brought meatballs and fresh rice.
00:37:39.600 And she's feeding us like she said she did at the Freedom Convoy.
00:37:43.560 Who brought that?
00:37:45.020 I'm not too...
00:37:45.760 That lady over there that's taking pictures.
00:37:48.320 Really?
00:37:48.900 She's going to bring pork chops tomorrow, and she's taking really good care of us.
00:37:52.080 She's just bringing...
00:37:53.100 She's just catering this whole thing.
00:37:54.480 Yes, she is.
00:37:55.560 Right now, she is.
00:37:56.660 We're all standing together and pulling together and bringing food.
00:37:59.960 I'd like your shirt on the right side of history.
00:38:02.960 I am freecanadian.ca.
00:38:04.680 Good stuff.
00:38:05.400 Thank you.
00:38:05.900 And I see some indigenous insignia.
00:38:08.480 Yes.
00:38:09.360 I follow the native culture a lot.
00:38:11.980 I love it.
00:38:12.880 And we're here to stand together and pray together.
00:38:16.820 We need to stand together.
00:38:19.200 Right now.
00:38:19.580 Well, it's nice to...
00:38:20.200 We have these taxes.
00:38:21.320 We need to...
00:38:22.000 Well, you got a whole setup here and the catering from the city.
00:38:25.060 That's amazing.
00:38:25.740 I won't keep you from your lunch.
00:38:27.240 Cheers.
00:38:27.640 Cheers.
00:38:28.320 I understand that you have been catering this event.
00:38:33.380 Tell me about that.
00:38:34.500 Well, it all started with the Freedom Convoy 2022 I was part of.
00:38:38.940 And this is my extended family, so I took it upon myself to come out and cook meals for them.
00:38:45.340 And it's all homemade from scratch.
00:38:47.600 And, yeah, it's out of love.
00:38:50.720 Well, it looks amazing.
00:38:51.580 I saw chili.
00:38:52.540 I saw what I think were meatballs.
00:38:54.180 I saw ham.
00:38:55.300 I saw buns.
00:38:56.300 It's all homemade.
00:38:58.720 All homemade buns.
00:39:00.440 And the ham has a black cherry glaze on it with a hot pepper sauce.
00:39:05.920 And the vegetables are all with a Parmesan garlic sauce on them.
00:39:11.240 And the rice is a pilaf with fresh vegetables.
00:39:14.960 You know, if we put this video up, everyone's going to want to come here.
00:39:18.740 They're going to come here just for the lunch.
00:39:20.200 Come for the lunch.
00:39:21.220 Stay for the freedom.
00:39:22.940 Well, you know what?
00:39:23.640 If they want to come and eat, they've got to come and stand here and support our Canadian world here.
00:39:29.280 We need help.
00:39:30.420 And our world is in a disastrous state right now.
00:39:33.620 And you know what?
00:39:35.220 The more people that come out, the better it is for us to show our love and our support for our Canada.
00:39:41.540 Some eggs and bacon.
00:39:42.660 And there's the ham.
00:39:44.420 And, oh, I see the chili.
00:39:45.460 There's the ham.
00:39:46.040 And I see the chili over there.
00:39:47.480 And the meatballs are more chili.
00:39:49.200 And some veggies and rice.
00:39:51.740 There's that homemade bread.
00:39:53.540 And there's a lot more stuff.
00:39:54.760 There's a lot of cooking here.
00:39:57.680 You know, I remember my very first political campaign when I was very young.
00:40:00.920 I worked for Ralph Klein.
00:40:02.480 And every restaurateur in the city brought chafing dishes worth of grub.
00:40:07.340 Frankly, it was my favorite part of the campaign.
00:40:10.040 And I think that, oh, my gosh, look at that.
00:40:12.320 Like, look at it here.
00:40:14.700 That's got to be 72 eggs and all sorts of apples and bread and buns and rich crackers.
00:40:25.580 And I think I see some pasta there.
00:40:28.220 Wow, these folks, these folks, they'll feed an army.
00:40:35.840 So we're on the other side.
00:40:37.280 We were there.
00:40:37.840 We had a great chat with everybody.
00:40:39.600 And I see you're holding the sign.
00:40:41.020 What are you doing to ask the tax?
00:40:42.600 What's your name?
00:40:43.260 Yeah, my name is Sue.
00:40:44.560 Yeah, I'm curious to know what other people are doing because this is what we're doing.
00:40:48.880 Are you from Calgary or from out of town?
00:40:50.700 I'm from Cochran, just up the highway.
00:40:52.800 Oh, good for you.
00:40:53.500 I thought there was no excuse for me not to come out and support.
00:40:56.460 So I've been here since day one and do what I can, like all these folks are.
00:41:01.100 Well, that's wonderful.
00:41:01.880 There's a lot of variety of flags.
00:41:03.900 The F. Trudeau ones make me chuckle.
00:41:05.600 There's the Don't Tread on Me.
00:41:07.360 And en français, Ne Marchez Pas Sur Moi.
00:41:10.140 You know, and it's a goose.
00:41:12.840 I mean, in America, they would call that the Gadsden flag with a snake.
00:41:17.380 Here it's with a goose.
00:41:18.740 That makes me chuckle.
00:41:20.840 So what's the reaction being?
00:41:23.140 There's a lot of horn honking and support.
00:41:25.140 Yeah, mostly support, I'd have to say.
00:41:27.660 Most people are really kind and behind this 100%.
00:41:30.520 We still get the middle finger, and I don't understand that because we're fighting for
00:41:35.260 everybody.
00:41:36.080 We're not out here because we have nothing better to do.
00:41:38.500 We're out here because we care.
00:41:40.380 Yeah, I mean, I just have trouble thinking, who would want to pay more taxes?
00:41:46.460 And if you really, really, really want to, go ahead.
00:41:49.860 Why make the rest?
00:41:50.600 I mean, if you want to pay more at tax time, just cut the government a bigger check.
00:41:54.360 I just wonder why anyone would do that.
00:41:57.680 Exactly.
00:41:58.560 We're puzzled with the same thing.
00:42:00.640 I don't really understand it.
00:42:02.060 I don't know why there aren't thousands out here because there should be.
00:42:05.260 This is going to affect us all.
00:42:06.980 I'm here for my grandchildren.
00:42:08.460 This is my other one, too.
00:42:09.820 Stand up, Canadians.
00:42:11.520 And everyone knows what that means.
00:42:15.200 I like your style.
00:42:16.260 Now, who else is here?
00:42:17.620 Where are people from?
00:42:19.340 I'm all over.
00:42:20.180 So the weekend was wonderful.
00:42:21.640 I don't know if you were out here on the weekend, but there were families.
00:42:24.360 There were families here with little kids, trying to set an example for their kids that you stand up for what you believe in, right?
00:42:31.280 So lots of families.
00:42:32.560 It was really, really busy on the weekend.
00:42:34.880 During the week, it's quieter.
00:42:36.480 Only those of us who can be out here are here, right?
00:42:39.620 Most people are just trying to earn a living, let's face it.
00:42:42.420 Now, you're a very eloquent spokesman, but I also sense that you're new to politics.
00:42:48.020 Yes, I am.
00:42:48.780 In fact, I didn't care about politics until just a few years ago.
00:42:52.300 So I feel very embarrassed to tell you that, but it's true.
00:42:57.280 So about 500 meters east of the main protest area is this vehicle that you can clearly see from the protest area.
00:43:06.580 And people said it had solar panels on it, and they said it was some sort of a spy trailer.
00:43:11.660 And I was frankly a little bit skeptical, but now that I've walked over here, that's absolutely what it is.
00:43:18.360 I'm not sure if those are solar panels.
00:43:20.760 They might be.
00:43:21.460 They sort of look like it.
00:43:22.580 But frankly, they might be a sensor of some sort.
00:43:26.320 I don't know, an electronic sensor.
00:43:27.800 But I absolutely am certain, if you just come around here, that those cameras, which are precisely aimed at the protesters, are absolutely spying on them.
00:43:41.640 Now, I think you can hear there's a generator inside.
00:43:44.420 There's an exhaust fan for the generator.
00:43:46.920 So I don't know if those are solar panels.
00:43:49.520 It would seem odd that you have solar panels pointing sideways to begin with.
00:43:55.160 And it would seem odd to have solar panels and a diesel motor inside.
00:44:00.580 So I'm not sure if those are solar panels.
00:44:03.640 They may be some sort of other electronic sensor.
00:44:07.140 We've seen in the past police, when, for example, they were clamping down on churches, sent people into the churches, sent police officers into the churches with a kind of cell phone scanning technology that would grab the ID of all the cell phones in the venue.
00:44:27.000 So I'm not an expert enough to say, are those solar panels on the side of a comms trailer that has a diesel engine, or is that some sort of spy craft?
00:44:39.040 I don't know.
00:44:39.800 But I can say with complete certainty that those cameras up there are spying.
00:44:44.600 And I imagine that they're there for two reasons.
00:44:47.340 First of all, just to record everything and document everything.
00:44:51.360 And there's not a large police presence here today.
00:44:53.840 So that's a live stream probably being watched by various police forces, the Calgary police.
00:45:00.800 The RCMP wouldn't surprise me one bit if some Trudeau cabinet ministers were keeping an eye on things.
00:45:08.000 But I know from experience, not just in Canada, but in the United Kingdom, that a central police tactic these days is to take high resolution video of any protest and use facial recognition technology to build a database of who's there.
00:45:26.660 And when you think about it, everyone who's milling around and coming and going, they're showing their face, but they're not checking in to be registered.
00:45:35.900 So believe it or not, the only people who have a total list of everyone who came here, it's not the protest organizers.
00:45:42.800 It's the cops.
00:45:44.260 Here, come around the other side.
00:45:45.300 Let's see if there's a solar panel, so to speak, on the other side.
00:45:49.300 There is not.
00:45:51.840 So that leads me to believe that those are not actually solar panels, that those may be some sort of other sensor.
00:45:59.900 That's just a raw guess on my part, but that's absolutely a surveillance camera.
00:46:05.060 We walked through the parking lot of the PetroCanada here and could not find any obvious police.
00:46:11.220 I would imagine the same sort of police intelligence agents, the spies of the police force that were deployed to the trucker protest in Coutts, Alberta and Milk River, Alberta are being deployed here.
00:46:27.040 And I don't like that one bit because we saw legal and police misconduct during the trucker convoys.
00:46:33.620 And I'm worried that there's too many police and politicians who want a do-over.
00:46:39.020 They have a vengeance in them.
00:46:41.100 Some of the people at that protest obviously were at the trucker convoy two years ago.
00:46:46.800 They're having another go at it, and I'm worried that the cops want another go at it, too.
00:46:51.980 I'm standing over to the side.
00:46:53.040 You can see there's some infrastructure here for porta-potties, and I think some of these vans have, or these RVs have similar things.
00:47:00.640 These folks are here for a while.
00:47:02.180 Now, let me reintroduce you to my friend, Angelica Toy, who's been here all week.
00:47:07.040 Angelica was telling me about the police presence that was here early on, and I want to draw your attention to some bushes in the background.
00:47:14.960 So what did you see here?
00:47:17.000 And I understand you have some footage, but first just tell us what we're going to look at.
00:47:20.500 On April 1st, around 7 p.m., there were around 20 what looked like to be Calgary police vehicles lined up just down on the back road back there behind the bushes.
00:47:30.560 Sort of hiding?
00:47:32.760 Yes, definitely sort of hiding.
00:47:34.680 And I took a drive down, and by the time I got there, they had driven away, but there was one vehicle left.
00:47:39.040 It was unmarked, and the back was kind of open.
00:47:41.380 So I got a shot of what was in it and beside it, and it looked like they were definitely spying on the protesters here.
00:47:47.420 So we got a shot of that.
00:47:48.720 Yeah, you know, I wonder whose jurisdiction or who, because this is outside the Calgary city limits.
00:47:54.840 This is RCMP territory.
00:47:56.720 I don't know.
00:47:58.320 I mean, obviously, I'm not saying Calgary police cannot operate outside of the city.
00:48:03.960 They probably have some agreement to do so.
00:48:05.640 But the fact that they had such a massive police protest, police response, to a peaceful political protest, why?
00:48:17.180 There's no indication whatsoever that there would be violence.
00:48:24.080 Who would they be violent against in the middle of nowhere in the countryside?
00:48:28.480 Like, the only critters around here are cattle.
00:48:32.900 What on earth were the police doing other than intimidation?
00:48:36.000 And I find that outrageous.
00:48:37.420 I definitely agree with you, Ezra.
00:48:38.580 And the police presence was just a huge overreaction because all we see here are people that just, they love their country.
00:48:45.020 They love people, and they want to get their word out.
00:48:47.640 They want their voices heard, and they want their government to change what has been hurting them.
00:48:52.920 So, the police to have such a strong presence as if this was some threat to the country was unbelievable.
00:49:01.220 Yeah, you know what?
00:49:02.100 The contrast between how they police the truckers two years ago for the COVID protests,
00:49:11.000 the truckers this year for the carbon tax protests, versus what the Hamas protesters get away.
00:49:16.640 I just can't get over that.
00:49:17.700 I've got to think if I want to come back on the weekend because it sounds like it's going to be a bigger attendance there.
00:49:23.800 For sure, we'll have other Rebel Jews journalists, but I enjoy the feeling.
00:49:28.520 It does give me that echo of what we experienced that day in Ottawa, and I can't say it enough.
00:49:36.180 I use the word festival feeling.
00:49:38.420 It was sort of like, not Woodstock, but there was a harmony, and people from different backgrounds coming together,
00:49:45.600 different cities, different ethnicities, different classes, and they were united in purpose.
00:49:51.820 That was a wonderful feeling.
00:49:53.500 A lot of people who were at that trucker convoy, the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa two years ago,
00:49:59.040 even though it was a crisis, even though terrible things were happening, and even though it was minus 20,
00:50:08.040 people who were there looked back on it very fondly because they were back,
00:50:13.340 they were in a rare moment of united purpose with their fellow Canadians.
00:50:17.780 I look back on those days I spent there as something I'll never forget,
00:50:24.620 and I wonder if this protest against the carbon tax on the side of the highway might turn into something similar.