Today, I go through an encouraging document, an access to information record that was kept secret by the government until a professor got it loose. It s incredible. Canadians actually care about freedom, and I guess I sort of knew it, or at least hoped it, but now I ve got 1,200 pages of proof of it.
00:00:00.360Hello, my Rebels. Today, I go through an encouraging document, an access to information record that was kept secret by the government until a professor got it loose.
00:00:09.000It's 1,200 pages of feedback to Trudeau's censorship plans, and it's incredible. Canadians actually care about freedom.
00:00:16.440And I guess I sort of knew it, or at least hoped it, but now I've got 1,200 pages of proof of it. I'll show you at least some of those pages.
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00:02:45.580We were told not to go to life cycle events from weddings to funerals.
00:02:49.160We were told we couldn't even meet with our own families or friends in our own houses.
00:02:53.680Schools and churches were shut down, but casinos and liquor stores were kept open.
00:02:59.860Today, you should know Jason Kenney's special enforcement team is in court in Alberta, prosecuting a church that dared to stay open during the pandemic.
00:03:09.240Our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, is the only reporter in the courthouse.
00:03:12.920She's the only one documenting this outrageous prosecution, how Kenney's hitman deliberately interrupted the church service again and again,
00:03:20.640and insisted on inspecting the church right at the middle of the service, like some sort of goons in communist China smashing into a house church or, frankly, some brown church in Germany smashing their way through a synagogue.
00:03:33.900If you want to be grossed out, follow Sheila's coverage of this disgraceful trial in Alberta, a trial that is proceeding on the instructions of Kenney himself.
00:03:44.740By the way, Kenney's special church prosecutor insists on having her identity kept secret, and the court bizarrely allows it.
00:03:55.440You know, it's like the medieval hangman, the medieval executioner wearing a mask to hide their identity, whether it's out of shame or guilt or to hide their face from any angels who might judge them, too.
00:04:06.980Imagine that in 2022, a prosecution of a church for allowing people in sorrow and loneliness to gather together in a crisis, and the government prosecutes them with a secret prosecutor.
00:04:19.500Not that it's needed, other than Sheila, no one from the media is even in there.
00:04:24.600Loneliness, hopelessness, they want you to feel that way.
00:04:28.460That's why the truckers were like a miracle.
00:04:30.500Suddenly there was a rowdy, noisy, happy, smiling.
00:04:33.940You could see their faces gathering, and you could join it no matter who you were.
00:04:39.520And people made new friends again for the first time in two years.
00:09:14.820But there has been another opportunistic menace working more quietly in parallel these past years.
00:09:20.040I'm talking about Trudeau's burning desire to censor us, all of us, including ordinary people, including you, on social media like Facebook or Twitter or YouTube.
00:09:54.960That's a bill that lets the government regulate the Internet.
00:09:57.980The same regulators, the CRTC, that ruined Canadian TV and radio and that are responsible for our outrageously high cell phone charges and cell phone data charges.
00:10:07.520Those losers at the CRTC are going to be put in charge of the Internet.
00:10:32.260Don't think for a second that the Internet isn't regulated by the same laws that other technology is.
00:10:38.900But C-36 would go much further than lawbreaking to offensive speech.
00:10:42.780And then there was a bundle of ideas so bad, so bizarre, so outlandish that they weren't even called a bill.
00:10:49.100They weren't even introduced in the parliament, but they were released in the form of background discussion documents right before the last election.
00:10:58.460It was the study of what the government called online harms.
00:11:02.980You see, they had to use the word harms because these aren't crimes.
00:11:30.100So what the online harms proposals would do couldn't be called crimes or even civil torts.
00:11:36.340Just harms, so vague, so minor, so subjective, which is precisely why Trudeau wants those powers, because he's not going to go after any real crimes.
00:12:05.580But it was one of the few thin examples cited by Trudeau to suspend all our civil liberties and bring in a form of martial law and even seize bank accounts with no legal process.
00:12:16.760If he'd do that for a peaceful process, imagine what he'd do to control the whole Internet and online harms.
00:12:24.120Take it from the minister who introduced these ideas, Stephen Gilbeau.
00:12:27.440It was specifically designed to protect politicians from criticism.
00:12:31.720We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families.
00:12:42.280Oh, and he wants the power to absolutely delete websites.
00:12:51.300I mean, that's that maybe it's not, you know, it's it would be it would likely be a last result, last result, nuclear bomb in a toolbox of mechanism for a regulator.
00:13:11.840I did an extensive show about these online harms a few months back, so I'm not going to go into the details again.
00:13:16.500But there really weren't a lot of people fighting back publicly, were there?
00:13:19.720I mean, how could there be 99 percent of the journalists in this country, the people who should have been on guard?
00:13:25.600Well, they've been colonized by Trudeau.
00:13:27.540They can't criticize the heritage minister, whoever it is in any given day, because that's the heritage minister who gives journalists their bailout money.
00:13:36.140Would you bite the hand that feeds you?
00:13:38.220Well, here's a story from Professor Michael Geist, who has firsthand information that various editorial writers criticizing Trudeau's takeover of the Internet.
00:13:51.340Their stories had been approved by low level editors at Canon's newspapers, but then spiked by senior bosses at those same newspapers.
00:13:58.860Of course, the senior bosses are the people who value collecting millions of dollars more than they value an independent media that can criticize Trudeau.
00:14:07.120Michael Geist is a professor with an interest in things like copyright law and free speech, but he's become the leading critic in academia, at least, of Trudeau's censorship and regulatory plans.
00:14:18.540When Trudeau and Stephen Gilboa released their online harms proposals last year, as parliament broke before the 2021 election, they called for public submissions and consultations in response.
00:14:30.300So they didn't have parliamentary hearings.
00:14:32.500They just buried it in the summertime before an election.
00:15:13.240Well, Professor Geist filed an access to information request.
00:15:16.100And he received the results today, a 1,200-page compendium of public remarks, overwhelmingly critical of the government.
00:15:26.040No wonder the liberals tried to keep it a secret.
00:15:28.300Countless people from across the political spectrum opposing the censorship proposals.
00:15:32.600People on the right, people on the left, minority groups, civil liberties groups.
00:15:36.520People were shocked at how far Trudeau was proposing to go.
00:15:39.960I started to look through the 1,200 pages today.
00:15:42.280Obviously, I couldn't get through it all.
00:15:43.740Well, we've posted a link to the whole document on the website below this video.
00:15:48.600And it's all thanks to Professor Geist for doing this access to information request and posting the results on his website, making it public.
00:15:55.900If you're interested, work through it.
00:16:09.760There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say,
00:16:30.000we need to go green as fast as we need to start investing in solar.
00:16:34.220I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted.
00:16:41.200But it's what I said earlier about the truckers.
00:16:43.180You didn't know how many friends you had.
00:16:46.580You didn't know how many other people out there were concerned.
00:17:05.580The online harms proposal requires regulated service providers to take all reasonable measures,
00:17:11.800which can include the use of automated systems to identify harmful content that is communicated on its service
00:17:17.120and make that content inaccessible to persons in Canada.
00:17:20.080In addition, regulated service providers would be required to independently adjudicate complaints
00:17:25.160and remove illegal or harmful content within 24 hours from the content being flagged.
00:17:29.260A failure to comply with these requirements would trigger significant administrative monetary damages.
00:17:35.420Both of these obligations impinge on fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
00:17:40.400and international human rights law to the extent that this approach may risk being perceived as a government censorship regime
00:17:47.180that is outsourced to private companies.
00:17:50.080Requiring service providers to proactively monitor all user content and to assess the legality or harmfulness of user content is problematic.
00:17:58.000First, this requirement may have a disproportionate effect on user privacy
00:18:01.800and may undermine necessary cybersecurity efforts by effectively eliminating the ability to leverage encryption for certain communications.
00:18:09.620The extraordinary policy implications merit greater public debate.
00:18:16.080There's a little bit of jargon in there, but I think it's pretty clear.
00:18:19.040Microsoft is saying, what are you doing?
00:18:20.560There's no place in, there's no free place in the world that does this.
00:18:24.800Let me just read a little bit more from Microsoft.
00:18:26.500I know it's some detail, but aren't you surprised?
00:18:29.980I mean, I think of Microsoft, I think of the detestable Bill Gates.
00:18:33.340But I guess Microsoft's free speech lawyers really thought this was a problem.
00:18:37.320Let me read just one more excerpt from their quote.
00:19:08.960Legally mandated adjudication and takedown rules incentivize service providers to adopt a conservative approach to content removal,
00:19:28.020which could lead to the disproportionate removal of legitimate content.
00:19:31.200This, in turn, could have unintended negative consequences for freedom of expression and risks creating a chilling effect on online speech,
00:19:40.000free and open public discourse, and civil society participation.
00:20:10.840Pinterest is not a place for politics, and we are not focused on fostering free expression.
00:20:16.020However, several provisions of the proposed law may have implications for the rights and interests of law-abiding Internet users,
00:20:22.740which we think deserves more discussion.
00:20:24.440The requirement to take down unlawful content on 24 hours notice, for example, will provide many small and medium-sized platforms with little time to assess potentially complex legal claims.
00:20:35.960The strong incentive will be to simply take down any content that is alleged to violate the law in order to avoid legal risk.
00:20:42.460Platform companies of all sizes regularly receive abusive or mistaken demands to remove lawful and even societally important content.
00:20:52.260At Pinterest, we do our best to identify and resist such improper requests, but the largest companies will be uniquely positioned to carry out the kind of rapid yet accurate legal analysis in the proposed law suggests.
00:21:03.280Similarly, the requirement that platforms take all reasonable measures, which can include the use of automated systems to identify harmful content, may, in practice, incentivize smaller platforms to rely on imprecise filtering tools.
00:21:18.900Legal mandates to adopt poorly defined or understood automated systems create serious risk of harm to users.
00:21:27.460I'm trying to show you that these companies that actually have to apply the censorship see a lot of practical problems and moral problems, too.
00:21:46.980Twitter opposes the recommendation of a time limit on addressing any content flagged by any person in Canada as harmful content.
00:21:54.920The proposed time limit does not allow for judicious, thoughtful analysis in a manner that balances the right to freedom of expression in Canada with the right to freedom from discrimination and prejudice.
00:22:07.000According to existing research and analyses, the proposed system has a high probability of negatively impacting marginalized, racialized, and intersectional groups.
00:22:17.420More information from Professor Susie Dunn at Dalhousie University can be found here.
00:22:22.260The 24-hour proposal should be abandoned.
00:22:24.840Content should be addressed as quickly as possible and within the scope of existing Canadian jurisprudence, terms of service and rules by the online communications service providers.
00:22:37.020Any standard applied in the digital world should also be applied in real life.
00:22:41.160For example, law enforcement should be required to both launch an investigation within 24 hours of flagging as well as remove any hateful content.
00:22:50.400Graffiti on a statue, for example, that appears within 24 hours across the country.
00:23:15.840The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the Digital Safety Commissioner, I love that title, to block websites is drastic.
00:23:22.420People around the world are being blocked from accessing Twitter and other services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments, China, North Korea, and Iran, for example.
00:23:33.320Under the false guise of online safety, impeding people's rights to access information online.
00:23:39.760Look, I've just started to skim this 1,200 page access to information that Professor Geist received.
00:23:46.360The entire world sees Trudeau for who he is, a wannabe dictator.
00:23:52.220The only difference amongst the serious criticisms that I've shown you is how diplomatic they are at describing him.
00:24:59.580The church engaged in the crime of opening its doors during the lockdown.
00:25:06.720Now, the lockdown is long over, and Alberta boasts that it's back and it's free.
00:25:10.840And yet, Jason Kenney's handpicked special church prosecutors are in court right now, going after the church, asking, seeking over a million dollars in fines for the fact that they dared open.
00:25:39.700So, the first day they made the case to hear whether or not the judge would hear charter arguments.
00:25:46.260The second day, the judge rejected the fact that there were any charter violations taking place here, and they moved right into the trial proper.
00:25:55.840So, today was, I guess, the second official day of trial testimony, and it wrapped up just at lunchtime today.
00:26:02.640So, I raced back home so I could be with you.
00:26:19.480This is an in-person trial in Edmonton, and it's limited to just 10 people inside of the courtroom.
00:26:27.180Not that that would matter because I'm the only media there.
00:26:30.580But because of the restrictions on the number of people that can go into the courtroom, the supporters of Church in the Vine have to wait outside.
00:26:40.420The Edmonton Courthouse still requires masks.
00:26:59.660You have to face the walls in an elevator.
00:27:01.540I guess there's lots of science-y thinking behind that one.
00:27:04.660Seriously, I wonder who came up with that.
00:27:06.100I've actually never heard that before.
00:27:07.680I wonder if some cockamamie judge came up with that.
00:27:10.400And the reason I say that is that these people are scientifically unreasonable.
00:27:15.800There is no special attribute to the coronavirus that makes it attack people in a courtroom as opposed to a liquor store or a grocery store or a bus or whatever.
00:27:27.560It's a reflection of the mania or the phobia of the judges themselves.
00:27:33.080And we saw this in the case of Justice Adam Germain with his bizarre and unfactual assertions in the case of Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, where he said, everyone in Alberta knows someone who has died from this virus.
00:28:26.320And it's the fact that they're still living like the Japanese soldiers who were found in the Philippines in the 50s, still fighting against the Americans a decade after Japan surrendered.
00:28:50.400No, I knew that the second the judge made James Kitchen, the lawyer, the fight the fines lawyer, working on behalf of Church in the Vine and Pastor Tracy Fortin, the judge makes the documents come to the judge on a dinner tray, like a cafeteria tray.
00:29:11.880So you give them to the court clerk who puts them on a cafeteria tray.
00:29:15.400And then this magical cafeteria tray somehow disinfects the documents, and then they're given to the judge.
00:29:22.180The clerk cannot hand the documents directly to the judge.
00:29:25.500They have to go on this magical cafeteria tray.
00:29:27.860So that should tell us exactly where we're going with this judge.
00:29:32.800And there's a lot of the same faces that we are seeing involved in this.
00:29:40.480For example, it's the same hunter killer prosecutor that argued for the continued incarceration of James Coates, who is tasked with prosecuting Church in the Vine and the nice pastor's wife, Tracy Fortin.
00:29:54.440Really, they are not on trial here for violations of the public health order.
00:30:01.480They are in trouble for obstructing a health inspector from coming into the church to continue to disrupt the church.
00:30:13.200They tried to make arrangements with this health inspector to come into the church at a time when no one was praying or worshiping.
00:30:21.420But the health inspector stood them up.
00:30:24.780There was, I found out, there was a joint task force, like a JTF-style task force, of city bylaw officers, city cops, and Alberta Health Services, whose duty was to go around and check churches for COVID compliance.
00:30:41.200And at one point, there was testimony that the health inspector admitted to her and the bylaw officers were running around the church like these biomedical police state lemmings.
00:30:54.200They were everywhere and taking pictures of people as they were actively engaged in worship and prayer.
00:31:01.300They were in the children's room, like the little Sunday school for the little ones.
00:31:44.040It's absolutely insane what the testimony that I heard.
00:31:47.160Do you think for one second you use the word church a lot?
00:31:50.260Of course, we live in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.
00:31:53.900I know for a fact Edmonton has Sikh temples, Jewish synagogues, Muslim mosques.
00:31:59.620Do you know at all if this hunter-killer task force set up by Jason Kenney, if it went to any other religious groups and their houses of worship,
00:32:08.640or if it was, as you described, simply targeting the Christian churches?
00:32:14.300I only heard evidence today that they were targeting Christian churches.
00:32:18.940And, you know, the health inspector sort of bragged that, you know, there are other churches, including my own, that had no problem following these restrictions.
00:32:29.120There's no allegation that Church in the Vine wasn't following the restrictions.
00:32:33.580They just didn't want the state running loose, running amok inside their church while they are actively praying.
00:32:40.400And you know what, and I happen to know that disrupting a religious gathering actually is a crime in the criminal code.
00:32:50.180If some hobo, some vandal, some troublemaker, some mischief maker, some someone with a grudge were to enter a church during a service and disrupted,
00:33:02.900that is actually a criminal code offense.
00:33:06.600And if, as you say, Jason Kenney's hand-picked team barges into a church, goes to the kids' room and takes photos,
00:33:16.540I would shout, pedophile alert, stranger danger, who is the perv coming in to take photos of children not their own, uninvited without a warrant?
00:33:30.020And to do that in the middle, and to talk to a clergyman in the middle of a sermon or a prayer, you know what, I bet they, you know what, we know that people who like groping people sign up for the TSA.
00:33:49.780I'm not saying everyone in the TSA is a groper, but imagine if you're a groper, what an amazing job.
00:33:56.040You literally get paid to grope people all day, and if they resist, you get to make them miss their flight.
00:34:03.020So I wonder if in the same gross, gross way, if Jason Kenney said, all right, I don't want any Christians on this hunter-killer squad,
00:34:13.960because you're going to have some compunction about this.
00:34:17.420You're not going to feel great about disrupting religious services.
00:37:26.140Yeah, because the state is arguing that this is accessible to the public,
00:37:29.880so we can just come in and inspect it as though it's a grocery store.
00:37:34.240And, you know, the church is saying it's not.
00:37:36.800It's a private place where the requirement for membership and entry is that you are there to worship God.
00:37:44.180And they did their best to accommodate the health inspectors, come back when we're not actively praying,
00:37:50.120but that wasn't good enough for the province of Alberta.
00:37:52.620And now, if they get the maximum, this church that has done nothing wrong except protect the sanctity of their sanctuary during worship,
00:38:01.940they could see between Pastor Tracy and the church itself $1.3 million in fines.
00:38:08.220What is the public benefit of any of that?
00:38:10.260Well, to destroy the church and put Christians in their place and show them who's boss and how dare they embarrass Jason Kenney
00:38:16.620and how dare they defy the one true God, Teresa Tam.
00:38:21.660Now, let's talk for a minute about the secret prosecutor.
00:38:24.720Earlier in the show, I referred to the medieval custom of executioners or hangmen wearing a black hood over their own face.
00:38:32.980I mean, typically a black hood is over, a hood is put over the face of someone being executed, someone being hanged, not always.
00:38:41.320Of course, hangings don't happen in Western countries these days, but they have in the past.
00:38:46.220And it was to hide the contortion of their face and give them, I suppose, some sort of privacy in their last moments.
00:38:54.180But the reason the executioner or the hangman wore a mask was a little bit different so they could hide who they were so that they themselves wouldn't be a target of retribution, perhaps.
00:39:10.320I'm not so much sure it was out of shame, but maybe to hide from the evil they're about to do, killing someone.
00:39:16.400Maybe it was metaphorical to hide themselves from the presence of God as they commit a killing.
00:40:29.980But you said something earlier that we glossed over, and I want to come back to it, that, I mean, clearly a church has fundamental freedoms.
00:40:38.260Freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, conscience, belief.
00:40:44.460It really touches on a great number of freedoms.
00:40:46.800Religion, freedom of religion being the most obvious one.
00:40:48.860And the right to gather, that would be called freedom of assembly.
00:40:53.800And if these things were being infringed by the government, that is exactly what the Charter of Rights was written for.
00:41:04.920The Charter of Rights is a fairly long document.
00:41:07.340But right near the top, Section 2, they have a special paragraph called Fundamental Freedoms.
00:41:13.320So these are more important than the others.
00:41:14.820So, for example, the right to vote is not in there.
00:41:19.000Mobility rights, the right to move around, that's not in there.
00:41:23.180But freedom of speech, thought, religion, conscience, freedom of the press, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, those are the fundamental freedoms.
00:41:29.820And you're telling me that this judge, who's such a hypochondriac that the judge wants papers handed to her on a silver tray or something so they don't have cooties or something.
00:41:42.620I mean, this judge, I don't think she's fit to try a case on the pandemic.
00:41:46.500She obviously has some phobia about it.
00:42:00.740It was kind of it sort of caught the defense lawyer flat footed.
00:42:04.960I mean, he was prepared to move directly into the trial.
00:42:07.940But it was shocking to hear that these issues that touch on a church, you would think that cautiously you would agree to hear charter arguments around freedom of religion and freedom of assembly.
00:42:28.780And she said that either the charter violations were non-existent or so minuscule that they would have no effect on the case.
00:42:38.200And yet, Pastor Tracy Fortin said, I blocked the door so that there was not a further violation of the rights of my congregation to worship uninterrupted by the state.
00:44:30.560I think those are the tests called the oak test.
00:44:33.440So you're saying this judge did not engage in that analysis.
00:44:37.060The judge just said, I'm not even going to spend time on it.
00:44:40.440Did the judge engage in that balancing, that Oaks test as it's named after the famous oak case called Oaks?
00:44:49.460And that's the test that's been used for almost 40 years.
00:44:52.900You're saying the judge did not even go through the motions of the Oaks test.
00:44:56.620There was maybe five minutes of explanation, but she came to the conclusion that the violation of their charter rights was non-existent or so minimal that it would be of no consequence in the case whatsoever.
00:45:09.440You know, I think we got ourselves a candidate for the High Court of Beijing here.
00:45:13.120I mean, if Beverly McLaughlin ever steps down from her perch working for the Chinese judiciary, maybe this judge will fit right in.
00:45:24.320You've got a germaphobe judge who wants documents handed to her on a silver plate.
00:45:30.160She probably sprays them with Windex before she reads them.
00:45:33.080If you're in the elevators of her courthouse, you've got to stare at the wall because that's what science would say.
00:45:37.240She gives less than five minutes treatment to charter arguments, and she allows a prosecutor, Karen Thorsrud, to have the executioner's mask on her to keep herself secret.
00:45:48.500I'm going to go out on a limb here, Sheila, and say just a hunch here that this church is going to be convicted.
00:45:57.040I do, too, just based on everything that I saw in the courtroom.
00:46:02.660I mean, there was things that the prosecutor said that the judge just sort of let slip by, calling the congregants at the church followers of Pastor Tracy and Pastor Rodney as though they were, you know, cult leaders as opposed to just regular old pastors.
00:46:21.940It's been a very strange couple of days, odd to see a pastor interrogated on how cinnamon rolls and coffee are distributed in the church because that violated public health orders.
00:46:39.820And to hear testimony that people were shaking hands as though it were evidence presented at a merger trial.
00:46:46.160Very odd time to be alive, but we'll find out the verdict in the case next Friday.
00:46:52.700I'll be there in person because this is an in-person trial.
00:46:57.560So I'll be there in person to get reaction from the lawyer and from Pastor Rodney and Tracy.
00:47:03.580But I know that you have said that the Democracy Fund would go ahead and appeal this in the event of a conviction because this is just so outrageous.
00:47:13.880I can't even believe this is Alberta, but we do lock up more pastors than China here.
00:47:44.780And I don't know if there's some internal psychological torment going on inside Jason Kenney, the man who was once the Canadian cabinet minister in charge of religious freedom around the world,
00:47:59.100the guy who set up the office of religious freedom, the guy who went to China and stood up for the dissidents,
00:48:05.640the guy who tweeted his support for Chinese underground churches, for him to now be the chief prosecutor of the Alberta Inquisition is so bizarre and gross.
00:48:16.180I don't know what kind of psychology is going on there.
00:48:18.720And I think the judges are absolutely off their rockers.
00:48:24.400Judge Jermaine, who gave Arthur Bablovsky this little card to read about denouncing himself whenever he criticized the government, like that's China stuff.
00:48:35.980You've got a China style secret prosecutor, a China style judiciary that's telling people to renounce themselves in some struggle session, a China style secret prosecutor wearing a mask over their face, a China style premier who says this is all just normal.
00:48:52.660While he dines in the sky palace, no prosecution of him, there is something really, really broken in Alberta.
00:49:00.740And frankly, Jason Kenney should lose his job over this alone.
00:49:05.520Karen Thorsrud, her name should be a disgrace for all eternity.
00:49:10.640And I don't want to prejudge what this judge is going to do, but I'm pretty sure I know what this judge is going to do.
00:49:17.300Alberta has anti-Christian bigotry like a rot, like a rust.
00:49:23.160And I don't know where it came from because I do not think that is in keeping with the temperament or the character of the province as a whole.
00:49:56.680But it's interesting to see that the rest of the media, they don't seem to care because they are fully in support of persecuting these pastors.
00:50:05.420They whipped up some of the problems happening at this church with the Satanists and the weirdos coming in to disrupt it.
00:50:13.000They were part and parcel of the government's ongoing persecution of them.
00:50:24.280And folks, if you're not on Twitter, it's really easy to get on there.
00:50:27.720And Sheila Gunn-Reid's email address is simply her full name, Sheila Gunn-Reid, her Twitter address, rather.
00:50:32.680And if you want to chip in, the Democracy Fund will give you a charitable tax receipt if you want, because the Democracy Fund is covering the legal bills.
00:50:45.140If people want to donate to cover the legal costs, the ballooning legal costs, as this church stares down $1.3 million in fines, you can make a donation at fightthefines.com.
00:50:56.660And because of that partnership with the Democracy Fund, all donations qualify for that charitable tax receipt.
00:51:02.180And boy, do they ever need the help, because they're headed towards an appeal.
00:52:40.600And when Chrystia Freeland boasts that the GDP is going up, well, yeah, and prices are going up and it's harder to live.
00:52:48.480And when you're pouring in, you know, close to half a million, like 400,000 plus new immigrants a year, just ā and most of them are going to Toronto and Vancouver.
00:52:59.800What that does to housing is ā it's more important what that does to people's ability to buy a house than, woo, property values are up.
00:53:07.920Property values up is great if you own property, but what if you can't get in?
00:55:32.340I mean, I would love to query John Tory.
00:55:34.940He is an allegedly conservative mayor.
00:55:38.340But in the past two years of the COVID-19 lockdowns, he has embraced the tactics of, yes, a dictator.
00:55:46.980Case in point, do you remember in November 2020 when John Tory literally sent in all the king's horses and all the king's men to shut down Adamson BBQ?
00:56:29.980Oh, and folks, speaking of eating, do you remember when Mayor John Tory advocated that if you are going out to have a bite, you should mask in between bites?
00:56:45.660Be a little more stringent about when people have to wear a mask, which is aside from the fact when you're taking a sip or when you're taking a bite, you have the mask on.
00:56:53.040So while you're waiting for your food, while you're looking at the menu, all those times you keep it on.