A feature interview with American philosopher James Lindsay about the January 6th, 2011, the day the Democratic National Convention turned into a riot in Washington, D.C. and the FBI failed to arrest a single rioter. Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of that day?
00:22:11.240This wasn't the only time. Your desire to take down those who disagree with you didn't stop with Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford.
00:22:16.740You conspired with Peter Daszak, who you communicated with privately, and other members of the scientific community that wrote opinion pieces for Nature.
00:22:25.740Five of them signed a paper for Nature, an opinion piece.
00:22:28.740Seventeen signed a paper that called it conspiracy theory, the idea that the virus could have originated in the lab.
00:22:35.740Do you think words like conspiracy theory should be in a scientific paper?
00:22:41.740Senator, I never used that word when I was referring to it. You're distorting virtually everything.
00:22:48.740Did you communicate with the five scientists who wrote the opinion piece in Nature where they were describing, oh, there's no way this could have come from the lab?
00:23:10.740Well, let me explain. You know you're going back to that original discussion when I brought together a group of people to look at every possibility with an open mind.
00:23:20.740So not only are you distorting it, you're completely turning it around as you usually do.
00:23:25.740For most of the scientists that came to you privately, did they come to you privately and say, no way this came from the lab? Or was their initial impression, Dr. Gary and others that were involved, was their initial impression actually that it looked very suspicious for a virus that came from a lab?
00:23:40.740You know, Senator, we are here at a committee to look at a virus now that has killed almost 900,000 people.
00:23:49.740And the purpose of the committee was to try and get things out how we can help to get the American public.
00:23:56.740And you keep coming back to personal attacks on me that have absolutely no relevance to reality.
00:24:04.740Do you think anybody has had more influence over our response to this than you have?
00:25:02.740But this pandemic, or more accurately, the lockdowns and the infringements on our civil liberties in the name of the pandemic, have done more to destroy American notions of freedom and limited government than anything else I can think of.
00:25:18.740But since the Civil War and the and the policy of slavery, I think you could say slavery was a greater infringement on civil liberty than the lockdowns.
00:25:30.740But other than slavery, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to America.
00:25:36.740I have about a million things at once that I feel like I want to say.
00:25:40.740You asked, for example, why you have so many public health officials and they all play a game of Simon Says.
00:25:46.740You can ask why the Soviet Union had so many commissars and they all said the same thing.
00:25:50.740And I don't draw that that comparison flippantly or glibly.
00:25:57.740And another thing is, you know, just like we talked about how January 6th and the John Baudrillardian sentence did not take place.
00:26:04.740The COVID-19 pandemic did not take place.
00:26:07.740It was a power grab masquerading as a pandemic as I think not to say that the virus isn't real, not to say that millions of people didn't get sick,
00:26:16.740not to say that many people didn't die as a result of getting sick, though we don't know how many now that the information is coming out that those those statistics were clearly inflated.
00:26:28.740But what we have is a is exactly what you said.
00:26:33.740The greatest infringement upon civil liberties, upon free people in free countries, United States and Canada, both among them since slavery.
00:26:43.740And you have to wonder because this didn't just happen in the United States and Canada.
00:26:48.740Australia is in worse shape than Canada.
00:26:50.740This has happened across Europe, which is mostly in worse shape, at least in the United States and in some places even than Canada.
00:26:57.740The sole exceptions being Sweden and Switzerland to the to the degree of knowledge that I have.
00:27:03.740It's certainly happening within the UK.
00:27:05.740And so something that, you know, ominously might be named Operation Lockstep got let loose in the name of this pandemic.
00:27:17.740And we see people like Fauci not being able to answer very important, very clear questions.
00:27:25.740For example, why he's declaring himself to be the science, which to invoke another French postmodernist Michel Foucault warned us about under the name of biopower is you should not allow technocrats to take power and claim the mantle of science as though it's just absolute truth and the justification for their seat of power.
00:27:41.740And we have him not being able to answer simple questions about his involvement in certain activities, such as we saw in the clip where he's smearing the scientists that gave the Great Barrington Declaration, who doubted that the approach that Operation Lockstep or whatever it happened to be was reflecting in the pandemic in not just the United States, not just Canada, but in every major Western nation simultaneously.
00:28:10.740And it raises serious questions that are not being answered.
00:29:27.740And and I don't think you have to be in a mad fever to say there is some sort of communication and coordination that we are not allowed to observe over the last two years.
00:29:42.740I think so much of governing has been done by order rather than through laws debated, you know, vetted public consultations, transcripts of hearings.
00:29:54.740Like, that's how it's normally done in a Congress or a parliament.
00:29:57.740Parliaments and Congresses and the British Parliament in particular hasn't debated or voted on any of these things.
00:30:04.740They've just been emergency orders issued by bureaucrats that we never even heard of until 18 months ago.
00:30:11.740And I don't think it's a conspiracy theory to ask to ask the question, how did that pattern like to notice the patterns and say, how did that happen?
00:30:22.740And you would think that journalists just out of basic curiosity would ask that.
00:30:27.740But they seem to be the most ardent defenders of of these new, I don't know, ideologies, these global means around the world.
00:30:37.740Yeah, that raises yet another question.
00:31:04.740Did your banker did the officials of Goldman Sachs who show up to these Davos things?
00:31:10.740Did they know when they signed you a 30 year mortgage that they're going to engage in a great reset that looks like it looks like it's going to crash, you know, currencies and cause rampant inflation as part of the program?
00:31:24.740Did they know that, you know, Klaus Schwab put out a video with the World Economic Forum in 2016 that says, by 2030, you will own nothing and you will be happy that they were selling you a house?
00:31:37.740Why did so many CEOs suddenly resign in 2019?
00:31:41.740Why is there another wave of CEOs that have been resigning over the past few months and so many large major corporations?
00:31:46.740There are sufficient facts on the table now to start asking extraordinarily hard questions.
00:31:52.740And one of them ties back exactly like you said to what Neil Oliver said, the phrasing build back better coming out of so many mouths all at once, just like the policy for the response to the hyper real pandemic was was all in lockstep in the same from all corners.
00:32:12.740They're talking about a narrow window of opportunity in which to do this great reset, which that language comes straight out of Klaus Schwab's book, COVID-19, the great reset, which he published very rapidly last year after the pandemic or the year before last, after the pandemic started.
00:32:38.740For example, a phrase that hasn't been used here, but what is the role of these new ESG investment metrics that score corporations and institutions along the lines of environmental, social and governance scores that are decided by who these exact same kind of elite technocrats who are making these decisions behind closed doors?
00:33:00.740We already have evidence that we have with the social media, big tech companies that we have the corporate world in the United States getting around the Constitution, doing the bidding of the Democrats and government where they through censoring people where the government doesn't have the ability to do that and vice versa.
00:33:18.420So you can have this very weird what Klaus Schwab refers to as a public-private partnership between public entities like federal governments and private entities like gigantic corporations who all seem to be on the same page, who all happen to attend the same big club meeting in Davos on the regular and have a series of commitments that they have to make in order to continue being part of that club.
00:33:41.320These questions need to be brought to be brought to the fore at this point, and it's no longer going to be after the past 24 months or so.
00:33:48.780It's no longer sufficient to dismiss these questions by saying that sounds conspiratorial.
00:33:58.480I mean, we haven't even talked about George Soros.
00:34:00.320I regarded it as an unusual moment in my own life when George Soros sued me personally for writing about him in the Toronto Sun.
00:34:12.520I had just joined the Toronto Sun, and this was months before the launch of the Sun News Network.
00:34:17.160And the newspaper made the decision to retract and apologize.
00:34:21.560I don't think they wanted to fight George Soros.
00:34:23.340I resisted that, but literally was just hired by Sun News, and I was in no position to resist it.
00:34:31.540I've been interested in him ever since.
00:34:35.040I mean, I simply wrote what he told his own biographer, that he, I mean, when he was a teenage boy, for those of you who don't know, he was in Hungary, and he was a Jew, even though him and his father really were,
00:34:47.780they abandoned their Jewishness, they, you know, they spoke Esperanto at home.
00:34:56.000He was a very early, I guess you could say, globalist or transnationalist.
00:34:59.520And his father said, we're going to get through this thing.
00:35:06.960And for a while, he would ride his bike around Budapest and hand the death notices to the Jews to show up to the train stations.
00:35:14.860And then later, his dad placed him with like a Nazi overseer who was confiscating Jewish property.
00:35:22.660Like, I mean, you can't really blame a teenage boy for doing what his father says and for doing anything to survive the war.
00:35:29.220But it was fascinating in that clip on 60 Minutes, decades later, when he was asked, you know, you did things to survive that would put anyone on the psychologist's couch forever.
00:35:42.740And I think that's a fair question, not did you make the right decision when you were 15?
00:35:48.040But how do you feel now, decades later?
00:35:50.860And he told his biographers and he said as much to 60 Minutes that it was the most exciting time of his life and that he has no compunction about it.
00:36:01.580And it was if he didn't do it, someone else would.
00:36:07.000Here's a clip from 60 Minutes, just in case you don't know what I'm talking about.
00:36:11.000When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros's father was a successful lawyer.
00:36:17.320He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat.
00:36:22.400But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up.
00:36:27.000He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson.
00:36:36.040But survival carried a heavy price tag.
00:36:38.320While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps,
00:36:43.380George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds.
00:38:27.580Well, of course, I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away.
00:38:36.560But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there because that was, well, actually, a funny way, it's just like in markets, that if I weren't there, of course I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow.
00:39:03.980And it was the, whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away.
00:39:10.540So I had no role in taking away that property.
00:39:16.800So the reason I mentioned George Soros is because I know a little bit about him and how he likes to censor.
00:39:21.880And I regret the fact that the son did bend the knee to him about a decade ago.
00:39:26.900But that made me curious, and forgive me for going on here, James, I just want to tell you a story.
00:39:32.060So when I heard that George Soros was working with Justin Trudeau on Canadian immigration policy, and George Soros has no connection to Canada, he's not a Canadian, he doesn't live here.
00:39:42.280We filed an access to information request to our government asking for the background on this because it was a government press release that Soros was basically the policy brains for Canada's immigration policy.
00:39:54.060Okay, government press release says this happens.
00:39:57.020We did an access to information request and they said, no, we have no record of it.
00:40:11.700I'm sorry to have such a long story, James.
00:40:14.020But there are so many conspiracy theories around George Soros that when the government announces that it's doing a policy, it's outsourcing Canadian immigration policy to George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
00:40:30.780And then when we ask for the paperwork behind that, they claim it does not exist.
00:40:34.900And five years later, we find out they were hiding it.
00:40:39.160That destroys trust in the entire institution of government.
00:40:43.980And it doesn't tamp down conspiracy theories.
00:40:50.820Because I believe we have, in the story I just said, and we'll close this interview, but I'll show you what Sheila got in those records.
00:40:57.840When the government does secret business with George Soros and hides the proof of it for five years and has to be taken to task five years later by the Information Commissioner, how can you believe anything they say?
00:41:10.840And whether it's the American FBI, the American IRS, the American CIA, the Department of Defense, the NSA, or any Canadian institution, let alone our health institutions, I think that there is a large crisis.
00:41:27.380There is not a single institution I trust more now than I trusted two years ago, whether it's a cop or the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
00:41:35.920There is no institution I trust more now than I did two years ago.
00:41:40.180Maybe that's part of the plan, though, James.
00:41:43.360You know, that's one of the things that I wonder and worry about is that the crumbling of trust in our institutions, because whether we like it or not, society actually is largely a product of its ability to trust its institutions and what its institutions are able to accomplish for it, at least in advanced society is.
00:42:04.620And when you dissolve trust in those, you create conditions in which change is easy to bring about one way or another.
00:42:16.620It's what Marxists would refer to as revolutionary conditions or revolutionary moment.
00:42:21.280And that I share your destruction of trust in institutions.
00:42:26.480I even would hesitate, say, that I were in a car accident or something and injured.
00:42:31.900I would hesitate to go to the hospital for fear that they might attempt to vaccinate me against my wishes or, you know, something along these lines.
00:42:39.680And that's a tremendous loss of trust in an institution.
00:42:43.000And this kind of thing can be part of this.
00:42:49.540This is I think I saw the phrase in the media recently.
00:42:52.840This is an inflection point in history where things can be pushed in a particular direction or they can go in some other direction.
00:43:02.400But things will not, I think, be able to continue as they were.
00:43:10.200I do know some pathways to where trust institutions can be regained, though we have to be cautious.
00:43:14.860We see the CDC in the United States, for example, attempting this by suddenly telling us all kinds of things that people have known to be true about the pandemic for a year and a half.
00:43:27.020And now suddenly they realize it, too, now that the Omicron variant or some, you know, releases of information or exposés or whatever have forced their hand, decisions by federal judges or whatever have forced their hand.
00:43:39.200All of a sudden, things that people have known to be true, they're overcounting cases, you know, died with covid versus died of covid distinction, for example.
00:43:49.540They're releasing this information, a thorough housecleaning, though, of the people who have lied to us and misled us, meaning their removal from power, possibly their prosecution or lawsuits against them or the institutions that they represented is the first step.
00:44:04.480And then replacing them with people that, you know, we have good reason to believe are of higher integrity while coming clean on many of these these lies.
00:44:13.280In fact, ideally, all of these lies that they've been telling us is the first step to regaining that trust in institutions.
00:44:22.620I don't think that the people that are currently in power are going to be able to do that because it's too incriminating.
00:44:27.760Just like we began this interview with the woman from the FBI who could not answer that question, who could not answer that question, who could not answer that question.
00:44:36.140And so, like I said, I think the pathway is going to be a lot of honesty, a lot of transparency and a lot of housecleaning.
00:44:44.200Hopefully this starts to take place sooner rather than later.
00:44:47.880And, of course, hopefully it all proceeds peacefully and through legal means because this is a moment, a crucial moment in the literal sense of the word cross, crucial in history throughout the West, where either we are facing a trajectory reminiscent of the 1930s in Europe,
00:45:11.020or we're facing a trajectory reminiscent of maybe the end of the 18th century in North America.
00:45:19.940And I'm on the side of freedom in that fight, whichever way it goes.
00:45:25.660You know, trust is so essential for the West.
00:45:31.380There are some parts of the world where if you hear help, rape, men come and run to help the rape victim.
00:45:42.020But there are some parts of the world.
00:45:44.640There's a terrible story I once reported from Pakistan where a young boy, and I'm so sorry to say this adult content on the show, a young boy was being raped on a bus.
00:45:54.180The bus driver pulled over and joined in.
00:45:56.860And I'm sorry to say such a terrible thing, but that's a low trust society.
00:46:01.900There's a concept in parts of the Muslim world called Tahrir.
00:46:05.600That's what happened to Laura Logan when she was in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
00:46:11.560Once the rape began, other men didn't pull them off.
00:46:41.980If you understand where trust comes from, it comes over centuries.
00:46:46.280One of the reasons I think that we live in a high trust society is because cousin marriage was banned in certain parts of Christendom.
00:46:53.840So you had to naturally be open to and trust other clans, other communities.
00:46:59.160You couldn't just keep everything within the extended family.
00:47:02.460The old saying, me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin, me brother, my cousin against the other family, me and my family against the town, me and my town against the other town.
00:47:11.300That kind of clannishness broke down when you had to build up trust in the world.
00:47:16.600We trust that when a young woman leaves a bar drunk at 1 a.m., that the taxi driver is not going to rape her on the way home.
00:47:24.980But when people come from low trust societies to our high trust society, they look around and say, what a bunch of suckers.
00:48:20.700It's that the laws were changed to allow it.
00:48:22.540But I'm terrified that we're heading to a world where if you are a trusting person, you're just a sucker.
00:48:28.540That would be a terrible loss because that trust, as you said, actually becomes the basis for so much freedom, so much opportunity, so much of what makes life good and worth living.
00:48:44.480I actually just briefly do have a story corroborating exactly what you just said.
00:48:48.520I was recently, fairly recently, in California, just before the gubernatorial recall election that happened last fall.
00:48:56.280And somebody there, I was with a conservative and a Republican, and somebody had said, well, we received, you know, some peculiar number of ballots in the mail, four or whatever.
00:49:08.360And, you know, somebody joked back, well, you should just vote with all of them.
00:49:12.420And they said, well, of course, I wouldn't do that.
00:49:14.420And that's exactly what you're talking about, is that, you know, the Republican side refused.
00:49:20.840They said, no, you're supposed to vote once and only once, and that's the right thing to do.
00:49:24.300And so that's the way it would be, whereas the other side, you know, sees four ballots and sees four opportunities, which should be, you know, illegal and should be preventable.
00:49:35.220But this is exactly the kind of situation.
00:49:37.260So people who want to have, I think this is an excellent way to frame going forward, is we need to be thinking in terms of how do we regain and regenerate trust in our high trust society?
00:49:48.820And what steps do we have to take to be sure that low trust individuals cannot take advantage of high trust individuals and make them into naive dupes?
00:50:00.000And I think that this is, again, we're at this crucial moment in our history throughout the West where we have to fight back for that high trust circumstance and to create the institutional house cleaning, et cetera, that enables it.
00:50:31.820He obviously doesn't mean media that the people trust.
00:50:33.980He means media that he can trust will do the right thing.
00:50:37.860And fact checkers, like, so there's deceptive uses of trust.
00:50:42.080Fact checkers claim to be trustworthy, but they're actually anti-journalists or counter-journalists or, you know, their job is not to hold government and powerful people to account, but so many of the official fact-checking groups are fact-checking lowly dissenters.
00:51:00.740They're not fact-checking Joe Biden or Justin Trudeau, let alone the president of Pfizer.
00:51:05.160I have not seen a single fact-check from Reuters and AFP and Associated Press, all these major noisy, I'm a fact-checker groups, never seen them go after Pfizer or the CDC.
00:51:18.560And the only credit I can give in that direction is they did go after Justice Sotomayor recently with her egregious claim.
00:51:25.960But on the other hand, just to be completely fair, they also fact-checked the satire site, the Babylon Bee, not once, but many times.
00:51:33.240And in particular, they one time fact-checked them for an article that they published saying, you couldn't be more obviously joking, that CNN purchases large washing machines in which they spin the news before they put it out.
00:51:46.900They fact-checked that and said, no, they didn't purchase any large washing machines.
00:51:51.020And so what you're saying, despite the fact that they did fact-check Sotomayor for this egregious claim that 100,000 children or whatever the number was, are on ventilators, which is false, strictly false.
00:52:07.640Despite the fact that they fact-checked her correctly there, they're acting largely exactly as you say.
00:52:15.420And in the U.S., I constantly hear trusted sources or reputable sources, which is unfortunate if that is a captured definition.
00:52:22.920You know, reputable to whom and to whose benefit, as the critical theorists would instruct us in their kind of paranoid way that you have to look at society.
00:52:34.980And so I hate that they are making this kind of critical, low-trust, even postmodern view of society true, but that's because they've weaponized it against us.
00:52:47.940And we have to take them out of these positions of power and get back to a society where we can trust our institutions.
00:52:56.760And that's going to require, I think, nothing short of getting the people who are abusing these powers out of office, out of positions where their hands are on the levers of power, whether that's in government, whether that's in media, whether that's in business.
00:53:09.780And I think it's going to be a necessary and ugly step.
01:01:00.680I didn't know all of his philosophical and historical references.
01:01:03.600He's clearly thought about things very deeply.
01:01:06.580I'm so glad he ended on the positive note he did.
01:01:09.860I'm pessimistic, maybe because I feel like I'm behind enemy lines sometimes.
01:01:14.660We don't have that culture of resilient freedom in Canada that they do in the States.
01:01:18.720I'm not kidding or I'm not glossing over things when I say every party in Canada, except for the People's Party of Canada federally, which has no seeds and which is in single digits in the polls.
01:02:54.560And you're right about this thing to force Quebecers to get jabbed.
01:03:00.380So much of public policy over the last year and a half has been announcing outrageous and tyrannical ideas by way of press conference, but not actually putting the meat on the bones in terms of orders or laws.
01:03:15.780One is the main reason is to scare people, scare people into doing things.
01:03:19.760The second reason is they don't know how to implement this.
01:03:22.420And then the third reason is, is it would probably be illegal.
01:03:26.060And as soon as they passed the law, it would be subject to legal challenge.
01:03:28.900So you have the worst policymaking in Canadian history.
01:03:32.360Chuck Andrews says, should taxing the stupid be limited to only the unvaxxed?
01:03:37.440My wife had to wait for hours to be treated because the ambulance brought in some idiots who propelled themselves down Mount Sutton on a pair of wooden slates and broke their legs.
01:04:40.600There's a lot of things I would do if I didn't have to belong to a one-size-fits-all Medicare system.
01:04:46.320It's just sort of weird that this is the one thing that they're fighting over.
01:04:49.760Paul McCullough says, did we need more examples of why public health care sucks?
01:04:55.200The lesson here, government needs to get out of our lives.
01:04:59.440Well, and to the earlier letter writer, it may not be stupid not to take the vaccine.
01:05:04.540Let's say you've had the disease naturally and have a natural immunity.
01:05:08.020It would be really weird to take the vaccine once you're immune, I think, especially since we know that the vaccine doesn't stop breakthrough infections.
01:05:15.840So there may be a lot of good reasons not to do that.
01:06:17.000We've just had to spend three years fighting the Immigration Ministry for documents that they claimed didn't exist.
01:06:22.580Our first request was filed November 26, 2018.
01:06:26.200And since January 2019, they've been telling us they've got no records.
01:06:29.920Three years later, the government has had to admit they were lying, confirmed to us in writing by the Information Commissioner.
01:06:36.900The Liberals can no longer hide their dealings with George Soros and his Open Society Foundation.
01:06:46.480In September 2016, the Trudeau government partnered with George Soros' Open Society Foundation to increase the number of refugees entering Canada.
01:07:21.240It was simple regarding the agreement between the government of Canada, the United Nations, HCR, and the Open Society Foundation to launch a joint initiative aimed at increasing private sponsorship of refugees around the world.
01:07:33.860As announced at the below link, please provide copies of all background and supporting policy documents, include copies of any agreements involved, provide only final or latest versions of documents.
01:07:45.620And they wrote back to us, following a thorough search of our information holdings.
01:07:50.320I regret to inform you that no records were found that respond to your request.
01:07:57.500The government can't do anything without a dozen or so bureaucrats being involved.
01:08:01.940And that's not even close to an exaggeration.
01:08:04.180I know because I see these documents all the time.
01:08:06.940I see the email chains, the endless email chains with hundreds of bureaucrats.
01:08:11.900For example, that's how about two dozen bureaucrats were involved in the planning of Catherine McKenna's constantly embarrassing tweets when she was our ridiculous climate change minister.
01:09:10.020I got from the information commissioner.
01:09:13.240Now, this is bigger news than just an ATIP being hidden.
01:09:16.300The government was actively hiding their collaboration with George Soros.
01:09:20.280And they were calling anyone who asked about it a conspiracy theorist or an anti-Semite.
01:09:25.440If we didn't pursue and push and fight, nothing would have ever come out.
01:09:29.960And whatever information there is to know about George Soros' Open Society Foundation and the Canadian government's dealings with that left-wing mega charity would remain hidden from the people who have to live with the consequences of those dealings.
01:09:46.080I have one document and I'm going through it now.
01:09:48.860Information commissioner's final report.
01:09:51.460The complaint alleged that Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada did not conduct a reasonable search in response to an access request under the Access to Information Act regarding the agreement between the Government of Canada,
01:10:06.480the UNHCR, and the UNHCR, and the Open Society Foundation to launch a joint initiative to increase private sponsorship of refugees.
01:10:18.020The IRCC was required to conduct a reasonable search for records that fall within the scope of the access request.
01:10:25.700That is, one or more experienced employees knowledgeable in the subject matter of the request must have made reasonable efforts to identify and locate all records reasonably related to the request.
01:10:39.880A reasonable search involves a level of effort that would be expected of any fair, sensible person tasked with searching for responsive records where they are likely to be stored.
01:10:54.040This search does not have to be perfect.
01:10:57.020An institution is therefore not required to prove with absolute certainty that further records do not exist.
01:11:03.880Institutions must, however, be able to show that they took reasonable steps to identify and locate responsive records.
01:11:12.440What they're saying here is the bar is actually pretty low.
01:11:15.660They don't have to be perfect, but they have to be able to demonstrate that they kind of tried.
01:11:23.100Did the institution conduct a reasonable search for records?
01:11:27.760This is so much larger than just one access to information being hidden from us.
01:11:57.140We know now the government was actively hiding their collaboration with George Soros and calling anyone who asked about it a conspiracy theorist or an anti-Semite.
01:12:06.920If we didn't pursue and push and fight, nothing would have ever come out.
01:12:12.480And whatever information there is to know about George Soros' Open Society Foundation and the Canadian government's dealings with that left-wing megacharity would remain hidden from the people who have to live with the consequences of those dealings.
01:12:30.200I'm going through it right now, and we aren't even close to done with these liars.
01:12:34.260We've also sent in a new access to information about the frenzied communications that surely went back and forth as bureaucrats plotted to break access to information laws and lie to Canadians for the sake of protecting a powerful left-wing foreign billionaire who is very, very friendly with the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland.
01:12:56.140Now, we can't do this work without your help.
01:12:58.840We're fighting an army of obviously lying bureaucrats for information they're legally obligated to release to us.
01:13:05.080We have been working and filing and appealing this one for three years without a penny in bailouts.
01:13:11.280We rely on the support of our viewers at home to ask questions.
01:13:14.560The mainstream media is paid by Trudeau to never ask, but to also smear the askers for the crime of being intellectually curious.
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