EZRA LEVANT ｜ Is the truck convoy the biggest political rally in Canadian history？
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The truckers convoy changes Canadian politics, whether the establishment likes it or not, and I m standing on Parliament Hill to tell you my impressions and observations of what I ve seen and what I think you might have seen as well.
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tonight the truckers convoy changes Canadian politics whether the
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establishment likes it or not it's January 31st and this is the Ezra LeVant
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show why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know
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there's 8,500 customers I'm standing on Parliament Hill we can't get any closer to
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the actual building it's still under renovations the giant lawn outside
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Parliament Hill is therefore halfway cut off but as you can see behind me there
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are thousands of convoy truckers who have come to this city it's already Sunday
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I'm filming this for my Monday show it's about minus 20 degrees so it's
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incredible how many people are here I thought I would film my monologue from
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the fields on Parliament Hill rather than from the studio instead of a script
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where I write things out in advance I've just got some notes so forgive me if
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I'm not quite as fluent as I sometimes am I want to tell you my impressions and my
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observations and what I think you might have seen if you were following the
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story from home I think the first thing to say is I believe we may have witnessed
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the largest political protest in Canadian history now I don't think we'll
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actually ever know for sure because I don't think we can actually trust the
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authorities who usually make such counts we also saw that those same
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authorities took active steps to make it hard for us to get the facts for
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example they closed down bridges and entire highways in advance of the convoy
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coming to make it hard for them to come look at this tweet from the Ottawa police
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simply declaring that the city was full and no one was allowed to enter it while
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there were thousands of trucks on the way I don't know how many people set out
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join the convoy for a part and then broke away to go back home but across the
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country the number of people who were at least on part of the routes and the
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number of the people who came out to cheer on the truckers from overpasses or the
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side of the road probably was in the hundreds of thousands not sure if all goes
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far as saying a million but it was definitely in the hundreds of thousands
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the closest thing I can think of in terms of a mass gathering would have been the
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giant protests or rally in Montreal in 1995 I believe it was when Quebec was on
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the eve of a separatist referendum the difference though is that one was
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financed and organized by the establishment by the government by
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political parties this truckers convoy is the opposite every political party
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every establishment every media denounced it and still they came I want to tell
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you what I saw versus what the government narrative was I saw people who had
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never been to a political protest in their life never been in a political
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party this was the first time they ever did anything in the public sphere and
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what's so interesting is to see how hopeful they were I haven't seen this many
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Canadian flags in one place in years I heard people spontaneously singing Oh Canada
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like walking down the street singing Oh Canada I I don't know if I've ever seen
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that and people are so hopeful they're having fun it's so cold I can't tell you how cold it's been
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but people were out dancing till after midnight you can hear the symphony of horns they did not stop I
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don't know I went to bed around 1 30 last night the horns did not stop I just had to sort of put them
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out of my mind a lot of people were first-timers and so obviously if they
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would have voted in the past especially in 2015 they would absolutely have been
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Justin Trudeau voters absolutely the number of young women the number of
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indigenous people the number of Sikh people here those used to be considered
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Justin Trudeau's base it's quite something to see Millennials absolutely seeing through Trudeau and
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it's even more amazing to see minorities who were told don't go on that racist convoy to go and to
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defend it here's my favorite clip of the weekend when my friend Lincoln Jay interviewed some Antifa
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protester calling everyone racist and then a man who I I presume he was Sikh I don't know maybe he was
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some other minority said no let me handle this one mate take a look at this what did it say sorry
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so it says F your white nationalist agenda I am not a white this is nothing to do about white
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this is nothing to do with truckers this is about freedom for all of Canadians you can be brown black
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white blue whatever color you want to be this is about freedom and Trudeau has no right to put
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us in this condition or mandates throughout the country children going to school it's a terrible
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thing to do wasn't that guy great he just happened to be there there are so many one of the reasons is
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that the trucking industry has so many minorities in it including for whatever reason a lot of Sikhs
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and I discovered a tremendous number of Sikh freedom activists who are so eloquent here's one of my
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favorite guys I follow him on tiktok now again that used to be a place dominated by the Trudeau side
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take a look at this guy you know what was the vibe over there in Ottawa today it's like
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freedom over fear love over hate freedom over fear love over hate unity freedom unity freedom
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this is the vibe was there man and make your slogans and do it good goal all the way in and I I don't
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know if I'm gonna sleep tonight if I'm sleeping on the end of my dreams I'm gonna be in the Ottawa right
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so see you guys in the dream all right good night I love that guy and did you know there's something
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called the Sikh freedom alliance I didn't know about it now I do and now you do take a look
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hello everybody Sikh freedom alliance here and we are very close to Ottawa now and I want to speak
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something before we get there truth and freedom has no race or color and Sikhs are brought up to
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expose oppression and fight tyranny and and I want to say something if somebody wants to go take a vaccine
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they can go take a vaccine but don't force it don't force it on any anybody and Trudeau and
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Jagmeet is calling us everybody here terrorists they are the real terrorists and we don't agree with them
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now I'm not emphasizing these people because they're Sikh or black or indigenous I don't think I would normally
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mention that maybe in passing but I mention it because one of the chief arguments against this
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rally the chief slanders is that it's somehow some racist white nationalist thing it's simply not the
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case here's a clip from some antifa type some woke person who was standing quietly at the side of the
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road I actually went up to they them and asked why do you think this is some white supremacist thing I
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just want to play a clip for you what they said uh pretty weak stuff take a look well there are some
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people here who don't agree uh with the protesters uh they're a counter-protest so I thought I'd ask them
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what they uh what their point of view is you can see their sign the convoy organizers are white
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nationalists the conduit to attention to far-right groups you're privileged in their supporters if that
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doesn't disturb you um on what basis are you saying that they're white nationalists I've seen
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a number of folks who are visible minorities Sikhs a lot of Sikh truckers on what basis are you saying
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they're racist I'm saying the organizers so Tamara Tamara Litz and Pat Kane are behind this
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he's been promoting the trunk convoy and tomorrow tomorrow Litz had um funded it
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can I ask you because I I know a little bit about Tamara Litz she's a Métis woman so she's she's
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indigenous yeah how can she be a white nationalist if she's actually aboriginal so white nationalism
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is an ideology it doesn't belong to one race it's just talking about the white power that you say
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that they have in society so do you think that as a Nancy woman she's actually a white a white nationalist
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who isn't white I'd say that she I say that she is because she's had ties to the yellow the yellow vests
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they them realized that that was pretty stupid but the cbc the ctv the mainstream media the
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they've been absolutely unhinged you think I'm kidding here is an actual cbc anchor get this swear
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to god saying that this whole trucker convoy was organized I swear I'm not making this up
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by Vladimir Putin just take a look at this I do ask that because uh you know given Canada's support of
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Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask but but there is
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concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this as this protest grows but
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perhaps even instigating it from from the outset well again I'm going to defer to uh our partners in
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the public safety the trained officials and experts in that area you know the cbc looks down their nose
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that people cause some conspiracy theorists I have never heard anyone say anything as kooky as Vladimir
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Putin organized I mean that's Sasquatch stuff that's UFO stuff that's Loch Ness monster conspiracy
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series that's Justin Trudeau's state broadcaster so let me tell you what they've been saying
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someone I mean a lot of people have signs and hats and there's a Terry Fox sculpture here a statue and
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someone put a hat on him and a Canadian flag on him and put a placard in his hands take a look
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now I don't think that's the right thing to do but Terry Fox is not an actual saint or a religious
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icon he was a great hero and a great Canadian and I think it's probably inappropriate to put that on
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them but look at the headlines Terry Fox statue desecrated well I don't think it was really sacred to
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begin with but desecrated it wasn't spray painted it wasn't decapitated it wasn't knocked over and in
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fact that was cleaned up pretty quickly it's sort of funny to see the Toronto star the cbc gnash their
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teeth about that the same people who cheered when actual statues of john a mcdonald our founding father
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of confederation were toppled and decapitated take a look at this
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now i knew that these truckers were ordinary people severely normal people and i'm a jew who's
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lived in canada for 49 years and i have to tell you i've been to nine provinces and two territories
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and i have never seen a nazi a nazi flag a nazi incident in my life 49 years i've been crisscrossing
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canada i think i've traveled more than most i just simply have never ever seen it and i go to political
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places i go to quote right-wing places so i knew that demand exceeds supply and there would be such a
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demand from the liberal war room from justin trudeau from the media for something nazi-ish
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that if it didn't happen normally which of course it wouldn't that it would be manufactured and indeed
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it was and look at this a picture of an actual nazi swastika but if you look carefully it's not on
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parliament hill and here's another picture of the same swastika at the chateau laurier hotel give me a
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minute on that the chateau laurier if if you don't know ottawa is the absolute fanciest ritziest hotel
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in the city i i don't know i'm guessing it's 400 a night um their lobby bar always has cabinet
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ministers and lobbyists in them it is the establishment cream of the crop for rich people
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the idea that some trucker from the convoy would be staying at the chateau laurier for 400 bucks a
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night with his nazi flag is too far to be believed this is obviously a false flag but every media ran
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with it so disgracefully they all knew it was fake they didn't care they're the jussie smollett's
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of canada and i want to tell you that here on the ground everyone is learning something they're
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learning that they can no longer trust the liberals i think most had come to that point of view in
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advance but i think they're learning that they cannot trust a word the media says that the chasm
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between how the media has reported this event and what people see with their own eyes is so wide
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i think that there's a political earthquake here for sure i think just walking around the city you
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can feel the difference i am not allowed to go to any sit-down restaurants in ontario no one is vaxxed
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or not there it's there's a lockdown i have eaten in sit-down restaurants the entire time i'm here
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no mask no vax pass you put 50 100 000 normal people in the city and the merchants are happy to have the
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business and the police don't dare try and enforce a mask mandate on you're going to go around try and
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get these people wearing masks you better bring a few reinforcements my point is i think a lot of
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things are being transformed a lot of canadians realize they're not alone when they don't like
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the lockdowns and they say enough already but everyone here and everyone who participated in some
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minor way they were on the convoy they saw the convoy they had a friend involved i i think the number of
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people who are directly involved or one degree of separation the number of people who have some
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actual first or second hand knowledge about this is so large that when they compare that to what
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they see in the media party they will come to the conclusion that you and i have which is that they are
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simply untrustworthy subsidiaries of the political establishment i think the media knows a huge
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political change is going on i think they get that but i don't think that they are self-aware enough
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to see there's enormous change in what people think of journalists in this country too i want to
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talk just for one minute about something else i i mentioned this in my speech to the truckers which
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i'll show you at the end of the monologue i when i checked in i i met someone who asked me what
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about the memorandum of understanding and i know what he's talking about i'm a former lawyer and a
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member of under memorandum of understanding is another way of saying sort of a preliminary
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contractor in agreement it's an actual thing in law but some of these truckers engaged in a little
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homemade lawyering and drafted something they called a memorandum of understanding and they sought
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to present it to i think the senate or the governor general or something thinking that that would cause
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trudeau to resign or the governor general to dismiss him or or some constitutional miracle would happen
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it it's it's sort of a goofy document because it's homemade and i'm not disparaging the intentions
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behind it i'm just saying it's not a thing there is no magic wand you can wave or spell you can cast
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to get justin trudeau out there's just not and so i don't think one percent of the people in the convoy
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actually know about this memorandum of understanding or have read it or understand it or agree with it
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it's just something that some people did but i think it gave some false hope to some people that
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there's a silver bullet here and i think it gave an opportunity for the elites to mock the convoy saying
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oh you're just a bunch of dumb yokels and i think that that's a little bit uh dispiriting since some
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people who thought that something climactic would happen after the meeting you have a hundred thousand
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people in ottawa they all come to parliament hill and then what what's the ta-da what's supposed to
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happen now well the thing is justin trudeau ran away if you know that monty python movie he bravely ran
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away he came up with the most hilarious excuse he didn't have covet he's triple vaxxed he took a
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test that came negative but on public health advice he was hiding for five days and then he said he
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was double triple hiding because of security reasons i want to show you a millennial on tick
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tock who made a joke about that take a look i can't go out i'm sick
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yeah so justin trudeau's not even here uh i'm guessing 95 of mps aren't here either
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believe it or not bureaucrats were told to work from home for security reasons they're so insistent
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that there's some violent thing happening the only violence that's happened in canada over the last two
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years is the police force has been weaponized against us for personal health choices my point is
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justin trudeau does not care what the people think he calls these people names he insults them he calls
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them a fringe minority when he himself had the lowest vote share of any prime minister in history
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i don't think he's moved by principle or by arguments of public interest i think he is what he says he is
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a fan of castro a fan of communist china like his father was a fan of the soviet union
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i don't think justin trudeau will be moved by anything and i think what we have to do is
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realize that there's not some miracle that can dislodge trudeau but there is another miracle that
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happened hundreds of thousands of canadians for once in their life thought they could speak up and have
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a voice and they created a way for themselves outside of the existing media establishment political
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establishment cultural establishment and they saw that when they dared to do that the entire
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establishment mocked them attacked them and lied about them i'll show you my speech to the truckers
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in a moment i said that's the point the point of the truckers convoy was the truckers convoy
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i um i want to close by telling you another observation i made other than rebel news which
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was greeted like heroes here i think we had 10 or 12 reporters and anyone with a rebel news microphone
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flag was met like a hero people asking for selfies and handshakes and hugs it really was a wonderful
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feeling i'm so glad our reporters who put up with so much bs from the rest of the industry see what
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people really think i tell you it was great to be a rebel here this weekend the rest of the media
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with a handful of exceptions was simply abusive and smearing things from afar they weren't even here
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ironically and not surprisingly the most sympathetic mainstream media coverage of this event
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the most sympathetic and accurate coverage of this protest was from foreign media look at the daily
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mail they covered the pros and the cons and the ups and the downs but they weren't snide they weren't
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snobby they weren't lying fox news news max american networks british networks have covered this more
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accurately and more honestly than canada's own media this was an amazing weekend i'm so glad i'm here
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i'm so glad rebel news has covered it and we're not done covering it yet by the way go to convoyreports.com
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to see our ongoing coverage this was the moment when a million other canadians said you know what
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well most of parliament has fled justin trudeau is in hiding who knows if he's even in the country he's
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probably in the bahamas but one of the mps who's here today walking around talking to people is our
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friend leslin lewis the conservative member of parliament from haldeman norfolk what a pleasure
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to have you nice to be here nice to see you again ezra well likewise did i say the name of your riding
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correctly you sure did okay well that's great um the first thing i want to say is why are you here
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other mps have chosen to avoid it even to criticize it why did you decide to come i think any time this
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the people have spoken that it's our obligation to listen to the people who pay our salaries so i
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think it's very important that we're here that we listen to the concerns that we meet them and that
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we hear what's on their hearts one of the things that the establishment has said about the convoy
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is that it's immoral in some way it's either racist or sexist extremist or violent uh what are
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your observations well that's what they say to keep good people away because good people wouldn't
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want to be associated with those labels so they throw out those labels so that people will be afraid
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to stand up for their democratic rights what i've seen i've seen family members i've seen young children
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i've seen people picking up garbage so that they don't have so that the city doesn't have to come and
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do it i've seen people bringing latrines so that they could have a place to use the washroom i've seen
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people by the side of the road making food for strangers i've seen brethren sisterly love and
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i've seen people fight for their democracy and i've seen people stand up and tell the government
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that they've gone too far and that is their democratic right to do so in the background uh you can hear the
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drumming of indigenous drums there has been a large aboriginal contingent here even the organizer of the
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convoy herself as a metis woman uh you use the word unity i feel that too do you think there's almost
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a new political coalition that's being fused here because there's people here who have never been
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political before uh who probably would have voted for justin trudeau in 2015 is something new taking
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shape here oh absolutely this transcends partisan politics this is about freedoms this is about
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choice this is about your rights and when governments use hate to divide the people start
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to see through it and once their eyes are open it's never closed again and so people don't care what
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party you belong to people don't care whether you're conservative or liberal all they know is that
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they've done what's right many people have are double and triple vaccinated here and they're still
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under lockdowns and so that so their their eyes are opening and they're saying there's something wrong
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with the mandate the mandates don't work we're tired we want conversation and politicians are running
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from the same people that they were elected to represent that is not right i i agree with those things
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i feel and i want to be very candid with you i feel that the conservative party federally and in the
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provinces where it's in power ontario and alberta come to mind provincially those governments have
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imposed mandates in fact in my original province of alberta they've even locked up pastors who keep their
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churches open uh in the face of lockdown i have felt like the conservative party federally was
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reluctant to take that head on but i feel like in the last few days this convoy has given courage
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to conservative mps a number of whom have come out what do you think of my analysis well our leader
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erin o'toole has always stood up and said that we believe in reasonable accommodations and so that's
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always been a part of our platform with respect to the provincial side we don't have any control over
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provincial mandates the federal side yes i've i've spoken out and i've said it is wrong that a
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canadian cannot get on a plane cannot get on a boat cannot get on a train that is federally regulated
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because justin trudeau has spread this rumor that unvaccinated people are boogeymen now that we're two
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years into this into this pandemic and we know that covid is now endemic i bet you you don't there's
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nobody that doesn't know somebody that hasn't had covid and so we're at the point now we where we say
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we have to learn to live with it and you're not going to get covid by sitting beside an unvaccinated
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person who doesn't have covid and so that was a lie and the people have woken up and they've seen
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that they've been lied to and they want answers and they deserve those answers what are the things
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of the last it's it's ironic in a way that we're in front of parliament hill uh or on parliament hill
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because so many of the decisions of the last last two years have not been made by parliamentarians
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many of the particular rules have not been voted on they've been issued by public health officers
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provincially at the city level and even teresa tam federally um do you think it's time to remove
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the emergency powers from the public health i call it the deep state because no one voted them in no
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one heard their names until two years ago and they they become powerful political actors is it time to
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take the democracy back from public health officers and put it into legislatures again absolutely we know
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it's time because medical officers of health around the country are saying that it's time they're
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coming out and saying that it's time for us to move on it's time for us to learn how to be safe
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and healthy and live with covid and it's time to restore the freedoms and today is indicative of
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the fact that it's time i got one last question for you and by the way i appreciate i know there's so
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many people here you want to talk to you thanks for making time for us justin trudeau has announced
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that he has purchased or signed contracts um for hundreds of millions more doses i think he said 400
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million or some enormous figure and uh i know the government has plans to acquire them for years to
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come uh i suppose he would say well that's just you know better safe than sorry it's like an insurance
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policy are you worried that two boost two shots and a booster will turn into four five six as like in
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israel they're on shot number four starting shot number five do you think that that we should
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reassess this endless plan for a series of boosters do you feel comfortable taking on that issue well
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i'm not a medical doctor my doctor is in is in law so i am comfortable talking about rights and my issue
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is that i believe that even if the whole world is vaccinated it should be done on informed consent
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i believe in informed consent so my issue here is not about whether you're vaccinated or you're not
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vaccinated because the group of people here are comprised of people who are no longer afraid of
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each other they're both vaccinated and unvaccinated so i'm here because i want to hear from people about
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the mandates and the mandates that have caused families to be apart that have caused brothers and
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sisters not to want to see each other parents not want to see their children grandparents not want
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to see their grandchildren these are the things that we need healing for in this country and i would
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like to move us forward in a spirit of unity there you have it leslyn lewis member of parliament for
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haldeman norfolk pleasure to talk with you thanks for being here pleasure right on stay warm stay with us more ahead
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well what an interesting weekend it was i enjoyed talking with leslyn lewis i think conservative mps
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are allowed to speak a little more honestly now than they have been over the last two years um
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they're still you know erin o'toole is is facing a number of mps who've clearly lost patience with him
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his initial response to the convoy was really to uh ghost them as the kids say but i think there was one
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measurement i want to tell you and it's the go fund me for the truckers i don't know how that ended
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last i saw it was like eight million dollars maybe it stopped i don't know they had a lot
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of questions of could they get the money out or not frankly i don't know how much they need because
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i think most truckers were happy to pay their own gas and their own meals of course they should get
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the money it was intended for them by donors but as i said in my speech to the truckers whether or not
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they got it is almost secondary because the fact that eight million dollars the largest canadian crowd
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fund i've ever heard of was given by tens of thousands of people for the truckers that shows
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that there's a political movement and there's an appetite for this that has not been met by the
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quote officials frankly that money could have been raised by the conservative party of canada
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had they shown any courage like ron desantis in the states or other u.s governors
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so i i think that what we see around here is something new i don't know what form it'll take in
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the future i know that the government and the other establishments want it to peter out i see
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in opinion polls at the people's party i saw an opinion poll that put them at 13 just a few points
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behind the ndp so i don't know what will come from this but it's too big to be swept under the rug
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and i actually think it's too big to be demonized by the media party that i think has probably broken
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itself this weekend more than it broke the movement well that's the show for today until tomorrow when i'm
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warmer back in toronto on behalf of all of us here at rebel worlds well i guess i used to say rebel
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world headquarters we're back at canada's headquarters in ottawa good night keep fighting for freedom and
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let me leave you with a short speech i gave to the truckers i was invited up on stage and i just let
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that are ripped i'll say goodbye and leave you with that see you tomorrow
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ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for ezra levant the rebel news
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it's great to be here and on behalf of rebel news i salute you and i say keep speaking truth to power
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but i want to tell you what excites me the most about this crowd i see a lot of cameras a lot of
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independent journalists because when people say what do we do about the media i say you become the media
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that's what you do the media acts like a party the media party it's a subsidiary of the liberal party
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so you've got to tell the story yourselves everyone who is here everyone who was along the road
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has to bear witness and testify to what they saw because there's two competing narratives the government
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says you're racist the government says you're sexist the government says you're violent in the meantime
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i've never seen a more diverse group of canadians
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the far from violence people want to not be violated anymore justin trudeau says you're extreme
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but he's the one who has violated our civil rights
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he says you're a fringe well that's a pretty bloody big fringe
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let me close by saying this someone asked me this morning what's the point what's gonna happen
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why did we all gather in ottawa is he gonna listen is he gonna resign is the governor general gonna ask
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him to step down no he'll hold on to power as hard as he can let me tell you what i think the point is
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the point is the convoy itself to show that you're not alone to show that you're not the crazy one they
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are you already achieved your goal just by being here and the fact that millions of dollars came into
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the gofundme for the truckers even if they would have canceled that it was still a success because it
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was a measurement of how much people cared you have succeeded just by being here
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he got the fight congratulations to the organizers but really it was millions of canadians
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along the way in the convoy and watching today from home tell them what happened tell them what you
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saw because they will not hear the truth from anyone else keep up the fight everybody keep fighting for