EZRA LEVANT ｜ My thoughts on the media party and their misconduct over the last two weeks
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Rebel News reporter Lincoln Jay is on the ground in Ottawa covering the Canadian truckers' protest against the Trudeau government and its handling of the situation. Today's show also features a live report from Cootes, Alberta, where a Rebel reporter is embedded with the truckers.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through my thoughts on the media party
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and why an already untrustworthy media party absolutely blew it in their coverage of the
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trucker convoy, and they don't even realize it yet. So that's today's show. Plus, we go live to
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Coots, Alberta, to one of our reporters embedded in the blockade there. I think that's
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Tonight, I've got some thoughts on the media party's misconduct and the problem with Canadian
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media in general. It's February 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Hey, Rebel's just on fire these days. I was on Tucker Carlson's show last night, huge audience,
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and then right after me, our friend Lincoln Jay was on Hannity's show. It wasn't a very long hit,
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but it was on the ground, trustworthy reporting. It's tough to find that in Canada these days if
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you go with the mainstream media. It looks like Rebel News has become the go-to for Americans and
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others who actually want to know what's going on, not just what Trudeau says was going on.
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Mm-hmm. I'll show you my little clip a little later, but let me show off Lincoln Jay on his big
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U.S. network debut. Here's Lincoln Jay on The Hannity Show.
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For the Canadian truckers, as they stand up for human dignity, liberty, freedom, medical privacy,
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but to the left, anybody that stands against one-size-fits-all medicine with no exceptions
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whatsoever, and for prosperity, they immediately become, you know, enemy number one. Get this,
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an Ottawa judge is actually granted an injunction to stop honking your horn in downtown Ottawa as
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momentum for this convoy continues to grow and grow and grow. Now the truckers, from what we can tell,
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they have been peaceful. We've not heard of any incidents of violence. Honking is part of how they
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are making their voices heard. Ask yourself this, you know, where's Trudeau and his left-wing
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minions? Are they really outraged over honking a horn and, of course, failed far-left excuse for
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a leader Trudeau? He remains cowering in fear, nowhere to be found, calling the truckers every
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name he can in the book, still refusing to hear them out, address their valid concerns.
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Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is, and Trudeau is just a gutless, spineless child.
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He's in way over his head. Instead, he claims truckers are racist and transphobic. Despite
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no evidence that we could find of any of that, I've yet to see anything. And here with the very
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latest live on the ground in Ottawa, we have Rebel News reporter Lincoln Jay. Lincoln,
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from what I can see here in the States, this is staying strong, rock solid. They're not caving,
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and they're not going anywhere. Yeah, I've been on the ground here since the 28th of January, and
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it's become quite clear at this point that the truckers are not going anywhere. We've seen pretty
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much exactly the same amount of trucks on the ground here in Ottawa. None have left, considering
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there's a state of emergency now in the city. And like I said, it's become quite clear that they're
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not going anywhere anytime soon. Well, and the support they're getting from the people seems
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fairly universal, almost seems like a street, a block party, what we call in New York.
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Yeah, it's the best way to describe it is it's like it's like a Canada Day festival every day here.
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It's it's nothing but positivity on the streets. I would honestly describe it as a family environment.
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And that's why it makes it it's really hard to wrap your head around the way that the the legacy
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media here in Canada is trying to spin the narrative and really turn this into something it's not you when
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you're on the ground here, you really see people from all walks of life that just want their freedoms
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back. It's been really hard to be a Canadian for the past almost two years, you know, and people just
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want these mandates lifted. And that's why the truckers are here. And the truckers have brought
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a lot of hope to Canadians that we might actually see these mandates lifted. So here we are.
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All right, Lincoln, Jay, appreciate the report. Thank you.
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That's Lincoln telling it like it is. Follow the facts wherever they lead. You know,
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I hear he's been invited back on again tonight. That's wonderful. So I had this great night last
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night just marveling at all the international coverage that Rebel News is providing. And of course,
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that wasn't our purpose. Our purpose was to tell Canadians what's happening in their own country to
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fight against the government government narrative. But we have really become the reliable folks for
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media outside of Canada. Let me show you this cover of the Daily Mail, this this story.
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Absolutely savaging Justin Trudeau for abusing the word Nazi. It's outrageous that Trudeau implies that
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his critics are Nazis. I know that you know that we all know that. But the media party,
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not only don't they know it, they cheer him on. It takes a foreign newspaper like the Daily Mail
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to say what Canadians should be reading in our daily newspapers, but we're not.
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So that was me when I went to bed last night feeling pretty good about how our little company
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is reporting the news. I think we're rising to the occasion, if I may say so. And I say that not
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so much out of personal pride, but pride in our team. You know, there's 52 souls working at Rebel
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News right now, and we're firing on all pistons. I told you that on the weekend, we were in nine
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cities at once. That's pretty cool. So I woke up this morning, and I was feeling good about
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Rebel News, what we were doing, but I was thinking about how other media are. Because last night,
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I saw that a CBC government journalist from Trudeau State Broadcaster was actually live tweeting
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Lincoln on the Hannity show. So let me just speak clearly. A CBC reporter paid an enormous sum of
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money, was sitting watching Fox News, and rage tweeting about it, including Rebel News being on
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Fox News. So you had CBC watching Fox News, talking to Rebel News, and tweeting about it.
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I didn't know that's why we were paying a billion and a half dollars here to save the CBC. So I just,
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it was rattling around in my head, and I woke up and I wrote sort of like a 30-tweet
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rant about him. And I thought, you know what, I want to add to this. I want to expand on this in
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the show. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to read to you what I wrote when I woke up this
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morning, and I'm going to give you some more thoughts. And I hope you don't mind me repurposing
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those tweets. I just want to make sure you didn't miss them. So here's what I said. I said,
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the first thing to know about the media is that they're lazy. They'd rather rewrite a government
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press release than get up from their desk and report from the field, especially when it's minus
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20 degrees up. I hate to say that it's true. You can't be lazy if you're a journalist. You need to
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have a sense of curiosity and a sense of skepticism. That sounds trite, but I just don't think it's true
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about a lot of government-style journalists. I'll keep reading. So they repeat Trudeau's lie
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that the truckers are racist and sexist, because if you just hold up in your office and you get a
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press release and you're watching Trudeau, they're racist and sexist, well, you tend to believe that
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because you're a liberal journalist, and you don't dare go and mix with the unwatched, so you're just
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repeating the government line. The second tweet I said was, the second thing to know is that in Canada,
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more than 99% of journalists receive a payment from Justin Trudeau. Here's the list of the journalists
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who took Trudeau's $61 million pre-election payoff. It's more than 99% of working journalists.
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We broke that story with you, for you, a few months ago, the same time that Jonathan Bradley
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broke it on the same day, independently broke it. 99%, like over 1,500 Canadian journalistic companies.
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I didn't know there were that many. We've told you that at length. So when you take money from anyone,
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whether it's a lobbyist or a company or a government, how can you possibly report on them independently?
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You cannot. I'll keep reading. Three, there is an illusion of media competition in Canada,
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but it's an oligopoly. Post Media, the largest recipient of Trudeau's media bailout, owns every
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English language daily newspaper in Canada, except two. And even they just run the same wire copy as
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their competitors. You know what I mean by wire copy? I see this a lot in the National Post and it makes me
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sad. They just print stuff from the Washington Post or I think it's Associated Press. You know what
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those are? Those are news wires. So some reporter somewhere writes a story. They send it out and
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you're a subscriber and you just take that stuff and you have the legal right to take what they put,
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pop it in your newspaper, fill up your newspaper. And the advantage to it is it's super cheap.
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So there's really only one company that does English. It's Post Media. It has the Calgary Herald,
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Edmonton, Journal of Vancouver, Sun, Montreal Gazette, National Post. They don't own the Toronto
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Star. That's a different company. And they don't own the Winnipeg Free Press, but pretty much they've
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got every other newspaper. And it's just one company. So it feels like there's competition. That would never
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be allowed in the United States. By the way, they have antitrust laws. I'll keep reading.
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And Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster is larger than all other news media combined.
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Every non-CBC journalist tailors their work so that if they're laid off, they can get hired at the CBC
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since it's too big to fail. It's the last resort. What I mean by that is more news journalists work
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for the CBC than every, not just any, but than every other news company. So automatically they
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dominate. We see this, for example, at the debates, the leadership election debates where they tried
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to keep Rebel News out twice. You have 20, 30, 40, whatever CBC journalists. They just crowd everyone
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else out. It's not just that, but everyone knows they're going to be the last media company to die
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because Trudeau will bail them out. So they're always thinking, okay, I better not say anything to put
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me off on the wrong foot with them. Number five, there used to be some conservative media in
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Canada, for example, the National Post, but for years they hired woke leftist underminers.
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Personnel is policy. A majority of their newsrooms signed a letter to fire their star columnist.
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They're no better than the CBC. And you know, that's the story of Rex Murphy. And when you hire
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people over time, more and more and more, and they hate you, and they're just coming for a job
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and to bring their wokeness from the latest journalism school fad into the National Post,
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and you don't hire for ideology, what did you think would happen? They literally had a majority of their
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newsroom sign a document denouncing their star writer, Rex Murphy, and they didn't fire them.
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You're literally going to fire the majority of your newsroom. They were taken over.
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Besides Rex Murphy and Conrad Black, and there is a new journalist named Rupa over there who's been
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great. I think I've just listed all the people who are fit to read at the National Post. Terry
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Corcoran still writes once in a while, but I think, I think I just listed them all.
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Number six, TV is the worst. Of course, they are highly regulated by the CRTC,
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which has the power to kill any TV or radio station. They cancel the license of any company
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that airs conservative views that offend the regime. Here's an example. That's the story of
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Chois FM, Radio X, in Quebec City, which is the most liberty-oriented and funniest radio station in
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the country. They said some offensive things. Well, of course they did. Everything's offensive to the
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offended. And the CRTC was going to kill them. There was a massive march on Parliament Hill. I think it
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was like 50,000 people. And it scared the government. And actually, Andre Arthur, who was a journalist
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there, he rode this wave into Parliament as an independent MP. He later joined the Conservatives.
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When was the last time you heard an independent MP get elected? Well, they came to kill Radio X,
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and people fought back. But it was close. When I worked at Sun News, I learned that the TV part of
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TV companies was economically unimportant compared to the cell phone and cable side of the business.
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That's how the CRTC pressures TV companies. News shows are a rounding error compared to regulatory
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givings and takings. I was at Sun News. I thought it was the most important thing. Of course, it was
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about a $20 million a year operation. But that was part of Quebecor. And Quebecor has huge
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cell phone and cable and online services. This $20 million appendage was just a bargaining chip,
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a bauble. Sun News used to be on, I think, Channel 15 or something, or Channel 6, or some really low
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channel in Toronto, so everyone could find it. That was just something to be bargained away,
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like some poker chip. Suddenly we lost that because Sun News was not important compared to billions of
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dollars at stake in other things. I just learned that the hard way. I mean, I loved Sun News,
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and I love Quebecor. But never pretend that news stations are owned to make money. They're political
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tools. I'll talk more about that later. Point A, these are all structural issues, but an obvious
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point is the lack of diversity in the news media. I don't mean race or sex. I mean intellectual and
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class diversity. The media party, as I call it, is politically and culturally homogeneous, urban,
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woke think-alikes. Well, you know exactly what I'm talking about there. In fact, the other networks
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brag about it. The CBC positively says they will not have any skeptics about the theory of man-made
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global warming. They say, well, we don't have any skeptics about the theory of gravity either.
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Yeah, mate, it's not settled, global warming. And even if you think it is, a large mass of Canadians
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don't think so. So you're basically saying we don't want diversity of opinion. And where do those
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people go who want a diversity of opinion? Even believers who say, well, we should at least have
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a debate about it. So the mainstream media literally turned those people away and told them to go
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elsewhere. Point nine, they don't know any truckers or farmers or anyone who works outside who wears a
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hard hat or a uniform. My favorite tweet from the Globe and Mail was this masterpiece. The reporter
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covering the working classes thought this was a wrecking ball and got scared. If you see that picture
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from the Globe and Mail, you know, when you've seen cranes all the time, you know, construction
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cranes, and you have this long cable and there's a little weight at the end, just so it doesn't whip
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around in the wind. That's all. It's just a weight. It's as big as a, you know, like a cantaloupe or
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something. It's not a wrecking ball, which is as big as a car or something. You've seen wrecking
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balls, right? This Globe and Mail journalist, who was the expert on what to think of working people,
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thought that little weight on the end of a crane was a wrecking ball, and they were going to smash
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parliament. Yeah, just admit it. You've never met anyone who works in a factory. You've never been
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in a truck. You just simply don't know how the other half lives, but you're an expert for the
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whole world. Got it. Point 10, how can this rotting industry, monopolistic, corrupted by government
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money, regulated by government censors, a political monoculture, infected by woke cancel culture,
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possibly cover a populist workers' rebellion? They are intellectually and structurally incapable
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of it. Yeah, it's just, they just don't know how to process it. Psychologically, these middle-class
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narcissists, every journalist must be a narcissist to believe the world needs to hear what they have
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to say, cannot believe that the working classes reject them. They always posed as saviors of the
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working man. It made them feel better. Do you think the writers at the Toronto Star have anything
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in common with working people other than their gardeners, their cooks, their nannies, their food
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delivery boys and gals? Do you think they have any dealings with working people? You know, I've told you
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before about this amazing quiz. You can find it online. Charles Murray developed it called How Thick
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Is Your Bubble? And he asked you questions. We've talked about this before. Have you ever been on a
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factory floor? Just yes or no. Have you ever been in a parade other than a gay pride parade or a political
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parade? Have you been in a parade? Have you ever lived in a small town other than a college? I'm
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going from memory here. There's wonderful questions. Have you ever bought discount beer, like economy
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beer? And then they have tests on what movies and TV shows you watch. And by the way, there's no right
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answer or wrong answer. It just, there's one question on the quiz that asks you, can you identify these
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military badges, like ranks? You don't have a person if you say no. It's just a sign that you really don't
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know how the other person lives. Do you know, how many smokers do you know? Do you know any evangelical
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Christians? Now, again, it's not a wrong answer to say, no, I don't. But this wonderful test by Charles
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Murray was just, do you know how other people live? And I always think of that, one of his questions is, did you
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ever have a job that when you come home, part of your body aches? That's a great question, isn't it?
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And you're not a bad person if the answer is no. It's just, don't pretend that you know how the world
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is, because you just know how you're part of the world is. So you have the Zoom class, the MacBook at
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the Cottage class, saying they understand the truck driving class. No, you don't, actually, even though it
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makes you feel better to say you do. So the Toronto Star, with its Marxist Atkinson principles, calls for
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martial law against working men. They're for the mass firing of unvaccinated union members, a violation of
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collective agreements. They're in bed with Big Pharma. They don't use the phrase pro-choice anymore. I mean, where's
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the NDP? Jagmeet Singh was the most vicious person in the country towards the truckers. By the way, a lot of those
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truckers happen to be Sikh, like him. Here's Jagmeet Singh, just insane demonization. This is the champion of the
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working man. Today, we're calling for an emergency debate in Parliament to respond to the convoy and to the escalating
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tensions that we're seeing. We need to see some leadership, and there hasn't been that leadership at the federal
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level. And so we're calling for that. There's four things that we want to see happen. And I'm hoping to be able to use the
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emergency debate as a platform to talk about these four things. First of all, we have a crisis on our hands, and we need to
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immediately have the Prime Minister, representing the federal level, the federal government, meet with the effective
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municipalities to offer any help that we can to solve this problem. And there is serious concerns going on. Obviously, in Ottawa,
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people are going through a really horrible situation where it's clear that the stated intent of this
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convoy is to overthrow the government. It's in their memorandum of understanding. It's clear they're not
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hiding away from it. And they are harassing citizens. They are threatening people, assaulting people.
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And recent examples of setting fire to a building because they're fed up with the noise is clear this is a
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violent and dangerous action that is causing a really severe consequence to people.
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My point is for the media to report what's really happening out there, 100,000 plus truckers across
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country, one million people or more who cheer them on along the way, would destroy not only the media's
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worldview, but their self-image. They just cannot believe their eyes. They can't. They can't. They won't.
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It's as if you woke up in the morning and the sky was green.
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You wouldn't be able to process it. You would go crazy.
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Or your mind would say, no, I'm just not going to see green.
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I'm going to pretend that's blue because I would just, you know, my mind would be blown.
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I cannot process a green sky. My world would fall apart if the sky were green. I wouldn't understand
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what was happening. I would go mad. So I'm just going to say the sky is blue. That's how
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destructive to their worldview and self-image it is to see working people rebel against the Toronto
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Star and the CBC and the NDP. The pro-Trudeau pollster abacus shows that 32% of Canadians see
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themselves in the trucker convoy. If the truckers were a political party, they would immediately
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be in first place. This is enormous cognitive dissonance to the media party who keep calling
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it a radical fringe. I've seen new polling numbers that show the numbers even higher,
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about 44% now. A reason why the media party narrative is failing is that a million people
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have had firsthand contact with the truckers. The revolution is being televised, just not on CBC.
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It's a live on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. These aren't racist. So people see
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the truth enough to know that what the media party is telling them is a lie.
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So many institutions have failed during the pandemic. Parliament, the opposition conservatives,
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the courts, colleges of physicians and surgeons, police, etc. But the media has failed the most
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because they are immune to most consequences. They haven't noticed it yet.
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Erin O'Toole noticed it. I think Jason Kenney's about to notice it. But where's the comeuppance for
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the media party? They don't understand why people don't trust them. Here's CTV, mad that the only
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convoy they've been defaming, that the convoy they've been defaming for two weeks won't invite
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them into a press conference as an honored guest. And as you can see, that's a tweet from Glenn
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McGregor, really mad that they were kept out. The icing on the cake is that CTV is part of the
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government press gallery that excludes conservative media like Rebel News from the parliament. They
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voted to protect Trudeau from our questions, but they're accepting applications from Xinhua.
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CTV is huge. They're owned by Bell, the cell phone and cable company that also owns two NHL teams,
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which helps explain why they like the lockdown so much, but lobbied for special
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exemptions for them, but not for your kids' hockey teams.
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CTV seems large to you, but it's unimportant as a business to Bell. It's a rounding error. It's
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value to Bell. It's the same reason Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post or Carlos Slim bought the
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New York Times. It's a way to influence government. It's a lobby group. Your mind is the product.
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I mean, do you think for a second that Canada's richest family, the Thompsons, who own the Globe and
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Mail, do you not think that that is their tool to influence public policy, to shape public
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perceptions? Do you think that the Globe and Mail would ever criticize that family? Of course not.
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It's their insurance policy against public opinion going the wrong way.
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Even if there were an independent journalist at CTV, they would not be able to contradict the
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corporate objectives of Bell. The Globe is owned by the Woodbridge Company. Post Media is owned by New
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Jersey's Chatham Asset Management. They're all political toys of billionaires. That's just a fact,
00:24:19.160
people. And then I said, I was writing this in the morning. I said, I have to go to work now. I'm not
00:24:24.580
some government journalist like those at Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster or the 99 percent of Canadian
00:24:29.200
reporters whose paycheck is directly subsidized by Trudeau. But let me leave you with this delicious
00:24:33.220
moment. And this is what I was talking about about CBC. We had reporters at nine different trucker
00:24:38.520
convoys on the weekend. We're embedded at the border in Coutts. We got half a dozen people in Ottawa on the
00:24:44.040
street, not safely tucked away in offices. So people choose our news over the media party's
00:24:48.560
punditry. The whole world is riveted by what's happening in Canada, but who could they talk to
00:24:54.400
about what's really happening? They could call the CBC, and I'm sure CNN does, but that's just Trudeau's
00:24:59.720
point of view. It's not really telling you what's happening. So they call us. And then I'm just having
00:25:06.300
some bragging. I say, yesterday alone, our team must have done 10 foreign interviews. I was on Tucker
00:25:11.520
Carlson. Our young reporter, Lincoln Jay, was on Hannity. I'll have to find that clip. Those two
00:25:16.540
shows are, what, 8 million views? So what's a government journalist to do? Here's the CBC
00:25:21.760
reduced to tweeting about our reporter appearing on Fox. She's rage tweeting at people with 10 times
00:25:29.300
the viewership she has, even though or because she has a $1.5 billion a year subsidy.
00:25:33.980
Is this tweet the work of a reporter or something different? A Trudeau war room staffer trying to
00:25:41.660
rebut opinions and messages that aren't approved by the liberal party. I mean, just stop there for a
00:25:45.260
second. So you got this highly paid CBC reporter who could actually be doing reporting. You know,
00:25:50.780
what's happening? Let me tell you what I saw on the street in this place. She's instead glued to Fox
00:25:57.520
News. I don't blame her. It's good TV. And she's tweeting what she sees on Fox, including Rebel being
00:26:03.400
on there. Do we really need to pay CBC government journalists tax dollars to watch Fox News for us,
00:26:10.040
to tweet about it? I don't know. And then I said, I really have to go to work now. Unlike the CBC,
00:26:15.900
Woodbridge, Bell, or Chatham Asset Management, we have to win the support of our viewers every day.
00:26:20.860
Do you know what our motto is? You probably know. Telling the other side of the story. I don't think
00:26:26.220
the media party believes in that. Do you? I just don't think they do. Now, there were some great
00:26:32.020
responses. The first was from Breitbart, our friend, Joel Pollack. He did a news. He thought
00:26:36.500
my little rant was easy. The story on, he said, Ezra Levant explains Canadian media bias against
00:26:41.540
truckers, an epic threat. Well, thanks, Joel. I'm glad you thought it was epic. Here's a professor
00:26:47.580
from Quebec named Marc-Francois Bernier, a university professor. And he said,
00:26:55.700
we could, this is in French, there's a translation. He said, we could probably refute each of the
00:26:59.740
arguments below, but the important thing is to read them to better understand the reasons for anger
00:27:05.320
against the media journalists in the sociological sense, and to be able to answer in such a convincing
00:27:11.180
way as possible. Yeah. By the way, I wrote back to that friendly gentleman twice. Here's what I said.
00:27:19.460
I said, cher professeur, please accept my invitation to come on my show to refute chacune des arguments
00:27:26.600
s'absi ba, to refute all my arguments below. I promise I'll give you 50% of the talk time, plus the last
00:27:32.600
word. I would like to hear your rebuttal. I think it could be a productive discussion. I'm at Ezra
00:27:37.220
at rebelnews.com. I have not heard back from him. I wrote to him again when he says, wow, I could
00:27:43.060
probably, I could probably refute all those points. Well, come on. Like I pray, God is my witness. I'll
00:27:50.480
give him 50% of the talk time. I won't over talk him. And I'll give him the last word, which is the
00:27:55.760
favorite part of it to me. I don't, I think when he says, well, you know, I could refute, anyone could
00:28:01.240
refuse. I just, I'm busy. Sure. You're busy, professor. Our friend Candace Malcolm at True
00:28:08.580
North chimed in pretty friendly. She said, I've been working in and around the legacy media for 12
00:28:13.240
years now. This thread is a hundred percent. And look at that. Maxine Bernier said, thread from Ezra
00:28:19.120
Levant about mainstream media corruption. I think it's true. Well, so that's what I ranted this morning.
00:28:24.720
And I just thought I was going to repurpose that, not because I wasn't looking to do another monologue.
00:28:28.560
I just thought, you know, I had some thoughts this morning that just came together when I was
00:28:34.000
looking at how the CBC was watching Rebel on Fox and a few things clicked into place for me.
00:28:40.140
We've been going full tilt and that's all because of your support. So I appreciate that.
00:28:44.340
After the break, we'll come back with Sidney Fazzard, who is on the ground in Coots, Alberta,
00:28:48.920
and then I'll read your letters to me. Stay with us more ahead.
00:28:58.560
Well, let's go to, I think, one of the most interesting hotspots. Ottawa has most of the
00:29:04.200
attention. It's the capital city. It has the most trucks. It's the closest to the heart of darkness
00:29:10.460
in the Liberal Party. The Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor is enormous. A quarter of
00:29:15.620
Canadian trade goes on that bridge. To shut that down is going to get the attention of Ontario
00:29:20.780
manufacturers, PDQ. But I think one of the most important and interesting convoys is the one in
00:29:26.900
Coots, Alberta. That's at the border between Alberta and Montana. And it has such enormous
00:29:32.560
local support from the farmers, from the townspeople, that Coots is in a total lockdown by the
00:29:38.880
truckers. But RCMP have made a large siege wall around Coots. So to stop others from going to it,
00:29:47.400
to aid it, to help it. And at the siege wall in Milk River, another enormous, even larger rally has
00:29:55.000
gathered. And I say rally, it looks like, as they say about the Stampede, the greatest outdoor show
00:29:59.900
on earth. There's cowboys. There's bonfires. There's barbecues. It's a festive atmosphere.
00:30:07.280
This is not a group of criminals. And the police have no chance, unless they're going to go full
00:30:13.120
police state. When you have lost the consent of the people, you cannot effectively police.
00:30:18.760
Are you, what are you going to do when you have thousands of ordinary law-abiding citizens,
00:30:22.880
including women and children? What can you do? Well, I'm recording this before three o'clock
00:30:29.740
Eastern time. Jason Kenney, the premier, is scheduled to have a press conference at 7 p.m.
00:30:34.180
Eastern time, where he's expected to make some modest loosening of his restrictions. But he's not
00:30:42.600
going to go the full Premier Mo, as you know, Premier Mo in Saskatchewan today announced the end of the
00:30:49.460
restrictions. Jason Kenney is resisting. So I tell you that because that will happen after the video
00:30:56.680
we are recording now goes to air. But I want to go straight to one of our two guys on the ground in
00:31:02.340
Coutts, Sidney Fazzard, who, along with Kian Simone, has brought you exclusive, world-exclusive
00:31:08.600
coverage. He joins us now via Skype. Sidney, first of all, congratulations. You and Kian have done
00:31:15.140
work that has been viewed around the world. I don't know if you know that. I think you can
00:31:20.280
probably detect it on social media. But the work that you and Kian have done has been broadcast to
00:31:25.260
literally millions of people around the world. Congratulations.
00:31:28.760
Oh, well, thank you very much. And it's good to be here, especially because we just want to tell the
00:31:32.720
story like it is. And that's not something that you see too often on the mainstream media, as we call
00:31:37.780
it. Well, and that's the thing. Your videos tell the truth. And it's amazing to me the exclusive
00:31:43.680
access you have had to the men who have formed a sort of democratic council on things. I mean,
00:31:50.060
obviously, there are certain things that you can't show because they're, you know, the truckers want
00:31:55.600
privacy for certain negotiations, etc. But you really are, as they say, a fly on the wall watching history
00:32:01.980
being made. And I think that's because you've earned the trust of all parties involved. You just
00:32:07.780
tell the truth. You tell the other side of the stories. Now, the cops don't like that, because they
00:32:11.660
want to do their moves in darkness. But no one can say that you and Kian have not told the honest
00:32:16.700
truth about what's going on at Coots. No, that's absolutely right. And authorities as well, they've been
00:32:23.680
a little shy as well. But they have been quite cordial with us. And they have been letting media through
00:32:29.880
as well. That includes us, where normally you would see us get stopped at the gate, so to speak.
00:32:34.940
Oh, Rebel News, we don't know who Rebel News is, this and that. They've actually recognized us. And
00:32:39.960
they've been like, yep, go on straight through the border or the barriers, I should say, that the police
00:32:43.580
have set up. So they're not restricting us like they have in other scenarios. Yeah, I think they know
00:32:49.100
that if they held Rebel News reporters back, that would cause a negative reaction. I mean, I saw some
00:32:55.840
footage that you and Kian, we call Kian K2, you and K2 and even some others have of Rebel News
00:33:03.660
homemade ads that one fellow put on his combine, another one in Tabor that's like a billboard.
00:33:12.540
So this grassroots solidarity with Rebel News, it's really interesting, because all we're doing
00:33:17.560
is what any journalist should do. You know, one of our things we say all the time, Sid,
00:33:21.640
follow the facts wherever they lead. That means we tell the story, even if it doesn't meet our
00:33:26.620
preconceptions. We follow the facts wherever they lead. That should be the motto of any journalist.
00:33:31.420
The fact that it's so rare means that Rebel News is treated like some hero. And I think you are doing
00:33:37.160
heroic work, but it shouldn't be rare. Like every journalist, people should say, he tells the truth.
00:33:43.920
Like you should say that about every journalist. And the fact that it's not the case, you guys have been
00:33:48.000
embedded with the truckers. I think it was so symbolic that one of those CBC government journalists
00:33:54.460
actually tweeted, boasting about the fact that he was embedded with the cops. He was embedded with the
00:34:02.580
cops hunting the truckers. Gee, why doesn't anyone trust the CBC? Am I right? No, exactly. And what
00:34:10.460
they're doing is they're taking a shot of the scene and they're taking that from not miles away,
00:34:17.420
but a very far distance away from where things were actually happening. They, in some senses,
00:34:23.180
refuse to come close. And in some senses, there's a shyness for people here to talk to them because
00:34:29.300
they know that what they're going to say is probably going to get misconstrued. And that's one of the
00:34:33.720
reasons why we've been able to get so close is because exactly what you're saying, they know we're here
00:34:37.880
to tell the truth and we're here to tell the other side of the story, what mainstream media won't and
00:34:42.220
right now what they're not able to. Well, let me just check one detail there. So you said that the
00:34:48.980
cops who have this perimeter, the cops have, I'm calling it a siege wall because they're, they're
00:34:53.440
really cutting, I mean, the truckers sometimes do and sometimes don't block the border, but the cops
00:34:58.660
have their own blockade, by the way. So you're saying media is allowed to go through and I know
00:35:03.520
lawyers are because the lawyer we crowdfunded for the truckers, Chad Williamson, I just saw him
00:35:07.860
do a video down there. So you're saying the CBC is allowed to come in, but are you saying there are
00:35:13.960
no CBCers at Coots itself? Is that what you're saying? Not that I've seen. They come by every
00:35:20.160
once in a while in their van. They'll park, you know, way off in the distance. We can see them,
00:35:24.520
they can see us, but they won't really get too close. And in terms of that police barrier, that's
00:35:29.840
not just the one in Milk River, which most people would be familiar with, but it is literally wrapped
00:35:34.620
around Coots. The entire area has police barriers set up. And just now the negotiators were here just
00:35:41.040
checking out the scene and giving a heads up just to see how the day was going to go.
00:35:49.180
So how do they do that? So the RCMP comes in and some big boss hog character says, now hear this,
00:35:54.880
or something. So how does that go when the RCMP negotiators, and who knows who they're speaking
00:36:00.480
on behalf of? Because the RCMP is a federal police force whose commissioner was appointed
00:36:05.660
by Trudeau, but it's contracted by the Alberta government to police in the rural parts. So you've
00:36:11.400
got the Calgary Police Service and the Edmonton Police Service, which are local forces. But in the
00:36:16.660
country parts, it's Trudeau's cops hired by Kenney. So I don't even know who would be running that
00:36:23.320
operation. So a Trudeau-Kenney cop shows up. And how does that go? Does he come out?
00:36:28.380
Does he come out super friendly? Or does he come out growly? Is it the same guy every time? What's
00:36:33.820
that like when a Trudeau-Kenney negotiator comes?
00:36:37.880
Usually it's the same guys. And they try and be as respectful as they can. They try and be very
00:36:42.820
polite. Of course, both sides, the blockaders, the truckers and the farmers here, and the authorities
00:36:49.220
that come, they both try and remain a, they keep a civil discourse. They're very polite. They laugh
00:36:54.020
amongst each other, right? They joke. So they do try and keep a positive relationship going. That way,
00:36:59.120
there is a good amount of communication. That way, both sides kind of have an understanding of the
00:37:03.400
situation. But if I could just add one thing, when they were here right now, there was actually a local
00:37:09.000
who was present while the negotiators were here. And Chad was talking with them as well. And he was very
00:37:14.440
upset that on Saturday, I believe it was, he was trying to leave town to get some medical things that
00:37:19.860
he needed. And on the way back, he was being stopped at the Milk River police barrier that
00:37:24.840
was set up. And they were giving him a tough time. They weren't being rude per se, but they were giving
00:37:29.140
him a tough time getting through. And he had to go and find alternate roads to get in. And this is an
00:37:33.380
older fellow, right? So it's better to have these guys just go straight on their way. And he just
00:37:37.380
wanted to go home. But at times, it seems even the people who live in coots are being restricted from
00:37:43.480
entry. And that's not because of the truckers. He was actually very thankful to the truckers,
00:37:46.820
because as soon as the truckers found out that he needed to go out there and get some stuff done,
00:37:50.920
they moved right away. But the authorities and their barrier that they have set up,
00:37:55.480
well, that was unfortunately a different story. But they are trying to keep that
00:37:59.220
transit going for locals so that they still have access. But it has been tough over the last few
00:38:04.300
days with those police barriers literally wrapped around coots. Very interesting. Well,
00:38:08.620
I've seen some of the footage that you and K2 have published. And I see that the farmers have arrived,
00:38:13.640
big farm equipment. So that's a different move. And the truckers, I mean, the thing about truckers
00:38:19.300
that are long haul, they may be from dozens or hundreds, theoretically, even thousands of miles
00:38:24.260
away. But that farm equipment is not meant to go on thousand mile journeys. I mean, I suppose it does
00:38:31.880
a thousand miles over time on a certain farmer's field. But if you're rolling in with some of those
00:38:36.400
tractors, and I don't even know how you would describe some of the equipment, that's coming from
00:38:41.200
maybe 10 miles away, maybe 20 miles away. I'd be shocked if much of it came from more than 50 miles
00:38:46.680
away. So those are local people. That's very interesting to me, because that suggests that
00:38:52.380
this protest is in friendly territory. It's not, as the Ottawa politicians say, an occupation
00:38:59.800
of Parliament Hill. It sounds to me like the folks in, I mean, obviously, there's going to be a
00:39:05.780
difference of opinion. But it sounds to me like there is a fair bit of organic, domestic support
00:39:15.260
No, absolutely. You're correct there. And the first time that we saw a big wave of farmers and
00:39:20.740
other local supporters come in was the moment that RCMP decided to end negotiations. This happened
00:39:27.100
much earlier in this whole situation. And at that point, there was the blockade on the highway with the
00:39:33.360
semi-trucks and whatnot. But as those negotiations were told it was over, these truckers and farmers,
00:39:40.680
they came in and they formed a second barrier, basically going across the highway, not just along.
00:39:48.240
And now we're seeing that second response that we saw last night, where roughly 10 tractors came in
00:39:54.880
to support these guys, and they blocked off the highway for a good amount of time last night.
00:39:59.380
And that was a response to, well, basically Jason Kenney's lack of announcement, as everyone was
00:40:04.860
expecting him to make some kind of announcement yesterday. But that did not come to pass.
00:40:09.980
Yeah, it sounds like Jason Kenney is really playing some slippery games here, because I know in the very
00:40:15.360
early days, the rural MLAs, and by the way, the local MLA there, I can't find hide nor hair of him.
00:40:20.540
I think he's hiding. Have you heard anything? I mean, if I was the MLA, that's the provincial
00:40:28.300
politician in charge of, I think it's called Tabor Warner, the riding, it's a fairly large riding,
00:40:34.420
because it's a rural riding, so it's fairly sparse. And I'm from southern Alberta, not that far south,
00:40:41.280
but I know those places. I've been to Tabor, I've been to Lethbridge, I've been to Cardstead,
00:40:45.420
I know those people, Aboriginal folks, I've been to the reserve in Cardstead. There's some good
00:40:52.920
people there, and they're not afraid to tell their politicians what's what. Have you detected
00:40:59.300
that MLA, the Jason Kenney MLA, or for that matter, the federal MP, I think his name is Glenn Motts,
00:41:05.840
going from memory, have you detected them anywhere?
00:41:07.600
Not exactly. Certainly not within the action. What it seems like is these guys try and keep
00:41:15.280
themselves on the perimeter of the situation, kind of one foot in, one foot out, and there's like
00:41:19.900
whispers and murmurs of what they're trying to do and how they're trying to support. But
00:41:24.220
at the end of the day, they mostly remain behind closed doors in their approach. So it's unfortunate,
00:41:32.540
You know, it's funny, I know you're so busy there in Coots, Alberta, in the center of the action,
00:41:36.980
but today in Parliament Hill, a liberal MP, and not just some nobody, I think he was the head of
00:41:41.880
their Quebec caucus or something, pretty important position. He said today, time to end the mandates
00:41:48.000
and time to end the language of division. Just a stunning thing to hear. And I'm not even going to call
00:41:53.820
him a liberal backbencher because he had some, I mean, he's immediately going to be fired by Trudeau,
00:41:58.780
of course. But wouldn't it be something if a Quebec liberal MP showed more guts and more
00:42:06.500
care for freedom than the rural Southern Alberta, United Conservative Party, MLA from probably the
00:42:16.100
most right-wing place in Canada? Like, seriously. And the UCP, that's the United Conservative Party,
00:42:23.120
it's Jason Kenney's party, are cowardly mice, and you've got a liberal MP from Quebec going public.
00:42:30.060
Like, I'm deeply disappointed. And frankly, my view, and I'm not there, is that if these rural MPs
00:42:35.800
don't take care of Jason Kenney, then they're all going to go down together. That's how it looks
00:42:39.860
like for me. Now, tell me, what's going on? Because we don't know what's going to happen
00:42:44.900
tonight at 5 p.m. Mountain Time when Kenney makes, I think it's going to be a half announcement,
00:42:50.320
Yeah, it's probably going to end up being something like a half announcement. Hopefully it'll bear
00:43:00.440
fruit, and hopefully these guys will receive the message that they're hoping to receive. But
00:43:04.160
realistically, at a moment's notice, they could shut this border down again if that doesn't happen.
00:43:09.440
And one thing to note is there's some people wondering out there why they don't just keep
00:43:13.740
it shut. Well, realistically, they don't need to, because at a moment's notice, they can shut it down
00:43:19.000
again when they decide to. And that's what we saw with these tractors last night, where they decided
00:43:23.580
to close it down for a bit. Now, in the morning time, when we got back, they had opened it up again,
00:43:28.920
just so some people could flow through. And they made their point. And they're just going to keep
00:43:34.020
holding the line here to see what Jason Kenney says. And that'll set the stage for how these guys
00:43:39.240
move forward in the minutes, hours, and days ahead.
00:43:42.500
I'm not sure if I mentioned it. There's so many things happening, and I'm involved in different
00:43:46.500
conversations, so I can't remember if I just said it. She said,
00:43:49.000
But besides the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit-Windsor, I think it's the ATU, I think that's the
00:43:56.660
Amalgamated Transit Union, if I'm not mistaken, bus drivers now say they're going to join,
00:44:03.960
at least in resisting the mandates. I'm not sure what that form that will take. I just saw the
00:44:08.920
headline flash by. So I think that first you had the truckers, then you had the farmers. And if I'm
00:44:16.080
reading that headline right, you got the bus drivers. All the working class people, by the way,
00:44:20.920
where are the socialist parties right now who claim to stand with the working man? They're denouncing.
00:44:25.320
Jagmeet Singh couldn't be more vicious in his language towards the working man. He's no working
00:44:29.540
man. I've never seen a guy dressed fancier in my life than him. You mess with the people who make
00:44:36.220
things go. You mess with people who work outside. You mess with people who know how to do stuff, make
00:44:41.480
things. Hard hats, uniforms. I mean, the fancy folks who are on their MacBooks at their country
00:44:49.900
cottage loving the lockdown. Yeah, I suppose they make things. I mean, you could put us in that
00:44:55.300
category. We're in the news business. What is that really? But a lot of things stop working pretty
00:45:00.900
quick. If you don't get your groceries, you don't get your deliveries, the buses grind to a halt,
00:45:05.580
the borders grind to a halt. It's very interesting to see a true workers rebellion, a rebellion of
00:45:10.600
true workers. I mean, I mean, I grew up very free enterprise oriented. And if I had to answer which
00:45:16.840
side are you on, labor or capital, I wouldn't have said labor. Not that I was against working people.
00:45:21.560
I just would have said, oh, I'm against Marxism. I'm for free enterprise. But to see a true blue
00:45:27.720
collar workers rebellion against these lockdown laws that are so punitive, it makes me feel like a bit
00:45:34.940
of a revolutionary. And I'm just so proud that our team has covered it from coast to coast. I really
00:45:40.360
think it's realigned politics. I mean, I was considered, quote, right wing for my entire life.
00:45:46.180
And I think in many ways I was, and in some ways I still am. But the pride I feel in the working men
00:45:52.060
and women of this country standing up for our basic freedoms that the fancy class has allowed to be
00:45:59.340
eroded for two years, that's a great feeling. And it makes me feel better about Canada.
00:46:03.940
Maybe than I've ever felt in my whole life. I'm just saying.
00:46:08.280
No, that's exactly it. And between the convoy and the blockades here, it's really sparked something
00:46:14.940
amongst not just the labor class, but especially them, but all Canadians. And we're kind of reminded
00:46:20.760
of what it is to be Canadian. And that is the unifying factor here. It's not about who you voted
00:46:26.960
for. It's not about if you have a vaccine or not. It's about being Canadian and getting those rights
00:46:31.960
back that for generations we've fought so far, so hard to have. And it's unfortunate that for the
00:46:38.100
last two years are the political class, the upper echelon, they've sort of taken to this divisive
00:46:44.000
rhetoric and been actively trying to divide Canadians over things that should be mundane.
00:46:50.060
But it does seem like with these truckers standing up, everyone's sort of realizing, yeah,
00:46:55.320
we're Canadian, we have rights, and the power's in our hands. And the only reason why this has gone,
00:47:00.980
I think, so stellar is because the power that we have as Canadians is the power to peacefully fight
00:47:06.420
back. And that's something that we're seeing more and more by the day.
00:47:09.580
Well, and it's being peaceful. That's what's amazing. You know what? I don't know my Canadian history as well
00:47:13.700
as I should. But I do know there was something called the General Strike of Winnipeg. And I think
00:47:18.040
if my memory is right, that was in 1919, more than a hundred years ago, there was a general strike.
00:47:25.200
Now, that was fomented by real communists, actual communists inspired by the Russian Revolution.
00:47:31.920
What we have here is a workers' rebellion, almost like a general strike when you think about it. It's
00:47:37.040
not this company or that company. It's entire classes of people. But it's not for communism.
00:47:43.240
In an interesting twist, it's against the sort of communism, or maybe you call it fascism,
00:47:49.420
the unity between big pharma, big tech, big government, locking us all down, taking away
00:47:54.460
our freedoms, unlimited, for an interminable length of time. It's a general strike for freedom,
00:48:02.140
which may be the first time that's happened. I don't know. I suppose you could call it a fall
00:48:05.860
of the Berlin Wall. This is very exciting to me, Sid. I think you're really in the center of the
00:48:10.160
action. I want to close by talking about our lawyer. As you know, Rebel News, not the Democracy
00:48:16.700
Fund, but Rebel News itself, has crowdfunded Chad Williamson. And he has two colleagues,
00:48:22.840
Marty and Yaron, if I got the name right. So we've got three lawyers who are helping out. I know Chad's
00:48:28.820
back down there. I think things are about to hit the fan. By the time this goes to air, we'll know
00:48:34.820
what's what. But I think Jason Kenney is going to announce that he has gone to court ex parte. That
00:48:40.800
means in secret to get an injunction against these truckers. I think he's going to announce that. Now,
00:48:45.960
he doesn't need that. There's enough laws on the books for the police to enforce as it is. But I think
00:48:50.200
he's going to try and smash the truckers while giving in a little bit because he's got too much
00:48:56.140
pride. So he doesn't want to look like he's dancing to the truckers tune. So he's going to give
00:49:02.560
him a few tiny things, not much. And at the same time, he's going to smash him with an injunction.
00:49:08.140
That's why Chad William is so important. He's going to be there on the ground.
00:49:12.220
I don't want you to give away any legal confidence. It's not that you would even be included in the
00:49:16.520
solicitor-client privilege. But tell me what's the spirit of the men down there. They're chatting
00:49:21.560
with Chad fairly often. They're getting advice from him, aren't they? Yeah, that's absolutely right.
00:49:27.020
And spirits are high. And he's been great talking with everybody. And it's a weird position for him to be in
00:49:32.420
because he's representing clients, but he's also representing a larger group of people here
00:49:37.080
who are involved in the blockade. So he's just been trying to help out everyone everywhere he can.
00:49:43.040
And I think it has been a really good help for them, especially considering before he got here,
00:49:48.340
there was talks that it looked like enforcement was on its way, so to speak. And Chad got here and
00:49:53.200
they talked and they were the negotiators between the enforcement side and the truckers here. So
00:49:58.860
things have remained steady and we have seen the attempts of enforcement here. But every time it's
00:50:07.480
either Chad or the positioning of the truckers here that kind of pushed them back a little further
00:50:14.160
away, the authorities. So I think Chad has definitely been a really great help here, a really great
00:50:19.520
intermediary because these guys, you know, the assaults of the earth, they're laymen. They're not
00:50:24.120
politicians. They don't know that slick talk that negotiators and lawyers would normally use.
00:50:29.760
Not to say that they wouldn't understand it, but it might not be an immediate awareness for them.
00:50:35.060
So I think it's been great that Chad's been here and he's been able to help with those negotiations.
00:50:39.000
Well, you know, I like to say about him, he's a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. He
00:50:42.080
does have a country sensibility to him. So I think he's a perfect fit. He is what they call an
00:50:46.740
officer of the court. When you're a lawyer, you have certain obligations to the courts, not just your
00:50:51.480
clients. You have a professional ethical obligations to the profession. So Chad has to be sort of well
00:50:57.740
behaved. He can never counsel people to do something illegal. So I'm very happy to hear your report that
00:51:03.640
he's really brought out the best of the situation, de-escalated the situation, being a go-between
00:51:09.800
intermediary, I think you said. So that's exactly what we were hoping he would do to lower the risk
00:51:15.040
temperature there. And I think these truckers might, in the end, they might need some legal help. We have
00:51:20.420
committed to crowdfund Chad's fees to defend any legal ramifications of the truckers. Folks probably
00:51:27.900
know our URL. It's truckerlawyer.ca. So Chad and his two colleagues, I don't know how the story is
00:51:35.400
going to end, but however it ends, we'll be there to help. Sid, thanks for your work on the ground.
00:51:40.680
Appreciate you. I mean, you've been down there. It's going on, it's more than a week now, am I right?
00:51:45.200
Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely right. It's a couple of days from two weeks now, but these guys are
00:51:50.500
holding the line strong and there's no, there's no end in sight until there's an end in sight for
00:51:55.900
the mandates. Yeah. Well, I think you really are a part of history being made. And the thing about
00:52:00.680
history is it's told by the winners, right? I mean, we don't know, you know, we, we, we know the story of
00:52:08.120
David and Goliath, um, because David won and it's important that the story be told honestly,
00:52:15.360
no matter how it goes. I don't know who's going to quote win. I think in many ways,
00:52:19.680
the truckers have already won. They've given hope to people. They've reminded us we care about freedom.
00:52:24.540
They've shown that you can make the tyrant blink. Uh, they've conducted themselves peacefully.
00:52:29.940
They've inspired people, let them know they're not alone. I think the truckers actually have already
00:52:34.280
won how this final thing washes out. We don't know, but I think, sorry, go ahead. Oh, sorry.
00:52:42.480
If I could just say one thing there, uh, there was a little, uh, cardboard kind of note, uh, that was
00:52:48.120
made inside and it said, it's not the size of the man in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the
00:52:53.840
man. And as you mentioned, David versus Goliath. Well, they were even talking about that too. And it
00:52:58.220
really does feel like there's a bunch of Davids in there. Um, and there's only one Goliath.
00:53:02.460
Yeah. Well, we've got to document what happens. So that's what, why I, one of the things, I mean,
00:53:07.880
rebel news fights a lot of fights and I'll tell you the truth. We probably lose more than we win
00:53:13.040
because we take long shots and I don't care. I mean, I, I wish we'd won them all, but you have
00:53:19.240
to fight them. And sometimes you fight a long shot and you'll win. And that's on the fighting side.
00:53:25.060
We crowdfund lawyers, but, but even if putting aside the fighting, we have to document,
00:53:29.660
we have to tell the truth about what happened. We can't let the liars at the CBC
00:53:33.640
write the story on the battle of coots. And so that's why you and K2 and Adam Sose. And I think
00:53:40.540
Mocha was down there the other day. That's why what you're doing is important. I'm going to let
00:53:44.000
you go, Sid, because you've got a lot of things to do. Appreciate you joining the call today
00:53:46.880
and, um, stay safe, stay warm. Sounds like you're in the middle of the action, having the time of your
00:53:51.580
life. Absolutely. It sounds great. It's a nice chat guys. And I hope, uh, hope for the best on all
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fronts. Yeah, me too. There you have it. Sidney Fouzard, one of our great citizen journalists
00:54:01.340
on the scene at the border between Coots and Sweetgrass, Montana. Stay with us more ahead.
00:54:16.020
Hey, welcome back. I mentioned Lincoln Jay's appearance on Hannity and we showed it to you.
00:54:20.140
I was on Tucker too. I wasn't on very long, about three minutes, but huge audience. Let me just start by
00:54:26.540
playing for you in case you missed it last night. Here's my brief appearance on Tucker Carlson's
00:54:31.280
show. Take a look. The people in charge aren't really thinking this through. Most of the time
00:54:35.820
trends started in the United States and they moved north to Canada, but this time the opposite could
00:54:40.880
happen. Ezra Levant is the founder of Rebel News, one of the very few brave and independent media
00:54:48.160
organizations in the nation of Canada. We're honored to have him on tonight. Ezra, thanks so much
00:54:52.440
for coming on. So it seems like the Trudeau government has so completely overreacted to
00:54:59.420
what appears to be a thoroughly peaceful protest that my read as an outsider, a non-Canadian,
00:55:05.720
is that they're very weak. If they're terrified of the truckers, you know, this is not a strong
00:55:10.760
government. Yeah, I mean, Trudeau calls them violent. His MPs say they're terrorists. But today in court,
00:55:18.600
the most a judge would give them is that they're enthusiastic horn honkers and they've asked the
00:55:25.020
truckers to stop honking at night. That's it. There was an opinion poll that showed 32 percent of
00:55:31.740
Canadians see themselves reflected in the truckers. In our multi-party system, that would make them the
00:55:39.260
leading party if the truckers formed a political movement. I think Justin Trudeau is more scared
00:55:44.300
that he lets on because these are supposed to be his people. They're young. They're ethnically
00:55:49.100
diverse. They're working class people. But they're not following the script that they normally do for
00:55:54.320
him. Can can he stop this protest? I mean, do you think he can successfully shut it down from
00:56:01.500
wherever he's in hiding right now? Well, I mean, taking away the diesel fuel is a low blow. It's very
00:56:07.520
cold in Ottawa. And most of these truckers are living in the little cab in their truck. So they need diesel
00:56:13.280
fuel for heat. So by taking away their diesel fuel, as you showed, he's really freezing them
00:56:18.440
out. And by the way, there's some families. There's even some kids. I don't know what legal
00:56:22.980
justification they have. The diesel fuel is not illegal. Selling it, owning it, having it is not
00:56:30.180
illegal. I think he's just sort of thinking, well, what are they going to do to me? You know,
00:56:34.900
these police go in heavily armed, brandishing their arms, taking the diesel fuel. And so many of
00:56:40.460
Canada's checks and balances have failed. There hasn't been a significant court ruling against
00:56:45.980
the lockdowns. And Trudeau started hoping that they'll be able to starve or freeze these truckers
00:56:50.740
out. I don't think it's going to work, though. It's not just in Ottawa. There are trucker convoys
00:56:55.680
in many other parts of the country, including hundreds that have blocked the Montana-Alberta border
00:57:02.060
for over a week now. It's in the middle of the prairie, hundreds of huge trucks and agricultural
00:57:08.320
equipment that can't be towed away. The Mounties tried to move that blockade. The burly truckers
00:57:16.580
stood them down. So I think this problem's bigger than Trudeau knows how to solve unless he goes full
00:57:21.320
Castro on them. Well, he's already going there. As far as I can tell, it's tyranny. And I hope they
00:57:27.120
continue to resist. And Ezra, thank you for covering this fairly and honestly. You've really
00:57:32.140
almost been unique in the entire country. So we appreciate it as Americans. Thank you. Thanks.
00:57:37.300
Well, I was excited to be invited back on. In a moment, I'll show you the video of the day that
00:57:41.180
we have. But let me read a few chats and comments. Someone with a nickname 1984 Today says,
00:57:47.360
hey, Trudeau, you need to denounce your hateful supporters. Yeah, I take that that's in response to
00:57:52.240
the jeep driver who plowed into some trucker protesters in Winnipeg. Payne74 Law Guy says,
00:58:01.640
every citizen detained without charges arbitrarily detained, any trucker detained needs to lock into
00:58:07.040
class action suits for violating their charter rights. You don't really need a class action suit
00:58:11.720
for violating charter rights, especially if you're arrested. I should tell you that the Democracy
00:58:15.420
Fund has lawyers on the ground in Ottawa, and they've been making the rounds, giving tips and advice
00:58:22.020
to truckers. I feel really good about that. Rindberg says, this government will try everything.
00:58:28.280
We have to be prepared for anything. Tyrannical government never negotiate. Trudeau was one of
00:58:32.820
them. He was a student of Klaus Schwab. Yeah, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum brags about
00:58:38.440
Trudeau. But I should tell you that today, a liberal MP essentially quit. He denounced Trudeau's policy,
00:58:46.380
denounced Trudeau's language, and said we should end the mandates. A Quebec MP,
00:58:50.080
a serious guy, like not a perpetual troublemaker or anything.
00:58:55.660
I think that Trudeau is weaker than he looks. Anyways, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:59:07.960
Keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with Kian's latest on the coverage of the farmer
00:59:17.960
Kian K2 Simone here for Rebel News. And earlier, Sidney Fazzard and I reported that farmers with
00:59:24.440
their tractors circumvented their way through the RCMP checkpoint at Milk River. They stayed
00:59:30.820
back there for about 20 minutes, got their coffees, and we just witnessed they blocked the border.
00:59:37.300
The tractors and farmers have blocked the border to Sweetgrass, Montana, here in Kootz, Alberta.
00:59:44.040
It is absolutely freezing out here, and you can see the semis are already lining up to get into Montana.
00:59:54.820
You can see behind me here, these are the tractors that are blocking the border. There is no way
01:00:00.320
logistically for the RCMP to move them. They want to speak with Jason Kenney. They want these mandates
01:00:05.420
lifted, and it doesn't seem like they're going to be moving until they get an answer.
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If you want to help our independent journalism, please go to convoyreports.com. Sidney Fazzard
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and I will be keeping you guys updated all night with live updates until this thing resolves.
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If you want to help the truckers in their legal defense, go to truckerlawyer.ca.