EZRA LEVANT ｜ No-one (except journalists) wants Canada to increase censorship of the Internet
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No one in Canada wants the government to increase censorship of the Internet, no one except for journalists. But the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is not against censorship at all. Ezra explains why, and why only journalists are against it.
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Hello, my friends. Very interesting. The government asked for comments on its censorship proposals.
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Now, they did this during the summer when everyone was focused on other things.
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But nonetheless, a number of groups did give their thoughts.
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Internet technical groups, Internet lawyers, professors, and our friends at the Independent Press Gallery did too.
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But the groups you would expect to speak of, the Canadian Association of Journalists, didn't have a word to say.
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Anyway, they're not against censorship at all. I'll take you through it.
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Tonight, no one in Canada wants the government to increase censorship of the Internet.
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It's October 1st, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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For two years, we've been warning you about Trudeau's plans to censor the Internet.
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Give him credit for that, at least. He hasn't been hiding it.
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Right after the 2019 election, he appointed Stephen Gilbeau, the convicted criminal, to be his heritage minister.
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And he gave him what's called a mandate letter.
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That's a job description for cabinet ministers, a to-do list.
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The first point on his mandate letter was for Gilbeau to ramp up payments to the media.
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They used a slightly more polite way of saying it, but really, that was job one, pay off friends.
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In fact, Trudeau said there had to be a vicious punishment for anyone who publishes offensive things online.
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Fair enough. Trudeau's a bit of an expert about offensive and racist things.
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For two years, Gilbeau, not the most competent of men, dilly-dallied.
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And he was just absolutely awful. Remember this?
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So how will this work? How are you going to regulate websites?
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How are you going to register all that? Do you buy these recommendations?
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Well, I mean, one of the recommendations, so you're talking about a couple of different things here,
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but as far as the licensing is concerned, is if you're a distributor of content in Canada,
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and obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization,
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the requirement probably wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google.
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So there would have to be some proportionality embedded into this.
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But we would ask that they have a license. Yes.
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But really, other than embarrassing himself, he didn't really stop, did he?
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First, he proposed something called Bill C-10, which would nationalize the Internet
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It would let the Canadian government rule over YouTube and Facebook and Netflix and Amazon and Google,
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just like it runs TV stations in Canada and radio stations,
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determining who can live and who can die as a company,
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and more importantly, who pays taxes, but who gets handouts, who gets licenses.
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And then Bill C-36, which revives the hate speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act,
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which lets people be prosecuted for saying hurtful things, not criminal things, just mean things online.
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Bill C-36 complaints are allowed to be made in secret.
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You can have a secret vendetta against your enemy, and they'll never even know it was you.
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Both of those proposals, C-10 and C-36, are awful.
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But right after Parliament broke for the summer, Gilboa went further.
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His department released hundreds of pages of proposed new legislation and regulation.
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A third law, not C-10, not C-36, which died when Parliament was suspended,
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but a third proposal, the biggest and worst ever.
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And you can see why they dumped it during the summer, not when Parliament was around to scrutinize it.
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It was just evil, un-Canadian, censorious, undemocratic, illiberal.
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It's just not anything that any country in the free world would do.
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First and foremost, it was about stopping people from criticizing the government,
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We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful
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online content targeted towards themselves or even their families.
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And the rules had shocking punishments, like literally the ability to delete entire websites
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I mean, that's that maybe it's not, you know, it's a it would be it would likely be a last
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result, last result, nuclear bomb in a in a toolbox of of mechanism for for regulators.
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Gilboa and Trudeau would create an Internet regulator with this power.
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You know, it would be a crony, someone like Gerald Butts, someone petty and vindictive,
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You know, Trudeau wants this so badly, you know it because his handpicked regulator for
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the debates commission banned rebel news twice, two elections in a row from the debates and
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federal courts had to throw that out, two elections in a row.
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But despite that, literally hours after the federal court told him he couldn't do that
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this year, Trudeau at the debate still said, not just to us, but to the courts, that he
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He doesn't care what the Charter of Rights says.
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He doesn't think we are journalists and he doesn't think we deserve the rights.
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Or the respective journalists or frankly, for that matter of being citizen journalists
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Here's our Tamara Ugolini asking him about that.
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And listen to what he says and put yourself in the mindset of the court that just ruled
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I have a question from Tamara Ugolini from Rebel News.
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Mr. Trudeau, the only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the
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federal court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not
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This is the second election in a row that the court had to overturn your government.
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Do you still insist on being able to make that decision and why?
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First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the Press Gallery and the Consortium
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of Networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism and the important information
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The reality is organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation
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on the science around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic
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and be there for each other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate
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anger and lack of understanding of basic science.
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And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization, your group of individuals need
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to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
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And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we
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And I salute all extraordinary, hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the
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heart of what they do and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating
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and informing Canadians from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing.
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And he got the last word because that's how his cronies set up the question and answer
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But he just showed he doesn't believe in our rights, even when the court tells us that
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If they don't do what he says, he doesn't respect the law other than as a tool for his
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So Stephen Gilbeau dumped his proposal to the public after Parliament rose for the summer
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and he said that he called for consultations, but Parliament wasn't sitting.
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The whole point of censorship is you don't really want to hear from people who disagree
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Despite that, a whole raft of groups who care about the Internet and even a few who care
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One guy I really admire is Professor Michael Geist, a freedom-oriented professor at the
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University of Ottawa who wrote a detailed reply to the proposals.
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He points out the proposal doesn't even mention the Charter of Rights at all, that the proposal
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It adopts the worst of bad policy choices from other countries, that it blurs how to
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deal with real crimes like terrorism or child pornography, with political non-crimes like
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Geist points out how this censorship can creep into anything online, including, I don't know,
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do you use that private messaging app called WhatsApp?
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It's really a great analysis from Professor Geist, and there are others like it from other
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Here's another group of lawyers and academics called Citizen Lab.
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The proposed regime will not achieve its intended goals.
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The scope of the proposal is overbroad and incoherent.
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Automated enforcement exacerbates pre-existing problems.
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Unidirectional takedown incentive will likely be inequitable and unconstitutional.
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Surveillance and mandatory reporting requirements are dangerous and chilling.
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New CSIS powers are unjustified and inappropriately included in this consultation.
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Then there's this from the Canadian Internet Policy Group of Scholars.
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The online harms proposal combines some of the worst elements of other laws around the
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This is why CIPIC, that's the name of their group, believes that the Department of Canadian
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Heritage needs to overhaul its current approach to addressing the problems caused by unlawful
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We are seriously concerned about numerous elements of the proposed law, such as the lack of adequate
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transparency requirements, the loosened requirements for the Canadian Security Intelligence
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service, ceases to obtain basic subscriber information, the various jurisdictional issues raised by
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the law, and whether an administrative body like the Digital Recourse Council should be
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able to determine what speech is legal under Canadian law.
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Let me read three paragraphs from their work, okay?
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The remedies proposed by the government effectively create two parallel regimes, both of which are
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intrusive of the privacy rights of individuals.
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The prime remedy for Internet harms, as proposed by the government, is a mandated censorship regime.
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It would require social media platforms under the supervision of the state to censor the
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The platform censorship regime would be backed by an ongoing governmental surveillance of the
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censorship practices of the platforms to ensure they meet minimal government standards and that the
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The second remedy consists of requirements that platforms report to law enforcement and national
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security agencies content that it may have adjudged harmful under its internal censorship policies.
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There are actually about a half a dozen other groups that scorch the government like this, and these are
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scholars, they're legal experts, or internet industry groups.
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But all these experts think it's astonishingly bad law and policy.
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But I can see only one journalism group that weighed in.
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Our friends at the Internet Press Gallery, run by Candace Malcolm of True North,
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about 50 or so independent journalists in it, including Rebel News.
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It's, you can see here, we'll post the whole document below this video.
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There are so many great arguments in here, including many related to the utter vagueness of
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Vague legal drafting is designed to give bureaucrats maximum power later.
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C-36, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, will be inundated with allegations of hate speech
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where the speech is of a quasi-private nature, or the complainant has not suffered an adverse
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consequence in the protected areas as required by the Part 2 of the Moore test.
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Finally, it is arbitrary, unreasonable, overly broad, and unnecessary for the commission to
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have jurisdiction over communication on the Internet or by telecommunication, where the
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same communication made verbally or in print would fall outside the commission's jurisdiction.
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So you can say something anywhere else, and the law can't touch you.
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You say it on the Internet, and suddenly they can hunt you for it.
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Here's another part in there where Internet companies themselves have to report your bad
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behavior to the cops, and I do mean the cops' cops.
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OCSP, by the way, stands for Online Communications Service Providers.
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We also raise issues with the obligation on OCSPs to make reports to the RCMP when they
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have, quote, reasonable grounds to suspect harm.
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First, this proposal is supposed to be a regulatory process and not an expansion of policing obligations
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Second, unbridled and discretionary authority based on suspicions will almost certainly result
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in disproportionate policing by OSP and law enforcement of racialized and low-income communities,
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I really recommend you read the whole document yourself.
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You can find it on our website under the video, and you can find it, of course, on the independent
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But imagine that, requiring everyone in the Internet business to be an informant in a snitch.
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That's in contraposition to the parliamentary press gallery.
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That's the big press gallery in Ottawa that all the government journalists are a part of.
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Where's their submission on these online harms, this Internet censorship?
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Where's the group CJFE, Canadian Journalists for Free Expressions?
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I actually went to the Twitter feed just to check, and instead, I saw this.
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Canadian Journalists for Free Expressions condemns Canadian People's Party leader, Maxime
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Bernier's attempt to intimidate and punish journalists whose reporting he described as
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disgusting smear jobs by encouraging his Twitter followers to play dirty and write directly to
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Such an attempt to target individual journalists by a party leader has no place in the Canadian
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So nothing about freedom of the press, nothing about the biggest, worst censorship plans in
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Nothing on that, but a demand to silence Maxime Bernier because he told his followers to email
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journalists on their publicly available work, journalists.
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And how about the biggest of them all, the Canadian Association of Journalists?
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Well, they didn't have anything to say about this censorship provision.
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They want to go after Bernier too, and they're going further.
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They actually want the police to go after Maxime Bernier.
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C.A.J.E. urges government law enforcement to address targeted harassment of reporters.
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The Canadian Association of Journalists is mindful that several sections of the criminal
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For this reason, we urge the RCMP and other law enforcement bodies to launch investigations
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Anyways, Bernier is against their media bailout.
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They don't want to mess around with an internet censor.
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They want the police to go silence their enemy.
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And they're saying this in public because they know, what are you going to do about it?
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So yeah, when the censorship bill comes in, and it will, everyone will be against it in
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Canada, except Trudeau and his harem of prostitutes.
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And soon that kind of talk will be illegal, won't it?
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But is there a more accurate way to describe such treachery from journalists who used to
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Well, yesterday was the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
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This was a day that Justin Trudeau himself decided should be observed, for the federal
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government at least, and some other industries.
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It was a day to contemplate the relationship between Aboriginal people and the government,
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And yet, if you looked at his official calendar online, well, it said he was in private meetings
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But then news broke that that, well, that simply wasn't true.
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He was in his favorite place doing his favorite thing.
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He was in Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, surfing.
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And when asked by journalists, they specifically denied it.
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CBC, the state broadcaster, claimed that he was not surfing, but rather he was doing very
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important things related to the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
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Well, like you, I'm just shocked that Justin Trudeau would believe in virtue signaling.
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But when he thought the cameras weren't watching, he's really just going to surf and smoke some
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Congratulations to the other media that caught the line.
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You know, this isn't the first time that Justin Trudeau has claimed to support Aboriginal
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But then when the mask slips, he shows his true nature.
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You'll remember when one of his fundraisers was crashed by a protester asking about the
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People in Grassy Narrows are suffering from mercury poisoning.
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If it was your family that's been waiting for 500 days, if your family was suffering from
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Mr. Trudeau, for 500 days, you have not kept the commitment.
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So, as I was saying, we move forward understanding that investing...
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I was at this event, a boxing match between Justin Trudeau and Senator Patrick Brazzo, an
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So I said, we're both known for our long hair on the hill.
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He resisted back a little bit, pointing out that hair has a cultural significance for First
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When a warrior cuts his hair, it's a sign of shame.
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He deliberately wanted to humiliate Senator Patrick Brazzo in a way that would embarrass
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Well, joining us now to talk about this in studio is our friend Drea Humphrey, our West
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I mean, Justin Trudeau couldn't for one day, the holiday he invented, he couldn't observe
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Well, it's a classic case of actions speak louder than words.
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I think there's only 13 things that have been fulfilled out of the truth and reconciliation.
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And he couldn't even fake caring, you know, and it couldn't get any worse than, you know,
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having to manipulate where you're saying you're going and then going to BC for how many times
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Well, he goes there for votes, but when those official things are done, he does what he wants.
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You know, he claimed to care so very much about this issue of these graveyards where the remains
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of kids and others from these residential schools were found.
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But I learned that the chief of the Indian band that you went to in Kamloops, I think it's
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called the Kamloops band, had invited him twice to come visit her.
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He wanted to go surfing instead on the holiday that he created.
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And, you know, also like he knew about these grave sites before, because again, if you read
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the truth and reconciliation, that was one of the things that were brought up.
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So to only care about it after the initial announcement, that's just another symbol of
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But yet somehow, three terms, and who's the prime minister?
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I think of that wonderful neighborhood, Vancouver, Granville, which is, if anyone's ever been
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They had one of the most ethical MPs in recent memory.
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I really don't know of any other cabinet minister who resigned on a matter of ethics that she would
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I can't even think of the last time that happened in Canada, certainly not in my memory.
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And to replace her with a sneaky liberal, that house flipper who flipped a house 41 times
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or something, while complaining about house speculation.
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I see the phony, the phony feminist who gropes women and allows other gropers in his party.
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The phony aboriginal sympathizer who actually doesn't give a care unless the camera's on.
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The phony anti-racist who dresses up in blackface so often he's lost count.
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They're just wooed by him or maybe they're not paying attention or maybe they don't care.
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I don't know if it's just people aren't paying attention so they think liberal is the way they're
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But I kid you not, I have still heard people say he's good looking.
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And so, I'm tired of these politicians just, you know, using the whole race thing whenever
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it's convenient for them for votes or for status and pictures and all of that stuff.
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You know, I did a monologue where I went through a Statistics Canada survey that showed
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new Canadians think we're less racist than white, old-stock Canadians.
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And one of the depressing things in that same StatsCan survey is that the young folks think
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And maybe they don't know our history or maybe they're being taught to hate this country.
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Anyone who comes to this country is obviously making the choice that it's better than wherever
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For whatever reason, they're obviously choosing to come here.
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Trudeau is the specialist at denigrating our own country.
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He's the one who said we committed a genocide against Aboriginal people.
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Of all the people in the country who should be observing this new holiday, it should be
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He's the one who claims we did a genocide, yet he's out surfing on the...
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That would be like on Holocaust Memorial Day, you know, just going to some dance party
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Yeah, I'm not saying you have to care about it.
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Well, and he went to Tofino, lied about going there.
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He didn't reach out to the Tofino Indian man either.
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So he could have done that, you know, two birds with one stone, but he just doesn't
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Well, Drea, we're very proud of the work you're doing.
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And you tried to hold him to account on a variety of issues.
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Of course, his bodyguards only allowed people to come close to him if they wanted a selfie.
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But I appreciate you doing a great job during the election.
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I tell you, if you have the time, may I invite you to read through the Independent Press Gallery
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Now, it's obviously going to be ignored by the government.
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But the arguments are very interesting about what this online harms, as Gilbo and Trudeau
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It's very interesting to me that everyone in the industry is against it.
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And by industry, I mean the actual internet industry, those involved in the bones of the
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But those who use the internet and use freedom in their daily work, the Canadian Association
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of Journalists, Canadian journalists for free expression, they're totally silent about
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And they're using their power to go after Maxime Bernier because he said something mean to
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I'm grateful to be a member of the Independent Press Gallery.
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And I'm grateful there is such a thing because, of course, the Parliamentary Press Gallery is
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useless other than as an auxiliary to Trudeau's government.
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As you know, these days we end by showing you an interesting video along the way.
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And he caught up with Pastor Arthur Pawlowski when Pastor Arthur was being let out of jail.
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He got out of jail around midnight the other night.
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And then he went back to the police station to get his stuff.
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It was an interesting interaction and some very raw comments.
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And if you think that Pastor Arthur Pawlowski isn't just someone whose own rights are being
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trampled on, but rather he's a bulwark stopping the government from trampling your rights, consider
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going to SaveArthur.com because we're crowdfunding his legal defense.
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And until next time, I see you on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters.
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Well, I'm going in and see if my staff is there.
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I'm in Calgary, Alberta, where I'll be catching up with Archer Pawlowski, who was just released
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on bail a few days ago after his second SWAT-style arrest at the airport returning to the country.
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Not only was he vanished off the plane, but so was his luggage.
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Today, I'll be meeting him at the police headquarters to receive that luggage and catch up with him
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for a quick interview before, just in case they pull a fast one.
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Before we get to that, I would like to ask you for your help to go to SaveArcher.com
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and help fund his legal fees against his battle against the Alberta government.
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Well, as you know, I have been traveling around the USA for the past four months to share my story,
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to let the Americans know what is happening in Australia, what is happening in New Zealand,
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and right now what is happening in Canada is heading their way.
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So I came over there to share my story of injustice that I'm facing.
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I have become a political prisoner simply because I'm a pastor,
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simply because I value my Christian faith and I want to stand by my beliefs.
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And to share that story and also to warn them, if they will not rise up for their liberties,
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if they will not stand up for their freedoms, what is happening to me is going to happen to every one of them.
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If they will rise up and stand up, we can rescue the rest of the free world.
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I was treated like a hero, standing ovations all over the place, meeting with the governor,
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meeting with Congress people, meeting with senators and very powerful people
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because they understand what's really going on globally.
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But upon my arrival here to my beloved Canada, to Calgary, I was arrested immediately after I arrived.
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I was not even allowed to give a hug to my children and to kiss my wife.
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That's how wicked those people are. Evil, evil, evil.
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Knowing that I have been away for so long, I arrived, my wife, my children are waking, waiting for me.
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And I was not even given a courtesy to say hi to my children, to hug my 12 year old daughter.
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I was arrested by masked bandits right coming out of my airplane.
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My luggage, my clothes, my computer, my backpack.
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And I was myself taken to the police custody where I was processed, you know, fingerprints, solitary confinement, the whole nine yards.
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And when I was coming out after I was released by the GP, I asked for my belongings.
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And they said, we have no idea what happened to your staff.
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So here I'm going to this building, to the warehouse, to find out if perhaps they have brought that staff here.
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So I made a few phone calls and I was told that perhaps the staff is going to be here.
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Because we used to think that Canada is a country that has a set of laws and set of rules.
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The Criminal Code of Canada, which has been broken every single time that those officers are showing up in our church,
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disrupting our religious services, arresting pastors, fencing churches.
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The Criminal Code 172 has been broken so many times.
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It looks like we have entered an era of lawlessness.
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One law for me, one law for the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, broke the rules for party with his Minister of Finance, with the Minister of Environment.
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Oh, he had a good time with the whiskey bottle, not wearing a muzzle, not social distancing.
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And that's fine, you see, because they are the pharaohs.
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You might be criminally charged, like me, just for simply living your life.
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And remember, I grew up in hell on earth, behind the Iron Curtain, under the boots of the Soviets.
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And here, for me, maybe not for you, but for me, this is just a repetition of history.
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What kind of a nation they're going to have tomorrow if we will let those corrupted politicians to do what they do?
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And with the assistance of masked bandits, gangsters in uniforms.
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Is there no officer that say, hey, this is wrong?
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Or they just say, well, I'm just doing my job like the Nazis, like the SS, like the Gestapo, you know, during the Hitler era.
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Well, I'm going in and see if my staff is there.
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For security purposes, please do not film in here.
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You don't like to be caught red-handed like the Nazis of old.
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You don't like to be recorded because you don't want, you don't like your face to be right there, that you're a communist Nazi Gestapo, right?
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You took my stuff from the airport and you don't even call me to tell me where is my stuff.
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I just need to, I just need to click signature and I can give you your alarm.
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Why I was not notified that you have stolen my things and you have brought them here for two days?
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I did try one phone number, the only one I could find for you.
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You know how to arrest me, but you don't know how to contact me, right?
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They know how to find me when they want to handcuff me in front of my children.
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They just don't know how to contact me to return my stuff that was taken away from me.
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Thank you rebel for doing this because without you, people would not have clue what's really going on in our beloved Canada.
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They don't like this to go out because they know, they know it's wrong.
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When I was arrested and being taken, the pilot, the officer in charge says, take his telephone away.
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I am going to open this door so you can go through it.
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So another thing is, here are all of my electronics.
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I don't know what they were doing with my stuff.
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I don't know if they were tempering with something.
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So anyway, I'll let you know if I have everything and I'm glad that has not been stolen.
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Arthur left with his wife, who he will be spending most of his time with along with their children until he awaits his court date for October 13th, where he will be either sentenced for 21 days in prison for opening his church or he will be set free from this draconian nightmare.
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If you would like to stand beside Archer, the best way to do that is by going to SaveArcher.com and help us crowdfund his legal fees against the Alberta government.