A new poll shows that conservatives massively support giving amnesty to people charged with 'lockdown tickets' in Alberta. And yet, 51% of them are actually appalled by the idea. Is it possible that when Jason Kenney lost his leadership earlier this year, it was by the same margin that half of party members voted against him?
00:06:31.140Yeah, what an international embarrassment. You can see politicians running away from what they said and did all around the world, even in Florida, the least locked down state in America where Governor Ron DeSantis is cruising to re-election. His Democrat opponent, who absolutely supported the lockdowns, is bizarrely trying to smear DeSantis as a locker downer. It makes no sense other than even the Democrats know that lockdowns were a public policy disaster and now it's going to become a political disaster for them.
00:06:58.800Well, Ron, that's rich. You're the only governor in the history of Florida that's ever shut down our schools. You're the only governor in the history of Florida that shut down our businesses.
00:07:08.300I never did that as governor. You're the one who's the shutdown guy. We need to have somebody who is at the helm that understands it's important to listen to science, to do what's right, to utilize common sense.
00:07:20.580You don't just shut down at the outset and then when it's, you know, politically convenient for you, you want to open back up to store political points or you'll lose the president. That's not right. It's not what you can keep in the zone.
00:07:32.860So my point back here in Canada is any government that is still enforcing lockdown laws is on the wrong side of history.
00:07:40.740Even Justin Trudeau grudgingly entered the Arrive Can app, which is a form of lockdownism.
00:07:46.080I can say this based on my knowledge of the 2100 lockdown cases that the Democracy Fund is representing of people charged with everything from mask violations to anti-gathering rules.
00:07:54.840The police and the prosecutors just don't want these to go to trial. Some of these are cases that are now more than two years old and they just haven't gone to court.
00:08:02.900Maybe the prosecutors have real things to do instead, like prosecute actual criminals, or maybe they don't want the embarrassment of losing court cases, even having some of their lockdown orders declared unconstitutional and illegal.
00:08:14.280What a black eye that would be. But mainly, I think the lockdown politicians just want everyone to forget what they did to us, except in Alberta, weirdly.
00:08:22.440What should be the freest province, strong and free. That's Alberta's official motto, by the way.
00:08:28.440The most conservative electorate, they say. And yet, that's the province that's been the most abusive in terms of prosecuting people.
00:08:35.600People who kept their churches open or small businesses open. Just, it was crazy.
00:08:39.200Walmart and Costco and the liquor stores and the marijuana stores, they were all kept open.
00:08:43.460They were called essential services, but funerals and weddings and churches and mom and pop shops were ordered closed on pain of prison.
00:08:52.440I mean, look at this SWAT team-style takedown of Arthur Pawlowski, the Christian pastor.
00:11:53.880Remember the last premier before Kenny was an NDP extremist named Rachel Notley.
00:11:57.880I call her extremist, for example, because she used to literally wear a wristwatch with a picture of a communist murderer named Che Guevara on it.
00:12:06.880Obviously, Notley and the NDP cheered on the prosecution and persecution of small businesses and churches.
00:12:12.880The NDP socialists have never had much time for either group in society.
00:12:16.880Notley and the NDP raged against ending the lockdowns.
00:12:19.880They didn't want to end the mask rules either.
00:12:21.880They actually still want masks in schools.
00:12:23.880They're still calling for that right now.
00:12:25.880So what do you think the NDP supporters in the province told the pollster when that question was asked to them of Leger?
00:12:31.880Do you support or oppose Premier Danielle Smith's campaign proposal to stop prosecuting pastors and small business owners for offenses during the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates?
00:12:40.880Well, the answer is the mirror opposite.
00:12:43.880As I told you, 73% of conservatives want amnesty for churches and small businesses.
00:12:49.880But the NDP, 86% of them say, no, they should be prosecuted.
00:13:14.880Frankly, I told you that story the other day of a single public health office in Toronto that's laying off more than 400 COVID bureaucrats next year.
00:13:21.880They still have plenty more, by the way, but they're letting go of 400.
00:13:24.880Who, who's still on the payroll today?
00:14:17.880Not just because of her take on the lockdowns, but her take on everything else.
00:14:20.880From fighting against environmentalist crazies to standing up to Trudeau.
00:14:23.880These people hate her deep in their DNA.
00:14:26.880Those 86% of NDPers would never, ever, in a million years, ever consider voting for Danielle Smith anyways.
00:14:33.880So from a political math point of view, who cares if they're mad about this?
00:14:38.880But in one fell swoop, Smith could turn the page on the dark era of lockdowns, distinguish herself from Jason Kenney, give a huge win to the party base, recalibrate the province on civil liberties back to where it should be, and free up millions of dollars in police and prosecutorial resources to, you know, go after real criminals instead.
00:14:57.880And more than any of that, she would prove that she can get things done, that she is not trapped by the inertia of the province's permanent bureaucracy or Jason Kenney's overhanging staff and MLAs, that she isn't stopped by the Kenney-Knotley deep state, that she can make decisions and get action from the bureaucracy.
00:15:14.880And she can show her party base that she keeps her promises, that she isn't cowed by the NDP and their agents in the media party.
00:15:22.500I start with my own eyes, I've been in Alberta a lot lately, I was covering the leadership campaign for Smith, the real enemy to Danielle Smith is not Rachel Nodley, it is not even her internal leadership rivals from whom she has a truce, it's with the media, the CBC in particular, but also most other media in the province.
00:15:39.500All the media loved the lockdowns, and they all got government bailouts during the lockdown.
00:15:45.340They all believe in caressing power, not standing up to it, and when Smith ends these political prosecutions, they will howl, but let them howl, they're going to howl at her anyways, no matter what.
00:15:56.540Let them howl in defense of lockdowns, let them make the case for putting pastors and small businessmen in prison.
00:16:01.680Now, if you saw my show on Friday, you saw that I was down in Lethbridge, Alberta, for the ongoing prosecution of three truckers, completely peaceful men, who were being charged with mischief for being part of the trucker blockade at Coutts.
00:16:13.760Three great guys, Marco, who's actually a local town counselor, real stand-up guy.
00:16:24.780They're just like Tamara Leach, and Trudeau wanted to make an example out of her.
00:16:29.100However, these three men, well, Kenny wants to make an example out of them, and Kenny's prosecutor, and I say that because the charges against these men were laid only in September, one of Kenny's last gasps.
00:16:41.540Kenny's prosecutor is named Stephen Johnston, and I saw a news story where Johnston was prosecuting a rapist and told the judge that he should hand out a four-and-a-half-year sentence for the rapist, four-and-a-half years for the rapist,
00:16:55.400and yet the same prosecutor is seeking 10 years each for these peaceful truckers.
00:17:03.040That is not in the public interest, and frankly, it likely will not win in court, just like the prosecutions against Pastor Tim and the ones so far against Pastor Arthur were eventually thrown out.
00:17:13.800And Premier Danielle Smith can say that happened on the previous premier's watch, and that's 100% true, but every day it gets a little less true, doesn't it?
00:17:22.400Every day the prosecutions of Pastor Arthur continue.
00:17:49.640During your campaign, you said that not only would you issue an apology to those prosecuted during COVID restrictions, but you would also grant them amnesty.
00:18:00.840I'm deeply sorry for anyone who was inappropriately subjected to discrimination as a result of their vaccine status.
00:18:11.660I'm deeply sorry for any government employee that was fired from their job because of their vaccine status.
00:18:18.120And I welcome them back if they want to come back.
00:18:21.360As for the amnesty, I have to get some legal advice on that.
00:18:24.320And so I've already asked my staff to request that advice so I can see how we would be able to proceed on that.
00:18:32.220My view has been that these were political decisions that were made, and so I think that they could be political decisions to offer a reversal.
00:18:39.800But I do want to get some legal advice on that first.
00:18:42.880Would that also have to do with the timeline for the proposed amnesty?
00:19:16.420Albertans do not jail pastors or truckers for being peaceful protesters.
00:19:19.420Did you know that the Alberta government is using an anti-eco-terrorism law to go after Pastor Arthur Favlovsky for giving a sermon in support of the truckers?
00:20:29.480Like the fact that a plurality of people in rural Alberta support dropping the charges against pastors and businessmen.
00:20:35.380That's part of the province that Smith just has to win.
00:20:39.220The poll also has a second question testing if every single charge in the province should be dropped.
00:20:44.320Not just against pastors and business people, but also, for example, there's four men who were accused of some weapons offenses.
00:20:51.320Not surprisingly, that poll question tested a little bit lower, but it was still supported by 67% of conservatives.
00:20:58.580I think that second question gives Smith the path of a reasonable compromise.
00:21:02.140Drop the charges against everyone in Alberta who is peaceful.
00:21:05.380And have the Attorney General carefully reconsider any other cases.
00:21:10.220They all need to be reinvestigated given that we know that this was all politically orchestrated.
00:21:14.360And what we've learned from watching the Trucker Commission inquiry in Ottawa is that many things that the police said and did at the time were simply political talking points,
00:21:22.100sometimes even drafted by outside PR agencies, not even by police.
00:21:25.940So I don't think we can rely on the legitimacy of any lockdown prosecutions in Alberta.
00:21:30.240But that first part, dropping it against pastors and businesses, that is a surefire winner, according to the survey.
00:21:38.600If you agree, go to lockdownamnesty.com, read the poll, chip in to help cover if you can, and sign the petition to Danielle Smith herself.
00:22:50.800And when you elect someone who was just really a placeholder, who never thought they had a chance in a million of winning,
00:22:57.260and suddenly wakes up one day in a position of power, you're going to get some unusual characters that were not vetted in any way.
00:23:03.600I mean, Thomas Dang was doing the NDP a favor when he let his name stand in Edmonton South.
00:23:11.080They never thought they'd win in Edmonton South.
00:23:13.840And Thomas Dang, a man without character, experience, wisdom, or really any useful skills, became an MLA.
00:23:21.380But I guess he did have one skill set that is, I guess, a little bit impressive when you look at it coldly, which is he's a computer hacker.
00:23:30.500Or at least he knows how to hack websites.
00:23:33.660And so the government of Alberta set up a vaccine database website as part of their vaccine passport system, their vaccine mandate system.
00:23:43.420And young Thomas Dang took it upon himself to see if he could hack it, to see if he could get into it and enter someone's name and birthday and see if he could get their private health records.
00:24:08.220Well, he obviously set up an automated system.
00:24:10.360He claims that he did this wearing a white hat, not a black hat, that he was doing it as a good hacker, an ethical hacker, to show the government the holes in their system.
00:24:37.960While he is finally being prosecuted and convicted, and now he's being sentenced, no jail time for this criminal politician.
00:24:48.020Joining us now to talk more about it is someone who lives in northern Alberta, our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter.
00:24:53.300Sheila, I don't know if I properly summed up the story here.
00:24:55.960Thomas Dang was literally one of the, like when a high tide comes in and there's like all sorts of, like there's big logs and big ships, but there's like empty bottles of pop and masks.
00:25:05.420And like little, you know, like garbage, like styrofoam cups that got washed ashore.
00:25:47.340And I guess the real controversy now is what did Rachel Notley know about all of this and when did she know it?
00:25:55.720I know that the United Conservative Caucus has really been hammering on this.
00:25:58.860And it was back in July that unsealed court records, or at least unsealed police investigation records, set up the timeline about when Dang was doing this.
00:26:21.200And the court records were ultimately unsealed, I guess, January 15th.
00:26:26.620And Rachel Notley said in December when all of this came to light that she had just heard anecdotal reports that something like this had been happening back in September.
00:26:37.940What does that even mean, an anecdotal report?
00:26:39.940Like, you either know that Thomas Dang hacked it or you don't.
00:26:51.120Well, from what I understand, according to these unsealed records, it means that her chief of staff knew.
00:26:57.940It means that 20 minutes after Dang was able to confirm manually his own automated search, he called the chief of staff for Rachel Notley and let him know what he had done.
00:28:04.980And it gets even better because what you say is, you know, you don't have a crystal ball, but you probably have a crystal mind.
00:28:12.120Because not only did he inform the chief of staff, but also Rachel Notley's communications director.
00:28:17.680So they were actually figuring out how best to use this flaw in the system that Thomas Dang thought he had found, but ultimately was, you know, committing a criminal act that he should have known better because he was in government.
00:28:35.180He knows that you have to protect private information and not go needling around for it.
00:28:43.420He won't see the inside of a jail cell.
00:28:45.880And in Alberta, the mainstream media doesn't really care because, well, it's the NDP and they're up against the UCP and the completely homogenous media here in Alberta.
00:28:58.460They're cheering for Rachel Notley as hard as they cheer for Justin Trudeau.
00:29:02.140You know, again, I'm thinking of those three truckers in Lethbridge, completely peaceful, who for mischief, the Crown is seeking a 10-year term.
00:29:15.260And Dang's lawyer says, no, no, no, $4,000 fine.
00:29:18.000You know, by the way, when I wrote my book, The Libranos, because I didn't register with the government, I was given a $3,000 fine.
00:29:26.420So, like, it's laughable, the gentle slap on the wrist this guy gets for actually hacking a public database.
00:29:34.460But it reminds you of why you can never trust the government.
00:29:37.240I mean, they're so incompetent that they build a database with your most private health information and some loser NDP, MLA can hack it in minutes.
00:29:49.440And there's a lot of reasons not to have a vaccine database, civil liberties, personal privacy, but because you simply can't trust the government with any confidential information.
00:29:59.680You can only imagine how many times the Arrive Can app was hacked.
00:30:02.700You can only imagine how many times the gun registry, when it was around, I guess it's still around, was hacked.
00:30:08.380You can never trust the government to keep anything.
00:30:11.340Do you doubt that Thomas Dang would hack the income tax database if he could?
00:30:18.060Like, the guy is just a creepy voyeur.
00:30:21.540And imagine all the information the government had that he might have tried to get access to.
00:30:26.860We don't even know what else he's done.
00:30:28.260Well, yeah, and the more the government collects information about you, the more incompetent they are in protecting that information about you.
00:30:36.820And the more your creep show political enemies will use that unsecured information to come after you.
00:30:45.460Not only is Thomas Dang guilty of this by his own admission, but this happened to the trucker convoy.
00:30:51.400All of their financial information was hacked and leaked by the banks.
00:31:00.560At least Thomas Dang's getting a slap on the wrist here.
00:31:02.880But the federal government used that illegally obtained information.
00:31:07.140So did the mainstream media to go about doxing Justin Trudeau's political enemies.
00:31:11.520Yeah, not just the 200 bank accounts that were seized, but of course, a hacker who claims to have permission from the RCMP hacked the entire Give, Send, Go $10 million donor database and put it online, much of which was posted around the Internet, even on telephone poles around Ottawa.
00:31:31.200I'm sure he was telling the truth, that hacker.
00:31:33.540Here's just a flashback to that hacker saying in a demonic laugh that he was given permission by the RCMP to criminally hack a database of Trudeau's enemies.
00:33:03.080Because the left-wing media party, they would not only like to destroy Danielle Smith on behalf of Rachel Notley, but they'd love to do it.
00:33:10.960Because she's one of the bravest premiers in this country who's willing to stand up to Justin Trudeau.
00:34:01.940But every once in a while, we stop and try and fix things.
00:34:05.700Leonidas45 says, what is Marxist socialist political persecution?
00:34:09.420This is what Marxist socialist political persecution looks like.
00:34:12.140Peaceful protesters being persecuted for daring to disagree with the dear leader's edicts.
00:34:15.840Drug company executives testifying in the EU have admitted that no data was provided that showed vaccination prevented transmission.
00:34:22.880The vax passes and persecution of the unvaxxers politically motivated, not scientifically substantiated.
00:34:28.080These men were protesting against a legitimately unjustified assault on their constitutional rights.
00:34:32.440You know, I should probably go into it in more detail, but a couple of weeks ago, the New York Supreme Court in New York, which is not a right wing state, threw out the vaccine mandates, ordered that all fired staff be rehired and given back pay.
00:34:48.200And they specifically said that the rationale for a vaccine mandate, that it stopped transmission, was meritless.
00:35:18.620And yet he said we must ban unvaccinated people from workplaces, from the army, from airplanes, from ships, from the public square to protect others from transmission, knowing that that was not true.
00:35:32.280That may be a reason why the federal court of Canada threw out the lawsuit of Brian Peckford and Maxine Bernier and others to challenge the no-fly ban on the unvaccinated.
00:35:42.780Could we find out that, in fact, they knew all along that the vaccine didn't stop transmission?