A Canadian court ruling for free speech is a rare thing to have, isn t it? I ll take you through the ruling, and tell you why it s a little twinkling of hope, but that, of course, more censorship is on the way.
00:00:00.120Hello, my Rebels. Today I'm going to take you through a court ruling, a Canadian court ruling, for free speech.
00:00:05.960It's a very rare thing to have a Canadian ruling for free speech, isn't it?
00:00:09.240I'll take you through the ruling, and I'll tell you why it's a little twinkle of hope,
00:00:13.020but that, of course, more censorship is on the way. That's ahead.
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00:00:56.420Tonight, the Federal Court of Canada finally releases its written judgment in our last free speech, Victory Against Justin Trudeau.
00:01:10.940It's March 9th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:13.500Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:19.260There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:23.320The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:34.480There is bad news everywhere if you care about freedom.
00:01:38.160It's never been worse in Canada, actually.
00:01:40.640I say that after considering it carefully.
00:01:44.040It's never been worse for freedom, and those who should care do not seem to care.
00:01:51.060The Canadian Civil Liberties Association finally roused itself a few weeks ago on the subject of the Emergencies Act.
00:01:58.540That was really the first time during the entire lockdown that they spoke out about anything.
00:02:03.020But like Halley's comment, they're apparently gone now for 75 more years.
00:02:09.500Most journalists don't care about censorship because these days they actually work for the government itself.
00:02:15.600I mean, they're all too eager to do smiling photo ops of Justin Trudeau and Anita Anand, the defense minister in Europe, smiling photo ops.
00:20:08.840In my opinion, the applicant, that's us, a rebel, has established a strong prima facie case that it was arbitrarily targeted from the group of accredited media outlets.
00:20:20.840By means of a media statement entitled media accreditation for the 44th general election,
00:20:27.800the commission set out three options as to how media representatives could apply for accreditation.
00:20:34.580Option one and two allowed for automatic accreditation for media representatives who were members of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery or one of four professional media organizations.
00:20:48.580Any media representatives who was not a member of the above mentioned groups could only apply under option three.
00:20:57.080Media representatives apply under option three were not eligible for automatic accreditation.
00:21:07.340Instead, these applicants were valued pursuant to the guidelines.
00:21:11.260The commission adopted the guidelines, but only applied them to certain applicants.
00:21:16.840This looks like an arbitrary distinction between groups.
00:21:21.480So if you were part of Trudeau's press gallery, which includes foreign state broadcasters, if you can believe that, you were automatically approved.
00:21:49.140The applicant, that's us at Rebel News.
00:21:55.480The applicant's case to this issue in, in, sorry, in terms of freedom of the press and the ability to put critical questions to the leader of the vying political parties.
00:22:09.540In my opinion, the applicant established irreparable harm in terms of being prevented from participation in the political process on behalf of the electorate.
00:22:21.960There is room in the nation for the expression of opposing points of view.
00:22:27.800The applicant, the applicant, that's us at Rebel News, did not ask to impose his views, but for the opportunity to participate in coverage of matters of importance during a federal election.
00:26:55.340And it was Senator Tom – Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Johnson, Pierre Corey and Paul Alexander, which are two doctors, very credentialed doctors.
00:27:19.900And then the liberal media was there just to ask, you know, questions trying to trip up the truckers, trying to make them look like they're asking for something extreme or something that they're not asking for.
00:27:31.900And it didn't seem like they reached any type of agreement yet.
00:27:36.780And so the idea is that the truckers will remain here until the government concedes something or gives the truckers something that they're asking for, namely the scrapping of the Emergencies Act or the scrapping of vaccine mandates.
00:27:51.700And if that doesn't work out, then they're going to go into Washington.
00:27:57.680It's very exciting to be in close quarters with U.S. senators up here in Canada, Jeremy.
00:28:02.440You probably don't know this, but our Canadian Senate, although it looks powerful on paper, it's not given much Democratic respect because it's appointed for life.
00:28:43.480So in Canada, we saw Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enact a form of martial law against his people.
00:28:49.720And I was wondering if you think that America should condemn Canada as a nation, as it does, you know, enemy states, or we should, you know, be okay with it because they're our ally.
00:29:01.060Look, I think we have seen government officials in countries all over the world abusing power.
00:29:06.320And whether it was Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden, they're both abusing their power.
00:29:27.060And we saw a pattern that sadly has been repeated over and over again of government officials reaching out to their buddies in big tech and demanding they use their power to try to silence dissent.
00:29:38.080And so in Canada, we saw the government officials demanding of GoFundMe that they essentially go steal $10 million from the Canadian truckers.
00:29:46.720We saw in the United States, the Biden White House, Jen Psaki at the White House press room, reach out and demand of Spotify that it pulled down Joe Rogan for daring to even ask questions about the COVID orthodoxy.
00:30:01.120That abuse of individual rights is wrong.
00:30:05.080And we ought to speak out for freedom across the globe.
00:30:22.200I mean, Ted Cruz, not everyone, he's not everyone's cup of tea, but he is a fairly senior and fairly prominent.
00:30:29.060I mean, he ran for president in 2016 for the Republican primary, presidential primary.
00:30:35.220Obviously, he was not successful, but he, I think he is, you would have to call him one of the probably five most prominent senators on the Republican side.
00:30:44.200I thought that was a very substantial exchange.
00:30:52.960And, you know, in America we have, in every country you have it, but we have a type of, you know, political theater that's kind of unmatched by any other nation.
00:31:01.560So while that they, they are saying the right thing, you have truckers sitting here outside the Capitol who've traveled from across the country demanding policy changes.
00:31:09.900And, you know, Ted Cruz sitting down with the organizers is great, but, you know, they didn't reach a, any substantial concessions or the government's really not going to give in to the truckers.
00:31:24.020Well, I think you're right, and I'm certainly not here to defend Ted Cruz or any politician, but I do note that the mandate, the requirement that truckers get vaxxed across the Canada-U.S. border, which has been the real spark for these trucker convoys.
00:31:43.760Because that, on the, on the Canadian side, that's Justin Trudeau's order, and on the American side, that's the White House.
00:31:50.620So I don't even think that Ted Cruz or the other senator who was there, first of all, they're in the minority party in the Senate.
00:31:58.740And second of all, I suppose they could have introduced some bill or motion in the Senate, but at the end of the day, the decision to rescind that mandate either has to come from the White House or a court striking it down.
00:32:16.640I guess what, all I would say is in reply to your accurate comment, which is that the truckers actually didn't get anything in hand, is that unless they were to talk to the governing party or the White House or the majority party in Congress, I don't know what Ted Cruz could have given them.
00:32:35.520But he gave them some of his time, which is of value, and he gave them words of support.
00:32:41.320So I'm going to say it's more than nothing, and given that Cruz is in the minority party in the Senate and that it's not within the Senate's power to make or break the mandate, I'm going to say it was, well, let me put it this way.
00:32:54.080A lot of Canadian politicians were terrified to meet with the truckers on our side of the border.
00:33:13.740And it's about time that we, in America, our elected leaders say something, what's going on just north of the border.
00:33:21.480You know, we have your government enacted a form of martial law against these peaceful protesters.
00:33:26.180And when that happens in, you know, an enemy state, official enemy state, if that happens in Venezuela, if that happens in Iran or China, you know, it's all over the news.
00:33:48.280I don't know if you know this, but our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, went to London, England, the other day, and Boris Johnson, the prime minister there, greeted him warmly.
00:33:58.140But they were actual street protesters, so many and so noisy that Trudeau had to take another way in.
00:34:07.060And I was delighted to hear that because I thought, wow, people even that far away have heard about the truckers and know what's going on.
00:34:15.460And, by the way, one of the things they protested was the treatment of trucker organizer Tamera Litch, who spent 18 days in prison.
00:34:22.380So I was very surprised, pleasantly, by the protests on the streets of the U.K.
00:34:26.460I got one last question for you, and that is, you know, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, both Republicans, traditionally not known as the party of the working man.
00:34:37.100These truckers are working class people.
00:34:39.680Well, they may be independent owner operators, but still, it's just aesthetically, it feels like a Joe Biden Democrat Party base.
00:34:48.600Are there any people on the Congress side, on the House of Representatives side, is there anyone who would typically be called liberal or leftist who met with them, even just to give them the courtesy of a hearing?
00:35:02.400Interesting. So we saw the two Republicans. Has anyone else met with the truckers?
00:35:07.920No one. Not one person who represents the American people and the U.S. government has met with the truckers at any capacity or voiced any support towards them.
00:35:20.100Well, I'm disappointed to hear that, but I can't say that I'm actually shocked because it was the same.
00:35:27.560In fact, in Canada, they were denounced by there's a party of the left up here called the NDP, which is typically called a socialist party.
00:35:35.260And they actually condemned the truckers the most viciously, which I found startling.
00:35:40.360Let me ask you this, Jeremy, before I let you go. And by the way, thanks for joining us.
00:35:42.840For our viewers who are curious, Jeremy's been embedded with the convoy and he's doing this interview from an RV, which there was a lot of RVs in the Canadian convoys, too.
00:35:52.320It saves on hotels and you can can roll along with convoy.
00:35:56.460What are your plans? I mean, we're delighted to have you stay on this project.
00:36:00.780You've been at it for almost two weeks. What's the plan? What's your plan? What's the plan of the truckers?
00:36:06.680Well, I've been speaking to the truckers often and, you know, I spoke with them late last night.
00:36:13.420I was there there at the Hagerstown Speedway where they're all parked.
00:36:17.140There's still more. It's hard to believe there's still more trucks and convoys coming in from across the country and parking at Hagerstown Speedway in Maryland, right outside of Washington, where we are.
00:36:26.800Just a couple of days ago, over 60 big rigs and 30 RVs and 20 cars came in and joined our convoy.
00:36:34.300You know, and I asked, you know, it's late in the game. Like, it's why are you joining now?
00:36:39.440And many of them are, you know, they're interested to see what happens and they're kind of eager to to go into Washington.
00:36:46.740We hear a lot of talk from the organizers saying, you know, we're going to do another lap around.
00:36:52.180We're going to do another slow roll. And a lot of the truckers are are thinking, you know, we came all this way for my family's for our right to livelihood.
00:37:01.360We want to work. We want to cross the border. We don't want these mandates to be able to go in and out as they as they wish to put them with the Emergencies Act.
00:37:09.700So the organizers are being light footed and they just want to keep having meetings and they want to maybe clog up the beltway a little bit.
00:37:17.200And the truckers themselves, you know, they're not working. They're not making money.
00:37:21.480They're away from their families. They can only stay here so long.
00:37:24.040So they're they're getting a little antsy. That's what I that's what I sense.
00:37:28.720And I'll be here until until everyone goes home or everyone goes into D.C.
00:37:34.600We'll see what happens. Yeah, very interesting.
00:37:36.940I bet that the Washington, D.C. police and political operators watched very closely what happened in Ottawa.
00:37:42.920What happened in Ottawa was an international disgrace, by the way, as I think, you know, Jeremy,
00:37:46.980one of our reporters was actually shot at point blank range by a riot policeman with a with a can, a chemical canister was shocking.
00:37:57.180I certainly hope that the D.C. police or other police forces don't copy Ottawa's atrocious example.
00:38:04.440I hope they regard it as a cautionary tale, but I'm not so sure.
00:38:08.700Thanks for being on the on the file for us.
00:38:10.840I think you made some real news with your interview with Ted Cruz there.
00:38:14.980So congrats on that. And keep us posted what happens.
00:38:18.080And if the truckers do go into the city, not just the beltway around the city, but the actual capital region,
00:38:23.880sparks are going to fly. And we're glad that you're on the scene to cover it for us.
00:38:52.300This is one is from Brian, who says the real kicker here is that Trump said this is exactly what would happen if the states in Canada gave up energy independence.
00:39:02.560Oh, you're so right. Trump was drill, drill, drill, dig for coal, frack, everything.
00:39:07.200He was sort of an all of the above guy. And he actually said to Europe, don't you buy that Russian gas?
00:39:14.700Well, they ignored him. Ha ha, Trump. What do you know about the world?
00:39:17.500Well, he seems to know a lot, I guess.
00:39:20.500Hankster the Prankster says this play on logic might make sense, but liberals will argue they would rather freeze in the dark than use our own oil.
00:39:29.420Take one for the team. I say let them prove that.
00:39:31.680Well, that's a funny phrase because Ralph Klein once said, let those eastern bastards freeze in the dark.
00:39:36.200That was a phrase he said. I think it was Klein who said that because, of course, Trudeau's father and many other eastern politicians loved attacking the oil patch.
00:39:48.120But as I mentioned in my show a few weeks ago, I think the number one person to blame for the fact that there aren't literally millions more barrels of oil a day on the world market is Gerald Butts,
00:40:01.500who killed all the oil sands pipelines, Energy East, Northern Gateway, Trans Mountain.
00:40:09.800Gerald Butts, who used to be paid by the World Wildlife Fund, which is a foreign funded environmental extremist group.
00:40:15.220He did what he said he would do. He killed it. Who did that benefit?
00:40:20.540Well, more than anyone else had benefited Russia and OPEC by keeping ethical oil off the world market.
00:40:33.220Where was all the sanction talk when it came to Saudi Arabia pounding on Yemen?
00:40:37.720Not only was there not massive sanctions, they were tripping over each other to sell Saudi Arabia weapons.
00:40:43.420Well, what's so crazy is that Biden's first move was to go to Venezuela and go to the Saudis, say, hey, can you guys pump some more oil?
00:40:51.660How about go to Americans and go to Canadians?
00:40:54.280It's so weird that he wanted to replace Russian conflict oil with OPEC conflict oil.
00:40:59.320I just don't get it. I think it's crazy.
00:41:01.740Anyways, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:41:08.380And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with a video of the day of Adam Sos with an exclusive interview with David Pavlovsky.
00:41:15.840After he was released from jail, I tell you, those Pavlovsky brothers, Arthur and David, have been arrested, I'm going to say a dozen times over the lockdown.
00:41:24.660It's insane. I'll leave you with that video. See you later, everybody.
00:41:27.080Adam Sos here for Rebel News, and you very likely heard that Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky remains behind bars.
00:41:33.240Well, last week, you likely also heard that his brother David Pavlovsky was arrested.
00:41:37.780Now, he's arrested on breach of probation, but the sort of troubling thing is the fact he met most of the criteria of his probation.
00:41:44.060And the one thing he had to do was community service hours.
00:41:46.320He did some, much of it not being acknowledged by his probation officer.
00:41:49.380He struggled to find somewhere where he could do his sort of acknowledged court-approved volunteer service because of his vaccination status.
00:41:57.200So he's effectively being persecuted against for his vaccination status yet again, which is what the Pavlovskis have spent so much time rallying against.
00:42:05.400Ultimately, I want to remind you that Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky and David Pavlovsky,
00:42:08.580the extent of their so-called crimes includes feeding the homeless, opening their church through COVID-19 restrictions,
00:42:14.720and as pastors daring to preach to truckers at the Kootz blockade.
00:42:18.780All of these things, charter-enshrined rights and freedoms that should be defended,
00:42:23.100are in the world of COVID-19 now considered to be crimes.
00:42:26.720And for those crimes, David was arrested.
00:42:29.000Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky was arrested, and he remains behind bars.
00:42:33.080We're going to join David Pavlovsky in a moment, who has been released for an update on his situation,
00:42:37.900to discuss his arrest, and to talk about his brother's situation in prison.
00:42:42.020Well, I was just helping somebody, you know, that needed to move,
00:42:47.800and all of a sudden, I believe it was a sting operation.
00:48:01.520You know, what's the sad thing is that we came to a point in Canada where parents are teaching the children now that the police, it's a, don't become a police officer.
00:48:13.140Because that is shameful and disrespectful.