EZRA LEVANT ｜ The first tiny court case to go towards freedom, not lockdown mania
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In a democracy on the scales of justice, should judges sit back as the concept of judicial notice gets hijacked from a rule of evidence to a substitute for evidence? And is misinformation even a real word? Or has it become a crass tool to preempt scrutiny and discredit your opponent?
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through a court case, which is the first piece of common
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sense I've seen from any judge in Canada on the lockdown and the pandemics and the
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vaccine mandates. First I've seen in two years. It's a very minor ruling. It's a family court
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ruling. Obviously, it's not minor to that family. But by minor, I mean it doesn't change the world
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for millions or tens of millions of us. But it is the first little ray of hope of sanity returning
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to our checks and balances in this country. I'll read about half the ruling to you. That's
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Tonight, the first tiny court case to go towards freedom, not lockdown mania. It's February 25th,
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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 about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I saw this court ruling this week. It's not a constitutional case. It's not a challenge to
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the lockdowns. It's not a grievance against an employer forcing a vaccine mandate on a union.
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It's the most ordinary dreary court case there is. Family law, which is code for divorce court.
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And of course, the worst divorce proceedings are those involving kids.
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Just misery all around. Misery where only the lawyers profit.
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And misery attracts misery. Imagine how many divorce cases involving children have been weaponized
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by the lockdowns. Masks, vaccine shots, so much more to argue about.
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The most bitter disagreements have been made worse because of the strife we're in.
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And so it was in this case called JN versus CG. Those are the initials of the parents kept anonymous
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for the sake of the kids. Here's a court ruling. It was a case heard exactly a week ago, and the
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ruling was issued on Tuesday, which is pretty quick turnaround. It was written by Justice Alex
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Pazaratz, the Ontario Superior Court. I'm going to read from it at length because the judge writes
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in a way that I would rather quote directly, rather than to summarize and restate. Most judges don't
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write like this judge. You'll see what I mean. Let me start literally with the first sentence.
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When did it become illegal to ask questions, especially in the courtroom? And when did it become
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unfashionable for judges to receive answers, especially when children's lives were at stake?
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How do we lower our guard and let the words unacceptable beliefs get paired together?
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You know who said that? That's what Justin Trudeau said the other day. I don't know if you recognize
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The way through this pandemic is by getting everyone vaccinated. And the overwhelming majority,
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close to 90 percent of Canadians have done exactly that. The small fringe minority of people who
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are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing do not represent
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the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science
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and stepping up to protect each other is the best way to continue to ensure our freedoms,
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In a democracy on the scales of justice, should judges sit back as the concept of judicial notice
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gets hijacked from a rule of evidence to a substitute for evidence? And is, this is my favorite part,
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is misinformation even a real word? Or has it become a crass, self-serving tool to preempt scrutiny
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and discredit your opponent, to delegitimize questions and strategically avoid giving answers?
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Blanket denials are almost never acceptable in our adversarial system. Each party always has the honest
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onus to prove their case, and yet misinformation has crept into court lexicon, a childish but sinister
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way of saying, you're so wrong, I don't even have to explain why you're wrong. It's an incredible
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ruin, would you agree? What does any of this have to do with family loss? Sadly, these days,
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it has everything to do with family court. Because when society demonizes and punishes anyone who disagrees
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or even dares to ask really important questions, the resulting polarization, disrespect, and simmering
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anger can have devastating consequences for the mothers, fathers, and children I deal with on a
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daily basis. It's becoming harder for family court judges to turn enemies into friends when governments
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are so recklessly turning friends into enemies. Governments are. The motion before me is a typical
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and frightening example of how far we are drifting from Cher's values. Wow. Now I'm going to keep
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reading if you don't mind. There's so much here, I don't want to miss a word. I can't read you the
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whole ruling. So now the judge summarized the case. The father wants two children ages 12 and 10 to
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receive COVID vaccinations. The mother is opposed. Now answer honestly. Did the previous paragraph give
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you enough information to form an opinion about how this case should turn out? It's a clever question
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from the judge, isn't it? You don't normally see clever questions in court rulings. Judges try to
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give clever answers, but he's making a point, I think. We're all weary. We all wish COVID would just
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go away, but pandemic fatigue is no excuse for shortcuts and lowering our standards. We all have
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to guard against the unconscious bias of thinking, why won't these people just do what the government
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tells them to do? I can't believe this guy's a judge. I'm surprised he wasn't thrown off the bench
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yet. We have to decide on the basis of the best interests of each particular child in each particular
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fact situation. We have to rely on and insist upon evidence. So I'm going to skip ahead. Just FYI,
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the family came to some agreement last fall about a few things and one of the kids decided to get
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vaxxed and both parents agreed to it. But the littler kids, well, the mom was skeptical in part
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because they both got the virus and recovered from it naturally. So they have natural immunity. Let me
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read a little bit more from the ruling. Soon after the party signed minutes in October 2021, the older
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child, CBG, elected to be vaccinated. Both parents supported his decision. He's had two shots and the
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parents agree he has exhibited no adverse effects. The mother insists the father is misrepresenting
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her position. She's not opposed to vaccines. She's offended by the pejorative term anti-vaxxers.
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She has always ensured that the three children received all of their regular immunizations.
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She says she's open-minded to vaccinating both the younger children if safety concerns can be better
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addressed. But she says her extensive research has left her with well-founded concerns of the potential
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benefit of the current COVID vaccines for LAG and MDG, those are two younger kids, is outweighed by the
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serious potential risks. She says there are too many unknowns and she worries that once children are
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vaxxed, they can't be unvaxxed. The mother notes that both children have already had COVID with minimal
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symptoms and they have recovered completely. She refers to medical research which says that since they have
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already recovered from COVID, the children now have greater protection from future infection. Well, we
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know that's true. Both parents agree, LAG and MDG, those are the kids, are in excellent health with no
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special medical needs or vulnerabilities. Neither parent provided any evidence from a medical profession
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about any potential positive or negative considerations with respect to these children receiving COVID vaccines.
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The mother's evidence focused entirely on the medical and scientific issues.
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Okay. Now here is the part of the ruling that I think is very interesting, at least to me.
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In contrast, the father focused extensively on labeling and discrediting the mother as a person in a
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dismissive attempt to argue that her views aren't worthy of consideration. This odious trend is rapidly
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corrupting modern social discourse. Ridicule and stigmatize your opponent as a person rather than dealing with the
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ideas they want to talk about. Seems to be working for politicians, but is this really something we want to
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tolerate in a court system where potential conduct and beliefs are irrelevant except as the impact on the
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parent's ability to meet the needs of a child? Let's talk about cancel culture. For example, the father's affidavits
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included the following. I am aware that the applicant has political affiliations with the People's Party of Canada.
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The applicant is entitled to her personal beliefs and ideologies, but I am very fearful that it is having a direct negative
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impact on the children, especially when it comes to this vaccine issue. I searched the applicant's recent Facebook
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postings and was alarmed to see just how involved the applicant is at perpetuating COVID-related conspiracy theories and
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vaccine hesitancy. He attached a collection of some of the applicant's Facebook postings, which I believe are
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indicative of her personal views. The applicant is a self-proclaimed PPC founding member. In my opinion, she is openly
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promoting very dangerous beliefs. Surely these thoughts and feelings are also being promoted in her household, which is
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where LEG and MDG primarily reside. I looked up what the PPC stance is on the COVID-19 vaccine and was not surprised to
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read under its website's facts section that lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, and other
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authoritarian and sanitary measures have not had any noticeable effect on the course of the pandemic.
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Unfortunately, no facts are actually provided. He attached a copy of the PPC's COVID policy taken from its
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website. I'm alarmed that the children are being exposed to the applicant's unsupportive views on the issue of the
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pandemic, and in particular, the efficacy of the available and government-recommended vaccines.
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The applicant's anti-vaccination stance is much more severe than that of a regular concerned parent who is
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unsure whether or not she wants the children to receive a relatively new vaccine. Rather, the applicant is
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leading the charge, attending anti-vaccine rallies, and refusing to follow COVID protocols.
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He attaches a Facebook posting of a mother not wearing a mask in a crowd of 10,000 people at a
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rally. He makes other references to the mother's Facebook account and attaches numerous pictures
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of her social media pages. He attaches photographs of PPC their Maxime Bernier addressing an audience.
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Well, that ought to decide any divorce case right there, if you have a picture of Maxime Bernier.
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Makes sense to me. So a political attack on his ex-wife, based on her political beliefs,
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disagreeing with his political beliefs. So we hear, maybe he doesn't agree, he's just using it as a
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weapon. And here's what the judge said. Where to begin? A, how is any of this relevant? B, have we
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reached a stage where parental rights are going to be decided based on what political party you belong to?
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Yeah, I think we're there already, judge. C, is being seen with Maxime Bernier, or anyone for that
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matter, the kiss of death, as far as your court case is concerned? Yeah, I think we're at that
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point, judge. D, can you simply utter the words conspiracy theorist and do a mic drop? E, if you
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allege that someone is openly promoting very dangerous beliefs, shouldn't you provide a few
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details? A bit of proof, maybe? F, and if you presume that a parent believes things they shouldn't
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believe, can you go one step further and also presume that the parent must be poisoning their
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children's minds with these horrible, unspecified ideas? Surely these thoughts and feelings are also
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being promoted in her household. G, the father criticizes the mother for doing something she
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didn't say. He presumes she doubts the effectiveness of school closures and then criticizes her for
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providing no evidence. But on this motion, she didn't raise the issue. And back in 2020, she was the
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one who wanted to keep the children out of school, and he fought unsuccessfully for them
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to attend. As with other allegations, the father provides no evidence of his own and fails to
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address the fact that vigorous community debate led to school closures being abandoned.
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H, how far are we willing to take guilt by association? If you visit a website, read a book,
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or attend a meeting, are you permanently tarnished by something someone else wrote or said? At what point
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do the thought police move in? Oh, judge, we're there. We're there a long time ago.
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Aye, and really, how fine is the line between vaccine hesitancy and not taking any chances with
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your kid? All the case law says judges have to act with the utmost caution and consider all
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relevant evidence in determining the best interest of the child. How can we then impose a lesser
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standard on a demonstrably excellent parent? It is of little consequence that an individual litigant
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chooses to advance such dubious and offensive arguments. Even though the father may not admit
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it, this is still a free country, and people can say what they want, including him. I'm not going to
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read the whole thing. That would be just ridiculous, but it really is a riveting discussion. The judge
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then discusses other cases where children were being fought over by parents with different points
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of view on the vaccine in divorce court. And in some of those cases, the kids were forced against
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their own will to have the jab. How terrible is that? Here's what this judge had to say about that.
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To simplify matters, the mother does not deny the authenticity or integrity of the website
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information submitted by the father. It's mostly statements by the Government of Canada and the
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Canadian Pediatric Society recommending that children should receive COVID vaccinations. These are the same
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types of downloads which courts have considered in other recent COVID vaccine cases. The mother doesn't
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deny that these are reputable organizations, nor does she deny the statements and information
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have been prepared by qualified persons in a responsible professional manner. She doesn't
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deny that the father has accurately presented one side of the story. All she asks is that the court
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equally consider the other side of the story, that the court allow both sides of the story to be
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equally presented, tested, and considered before making an irreversible decision for her children.
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Evidence on both sides of the story. We're in deep trouble if those become antiquated concepts.
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Yeah, judge. Yeah, we are. In almost all cases with COVID vaccinations have been ordered,
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the court has made a finding that on the face of it, the internet materials presented by the objecting
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parent have been grossly deficient, unreliable, and at times dubious. This lack of an equally credible
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counterpoint to government recommendations may well have been determinative in those earlier
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cases. In other words, the government, the courts choose who to believe or not, but here this judge
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says, what if the objecting parents presents evidence which potentially raises some serious
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questions or doubts about the necessity, benefits, or potential harm of COVID vaccine for children?
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Clearly, we shouldn't be too quick to embrace the naysayers, but should we banish them without hearing
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from them? Should we stifle and forbid a reasonable opportunity to present and test evidence and make
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submissions? There are obvious public policy reasons to avoid recklessly undermining confidence in
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public health measures, but that has to be weighed against our unbridled obligation to leave no stone
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unturned when it comes to protecting children. For example, the mother presented a detailed fact sheet
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from Pfizer. This isn't one of the fringe websites dismissed in the other cases. It's Pfizer, the people
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who make the vaccine. And one of the things the judges leans on is the authoritativeness of the cases
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relied on by the mom. I'll read some more. Several of the earlier decisions requiring children to be
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vaccinated have noted that the evidence presented by the objecting parent was not reliable because the
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author's credentials were either non-established or non-existent. But in this case, none of the materials
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presented by the mother are from fringe organizations or dubious authors. To the contrary,
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the mother quotes extensively from leaders in the medical and scientific community.
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I thought the next point showed some humanity from the judge, which is very rare these days.
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In a complex, important, and emotional case like this, it is important to remember
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the court's mandate. I am not being asked to make a scientific determination. I'm being asked to make a
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parenting determination. I'm not being asked to decide whether vaccines are good or bad. I am not being asked
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to decide if either parent is good or bad. My task is to determine which parent is to have decision-making
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authority over LEG and MDG, the kids, with respect to the very specific and narrow issue of COVID
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vaccinations. Each parent has clearly identified how they would exercise such decision-making authority.
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The judge gives the decision-making authority to the mom who had parenting roles post-divorce
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anyways. Now, look at, so that's how the judge ruled. But look at the PS from the judge at the end.
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Postscript. It's irrelevant to my decision and it's none of anyone's business, but I am fully vaccinated.
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My choice. I mention this because I'm acutely aware of how polarized the world has become.
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We should all return to discussing the issues rather than making presumptions about one another.
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I read about half this ruling to you. I just thought it was interesting.
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I don't think this will be overturned on appeal because family law is so fact-based and
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I don't think the ruling here is so patently wrong that a higher court will overturn it. But I have to say
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this is literally the first judge in Canada to consider a pandemic lockdown forced vaccine issue
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and not join the hysterical screaming and denunciation of people who are dissident minorities.
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Compare him to the judges who have, for example, thrown Pastor Arthur Pawlowski into prison,
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who have banned him from even speaking in public in ways that contradict the government.
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churches physically seized by police, people being fined tens of thousands of dollars for merely
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disagreeing, millions of Canadians banned from flying or taking the train just for not being
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vaxxed, even if they are naturally immune. Countless people being fired for the same reason.
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I wonder if this judge will be overturned just for that reason, that he's insufficiently furious
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and insufficiently intolerant of the mom who disagrees with the majority.
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He probably wouldn't destroy businesses or seize bank accounts like the government has done.
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Will he be able to hold on to his position as a judge? Will they kick him out as a judge?
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It's happened before. I'm happy to see this case. It's too bad that it only applies to one family
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and we don't even know who they are. But maybe it's a small sign that even our courts
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are starting to realize that they've been part of an atrocious restriction on our civil liberties
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for far too long. And maybe it's time for them to walk back from the abuses of the government.
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I wonder if the Trucker Rebellion had anything to do with this.
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Speaking of Trucker Rebellion, stay with us for more on the American Trucker Convoy.
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I'm Jeremy Lofredo on assignment for Rebel News in Kingman, Arizona, where the U.S. Trucker Convoy
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arrived last night. They departed 300 miles east of here in Atalanto, California and arrived around
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sundown. They're set to leave Kingman, Arizona in about two hours. You can see the sun's coming up,
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the truckers are waking up before their 300-mile stretch to New Mexico east.
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All the trucks behind me are brand new. You can tell that the truckers have grown exponentially
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This grew overnight. I mean, there was half the trucks here last night, so there's a lot
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of support. We're bigger on semis, we're bigger on campers, and we're bigger on cars.
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As far as the convoy and how big it's gotten, I started in California. It's amazing. The amount
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of support and people, I mean, you emotionally break down. I've done it two, three times, and
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We need to get rid of these mandates. People are getting fired. People can't get in the
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hospitals. Nurses are getting fired. So many people's lives are in danger right now. So
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basically, we need to raise the word and bring into fruition that our government needs to work
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Well, Rebel News covered the Canadian truckers' convoy better and more than anyone else. There
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was one point in time we were in nine cities in Canada covering different aspects of the
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convoy. We were embedded with it from almost its beginnings in Western Canada as it made
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its way east. I believe that we helped tell an important story that was ignored at first
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and then, frankly, mistold deliberately by the corporate media and the government who were
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opposed to the convoy. Well, the Canadian convoy has more or less ended. It forced an issue
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in which Justin Trudeau brought in a form of martial law, and I think it showed a lot of
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weaknesses in Canada's checks and balances for democracy. But one of the things that
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truckers in Canada did was inspire other trucker rebellions around the world, places as diverse
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as the Netherlands, Israel, France, and now the United States, where a trucker convoy has
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started in California and is deliberately making its way east to Washington, D.C. And I'm delighted
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to say that we have a freelance reporter who is covering the American convoy with us, who started in
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L.A., is now in New Mexico. His name is Jeremy Lafredo, and he joins us now via Skype along the side of the
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highway. Jeremy, nice to have you. Thank you very much for taking up this important mission for us
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at Rebel News. It's great to have you on board on this assignment. Thanks, Ezra.
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So you're in New Mexico right now. Tell me how it started in California, because it felt a little
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more organized than the Canadian one, which was pretty spontaneous. Tell us a little bit about the
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American convoy. Sure. So it was planned about a week and a half in advance. We met in California,
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and there was only about maybe 100 or so big rigs and a couple hundred cars. And now, three days
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later, we're making our way 600 miles further than when we started in New Mexico. And it's grown
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exponentially. There's hundreds of big rigs. There's hundreds of cars. It's growing by the day
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and by the night, more people are showing up. Now, in Canada, it took a while for this thing to
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become known. And soon, people started spontaneously coming to the side of the road or to overpasses to
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cheer it on. I don't think that happened at first. It took a while for the story to be told, but it
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really spread person to person. It wasn't really through the mainstream media. Has that phenomenon begun
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in your American convoy yet? Do people know about it? Are they expecting it? Are they coming out to
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wave it on or cheer it on at all? People definitely know about it. So we are, like I said, we're 600
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miles from where we started, and not one overpass did not have supporters waving American flags,
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waving Canadian flags, and waving that new flag that you might have seen, which is the American flag
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combined with the Canadian flag on one flag, which was started, you know, everybody's cheering on
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Canadians. Everyone's thanking Canadians for what they started. Isn't that interesting? You know
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what? The idea that Canada would create a freedom movement that others, including in America, would
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follow, that's got to be a novelty. I mean, I've never heard of that before. Normally, we're more
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quiet, and if anything, we're followers rather than leaders when it comes to freedom. I'm delighted to
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hear it. Now, one of the things in Canada was it, I think there was a class divide that was exposed by
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it, because there are certain people who I think really love the lockdowns and love the
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pandemic, and they've never lost a day's pay. Maybe they didn't work, but maybe they just
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got paid anyways. Maybe they could work from the cottage or something via Zoom, whereas the working
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class, I mean, truckers never stopped trucking. And in fact, not just big rig truckers, long distance
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haulers, but even drivers within the city who were, you know, for DoorDash or Amazon, like those folks
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didn't take a day off. And they often, especially in those early days when we didn't really know a
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lot about the virus itself, they had to show courage. And I don't know, I think that suddenly
00:25:52.200
the pandemic has turned against these working class folks. Anyone who's in these big unions was forced
00:25:59.660
to be jabbed, even though it wasn't in the collective agreement. I just felt like, I don't know, about six
00:26:05.540
months ago, things really turned sour. And there was a classism. And I say this as a conservative
00:26:10.260
guy, I normally don't talk in the language of class, but it was hard not to notice it. And I felt
00:26:16.280
like this truckers' rebellion truly was a workers' rebellion. It felt like a general strike. I don't
00:26:22.760
know, what are your thoughts on that? Is there a working class nature to what's going on there
00:26:27.840
in America too? And how does that play into American politics? You'll have to educate us because
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we're Canadians up here. Of course. So there's definitely, there's 100% a class divide in
00:26:39.260
who supports the truckers and who does not support the truckers. Most of the supporters on the
00:26:44.700
overpass today were not from Albuquerque, which is, you know, the biggest city in New Mexico. They
00:26:49.860
were from the rural parts of New Mexico. And they were waving their flags and they were cheering on
00:26:54.660
the convoy. And as we were getting our cameras ready, someone walked out of an office building and
00:26:58.820
said, what are all those people waving their flags about? What are they yelling about? And we told
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them what it was about. It was about the convoy. The truckers are being fired if they don't get the
00:27:04.960
jab, et cetera, et cetera. And they kind of scoffed and they kept walking. And she was walking, you
00:27:10.160
know, she was wearing, you know, suit pants and she was walking out of an office building. And just
00:27:13.720
in that one interaction, you could see that you have these people who consider themselves progressive
00:27:18.220
liberals scoffing at those who are working class Americans with less money than them, most likely.
00:27:25.220
I saw some of that in Canada. I also saw an interesting thing is that in Canada, a lot of the
00:27:30.680
truckers are from minority background. For whatever reason, a lot of Canadian truckers
00:27:35.340
are Indo-Canadian, including Sikh truckers. There's also indigenous people, what in America
00:27:42.140
might be called Indians or what we call Métis. So there's a lot of truckers who are from a variety
00:27:48.580
of backgrounds. Now they were denounced by our prime minister that he called them racist and
00:27:53.020
misogynist. And he even used the word Nazi, which seemed very at odds with the mix of people.
00:27:59.200
Look, trucking is a real entry level trade or job. If you can get that commercial driver's
00:28:05.920
license, really, it's open to people of like, it really is a doorway into small business and
00:28:12.200
work for new Americans. I imagine that's how it, I think that's one of the reasons so many
00:28:16.500
new Canadians are in it. But they called them racist. Are they, is that, is that same demonization
00:28:23.660
afoot in America? You're in the Southwest. I'm guessing there's lots of people who are,
00:28:29.440
might be called Latino or other, other folks like that. Can you tell me the demographics of these
00:28:33.880
truckers? Sure. So we're in the Southwest of the United States. We're very close to Mexico and we're
00:28:40.500
also surrounded by different Indian reservations, Native American, Navajo tribe. And, you know, these
00:28:47.000
people, like anyone else, they, you know, at some point needed a job and they decided, you know,
00:28:51.920
I'm going to get into trucking. So, you know, yes, you definitely see some diversity in these
00:28:55.620
truckers and you see even more diversity in the people supporting the truckers.
00:29:00.720
We haven't seen any demonization from Joe Biden himself. He hasn't acknowledged the situation,
00:29:04.920
but from the mainstream media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, MSNBC,
00:29:09.780
they have all put out stories and then more stories on how these truckers have links to the
00:29:16.560
far right or extremists. They're all white, which is bad, of course. And, you know, it's completely,
00:29:24.460
completely different from, from the real story. If only they came out here and saw who the truckers
00:29:28.640
were, they would not turn on their cameras because they would be so embarrassed.
00:29:31.820
Well, one of our mottos at Rebel News is telling the other side of the story. And, and the best way to
00:29:37.640
do that is just flip on the camera. And one of the things we did in the Canadian Trucker Convoy
00:29:42.140
is we just sometimes did a live stream and that camera was on for three, four hours. And there
00:29:49.000
was, you know, there was commentary along the way, but I think people appreciated just seeing with their
00:29:53.020
own eyes what was happening that a lot of that happened in Ottawa. So I think just showing the
00:29:58.300
fact is a great service. So I'm really grateful to you for riding along because you're right. If,
00:30:03.800
if a pundit is giving commentary on the truckers from a studio in LA or a studio in Manhattan,
00:30:11.660
but they haven't seen with their own eyes, they're just, you know, retelling or rehearsing a false
00:30:18.420
fact. So it's important what you're doing on the ground to, to actually document who's there.
00:30:22.500
Now I got one last question for you. One of the things that, that worries me is that I know that
00:30:30.240
this trucker movement, I mentioned how it's spread around the world. It's become so symbolic and it
00:30:35.820
really is a kind of natural resistance to the pandemic lockdownism and the mandatory big pharma
00:30:44.260
vaccine. So it, it's a symbol and they want to smash the symbol. I remember a few years back,
00:30:49.340
they tried to demonize the yellow vest, the Gillet Jean movement out of France. And I think they want
00:30:56.100
to do the same here because it's such a powerful, authentic grassroots thing. So I'm worried that
00:31:02.440
there's going to be some false flag agents, provocateurs. And before you say, oh, Ezra,
00:31:07.520
you're just being paranoid. I know that the FBI in some very spectacular recent cases has done this sort
00:31:14.960
of thing. There were a half a dozen FBI agents who were actually, I know this sounds nuts.
00:31:19.900
They were, they were in a scheme to kidnap the democratic governor of Michigan, believe it or not.
00:31:25.260
And that thankfully unraveled before it happened. But, uh, I'm quite sure that there are people who
00:31:32.800
are being embedded with this trucker convoy with the goal of, you know, denormalizing them,
00:31:39.140
having them say something so discrediting that it redounds to the discredit of the whole group.
00:31:44.900
Have you detected anything like that? Or are you on alert for that? Because it wouldn't surprise me
00:31:49.440
if, and I'm not saying they're necessarily FBI, they might just be political operatives
00:31:53.420
who are trying to muck things up. Who knows, could even be the Lincoln project. They've done that
00:31:57.360
sort of thing before. Have you had any observations in those lines?
00:32:00.800
Well, I mean, you know, uh, agent provocateurs, uh, entrapment programs is the FBI's game. And,
00:32:08.520
you know, the, um, the white, uh, conservatives have now taken the place of, as the, you know,
00:32:16.880
terrorists, um, that was normally occupied by, you know, Middle Eastern people. So now that,
00:32:22.000
um, they've taken over this, this title, it's given, uh, federal law enforcement, uh, essentially,
00:32:26.880
um, the ability to go in and, uh, do anti-terror tactics, um, entrapment programs, et cetera,
00:32:35.220
et cetera. And obviously, um, this convoy is criticizing, um, you know, uh, big pharma and
00:32:41.120
the state. And, um, there's nothing more, uh, damaging, uh, than that right now, especially in
00:32:47.240
the middle of this, uh, COVID regime that we find ourselves in. So I, I definitely wouldn't be,
00:32:51.600
uh, surprised if, uh, something like that happened. And also, um, there's some,
00:32:56.000
not embedded in the convoy. There's someone going around, uh, not, um, not at all affiliated with
00:33:01.780
the convoy, giving quotes to the media as if they are affiliated with the convoy. Um, no one knows
00:33:06.900
which organization this person actually works for. Um, but they're saying, once we get to Washington,
00:33:11.580
we are going to strangle the federal government, um, you know, using violence. And, uh, the convoy
00:33:17.980
does not, does not, has never been about that. And they've said that multiple times is about peace.
00:33:22.420
We just, we just don't want to take this vaccine. We just don't want to get fired.
00:33:24.980
Um, so there's definitely people being embedded in the media and elsewhere that are supposed to
00:33:30.660
be discrediting this convoy. Yeah. I saw that. Uh, I think they used a snake analogy of like
00:33:36.020
strangling why I saw that even reported up here in Canada. So those planting those, uh, themes and
00:33:43.540
denormalizing and demonizing the trucker convoys happening down there. I can see it. Well, Jeremy,
00:33:48.880
we're so glad you're embedded there. I'll let you go. Cause I know you want to catch up to the rest of
00:33:52.740
the truckers. Great to have you on with this mission, this assignment, Jeremy Lafredo,
00:33:57.840
keep it up and we'll talk to you again soon. Thank you guys. All right. There you have it.
00:34:02.280
We're covering the U.S. convoy. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:34:17.720
Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Wish for freedom says, my guess is Ontario will shut down
00:34:23.160
Doug Ford. Ford is an expert of talking out of both sides of his mouth. The convoy for freedom
00:34:28.080
has exposed many so-called conservative politicians as nothing but tyrants. The convoy has brought all
00:34:32.900
the cockroaches out into the line. It's amazing, uh, the effects of this convoy. I mean, it really
00:34:39.100
is incredible how it has forced so many issues. And I think it, it's partly to the grassroots nature,
00:34:46.280
the authentic nature of it, and partly just the complete failure of any other institution for two
00:34:50.740
years. I think the best thing this trucker convoy has done is throw out Aaron O'Toole, which I think
00:34:57.640
has paved the way for Pierre Polyev to become the conservative party leader. I see there's some
00:35:02.140
sort of move to make Jean Chiré the party leader. Yeah, I don't think that's going anywhere, folks.
00:35:07.360
Um, but if that's all they do, if they replace Aaron O'Toole with Pierre Polyev,
00:35:11.200
I think the guy has a chance of winning and that could be the most, uh, important effect. I think it's
00:35:16.920
also hastened the ends of heavy lockdowns in most provinces. But I say again, the emergency legislation
00:35:24.720
is either in effect or still on the books in most provinces, in all provinces, in fact,
00:35:29.360
including Saskatchewan. So we're not out of this yet. We have to pull up the weed by its roots or
00:35:35.920
it'll grow back. Someone with a nickname, the cat came back says, if fascism ever comes to America,
00:35:42.400
it'll come in the form name of liberalism, Ronald Reagan. The same goes for Canada. Oh yeah. I mean,
00:35:48.180
it's hard. It's shocking when you think that the word liberal comes from the Latin word for freedom
00:35:54.020
and the freedoms that they absolutely bulldozed for their political interests are so gross.
00:36:01.020
Lawrence Johansson writes, it's incredible how the American media went nuts on Trudeau.
00:36:05.940
Nice to hear the truth for a change. Well, I should tell you, you're selecting conservative media,
00:36:10.580
Fox, Breitbart, Newsmax, et cetera, because, um, the media on the left viciously attacked the truckers,
00:36:17.480
including CNN. I'm going to say goodbye to you now. We'll see you on Monday, but I want to leave
00:36:24.200
you with our video of the day. It's veterans in Ottawa reacting to Trudeau's comments on the Freedom
00:36:29.360
Convoy. Of course, our favorite reporter, Alexa, is the journalist. Until next time, on behalf of all
00:36:35.060
of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.
00:36:38.440
...has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity
00:37:05.160
...my dad, no, stop. My dad had a Nazi machine gun pointed in his face, Lee.
00:37:11.880
Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me.
00:37:15.640
...my parents came to Canada for a better life.
00:37:18.520
...oh, it's just a lunacy. I lived under dictatorship, and I lived under communism.
00:37:24.520
...you don't know how lucky you are to be in Canada.
00:37:34.280
What do you think about that? What just happened?
00:37:37.080
Unfortunately, they've been putting a lot of propaganda.
00:37:43.240
The news has been working, and our government's been working a lot of propaganda with the Canadian population, and it's constant.
00:37:50.760
And people are constantly exposed to the propaganda and the false narratives.
00:37:57.000
I mean, they're affected in different ways, right?
00:38:13.240
Oh, Canada, our home and native land. True, hatred, love, in all our sons' grand.
00:38:32.440
With blowing us, we see the truth of our strong.
00:38:39.480
Hey, Alexa, for Revenues, still in Ottawa, reporting on the ground.
00:38:43.000
And today, my concern went with the South of Veterans about the fact that Prime Minister Trudeau
00:38:57.000
As you know, it's the first time in the history of Canada that this act has been deployed.
00:39:02.200
So, let's check it out what they have to say to me about it.
00:39:22.680
And I served almost 17 years. I'm a combat engineer, and I served in Afghanistan in 2010 with the 171 CAV Shadow Troop.
00:39:31.240
It was actually an American unit, so we were Canadians working with Americans in Kandahar.
00:39:35.800
My job was to basically search and find IEDs and explosives and to make holding stations safe for Afghans to vote freely, as a matter of fact.
00:39:45.240
I served three years. I served three years. I'm not a combat veteran. I did my time, did my first hook cut out.
00:39:53.800
I served in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. And also, I'm a third-generation veteran, so my grandfather stood in the First World War, and my father stood in the Second World War.
00:40:06.040
I was just under ten years in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based out of Winnipeg.
00:40:11.600
I would say that it's completely typical of the government, right? They use the boys up, throw them away, and as Mr. Trudeau said, we asked for too much.
00:40:23.120
What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.
00:40:27.920
So, which veteran was it that you were talking about?
00:40:39.440
Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.
00:40:48.960
So, I'm not surprised that they're using it as a fear tactic, right? 100%.
00:40:54.360
I think you're going to be hard-pressed to find any rank-and-file soldiers or police officers that are going to be willing to smash windows out and drag peaceful protesters out of here.
00:41:05.900
So, I think it's their classic psyops, just like the ridiculous fence they put up to scare people from not coming down, not wanting to support, you know, get guys that are on the edge to leave, right?
00:41:16.520
But these guys aren't going anywhere, right? Not until we're all free again.
00:41:21.340
I'm disappointed. I mean, you fight for freedom, the freedom and the rights of every Canadian when you're active duty.
00:41:30.460
And now I'm just here to protect this monument. This isn't just a monument to me. This is the receipt of the freedom that I enjoy every day.
00:41:41.120
I'm putting a fence around it. What is that saying?
00:41:50.080
And what is it out of the situation, especially with the Emergencies Act that have been deployed against protesters?
00:42:00.640
It's completely illegal. If you read the Emergency Act, there's nowhere in it that says that it can be used for peaceful protesters, right?
00:42:09.820
It's for war or actual insurrection, not, you know, a peaceful gathering with bouncy castles and feeding the homeless.
00:42:18.440
And we had low the crime rate, you know, so it's just classic left crazy tactics, right?
00:42:25.120
Put fear in and project their own garbage onto the other people, right?
00:42:31.800
That's what they do. That's what they've always done.
00:42:34.200
I think it's completely absurd. And if you look back throughout our history, when September 11th happened, no Emergencies Act was called.
00:42:41.320
When Corporal Nathan Cirillo was killed right here on this monument, and then the attacker went up to Parliament Hill, an Emergencies Act was not called.
00:42:48.160
And now he's in effect called an Emergencies Act on his own citizens, and he hasn't even spoken to anybody yet.
00:42:54.640
So he can't even justify it. It's absolutely absurd.
00:42:57.580
Well, I mean, I can speak on behalf of myself. As a former soldier, that is my worst fear, to have to use violence against other Canadians.
00:43:09.460
So I'm thoroughly disappointed in his decision. I think there's a peaceful resolution to what's going on here.
00:43:16.240
And I'll quote Prime Minister Trudeau, saying dialogue is the Canadian way.
00:43:23.480
Where's the dialogue? Where is the communication, sir? There is none.
00:43:27.700
I don't see the authority or the reason in the next matter, because, you know, we're all 100% completely peaceful here.
00:43:41.060
The crime level since we've been here has dropped 90%.
00:43:49.140
They're shoveling off the sidewalks, salting it, making sure it's safe for people.
00:43:53.520
So, in and around this monument, I mean, this is our monument, War Memorial.
00:44:00.200
And, you know, it's shoveled off. We've salted it, make sure it's safe.
00:44:05.600
Now we're manning it 24 hours a day to make sure there's nothing, you know, nobody here causing any problems, yeah.
00:44:16.400
So, me and my colleague all across Canada, we are covering the Freedom Convoy in Alberta, Gregory, here, a little bit everywhere.
00:44:27.840
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00:44:32.340
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