It's election day, and there's a lot of reason to be worried about who's going to win in the upcoming election. The Globe and Mail has a story about it, and the Toronto Star has an article about it.
00:19:35.640I'm not going to show you on the camera!
00:19:47.640Absolutely brutal. Absolute police brutality. Three thuggish men pounding a woman on the sidewalk.
00:19:55.640And you can hear our Alexa Lavoie saying, that's a woman. That's an independent reporter.
00:20:00.640Incredibly, that police brutality has not caused charges or an internal affairs investigation against the police.
00:20:08.640The opposite. That citizen journalist, Natasha Grayne herself, has been charged with two offenses by the police.
00:20:16.640She joins us now from Montreal. Natasha, I am... I've watched those videos.
00:20:21.640It's the third time I've seen them now. And I'm filled with anger and disgust at how the Montreal police act.
00:20:28.640And the jeering and the cheering of the crowds as they arrest you, it really doesn't feel like Canada anymore, does it?
00:20:37.640No. It's hard to watch from my end. I have a traumatic brain injury and I have been diagnosed with that.
00:20:52.640I've been diagnosed with PTSD. I've been diagnosed with numerous soft tissue injuries.
00:20:59.640And I'm grateful, you know, to be alive. It was horrific.
00:21:10.640What exactly has been going on with you and the protesters?
00:21:16.640It feels like they hate you the same way they hate Alexa Lavoie. Are you a regular reporter on this circuit like Alexa is?
00:21:26.640I began reporting on and documenting the in-person events in August of 2024, because I had previously been doing kind of OSINT style viewing of their own social media accounts.
00:21:52.640But the thing people need to understand is that the leaders of these hate marches tend to cherry pick the pieces they put up, the recordings they put up.
00:22:07.640And so I thought it was important to see in person with my own eyes what was going on.
00:22:12.640And I had the first the first time I attended one of these protests, it was an homage to Ismail Hanaya, who was a Hamas leader of the political side of Hamas.
00:22:25.640And I filmed an eight minute, more than eight minute actually video of Iyad Abu Hamad, who was one of the leaders of Montreal for Palestine.
00:22:36.640And it went viral to the point where politicians were reposting it, not with credit to me, unfortunately.
00:22:42.640But even Anthony House father reposted this viral video.
00:22:47.640So that basically put me on the radar of the jihadis. And since then, I have received threats.
00:22:56.640I have been physically assaulted more times than I can count.
00:23:00.640I have filed charges against against one of the leaders of Montreal for Palestine because I was a swarmed and assaulted on the anniversary of October 7th when I was documenting their hate rally at Place des Arts.
00:23:19.640So, yeah, I've been consistently assaulted. But what happened on October 7th, because I've been to I've been to six at length, and then I've been to like gone to the Roddick gates at McGill and kind of just in and out quickly to other events.
00:23:37.640But what happened on October 7th on the anniversary was that I kept asking the police for assistance.
00:23:44.640And one of the police officers said to me, meaning, oh, she's like rebel news.
00:23:55.640Using that as a kind of insult or they think that any citizen journalist must be rebel news.
00:23:59.640I've seen that. Well, they kept insisting that I was rebel news.
00:24:02.640And this is also what happened when I was manhandled by the three police officers was they kept repeating to me, you're rebel news, you're rebel news, you're creating an event.
00:24:16.640And I kept saying, I am not rebel news.
00:24:21.640But they really had this narrative in their minds.
00:24:26.640And the the narrative of the police officers is provably demonstrably false.
00:24:34.640I have footage and Alexa, thank goodness she was there nearby, because she had the 360 camera, which shows exactly what happened, because my camera was covered by the police officer,
00:24:52.640who initially applied the physical force to me and grabbed one of my arms before the second police officer grabbed my other arm.
00:25:03.640They began pulling me in different directions.
00:25:05.640But he was very preoccupied with this narrative.
00:25:09.640And because it was inaccurate, it was it was difficult to understand directives because I was following the directives to stay out of the protest, as I always have not to go into the protest.
00:25:26.640But the pro Hamas jihadis mob anybody who is recording them.
00:25:32.640So then you need to try and evade them by moving away.
00:25:36.640And then if you go onto the road a little bit, then you're mobbed there, surrounded and hit.
00:25:41.640And then if you move back onto the sidewalk, they mob you there.
00:25:45.640At one point, Alexa and I were pressed up against a building wall.
00:25:48.640And it's just it's impossible for me to understand why the police are not protecting any free citizen who wishes to document what's happening on our streets.
00:26:04.640This is very important that the public see this.
00:26:07.640I have only seen Guillaume and Alexa from rebel documenting these events and other independent journalists in Ottawa in Montreal.
00:26:31.640It's funny because when Rebel News went to Montreal en masse during the lockdowns, no independent journalists were on that beat.
00:26:39.640In fact, police were startled to see us out documenting the curfew.
00:26:42.640They had never seen journalists show any curiosity before.
00:26:45.640You know, when I was in Montreal last week for the leaders debates, I had lunch with a prominent lawyer who told me something I didn't know.
00:26:52.640He said that there was a class action against the city for over policing these riots, these protests, and that the mayor paid $25 million, that the mayor ordered the police to pay $25 million to settle this class action.
00:28:08.640But I want to make sure you have help, because I know that for 99% of people to be faced with a legal process, especially a criminal charge, is terrifying and costly.
00:28:21.640And I know that normal people don't sometimes even know what to do.
00:28:27.640So I'm pleased to say that Alexa and I have talked with you and have taken a few steps to set you up with a lawyer.
00:28:36.640And I would like to confirm with you our intentions to crowdfund the cost of that lawyer at SaveNatasha.com.
00:28:46.640Because I want to remove from you the stress of the finances, and I want to remove from you the stress of, well, how do I do it?
00:28:53.640The lawyer you're using, I believe, is a lawyer that worked with Alexa before, and he comes highly recommended.
00:29:02.640I haven't worked with him myself, but he's been recommended by an excellent lawyer.
00:29:06.640So I would like to let you know that we can at least remove that piece from the equation.
00:29:13.640And I know that that's not a total solution.
00:29:16.640That's not security guards when you're on the street.
00:29:42.640I think that video was so brutal that I think a, and your infraction was so made up and exaggerated by the cops.
00:29:50.640I don't even know what they could possibly have charged you with, that I'm pretty sure that this will be, if I had to guess, I think it'll be resolved even before trial.
00:29:59.640But you need a good lawyer to do that.
00:32:46.640And I'm not going to be cowed by jihadis who cheer while a woman is physically assaulted on concrete steps.
00:32:58.640I won't be cowed as they yell Allahu Akbar when they see this.
00:33:03.640If I saw this happening to one of the women who attends the protests, I would have been horrified and appalled and shocked.
00:33:14.640I would not have been cheering and laughing and returning to the sight of it and raising a finger, which is what the, that's a terrorist signal and bragging about it on social media.
00:33:41.640I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm not physically well yet, but removing the stress of the legal is unbelievably generous and very appreciated because I've obviously never been criminally charged.
00:33:58.640And I was in shock when I was told that I was being charged with assault.
00:34:58.640But for now, we'll take the legal piece and perhaps in the future, because the idea that you would be physically vulnerable to these people again pains me.
00:35:08.640So let's, when, when you're back in action, be in touch either directly or through Alexa.
00:35:13.640And maybe we can talk about a few more things because it is appalling to me.
00:35:18.640And I am sure my viewers agree that you are being physically attacked this way.
00:35:24.640And, and the Hamas side are laughing and jeering.
00:35:29.640That is not the Canada that I know, but let's take things one day at a time.
00:35:33.640Your health is the most important thing.
00:37:11.640If anything, rising housing prices increase the size of their nest egg.
00:37:16.640They really don't have a lot of income, so they're not worried about taxes.
00:37:21.640I think that the disastrous economic plans of Mark Carney won't make that big of a dent in his support from older voters.
00:37:30.640John the second says, my guess for any liberal support baffled as I may be is that NDP block and green support seems to have collapsed and gone over to the liberals.
00:37:40.640I expect that it's either strategic voting or that the NDP green and block have voted with the liberals too many times for the left leaning voters to see much of a difference between them.
00:37:48.640I think there is an absolute amount of truth there that's absolutely right.
00:37:53.640In fact, I would say a little bit more than that.
00:37:56.640I would say when Justin Trudeau was the liberal leader and at the party's absolute low, and Pierre Pagliav was at its absolute high, and I'd say this was, oh, over Christmas, let's say.
00:38:10.640Some of that might have been a mirage in that if an election was called, some of the vote that was parked with the NDP might well have gone over to the liberals because liberals was holding their nose to having anybody but the conservatives vote.
00:38:23.640I say again, I said this the other day, the absolute highest heights that Pierre Pagliav's conservatives got in polling over the last two years was in the low 40s.
00:38:33.640There might have been one or two odd polls to put them at 44 or 45, but that was just when the liberals were in their absolute meltdown mode.
00:38:42.640So the conservatives are actually performing around optimal.
00:38:47.640I mean, we've seen some polls showing them at 38 and 40.
00:38:52.640If they get those numbers up 41, 42 by election day, that's pretty much the conservative party's maximum in this country.
00:39:02.640We live in a center-left country, and I am as frustrated about it as you are.
00:39:08.640It was only because Trudeau was so hated and so long in the tooth and the carbon tax that Pierre Pagliav had that lead, but boy, I hope Pagliav wins.
00:39:17.640And people say sometimes, Ezra, don't you want Mark Carney to win?
00:39:21.640Isn't that better for Rebel News because you love more to fight against? Are you kidding me?
00:39:25.640This country will be wrecked by Mark Carney.
00:39:29.640I deeply want him to lose, and I deeply want Pagliav to win.
00:39:33.640I don't agree with everything Pagliav says.
00:39:35.640He's not strong enough on many issues for me, whether it's immigration or dealing with the CBC.
00:39:40.640But he is so much better than the alternative.
00:39:46.640And I am afraid that Canada would not recover from another turn in the Liberals.