EZRA LEVANT ｜ The police cancel Parliament, and enforce Trudeau’s violent end to a peaceful protest
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Summary
In the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to order the police to clear out a peaceful trucker convoy from the streets of Ottawa on February 18th, Ezra Levenkamp takes you behind the scenes to see what happened.
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Tonight, the police cancel parliament and enforce Trudeau's violent end to a peaceful protest.
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It's February 18th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Today was going to be part two of my monologue from yesterday about how Trudeau had promoted Canada's most abusive,
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dirtiest cop, Bill Blair, who oversaw the G20 policing disaster in Toronto
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to enforce his crackdown on the peaceful trucker convoy in Ottawa.
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I honestly thought we'd have time to do a deep dive like that,
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given that parliament was still debating the Emergencies Act.
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My thinking was the truckers have been there in Ottawa for three weeks.
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They've been complying with the court order not to honk their horns, for example.
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They've opened up a path on every main road, including Wellington Street,
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I thought that, well, Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act as his legal tool.
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That requires a ratification in a parliamentary debate and vote.
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Surely he'll just wait a couple more days to go through the motions of the Emergencies Act.
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I mean, if you're going to act without the Emergencies Act, why bother invoking it at all?
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I should have known Trudeau doesn't actually care about the law.
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It's like when he was convicted of violating the Conflict of Interest Act.
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I remember when he, for example, took a $100,000 secret vacation bribe in the Bahamas from the Aga Khan.
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He just shrugged it off and said it was a great learning opportunity for other Canadians.
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And then he went ahead and broke the law again.
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Or a more personal story, when he tried to ban our Rebel News reporters from the leaders' debates
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And Trudeau said, hours after a court had ruled that we are indeed, obviously, reporters,
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he simply said he couldn't care what a court said.
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We are not reporters to him to heck with the court.
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L'Israël est l'un des pays les plus vaccinés au monde.
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Ils sont rendus maintenant à leur quatrième rappel de vaccin.
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Ils ne considèrent plus que ceux qui ont reçu deux doses de vaccin sont pleinement vaccinés.
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Ma question est, plusieurs Canadiens ne désirent pas avoir un rappel de vaccin.
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Allez-vous leur enlever leurs privilèges reliés au vaccinale?
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Et aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre?
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J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir.
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The only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the federal court ruled
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that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not a journalist.
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This is the second election in a row that the court had to overturn your government.
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Do you still insist on being able to make that decision and why?
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First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the press gallery
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and the consortium of networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism
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and the important information that is shared with Canadians.
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The reality is organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation
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on the science around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic
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and be there for each other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger
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And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization,
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your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
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And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we take
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And I salute all extraordinary, hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do
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and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians
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from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do.
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You see my point, he regards himself as above the law, like his father figure Castro.
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So why would he wait until the emergencies act was debated and voted on?
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They fired the Ottawa police chief the other day.
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He wasn't prepared to get violent against peaceful protesters.
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So they found a cop dirty enough to do whatever Trudeau tells him to do.
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I mean, promise a guy a promotion, promise him legal immunity from his misconduct.
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I mean, many of the good cops have left the force, either being fired or they removed themselves
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for not going along with the past two years of bullying.
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He'll do whatever he needs to do, like canceling Parliament.
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Like I say, the police raids today did not wait until Parliament was done debating.
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I mean, the decision making is being done by the police now.
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Last night, they started arresting trucker leaders.
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In this case, Tamara Litch, the young MĂ©tis woman who got the convoy going in the first place.
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So peaceful protest leaders just arrested on the streets, swooped up, picked up by police cars
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And then this morning, the Ottawa police, just assuming their role as the unchecked dictators
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of Canada, no peaceful protesters allowed at all.
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I mean, it's best if you just trust the police to tell you about the police.
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After all, if you don't need Parliament and you don't need protesters, why do you need journalists?
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You can tell who's aggressive! Who's the one that's aggressive?
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So like I said yesterday, Trudeau's hatchet man is the dirtiest cop in Canada.
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My story today was going to be a premonition about what Bill Blair would do,
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but it happened before I could finish telling you the story.
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Toronto police pay $16.5 million to protesters wrongfully held at 2010 G20 summit.
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This article is a few years old. Let me read it to you.
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Payments to receive up to $24,700 in historic settlement.
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Police encircled 1,100 people and carried out mass arrests.
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About 1,100 protesters who were wrongfully detained at the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto
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will receive compensation from the city's police force
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after a historic $16.5 million settlement in a class action lawsuit.
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Under the settlement, which was announced late on Monday,
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each claimant will receive between $5,000 and $24,700.
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they will also have their G20 protest related records expunged.
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Thousands of protesters traveled to downtown Toronto to protest against the convening of the G20 summit.
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The causes were numerous anti-globalization, anti-poverty, pro-environment, pro-gay rights,
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and the protests leading up to the Jan 26, 27 June summit were peaceful.
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OK, now can you spot the difference? Here it is.
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During the summit, however, police cars were set on fire
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and a small band of masked protesters incited vandalism and violence.
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In three weeks of peaceful protest in Ottawa, there has not been a single police car set on fire, has there?
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No violence at all? Has there been? Of course not.
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But the police responded by encircling more than 1,000 people,
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including peaceful protesters, onlookers, and journalists at various locations
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At one point, hundreds were kettled in a torrential downpour
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Video footage at the time also showed officers using excessive force, tear gas, pepper spray,
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At the makeshift detention center, detainees were strip searched.
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In 2014, Vice reported that the police trained surveillance cameras
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Ottawa court judges later found that the police's actions contravene the protesters' civil rights,
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specifically their charter rights to expression and peaceful assembly.
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So humiliating people by strip searching them and filming it.
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How could a police chief who did that ever have a job again?
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Well, precisely because he did that, because a tyrant can count on such a man
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to do whatever needs to be done to crush Trudeau's opponents without any compunction,
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without any regard to the law or conscience or ethics or morality.
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Being a corrupt, dirty cop is exactly why Bill Blair was chosen by Trudeau to handle the truckers.
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Breaking Ottawa police are boxing in protesters and executing mass arrests.
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Once again, escalating the situation and not allowing people to leave in peace.
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They're going from truck to truck with heavy weapons,
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treating, training violence on men, women and children, threatening them with guns.
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And the media are pushed back and really is straight out of a police state.
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These are technically police forces, but they have military style uniforms, military style weapons,
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armored vehicles and what Trudeau would call assault rifles to be used against whom, by the way.
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Now, I'm recording this in the late afternoon, which is when I record my show.
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And by the time it airs at 8 p.m., who knows what you'll be seeing or if you'll be seeing anything at all.
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They have repeatedly threatened to arrest our reporters and others, too.
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I have encouraged our people not to be arrested.
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We don't want to be arrested, but neither will we be shooed away by some Nazi style thugs.
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Sorry if that language hurts your feelings to hear me say it for 50 years.
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I know there are exceptions, but I saw thousands of cops using the I'm just following the orders excuse today.
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That excuse didn't work for the real Nazis and it shouldn't work for Trudeau's cop thugs.
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I showed you the other day the definition in the CSIS Act of a threat to Canada necessary for the Emergencies Act to be operational threats to the security of Canada.
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I went through the four tests, but look at the end does not include lawful advocacy, protest or dissent.
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There is no real threat, no espionage, no serious violence, no violence at all.
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Those are the threats that are contemplated in the Emergencies Act.
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But police are banning MPs, journalists, peaceful protesters.
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Shame on the Conservative Party for rolling over so quietly as they always do the cowards.
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Always when I assume Trudeau has some sort of internal limit on how far he will go.
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No other politician, either in government or opposition.
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Apparently they need to be less heavy handed in dealing with political dissent.
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But imagine tweeting that literally as Canada suspends Parliament and suspends the right to protest,
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suspends all civil liberties, but never suspends our endless reservoir of smug satisfaction with ourselves to lecture others.
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Say, where are foreign leaders speaking out against our civil liberties?
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I haven't seen any, but again, why should they speak out for us if we don't speak out for ourselves?
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The Canadian media is almost uniformly, maybe five exceptions out of a thousand reporters, not only cheering on the paramilitaries, but they actually demanded the crackdown to begin with.
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There's been no violence from these truckers, not from the time they arrived to this very moment.
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The violence being deployed is against them by the establishment with the full support of the establishment.
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Canadians no longer can claim that we are a nice place, a safer place than America, a place of civil liberties, a place of stability.
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A desperate politician called a peaceful protest a national emergency to get himself out of a political jam and build an enemies list by forcing banks to dox and seize funds of his opponents.
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He needs it after the fact justification for why he destroyed our civil liberties.
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I think he wants violence and some cops obviously want it.
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Some cops became cops just for moments like this.
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Well the protestors are offering passive resistance.
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They're doing it the way Mahatma Gandhi did it in India.
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They're not obeying but they're not resisting aggressively.
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They'll be given, you know, strip searches probably.
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Given how the courts have been the last two years I'm sure this latest, most outrageous assault on our liberties will be upheld by the authorities.
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And the media party will write a false history of it, too, how Trudeau and his brave police saved the country from the from the bouncy castles or or the popcorn machine.
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Yeah, we went into a national emergency for that.
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What's the point of Parliament if this was done without waiting for Parliament?
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What's what's the point of an opposition if they agreed to run away when the police told them to?
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What's the point of a media if they're cheerleaders for the regime?
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What's the point of police if they don't uphold the law, if they just follow Trudeau's orders?
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This is deeply demoralizing to those who believe in peace, order and good government, ordered liberty, limited government, liberal values.
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We now know that Trudeau really is Fidel Castro's heir politically, if not genetically.
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But we also know that it was the truckers who gave us the freedoms back that are now returning province by province as politicians who are less violence prone decide to give up at least some of their lockdown powers.
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I know that my own self-image as a Canadian citizen has changed what it means to be here in a country that I can at most call partly free.
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At this point in the show, we were planning to have an interview with one of our reporters on the ground in Ottawa, probably Lincoln Jay, who's right, I mean, inches away from the police, inches away.
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But he's doing that right now, and I do not want to break him away from that.
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I would ask him what it's like, but I can't break him away from that right now.
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So what we're going to do is we're going to take clips of video that he and we might take some from Alexa that they aired today.
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In fact, Alexa was shoved down and Lincoln was pushed back.
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So let me show you that brave work by our young citizen journalist, Alexa, very courageous.
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I don't know his age, but he's a pretty young guy.
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But, boy, he's showing courage, the two of them.
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So we're very proud of those guys and our cameraman, Guillaume, who is with Alexa as well.
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So let me show you some video clips, and I'll talk to you on the other side with some final thoughts.
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Would you like to say that the vehicle is bleeding?
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So one side, we have the police, and the other side, we have the veteran that's created
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This is the one right now that needs to back up.
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Oh, man, native land, true hatred out, with all our sons come and we're told.
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God, who knows strong and free, from far and wide, O Canada, we stand on our foes.
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Keep the peace, keep the peace, keep the peace!
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We stand, keep the peace, keep the peace, keep the peace, keep the peace, keep the peace, keep the peace.
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You can tell who's aggressive, who's the one that's aggressive.
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And they used that to leverage them gaining ground
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In the one sense that's the huge news of the past few weeks
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Is that the truckers have been a greater force for freedom than anything else in Canada in two years
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And even though Justin Trudeau is going full paramilitary full banana republic on them full Hong Kong police crushing the descent on them
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The truckers have still inspired a nation caused vaccine mandates across the country to be taken down changed public opinion in Canada and around the world
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They've launched a formal truck convoy schedule in the United States starting in California making its way to Washington DC
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We've seen truckers in places as far away as Israel
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The truckers were an authentic organic expression of resistance to the lockdowns that can never be undone
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It also politicized a million people who had never thought of themselves as political before
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Trudeau's reaction was an absolute disaster for our country
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The worst civil liberties abuse by a government ever
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And watching all the other establishment go along with it
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Would you put your money in a Russian bank or a Ukrainian bank or a Venezuelan bank?
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I think a lot of people are thinking twice about putting their money in Canada now
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I know that Rebel News has a special role in all of this
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And we've crowdfunded civil liberties lawyers to help fill the gaps
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Because the massive power of the state is coming crushing down on those who dare to oppose Trudeau
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We've covered the truckers in other provinces too as you know
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I want to make sure our people stay out of jail
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If Trudeau wants to jail us, if he wants to seize our bank account
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters