Tonight, the Great Commission of Inquiry gets underway with some surprising revelations about the OPP's role in helping to clear a trucker blockade on the Ambassador Bridge between the U.S. and Canadian borders, and why they didn't need the Emergencies Act to do so.
00:01:22.400As you know, this is the Great Commission of Inquiry, as is required any time a prime minister invokes the form of martial law called the Emergencies Act.
00:01:31.480Built into that legislation is a kind of after-the-fact gut check, but it's more than just a gut check, led by a judge.
00:01:40.920It's an inquiry into whether or not the suspension of civil liberties was justified and, frankly, even legal.
00:01:48.440Because the Emergencies Act is not something that a politician can simply choose to do for political reasons.
00:01:54.540There must be a legal threshold, a crisis, a danger, an insurrection, a grave threat to the country that must be proved, or at least must be believed to be afoot,
00:02:05.320before civil liberties can be lifted, before bank accounts can be seized, before riot horses are deployed against peaceful protesters,
00:02:14.740before the country can become a little bit of a Cuba or China or Iran.
00:02:19.820Insert your favorite Trudeau country later.
00:02:23.260Yesterday, the commission got off to a start with some testimony by some other police forces and other governments.
00:02:34.140In this one, you have to do a little bit of clever thinking to understand it.
00:02:38.420Remember, Ottawa was the largest trucker protest, but there were other trucker protests at the Coutts border crossing between Alberta and Montana.
00:02:47.860There was another trucker blockade of the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit.
00:02:55.420That bridge is probably one of the most strategically important pieces of infrastructure in North America.
00:03:02.460I understand that about a quarter of all Canada-U.S. trade crosses that bridge because, of course, Windsor and Detroit are really two halves of the same pool when it comes to the auto sector.
00:03:14.740Parts and half-built cars from one side go to the other.
00:03:18.620That bridge is so important and much more than giving some pedestrians an extra block to walk here in Parliament or even blocking one of the smallest borders at the Coutts crossing.
00:03:32.120That blockade by the blockade by the truckers actually was a serious challenge to economic liberty.
00:03:38.880And yet the Ontario Provincial Police testified yesterday that they were able to peacefully, calmly, and orderly clear the bridge blockade of truckers without incident.
00:03:54.580And they did all of that without the Emergencies Act.
00:04:03.480We have all the tools at our disposal, including, under the Criminal Code, the ability to commandeer any vehicle.
00:04:09.520I don't know if you know that, but the Criminal Code gives police that emergency power right now.
00:04:14.500They could theoretically stop your car on the road and commandeer it.
00:04:18.580It's unusual and it's dramatic that they have that power.
00:04:22.420They did not need the Emergencies Act.
00:04:25.260They didn't need Trudeau to seize bank accounts to clear the actually economically important blockade in Windsor.
00:04:32.340We're here listening to the OPP say that yesterday.
00:04:35.980Even though the OPP was not the police service of jurisdiction, you will hear about how the OPP provided crucial assistance to Windsor, Ottawa, and Toronto.
00:04:47.220In Windsor, you will hear about how the OPP took on a leadership role working with the Windsor Police Service and with the help of additional resources from other police services, successfully cleared the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge.
00:05:03.820Windsor was very much a success story in terms of how it was handled.
00:05:06.700In Ottawa, after some delay, you will hear that the OPP took on a leadership role in coordinating resources from different police services, working with Ottawa Police Service, the police service of jurisdiction.
00:05:21.240Specifically, you will hear about what worked well, what may not have worked as well, and potential lessons that were learned through these incidents in Ottawa, Windsor, and across the country.
00:05:34.560You will also hear about federal and provincial emergencies legislation, and the extent to which the OPP relied on those authorities.
00:05:45.340The OPP has significant experience in responding to protests, blockades, and similar activities.
00:05:51.720While the emergencies legislation, in particular the provincial legislation, provided useful tools, there was sufficient legal authority in their absence to deal with the protest activities that took place over this period of time.
00:06:10.440The OPP, the Ontario Provincial Police, is one of the larger police forces in Canada.
00:06:13.440Now, Alberta, as I mentioned, had a blockade at the Coutts border crossing.
00:06:17.440You may know that, because our reporters, Sidney Fazard and Kian Simone, embedded themselves with those truckers, and watched the police negotiations, and watched the standoff down there.
00:06:30.440In fact, we made a documentary film about this subject.
00:06:34.220But again, the Alberta government testified that they were able to, peacefully and without incidents, get the truckers to stand down through a combination of negotiation and, I suppose, some legal threat.
00:06:48.220Whatever the point is, they did not need Trudeau to suspend our civil liberties.
00:06:53.220Listen to the government of Alberta make that argument yesterday at this commission of inquiry.
00:06:59.220The government of Alberta applied for standing as a party before this inquiry for two main reasons.
00:07:06.220First, Alberta believes it is important to share with Canadians the facts about how Alberta was able to effectively deal with the international border blockade in Coutts, Alberta, prior to the invocation of the Federal Emergencies Act.
00:07:20.220Alberta's evidence will show that the existing law enforcement tools that were already in place were completely sufficient, and they were successfully used to peacefully restore the flow of traffic at the Coutts border crossing and to disperse the protest to a legal protest site.
00:07:39.220None of the powers that were created under the Federal Emergencies Act were necessary, nor were any of them used in Alberta to resolve the Coutts blockade.
00:07:50.220Alberta is also here to participate in the process of holding the federal government accountable for its decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
00:07:58.220Alberta has many questions about how and when that decision was reached.
00:08:03.220A decision that was made despite the objections that Alberta and other provinces expressed during a phone call placed to the first ministers on the morning of February 14, 2022, just hours prior to the announcement that the Federal Emergencies Act would be invoked.
00:08:21.220Since the Federal Government proclaimed that a public order emergency existed throughout Canada, the Act requires that all of the provinces must be consulted before it can be invoked in that manner.
00:08:35.220Yet, Alberta's views were only asked for after the decision was apparently made, and they were basically ignored.
00:08:42.220The impact of these measures on the rights of Albertans is of great concern to the Government of Alberta.
00:08:47.220Alberta is here to find answers for its citizens and for all Canadians.
00:08:52.220We thank the Commissioner for this opportunity to appear as a party, and we look forward to working with the Commission in the weeks to come.
00:08:58.220It wasn't just Alberta. Here's the Government of Saskatchewan making similar points.
00:09:04.220The Government of Saskatchewan has been granted full standing before the Commission and intends to participate in both the evidentiary phase and the policy phase of the proceedings.
00:09:19.220February 14th was a very significant day from the Government of Saskatchewan's perspective.
00:09:27.220On the morning of February 14th, a First Minister's call was held.
00:09:33.220The phone call was chaired by the Prime Minister.
00:09:37.220That phone call was the first time the Federal Government told the Government of Saskatchewan that it was considering invoking the Emergencies Act and declaring a public order emergency.
00:09:54.220The Government of Saskatchewan indicated that it did not want the emergency declaration applying within the province, and other provincial governments did the same.
00:10:06.220Later that day, the Federal Government proclaimed a public order emergency.
00:10:13.220It was not geographically limited as requested by Saskatchewan and other provinces, and as we know, it remained in effect until February 23rd.
00:10:27.220For its part, the Government of Saskatchewan is primarily interested in four areas which will be explored in this inquiry.
00:10:38.220The first area is whether there were reasonable grounds to believe that circumstances amounting to a public order emergency existed on February 14th.
00:10:54.220The second area concerns whether the consultation requirement under Section 25 of the Act was met.
00:11:04.220Saskatchewan's position is that the Federal Government had already determined that a nationwide emergency would be declared before the First Minister's call on February 14th.
00:11:19.220The call was not so much about consulting as it was about telling.
00:11:25.220The third area concerns whether the emergency measures were over-broad.
00:11:37.220The financial measures, for example, imposed broad responsibilities on financial institutions with little guidance, and they created offences for not complying with those new responsibilities.
00:11:53.220The final area concerns to what extent Saskatchewan residents were impacted by the emergency measures.
00:12:05.220The Government is concerned that residents' rights may have been unnecessarily infringed by these measures.
00:12:15.220The Government looks forward to participating in the Commission and assisting the Commission in fulfilling its mandate.
00:12:24.220Isn't that interesting? There was so much news coming out and that was really only just the first day of testimony.
00:12:31.220I understand that the judge who is overseeing this commission of inquiry has said that he is willing to work into the evening and work on Saturdays as well.
00:12:41.220I am standing, no offense, but in the laziest city in Canada, and I say that having worked here for a few years myself when I was a young man.
00:12:50.220I worked on Parliament Hill for Preston Manning for a couple years and briefly for Stockwell Day.
00:12:56.220There are normal people in Ottawa who work very hard, but in the downtown core, you have the political class, the lobbyist class, the MP class.
00:13:05.220I mean, think about it. Parliament only sits, what, maybe a hundred days a year?
00:13:09.220I don't even know if it's that much in this pandemic period.
00:13:15.220The motto is not a minute on the day, not a penny underpay.
00:13:18.220I mean, these are government bureaucrats.
00:13:19.220These are people who today, half the passport staff are working from home.
00:13:24.220That's why there's a six-month wait for your passport.
00:13:26.220Imagine in this lazy town, this town of free money and sloshing bank accounts, that a man is willing to work six days a week and into the evenings.
00:13:39.220Now, that doesn't say anything in particular other than he has a work ethic and wants to get this done, but I have to say it is very un-Ottawa-ish.
00:13:46.220And the testimony from the OPP, the Alberta government, the Saskatchewan government too, tell me that this is not exactly going the way that Trudeau propagandists would want them to.
00:13:55.220And that is the purpose of this commission of inquiry from Trudeau's point of view.
00:13:59.220I read to you yesterday, and I'll put them on the screen now, the instructions given by Trudeau to the judge, instructing the judge to look at five things, the first three of which are the truckers.
00:14:14.220He wants this commission inquiry to put the truckers on trial. Now, the truckers are on trial. Some of them have been given absurd charges, like our friend Tamara Leach, who has already spent 49 days in jail before her trial for the alleged crime of mischief.
00:14:28.220I've never heard of that before. I don't think that happens anywhere outside of authoritarian regimes like Trudeau's favorites, Iran, Cuba, China.
00:14:36.220So the truckers already are on trial. Trudeau wants to turn this into a political show trial of them. As you can see, he wants to put on trial the misinformation and disinformation. He wants to put on trial their sources of funding.
00:14:50.220We actually have the information. We know what the sources of funding were. Both GoFundMe and GiveSendGo testified that the vast majority of donations were from Canadians. That's why Trudeau seized their bank accounts.
00:15:04.220No, this commission of inquiry, if the judge follows the law, will be testing whether or not Justin Trudeau abused the law, broke the law by invoking a civil liberties emergency and declaring martial law.
00:15:18.220The truckers, I'm sure there are a lot of government lawyers on Trudeau's side who want to put the truckers on trial, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of that happens.
00:15:26.220Remember, truckers will be witnesses here, including to Mayor Leach herself. But I think that if the starting few days are anything to go by, I think this commission of inquiry might actually yield us an interesting set of facts and conclusions that the bailout media, the regime media, have not shown us so far.
00:15:50.220I think, I hope that the lawyers hired by this commissioner are actually interested in doing their mission.
00:15:58.220I don't, I don't want to give into a conspiracy theory that this is all a stitch up.
00:16:04.220I mean, I understand that the judge in question is a liberal and has been a liberal donor.
00:16:09.220I don't think you can hold that against them. Judges always have a political past.
00:16:13.220They used to be lawyers. They were looking to curry favor to get appointed.
00:16:17.220I don't think we can say resolutely that this is an inside job just because you're in Ottawa and you have a judge with a liberal past.
00:16:26.220I don't think you can write off his work here. I actually am encouraged.
00:16:31.220It's still very early days. There's six weeks to go. We really haven't got into the meat of it yet.
00:16:37.220But if these first few days are anything to go by, these lawyers and this judge and these witnesses and this testimony is very different from the regime narrative of January, February, March,
00:16:50.220where they tried their best to demonize the protesters as some sort of violent January 6th insurrectionist.
00:16:58.220Now, I don't think that's going to be borne out at all.
00:17:01.220Now, we at Rebel News take our job here very seriously. As I told you yesterday, we have booked an Airbnb with four bedrooms and a living room that we have transformed into a little studio.
00:17:13.220And we are basing our reporters there. We're just a quick walk away from the library and archives.
00:17:18.220We're so close by and we did that on purpose. So we have quick access here.
00:17:22.220We don't need to hire cabs or anything. We can literally walk here in five minutes.
00:17:26.220And we are going to be here every day. Now, it's six weeks, so we're not going to have the same people here for the entire duration.
00:17:32.220We have our William Diaz Bertheon, our outstanding and bilingual Ottawa reporter.
00:17:38.220He's going to be here every day because this is his hometown. But others from our team will be cycling through the Airbnb.
00:17:44.220Efrain Monsanto, our head of video, Kian Simone from Alberta. Of course, I'm here for a little bit myself.
00:17:50.220So we are going to cycle through 15 of our rebel reporters, Alexa Lavoie, Lincoln J.
00:17:57.220Some of these people made their name in citizen journalism during the convoy. So they're going to be back.
00:18:02.220But this time, it's not going to be a battle in the streets. It's going to be a battle, well, in the court of public opinion.
00:18:08.220But more importantly, in this quasi-court of law. I'm excited about it.
00:18:12.220You're going to see all the rebel faces you've come to know and love.
00:18:15.220Here's what you're going to find at our homepage, TruckerCommission.com.
00:18:19.220First of all, I was talking to Efrain Monsanto, our head of video. We are now going to embed the full live stream of the commission itself completely.
00:18:30.220Every word, every utterance will be embedded on TruckerCommission.com.
00:18:35.220That should be up by the time you see this video.
00:18:38.220So if you are super interested in this, you can literally watch every moment just being straight from this building to you at TruckerCommission.com.
00:18:47.220Second of all, we're going to have curated little video clips.
00:18:50.220So, you know, if you want to watch six, eight, ten hours a day, fill your boots.
00:18:54.220But we are going to have editors cutting interesting clips like, for example, this one, a lawyer for the Justice Center for Constitution and Freedoms.
00:19:04.220My name is Brendan Miller of Foster LLP and I am counsel to Freedom Corp, which is an organization that represents the protesters of which attended Ottawa in January and February of 2022.
00:19:18.220My colleague, Ms. Beth Sheba Vandenberg of Foster LLP is my co-counsel on this matter, as well as the solicitors of record, both Mr. Keith Wilson, King's counsel, as well as Ms. Eva Chipiuk, who is counsel to the convoy.
00:19:33.220With respect to sort of everyone's given an overview of the theory of their case, it is our view that there was no justification whatsoever to invoke the Emergencies Act.
00:19:48.220The Emergencies Act requires several things.
00:19:51.220One, it could be invoked due to espionage and sabotage.
00:19:56.220Are you going to hear any evidence about espionage and sabotage?
00:20:02.220Two, it could be invoked on the basis of clandestine or deceptive foreign influence or foreign influence that involves the threat to a person.
00:20:11.220Are you going to hear evidence about that?
00:20:29.220Lastly, it can also be invoked if there is a group or persons trying to destroy or overthrow by violence the system of government of Canada.
00:20:42.220Are you going to hear evidence about individuals trying to do that?
00:20:48.220And the answer is that there was no reasonable and probable grounds to invoke the Emergencies Act and that the government exceeded their jurisdiction, both constitutionally and legislatively, in doing so.
00:21:02.220Smart guy. That's Brendan. And here's our friend Alan from the Democracy Fund yesterday. Take a look at him.
00:21:07.220My name is Alan Hohner and I am the litigation director for the Democracy Fund.
00:21:17.220The Democracy Fund is a registered charity and a civil liberties organization.
00:21:22.220As you've heard, we're sharing standing with the JCCF and with Citizens for Freedom.
00:21:28.220Our interest in this inquiry arises from our legal work.
00:21:32.220In February of 2022, we sent lawyers to Ottawa and to Windsor to provide demonstrators with legal information about their rights when protesting, as well as the limitations of those rights.
00:21:47.220Around the same time, we were granted intervener status as a friend of the court at the Superior Court of Justice in Windsor over the Ambassador Bridge injunction proceeding.
00:22:02.220Currently, we represent dozens of persons who have been criminally charged in relation to the protests at Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts.
00:22:13.220And we represent thousands of others who have been charged under the Quarantine Act or provincial offences related to the pandemic.
00:22:22.220We've also brought applications before superior courts and the Federal Court of Canada challenging laws related to the pandemic.
00:22:31.220Our objective is to participate in the fact-finding process of this inquiry, particularly as it relates to uncovering the truth about why the federal government invoked a public order emergency and how they used their powers.
00:22:48.220From our perspective, the government did not meet the requisite legal grounds to invoke a public order emergency for the same reasons you heard from Council for the Freedom Corps.
00:23:00.220It follows that the extraordinary measures the government invoked were therefore inappropriate and indeed outside their jurisdiction.
00:23:10.220Our questions and our submissions will focus on these central issues. Thank you.
00:23:15.220Yeah, just a reminder, there are some good guys who have been given standing, intervener standing by the commission. That's heartening too.
00:23:22.220So we're going to have curated clips like those two I just showed you.
00:23:25.220We're also going to have interviews, interviews with the newsmakers when they step out of the room.
00:23:30.220Yesterday, William interviewed Keith Wilson, the lawyer for Tamera Leach.
00:23:35.220William also saw Tamera Leach too, but she's under such insane bail conditions, she really was not at liberty to talk to us on camera.
00:23:44.220William said hi and the rest of the media party swarmed over like bees to honey. Take a look.
00:23:50.220Yeah, so just for the viewers at home, you know, that don't really know what's happening for the next six weeks, can you just outline quickly what's happening here in Ottawa?
00:23:57.220Well, my name is Keith Wilson. I'm one of the lawyers representing the Freedom Convoy.
00:24:01.220And because the federal government took the unprecedented step of invoking the Emergencies Act, under that law, there's a requirement for a public inquiry to be held.
00:24:12.220And that public inquiry was started here in Ottawa and it's going to last at least six weeks.
00:24:17.220There's going to be a wide range of evidence presented. Witnesses from the municipality, residents, the protesters, the police and the federal government, including the prime minister, are going to be testifying.
00:24:30.220I think it's going to be a very engaging process.
00:24:33.220You can tell from the opening day that the different stakeholders have staked out some very different territory in terms of what their positions are and what they think needs to be addressed here.
00:24:45.220And what would be the best possible outcome that you see from this inquiry?
00:24:51.220Well, the truth, that the truth comes out and with some accuracy as to what happened here in Ottawa and what was happening in other locations in the country at the time that the prime minister and his cabinet made the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act,
00:25:04.220because they made the decision in a cabinet meeting on the Sunday evening of February 13th.
00:25:09.220And on the Saturday and the Sunday of that weekend, the borders had opened at Coutts and Windsor.
00:25:15.220There was no border closures. And over that same weekend, myself and other people involved with the Freedom Convoy had negotiated a deal at the initiation of Mayor Watson of the city of Ottawa to move the trucks and the protest vehicles out of downtown, consolidate on Wellington and bring the downtown back to normal.
00:25:35.220And so in my view, and I think the evidence is going to show that it wasn't justified.
00:25:41.220It wasn't justified. There was no need for it. And the Emergencies Act's a pretty dramatic tool, to say the least.
00:25:47.220What the Emergencies Act does is it allows the government to interfere in your life without going through the normal due process.
00:25:54.220So many of my clients, many of those people involved in the Freedom Convoy had their bank accounts frozen.
00:26:00.220They were unable to buy groceries. They were unable to put gas in their vehicles. Their credit cards stopped working.
00:26:04.220They were unable to take money out of their bank accounts. Their mortgage payments bounced and so on.
00:26:08.220The order issued by the Federal Government by the Deputy Prime Minister Freeland also ordered insurance companies to cancel all of the insurance policies, including life insurance, mortgage insurance, vehicle insurance.
00:26:20.220And ordered the securities companies to liquidate any investments that Canadians had who are on this list.
00:26:27.220So these are dramatic powers to isolate Canadians from normal living and put them in a virtual jail cell financially.
00:26:35.220And in addition, what a lot of people don't understand is that under the Emergencies Act, it also gives the Federal Government powers to intrude into areas of provincial jurisdiction.
00:26:46.220It gets to override provincial government's rights. So it's a very significant tool.
00:26:51.220We've only used it historically when there's been a world war like World War One, World War Two and then the infamous FLQ crisis in Quebec where there was murders and kidnappings.
00:27:05.220So it's it's this is a very dangerous precedent. If the conditions that were on the ground here were all it takes, then we've set a very dangerous precedent in terms of government's ability to
00:27:20.220overreach and strip Canadians of their rights.
00:27:24.220You know, it was it's very exciting to be here. I showed you or let me show you again.
00:27:28.220I'm not sure if I showed you yesterday. I have in my hand a press credential media pass 13 of our rebel journalists have been accredited.
00:27:36.220And that's so normal. It would be weird. It would be like me saying, hey, look, I've got a driver's license.
00:27:41.220Well, I should hope so. You're a grown up driver's license. It's not anything to brag about.
00:27:45.220Well, in this city, as you know, the establishment has tried to blacklist Rebel News several times.
00:27:52.220We had to go to the federal court of Canada twice to be accredited by the Federal Debates Commission.
00:27:57.220The government sponsored parliamentary press gallery still blackballs us.
00:28:02.220So what a refreshing change to have a real judge say, yeah, Rebel News, of course you're accredited.
00:28:07.220Come on in. Do your journalism. Just follow our basic rules for how to conduct yourself in here.
00:28:12.220Yeah, no problem, boss. So it's severely normal and it's a pleasure to be on the inside.
00:28:17.220And it's more proof that Justin Trudeau is out of step with the norms of Canada when it comes to civil liberties.
00:28:24.220I mean, imagine blacklisting a journalistic organization just because you don't like them.
00:28:28.220It's it's really embarrassing to see a judge.
00:28:31.220The judge is running this commission. I grant us accreditation is a reminder that normal people don't believe in media censorship like Trudeau does.
00:28:40.220And and if he's going to grant Rebel News standing and accreditation without quarrel, without haggling, without testing us.
00:28:48.220Just yeah, come on in. That tells me maybe he's a little more open minded on this trucker commission than the regime media themselves.
00:28:55.220Now, I'm going to go in and there are some rules about what we can and can't film.
00:29:00.220If I can talk to folks inside, I will. But it might just be images of what's going on.
00:29:05.220I'm going to say goodbye to you now in case I can't do more journalism on the inside.
00:29:11.220And for the rest of the show, I'm going to leave it in the hands of my teammates to fill up the hour with interesting interviews and video clips that will come today.
00:29:21.220I'm recording this at 9 a.m. in the morning before things get rolling.
00:29:26.220And unfortunately, I have to leave Ottawa at noon today.
00:29:30.220My friends will put in other interviews to fill out the rest of the show.
00:29:35.220I'm going back to our world headquarters tonight and we will have people on the ground every single day, including if the commission meets on Saturdays, which is very exciting.
00:29:45.220Hey, one more thing about trucker commission dot com.
00:29:48.220I told you about the Airbnb. That's fifteen thousand dollars.
00:29:51.220I told you that we're cycling through our reporters.
00:29:53.220Got to say, I got an estimate from our travel assistant yesterday.
00:29:56.220That's probably going to be twenty grand to cycle through the fifteen people back and forth and to cover the other travel expenses.
00:30:03.220We have some equipment. We set up a little mini studio.
00:30:07.220So I think we need probably about forty thousand dollars.
00:30:10.220That's a rounding error to the regime media.
00:30:13.220I mean, just get it from Justin Trudeau.
00:30:15.220If you think this kind of journalism is important and I do, just go to trucker commission dot com.
00:30:40.220Well, while Ezra Levant is in Ottawa covering the truckers commission, I'm filling in for him in the guest segment of his show.
00:31:01.220And I've been watching the trucker commission with great attention because I find it just so darn entertaining.
00:31:09.220It's like a peek behind the most soft people you've ever seen in your life.
00:31:14.220People who would maybe die if you misgendered them, complaining about phantom honking and mystery smells that are causing them PTSD to this day.
00:31:24.220And it it almost feels made up like the people I'm listening to testify at this committee at this inquiry are a parody of what I think the other side looks like.
00:31:37.220But they are truly at this point beyond parody.
00:31:40.220And that ties right in to the interview I want to do here now with my friend David Menzies, because he did a bit of a David Menzies stunt the other day.
00:31:52.220And people, I think 50 percent of the people thought it was real because the other side is beyond parody.
00:32:01.220He went to a school board meeting dressed as the jugsy male shop teacher who wears the prosthetic chest to operate the bandsaw to deliver a petition to the school board.
00:32:17.220And joining me now is my friend David Menzies to discuss all of that.
00:32:21.220It is truly fascinating because I watched the social media responses to the social media clips that went out.
00:32:31.220And I think 50 percent of the people thought you were actually the teacher that goes by Kayla Lemieux.
00:32:40.220I'm so happy to be on the show with you, Sheila, because really, I do want to get a couple of things off my chest.
00:32:45.220Anyway, you know, Jerry Agar of News Talk 1010 here in the local market did a commentary on this.
00:32:52.220And Jerry's a good guy. And even though he's with the evil bell media, he did give Rebel News and myself some kudos for proving a point about the hypocrisy of the Halton District School Board.
00:33:05.220But to your original point, yeah, I was looking at the Twitter feed on this and people were saying because there was one point where I yelled at the Halton District School Board trustees.
00:33:18.220You are as you are transphobes. And people were saying, how dare you call this school board transphobes?
00:33:28.220They are doing everything to accommodate you. And then the next reply would be, that's not the guy.
00:33:33.220That's not Lemieux. That's David Manzies with Rebel News.
00:33:39.220It was so it was so unintentionally hilarious, Sheila.
00:33:43.220Now, let's go back a little bit. I don't know how people couldn't know what this was all about.
00:33:48.220But there is a teacher at a school, a shop teacher, formerly presenting as male who just one day showed up in a wig and these enormous clownish fake breasts that make a mockery of womanhood, by the way.
00:34:05.220And to add insult to injury, tight bicycle shorts.
00:34:10.220And, you know, it's it's crazy because this is a classroom full of largely, if I know anything about shot glass, teenage boys.
00:34:19.220And this is how this person is presenting. And it's it's absolutely ridiculous.
00:34:26.220Yes, this was a petition where we were demanding the resignation of the entire Halton District School Board, along with its director of education, Mr.
00:34:38.220Mr. Innes, he him. And I simply wanted to deliver this petition more than 16000 signatures.
00:34:45.220I think it might be up to over 17000 right now, Sheila.
00:34:48.220And the amazing thing is, and the video shows this, I say which one of you is going to accept this petition?
00:34:55.220And this is how dumb these educrats are, Sheila, if they only came up and said, OK, petition received.
00:35:02.220I guess you've got no other reason to be here, be on your way.
00:35:06.220No, they were glued to their seats until they fled from their seats because I wasn't going anywhere and called the police.
00:35:13.220And naturally, because there's no crime happening in Halton region, Sheila, three police cruisers show up, you know, because I don't know, Boobzilla is on the rampage.
00:35:25.220But the hypocrisy here, Sheila, I think, is that the and there was a National Post story about this.
00:35:33.220And I got my information there because, of course, we were on the outside looking in.
00:35:37.220And it was a very good story in the post by Adrian Humphreys.
00:35:40.220And the Dr. Shuttlecock comes back and she says she apologizes.
00:39:57.220You know, it's funny that the trans community is so interested in keeping this guy within the fold.
00:40:06.220Because he's so very obviously, for me, I don't think he's a troll at this point.
00:40:11.220I think we would have ripped that Band-Aid off by now.
00:40:15.220I think he is just, like in the olden times, he would be a guy in a trench coat at the bus stop flashing people.
00:40:22.220He gets off on just showing people his parts, even parts he doesn't have.
00:40:27.220And I think that goes to my theories about the bike shorts.
00:40:32.220But it seems weird that they're so interested in making sure that he's still on their team.
00:40:39.220And I say that because the new docu-series on Jeffrey Dahmer, and I wouldn't call it a docu-series, I would call it like a drama docu-series, on Jeffrey Dahmer was on Netflix but in the category of LGBTQ entertainment.
00:40:56.220And they were like, no, no, he's not one of ours. We don't want him.
00:41:00.220But they are so very interested in protecting this very strange man and his right to show genitals, both fake and real, to teenage boys.
00:41:10.220Sheila, you might be right, but here's the other part of the situation.
00:41:15.220If it's theory number two, i.e., this is a cosmic prank that is being played upon the Halton District School Board, Mr. Lemieux is trapped.
00:41:24.220And by that I mean, for starters, I don't think he ever dreamed this would go viral around the world like it has.
00:41:31.220That's one thing. Secondly, if he comes clean, should this be a prank?
00:41:36.220If he says, listen, mea culpa, I'm going to cover up, I'm going to dress as a male, I was just trying to prove a point.
00:41:43.220One, he will be fired with cause from the Halston District School Board.
00:41:47.220Secondly, the LGBTQ plus XYZ mafia will come after him, hell hath no fury mode, I'm telling you, Sheila, for making monkeys out of them.
00:42:00.220Because anyone in that community that is right now supporting him, they will have egg on their face.
00:42:05.220So Mr. Lemieux either has to play this through until retirement or if he goes back to being a male, he has to.
00:42:13.220The only thing I can think of, Sheila, he has to now claim he's gender fluid.
00:42:18.220Sometimes I'm a big breasted chick. Sometimes I'm a regular guy shop teacher.
00:42:22.220That's just how I roll. So, you know, I guess we'll find out in the weeks and months ahead.
00:42:27.220But it's a fascinating story, nevertheless.
00:42:30.220If he is faking for, I don't know, to prove a point or whatever, God help him if he runs into parents in the street.
00:42:40.220Because he has now, if this is the case, going to, lending to your theory, if he, if this is the case, then he has brought other people's children unwillingly in on the gag.
00:42:54.220And I don't think that's fair to do to minor children. And he's going to face blowback from parents, I suppose, either way you look at it.
00:43:02.220David, I want to ask you before we wrap up the interview, what are you going to do with that costume?
00:43:08.220Well, I'm going to go to the next school board meeting. And you know what? What do I do for an encore? That's always the question.
00:43:16.220I'm thinking of going clad in a bikini. And I don't know if retailers like Bikini Village carry tops in Zed Cup, which these are.
00:43:28.220And by the way, I've got to say, Sheila, my appreciation for womankind, all the things you do to just go through life, make yourselves pretty.
00:43:37.220I mean, I was having a backache by the end of that game. I mean, those boulders were 36.
00:43:44.220We don't wear 36 pound boulders on our chest. We don't.
00:43:48.220And again, that lends, I think, to my theory that he that he's this is who he is, because nobody wears 35 pounds on their chest every single day.
00:43:59.220Well, I'll tell you so. But the point is, I'm going to go back.
00:44:03.220I'm going to try to deliver the petition. And I still have two questions.
00:44:07.220And these are very important questions. One, whether he's trans or not, whether this is a prank or not.
00:44:13.220Why is it that Mr. Lemieux and we have the photos and video evidence to prove it, Sheila, is breaking every rule when it comes to shop etiquette?
00:44:23.220You know, long sleeves, jewelry, long hair, not put in a hair bun or, you know, under a hairnet.
00:44:31.220Why is that allowed? I mean, is enforcing safety rules transphobic if it's a trans person?
00:44:37.220And secondly, this school board very cruelly and maliciously and in a calculated way, Sheila, when the story first broke for about five days in the news cycle,
00:44:50.220there was another teacher at that school who was being misidentified as being one in the same as Mr. Lemieux.
00:44:57.220And they allowed that misinformation to go out. And you can see me talking to the director of education, Mr.
00:45:04.220Innes, he, him, because I interchanged the words several times and he let it go.
00:45:09.220Oh, but when I called Mr. Lemieux, he or him, I was corrected in terms of my misgendering.
00:45:16.220So they're not beyond correcting the narrative. I think what they wanted to do, Sheila, was throw this teacher under the bus, the innocent teacher, to say to people, uh-huh, you see how sloppy the media is?
00:45:29.220They can't even get the names right. They had ample opportunity to correct the record and they didn't. And that is despicable.
00:45:36.220You know, reality, decency, shop etiquette, propriety, even beauty, they all seem to be just the latest casualties in the war on normalcy.
00:45:49.940David, how do people continue to sign your petition? Because you're going to keep going back in one form or another as David Menzies or maybe David Mamories and try to deliver the petition so people can still keep adding their names to it.
00:46:05.680Yeah, Sheila, people can go to protectthestudents.ca. That's protectthestudents.ca. I still have the original petition in my possession.
00:46:18.340We'll add the new names. And I think about a thousand new names have come in since Wednesday.
00:46:24.460And I'll be going back to the next regularly scheduled Halton District School Board.
00:46:29.720Like I said, maybe it's a bikini, maybe it's an autumn ensemble.
00:46:35.300Who knows? And I will demand that one of these lazy trustees accept this petition.
00:46:43.380I mean, you know, Sheila, they don't seem to understand that they work for us, that is the taxpayer, that is the parents with children in this school board.
00:46:53.120It's not the other way around, but they are so entitled and they are so woke and politically correct and they are so embracing of cancel culture that they will not take a common sense approach to anything.
00:47:07.460They will not even question. And same with the rest of the mainstream media, Sheila.
00:47:11.640Like I said, there's been a couple of exceptions here, the Toronto Sun and the National Post, but the rest of the mainstream media, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, CBC, normally they're all down with radical transgenderism.
00:47:26.460But even they suspect there's something not quite right here.
00:47:31.640You know, they told us, David, there was no such thing as a slippery slope, but I think we're swiftly hurdling towards the bottom of it.
00:47:46.740By the way, David, you know, I'm handy with a sewing machine.
00:47:49.840So if you need help turning a bedsheet or a tarp into some sort of bikini top, you do let me know.
00:47:56.640Thanks for taking on this story. Only you could do it.
00:47:59.780Sheila, I'm always there to deliver the jiggle with the giggle.
00:48:12.880I'd like to present a petition called Protect the Students.
00:50:36.600Heather Francie, a communications director who doesn't communicate.
00:50:40.900Not until Monday night, 10, 18 p.m. to be precise, did you correct that.
00:50:46.300Why did you throw Mr. Hanna under the bus?
00:50:49.660Yeah, so you see, once again, I got the bums rush.
00:50:52.700I'm not even sure if they're going to let me in the building or whether their security or even police accomplices are going to keep them protected from impolite questions,
00:51:04.300such as why did they allow Steve and Hanna, an innocent teacher, to be misidentified for several days before they corrected the record.
00:57:23.000Where is the world going if we do not tackle this right now?
00:57:28.000This is who we're going to have teaching in preschools?
00:57:31.000It is up to you right now to set an example for every other school in Canada.
00:57:36.000I am begging you on behalf of my children and their children that they're going to have one day
00:57:42.000to have the courage and stand up against this agenda that is so sickly being pushed upon our children.
00:57:49.000I'm shaking and I'm almost in tears because I'm begging you, the adults that have some power, that have some say to put the children first.
01:01:31.000And not one single one of them would say a single word or come forward to accept the petition.
01:01:36.000This is not a person who's transitioning.
01:01:38.000A person who's transitioning, as you just said, would do it in a more, you know, not so out there manner.
01:01:44.000Like the prosthetics wouldn't be out to here, right?
01:01:47.000So this has to be, obviously, a mental illness that we're dealing with.
01:01:52.000So why do we have somebody that's clearly mentally disturbed around our kids wearing something that they bought, like in a sex shop or on Amazon?
01:02:00.000This, it's, I don't know, it blows my mind that the adults, we just had how many adults walk away and not say anything.
01:02:07.000Like these people are the ones that are in charge of making decisions for our kids.
01:02:12.000Sign our petition at protectthestudents.ca.