A new Marxist government ideology has been introduced in Canada. It's called "Environmental Equity" and it's a new form of Marxist ideology. I'll tell you what the government's thinking is, and how they deliberately don't define the terms.
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00:04:46.960In December 2021, the mandate letter for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change included a commitment to introduce legislation to require the development of an environmental justice strategy.
00:04:58.120In February 2022, the government supported the private members bill, C-226, an act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent, and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice in parliament.
00:05:13.880So, Scott, it's got nothing to do with clean air, clean soil, clean water.
00:05:17.900It's about queering the environment, about radicalizing it, about genderizing it, about transgenderizing it, about turning it into the next Marxist battleground.
00:05:31.860This bill includes the requirement to have a strategy to promote efforts across Canada to advance environmental justice and to assess, prevent, and address environmental racism.
00:05:44.620This includes a study looking at the links between race, socioeconomic status, and environmental risks.
00:05:50.660The strategy will include these findings and measures to advance environmental justice, such as possible amendments to federal laws, policies, and programs.
00:05:58.240It's like when Trudeau brought in gender analysis to new pipeline projects.
00:07:09.280Environmental justice and environmental racism are broad concepts that can be applied in various contexts.
00:07:16.320While environmental racism and justice is a new area of work for the government of Canada,
00:07:20.560grassroots organizations have significant knowledge and experience in advocating for communities and raising awareness on these issues.
00:07:27.220The government of Canada aims to work with these organizations, affected communities, and those with lived experiences to inform the development of a national strategy.
00:07:34.820So they're going to get little radical groups out there to find this kooky ideological BS.
00:07:40.740And of course, they're all paid for by the government anyway.
00:08:24.880Oh, seeking to ensure fair and meaningful inclusion of affected peoples and equal sharing of benefits and costs when making decisions about the environment.
00:08:37.280When making these decisions, environmental justice aims to recognize and seek to address the existing inequalities faced by indigenous, racialized, or otherwise marginalized communities.
00:08:52.480And you might be thinking, well, shouldn't the government know what it's talking about when it's going to do something like this?
00:08:57.480And that's where you'd be wrong because you're thinking about this wrong.
00:09:00.520The whole point is for environmental justice, environmental equity to be so vague that it literally can be used to do anything to anyone for any reason.
00:10:24.080But if you add an adjective to justice, then immediately you've changed it, haven't you?
00:10:30.080You've taken the blindfold off because you're going to favor certain things.
00:10:32.980It's like the difference between a journalist and a government journalist, right?
00:10:36.660That's the difference between justice and social justice, isn't it?
00:10:40.780Social justice was just a battering ram to smash through real justice in the name of race and sex or other socialism.
00:10:47.660Well, this is adding a new front, environmental justice.
00:10:51.120Of course, they don't know what it means or if they know, they're not going to tell you because that would be too right-wing to have a fixed definition.
00:10:59.020They'll leave it up to activists to determine just what they're going to do with this power.
00:11:03.040But let me tell you, it all has to do with removing the blindfolds of justice.
00:11:39.420When it comes to the environment, environmental racism is when environmental decision-making policies and practices overly disadvantage some people due to their race.
00:11:48.900This outcome can be intentional or unintentional.
00:22:53.300Or like Jeff says, it's sort of everyone deemed to be part of the class action from the beginning.
00:22:59.800Yeah, no, it's everyone's already in the class action.
00:23:02.740So only those that want to opt out will be opting out and contacting us.
00:23:07.160But I think what's helpful, given that I've been involved in the freedom movement, as you say, is that we're able to get the message out.
00:23:16.300Even today, it's clearly getting a lot of attention, which is great.
00:23:19.920So that people understand and start to appreciate that there's somebody that's trying to do something for all of the harms that have occurred over the last few years.
00:23:31.320And maybe it'll entice people in other provinces to do the same as well.
00:23:37.720And I'm very eager to be involved in this and happy to be working with Jeff on this.
00:23:42.820Because you could really see how those mandates affected businesses.
00:23:48.320And they were targeted and took on this massive financial burden for the benefit of public in general.
00:23:56.960And nobody really thought too much about them.
00:23:59.960And so we're bringing some attention to that now.
00:24:03.820Obviously, Ezra, with regard to this lawsuit, we've been planning this since we first filed on behalf of Rebecca Ingram way back in 2020.
00:24:12.820When they came down with the ridiculous lockdown orders, telling us how many friends that we could have in our homes for Christmas and Hanukkah.
00:24:19.220If you recall those silly orders, you were allowed, you know, married couples were allowed to have two friends.
00:24:25.360You know, all that silliness that came out of Hinshaw early in the pandemic.
00:24:29.600We've been in court for Rebecca Ingram since the fall of 2020.
00:24:34.040And, of course, the big victory for us in the Ingram case is we planned from the outset to argue the ultraviaries point and needed to win on the ultraviaries point, not the charter points.
00:24:44.220Because in finding that the orders themselves were ultraviaries or outside of the scope of the Public Health Act, there's a section of the Public Health Act, believe it or not, that we say should be repealed.
00:24:55.580That prevents lawsuits against public health officials and the Alberta government in the event that they pass lawful public health orders that cause massive damages and economic losses to people that are, you know, that are, in effect, being asked to, you know, are told, not last.
00:25:14.500They're being told to lock up their businesses for the benefit of everybody else.
00:25:18.180In effect, having their property expropriated without compensation is the way that the Public Health Act is structured.
00:25:24.940But because the court of King's Bench ruled that the orders were ultraviaries of the Public Health Act are outside of the scope of the Public Health Act, that section 66.1 protection no longer applies.
00:25:37.040And we have a clear statement of liability from the court of King's Bench, and we're going straight at the Alberta government for business losses, you know, of the people that suffered these horrendous illegal orders.
00:25:49.760Let me just check to make sure I understand what you're saying.
00:25:53.000The law in Alberta says if the government makes a public health order and it causes some harm, they're immune to prosecution.
00:26:01.380But that only applies if it's a lawful order.
00:26:04.040So if it's an unlawful order that they didn't have the legal power to do, they are subject to litigation.
00:26:12.560Yeah, but I mean, the point's a little bit more subtle than that.
00:26:15.720Because of the finding of ultraviaries, and that was a very important finding, on its face, the orders were not issued under the Public Health Act.
00:26:23.540They were, you know, they're outside the scope of the Public Health Act, so they wouldn't attract any Public Health Act protection, which was a huge win for us.
00:26:31.500And what we were, you know, I have to say, plotting from the beginning, because we wanted to be able to sue at the end of the day to recover damages on everybody's behalf, who was shut down under these lawful orders.
00:26:41.600I mean, people committed suicide over these orders.
00:26:44.720It's just, I mean, it's just heartbreaking.
00:26:46.300And of course, when I was cross-examining Dina Hinshaw, and I asked her if she knew how many people committed suicide because of her evil public health orders, her answer was, oh, I wouldn't know the answer to that question.
00:26:58.480You'll have to ask the chief medical examiner of the province of Alberta.
00:27:02.500So then my next question was, okay, Dr. Hinshaw, did you ever ask the chief medical examiner of the province of Alberta how many people committed suicide as a result of your orders?
00:27:11.120Her answer was shocking, it was, no, you know, so I mean, just this lack of care, lack of thought, lack of empathy, lack of feeling for the fact that you've devastated families, you've basically expropriated their life savings.
00:27:23.820All these people that had to keep pouring their personal savings and retirement funds into keeping their businesses alive, while Dina Hinshaw, at a whim, you know, would come up with, it seemed like, a new stupid restriction every single day on our rights and liberties.
00:27:38.020Yeah. Jeff, you're bringing back a lot of bad memories. I've tried in some ways to forget what life was like back then. I mean, we at Rebel News fought very hard. We had the Fight the Fines project where we tried to help people big and small fight against it.
00:27:53.880That's where we met your client, Chris Scott. But I forgot about how atrocious it was. Hey, Abe, I got a question for you. Again, I'm a former lawyer, but I haven't practiced law in a while and I've never done any class actions.
00:28:07.420I understand you guys were in court yesterday before a judge seeking certification of a class action. Am I right on that? And what does it mean for the class to be certified? And correct my terminology if I got it wrong. I'm just not that familiar with class action lawsuits.
00:28:24.820Well, I'm getting to know them as well. So it's a learning experience for me. But it was a case management meeting yesterday. So it wasn't the certification hearing yet. That's going to come up likely in September.
00:28:40.800So that's going to take a little bit of time. In the case management yesterday, it was really to find out whether or not or what the province's release is that the province made it known to us that they were going to be challenging the certification.
00:28:58.700So one thing of note for yourself and your audience is generally certification.
00:29:04.920That step, from my understanding, is that it's not the most difficult test. It's not whether or not the lawsuit is valid per se, but whether or not it makes sense for the court and the court system to put everyone together.
00:29:18.540So there's not 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 lawsuits. It makes sense to put everyone together in the efficiency of the judicial system and all of that.
00:29:29.900So the question that we're going to be posing to the court in September, unless the province, of course, changes its opinion on this, is whether or not it's going to be certified and all businesses can come together under this one lawsuit.
00:29:45.020And I think that's an important point, Ezra, that I'd like to get your listeners to internalize.
00:29:51.240We need to bring as much political pressure to bear as we can on the Alberta government.
00:29:55.500It's not even clear from talking to the Alberta government lawyers whether Premier Smith is even aware of the fact that they're opposing certification in this matter.
00:30:03.800I mean, needless to say, Danielle Smith is an MLA, has hundreds, if not thousands of constituents in her home riding whose businesses were destroyed as a result of these lockdown orders.
00:30:15.020Needless to say, you know, the tens of thousands of people that all came together to elect Danielle Smith, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, would not expect her to be opposing the compensation of business owners whose lives and property were destroyed by illegal government orders.
00:30:35.820So, you know, this Alberta government stance on certification might just be, you know, from our perspective, might just be the knee-jerk reaction of Alberta government lawyers to, you know, suits that are filed.
00:30:46.500But I think everybody that's watching and listening to this program, you know, needs to be writing their MLAs, writing to Danielle Smith, and encouraging them to settle this case sooner rather than later, rather than delaying for years the compensation of all these businesses and Albertans whose lives were destroyed by orders that the Court of King's Bench has clearly found to be illegal.
00:32:08.880It would be very, I think there's a real chance that if Danielle Smith and her brain trust really think about this, that instead of fighting it like hell, they say, well, let's come up with a thoughtful settlement that actually ameliorates some of the damage that this government illegally did.
00:32:27.480They said, hey, Abe, I've got a question for you.
00:32:30.740We just talked about the Emergencies Act because, I mean, we've been talking about it for two weeks, really.
00:32:36.100In that case, I don't know if there were hundreds of thousands of businesses that were hurt, but I know there were hundreds of bank accounts that were seized.
00:32:44.280Have you guys thought at all, and look at me giving you work to do, have you guys thought at all about a class action for the Federal Emergencies Act?
00:32:53.920It looks like the feds are going to appeal the ruling by Justice Mosley that said it was unconstitutional, but there you'd have a smaller class action, I think, probably just 300 people.
00:33:04.540But I would think that is a very powerful class action.
00:33:09.120Is that something that's on your mind, or are you keeping that rabbit in the hat for now?
00:33:19.480But on the point of the appeal, I would bet that the feds are not going to appeal it.
00:33:25.420It's such a good, well-written decision.
00:33:27.940If they did, it would be more for political purposes, not for legal purposes.
00:33:32.860They also have to consider if they do appeal, and then the Court of Appeal reinforces that decision.
00:33:39.820In the case of the Ingram one we're talking about here, the province decided not to appeal it, which I think was the right step to do, not to continue with taxpayers' money on appealing these decisions that clearly were illegal.
00:33:55.060So on that point, I wanted just to make that note.
00:34:00.600But I think there's going to be a few lawsuits coming out of this.
00:34:04.000There's a lot of buzz around that, so stay tuned for that.
00:34:06.800Yeah, we wouldn't be giving away solicitor-client privilege secrets by telling you that our office is being inundated by emails from people who suffered business losses as a result of their bank accounts being seized and mistreatment by the authoritarian Trudeau Junta in Ottawa.
00:34:23.940Yeah, and that was one of the things that Justice Mosley really focused on, is that the broad brush approach of seizing family – I mean, a lot of families have a joint bank account, mom and dad, and that same bank account is for groceries, is for medical needs, is for school, is for rent.
00:34:42.700So you're tagging maybe dad who's at the protest, but you've punished mom and kids.
00:34:48.520Like, holy cow, does that cry out for some compensation, especially given the harsh rebuke of the federal court.
00:36:04.360The second point is with regard to this case, the Ingram-Scott class action case in particular,
00:36:12.680everybody's got to remember that liability has already been determined in this case.
00:36:16.560So we have, you know, Justice Romain of the Court of King's Bench, who was very skeptical throughout of all of the arguments that we were putting forward,
00:36:26.380found herself bound to find that these orders were patently unlawful at the end of the day,
00:36:31.440even though she would have found them to be constitutional had she been able to do that if the orders were patently illegal.
00:36:37.560So we have a very strong finding of liability in our favor going forward.
00:36:43.200And again, I would urge all of your viewers and all of your listeners to reach out to their MLAs and reach out to Danielle Smith.