While the national media focuses on the truckers in Ottawa, let s tell you what s happening in Coutts, Alberta. We have two reporters embedded in the group, and we ll talk about what they have to tell you. That s on today s show.
00:02:29.880Okay. So it says, F your white nationalist agenda.
00:02:37.560I am not a white. This is nothing to do about white. This is nothing to do with truckers. This is about
00:02:43.920freedom for all of Canadians. You can be brown, black, white, blue, whatever color you want to be.
00:02:49.940This is about freedom. And Trudeau has no right to put us in this condition of mandates throughout the country.
00:02:56.480Children are not going to school. It's a terrible thing to do.
00:03:00.780Oh, thank God for Rebel News. It may be. You think Fox is an anomaly in the United States.
00:03:05.960How do you like to be Rebel News? Literally the only people in all of Canada who are playing it straight.
00:03:11.300So there they are trying to tell you that some guy from the subcontinent is a white nationalist.
00:03:15.980They're trying. They're trying hard. And now they have evidence. It's brought to you by CNN, naturally, working in tandem with the CBC.
00:03:24.740Apparently, brace yourselves, there was a Trump sign in the crowd of truckers.
00:03:28.540That was fun. But all sorts of other media in the United States and around the world, TV stations to websites.
00:03:36.260I mean, even Breitbart.com did a story just about my speech to the truckers.
00:03:42.420They really liked it. I liked it, too. And so did the truckers.
00:03:45.780But of course, it wasn't going to be covered by the media, even if it was newsworthy.
00:03:51.080I mean, I don't know if a speech from me is newsworthy.
00:03:56.440Nearly one million viewers seem to think it was.
00:03:59.660I think it might actually be the most watched speech of the trucker convoy, but it would never be covered by the media party in Canada because it's me.
00:04:09.080And the media party dislikes me as much as I dislike them.
00:04:11.660And secondly, even if they didn't know me from Adam, they would still hate my message.
00:05:10.560And most importantly, it would destroy their civil liberties, which I think is the most important part, don't you?
00:05:15.260Now, there have been a lot of wonderful truckers I've gotten to know over the past week, if not in person, at least through their social media accounts.
00:05:24.260This guy is for sure one of my favorites.
00:05:29.540In your last speech, you said that almost 90% of Canadians are vaccinated and they are very careful about their help and stuff like that, right?
00:05:39.160Yes, maybe almost 90% of Canadians are vaccinated.
00:05:44.160But have you ever asked them why are they getting vaccinated?
00:05:48.560Go ask them if they're getting vaccinated because of the fear of your mandates or the fear of COVID.
00:06:33.940And maybe that makes me love him all the more because I have always believed that freedom and loving freedom is a human condition, not just for this race or that race.
00:06:43.720I've always believed that everyone wants to be free.
00:06:47.240When people say China's Confucian cultural mindset is for order and rules and obedience and hierarchy, I don't want to accept that.
00:06:57.180I mean, you can point to Hong Kong and Taiwan as proof to the contrary.
00:07:09.480But sometimes the Liberal Party in Canada and the Democrats in the States seem to grab voters as soon as they immigrate here as a sort of implicit, I let you into the country, I'm a left-winger, so now vote left-wing with me as payment.
00:07:24.320So to see this next guy with his smiling face so calmly and plainly use words like rights and freedoms and liberties, I don't know, maybe it was a combination of those words and his smiling face.
00:08:34.040I mean, I remember how we covered the railroad blockaders from two years ago.
00:08:38.700Anti-oil protesters are putting thousands of Canadian jobs at risk and potentially bankrupting farmers, and Trudeau's liberals are ready to negotiate with these economic and eco-terrorists instead of supporting and enforcing the rule of law.
00:08:56.820How are these truckers blocking the road different from those anti-foot types blocking the railway?
00:09:03.360It's a good question and one to consider.
00:09:25.520You've already heard about the trucker convoy, but that's not just happening in Ottawa.
00:09:28.820You see, that sparks something across the nation.
00:09:31.440And right now, we've got a trucker convoy.
00:09:33.780It's a slow roll, a Truckers for Freedom rally that's taking place at the border, stopping travel between Canada and the United States of Freedom Land.
00:09:42.300Now, this is somewhat unprecedented and Jason Kenney himself has come out against these guys because they don't want to go through permanent medical procedures to live their daily lives.
00:09:53.060So we're going to find out what happens.
00:09:56.940He's been going out there and tomorrow he's going to get some coverage of some of the guys here and to see some of the action that's been going on.
00:10:03.240Because as we were walking through, there were barbecue pits, all sorts of stuff.
00:10:06.800So these guys, they're digging their feet in right now.
00:10:09.540They're not going anywhere until all of these mandates are lifted.
00:10:12.300And we saw a sign on the way that would tell you exactly that.
00:24:19.560They're not budging on the move in or get arrested and held here.
00:24:23.840The truckers, in response to that, they're not budging.
00:24:28.540They are parking their trucks into ditches, so it's harder to be towed.
00:24:34.400And above this, the checkpoints that were around Cootes, Alberta, not letting food in, not letting supplies in, not letting medicine in for people who have conditions.
00:25:04.520This is amazing reportage by you and Sidney Fouzard.
00:25:07.420In the room, when the police lay down their ultimatum, let's take a look at that clip now that I'm literally looking off your Twitter feed.
00:27:42.020I don't think this is very rare reportage to be in the room.
00:27:47.200As police negotiate with the truckers, you can see our lawyer, Chad Williamson there, the police deaf to his appeals, the police making it clear that they're following orders.
00:27:59.080They're not quite clear who the orders are from.
00:28:01.060I should tell our viewers who are unfamiliar with how policing works in rural parts of Alberta, it is the federal RCMP, the Mounties, who are the police, but they are on a contract with the provincial government to provide rural policing.
00:28:16.320Other provinces like Ontario or Quebec have their own provincial police forces.
00:28:21.920I wonder if these cops are taking orders from Justin Trudeau in Ottawa or from Jason Kenney in Alberta.
00:28:30.160And please don't tell me the fiction that politics doesn't apply to policing.
00:28:34.520I've just observed too much in the last two years to believe that anymore.
00:28:38.200So, K2, you say that the police have begun enforcing.
00:28:43.100So, basically, they've got, I presume, heavy-duty tow trucks, the kind of tow trucks that would be needed to lift a semi-trailer, like a tractor trailer.
00:29:00.720And, amazing enough, Sid ran over there to check it out.
00:29:04.500So, when he says enforcement, you know, they could just be arresting people or they could be moving people out of the way so that they could come here.
00:29:13.080To the point before of the RCMP talking with the protesters and Chad, we don't know where the order came from.
00:29:38.000And the police said that's not a choice.
00:29:41.280And it caused a big rift between them.
00:29:44.220And I think that's where a lot of the tension started, where they do have a choice and the protesters were not happy with how this is going.
00:29:51.560Yeah, now, I haven't looked deeply and carefully at what the police said in full.
00:29:57.520Did they say what the arrests were for?
00:29:59.760I mean, when you arrest someone, as a cop, you typically have to say what the arrest is for.
00:30:05.320And if someone is in a restaurant and their truck is out there, I can't imagine what the charge would be.
00:30:14.200Mischief, maybe, some traffic offense.
00:30:17.200Like, when I park somewhere illegally, I get a traffic ticket.
00:30:20.540Maybe it's under the Highway Traffic Act or something.
00:30:26.420So, yesterday, during the three sets of negotiations, there were the RCMP officers suggested that it could be traffic violations for tickets, critical infrastructure.
00:30:38.740And one more, they said criminal code, but they didn't go any further than that.
00:30:42.760So, today, during the negotiation, their demand was that they're opening up the highway regardless, that be RCMP.
00:30:51.340So, maybe it's an obstruction of justice that that could be.
00:31:01.380And, of course, police can charge whatever they want, whether or not those charges hold up.
00:31:07.100I would imagine, I mean, like, if you're parked in a handicapped parking spot, if you're parked in a lane, you can be towed.
00:31:13.660You're not going to be charged with a crime.
00:31:15.380I have – I don't know what would happen in a mischief charge.
00:31:19.760Mischief is almost a catch-all criminal offense.
00:31:22.760You mentioned that critical infrastructure law.
00:31:25.120Now, politicians who hate democratic, peaceful protests have started to bring in these laws to ban protests they don't like outside a politician's home, in front of a hospital, for example.
00:31:38.320By the way, I'm not sure if protesting outside a hospital or a home is the best choice to make.
00:31:43.400But both are public places, and we believe in the right to protest, even if politicians don't like it.
00:31:48.860So it would be an interesting test of that law to have it applied to these truckers at a border crossing.
00:31:54.480Well, this is very interesting, K2, and I know you're extremely cold there, and it's probably hard to hold the phone in your hands.
00:32:03.460I can't thank you enough for your coverage.
00:32:06.640You and Sydney were on the phone yesterday when I personally spoke to the truckers, and I said that we would crowdfund their legal defense.
00:32:16.320Everyone deserves a lawyer, and especially people who don't have access to justice, can't afford a great lawyer, don't know how to hire a lawyer, don't know how to get one to come down quickly.
00:32:27.580So I feel really good that we're able to get Chad there and another lawyer with them, Marty, and there's another lawyer, part of their team, that if they do face these charges, will fight the charges.
00:32:38.480I believe everyone has the right to a lawyer, and I'm very proud that we're doing that at truckerlawyer.ca.
00:32:44.960Can you tell me about the mood of the men?
00:37:23.900One more point on when they asked for help, when we agreed and everything happened with sending Chad out here and fundraising, they were almost in tears.
00:37:34.660They were hugging, patting each other on the back.
00:37:36.600They were hugging me when we were on speakerphone.
00:38:27.280Here's what I think about the news, and here's how I'm looking at the news.
00:38:30.660And the third thing we do is advocacy.
00:38:32.560In this case, we're helping folks get access to justice that they simply would not have been able to do on their own, I think.
00:38:39.320I mean, maybe they have – I mean, that's not for me to say, but to get Chad Williamson down there in time and to tell these guys their legal rights, I feel that's an accomplishment.
00:38:52.320I bet a lot's going to go down today and tomorrow, so stay safe.
00:40:09.720That's not a name your mama would give you.
00:40:12.200Says the only politicians I have a shred of respect for are the ones who've been out there standing and meeting with the convoy and protesters.
00:40:19.440There's about five I was able to count and less than Lewis is one of them.
00:40:23.420If she or Pierre aren't the leader of the conservatives next, we're doomed.
00:41:21.980Where are all the other conservatives talking to the Rebel?
00:41:25.720Well, I think you're going to see a lot more in the days ahead.
00:41:28.480In fact, in our morning story meeting, I think we listed about five conservative MPs who have been aching to talk to Rebel News for two years, but simply didn't want to be thrown out of the party for it.
00:41:39.180Now they're no longer afraid of the big bad wolf of Aaron O'Toole.
00:41:42.560So I think you can expect to see conservative MPs on our shows regularly.
00:41:47.300And it just shows that we were not actually shunned by the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:41:51.860We were shunned by a red Tory pretender who is now being thrown into the dustbin of history.