How's life under martial law treating you？
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Justin Trudeau has declared martial law in the streets of Canada. What does that mean for our civil liberties? Is the country any different now that our liberties have been infringed? I take you through my observations on day one under Trudeau s form of martial law.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through my observations on day one under Trudeau's
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form of martial law. Is the country any different now that our civil liberties have been infringed?
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I'll show you some cases where it is different and some where it's not, some where it's better
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Hey, how's life under martial law treating you? It's February 15th 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 about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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Well, I woke up today and I drove to work and I thought, what does the world look like
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under a form of martial law? There are not soldiers in our streets, but it is
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the modern version of the War Measures Act, the Emergencies Act. Driving to work, the world looked
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no different. And I don't think most people even notice that we're in a civil liberties emergency.
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I think that's because there actually isn't a national emergency. There is no sharp, acute, dramatic
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problem that needed to be solved. And thus, no solution to it is needed or felt. By the way,
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I think we're numbed to emergencies these days. We've been told that we're in a perpetual emergency
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every two weeks, really, for two years. So I think if there actually were a national crisis,
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a genuine insurrection, mass riots, some foreign army, we would notice that and then the solution
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to it would be noticed and appreciated. When the FLQ crisis was in Canada 52 years ago,
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people actually did feel a fear of foreign-funded terrorism, the FLQ. I think one of the reasons
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the world didn't look much changed today is because there is no emergency and so the solution doesn't
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seem to have a problem. Ottawa, the city of Ottawa still looks the same other than the police chief quit.
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But why did he quit and not the mayor or the prime minister? Why is it always the
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paid staffer and not the political boss who pays the price? Now, I have to say, I'm glad he's gone.
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His press conference and his tweets about the truckers were completely unacceptable.
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Here, here's a reminder. Here's a press conference version that was also parceled out in 20-odd tweets.
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We have increased ability to identify and target protesters and supporters of protesters who are
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funding and enabling unlawful and harmful activity by the protesters themselves.
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Investigative evidence-gathering teams are collecting financial, digital, vehicle registration,
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driver identification, insurance status, and other related evidence that will be used in prosecutions.
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Every unlawful act, including traffic and insurance violations, will be fully pursued,
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regardless of the origin, at any time in the future.
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The primary focus of each of these measures will be on the unlawful behavior connected to the
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ongoing demonstrations. This includes parallel and counter demonstrations.
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We strongly urge all demonstrators and those engaging with the demonstrators to act lawfully,
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The hatred, the violence, the illegal acts that Ottawa residents and businesses have endured over
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the last week is unacceptable in any circumstance.
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The Ottawa Police Service and the City of Ottawa are bringing significantly greater resources to restore
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order, hold offenders to account, and protect our neighborhoods.
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The current demonstration in the Parliamentary Precinct Red Zone remains unresolved,
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despite significant successes in reducing the number of trucks and demonstrators,
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We take no solace in these operational successes to date.
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The demonstrators in the Red Zone area remain highly organized, well-funded,
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extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstration safely.
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This remains, as it was from the beginning, an increasingly volatile and increasingly dangerous demonstration.
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There is no way that that cop wrote that speech. I don't know who wrote it for him,
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if it was the mayor, if it was Justin Trudeau, if it was Gerald Butts.
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That is not a speech that any real cop should give. He should have resigned then.
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He resigned today. Another notch in the belt, I guess, of the trucker convoy.
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In Coots, Alberta, the men wrapped up their blockade.
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Look at them hugging the cops. That doesn't look like a national emergency.
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They just went home. There are some charges out there.
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And as you know, Rebel News is crowdfunding top-notch lawyers.
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As I like to say, if Omar Khadr, the convicted, confessed al-Qaeda terrorist,
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I see that the RCMP put out this tweet of the violent military cell that they confiscated.
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Now, I admit this sure looks bad to city folks, especially in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal,
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who have never seen a gun. But if you look at that, that's really what you would expect to find
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in pretty much any country home in Canada, a rural farm or a ranch.
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Those guns look pretty scary because some of them are black and some of them have camouflage,
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but they're really hunting rifles. Almost all of them are just little .22s.
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Those are not bulletproof vests. They can have armor plating in them, but they don't.
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The RCMP claimed they're bulletproof vests. Those look like a lot of bullets, but not really.
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I think that this was designed to scare Toronto-centric media, who don't really understand a lot about
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how the other half lives. I keep thinking of this tweet from Marika of the Globe and Mail,
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who saw a little weight on the bottom of a crane and thought it was a wrecking ball.
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So that's the kind of expertise the RCMP counts on in the media party. But nonetheless, this violent
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cell, and maybe it is. We'll find out when the facts are out. That's why the truckers went home.
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They didn't want to be associated with any violence, not because of the emergency act,
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and certainly not because of the cops. You saw them hugging. The truckers just wanted to distance
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themselves from that. So that's what the world looked like today. The truckers had their win.
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The Ottawa chief is gone. And the coward Doug Ford now says, hey guys, I never really believed in a
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vaccine mandate. No, sir. No, no, not me. Why would you ever say that?
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You know, you can go to, you can go to Costco, you can go to Walmart, you can go shopping.
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You know, you don't know if the person has a shot beside you or not, but we also know
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that it doesn't matter if you have one shot or 10 shots, you can catch COVID. See, the prime
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ministry has triple shots. And I know hundreds of people with three shots that caught COVID.
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We just have to be careful. We've got to always make sure we wash our hands and move forward. But
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Colin, we can't stay in this position forever. We got to learn to live with this and get on with our
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lives. I bet if I asked every single person in this room, do you want these damn masks or do you want
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them off? They want them off. They want to get back to normal. They want to be able to go for dinner
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with their families. And there's every single person, including myself, knows people that are
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unvaccinated. You know, sure, there's there's a rebel rousers. And then there's just hardworking
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people that just don't believe in it. And that's their choice. This is about, again, that democracy and
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freedoms and liberties. And I hate as a government telling anyone what to do. We just got to get moving
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forward and get out of this and protect the jobs. You know, I think a lot of people call
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probably yourself, too. Everyone's done with us. Like we are done with it. Let's let's start moving
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on and cautiously. And, you know, we've followed the rules, all of us, like 90 percent of us
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for for over two years. The world's done with it. So let's just move forward. Everyone is gaslighting
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you now. Everyone is pretending they had nothing to do with any of it these past two years. No,
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no, no. Please forget everything they've said and done for two years, done to you, done to your
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business, done to your family. Even Jason Kenney, the imprisoner of more Christian pastors than
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communist China, is talking about his own actions in the third person, as in who did these terrible
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things. He keeps on saying these damaging rules, these damaging orders. That's a Trudeau way of
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talking, as if you're a third person, a passive observer, as opposed to the guy who did the damage.
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I remind you, though, that Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky is still in prison in solitary confinement today.
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And the Jason Kenney, despite saying the vaccine passport's over, is still providing QR codes and the
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government database to support vaccine passports in private companies. Jason Kenney has not taken
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his foot off of the neck of freedom in Alberta. But boy, he wants you to think he has, because he
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sees the reckoning coming. These truckers have done more for our freedom than anyone else in two years.
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Which brings us to the real purpose of the Emergencies Act. It wasn't to solve a true national
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emergency. It was to solve a political emergency. These truckers are the natural heirs to the yellow
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vest movements of France. Remember them? They were a grassroots movement of truckers and other
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motorists who were opposed to the carbon tax and other government rules and regulations. It was
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grassroots and it was out of control by the fancy people. And of course, the response back then was to
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deem yellow vests a symbol of hatred. Well, they've done the same thing to the truckers. But boy, have
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the truckers ever changed the world? The truckers are so visual. A convoy of trucks is impressive.
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The idea is spreading. Here it is in Israel. There are plans for trucking convoys in America. I'm getting
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emails from people in California about a huge convoy planned for that state. I wonder if it's any
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coincidence that that state is removing its mask rules and its other rules as quickly as possible.
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They don't want to be hit by a truck. It truly is an international movement, but not a globalist one.
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Do you know the difference between international and globalist? International means it's simply in
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different countries. Globalist means it's a rootless global governance, undemocratic and unaccountable.
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These truckers are the ultimate in grassroots, authentic, organic, uncontrollable by the masters
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of the universe. Truckers. I mean, they can't really be canceled by big tech, can they? When they speak or
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when they drive, they can't be deleted by YouTube. But I guess they sort of can be. The trucks that have
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been parked in Ottawa have been doxxed. Do you know what that means? That they're personal details. People
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have been looking up the names of the companies whose trucks they work for and emailing their employers
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and complaining and calling insurance companies. They've even had a website revealing personal
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information, harassing these truckers. That's what the caring left does to peaceful protests. The give,
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send, go crowdfunding engine that was used by the truckers after GoFundMe canceled the first crowdfunding
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effort. They were hacked very quickly and very professionally. And the entire list of donors
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was published online. Stolen private information. And it was made public to everyone. Isn't that funny?
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Right before Christia Freeland announced that she was going to punish those donors. The harassment of
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those donors was done in an orchestrated campaign. And now I see the CBC, Trudeau State Broadcasters,
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getting in on it too. They have taken the stolen hacked data and they're literally emailing everyone who
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donated, naming and shaming the insurrectionists and serving them up to Christia Freeland. I've
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probably received a hundred emails today from people being targeted from Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster.
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It's not journalism what they're doing. It's acting as a stalking horse for Trudeau. And for Freeland,
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just a reminder, here's what she says she'll do to anyone who donated money to the truckers. As of today,
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a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account
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without a court order. In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in
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good faith. Federal government institutions will have a new broad authority to share relevant information
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with banks and other financial service providers to ensure that we can all work together to put a stop
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to the funding of these illegal blockades. This is about following the money. This is about stopping the
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financing of these illegal blockades. We are today serving notice. If your truck is being used in these
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illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended.
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Send your semi-trailers home. The Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work,
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not to be illegally making us all poorer. No court process, no appeal, no legal rights, having your
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property taken because the government gave the banks their enemies list. The New York Times said this was
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a violation of civil liberties. Rosemary Barton, Trudeau's main gal at the Ottawa office of the CBC,
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immediately tweeted to the New York Times, there was no civil liberties violated here.
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Sorry, are you acting as a journalist now? Are you acting as Trudeau's platonic girlfriend now? Or are you
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acting in some partisan role like you did when you sued the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2019
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election in the middle of the campaign? I don't know, but I don't think anyone can honestly say
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that the CBC are journalists. There's a world of difference between a journalist, no adjective,
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and a government journalist. If there's any adjective on the word journalist, you're not really a
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journalist, Rosemary. So what's going on here? I don't think there was a national emergency,
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certainly not one that needed the suspension of civil liberties. It's not about solving any policing
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problem. Police have the tools they need. It's about the completion of Chinese-style social credit
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systems, a national health database, and a national financial database, combined with your political
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point of view. We already know that the government illegally tracked millions of cell phone users
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without any lawful authority. The privacy commissioner said so. They're combining these things.
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In the period of the national emergency, when civil liberties and government oversight are reduced,
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they will connect the database during the suspension of our rights. And once connected,
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once the database is there, they're never going to delete it. They'll probably leak it to the internet
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before they delete it. It will combine everything about you, your health information, your home details
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that could be doxxed, your email and digital footprint, all the things that Ottawa police chiefs said they
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were collecting on you. Now they're going to associate it with your political tastes, and now you have
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a Chinese-style social credit. Will they come for you? Well, if they do, they'll probably come for me
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first. And maybe they will come for me. You know, today is the seventh birthday of Rebel News. Seven years
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we've been doing this. We started off in my living room, and now look at us, 52 employees in four countries,
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million and a half subscribers on YouTube, hundreds of thousands more on other platforms.
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I think we are the leading media entity covering the Trucker Rebellion. That's why they hate us so much.
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You'll notice that Chrystia Freeland's fury was dedicated towards crowdfunding. Well, who do you
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think crowdfunds their company? We do. I don't know what the future holds for us. Justin Trudeau has
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always admired tyrants like Fidel Castro and communist China. We actually haven't raised any funds for the
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truckers. We've raised funds for lawyers to defend the civil liberties of all Canadians, including
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truckers, and as you know, 2,000 other people who got lockdown tickets over the last two years.
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Arthur Pawlowski being one of them. I believe that Rebel News complies with the law. We're actually
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extremely compliant. We assume we're being investigated all the time. We're probably being spied on by the
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government. We are in many ways the most effective opposition force to the government today. I don't
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think you can honestly say the Conservative Party of Canada has fulfilled that role ably for the last
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two years. And although there are a few other small independent media companies in this country that we
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very much admire, Rebel News is simply the largest. On some days we have people in nine or ten different
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cities giving you raw footage of what's happening on the convoy. Simply put, if there was one voice
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that Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau wanted to silence, I think it would be ours. But I can tell you,
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we will not go quietly. We will not go easily. We got plenty of lawyers and we've conducted ourselves
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perfectly legally. And if Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau attempt to use their suspension of civil
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liberties to silence our independent journalism and our pro bono financing of civil liberties lawyers
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across the country, they will bite off more than they can chew and we will fight to the end.
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And everything we've done in the past seven years has prepared us for this moment. I give you my
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Welcome back. Well, there are not many journalists in Canada who aren't on the payroll of Justin Trudeau.
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It's just a fact that more than 99 percent of journalists either work for the state broadcaster,
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the CBC, or work for a media outlet that takes funds from Trudeau in the form of a bailout.
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I think that's one of the reasons why Trudeau has not been checked. The media often acts as a
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balance to power. Not in Canada. They act as an augmentation and emphasis of power. Often we rely
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on foreign media to criticize Trudeau. Our domestic media just won't. And never has this been more
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clear than with the case of the truckers rebellion, where the state broadcaster, but also the rest of
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the media party, has been demanding a violent crackdown on the truckers. I'm shocked by some
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of the things I read. And the media has been cheering on the suspension of civil liberties.
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I'm delighted today to introduce you to and to interview one of the few independent journalists
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left in Canada. He's a Montrealer named David Pryheit. Online he goes by Viva Frye. He's a
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lawyer, a vlogger, and he's our guest right now. David, great to see you and welcome to the show.
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Thank you for having me. Ezra, I still don't consider myself a journalist. I'm just a guy with a camera
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who wants to know the truth and understand what's going on.
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Well, that is the working definition of journalism. It's an activity. It's not a profession. I mean,
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you need to pass an exam. You need to be under the authority of a college of physicians and surgeons,
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or a law society to be a doctor or a lawyer. But a journalist is someone who just tells the daily
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news. And I think you are a journalist. And I think you're an unfettered one because you don't take
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the dough from the government. So first, let's start off by talking about what you saw, because
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you were on the streets of Ottawa for days, three, four hour stints of live streaming.
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You really showed more of what was happening on the ground than the entire daily output of the CBC,
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for example. You were just showing people the raw facts. I mean, I'll show you what I've got here.
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These are my battery packs, color coded so I know which ones are expired. And I've been just
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plugging them into my phone and live streaming in real time just to see what's going on.
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Over the weekend, the first weekend, I didn't make it down. And people were telling me,
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you have to go down, see what's going on. I was reading what was going on, coming from the CBC,
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coming from whomever. And then I hear what's going on from people who are there. And I say,
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these two realities are mutually incompatible. They cannot be both existing at the same time.
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So I say, I'm going down Monday. I'm going to live stream, see if I see any Nazi flags,
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any Confederate flags, any acts of violence. And if I see them, the world will see it in real time,
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because I'm live streaming and I cannot cut, edit, nor would I want to. So the first day,
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I think I did like four and a half hours, maybe five hours just streaming, just walking, talking to
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people. It was the diametric opposite of what the CBC, of what, I don't want to name others who
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I'm not sure actually are guilty of this, of what the other legacy Canadian media were describing
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as going on there. We heard reports of monuments being defaced, urine and other waste on the war
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memorial, the Terry Fox monument being vandalized. And I could, I swear to you, I, not only did I not
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see any of it. The Terry Fox had flowers at the base of it. The war memorial had veterans watching
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guard over it, shoveling the snow, salting the sidewalk because apparently the city wasn't doing
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it. People were dancing. People were loving. It was multicultural. It was women, men, indigenous people,
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black people. I interviewed someone from Kuwait. Everything that the media had been saying about
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this protest was an absolute fabrication. And, but for the fact that I went down to see with myself,
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I might not have known that. Wow. I mean, a lot of establishment icons have tumbled because of this
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convoy. Aaron O'Toole was one of the first to go because of his refusal to even communicate with
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them. Incredibly, the resignation of the Ottawa police chief, I think, is directly a result of the
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convoy. There's a lot of things that have happened. I think the media party's reputation
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has been devastated by their false coverage of this, but they don't know it yet. Like the,
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the police chief in Ottawa, he knows what happened. Aaron O'Toole, he knows what happened.
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The various premiers who've said, all right, we're ending our vaccine passports. They know what
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happened. But so far the legacy media, the corporate media, the media party, whatever you want to call it,
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they don't know what happened to them. They're, they're in denial. That's what I think. What do you think?
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Well, they're still getting paid. They're still getting government subsidies. They're still getting
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those sweet, sweet COVID ad dollars. So I don't think they felt it yet, but I think they know that
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their legacy, for lack of a better word, is in decline. I mean, they know it from the reactions
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they get on the street. I, there is a part of me that thinks like, they're like Principal Skinner
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out of the Simpsons. Like, is it me that's the problem? No, no, no. Everyone else is out of touch.
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Yeah. Uh, they, they don't get abused. They don't get accosted. They don't get assaulted.
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They're allowed to do their jobs by the crowd themselves, but they do get heckled. And they
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do have people saying, you guys are, we fake news. We don't want to even want to talk to you.
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Yeah. Uh, but I think they have to know that their influence is flailing and, and failing,
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and that they're not appreciated by the general public. I had the good fortune of seeing a CBC
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journalist. And I just asked him a few questions. Like I said, I said, do you think you put out
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a slanted news? And he says, no, I, we don't, I don't think we do. And it was, I don't know if
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the, if the individual was being honest, sincere with me or with themselves,
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but I think they're starting to know it. Uh, certainly from the reaction they get from the
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crowd, despite the violent extremist nature of this protest, these, what we call fake news
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media outlets are still allowed to do their interviews on the street, but you see what
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they're doing in real time. They pick on individuals who they know are going to reflect poorly on the
00:28:10.160
group. They single them out. They do interviews with them. And then they portray that as being
00:28:14.520
the rule of the convoy as opposed to the exception. But I think, I think they know they're failing
00:28:19.360
and I, and I hope they do. And I hope they know that they deserve it.
00:28:21.960
You know, uh, yesterday was the imposition of the emergencies act, uh, and emergency legislation
00:28:28.640
that was not even deployed on nine 11 was not even deployed when the ISIS terrorists stormed
00:28:33.960
parliament in 2014. Um, and yet last night just was the night that the Canadian association of
00:28:40.700
journalists had a panel discussion, not on civil liberties in an age of emergency lockdowns,
00:28:46.440
but versus, you know, the media versus the convoy, like how hard it has been for them to be
00:28:53.600
heckled. Like in their mind last night, it was more important to talk about the fact that the
00:29:01.120
convoy members were heckling the CBC and CTV than to talk about the emergency act and the civil
00:29:08.000
liberties abrogation. Like that, the, the narcissism, the solipsism, the self-regard, and the,
00:29:14.560
the just lack of self-awareness last night, they were talking about themselves instead of the
00:29:20.980
burning chart of rights. Incredible to me. Oh no, as I'll tell you this, I listened to CJD 800
00:29:27.900
only to torture myself to hear what, you know, the people on the other side are saying within their
00:29:32.520
own silo. They had a legal expert on this morning, basically saying, don't worry that the government
00:29:38.060
has invoked the emergencies act. It can only be exercised within the confines, within the
00:29:43.760
limitations of the charter of rights. So even though they've invoked it, they're still going
00:29:48.500
to be bound by the charter of rights as if we haven't just lived through two years of the federal
00:29:52.920
and provincial government desecrating each and every right that is in theory guaranteed under the
00:29:57.940
charter. But you have your government subsidized media with a presumably government subsidized
00:30:03.500
expert telling a populace, which is either willfully blind or, uh, or worse, don't worry. They're going
00:30:10.660
to, uh, restrict your freedoms in a manner that's consistent with the charter of rights on an
00:30:15.900
emergency basis. And that's good enough for the CJD because you don't want to bite the hand that,
00:30:20.620
that finances you. And the journalists themselves, they are not in a position to criticize this because
00:30:25.840
they are dependent on the very same government that is invoking these emergency measures for their
00:30:31.120
financing, for their livelihoods. So obviously you got to, you got to talk about something else.
00:30:35.800
Yeah. Well, you're not just a video journalist and you're not just a commentator on the news.
00:30:42.280
You are a lawyer. And one of the special, uh, values that you bring to your shows is you chew over
00:30:51.040
the legal news and there's always legal news going on in Canada, the United States. I'd like to hear
00:30:56.300
your thoughts on the invocation of the emergencies act. I did sort of a rough run through of some of
00:31:02.620
the problems on yesterday's show, but, uh, I'm guessing you've gone through it more meticulous
00:31:07.720
than me. Uh, what, give me your reaction to the invocation of the modern version of the war
00:31:14.100
measures act. I, it's nothing but a sick joke. There's nothing in there that could possibly meet
00:31:21.060
the criteria necessary for invoking the act. I mean, it's, it's gotta be national security,
00:31:26.680
a national emergency, uh, not a protest in Ottawa, which even if you think it's illegal,
00:31:34.020
even if you think it's paralyzing a portion of the city could not by anyone's wildest dreams,
00:31:39.220
uh, justify invoking this emergency measures act, which is, it's the most, it's the extreme of the
00:31:45.760
extreme laws. I mean, it, many of us probably didn't even know it existed because we didn't know
00:31:50.540
these laws existed until you learn that they exist. And then you read them and you read the
00:31:54.500
powers that it gives the power to basically prevent any, any, any exercise of constitutional
00:32:01.240
rights, even though they say, don't worry, we're not bringing in the military. It was pretextual to
00:32:06.680
have brought it in the pretext, which is itself provided by a fully subsidized media to the
00:32:13.320
government that has depicted this protest as something violent and extremist as a national
00:32:17.440
threat, which it isn't. But the fact that it's invoked now at this point, after three weeks of
00:32:23.100
this protest, if this were such a national crisis, three weeks later, we'd be feeling the outright
00:32:28.660
devastation of it, not seeing protesters literally shoveling the streets and salting the sidewalks.
00:32:34.300
They invoked the blockade at, um, the ambassador bridge, which I can understand is an economic issue.
00:32:39.900
Does it threaten national security, sovereignty, or the body public, the body, uh, political body
00:32:45.140
as required by this law? Absolutely not. Especially since the blockade had ended by the time, uh,
00:32:51.440
Trudeau invoked the emergency measures act. This is, it's a flex. It's a, I think it's a devastatingly
00:32:57.740
dumb flex. Cause I think it's going to bite Trudeau in the butt. I was just watching some live debates
00:33:02.500
in parliament. I think it's biting in the butt already, but it's just, it's an absolute abuse,
00:33:06.760
but it's an absolute abuse that we can expect from Trudeau who more than anything else in his
00:33:12.580
governance wants to continue with this emergency so that we do not talk about his corruption,
00:33:18.220
his ineptitude, his ethics violations, his, his absolute inability to lead a nation.
00:33:23.700
This is what he wants to talk about. And the only way is keep fabricating the idea that there's an
00:33:27.780
emergency and just appreciate Ezra. They didn't even invoke this during the ice storm of 1996 or 98.
00:33:34.460
I forget when it was when in Quebec, we were out of electricity. Some of us for three weeks,
00:33:39.720
if not more people were freezing in their homes, the province itself could, did not have the
00:33:44.220
resources to respond to that. Didn't declare it then they declare it because of a protest block
00:33:50.120
party. That's been lasting a little too long and embarrassing Trudeau a little too much on the
00:33:53.260
international scale. So Trudeau, the hurt man that he is tries to go out and hurt more people
00:33:58.460
because like they say, hurt men, hurt men. Um, he's made it's a, it's a monumental blunder and it's
00:34:04.920
going to come back to bite him in the butt, but it's, it's just abusive law that you would expect
00:34:08.180
from a petty tyrant. You know, some folks have said to me, well, what's going to happen now
00:34:13.160
is Trudeau going to use these emergency powers to go and physically attack or, or root out these
00:34:20.980
truckers. And my, my response, I'd like your thoughts on this is no, they don't need additional
00:34:28.100
powers to move trucks. Like, as you just pointed out, the ambassador bridge was cleared by local top
00:34:34.420
cops with no violence. It ended peacefully. And you know, it, it, it was an inconvenience for a
00:34:40.320
couple of days. It's true, but it ended peacefully with local cops. There are local cops who could
00:34:45.700
take care of any, I mean, and, and the coots blockade ended peacefully too. Um, Trudeau didn't
00:34:52.120
do this so he could add more muscle. The cops have enough muscle to deal with it. They either choose
00:34:58.140
not to, or, or there's no crimes being committed. Here's my theory. The trucker rebellion is the
00:35:04.320
pretext, the purpose, the real essence of it is what Chrystia Freeland detailed, getting the financial
00:35:12.720
information of anyone who supported this peaceful opposition to Trudeau, anyone who chipped into the
00:35:21.080
crowdfunding campaign, getting an enemies list of a hundred thousand people and marking them as
00:35:29.020
potential terror threats, bringing in a Chinese style social credit ranking system for people who
00:35:36.200
dared to stand up to Trudeau. To me, that's the center of it. There's, it's not the problem on the
00:35:42.300
street that he's going to solve on the street. It's what he can do through the banks. Go ahead.
00:35:48.020
You're a hundred percent correct. In fact, I mean, one of the, one of the criteria or is a
00:35:52.580
criterion for implementing the emergency measures, the emergencies act is that the federal is coming
00:35:58.300
into supplement where the provincial does not have the means to deal with the emergency, which is
00:36:03.400
obviously not the case in Ottawa. It might be that local just don't want to enforce anything or
00:36:08.920
don't want to tow the trucks or cause a conflict with the truckers. But it's not like the provinces
00:36:14.020
don't have the measures such that the emergencies act should be implemented to
00:36:17.880
supplement. And when Trudeau comes in and during his speech dangles that little shiny lure and
00:36:23.100
says, Hey, look over here, we're not calling in the military. Don't worry. And in the minds of most
00:36:27.620
people who, what, what a relief. We're not going to see armed military men in the streets, but also
00:36:34.440
Christopher Freeland comes in and says, yeah, we're going to be able to authorize. And in some cases,
00:36:38.940
instruct banks to seize or freeze bank accounts or stop doing business with people, with personal
00:36:45.480
accounts who we think are participating in this convoy. Uh, by the way, without a court order
00:36:51.740
and while immunizing the banks for doing it, that in my mind, I'm watching this and I was like,
00:36:56.620
holy cow, I don't care about military men in the street. I care about that because you don't need
00:37:00.640
to execute someone in the street when you can suffocate them to death or starve them quietly behind
00:37:05.280
closed doors by freezing their bank accounts with no court order and immunity, effectively no
00:37:11.520
oversight. That is what they were testing to do. I think, I hope to goodness that they never actually
00:37:18.000
get to implement that. And I hope to goodness that they suffer the political, uh, consequences that
00:37:22.880
they deserve for this gambit. But that was the test there. And my, my, my true, uh, what I'm depressed
00:37:29.980
about is that a lot of people just don't appreciate it. And they think, yeah, I don't like the
00:37:33.460
truckers. So yeah, go ahead and freeze their assets, seize their trucks, cancel their insurance,
00:37:37.980
crush them financially as though any government in the future could not just do this on anybody,
00:37:43.340
teachers unions, uh, workers unions, any political opponents, call them illegal, qualify them as
00:37:50.120
terrorists, and then invoke the emergency measures act because that's the precedent that Justin Trudeau
00:37:54.000
and his henchman, uh, Christina, Chrystia Freeland just tried to establish. And I just hope they get
00:37:58.720
struck down and politically punished for this. Yeah. I mean, give, send, go, which was the second
00:38:04.360
crowdfunding engine used by the truckers was hacked. Oh, isn't that a convenient that that list
00:38:11.240
of tens of thousands of names, um, has been circulated widely. And now Chrystia Freeland says
00:38:18.120
that her government will quote, share information with the banks and expect them to freeze or seize.
00:38:24.840
It's, it's pretty convenient how that all worked out. But I think in any other instance, if the
00:38:30.900
government collected an enemies list like that, it would violate some privacy laws. I mean, this is
00:38:35.280
hacked, stolen personal data. And in any other instance, if the government said, here's people
00:38:42.000
where we, we don't like and gave it to the bank, the bank would have some sort of duty to its customers,
00:38:48.320
some sort of procedural fairness. But here the government is literally saying, we're going to give you
00:38:53.480
information. If you act on it, thanks. If you don't act on it, we're going to direct you to act on it.
00:38:59.540
And even if it's really bad that you do, we'll protect you from lawsuits for your badness,
00:39:05.980
because this is just how we roll. It's, it really is. I mean, that is a dictionary definition of.
00:39:14.220
It's a dictionary definition of fascism. I mean, that's what it is.
00:39:18.860
It's Moussili fascism. And it's, it's just like the idea of immunizing institutions for their conduct.
00:39:27.120
I mean, government doesn't deserve immunity for their conduct. I appreciate that they have it
00:39:31.440
to facilitate governance, but to give it to banking institutions, to give it to big pharma,
00:39:36.320
and then to say, go ahead and do what you want on the civilian population, you're immune. I mean,
00:39:40.980
you got to, someone has to have their head examined to think that that's appropriate
00:39:44.120
and an indication of transparency as opposed to an indication of absolute corruption. But I just
00:39:51.040
hope they never get around to actually, or approving these measures. I hope these measures get shut
00:39:54.900
down because my understanding of the emergencies act is that any directives or measures that they
00:40:00.540
want to implement nonetheless have to get voted on. So even though they said it, I think they do have
00:40:05.640
to try to vote on that and they don't just get to implement it as of yesterday. And I just hope it
00:40:10.360
gets shut down the way it should. And that these politicians get the political retribution that
00:40:15.140
they deserve. And that politicians going forward, learn that this is not how you govern in a
00:40:20.780
democracy. The world is watching. And I can tell you that the world is absolutely laughing at Canada
00:40:26.080
while Canadians are suffering under this regime.
00:40:28.380
Well, I am less optimistic than you. I think this will take hold. I think Trudeau doesn't care
00:40:34.520
about public reaction. I mean, why would he? He has the power. Jagmeet Singh has confirmed his support
00:40:42.220
for all this. The media are already using kid gloves. He doesn't mind their rage for those who are
00:40:48.400
opposed to it. He's always admired banana republic type dictators like Castro. And, you know, he's, I mean,
00:40:55.400
he's just always has loved authoritarian figures. I think that Trudeau will not want to end this in
00:41:01.620
30 days. And even if he does, I think he'll do so much damage before those 30 days are up. He'll have
00:41:07.620
his enemies lists. He'll have put a black mark on tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands on people's
00:41:13.960
commercial social credit. I think that we're in uncharted territories here, but I hope that you and I can
00:41:20.100
keep in touch on this because I love the fact that you're on the ground reporting and I love the fact
00:41:25.380
that you're following the debates in the House of Commons and doing a legal analysis. So let me toot
00:41:31.360
your horn for a second. The main channel is called Viva Fry. Tell me about your other channels that
00:41:37.680
people should be subscribing to. Well, so now I've had the, when I ran for the PPC, I set up a separate
00:41:43.660
YouTube channel, which now I'm turning into Eclipse so that people, if you can't watch four and a half
00:41:48.820
hours of live streaming from Ottawa, I put up some clips of some highlight interviews, the moments
00:41:54.020
that I think define the protest. That's called Viva Clips. I got a totally separate channel called
00:41:58.980
Viva Family, which is just random stuff. But on Twitter, The Viva Fry, which is just Viva Fry with
00:42:04.620
a V in front of it. And Robert Barnes and I, who do these weekly streams where we discuss legal stuff,
00:42:10.380
not just in Canada, but in the United States as well, on Locals. It's called VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com.
00:42:16.960
And I will be heading back to Ottawa because if this goes on through the weekend, it's going to be
00:42:21.500
another massive weekend of participation. And if the police come down and start enforcing,
00:42:29.120
you know, certain measures, we need to have as many people there just documenting in real time
00:42:34.980
what's going on so that the legacy media that is bought off and paid for by the federal government
00:42:40.060
does not get to lie about it and misinform the rest of Canadians.
00:42:43.580
All right. Well, we'll put the links to those different channels you mentioned
00:42:47.260
underneath this video so people can click on them. I'm glad you're going back to Ottawa. I think
00:42:52.240
as many people with a camera as possible. Again, I don't know if the Ottawa police are going to go
00:42:58.240
and crack skulls. I don't think that's where the battlefront is. I think the front line of the battle
00:43:02.780
is the financial and digital front line. But we'll see. I mean, I've been wrong a few times
00:43:07.540
trying to guess things. Great to see you. Thank you very much, David. Our guest,
00:43:11.120
David Freiheit from Viva Fry. Keep it up and we'll be watching.
00:43:15.620
Thank you very much, Ezra. Well, it's a great pleasure. Thank you. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:43:18.980
I saw it last night. After I recorded my monologue, but before the monologue aired on the Ezra LeVant show,
00:43:39.760
I did a live stream for about an hour, just free flow, spontaneous commentary on what I had seen.
00:43:46.900
And actually thousands of people watched it. Here are a few letters we got based on that.
00:43:52.920
Bill William Jones says, watching closely from Texas, we love the true Canadians fighting for
00:43:57.280
freedom. Your energy is felt worldwide. Thank you for accurately reporting the protest.
00:44:01.820
Well, I appreciate that. And credit goes to our people. You know, I actually went on the Sean
00:44:05.580
Hannity show on Fox last night, which has a huge audience. So I think the world is paying attention.
00:44:10.400
Stretch and Chick says, how does a country get rid of a dictatorship? Well, that's the thing. I've
00:44:18.880
decided to call what Trudeau has done a sort of coup. And normally we don't think of a coup as by the
00:44:26.520
people in power. Normally a coup is ousting the democratic and legitimate leader and installing
00:44:32.820
someone else, often a military leader. In this case, Trudeau was the lawful prime minister of Canada,
00:44:39.240
but he was quickly losing power. He was down to 16% in the polls. He was losing his own MPs.
00:44:45.220
He hated what the truckers are doing. He had to stop them in some way.
00:44:48.300
And so he pushed that panic button that pulled the fire alarm and he suspended all our, well, not all our
00:44:57.340
rights, but he suspended a number of our rights and he told us which ones. I think that is a kind
00:45:03.700
of coup. The people wanted to replace the government, but the government decided to replace the people.
00:45:12.660
Carol M writes and says, my daughter recently moved to Montreal from Scotland, UK. I envied her and thought
00:45:19.220
of falling with other family members. Now I'm praying she will come home. Beautiful Canada. I love this
00:45:24.500
country, but it's been ruined. Please, Canadians, take back your country.
00:45:30.140
Ruined is a heavy word. It implies that the country lies in ruins and perhaps might not be rebuilt.
00:45:37.700
I don't think the story is over yet. I think that Justin Trudeau has done something so shocking.
00:45:45.320
I say again, most Canadians haven't quite realized it because there was no crisis that's being solved.
00:45:50.640
So they neither were aware of the problem and are not aware of the solution to the problem.
00:45:56.220
But I think that enough people are seeing that Justin Trudeau is cornered and desperate and
00:46:02.160
authoritarian and doesn't care about civil liberties. I think we're seeing his mask drop.
00:46:07.800
And I think a lot of people will never unsee that.
00:46:11.980
Well, that's our show for today. On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:46:17.580
you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with a happier video
00:46:22.920
of the day by our friend Lincoln in Ottawa, showing you the friendly face of the truckers in Ottawa.
00:46:29.640
You tell me, does this look like an insurrection? Bye-bye.
00:46:35.600
We are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers
00:46:46.860
Anyone can come. We've had homeless people come here. We have a lot of homeless people.
00:46:51.260
We just shared a message with the homeless woman, and we're going to try to help her to find a place to live.
00:46:57.320
You can be in the street. You can be in trouble. You can just need help for one day.
00:47:08.500
As a church, we assembled and just serving coffee and hot chocolate here to whoever wants.
00:47:13.760
We're a bunch of massage therapists from the province of Quebec, and we came here to donate our time to the truckers.
00:47:27.440
Now, I've been on the ground covering the truckers' convoy since the 28th of January,
00:47:31.880
and I cannot express enough how peaceful an environment it is here.
00:47:35.480
There's literally food being handed out everywhere.
00:47:39.040
It doesn't matter whether you're a trucker, a supporter, a protester.
00:47:42.260
If you come here and you're in need in the city of Ottawa, they will feed you.
00:47:45.980
That's why it's just so hard to wrap your head around the fact that Justin Trudeau is saying that the people here are stealing food from the homeless.
00:47:52.860
We are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless.
00:48:03.860
No matter what Justin Trudeau says, I'm about to show you that it is the exact opposite of what he is saying
00:48:10.260
and that they are feeding anyone in need in the city of Ottawa.
00:48:14.760
Let's go check it out. Let's talk to some people.
00:48:19.700
As a church, we assembled and just serving coffee and hot chocolate here to whoever wants.
00:48:25.240
It's just amazing here to see how much love there is.
00:48:28.620
All the people around here, unity and everybody is just amazing.
00:48:32.600
I would encourage everyone to come out and support it.
00:48:35.900
So just to clarify, can anyone come here and receive what you're offering?
00:48:39.220
Does it matter if they're a part of the protest or not?
00:48:43.480
At the end of the day, we're here to glorify God, so it is for everybody.
00:48:52.420
We're feeding people. We're helping the homeless, the truckers, and just anyone who needs help with absolutely anything come to us.
00:49:00.680
Anyone can come. We've had homeless people come here.
00:49:05.400
We just shared a message with the homeless woman, and we're going to try to help her to find a place to live
00:49:11.540
and be able to get going again because she's so discouraged.
00:49:16.080
We had time to pray with her and encourage her.
00:49:19.120
We gave her our number and told her we could help her because the church is supposed to help all those who are marginalized, vulnerable, and so on.
00:49:28.460
So that's our job, and I pray to the whole church that will wake up and come.
00:49:36.460
Okay, guys, do you want to just tell me what exactly you're doing here?
00:49:46.200
So really, we're just trying to help everybody, trying to help the truckers and fighting for freedom.
00:49:55.940
We work at nighttime to make it, to prepare it and bring it here.
00:50:03.680
We've had people that are helping us out that are bringing us water, that are really keeping us going so that we can continue making stuff,
00:50:09.660
so that we're keeping everyone nice and warm, so that they're all out here fighting the good fight.
00:50:17.480
Whatever they're contributing to us, it gives us extra money to buy more stuff that we're lacking,
00:50:22.360
and whatever is extra, we give it to the truckers to help them for their fuel.
00:50:25.920
Now, just to clarify, guys, you don't even have to be a part of the protest supporter.
00:50:30.380
You can just be a citizen in Ottawa that's in need, and you can come here and get something to eat.
00:50:35.600
There's socks all the time that come in, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste.
00:50:41.560
There's all kind of stuff that people come and give, and they just want to donate, so they leave it on the table here, table there.
00:50:48.320
They just bring it to put out for people, anyone.
00:50:51.940
You can be in the street, you can be in trouble, you can just need help for one day.
00:51:04.900
So we're a bunch of massage therapists from the province of Quebec, and we came here to donate our time to the truckers.
00:51:13.280
So we've been here since this morning, and we plan on staying, well, do a rotation of therapists until this is over with.
00:51:22.520
I can't donate money, so I figured the only way I could was maybe releasing a bit of tension, and this is what I do best.