LEVANT： Canada Under Martial Law & Trudeau Wants It To Stay That Way
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 2 minutes
Words per Minute
150.81377
Summary
It's a holiday in some parts of the country, but Rebel News has been working all weekend, so today's episode is a special bonus episode featuring an interview I did on the streets of Ottawa with Lincoln Jay, a reporter covering the lockdown.
Transcript
00:00:00.140
Hello, my friends. Today's podcast is so full of stuff.
00:00:04.440
It's been incredible how much news there's been about Canada's martial law in the last three days.
00:00:08.800
I'll take you through as much of it as I can, and I'm going to interview Lincoln Jay from the streets of Ottawa.
00:00:13.820
Before I do, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
00:00:19.040
Just go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe, eight bucks a month.
00:00:22.760
That eight bucks a month is not just money that we use to pay our bills.
00:00:26.360
It's how we stay independent, because we don't take any money from Trudeau, unlike 99.9% of the media in this country.
00:00:33.400
So please help us out. Go to rebelnewsplus.com and click subscribe.
00:00:45.200
Tonight, Canada is under martial law, and Trudeau says we might stay that way.
00:00:59.120
It's February 21st, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:02.000
Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:07.820
There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:11.880
The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:23.100
It's Monday, but Rebel News has been working all weekend.
00:01:26.740
Today is a holiday in some parts of the country.
00:01:28.840
I'm doing my monologue because that's a tradition we have, that we always do it even on holidays, but our staff have not taken holidays.
00:01:35.780
Right now we have four or five people in Ottawa covering the lockdown, not just the lockdown, but the martial law.
00:01:50.440
There were a few streets in Ottawa that were blocked originally,
00:01:53.500
and then there was the bridge between Windsor and Detroit that was blocked for a few days.
00:01:58.560
But nothing is really being blocked for a while.
00:02:01.100
And the horn honking stopped pretty quickly too.
00:02:05.020
But it was still upsetting enough to liberal Ottowans that they wanted it gone.
00:02:12.080
But really it was upsetting to Justin Trudeau because it was the first real challenge to his political power in two years,
00:02:21.240
And even though the temporal, the proximate excuse for his martial law is gone,
00:02:27.060
it's pretty clear that he's going to keep it in effect.
00:02:30.620
I think it's been the worst week in Canada in terms of the government destroying our lives.
00:02:40.620
Obviously there are some natural disasters that have been worse.
00:02:43.760
The explosion in Halifax Harbor was a disaster.
00:02:54.260
But in terms of losing our rights, losing our freedoms, losing our way of life,
00:02:58.940
I think the last week has been the worst time in Canadian history.
00:03:02.620
I want to show you just one of a hundred examples of things that have really rocked me,
00:03:08.740
changed my views on things, my place in the world, my thoughts about Canada, my thoughts about police,
00:03:15.960
and how easily they made the excuse to follow orders, or in this case, just to be little tyrants.
00:03:22.400
Take a look at this that happened a couple days ago in Ottawa.
00:03:39.540
Where is your restaurant still being arrested right now?
00:03:51.520
If you don't leave right now, you will be arrested.
00:03:57.900
Grab yourself, because if we see you, we'll be patrolling all day.
00:04:11.820
Your phone doesn't need to be in our face when you're walking away.
00:04:31.120
Yeah, it's a little bit hard to back the blue when the blue have decided that that's how they're going to act.
00:04:39.520
Just put aside the violations of police professional standards there.
00:04:43.860
Just treating a woman that way, just for walking on the street looking for a coffee, that's a disgrace.
00:04:49.420
And I think that I know for a fact that particular video has been seen more than four million times on Twitter.
00:04:55.160
And every single person who saw it who was like me, a lifelong backer of police and law and order, I think it's had their mind changed a bit.
00:05:04.520
If you were to ask me if I backed the blue, I would say, well, you know what?
00:05:10.000
Let me get the details first before I tell you.
00:05:16.760
You know, there's this awful acronym you see, graffitied ACAB, all cops are bastards.
00:05:25.720
But also, I know that not all cops are good anymore.
00:05:28.880
I think they're a mixed bunch, and that makes me deeply sad.
00:05:33.160
Our friends David Menzies and Lincoln Jay were stopped by some of these 100 police checkpoints in the nation's capital.
00:05:44.840
And the punitive nature, the whimsical, capricious nature, the total lawlessness reminds me of when I went to Iraq, and there were checkpoints just all along the highway.
00:05:55.940
And sometimes it would be some official government checkpoint, but it might be some militiamen.
00:06:01.100
It might be just some gunman, some highway robber.
00:06:04.140
And you never knew if you would get through the checkpoint.
00:06:10.420
Would you have to make a phone call to a tougher warlord?
00:06:13.860
God forbid if you were a woman traveling by yourself, which you do not do in Iraq, you would probably have terrible things done to you by these checkpoints.
00:06:24.200
A hundred whimsical people just showing you they've got the power and you don't.
00:06:34.520
Here's a little bit of Lincoln Jay and David Menzies after a cold night of doing journalism, trying to get back to their hotel.
00:06:42.660
And the lady cop who met them did not like that one bit.
00:06:59.600
To prevent people from walking on the sidewalk.
00:07:15.260
Do you need the keycard or do you need like the hotel room?
00:07:21.580
Booked under my colleague's name, so I don't know.
00:07:28.300
No, I would have to get Alexa to send me the confirmation.
00:07:42.740
So I would have to get her to email it to me here to go through here.
00:07:51.840
As long as you show me something that you can go down there, that's where you're going.
00:07:58.840
Is it just specifically to come through this checkpoint that we need to do?
00:08:11.660
Well, why don't we walk this way and see if we can get the email confirmation there.
00:08:29.120
Well, I need the reservation with the name of the person that's rented the room.
00:08:34.680
And then proof that they've rented it for you, right?
00:08:45.180
If you wanted to come through for the media purpose, you could get that authorization through
00:08:50.340
Just give them a call and they give you authorization to get down.
00:08:55.480
Our colleague, Abby, and me, always has to get a permit to perform journalism down under.
00:09:07.020
Even if there are orders to keep out the deplorables, the protesters, they know who we are.
00:09:18.820
This does nothing to bolster the trust of police by the public.
00:09:35.520
So what Justice suggests, get a slip from them, take a register there, and then you're quick and easy to do that.
00:09:42.880
Just curious, officer, how long does this checkpoint system have been going there?
00:09:53.840
That was nothing, though, compared to our reporter, Alexa Lavoie.
00:09:58.760
She was by herself when she was stopped by these bigots.
00:10:03.600
Do you work or live in the downtown court here?
00:10:19.260
Because this is still part of the zone that's being affected.
00:10:23.360
No, that's just how far the crowds were pushed.
00:10:31.020
But what do you do with all the people who rent, like, some hotel room?
00:11:17.280
Does this vehicle belong to you that you were filming the inside of?
00:11:20.160
But I just showed to the world that police have break.
00:11:27.800
Abandoned vehicles are being cleared and removed.
00:11:34.520
There's been messaging over the series of the last few weeks instructing people not to be here.
00:12:03.640
I think in Canada, we have still like freedom of press, no?
00:12:46.660
Thank you for showing that to me, but it's time to go.
00:12:51.980
Can I have your name and your badge number, please?
00:12:53.980
My name is Brad Milburn and my badge number is 9467.
00:13:00.200
I'm going to leave, but why you don't recognize my press card?
00:13:05.060
Because it's a laminated piece of paper that you could have made up at home.
00:13:16.660
Everybody's been instructed to leave over the course of the last several days.
00:13:19.900
But if you let me a couple of seconds, I will leave.
00:13:43.480
And these people there, you don't do anything for them?
00:13:55.780
But you don't need to be four of you for me, huh?
00:14:14.420
I want to show you the worst assault on a rebel journalist in our seven-year history.
00:14:22.040
I'm so sorry to show you this, but you must see it.
00:14:28.540
Hey, everyone on the front line, turn your back to the right now.
00:14:39.700
You're not going to deny me the right to look at them in.
00:15:32.000
Not a rifle, but a tear gas gun at point-blank range.
00:15:35.700
We have that photo showing the fire coming out of the gun.
00:15:52.840
She said, I must stay and document this martial law.
00:15:57.940
I should say that we haven't had a word from the Canadian Association of Journalists,
00:16:03.380
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, or any of the other so-called journalism groups
00:16:13.240
David Menzies went to a press conference by the Ottawa police chief.
00:16:21.200
The last one was fired about a week or 10 days ago,
00:16:24.320
which makes me think he was fired because he wouldn't do this kind of brutality.
00:16:28.700
So they just kept firing and threatened to fire chiefs until they found someone who would
00:16:36.580
Here's David asking the tyrannical police chief about the violent assault on Alexa.
00:16:49.340
Chief, can you kindly explain how it was that my colleague to my right here, Alexa Lavois,
00:16:56.620
was shot point blank with a tear gas canister doing some very painful damage to her?
00:17:04.760
What was the reason for that, given that she was simply practicing journalism in the public
00:17:11.160
So I'm unfamiliar with the incident you're speaking of.
00:17:14.360
What I can tell you is that there is complaint mechanisms, there is review mechanisms that
00:17:19.380
will be engaged following this for any use of force incident that occurred.
00:17:24.800
I'll also say that it's been my observations and experience through the amazing extensive
00:17:30.920
journalism coverage that's occurred through this, that the vast majority of our members
00:17:37.060
They have executed an extremely methodical plan that has been focused on the safety of
00:17:45.020
the residents, the safety of our officers, and the safety of the people engaged in the
00:17:52.180
If the cop truly did not know that one of his officers pulled out a gun and shot a journalist
00:17:59.260
in point blank range after the other beater with a stick, is it worse that the police
00:18:03.980
chief for the city doesn't know that happened hours after the fact, or I think it was a
00:18:10.980
Or is it worse that he knows about it, but he's lying about it?
00:18:24.260
I think he's the public safety minister, if I recall, praising the restraint of police.
00:18:30.560
And I believe that when you survey the conduct of law enforcement over the last number of
00:18:40.820
I mean, take a look at the way that the police carried themselves throughout the course of
00:18:45.280
dealing with the illegal occupation here in Ottawa.
00:18:48.180
There was a degree of professionalism and focus, despite the fact that there was an emotionally
00:18:52.700
charged atmosphere, despite the many provocations and intimidation and, at times, efforts to
00:19:01.660
And that, despite all of that, we saw minimum use of force.
00:19:05.620
So I think that that kind of conduct will continue to carry through the Emergencies Act, but we
00:19:12.280
won't use it for any longer than it's necessary.
00:19:17.260
Here's a New York Times tweet about how the police went around with their guns drawn.
00:19:25.240
And, incredibly, the biggest reaction to this New York Times tweet was Canadian media demanding
00:19:41.320
I want to show you some evidence by Marie Oaks, one of my favorite people on Twitter, showing
00:19:47.440
that, in fact, the guns were drawn as they went from campers to vans.
00:19:58.540
I want to show you the horse, the riot horses that were deployed to stomp an elderly lady who
00:20:07.080
had a sort of a mobility scooter walker with her.
00:21:03.540
just a disgrace uh let me read to you from the worst of it the ottawa police twitter account
00:21:17.020
is taken over by some juvenile child or madman i don't know just absurd absurd gaslighting and
00:21:24.540
lies around the clock it's really quite something completely unprofessional uh here's one of them
00:21:29.340
chosen at random there are approximately 100 police checkpoints surrounding the secured area
00:21:36.120
downtown police will simply ask you for your reason for traveling within the area oh it's
00:21:43.040
simply ask you but but it's not very simple because they'll ask you the question and you'll
00:21:48.240
answer it which is uh a very un-canadian thing that's sort of how it was in berlin uh when the
00:21:55.000
city was divided papers please what's your purpose what the police don't say in their tweet there
00:22:00.360
is that they will whimsically decide who comes and goes uh who's arrested who's beaten who stomped on
00:22:06.860
from horses who's allowed to pass or not in the capital city a fish rots from the head down i think
00:22:14.240
of that phrase a lot when i think of trudeau what he's done um i want to show you something again so
00:22:19.620
much news has happened since i spoke to you last on friday this was incredible we received leak leaked
00:22:26.720
images from an rcmp horse actually their ceremonial you know the ceremonial ride they're they're real
00:22:35.160
cops they don't just do the ceremonial rcmp ride and they were all dispatched to ottawa to run the
00:22:41.920
riot horses not just ceremonially but to stomp on elderly ladies and they're being put up at the
00:22:48.240
chateau laurier if you've ever been to ottawa you know that's the finest hotel in the city it really
00:22:53.360
is one of the flagship hotels um of what used to be called the fairmont chain of hotels it's gorgeous
00:22:59.040
it's one of the original cp rail hotels um one of the most expensive hotels in the city one of the
00:23:06.700
fanciest um and i should tell you that's where the nazi swastika flag was photographed a few weeks ago
00:23:12.800
the trudeau refers to there the entire hotel's been taken over by police that's where they're
00:23:17.940
staying police who've come in from across the country to stay there in the most luxurious setting
00:23:23.340
possible and making a lot of overtime anyway so the rcmp musical ride has a whatsapp chat group and if
00:23:31.360
if you know what whatsapp is you understand immediately if you don't it's it's like a little uh it's a it's a
00:23:36.580
communications app and you can have a group with 20 or 50 or 100 of your friends in it and you share
00:23:43.020
messages and photos in it uh it's it's private from anyone who's not in it but there was about 50
00:23:49.940
rcmp officers from the musical ride who were in this whatsapp chat group and they were bantering and
00:23:56.880
you can see they showing how much they love being at the chateau laurier and how much they're boasting
00:24:01.800
about their overtime one of them talks about how he wants to show the peaceful protesters
00:24:09.680
who are against trudeau what jackboots are really like he says that he wants to show
00:24:15.300
the jack their jack boots you know jack boots it's a phrase for fascist
00:24:20.160
police who violently attack peaceful citizens you know that's what jackboots mean and just in case
00:24:25.000
there's any doubt a number of these rcmp horse officers posted video of the ride horses charging
00:24:35.900
the crowd and stomping that elderly lady so they're literally posting that calling it awesome saying
00:24:46.540
they should do it more they should practice that maneuver they're laughing one person in the group
00:24:54.140
says oh that's not the kind of gentler rcmp but not a single soul disagreed 50 of canada's best are
00:25:03.020
actually canada's worst they were reveling in the cruelty they were celebrating hurting people
00:25:11.300
you know a common motto of police forces is to serve and protect these police are out of control just
00:25:19.320
like their boss justin trudeau there's no check and balances anymore it's whatever their id tells
00:25:25.700
them to do whatever their impulse tells them to do if they want to beat a woman with sticks they'll do
00:25:31.300
it if they want to shoot a woman point blank range they'll do it and if the fact that she was a
00:25:36.020
journalist who embarrassed justin trudeau in last election well i get that i bet they're going to
00:25:40.640
report that directly to trudeau for a promotion here's what i'm talking about remember when our
00:25:44.480
alexa love what put the best question in the election debates to trudeau last october take a
00:25:49.400
look are you telling me it's a it's a coincidence that alexa was the reporter targeted to be shot to
00:25:58.300
be shot and these rcmp are cheering violence yeah you know what 50 years i've been in support of the
00:26:05.520
cops i cannot say that now anymore i just cannot say that now trudeau had a press conference today
00:26:12.500
uh they're they're proceeding with a vote in parliament even though the emergency the threat
00:26:19.960
to the nation which was never here even on their own terms it's gone like i say all the blockades
00:26:25.860
have gone all the trucks are out of ottawa there just literally is nothing anymore and that that
00:26:32.620
they're proceeding with it they want the emergency status they don't need the emergency for any tools
00:26:39.720
that they didn't in the first place they want the state of emergency but even before tonight's vote
00:26:47.380
a couple days ago christia freeland was saying there are some parts of this emergency that will
00:26:53.060
be made permanent she loves the power of seizing bank accounts without a court process
00:27:00.440
uh in terms of the financial instruments which our government is using right now to act against these
00:27:13.000
illegal blockades and illegal occupation uh we reviewed very very carefully the tools at the disposal of
00:27:22.440
the federal government uh and we used all the tools that we had prior to the invocation of the emergencies act
00:27:31.320
and we determined that we needed some additional tools now some of those tools uh we will be putting
00:27:41.000
forward uh measures to put those tools permanently in place uh the authorities of fin track i believe do need to
00:27:49.640
be expanded to cover crowdsourcing platforms uh and uh payment platform and their payment providers
00:27:58.600
uh so that's that is something that we need to do and we will do and that needs to be in place permanently
00:28:07.000
some of these other tools uh like uh the sharing of information between law enforcement and financial
00:28:16.200
services and the requirement of financial services to be reviewing their accounts proactively
00:28:24.360
and the immunity from prosecution that we have provided to them in doing this these are extraordinary
00:28:30.280
measures measures that we absolutely believe are necessary in the current circumstances that are having
00:28:37.400
an impact and let me also point out having a peaceful impact uh and the other aspect of the financial
00:28:45.560
financial tools that i would point to as being really effective and important is uh being clear that
00:28:52.840
insurance on trucks that participate in these illegal occupations and blockades will be suspended
00:29:00.520
so we didn't have those tools i don't believe that those tools should be part of the toolbox of a government
00:29:09.640
in ordinary times but they are necessary in these extraordinary circumstances and uh they are having a very uh clear
00:29:20.120
impact today she was asked how you got your bank account unfrozen she said oh yeah well just change your
00:29:28.040
political views no longer protest and you'll get your money back uh the rcmp has
00:29:36.920
has given to the financial institutions names of leaders and organizers of the protests
00:29:47.240
and of people whose trucks were part of occupations and blockades that is the only information
00:29:56.520
according to the rcmp that the rcmp has given to financial institutions i think it's also really
00:30:03.560
important for everyone to be clear and this speaks to the getting our facts straight point that these measures applied
00:30:15.240
only as of the 15th of february that is when financial support of these illegal blockades and occupations
00:30:27.240
began to be sanctioned uh and then finally let me say uh for anyone who is concerned that their accounts may
00:30:41.240
have been frozen because of their participation in these illegal blockades and occupation the way to get your
00:30:49.320
their account unfrozen is to stop being part of the blockade and occupation this is this these measures
00:30:59.720
were put in place to disrupt illegal activity in canada but that that's actually not true there is no mechanism she
00:31:09.640
suggested that people contact the police to have their bankrupt bank accounts released but that's not how it works
00:31:18.440
you don't call up the rcmp and say please uh unseize unfreeze my bank account and they do it
00:31:24.680
that's not how it works i don't know if christia freeland doesn't know or doesn't care or if she thinks that the
00:31:31.160
reporters are just so you know every single one of them bought and paid either from the cbc or from the media
00:31:36.200
bail obviously rebel news not allowed they'd probably shoot us if we showed up um
00:31:41.400
um there's no rule of law anymore and trudeau says he might need to keep things around just a bit
00:31:50.120
longer you know two weeks to flatten the curve and all that because you never know um something bad
00:31:57.160
might happen in the future so better have the emergency laws in place now sort of a permanent emergency
00:32:04.280
what specifically is in that act that is so vital right now to protect canadians we saw for a number of
00:32:11.560
days and weeks into the the blockades that it was extremely difficult to get tow trucks to come and
00:32:18.680
tow big rigs one of the specific measures is an ability to compel tow truck drivers to come and do
00:32:27.480
their jobs when the emergencies act was brought in many tow truck companies said okay uh we'll do it
00:32:35.000
didn't need to be compelled but there were some companies that needed to be compelled under the
00:32:39.880
emergencies act uh to remove trucks and we've seen right now that there are trucks holding in places
00:32:47.320
like uh arnprior and embrun and other places that are have indicated an indication a desire or an
00:32:54.280
openness to returning to block blockades right now so that is a power we may well need you know the media
00:33:01.080
who was there was so gross uh david aiken one of the grossest literally started off by thanking
00:33:09.000
trudeau david aiken global news thank you for taking our questions and thank you for the kind
00:33:13.480
words about supporting our work i'd suggest the best way to do that of course is take an extended
00:33:17.400
amount of time for questions from journalists i see the day that the government of ukraine is reportedly
00:33:24.120
bringing in martial law they have an excuse i would think there's a chance that russia is going to
00:33:30.840
invade i haven't been following that story too closely being a little bit more focused on things here at home
00:33:37.800
if they brought in martial law in ukraine i could understand they have an excuse they're on the brink of war
00:33:44.120
perhaps what's our excuse these are the darkest days trudeau says if you don't like it well just wait
00:33:55.400
three years and run for office what you can do is vote what you can do is run for office that's how change
00:34:07.480
happens in a democracy no democracy is not one day of voting every four years punctuating an authoritarian
00:34:17.720
ruler democracy is a set of processes and checks and balances a set of guaranteed constitutional rights
00:34:26.440
that cannot be overridden even if you have a majority vote my favorite example of majority rule
00:34:32.440
versus a constitutional democracy is if you are walking down an alley and two muggers stop you
00:34:41.400
we all know it's a crime if they say you know your money or your life but what if the two muggers said
00:34:47.960
no no we're going to have a vote and there's two of us and one of you let's have a vote if you give us
00:34:53.480
your money or not it's two against one give us your money that's not democracy i mean it is theoretically
00:34:59.320
a very literal democracy but what we have is a constitutional democracy where certain rights
00:35:05.480
cannot be taken away even if the two muggers have a vote on it and that's what trudeau doesn't
00:35:12.120
understand he doesn't actually believe in democracy he believes in authoritarian rule punctuated by a vote
00:35:18.600
every four years he's wrong but as usual our institutions are failing us the media being by far the worst
00:35:26.600
so far the courts have not stopped a single thing and why would they now i see finally the canadian
00:35:34.360
civil liberties association has risen from its slumber maybe they'll do something i don't know
00:35:39.800
i see the toronto star and the globe and mail are writing some sheepish editorial excuse me saying
00:35:46.280
trudeau should not be invoking the emergencies act i would say that they're actually just giving him
00:35:51.960
cover they're saying we we're a vigorous democracy with vigorous newspapers and we object yet trudeau's
00:35:59.080
going to laugh at them and he's going to do whatever he can do and really who's going to stop him who is
00:36:04.280
going to stop him it's never been worse it has never been worse we'll keep doing here rebel news what
00:36:13.800
people seem to want us to do if i understand what people want us to do the first thing they want us to
00:36:19.640
do is keep telling the other side of the story at great risk to our people they shot alexa and beat
00:36:26.680
her with a club you can't hire a security guard when the opponent is police we hire security guard we
00:36:33.080
spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on security for our reports that's against antifa or other other
00:36:39.800
left-wing thugs but a security guard doesn't work against the police does that so we'll continue to do our
00:36:47.720
best to tell the other side of the story and i should tell you that literally hundreds of millions
00:36:51.880
of views of rebel videos and tweets and news stories have seen around the world i think we're doing
00:36:57.720
a good job if i may say so and i'm not complimenting myself i'm complimenting our staff
00:37:02.520
and i hope you agree and one of the things we've started doing especially in the last year or so
00:37:08.680
is crowdfunding lawyers for those who are targeted by the regime we have given lawyers to as you know
00:37:15.640
2 000 people who were targeted during the lockdowns and we're also crowdfunding lawyers for
00:37:20.840
a variety of truckers who have been given charges i use the word regime that's what we would call a
00:37:27.640
ruling clique after a coup in another country the putin regime the maduro regime but why would we mince
00:37:36.840
words here at home do you really think this is a liberal democracy anymore i can tell you it is not
00:37:43.080
not when the police sees the bank accounts the prime minister's enemies not when the free press
00:37:51.080
is beaten with clubs and shot at not when there's a hundred capricious malicious checkpoints in the
00:37:59.160
downtown of the capital city canada is not yet a totalitarian regime but we're neither are we a free
00:38:07.560
country we're something in between stay with us for more warning censorship
00:38:21.240
well i have to tell you i was down in ottawa the first big weekend of the truckers it had a
00:38:27.480
festival feeling there was amazing it was happy canadian flags people singing the anthem people chanting the
00:38:34.040
word freedom it was wonderful it was fun and that's why trudeau had to destroy it because he
00:38:39.320
was the sunny ways guy and he couldn't be the no one could be he went full martial law full riot gear
00:38:46.360
i haven't been back to ottawa in over 10 days but i am so proud of our rebel team who has been there in
00:38:53.320
some cases uh since the very beginning without a break and i'm glad for our staff literally working
00:39:00.040
seven days a week uh joining me now from the location one of our reporters who's been working
00:39:07.240
very hard his name is lincoln jay and he joins me now via skype lincoln great to see you've been working
00:39:13.000
so hard i saw you late last night trying to get past uh a few cops who were just bullies like it felt
00:39:20.600
like some nightclub bouncer i i'm a little bit older than you lincoln but when i was a youngster i would
00:39:25.480
go to a nightclub sometime and there was this whimsical a bouncer might let you in if he liked
00:39:31.080
you if you gave him 20 bucks if you were a pretty girl whatever the complete capriciousness of it
00:39:36.760
the complete lawlessness of it i have to say it offended me when i was a young man i thought who
00:39:42.120
the heck is this loser uh deciding my life now that you don't like it don't go to a club but here you
00:39:47.640
are in your capital city and a bunch of thuggish cops will stop you every few blocks maybe they'll let
00:39:53.720
you pass maybe they won't maybe if they like you maybe they'll banter maybe they'll let you in maybe
00:39:58.520
they'll make you run around maybe they'll arrest you maybe they'll punch you it really is a look
00:40:04.120
it looks lawful because they've got badges but it is actually lawless it's every cop is the king of
00:40:12.200
his block and very punitive i was disgusted with how they treated you and david menzies last night
00:40:17.400
yeah it's it's unbelievable so we went on the twitter live right just i i don't think a lot of
00:40:23.560
people can understand what exactly is going on in ottawa unless you're here and uh you know simply we
00:40:30.680
had to leave our hotel and get some drinks and some food and uh we kind of expected that we were
00:40:36.520
going to get hassled just because uh you saw our colleague alexa lavois was hassled in the morning and
00:40:40.760
simply uh showing the so they wanted proof that we were uh staying inside the red zone and we
00:40:48.440
showed our key cards but that wasn't good enough we got alexa lavois to who booked the rooms for us
00:40:52.840
to send us the uh verification uh the booking number that wasn't good enough they had to call
00:40:58.120
the hotel and alexa actually had to go down to the lobby and say our names to uh allow to to allow
00:41:04.600
us through that's what it was like right now you know and that's just all made up there's no basis for
00:41:09.400
that there's nothing in the law that gives the police those powers you use the fred phrase red
00:41:13.960
zone you know the cops can make up whatever term they want they cannot stop peaceful protests you're
00:41:19.960
not even protesters you're just citizens walking you're journalists documenting their misconduct
00:41:26.360
and they're abusing you i mean i i we did play earlier the interaction when a a cop abused alexa
00:41:33.480
lavois and said oh you know she and she presented her independent press gallery laminated card
00:41:39.000
which isn't even like that's not even a rebel thing that's an independent press gallery thing
00:41:43.160
and the cop ta-da poof i've decided to make myself arbiter of which journalists can or can't go by
00:41:49.880
it's complete lawlessness the fact that they have a badge and a gun makes it even more terrifying at
00:41:56.200
least if they were just some city bureaucrat you could laugh at them and say to hell with you but in
00:42:01.880
this case they might shoot you they literally shot alexa these are thugs and i gotta tell you
00:42:08.120
lincoln 50 years i just turned 50 last week 50 years i was pro cop i cannot say that anymore i understand
00:42:15.160
there are some good cops out there but they certainly have not made their presence felt
00:42:20.920
yeah it's it's just a it's just a tough situation all around like you said it's there's no grounds for
00:42:27.080
who they're letting uh past these perimeters these barricades that they've essentially set up uh our
00:42:33.400
friend andrew lawton from true north uh he simply showed his uh twitter verification and uh he was
00:42:39.480
allowed through uh to go to parliament hill to report we're watching in our hotel room uh cbc and uh
00:42:45.560
their journalists are literally right in right past the barricades reporting do whatever doing whatever
00:42:51.080
they want but us you know rebel news journalists are being hassled going to the corner store it's just
00:42:57.000
uh it's you know it's such a joke for those who don't know i mean andrew lawton good friend of
00:43:02.040
ours independent journalist but a little twitter verification blue check mark it's like sort of a
00:43:07.160
snob appeal thing and for some cop to say oh that that gives you human rights that lets you have mobility
00:43:14.840
rights and freedom of the press because you have a blue check mark on your social media account like
00:43:21.560
it's so absurd and ridiculous but and and one block over a cop will have a completely different
00:43:27.720
stand and another block over like i saw there was some lady cop who was abusing you and i just thought
00:43:33.800
you know what she's trying to she's got some chip on her shoulder obviously she obviously hates rebel
00:43:39.560
news and she's and when you ask and i i called david up because i saw this live i said david get her name
00:43:45.320
and badge number and as soon as and because we're going to make a compression professional complaint
00:43:50.040
against her well then she went into i'm going to get you mode these are the most abusive people and
00:43:55.880
the reason i know that lincoln is because over the last two years the cops who are restrained the cops
00:44:03.240
who care about civil liberties the cops who have the serve and protect attitude they've either retired
00:44:09.320
been reassigned or are have learned to shut up and it's the worst cops who are flourishing it's the
00:44:18.040
thugs who are being promoted it's the bullies and the little tin pot dictators that are having their way
00:44:25.160
but it i say again it comes from the head down and it's no different from the chief and it's no different
00:44:31.320
from bill blair the minister of emergency preparedness the butcher of g20 and it's no different from trudeau
00:44:38.200
himself would you agree with the statement the canada's under martial law yeah well if uh i think
00:44:46.920
anyone could agree with that statement if they simply tried to get into the downtown core of ottawa
00:44:52.600
they literally will not let anyone near par the parliament of canada unless you have work purposes
00:44:59.480
whatever they deem is work um and or if you're living in in the area so it's just crazy you know
00:45:06.600
growing up in canada i just never ever would have imagined that this is the state of affairs here
00:45:12.840
it's it's just sad to be honest and and just to i've i've been on the ground here since the 28th of
00:45:17.960
january you know in the thick of it you know talking to people every day and it's just been nothing but
00:45:24.440
peace it's just an extremely peaceful environment a family environment and to see the heavy handedness of
00:45:30.440
the police uh on friday and saturday it's you know it's honestly just sad that's the the only word
00:45:36.680
for it and it's just crazy that this is canada right now yeah i think it's i feel the same way too
00:45:42.840
i am sad for the country i'm also sad for you know it's like the end of uh it's like in the garden of
00:45:48.920
eden when you eat from the tree of knowledge and and you fall from grace and you no longer in that eden
00:45:55.160
time canada used to be this wonderful country liberal democracy a safe country and all that's
00:46:01.080
gone now and so i lament it's passing but i also lament that that part of my life where i believe
00:46:06.840
those things is gone as well it's very sad um well listen i appreciate you being there please stay there
00:46:14.280
a little while longer um it sounds like trudeau wants this to be a permanent emergency i call that a
00:46:20.120
coup and it'll be interesting to see if any courts do anything to stop him i think the conservative
00:46:26.440
party is slowly trying to find its courage having lost it two years ago i don't know how this is going
00:46:32.440
to end but i have made a promise to our viewers lincoln that we will continue to show them the other
00:46:36.920
side of the story i think people find that incredibly valuable because at least we can see with our eyes
00:46:43.160
what's happening and i know we won't get that kind of information from cbc or ctv um it was quite
00:46:49.880
something when the new york times reported that the cops were going around arresting people at gunpoint
00:46:57.640
there was about 10 or 20 canadian journalists saying no they weren't no they weren't literally
00:47:02.520
trying to convince the new york times that they didn't see what they saw and it i think it was the
00:47:08.520
worst moment of canadian journalism in my lifetime watching these hacks trying to trying to tell the
00:47:13.720
new york times no no no no it didn't happen or if it happened we need you to forget that it happened
00:47:20.520
it's the worst thing last word to you lincoln yeah well just to add to that point i thought that's why
00:47:26.600
it was very important that i went live that day you know i wanted to be live the whole time so that
00:47:33.400
people can really see for themselves and they can't argue with what they're seeing you know we
00:47:38.440
just point the camera and show what's happening that's what separates our journalism from the
00:47:42.920
legacy media here in canada we're not spinning the narrative we're just simply showing people what is
00:47:48.440
happening on the ground and when you look at the footage when you look at the live streams we're live
00:47:53.320
streaming all day basically friday and saturday there was just simply no arguing the fact that it was out
00:47:59.560
of control it was chaotic and there was really no need for justin trudeau to invoke this emergencies
00:48:06.200
act which ultimately brought in this extreme use of force from different units of law enforcement all
00:48:13.320
across canada it again it was a sad sad couple of days yeah well listen stay safe please give my
00:48:19.640
personal best to your colleagues there i understand that guillaume and alexa are there maybe david and mauricio
00:48:25.080
to give them my hello and my thanks tell them to be careful although of course it's not always in
00:48:30.920
their hands and we'll look forward to your future reports thanks ezra thanks so much all right there
00:48:36.280
you have it lincoln jay on the streets of ottawa stay with us your letters to me next
00:48:46.120
hey welcome back your viewer feedback to me someone with the nickname zimter norad says i woke up this
00:48:51.400
morning and thought it was 1940 germany 16 times already reflect this that's all uh all that's
00:48:59.080
missing is the armbands with the l symbol and the circle is complete you know uh the power to seize
00:49:08.600
a bank account is the power to destroy a family i've seen uh reports of people who claim they had nothing
00:49:14.760
to do with the protest they don't have a truck they weren't even there their entire family's bank
00:49:19.800
account is locked down but even if they were there to have this done extra judicially just with police
00:49:25.000
making the accusation and poof it happens to cut off an entire family from grocery money rent money car
00:49:31.960
gas money that's that's never been done in canadian history before that you can simply engage in
00:49:39.480
collective punishment of an entire family because the police don't like someone's politics it's never
00:49:44.760
happened before um it's shocking to me and that's what trudeau and freeland want to make permanent
00:49:54.760
phil rehm says this is nothing more than a blatant power grab by sparkly socks and his incompetent
00:50:00.040
liberal ndp lackeys why are they allowed to enforce this emergency act if it has not gone through the
00:50:06.680
motions in parliament ottawa needs a severe house cleaning well it will go through because jagmeet singh will
00:50:13.400
give him the votes he needs i'm worried that it'll become a permanent emergency and you can already
00:50:18.920
see their language they're talking about terrorist financing that is any conservative fundraising
00:50:24.360
they're going to talk about hatred and misinformation of course those are their stocks in trade but i
00:50:30.760
think that the permanent emergency is going to be made against dissenters political dissenters and media
00:50:35.880
dissenters i really think so j samantha forrest says should be chanting for the tyrant to come out
00:50:43.800
not freedom well i think we need both um i hope we get some help from somewhere we don't have checks
00:50:50.920
and balances inside the country i don't think canada is a strong modern democracy i think the flaws were in
00:50:57.800
the constitutional dna but more than that in the people to uphold that constitution i mean um theoretically
00:51:07.320
the uk didn't have a proper written constitution but for centuries it was the freest place in the
00:51:12.440
world theoretically the soviet constitution looked great on paper but if it's in china on paper has
00:51:19.320
its rules as well but if they're implemented with the communist agenda there's no point to it
00:51:24.680
i think that canada has lost its spirit of freedom and i think trudeau has corrupted many
00:51:30.760
institutions including just buying them off like the media we're not bought off which means that
00:51:37.000
we're at risk for being frozen and attacked as well but we'll keep fighting till the end that's our
00:51:42.760
show for today until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home
00:52:18.440
i got bruising on me or i got sore ribs doesn't look like i'll be driving anytime soon
00:52:26.120
i'm still alive i'm still here thank you to everyone out there i'm okay
00:52:33.320
bumped and bruised and sore but i live to stand another day
00:52:38.040
since the recent event that happened on the first day of the of the police integration on friday we
00:52:50.040
know that some people have been injured same if the ottawa police have said the opposite
00:52:57.000
that's the opposite of the opposite of the opposite of the opposite of the opposite of the opposite of the
00:53:09.960
police and i've been injured and i came here today to learn about her story how she felt at this moment and
00:54:19.100
I'm Candace Zero from Tandenega, Mohawk Territory.
00:54:23.900
It's about two hours, two and a half hours southwest of here.
00:54:27.900
I know that you were on the front line when all happened.
00:54:32.400
What was your emotion when you saw the horse coming?
00:54:45.040
After they trampled me, there was an officer that, I think a couple of them kicked me.
00:54:52.720
Uh, I got a big breeze on the back of my thigh.
00:55:02.720
And another one dragged me by my coat off the premises.
00:55:11.720
But I walked right on by any more lines and walked back into safety.
00:55:17.720
Because outside of our circle, it didn't feel safe.
00:55:22.720
When I was back in with the convoy, I felt safe.
00:55:26.720
So when that happened and you were on the ground, no officer showed you some help or anything?
00:55:32.720
No, they were all showing me anger and aggression.
00:55:41.720
Well, he aggressively helped me out of the area and was told to leave and don't come back or if I come back I would be arrested.
00:55:52.720
The ambulance came, took me to the hospital and there was only one doctor on.
00:56:11.720
Because there's no doctors or nurses to fill these hospitals.
00:56:40.720
Doesn't look like I'll be driving anytime soon.
00:56:55.720
Why it was important for you to stand up, same if you had some difficulty to work.
00:57:02.720
I think you have like some, something for a handle.
00:57:06.720
Why it was important for you to be there and stand in the front line?
01:01:13.720
It's really important because we are the only media outlet.
01:01:58.720
And in this website, you can as well donate to help us with our travel expense and our journalism.