Rebel heads north to cover the illegal Coastal GasLink pipeline blockade
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Summary
Rebel reporter Kian Bextie goes to Smithers, B.C. to cover a protest by a fake First Nation blocking a proposed pipeline, and is confronted by a man with a Taser and a cane.
Transcript
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Hello, my rebels. Very special show for you today. I was going to do it about a whole bunch of things, but
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then I had an interview with our reporter Kian Bextie from Smithers, B.C.
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That's up there at an illegal aboriginal protest, but it's not actually an aboriginal protest.
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It's a fake First Nation that's trying to stop a gas pipeline that's supported by all the First Nations in the regions.
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Well, enough from me. Here's Kian, and I'll let him tell you about what he saw and heard.
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And it's a way of supporting us, including getting us up to places like Smithers.
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Tonight, Rebel News sends a reporter up north in B.C. to an illegal aboriginal blockade.
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It's January 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 of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Well, we do a lot of commentary here at The Rebel, but I think our great strength is that we go out into the world to do on-the-spot news reporting.
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He's all over the country, and indeed, even the world, as you might recall last year, we even sent him to Hong Kong to cover the democracy protests.
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And we sent him, with Sheila Gunn-Reed, to Madrid, Spain, to cover the UN Global Warming Conference.
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Well, we sent him on a special mission over Christmastime.
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While you and I were enjoying some tie-off, Kian was working.
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I'm not quite ready to give you the details on that yet.
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It's a surprise, but I think you're going to love it.
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But over the last two days, we've had Kian go to British Columbia.
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He started in Burnaby, B.C., at the criminal trial of Jonathan, a.k.a. Jessica Yaniv, the transgender extremist,
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who would go from aesthetician to aesthetician, demanding that women who do intimate waxings for other women wax his male gear.
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Well, he's on trial in Burnaby for brandishing an illegal weapon, a taser.
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Our Kian Bexty has been covering the story, and when he went there yesterday, he had a simple question for Yaniv.
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You could say yes, you could say no, you could ignore the lad.
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But at a trial about his criminality, well, Yaniv committed, in my view at least, what looks like another crime.
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It brings back terrible memories of when our David Menzies was also out in Burnaby asking similar journalistic questions of Yaniv.
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And Yaniv attacked him, this time with a weapon.
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Jonathan, why do you take, why do you send sexually expressive messages to young girls?
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Please, I'm really hoping for the cops to come.
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It's one thing to attack David Menzies with a cane outside in a condo building,
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but to attack our Kian Bextie outside a courthouse when you are on trial for having a prohibited weapon,
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it tells me that Jonathan Yaniv will not stop until the law tells him to stop until he's convicted of these crimes.
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I would guess that he would demand to be sent to a women's prison,
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and I have no doubt that he would be allowed in a women's prison.
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But after Kian had that excitement in Burnaby, and I'll talk to you in the days ahead about what will legally come from that.
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I'm not quite ready to announce what we're doing for Kian yet in terms of the assault against him.
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It's in the north of B.C., where the resources are forestry, oil and gas,
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and a proposed $40 billion pipeline and LNG project that would take natural gas that's fracked in B.C.,
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send that to Kitimat where it would be put on liquefied natural gas tankers,
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It's a great project economically, and for those people who are worried about environmental matters,
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you know, natural gas, it doesn't spill, it doesn't dirty up a coastline if there's a tanker accident.
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In fact, there's never been a significant accident.
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There's never been a breach of one of those LNG tankers ever,
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and if there was, well, the gas would just go into the air.
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There's really nothing to argue against this pipeline for if you're arguing in good faith,
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and so it is, as you know, that all 20 out of 20 Indian bands along the route of this pipeline have signed on to it.
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Not just their approval, but they want to be a part of it,
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mainly the construction project, which will have hundreds of jobs for these Aboriginal communities,
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as well as other benefit agreements, cultural agreements, other spending on these bands.
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They all wanted, especially the entrepreneurial Indian members of these bands,
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who are welders, who would clear the bush, or survey,
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or even just provide catering and lodgings for the rest of them.
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Well, as you know, over Christmas, a B.C. court issued a restraining order
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telling the few ragamuffins that were blocking this pipeline to get out,
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and importantly, ordering the RCMP to remove them.
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It's one thing to tell the lawbreakers to get out,
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but to order the police to enforce the order, that's quite something.
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Well, unfortunately, and not surprisingly, the police just have not been enforcing the court order.
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So when he was done his interactions in Burnaby,
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where he met up with a special security guard that we retained just for the purpose.
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In fact, I can disclose to you that the cost of the security was higher than even sending Keehan up to Smithers itself.
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Earlier today, I talked to Keehan via Skype from his hotel room in Smithers.
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It's so cold up there, the airplane that was going to fly out literally could not take off.
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So he was stranded there a little bit longer than he wanted to be.
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But I sat down with him and had this conversation that I thought was so interesting,
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I was going to turn it into my whole show today.
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Let me encourage you to stick around for the whole 25-minute interview.
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And if you think that this is important journalism, and I do,
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if you agree with me that it is, please consider chipping in.
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Between the cost of the bodyguard, Keehan's Flight Hotel, and other costs,
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it costs us close to $3,000 to get the lad up to Smithers.
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And if you think it was important, go to fakefirstnation.com.
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That's what we're calling these fake protesters.
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He's been to places as far afield as Hong Kong and Madrid.
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Today, he is in a town called Smithers, British Columbia, and it is cold there.
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We like to film you out on the scene when you were in Hong Kong, when you were in Madrid,
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and you were definitely out on the scene, up to your knees in snow in Smithers.
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Here, let's play a clip of how some of that went down.
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You're in a white pickup down by, closer down by the highway.
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What were that, I don't know whether they're doing a log sort yard there on the side of the road or whatever.
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Yeah, what I would suggest is you guys just go and then maybe come back later.
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Okay, it's quarter after 12 now, but you know what?
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Yeah, just talk to the hereditaries down there before you come up with me.
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Part of your attention is where you're going to come and speak to them.
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Do some investigating and I'm sure you'll come across them.
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Is that hypocritical at all given that you want to stop a pipeline?
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No, we're going, we're directing you to the hereditary chiefs now so you can go.
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Keen, you can be a pretty friendly guy, but they weren't having any of it.
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I've been to Smithers and Terrace and other good places like that.
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I have a theory, Keen, that you weren't dealing with real folks from Smithers.
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I happen to know that the pipeline they're protesting, the Coastal Gas Link, it's a $6 billion
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natural gas pipeline, part of a $40 billion LNG fracking.
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I happen to know that all 20 out of 20 Indian bands along the root of the pipe, not just
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want it, but have signed contracts to work on it, have filed affidavits in court to kick
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So I know that those protesters don't speak for folks in the region.
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Tell me what else you saw and what you learned when you were up there, because not a lot of
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Yeah, so we were the second journalist on the scene.
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The RCMP just started, just created this process to allow journalists through.
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They, we approached the RCMP block checkpoint, which was at kilometer 27 of the road.
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And once we met with them, we showed them our journalism badges that we have at the Rebel,
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and we showed them our ID, and we showed them what our purpose was going there.
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Then they called that up to what they call their silver command.
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And then their silver command decided whether or not we would be allowed through.
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And they graciously allowed us to go through and speak one-on-one with these protesters.
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And again, you know, we were the second in the entire country to be allowed past this RCMP
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Once we got to the checkpoint, though, we were a little bit disappointed.
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And right when things looked like they were heading south, he kind of hightailed it out
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What I did find, though, and what was really interesting, is that these protesters are using
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two deadly tools to dissuade people from coming forward.
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And it's something called a widow maker and something called a tire bomb.
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It's tire filled with gasoline soaked rags to be lit on fire when they need it.
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And the widow makers are trees that are sawn halfway through that can be tipped over with
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just a gust of wind at an unsuspecting police officer who is patrolling the area or even
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And it's a tactic that they're using to scare and intimidate police.
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My security detail, he was ex-RCMP, ex-military, and he knows these widow makers well.
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And he was very scared of them driving very slowly through the bush, peering at tree bottoms
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to make sure that one wasn't going to fall on us as we approached the encampment.
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What was very interesting on top of all of that was when we reached the encampment and
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spoke to them, it wasn't really who I thought it would be.
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One white guy was taking a picture of the vehicle from 360 degrees with a really, really
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And then he hightailed it back to the hut, where I imagine they uploaded those facial
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images to wherever their hidden headquarters are.
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And another white guy was acting sort of as security to the one indigenous spokesperson
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And once that indigenous spokesperson sort of whispered in his ear, they determined they
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I was pretending to be an independent journalist who was going to sell this story.
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I was going to auction it off because I knew that they wouldn't talk to me as a rebel
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I knew that since I exposed the Wet Sweat and First Nation society as a fake First Nation,
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And since there was no internet connection out there to verify, I figured it would be more
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It seemed like he was running the show and I didn't understand it.
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This white guy was actually from Kenora, Ontario, from what we understand.
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The people running the show there aren't actually the Indian tribal bands that are there.
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It's people from across Canada that are orchestrating this very small blockade that is blockading
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A huge project that if it doesn't go through, which it will, the court has ordered it to
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If it doesn't go through, Alberta would be really left out in the cold, no pun intended.
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I think most of that gas is BC gas, because of course, northern BC, there's a lot of fracking,
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But it would be a symbol that you can't, if you can't even make a gas pipeline, and the
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Natural gas is a low carbon fuel compared to its competitors, coal or oil.
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So there's no legitimate objection to natural gas, other than these people just want to
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stop industry, probably at the behest of Canada's competitors overseas.
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I mean, if they have operatives based, white operatives based in other provinces that are
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running these aboriginal actors, who knows who's pulling the strings behind them?
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Now, you said something, and I just want to emphasize this for our viewers.
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We knew it was dangerous, and so we hired a very senior, not like a mall cop, but as
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you say, former RCMP, former military, a guy who knows his way around.
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And when you say he was antsy about things, I mean, my journalistic curiosity says, oh,
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I wish we went a little deeper to get more footage.
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That's easy to say when you didn't have the violence against you.
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His instincts to leave, although you may have objected to them, could possibly have saved,
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maybe not your life, but your limb, especially if they're boastfully deploying harmful and
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If they're bragging about widow makers and tire bombs or whatever they're called, I don't
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know the criminal code inside out, but that's surely got to be a crime on top of their other
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trespassing offenses and their violations of the court orders against them.
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I think you were in a very dangerous place there, and I'm glad we had security for you.
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And by the way, I want to invite our viewers to help chip in to cover the security.
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I'm not going to, well, I will say, okay, I'll say how much does security cost.
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For security to come to Smithers and drive you in and take care of your safety for the day
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And I'm not ashamed to say that we spent that much because, God forbid, we didn't.
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If people want to chip in, they could go to fakefirstnations.com because that's what we
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believe these people are, fakefirstnations.com.
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Let me ask you, Kian, why aren't police moving in to take these bad guys out?
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Well, they're trying to juggle a lot, Ezra, and these officers, I have the highest respect
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for these RCMP officers out here in the minus 40 weather, sitting in a place with very little
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And what was interesting, when I left the area, when I left the exclusion zone, they called
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it, they didn't have any questions outside of, are you able to advise us if anyone needed
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And we told them, not to our knowledge, everyone seems to be in good health.
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Their number one priority is making sure everyone is safe, not just their own officers, but also
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the blockaders, the people acting illegally against a court injunction.
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Even when they are putting dozens of lives at risk out there, the RCMP are still concerned
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So I was surprised that the RCMP were so gracious about it all.
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Well, listen, I'm glad to hear you speak so well of not only our own security guy who
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was ex-RCMP, but the RCMP you encountered at the checkpoint.
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It's better that we get along with police than what's happened to David Menzies lately, where
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Toronto police and York Region police physically rough them up.
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So your friendliness is the better of the two alternatives.
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But I am still curious because a court in British Columbia has ordered those protesters out of the
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way and also ordered the police to affect the first order.
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So it's not just that they're ordering private citizens, they're ordering the cops to do it.
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And I find this a diminution of the rule of law.
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And if those weren't, and as you point out, they're not even representative of the local
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In some cases, they're white activists from out of province.
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If this were some, I'm just going to make something up, some Ku Klux Klan alt-right putting
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up crosses and burning them thing with tire bombs and widow makers, I can assure you the
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RCMP tactical division would be going in there and extracting them through force.
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I find it troubling that despite a court order and the breach of the criminal code and the
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civil law, the RCMP are still letting them just do what they want against the law, blocking
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So I'll answer your question, what I'm trying to get at is the people on the ground, the
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RCMP officers on the ground, I hold them in high regard because they're risking their own
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What I understand is that it's all being controlled from Silver Command, if not higher.
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These RCMP officers, maybe they would like to just go in and sort this out right away,
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But I think the higher levels of the RCMP are concerned about optics.
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At the end of the day, these are people who have branded themselves very well.
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They have the sympathy in the ear of Amnesty International.
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Amnesty International was actually tweeting about this just yesterday.
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When the world is watching these people and they've created this facade of who they really
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are and what merits and rights they have to this land, completely fictitiously, of course,
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that's an international eye that is being put on these low-level RCMP officers who are being
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controlled by people three levels above their pay grade.
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So just like you, I'm sure, I think that they should just go in and sort this out.
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I think it would be relatively easy, no casualties whatsoever.
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But it's being controlled by people above their pay grade.
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And I don't know why the RCMP, the upper levels of the RCMP, are so cowardly about this
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Because you're right, there is a double standard.
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If this was anyone other than people who have really branded themselves very well as
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indigenous, honest-to-God actors, they would be storming the gates and making those arrests.
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Well, there's a lot of questions about the political stripe of the RCMP.
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Justin Trudeau appointed the new RCMP commissioner.
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And I don't know if you saw this image at Canada Day.
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So Trudeau was under investigation, allegedly, for corrupting the SNC-Lavalin prosecution.
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And Trudeau literally goes up to the head of the RCMP and gives her a big chest-to-chest hug.
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It's so bizarre, it's Trudeau's creepy hensiness.
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But, I mean, I think that the RCMP is losing its iconic standard of being fair.
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I mean, it was the RCMP's conduct in the Yukon and other places that earned it its reputation
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You said that other media, one other media outlet was there.
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I've been reading a lot of media about this, these fake First Nations, as you so aptly call them.
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And most of the stories either omit the fact that the actual local Indian bands love this pipeline,
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they're going to work on this pipeline, they want this pipeline.
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They either ignore that, or I read a CBC story just today that buried that in the 22nd paragraph
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Like you had to read this whole massive story before they said, oh, by the way, all the actual
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Indians here support this pipeline, just these ragamuffins don't.
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How did you interact at all with the other media that was there?
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It was global news, someone who's been on the ground and has the ear of the protesters.
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We had a chat on the side of the road after we left the exclusion zone.
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We just sort of talked about what was going on, how the RCMP are inevitably going to have
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She's in the better graces of the blockaders, I'll put it that way.
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She was able to talk to them and actually stay there and speak with them long term rather
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than me just being able to ask a few questions through a truck window.
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So once everyone sees the video, they'll see I wasn't even allowed to leave my truck.
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I asked if I could step out and grab some footage.
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And although I'm sure it was within my rights to do so, it is crown land held and right for
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And we had no idea if they had any weaponry on them.
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But Sarah McDonald, the global news reporter, you know, she has much, much closer footage,
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footage of them putting, setting up these nice bonfires to stay warm and toasty.
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So it was nice, at least, that us being the second journalist in the entire country to be
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able to be there, we were able to provide in this coverage the other side of the story
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Sarah is a nice, nice enough, but global news isn't sharing the side of the story that
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we are, that the 20 out of 21st nation bans, legal bans have actually signed off on that.
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And they're all enthusiastically supporting this because the jobs and the money that are
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coming their way, they know that they need to, they need to, well, they want to accept
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these jobs and this cash so that they can have sustainable communities when times are tough.
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And the chiefs of the Wet's Wet and First Nation, the real chiefs, the elected chiefs, and all
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the other First Nations have been very vocal in their support of this.
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So I'm honored to be able to share their side of the story.
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Well, I remark on the fact that Rebel News is the only media outlet that I'm aware of that
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is banned from attending the United Nations Global Warming Conferences.
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We just have to be a little bit more clever how we get in.
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But it's also a feather in our cap as independent journalists.
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Someone once said journalism is uncovering something that someone doesn't want you to say.
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So the fact that the UN keeps us under their conferences is proof that we're reporting something
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If Sarah McDonald, and I'm sure she's a very nice lady, if she is permitted by these unlawful
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thugs who are making weapons and threatening you to the point that your senior ex-RCMP security
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is worried, if Sarah McDonald is allowed to walk about, and I, by the way, I take it she
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didn't have a big burly security guard with her, or did she?
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So the fact that Global News can send a woman who would physically be quite vulnerable
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to a physical attack, Global News knows they can send a woman to a violent area and she'll
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She'll be given a tour by the local thugs precisely for the reason that you were not.
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Because, as you outlined, because you're critical of them, they imply or threaten violence.
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Assault is when you feel an imminent risk of force being applied against you.
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And that in itself shows you can't trust the word Global says, because even if Sarah McDonald
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is not lying, she's not telling the full truth because she can't.
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If she were to say some of the things that you said, she wouldn't be allowed out anymore.
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The rule of law, I don't think yet, is completely broken in Canada.
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I think that the RCMP will move in when it's, once they've done all of their recon work and
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they've figured out exactly where these widowmakers are and they've ensured the highest level of
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And I mean, this is, maybe it's too pie in the sky.
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And I think there will be no casualties at all when it happens.
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You know what, Kean, I'm a little bit older than you, so I'm not just talking about Oka,
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but I know all the ranches in BC, those huge ranches where they had armed standoffs.
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And those were by actual Indians with firearms.
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These, and if the police wouldn't step in there in many of those cases, I don't know.
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I think the police, especially in BC, especially when you blend aboriginal issues and eco-issues,
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I think it goes right up to Justin Trudeau and right up to the premier of BC.
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I think they are the ones who are saying, don't evict.
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In fact, if the courts and the regulators permit the pipelines,
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and you're Justin Trudeau and you hate pipelines, and you're John Horgan and you hate pipelines,
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what better way to stop it than let these thugs threaten you?
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And you say, oh, well, we can't do anything because we'd risk a riot.
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I think that these are political decisions, and I fear that you will not see this pipeline done.
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They're giving in to, I'll call them eco-terrorists.
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You can't build something called the Widowmaker designed to hurt people and not call yourself a terrorist.
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I think you're right, and I'll add one thing to this.
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I think that people will see the video when it comes out if it's not out already by the time this airs,
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but I wouldn't call these people the most prepared people in the bush.
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We drove right up to the blockade, and we saw them panic when we appeared.
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They were completely unprepared for even a journalist to show up.
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They were freaking out when we showed up running, trying to gather their things to come towards our vehicle as we approached the blockade
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because we didn't even realize that the encampment that they set up was indeed the blockade.
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So I don't think these people are the most prepared in the bush.
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I don't think they're the brightest in the bush.
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But your assessment of them being eco-terrorists, I didn't call them that in my video yesterday
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because I know I didn't want to overstep my bounds.
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But you're right, when people are putting widow-makers up, they're called widow-makers for a reason,
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to intimidate and threaten and perhaps even kill a member of the RCMP or even a journalist like myself
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If that's not eco-terrorism, I don't know what is.
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So I appreciate everyone tuning in to this and our video,
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and I'll urge them to go to fakefirstnation, singular, fakefirstnation.com,
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and pitch in a few bucks to help my security because, frankly, it's not just the security, the $1,500 security.
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It's a flight out here. It's the hotel that I'm sitting in right now.
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A lot of work goes into getting these videos out, and I think they're worthwhile, and hopefully people agree.
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Yeah, well, I certainly think it's money well spent.
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And because this is one of the stories that you can't report unless you're there, unless you're there.
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And the fact that you were only one of two journalists to get there, I'm very proud that Rebel sent you there.
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We spent $1,500 on your security, and I'm glad we did.
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And I'm glad he pulled you out when he did because I would not want to, you know, I mean, I would not want the alternative.
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I think altogether the total cost of your trip to BC is probably going to be close to $3,000 once everything's added up.
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That's a lot of money to spend for a couple of videos.
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As people know, YouTube does not monetize most of our videos.
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If you can do some streeters, which is talking to regular folks on the street.
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I'd like to get what they think of these ragamuffins up there.
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I bet they don't like these out-of-town troublemakers coming in to mess things up.
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I bet they don't like all the delays in their work.
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My guess is you're right, and I'll certainly try to do that.
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It was so cold out here, the plane couldn't leave the tarmac.
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So hopefully it warms up by the evening or the afternoon, and I can get out of here.
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But in the meantime, that's absolutely what I will do.
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Maybe I can find a bar where I can speak to people.
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You can have a shot of brandy or something, and then you can go around and interview people.
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Isn't that crazy that the plane was there, but it was just too cold to take off?
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Well, and I'm glad those protesters are enjoying a little bit of the northern B.C. winter.
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But I really think this is important journalism, that if we weren't doing it, no one else would.
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All right, there you have it, Kian Bexty, our roving reporter, joining us from Smithers, B.C.
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It's a bit of a journey to get to Smithers, and, of course, we had to get his security up there, too, and I'm so glad we did.
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I tell you, I only meant to talk to Kian for about five or ten minutes, but it was so interesting.
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And I tell you, I'm here in our office, and I have to be because there's all sorts of things going on.
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I've got a lot of obligations other than just doing my show.
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But, oh, boy, do I wish I was out there in Smithers.
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Do I wish I was there at that moment to be one of only two journalists up there.
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And, of course, the global news journalist, I'm sure she's a very nice lady,
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but the fact that she's going to meet these eco-terrorists without a bodyguard
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tells me what you also know, which is they regard her as an ally.
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Whereas we need to hire serious security because, of course, they would rip us to pieces if they could.
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If you believe in that project, go to fakefirstnation.com.
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We think it's actually controlled by environmental groups and run by, frankly, white folks, not aboriginal folks.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.