Rebel News Podcast - October 05, 2023


SHEILA GUNN REID | Inside the courtroom: Unraveling the Tamara Lich and Chris Barber trial with Robert Kraychik


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

168.42557

Word Count

4,708

Sentence Count

295

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Tamara Leach and Chris Barber are on trial for their role in the Freedom Convoy of 2022, the single largest human rights protest in Canadian history. We've got the journalists covering it to break it all down for us.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What's going on with the Tamara Leach and Chris Barber trial in Ottawa? We've got the
00:00:05.800 journalists covering it to break it all down for us. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The
00:00:10.840 Gun Show. For those of you who don't know, and I don't know how you possibly couldn't,
00:00:32.820 the Freedom Convoy of 2022 was, I think, the single largest human rights demonstration
00:00:39.040 in Canadian history. Tens of thousands of Canadians joined the trucker-led protest which
00:00:47.120 landed in the nation's capital late January through to the middle of February 2022. They
00:00:54.500 were there to oppose vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions all across the country. It was
00:01:01.080 a peaceful movement for freedom. It was so peaceful that the streets were cleaner in Ottawa
00:01:09.340 than before they came when the truckers left and crime actually went down while the truckers and
00:01:17.820 their supporters were in the nation's capital. However, Trudeau never met with them and that
00:01:21.900 guy will attend the opening of an envelope. In fact, it was much worse than that. Trudeau and
00:01:27.480 his government used the never-before-used Emergencies Act to euthanize the protest, to criminalize
00:01:35.580 the peaceful demonstration. The Emergencies Act is a counter-terrorism law. It gives authorities
00:01:42.820 extraordinary powers when the existing authorities do not have the tools to deal with the crisis at
00:01:50.560 hand. It's meant for Pearl Harbor and 9-11 level events. It's not meant for street parties and
00:01:58.860 shinny hockey and people in their nation's capital, in the nation's town square, speaking truth to
00:02:07.240 power. The convoy leaders, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber, were charged with mischief and other
00:02:15.560 mischief-related offenses. Tamara herself was held for approximately 50 days in custody for a non-violent
00:02:24.060 offense that if she were convicted of, she would never see the inside of a jail cell because her
00:02:29.820 crime was not mischief. Her crime, obviously, was embarrassing the government and providing more
00:02:36.380 opposition to Justin Trudeau than the opposition parties had ever done in Justin Trudeau's eight years
00:02:43.840 in office. We currently have a journalist named Robert Krychek covering the trial of Tamara and Chris
00:02:52.040 in Ottawa as it winds its way through the court. And he's been in the courtroom every single day
00:03:01.020 taking meticulous notes and reporting back in outstanding detail these complicated court proceedings
00:03:07.580 in a way that normal non-court types might understand. So joining me now is my friend and colleague Rebel News
00:03:15.860 reporter, Robert Krychek.
00:03:24.560 So joining me now is my friend and colleague Robert Krychek. Now, Robert has been doing really an incredible job
00:03:31.900 of being in the courtroom and documenting exactly what is going on inside the courtroom of the Tamara
00:03:37.140 Leach and Chris Barber trial. And, you know, independent media has really led the way on the convoy,
00:03:45.880 but also on the coverage of the convoy. Robert, tell me what the courtroom is like before we get into,
00:03:51.540 you know, the fine details of what's happening in the courtroom and what I think are probably the
00:03:55.900 failings of the Crown's impossible case against Tamara and Chris. But what's the courtroom like?
00:04:01.640 Who's in there every single day?
00:04:04.780 Well, we've got on one side, we've got media on one side. So you've got the usual suspects. They're
00:04:10.840 the largest organizations in Canada. We've got CTV, Global, CBC. You've also got what we can call,
00:04:17.800 let's say, dissident news media, alternative news media. So I'm there, of course, representing Rebel News.
00:04:23.520 We've also got some people there from post-millennial. We've also got some people
00:04:27.040 there from the Epoch Times. I've seen some other people, maybe I'll use the term bloggers. I don't
00:04:32.460 mean that in a diminutive way, but people that are not affiliated with a particular organization and
00:04:36.720 just do their own work under their own names on Twitter. Maybe they've got a websites and so forth.
00:04:41.940 And then the majority of the courtroom is composed of observers. Almost all of them,
00:04:46.920 maybe aside from one, is composed of supporters of both Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
00:04:52.280 Now, I'm reliably informed by hand-wringing maniacs subsidized by Justin Trudeau and the
00:04:58.460 mainstream media that Tamara Leach, of course, was public enemy number one and a plague upon the
00:05:05.200 city of Ottawa. And Ottawa residents just had to be defended from her. Are there many Ottawa residents
00:05:13.240 in the courtroom?
00:05:15.640 Again, I've only met one resident in there who I would call a detractor from Tamara Leach and Chris
00:05:23.420 Barber. More broadly, let's say the Freedom Convoy. She was not sympathetic. I've spoken to her several
00:05:28.100 times. So she's, let's say, outnumbered by maybe 30 people who tend to sort of alternate. So just on
00:05:36.520 logistics alone, to your point, there's literally nobody there from Ottawa who's just there to, you know, observe
00:05:44.160 justice against this person that, you know, put them under siege, according to, you know, Justin Trudeau or,
00:05:52.760 you know, former Jim Watson, the usual suspects.
00:05:55.200 You know, what a great way to put that. Yeah. I mean, in this apparent, according to the mainstream media,
00:06:00.640 this was a siege of Ottawa. You would think that there would be some interest from the victims of
00:06:07.000 the siege, but apparently there is none because it doesn't seem that, I would think a lot of the
00:06:13.120 opposition, from what I've seen, and I watched this pretty closely, was kind of astroturfed. It was the
00:06:19.040 same people recycled in the media over and over and over again, complaining about the convoy. And I'm glad to
00:06:26.640 see that evidenced in the courtroom. Speaking of evidence in the courtroom, how about that for a
00:06:31.780 segue? What's it like in the courtroom? How do you think this court case is going? Because from what
00:06:40.040 I can understand, and again, I'm a layman, but I also do a lot of court reporting. How do you think
00:06:47.640 the prosecution's case is going? I feel like they were given an impossible case, baby, like a sack of
00:06:53.560 garbage of a case. And now they're forced to go forward with it because of the predicament that
00:07:00.380 they have been put in politically. Oh no, there's two laypersons here. I'm a layperson too, but I've
00:07:06.260 also got a mind and also pay attention to this, so I'll share with you what I've observed. So far in
00:07:10.920 terms of where we've gone procedurally in the trial, we're still going through the prosecution's
00:07:17.960 evidence, which includes invitations to witnesses. So obviously that's the first order of business.
00:07:22.980 Once we go through all of them, then the defense will have the opportunity if it chooses to do so,
00:07:26.780 to introduce its own counter evidence, introduce its own witnesses. And to answer your question
00:07:31.760 about how it's going, it's not going well for the prosecution at all. This is not just one man's
00:07:35.860 opinion, observing from the outside. I can corroborate this with observations I've made inside the court
00:07:41.620 room. And one major theme that's been going on since day one is that every single intervention from
00:07:46.180 the judge. And she is not just this observer. She's relatively involved, I would say. She's not
00:07:52.920 a wilting flower. Every intervention, aside from maybe a handful, have been, in essence,
00:08:00.040 a reprimand of the prosecution's conduct and or something supportive towards the defense's position.
00:08:06.240 And a major sub-theme of that is she is challenging the relevance or legitimacy of evidence introduced
00:08:14.180 by the prosecution, particularly in the form of testimony from its witnesses. I'll just give you
00:08:18.620 one example, although this is going on many, many times. So, so far, all the witnesses have been,
00:08:25.040 aside from one, these sort of bureaucratic police officer types, right? And a lot of them have these
00:08:31.960 logbooks or record books where they keep notes from their daily duties. And given that most of them are
00:08:37.520 in these sort of supervisory roles where they're not actually on the ground dealing with events in the
00:08:42.860 context of the Freedom Convoy, they're getting information intelligence, as they call it, that
00:08:47.240 comes up the chain of command. So, when they share, oh, my notebook says this or that happened, or
00:08:52.420 apparently this happened on that date, it's always second or third or fourth hand. It's always coming
00:08:56.800 from a far distance removed from them in their offices in Ottawa. And secondarily, it's not something
00:09:02.020 that they observed or experienced firsthand. So, again, the testimonies from these witnesses
00:09:06.960 has often been critiqued by the judge. Now, remember, there's no jury here. So, when the
00:09:12.600 judge says that this witness that I'm about to hear, based on what I just mentioned to you,
00:09:15.860 the fact that the second, third, fourth hand information, it's hearsay, she says it has very
00:09:19.920 little to no weight, but she'll allow it to proceed. But again, like this is an ongoing theme,
00:09:26.260 the challenge of relevance to the actual charges at hand. I'll go into more detail about that later.
00:09:31.240 Sure. You know, I've heard criticisms of the prosecution's case in that it seems as though
00:09:39.640 they want to put the convoy on trial, as opposed to Tamara and Chris for the things they're charged.
00:09:48.220 It seems that they want a political trial in the public sphere, as opposed to focusing on
00:09:56.860 the evidence directed at Tamara and Chris and the evidence on which the charges are based.
00:10:05.240 Yeah, this is amazing. Okay. So, in the opening statement from the prosecution on day one,
00:10:10.720 they literally said, this is not an exact quote, but the guy said, his name is Tim Radcliffe.
00:10:15.020 This is not a prosecution of the convoy.
00:10:18.500 Right.
00:10:18.760 But here we are three weeks in and basically all of the testimony, all the evidence has been about
00:10:25.540 what happened during the convoy. So, there's this massive disconnect between the opening,
00:10:30.160 one of the claims in the opening statement and how events have unfolded thus far. Moreover, like,
00:10:37.160 let's just imagine how this might play out if it was something that made sense. You would imagine
00:10:41.800 that you'd have video and or witnesses saying, I saw this person at this location on this date at this
00:10:47.460 time doing this thing. And you would think that the prosecution would then explain to the judge to
00:10:53.420 make it clear, that's what this witness is claiming. And now let me link it to the chart. We haven't
00:10:56.700 seen any of that. It's just these cops saying, again, these sort of bureaucratic cops saying what
00:11:02.620 they've heard from their subordinates in terms of what may have happened. I'll give you one other
00:11:08.000 example that was, I'll never forget, jumped out at me. There was this montage, 11 and a half minute
00:11:12.980 video that was played basically on the first day of proceedings. And it was composed of video that
00:11:19.980 was collected primarily from body cam footage from police officers who were deployed to the
00:11:23.780 freedom convoy for what they call crowd control. And in this 11 and a half minute video, there was
00:11:29.080 not a second of any violence from demonstrators towards police officers or anyone. Now, the judge
00:11:37.460 actually intervened, I think it was day three, day four, somewhere in the first week. And she actually
00:11:41.100 made a point that she watched that video and the only violence she saw was one instance where a
00:11:47.820 police officer struck a demonstrator. And that goes to the heart of your question earlier about how this
00:11:51.760 is sort of a prosecution of the demonstration itself rather than these specific individuals
00:11:59.040 being charged.
00:12:02.100 You know, that is astounding to me that finally somebody has acknowledged the violence from the
00:12:09.000 state directed at the protesters because we saw extreme violence. In fact, the only violence that I saw
00:12:18.060 during the freedom convoy, and I paid acute attention to it, was from police directed at the peaceful
00:12:27.120 convoy protesters. They were meeting peaceful protesters who were singing and chanting with, you know, riot
00:12:35.160 horses with batons, with batons in the case of Alexa Lavoie. And again, with pepper balls in the case of Alexa
00:12:42.780 Lavoie. I mean, I mean, it, it's finally, you know, like finally to hear a judge say, actually, the violence was not the
00:12:52.840 protesters. That heartens me, I don't know how the the court case is going to shake out. But that is the first time that
00:13:01.800 somebody official has actually acknowledged the violence only going in the one direction.
00:13:08.040 There was one other instance in court where it wasn't an acknowledgement of violence going in one direction,
00:13:12.200 but it still will maybe put a little smile on your face. So one of the witnesses that was introduced by the
00:13:17.600 prosecution, again, that's only where we're at so far. Forget the guy's name, Kim, so Kim Ayotte.
00:13:23.420 So Kim Ayotte worked at the time and still does as, I don't know the official title, but he's a city supervisor.
00:13:29.380 He works for the city of Ottawa. He's in charge of emergency services. So the chief of police reports
00:13:33.840 to him, the chief of paramedics, the chief of firefighters, the chief of our bylaw officers
00:13:37.620 reports to him. He's the overseer of all of that. And he was cross-examined, I think it was by Lawrence
00:13:43.840 Greenspon, who's the attorney defending Tamara Leach, whether there was any violence from demonstrators
00:13:52.760 towards police that had come to his attention. He said, no. So even a witness who himself is likely
00:13:58.160 invested and personally supportive of this prosecution under oath stated that there was
00:14:04.280 no violence from demonstrators towards police officers under oath.
00:14:09.620 Wouldn't it be just absolute political egg on Justin Trudeau's face if these two are not convicted
00:14:18.360 of the very minor things that they're charged with? And yet he used a counterterrorism law called
00:14:25.700 the Emergencies Act that's never been used before, that's supposed to be reserved for 9-11 and Pearl
00:14:31.600 Harbor level events. And he can't even get the leadership of that event convicted of mischief.
00:14:41.100 Yeah. So the Emergencies Act, obviously, it's antecedent legislation was the War Measures Act,
00:14:45.520 and it was used by one guy. What was that guy's name? Pierre Trudeau. So yeah, there's a little bit of a
00:14:50.880 lineage there in terms of exercising this drama, although maybe you could argue for the FLQ crisis
00:14:55.340 it was legitimate. Whatever. I'm not going to litigate that. Absolutely, this would be a
00:14:59.640 humiliation of Justin Trudeau. And I want to give you some speculation. Now, I can't prove this,
00:15:03.080 but I know what to be true. I've just been a deep political observer. The idea that any of these guys
00:15:08.400 on the stand, and all of them are these, again, bureaucratic city officials, ostensibly they have
00:15:14.460 discretion. But we know one of the themes of the modern era, which includes Canada, is that we're becoming
00:15:19.640 increasingly centralized and consolidated. We're becoming increasingly micromanaged from this
00:15:24.380 heart of the beast, in our case, in Ottawa. And we know that Justin Trudeau was on TV every day
00:15:29.980 saying he's working with the relevant authorities, he's going to take care of this. So the idea that
00:15:34.900 these charges are not coming directly, or at least let me rephrase that, at least the direction to
00:15:40.160 place these charges against both Leach and Barber, the idea that it didn't come from the PMO is absurd.
00:15:47.140 Obviously, the Prime Minister's office is directing this. And I'll even give you a shred of evidence that
00:15:53.620 corroborates my position. It was one of the police officers, I can't recall the guy's name, but his job
00:16:01.900 is to deal with large events. He's been doing that since long before the Freedom Convoy of 2022. So some
00:16:08.780 sort of large protest, large sporting event, that's under his purview. And he said under oath in his
00:16:14.760 testimony that he was specifically directed from higher ups, not to do his job, which in this case was
00:16:21.480 liaising and negotiating with the Freedom Convoys representatives, in this case, Leach and Barber. And he
00:16:27.420 said he does not know how high up the food chain that that directive came from. He speculated it came from the
00:16:34.620 chief of police at the time that was a guy named Peter Slowly. But why would we even delude ourselves into thinking
00:16:39.420 that Peter Slowly had any autonomy? Jim Watson, the mayor at the time, was out there every day speaking
00:16:44.160 about how this was his top priority. He's going to deal with it. He's working with the Prime Minister.
00:16:47.920 He's working with other law enforcement authorities, working with Premier Doug Ford. So again, this went
00:16:54.480 all the way to the top. And it just proves your point that this is absolutely a Justin Trudeau
00:17:01.260 government directed operation, and that nobody had any discretion. Everyone was waiting to be
00:17:06.780 micromanaged from Parliament. Yeah. And now this prosecutor is left sort of holding the bag with
00:17:13.140 this impossible case, because you can't, what is he to do, drop the charges now? When we said that it was
00:17:21.880 a national public safety crisis, because Tamara honked a horn and said, hold the line. He can't back out of
00:17:30.840 this. He is on a collision course, I think, with a ruling that is going to embarrass the government
00:17:37.360 at the very least. But what does he do? He's in an impossible situation. Although I would suggest
00:17:44.060 that probably an ethical man would say, I can't bring myself to do this. He didn't say that. So here we are.
00:17:51.660 I'm so glad you said that, because this relates to a massive theme that I know you and I, and I bet you
00:17:57.400 the entire audience have observed and continue to observe across what I call the COVID-19 enterprise.
00:18:03.360 And it's the degree to which people who don't believe in something comply with it for their
00:18:07.820 own reasons. So we know that police officers very often did not want to do what they were being
00:18:13.660 instructed. They don't want to arrest some guy for not wearing a mask at a Timworth. This is madness,
00:18:17.920 but they do it. And again, I'm not excusing them. I'm just explaining what I think the background
00:18:24.680 is. They're accountable. At the end of the day, you're accountable, whether you had supposedly good
00:18:29.940 reasons or not. And I think that applies to the prosecution. For what it's worth, there's two of
00:18:34.660 them, a man and a woman. Their hearts don't really seem into it. And even if they were true believers
00:18:38.780 in their cause, they're still, as you put it, dealing with an impossible situation. And this whole,
00:18:44.660 again, the COVID-19 enterprise forced people into doing things they don't want to deal with. It's very
00:18:48.840 much like the emperor has no clothes moment and only the naive, innocent baby had the guts to say
00:18:54.080 that to the emperor. And everywhere you look, people put on the masks, they don't want to. They
00:18:58.120 take the injections, they don't want to. They distance themselves from other people in the
00:19:01.740 grocery stores, they don't want to, but they comply. And the prosecution, in my view, is no
00:19:06.840 exception. They don't want to be there. These charges got dropped upon them when the former
00:19:12.500 prosecutor who was handling this case got removed for being a little bit too emotive, I think I
00:19:16.480 recall Ezra Levant explaining. So they just got this thrown on their desks. And, you know,
00:19:20.700 they want to get that paycheck. They want to stay in the good esteem of their management. So they
00:19:25.360 comply. Now, I just want to shift lanes here to another thing that you have recently covered in
00:19:32.360 Ottawa. And again, I think the counter protesters were the poorly behaved ones. You saw more violence
00:19:39.980 out of the counter protesters than I think we saw out of any of the Freedom Convoy. And that is the
00:19:45.080 One Million March for Children, where people from all kinds of backgrounds, like I have never seen a
00:19:52.540 more diverse parade of Canadiana than I have seen during these protests. And really, these protests
00:19:59.580 are about the sexualization and gender indoctrination of children, this indoctrination with the mind
00:20:06.940 virus of gender confusion through the education system. And it is, it's truly people from all
00:20:12.480 backgrounds, new Canadians, old stock Canadians, to use a term that drives the left wild, Muslims,
00:20:21.440 you know, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, atheists, new Canadians, like I was at the Regina protest,
00:20:28.900 and I was like, did the Sikh temple just let out? What are all these people doing here? And they were
00:20:33.800 there for the same reasons as everybody else. But of course, these things tend to be met
00:20:38.860 by madness. Childless cat ladies, cat moms, who don't have their own children are out there telling
00:20:48.200 you that you don't love your children, and you don't care about your children if you don't affirm
00:20:52.700 their confusion. Tell us what your experience was. Did I just accurately describe your experience
00:20:59.120 at the Ottawa protests? Go ahead.
00:21:01.560 I'll add some color to it. So yeah, it was all sorts of Canadians, like you said, ethnically,
00:21:06.880 racially, nationally, religiously. I'll go further. Some were tall, some were thin, some were fat,
00:21:12.940 some were skinny, right? I mean, literally all kinds.
00:21:15.200 Canadiana.
00:21:16.560 Yeah, totally, totally. And you know what? It was such a great moment. So full disclosure,
00:21:19.740 obviously, I'm sympathetic towards this movement, this campaign to oppose what I call this transgender
00:21:26.140 slash LGBTQ enterprise. To me, it's a series of businesses and operations and campaigns,
00:21:31.820 both for financial purposes, and also just for ideological indoctrination purposes, as you put it,
00:21:36.560 which is just sickening and evil and wicked and criminal and all the above.
00:21:40.260 But what was so heartwarming about it is that it was not hard for me to find amazing people.
00:21:47.220 So if you go watch the video report that I did, and also the video reports from my colleagues in
00:21:52.040 different parts of the country who were out there on that Wednesday reporting on their city's
00:21:56.520 respective million person march for children, it's not like we had to do some hardcore editing.
00:22:02.960 Oh, yeah, get this guy out, get that person out. No, everyone was amazing. It was like you want to
00:22:06.720 get everyone in. I just go up to somebody and, hey, tell me why you're here. They just make perfect
00:22:12.020 sense. I go up to another person. Hey, what's going on? What's on your mind? What are the issues at
00:22:15.800 play? Amazing, coherent, simple answers. So the volume of high quality, sensible Canadians,
00:22:23.880 at least with respect to this issue, was amazing. And it was a Wednesday morning. So that's only a
00:22:29.140 small fragment. Right, right, right. So how many millions of Canadians are out there that couldn't
00:22:34.880 make it on that Wednesday morning? So it should be invigorating to those who feel despondent on
00:22:42.760 occasion because we're very atomized in this modern time. We often feel very isolated by design,
00:22:47.700 by the way the system is, by the way the propaganda of the media is. And we're thinking,
00:22:50.720 am I the last person that knows two plus two is four? No, you are not. You are a part of legions
00:22:55.820 of Canadians who see this for what it is. And that was really the most amazing part. And yeah,
00:22:59.420 to the part of the counter demonstrators, it's just as you described, belligerent, incoherent.
00:23:04.020 They're beyond parody. They're like caricatures, cat people who don't want to have kids,
00:23:08.180 who want to dictate to you how to have your kids. It's madness.
00:23:13.220 Yeah, I call them a bit of a self-fixing problem, which is why they have to proliferate their bad
00:23:18.700 ideas by infecting other people's children with them, because they are the people who say that,
00:23:23.080 you know, you can't have kids because it's dangerous for the climate or whatever.
00:23:27.420 And so really, they're a last generation problem, because there's no second generation of these
00:23:33.720 lunatics. And so that is why they have to go through the education system to infect other
00:23:39.160 people's children with their nonsense. Robert, I could talk to you all day. I'm I have duty calls
00:23:45.960 elsewhere. But could you please let everybody know where they can find your important work
00:23:52.580 on the convoy trial?
00:23:53.920 Well, obviously, go to tameratrial.com where we keep our updates going on. The trial resumes on
00:24:01.780 October 11. So stay tuned for ongoing reports with that. And of course, you can support us
00:24:07.200 at tameratrial.com. And if you feel inclined, you can also support Tamera Leach's defense costs.
00:24:13.900 And just stay tuned. You know, there's gonna be a lot of great reporting out there. I'm really
00:24:16.980 thankful for the kind words you share with me. It's, it's good to get that sort of feedback from
00:24:21.280 someone who like I hold you high esteem. So it's good to hear that, you know.
00:24:25.500 And that's it, guys. Just stay tuned. Rebel News keep going.
00:24:28.280 I have to tell you, you're doing a great job. I know how onerous covering a trial is,
00:24:33.540 you have to be acute to the detail. But also, sometimes the minutiae will numb your mind.
00:24:41.020 And so you've been you've been doing a great job. And I'm really proud of the work that you're doing.
00:24:46.060 Thank you. Hey, the bigger the challenge, the bigger the reward. And I've got a great team,
00:24:48.940 you guys are really helping me refine my skills. So it's really a 360 effort.
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00:25:59.020 at home if you just start sending me some letters. Bruce writes on my show last week with Tom Maratso
00:26:06.400 from the Freedom Convoy about his new book. And Tom had touched on some stuff about Putin
00:26:11.780 and the war in Ukraine there. And Bruce writes, Hi, Sheila. I do feel worried about Trudeau
00:26:16.760 offending Putin so much that he invades our country. Of course, if he just took Southern
00:26:21.880 Quebec and Ottawa, he'd be doing us a favor. Very funny. Very funny. But seriously, serious dictators
00:26:29.040 are feeling emboldened by Trudeau's idiotic actions. Canada needs a ton of prayers that this loser will
00:26:33.680 lose his leadership and an election will be forced. I also had to laugh at an instruction paper for a
00:26:38.740 power transformer under warning. They thanked customers for buying their product. Only the
00:26:45.120 Chinese and maybe Trudeau would do such a silly thing. Your northern neighbor, Bruce Atchison.
00:26:50.340 You know what? I think the world is emboldened when Western leaders are weak and apologetic. Just look
00:26:58.380 at how Iran gets frisky every time a Democrat's in power. And China is contaminating Canadian elections
00:27:07.160 right now. Interfering, throwing their support behind liberals. So what does that tell you
00:27:15.640 about Justin Trudeau? Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:27:21.540 We'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And as always,
00:27:25.180 don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:27:55.180 We'll see you next week.
00:27:56.680 We'll see you next week.