Rebel News Podcast - SPECIAL BROADCAST ｜ Canadians take to the streets in protest of Justin Trudeau's carbon tax

00:00:00.000 Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. I am at our world headquarters for Rebel News in Toronto

00:00:08.780 in a secret, secure location. But across the country, Rebel News reporters are live on location

00:00:15.940 for a nationwide series of protests against Justin Trudeau's plans to hike the carbon tax today

00:00:24.080 by a whopping 23%. And I should let you know, that's not it. The liberals have passed a law

00:00:34.160 that the carbon tax will go up every year. In fact, by the time they're done, it'll be more than

00:00:41.060 double, about double what it is right now. Now, you might be thinking this is an insane time

00:00:47.860 to raise a tax on, well, everything that uses energy, from farmers' tractors to the trucks that

00:00:56.040 ship our things to the, you know, heating our house, whether it's heating oil or natural gas or

00:01:03.420 anything that is taxed for its carbon dioxide. You might be thinking that, and you would be right,

00:01:10.960 but you fail to understand the point of the carbon tax. And this is what its promoters themselves say.

00:01:19.920 The carbon tax, they say, is not about a cash grab. No, no, no, they say. It's about nudging you to

00:01:28.520 change your behavior. They say that when you drive, when you heat your home, when you put your kids on a

00:01:36.440 school bus, when you do anything with energy, they call that pollution, even though carbon dioxide is a

00:01:43.660 harmless, colorless, odorless gas that is actually plant food. All life on Earth needs carbon dioxide.

00:01:52.040 It's a trace element, only 400 parts per million in the atmosphere, but essential for all plant life.

00:01:59.100 They want you to use less, to emit less carbon. They want to make certain activities so expensive

00:02:07.560 that you do less of it. So the fact that using carbon is 23% more painful today, that's not a

00:02:17.960 negative side effect to them. That's the whole point. That's why they're doing it. They're doing it

00:02:25.240 because they want to change your behavior. They want to socially engineer your life. Now, Justin

00:02:32.500 Trudeau is probably the largest user of private jets in Canada, but of course, the rules are different

00:02:38.560 for him. We're going to, in the course of the next hour, visit our reporter, Alexa Lavoie, on the streets

00:02:46.040 of Ottawa, where I see a large protest is gathering, and so too are the police response to it. We're going

00:02:52.760 to go to Nanaimo, BC, where there's a small crowd. I understand that later today, Pierre

00:02:58.320 Pauly, the leader of the Conservatives, will have a large rally there, but that won't start

00:03:02.720 for several hours. To Calgary, where our reporter, Angelica Toye, is on the scene. And our chief

00:03:10.520 reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, is at the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, in that interesting

00:03:16.660 city of Lloydminster. But first, I want to show you some little video clips of our team.

00:03:22.760 has posted so far this morning. And there are other citizen journalists from other outlets

00:03:28.560 on location. But let's start with this one from Alexa Lavoie, a pro-carbon tax protester

00:03:35.840 and some counter-protesters. Let's take a look at her video that she tweeted earlier this morning.

00:03:44.500 No, it doesn't. The price of gas goes up. The price of heating goes up. The price of groceries goes up.

00:03:50.500 No. They don't give you back more than they take you. Why are the price of groceries not up?

00:03:55.240 There's not a single tax that's giving you. Listen, buddy. You're not going to convince me.

00:03:58.960 I've already had this conversation many times. In fact, I got beat up for having this conversation.

00:04:03.480 So I don't feel safe talking about it with you. I didn't beat you up. I don't feel safe talking about it.

00:04:08.220 I'm being nice. That's an honest question.

00:04:11.080 You guys know what happened last time I had this conversation, right? It really upset them.

00:04:16.860 When you try to have an adult conversation, there are children that haven't grown up.

00:04:21.080 Yeah. That's the problem.

00:04:23.120 Yeah, but she gets rebates.

00:04:24.420 I don't know this loser. I know that loser. I know that loser. I know that loser. I know that loser.

00:04:31.220 I think I actually know who that lady is. I think that's Deanna Sharif. Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:04:38.340 I think she's a professional protester. You can sort of tell she's got a body cam.

00:04:43.460 She's got her gear. And she says she knows people there. She's sort of ready to protest.

00:04:48.400 I think that she's a little bit wackadoodle, as my friend Sheila would say. And if you're protesting for

00:04:55.460 higher energy taxes, you're probably a little bit wackadoodle from the beginning. But I don't think

00:05:02.020 that that was a grassroots citizen. I think I recognize who that person is. I want to show you

00:05:10.000 some anti-tax protesters arriving at Crow's Nest Lake. Now, that's near the Alberta-B.C. border.

00:05:18.400 Um, let's take a look there and see how the traffic is mustering at that location. Let's take a look.

00:05:31.520 A little windy.

00:05:37.840 Looks like some campers. It's a little bit reminiscent

00:05:40.660 of the trucker convoy, wouldn't you say? If I understand where Crow's Nest Lake is,

00:05:47.080 it's near the Crow's Nest Pass, I'm going to guess. So that is high in the mountains

00:05:51.020 there. Um, not a lot of use for

00:05:55.240 electric cars in the mountains, uh, where distances

00:05:59.100 are, are long

00:06:00.780 and the temperature in the winter is often cold, which makes it

00:06:04.200 very taxing on electric vehicles.

00:06:06.760 Uh, if you don't have carbon, you're not moving.

00:06:09.620 And if you don't have carbon, you're freezing to death.

00:06:13.220 It's springtime there, but you can still see it's a little bit frosty.

00:06:16.740 Speaking of which, here is, um, scenes from Calgary, Highway 1 and the Highway 22 interchange

00:06:24.740 in Alberta. Absolutely gorgeous footage. You can see the snow-capped Rocky Mountains

00:06:29.540 in the background.

00:06:30.780 In the background, excuse me. Looks like, again, I'm getting vibes of the trucker convoy

00:06:38.620 from two years ago. They're flying the Canadian flag. Look at that!

00:06:42.780 I think I know exactly where that is. It's sort of a, a parking mustering area, uh, just

00:06:49.340 outside the city. Frankly, I think that's on the way to Banff if I understand where this was taken.

00:06:54.700 Doesn't that look like fun? I betcha some of these folks participated in the Freedom Convoy

00:07:03.020 two years ago, and really it's another form of freedom. Back then it was our freedom of association,

00:07:09.260 our freedom of our bodily autonomy, freedom to not have our lives dictated to because we were or weren't

00:07:18.140 jabbed. Uh, the lockdowns, the rules that you couldn't attend a funeral or a wedding, you couldn't

00:07:24.620 have more than a half dozen people over for Christmas dinner. Those insane rules. That, and in the end,

00:07:30.940 the vaccine mandate for truckers, which launched the Freedom Convoy. Um, the fact that so many Canadians

00:07:38.300 are on the edge of financial disaster now with interest rates skyrocketing. You know, I was reminded

00:07:46.060 that, that every month, how many people in Canada, uh, are run out of their, let's say, fixed five-year

00:07:55.100 mortgage. If you took a mortgage out five years ago and locked in a great rate for five years, let's say your

00:08:01.900 mortgage rate was two percent or even lower. If you recall, mortgages were very cheap a few years ago. So you've

00:08:09.340 been paying a mortgage payment, which is, let's say half principal and half interest, but now your,

00:08:16.460 your fixed rate is now going to jump and you have to renew. Well, interest rates are double

00:08:24.380 what they were when you bought your house. And so every single month, when I don't know how many

00:08:31.420 hundreds of thousands of Canadian families, uh, finish their fixed term for their mortgage,

00:08:37.100 now their mortgage payment is $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 more, especially in cities where housing is so

00:08:45.100 expensive to begin with, like Vancouver and Toronto. And yet Justin Trudeau insists on jacking up carbon

00:08:52.460 taxes by 23%. There's already tremendous inflation and a phenomenon called shrinkflation. That's a made

00:09:01.260 up word of course, but what it means is to try and fake it that they're not raising prices.

00:09:08.140 Companies are selling smaller amounts of food, for example, for the same price. So they'll have,

00:09:16.380 they'll still sell you a steak for 15 bucks, but now it'll be this small instead of this big. So between

00:09:23.740 inflation and shrinkflation and mortgage rates going up and the price of housing because of Trudeau's

00:09:30.620 out of control immigration, for him to raise taxes 23% today on carbon is absolutely insane.

00:09:39.020 Our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed has footage from the Alberta Saskatchewan border. Here, a tax protest

00:09:46.220 convoy is rolling from Saskatchewan to Alberta at the borders. Take a look at what our friend Sheila,

00:09:53.660 Gunn-Reed caught earlier today on camera.

00:10:01.100 Look at that. Are you not getting those trucker convoy vibes again? What does that one say?

00:10:07.020 Rip-wrap topsoil. Okay, that's just a, that's just a company's rig.

00:10:13.900 I wonder what kind of a vehicle that is that doesn't look like a police vehicle. There's a Trump

00:10:18.700 flag. You gotta love it. Oh no, that's an anti-Trudeau flag. Excuse me. I thought it said Trump.

00:10:25.020 It said F Trudeau. Those are pretty popular flags. These are good people. What does that say?

00:10:32.620 CO2 is the gas of life. Exactly right. It's called plant food. What does that one say?

00:10:38.140 Why? You cannot tax people into poverty to change the weather and the upside down flag,

00:10:43.900 end the carbon tax. Isn't that true? There's a, you know, we hear a lot about misinformation and

00:10:49.420 conspiracy theories. Have you ever heard anything so insane as thinking that if we will just pay 23%

00:10:55.900 more in this particular tax in Canada, that's going to change the weather? What?

00:11:02.060 That is not science. That is disinformation. But how many mainstream journalists say it? Hey,

00:11:11.260 let's go to our next clip. It's our friend Efrain Oswaldo Flores Monsanto. He is in Hamilton, Ontario.

00:11:18.460 He published this footage of, he calls it protesters against the liberal NDP carbon tax. He's very wise to

00:11:28.460 call it that because without the support of Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau could not govern the way he

00:11:33.660 is. Hamilton is a working class city, the steel mills there. But if you know anything about steel

00:11:39.340 mills, you know how carbon intensive they are. You cannot make steel without coal. I don't know if

00:11:47.340 you know that. You can't make it with solar power. You can't make it with wind power. You need

00:11:53.980 the extreme heat that only coal can provide. You cannot make steel without coal. And by the way,

00:12:02.700 if you've ever driven through Hamilton, maybe you're driving on your way down to Niagara Falls,

00:12:08.620 you pass this mighty industrial heartland. And if you were a critic, you might say it looks like the

00:12:14.780 land of Mordor in Lord of the Rings. There's smoke and there's fire and there's steel. Imagine being an

00:12:24.380 NDPer for the working classes, i.e. for the steel makers, and being against carbon and wanting to tax

00:12:33.900 carbon. By the way, I saw a poll the other day that the majority of union workers in private sector

00:12:40.860 unions support Pierre Polyev. So obviously they're not buying into it. Here's video from Efron earlier

00:12:46.700 today. Let's check it out. Axe the tax. F Trudeau. I tell you, whoever came up with that flag

00:12:56.140 concept, F Trudeau has made a mint. Axe the tax.

00:13:03.100 You know, I love the fact that they've got the Canadian flags. And I say that

00:13:05.900 because if you're as old as I am, you remember 1995 when there was a referendum in Quebec to

00:13:13.260 separate and the Liberal Party pretty much co-opted the Canadian flag and said, if you're for Canada,

00:13:19.100 you're a liberal, vote for us, et cetera. It's a very close run thing, that referendum, by the way.

00:13:25.580 But the freedom movement, the truckers, and now the anti-carbon taxes, they fly the Canadian flag.

00:13:32.380 Sometimes they fly it upside down, which, as you know, is a pretty much universal signal of distress.

00:13:39.500 There's another video footage from Efron showing the crowd is gathering on that overpass.

00:13:44.940 We have one more clip I'd like to show, and it's not from Rebel News, but it's from another

00:13:50.940 independent journalism outfit called Desi Media, who's on the streets a lot, especially in Ottawa,

00:13:57.660 and I find their stuff interesting. So here's Desi Media, something they uploaded.

00:14:04.140 Actually, this is from the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border. Pardon me, I said it was from Ottawa. This

00:14:09.340 is from the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border, which is very interesting because, of course,

00:14:13.900 the Atlantic for so long was a Liberal Party stronghold. There have been occasions where

00:14:19.820 every single seat in Atlantic Canada has gone Liberal. And now you have Liberal MPs and Liberal

00:14:30.300 Premiers of provinces saying, we just can't bear this burden anymore. Do not raise the tax.

00:14:37.420 Here's how it looks on the ground, courtesy of Desi Media.

00:14:40.620 And the carbon tax, exactly. The owner of that rig is probably an independent contractor.

00:14:53.420 These guys are going to be taking the brunt of it. And so everything that their trucks ship.

00:15:00.860 What do you ship in a truck like that? Answer? Literally everything. From food to retail goods to

00:15:10.060 high-tech gadgets. Literally everything goes by truck. It goes by train. It goes by ship and by train.

00:15:18.060 And those trains disgorge onto trucks. And by the way, every single delivery service you have to your

00:15:25.260 house. Carbon taxes are going up 23%. How can that not be passed on to customers?

00:15:33.020 So those are some video clips. Here's one more we have. I think of a helicopter. Where is this from?

00:15:38.700 This is Adam Sose. So I presume this is in Calgary. Oh, it's a helicopter with a carbon tax message

00:15:46.780 printed on the side. Axe the tax on a helicopter. That's very exciting. Spike the hike. Well, those are,

00:15:58.860 as you may know, the two mottos that Pierre Polyev has used. Look at how much fun is that? I wonder if

00:16:06.300 those are some of the lads who flew their helicopters up to the Whistle Stop Diner to show support for the

00:16:13.660 restaurant in Mirror, Alberta that wouldn't shut down. I know a couple guys came in by helicopter to

00:16:19.820 to patronize that restaurant a couple years ago. I bet it's the same guys because they're freedom

00:16:24.220 lovers. Here's another clip from Sheila Gunn-Reed. Let's take a look at it. This is also from the

00:16:28.860 Alberta-Saskatchewan border. Let's take a look. It looks like it's turning into kind of a festival

00:16:34.780 situation. It looks cool out there, but it's obviously warmer than the minus 20

00:16:43.660 that was at Coutts during the border protests there or Ottawa. That looks fun. People brought

00:16:49.660 snacks and drinks, proudly serving the Midwest. Okay, that's just a corporate sign. It looks like

00:16:54.940 a barbecue is kicking off. How much fun is that? And how real and grassrootsy is that?

00:17:02.140 Yeah. We showed you earlier one pro-carbon tax protester who I think was Deanna Sharif,

00:17:10.860 professional shit disturber to be candid. Compare that to the real life community spirit style.

00:17:20.860 I, you know, even if it's sort of a crappy hot dog, they always taste better because there's that

00:17:27.260 community spirit, that friendly neighbors, you know, almost like a potluck. Hey, it looks like

00:17:33.580 we've got some more video from Alexa Lavoie from Parliament Hill. Yeah, let's show that. Now you're

00:17:39.740 going to have a few professional protesters for the carbon tax, but I don't know a single human,

00:17:46.780 like normal person, who's for that. Unless you have some angle, unless you're paid to say that.

00:17:53.020 What normal person says, yeah, I want to pay more taxes. Brother, if you want to pay more taxes,

00:17:57.820 go ahead and do it. Don't make the rest of us. You know what? This is the vibe. I was there for,

00:18:02.700 I think, two and a half days during the original... Oh, look at that! Axe attack!

00:18:06.620 Axe attack! Axe attack! Axe attack! Axe attack!

00:18:12.620 How much fun is that? That's what it was like during the trucker convoy, except for you don't

00:18:31.420 need gloves and a hat now because it's not minus 20. They're having some fun. They're singing some

00:18:36.780 songs. They got some placards. I see a little cooler there in the background, I think. I don't

00:18:42.620 quite see any bouncy castles or hot tubs, but the day is still young. Isn't that fun? Coast to coast to

00:18:52.620 coast. I don't know about the northern coast, but I tell you one thing. I have been to Inovic. I have

00:18:57.260 been to Tuktoyuktuk. It's all fossil fuels up there. Their electricity does not come from wind

00:19:04.620 or solar. It comes from diesel generators. And without fossil fuels, it simply would not be

00:19:11.340 habitable up there. I'm having fun looking at these videos that are... Here's one from Angelica.

00:19:17.740 By the highway, I know exactly where this is. This is where you head on out to the mountains.

00:19:22.460 Angelica says, drivers are honking in support of the Axe attacks rally on Highway 1 in Alberta. Again,

00:19:29.180 a glorious spring day. Cool, but sunny. That's the way it is in southern Alberta.

00:19:35.020 How much fun is that? Of course, they've got the Canadian flags. People love that spirit. They

00:19:39.820 were inspired by the trucker convoy two years ago, and I think this is... They want to recapture

00:19:48.460 that spirit. Yeah, don't be shy. Feel free to put through

00:19:52.460 more videos. Is this a new one here from Sheila? Here's one from Sheila. Let me read. She says,

00:19:57.340 some of the video of the staging area for the tax protest on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

00:20:05.260 Straddles both sides of Highway 16. Some guys are blaring Metallica in the distance. Laugh out loud,

00:20:11.420 very prairie. Let's take a look at what that is like and pump up the sound if we've got some Metallica going on.

00:20:22.540 Don't you wish you were there? I mean, I'm in Toronto at our studio. I mean,

00:20:26.460 I like it because it's home, but I wish I were there. I feel like I'm missing out.

00:20:31.180 You know, the last time there was a grassroots anti-tax movement in Canada,

00:20:49.660 I think it was the 1990s. I think it was to get taxes down in some way. Maybe it was a GST-focused thing.

00:21:05.340 Yeah, I think it was. Remember, there was... Brian Mulroney brought in the GST,

00:21:11.740 and the Liberal Party of Canada promised to scrap it, and they didn't. When they got in, they kept it.

00:21:19.900 And so there was an attempt to hold them to that promise. And you might recall that one of the

00:21:25.100 Liberals, who actually later became Deputy Prime Minister, Sheila Copps, resigned her seat and had

00:21:31.180 a by-election because she made a promise to do so. She was from Hamilton, too, by the way.

00:21:39.420 Now, a lot of what you saw out there was very grassroots. Homemade signs, ordinary people,

00:21:49.660 as contrasting the professional protester we saw in the form of Deanna Sharif. But on top of that,

00:21:57.500 you have the Tax Pays Federation, which is a very grassroots, populist, citizen-funded group.

00:22:03.900 But Pierre Polyev has very wisely, I think, made fighting the tax a central theme of his campaign. And I think

00:22:11.900 it's wise. There's a lot of issues that are more cultural battles. Immigration numbers, transgender

00:22:18.780 extremism, the pro-Hamas hate marches on the streets of Canada. And those are divisive issues,

00:22:27.900 and they're spicy issues. And of course, we care about those for moral reasons here at Rebel News.

00:22:32.780 But most people in Canada, I mean, if they think about those issues, it's not as a central fact of

00:22:41.740 their life. Most people have not had their life affected by the Hamas hate marches. The Jewish community

00:22:48.540 has. But if you want something that touches every Canadian, especially young Canadians, trying to get

00:22:54.620 their start in the world, trying to buy a house, trying to move out of their folks' house, trying to

00:22:58.620 get ahead in life, trying to keep up with inflation, this is the issue. This and housing prices and Polyev has

00:23:05.500 just absolutely made the Liberals and their New Democrat coalition wear this. And I think it's very wise.

00:23:15.100 Now, I should tell you, we have plans to go to our people on the ground. Olivia, do we have any of our

00:23:22.460 reporters standing by? We're still winning. Okay, so let me know as soon as we have those folks. We do

00:23:29.340 have, like I say, Alexa Lavoie in Ottawa, Drea Humphrey in Nanaimo, Angelica in Calgary, and Sheila Gunnery

00:23:35.740 in Lloyd Minster, which straddles the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta. So let's go to some clips.

00:23:43.340 I've shown you some raw footage that was taken earlier today on the highways, several from our reporters and

00:23:51.580 one from the Atlantic, from DC Media. Pierre and Pauly have had a huge rally in Edmonton recently,

00:24:02.300 over 2,000 people. He claims it was 3,000, probably somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 people there.

00:24:08.620 And the provincial premier, I mean, most provincial premiers are against the carbon tax. In Alberta,

00:24:17.980 premier Daniel Smith is vehemently against it and has been leading the charge against Trudeau's

00:24:24.540 environment minister, the extremist Stephen Gilboa. So, Daniel Smith showed up at Pierre Pauly have

00:24:33.420 federal conservative rally. Here's Pauly have introducing premier Daniel Smith. Take a look at that.

00:24:40.540 It is a tax designed to concentrate control in the hands of more bureaucrats and politicians in Ottawa and

00:24:59.820 take that control and money away from the people who rightly earned it. It is part of a broader destructive

00:25:09.020 agenda of big government and small people that impoverishes the citizen to the benefit of the state.

00:25:17.900 But the good news is, across the country, we are seeing an outbreak of common sense.

00:25:24.220 Seven premiers across Canada, seven premiers and 70 percent of Canadians have called on Trudeau to spike

00:25:39.820 the hike. But they wouldn't have had the courage to do it had there not been a trailblazer leading the

00:25:46.380 way in your common sense conservative premier, the great Danielle Smith.

00:25:55.100 Give her a round of applause.

00:26:04.220 Way to go. She's building a

00:26:07.100 she's building a common sense coalition.

00:26:09.260 And you know what? Every single political party at a provincial level, Liberal, NDP and otherwise,

00:26:17.820 is now in other parts of the country, I should say, now opposing the carbon tax. In Newfoundland and

00:26:23.660 Labrador, the Liberals oppose the carbon tax. In Nova Scotia, the NDP oppose the carbon tax.

00:26:31.500 In British Columbia, the NDP is fighting to hike the carbon tax. And here in Alberta,

00:26:37.820 we just don't know. Would you be willing to join with me, Premier Smith, in calling on all the

00:26:45.900 NDP candidates for the leadership to write Justin Trudeau and tell him to spike the hike?

00:26:52.060 100 percent. 100 percent. You know, I can't believe that this city voted NDP with all the

00:27:03.740 conservatives in this room. But you have the power to call all of the NDP leadership candidates and

00:27:12.140 all of the MLAs and tell them to tell their boss, Jagmeet Singh, in Ottawa, that he should axe the tax and

00:27:19.340 spike the hike. And we just might get somewhere on it. Give it up for the Premier.

00:27:29.340 You know what? It is a lot of fun to be in a rally of 2,000 and 2,500 people. It is exciting.

00:27:36.220 And I think the NDP are making a terrible mistake hitching their wagon to Trudeau's carbon tax. But

00:27:41.020 what are they going to do? I mean, the NDP was created as a party of farmers and factory workers.

00:27:46.940 That's its history. This is a war against both. It's a war against farmers who probably use more

00:27:54.380 fuel than anyone other than truckers. I mean, every farm vehicle, think about it. There's no solar

00:27:59.660 powered combines, sorry. And factory workers, I mean, forget about it. Liberals and NDPers these

00:28:06.460 days are against factories because it's gross blue collar stuff. They're all for environmental

00:28:11.980 extremists and woke-ism. Now, I understand that Pierre Polyev is holding a rally in Manaimo,

00:28:19.180 BC tonight. Manaimo is a city on Vancouver Island. And I think Vancouver Island is in play. There's

00:28:27.100 some parts of it that are very green. Remember, that's where Elizabeth May is from. She's about an

00:28:33.260 hour and a half south of there. But our friend Drea Humphrey is on the ground in Manaimo right now.

00:28:39.500 Let's connect to her by Zoom or Skype if we can. Drea, can you hear me?

00:28:45.340 I can hear you. Can you hear me, boss?

00:28:47.100 I sure can. Crystal clear. Great to see you. Thanks for joining us live. Tell me where you are

00:28:53.420 and what you see. Well, I'm in Nanaimo right now. There's a group that's just started to gather for

00:28:59.500 the carbon tax protests. We're in front of federal MP Lisa Marie Barron's office up there. And two

00:29:06.940 door down, you have another NDP, this time provincial, Sheila Melkinson, the MLA. So that's where they're

00:29:15.500 gathering right now. It's just started. So this is just one of the legs in BC. I think our big meeting

00:29:23.420 in BC is probably a convoy that is headed out to Hope. There are people going from Kelowna,

00:29:30.380 Langley, BC, all the way up to there. So I've got some eyes over there. We'll get some footage of that

00:29:36.940 as well. That's great. Thank you for that. Now, if I got my time zones right, it's still only 1030 AM

00:29:43.900 in BC out there in Nanaimo. So these folks are gathering now. I understand that tonight though,

00:29:50.860 Pierre Polyev is having a large rally there. Is that accurate?

00:29:55.260 That's absolutely correct. So there is a press conference happening in the afternoon,

00:29:59.820 which I'll be covering. And then also I will be covering the rally. Now it's important to note

00:30:05.500 that there is another rally happening at the legislator in Victoria too. So some people are

00:30:10.140 there right now. But I'm in Nanaimo covering all the stuff that's happening carbon tax related today.

00:30:17.180 Well, I love Nanaimo. I used to visit there every year. Tell me what some of the signs say. I can see

00:30:23.980 some of them taxed enough already. Isn't that the truth? I saw a flacker there, I think,

00:30:30.780 remarking on the fact that while taxes for you and me go up today,

00:30:34.540 um, salaries for MPs are being raised today too. Isn't that crazy?

00:30:39.260 That's right. There was a sign here about the salaries. I think the lady, it was a young lady,

00:30:45.020 and I think she's walking away over there. I don't remember exactly what it said, but she's calling

00:30:50.620 that out. I think if I had to recap, it was something like MP salary means poverty for us,

00:30:57.180 or something like that. So she's down there. And I think there's one lady who wants to say something.

00:31:02.220 Did you want to say why you're here? Oh, I'd love to say why. Can you hear her?

00:31:06.300 Yeah, go ahead. Hi, it's Ezra Levent in Toronto. Why are you at that rally, ma'am?

00:31:11.740 Hey, just hang on. I got to get an earbud in. He says, why are you at the rally?

00:31:15.900 Why am I at the rally? I'm at the rally, uh, for redemption of what Trudeau's father started

00:31:24.380 in this country back in the 80s. And I watched it decline back then. I watched my father have to

00:31:29.980 line up at the welfare office back then. And I'm witnessing it again today. And I cannot believe

00:31:37.180 it's taken this many years to keep the Trudeau family out of this country and out of politics.

00:31:44.140 It has to stop. We as Canadians have got to raise up a backbone and start to fight. We can still be a

00:31:50.460 nice country. We can still be a peaceful people, but we've got to raise up a backbone.

00:31:55.980 Wow. Very powerful. Thank you for sharing that thought with us. I appreciate that.

00:32:01.260 Yeah, you're welcome.

00:32:01.980 Drea, that's incredible. I remember, I mean, I was

00:32:05.500 very young when Pierre Trudeau was prime minister, but the devastation of his policies,

00:32:09.980 especially in the West. And it sounds like, uh, that woman is, has those memories at the top of

00:32:16.140 her mind as the Trudeau Jr. destroys the economy, cost of living, making it impossible for people

00:32:22.380 to buy homes. Very moving. And frankly, I got the chills there because I was not expecting

00:32:27.980 that answer. Hey, there's a sign behind you right now. What does that say? I'm just curious

00:32:33.180 because I love the homemade signs. Taxed enough already. Okay. We see that one.

00:32:38.940 Perfect. Are there other signs we can take a peek at?

00:32:41.260 Yeah, we've got some axe attack signs. Uh, it looks like they've walked to a different location

00:32:48.460 on the end. Some people waving. Okay. Yeah, there's an actual axe, which is quite interesting.

00:32:56.380 That's right. That's right. Axe attacks. Look at that creativity. Look at, I mean,

00:33:01.900 that must take an hour to make. How long did that take you to do? Oh, it was probably a couple of hours.

00:33:08.620 A couple of hours. So lots of dedication. People are done with this tax. And as you know,

00:33:15.500 British Columbia has a bit of a unique situation. We have the highest amount of taxes that we pay for

00:33:22.620 gas. And we have our own carbon tax, which has to match the federal carbon tax. But also, you know,

00:33:30.460 it has no hold on it. It could exceed if they wanted to in this government. So in some ways,

00:33:36.060 British Columbians have extra reason to be out here today.

00:33:39.660 Last question, Dre. And by the way, thanks so much for going there. And the connection

00:33:43.580 is crystal clear. It's perfect. Thank you very much. Um, you're outside the offices of a federal MP

00:33:50.060 and a provincial MLA. Have either of them, I take it neither is in their office at this hour.

00:33:56.860 Has any staff, has there been any interaction or have people been going into the offices?

00:34:03.180 Have they said anything or is it all closed up? It is all closed up. It doesn't look like anyone's in

00:34:10.620 there. I don't know if you can see, I'm trying the door right now. It's locked. Um, in fact,

00:34:16.460 every time I've covered a protest, doesn't matter what day it is. I mean, it is Easter Monday, but

00:34:22.300 even on a normal day, I have not seen them be open in British Columbia. So I don't know what type

00:34:28.380 of work they're actually doing. Well, that certainly is a metaphor. The fact that the door

00:34:33.100 is locked and no one is home, but everyone outside can holler into the wind, uh, because the government

00:34:39.820 doesn't care. They're raising the tax over the objections of the people. The fact that there

00:34:44.620 is no one home there, even though that's where they're supposed to be listing to their constituents,

00:34:49.580 that they don't care what the constituents say, that the doors are locked. They probably knew there

00:34:54.220 was a protest and they said, just lock the doors and let them stay outside. What do we care?

00:34:58.860 I really think that is emblematic and symbolic of this government. Drea, thanks very much for making

00:35:04.380 the journey. And I look forward to your report tonight from the large acts of tax rally.

00:35:09.500 I'm very curious because I know Nanaimo, there's liberals, there's new Democrats,

00:35:13.580 but there's also a history of conservative parties. Obviously, Pierre Polyev thinks that

00:35:19.660 the region is in play if he's doing a rally there. Last word to you.

00:35:25.100 Absolutely. I'm looking forward to covering it and seeing if it's going to pack the house

00:35:28.700 like we're seeing in other places across the country. I spoke to some people when I was trying

00:35:33.580 to get a feel for what the protests were going to be like on the island and everybody I reached out

00:35:37.660 to said they were going to the rally tonight. So I am suspecting that it will be a good turnout.

00:35:44.460 Thank you, my friend. That's Drea Humphrey, our BC bureau chief on the streets of Nanaimo,

00:35:49.980 where the politicians are hiding. Thanks, Drea. We have other folks on the ground and I just want

00:35:56.620 to see if we can make a connection with them. Olivia, let me know if we're able to connect with Angelica in

00:36:03.180 Calgary, Sheila and Lloyd Minster, or Alexa in Ottawa. In the meantime, I see

00:36:10.140 that our friend Lincoln Jay, looks like he's got some imagery from Uxbridge, Ontario. Let's just take

00:36:17.500 a look at this. I haven't even seen this yet. Looks like a big rig. Go ahead and play the clip.

00:36:21.580 Tax to tax. Nice. Oh, and there's a farm rig. Carbon taxes, higher grocery prices. Exactly right.

00:36:43.260 I love this spirit. Look at that. Another no carbon tax. Look at that, John Deere. You can

00:36:51.180 tell by those classic colors, yellow and green. No carbon tax. Look at that. I love seeing the

00:36:58.380 agricultural support. That reminds me a little bit of the Coutts, Alberta protest. You had the truckers,

00:37:04.540 but the farmers were actually the backbone of that protest. Look at those. Yeah, there's that big rig

00:37:09.820 again. Well, I think that's courtesy of our friend Lincoln Jay. Isn't that interesting?

00:37:18.700 All right, Olivia, you'll let me know if we make a connection with our other reporters on the ground.

00:37:27.900 And I'm just looking through our live stream Slack channel to see if there are other clips.

00:37:33.900 Did we, was there an extra one there from Alexa Lavois that I see 32 minutes ago in Slack? Did we,

00:37:41.980 did we see that one yet? I'm looking at Slack. Maybe she's gone ahead and tweeted it.

00:37:52.460 I think we've seen some of those. It's in Slack. I'm not sure if we played the one in Slack. Yeah,

00:38:00.540 that's the one right there. Let's just take a look at what that one is.

00:38:05.740 I'm curious about Ottawa because of course that was the most dramatic

00:38:09.580 uh, location for the, um, trucker convoy. And also the police there were the most abusive.

00:38:19.100 Um, shooting people, guns, beating people. That's really where the Emergencies Act was deployed for

00:38:27.340 Trudeau's vanity. Um, I'm not sure if we have any reports of police abuse yet today,

00:38:35.100 but it wouldn't shock me because again, these anti-tax rallies embarrassed Trudeau. And that's

00:38:40.700 really, uh, what he hates the most. Go ahead and play that clip if you can.

00:38:48.940 So that's outside the Chateau Laurier. Oh, it's quite a, quite a group. Spike the hype,

00:38:58.540 Axe the carbon tax. Looks sort of fun. That, that looks like a good group.

00:39:06.780 I recognize that journalist there. Donald, I think is his name.

00:39:09.740 Good stuff. Well, you know what? I like the fact that this really is happening across the country.

00:39:19.580 Um, the numbers are not as large as the, uh, trucker convoy, but we've checked in in Ottawa,

00:39:28.060 Uxbridge, Nanaimo, Lloyd Minster, Calgary, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. Um, I think we've got something,

00:39:37.820 uh, another Alexa vid. Let's go ahead and play this one. Yeah. Protesters are arriving. Remember,

00:39:43.980 it's still early across much of the country. It's 1 40 PM here in the Eastern time zone,

00:39:49.900 but out West where we were just chatting with Drea, it's still only 10 40 in the morning.

00:39:55.980 Hmm. All right. Well, while we wait for a word from, uh, our correspondents on the ground,

00:40:02.140 Olivia, I see, uh, in the rundown of clips we have one where Trudeau,

00:40:07.660 accuses the premiers of lying about the cost of the carbon tax. But again, he's got to pick a lane.

00:40:15.500 Like I say, if you think about the carbon tax from the liberal point of view, if you actually take

00:40:21.660 them at their word, and remember the father of the liberal carbon tax was actually Stéphane Dion,

00:40:26.940 who was the environment minister under Jean Chrétien. He was briefly the leader. He ran against

00:40:31.740 Harper in 2008 and he called it the green shift. He said, tax carbon and rebate it on other stuff to

00:40:40.780 get people to shift their behavior. He was very candid. The whole point was to punish the use of

00:40:48.220 energy. Well, that's what Trudeau, he said, put a price on carbon, a price on pollution. But why,

00:40:56.140 how does putting a price on pollution as if a tax is a price and if carbon dioxide is pollution,

00:41:03.340 but taking it at face value, how does that lower the, change the weather? Well, the thinking behind

00:41:10.300 it, the liberal thinking is, if we make using energy punitive enough, you'll do less of that stuff.

00:41:17.580 So if we make food expensive, you'll eat less of it. If we make heating your home more expensive,

00:41:23.420 you won't make your houses warm in the winter. If we make travel more expensive, you won't fly or drive

00:41:29.820 as much. The whole idea of the carbon tax is to change behavior. So to say, for Trudeau to say,

00:41:37.820 oh, don't worry, you actually get more money back, that's not only not true, that's not the point,

00:41:45.100 the whole point is to be punitive. Here, let's take a quick look at that Trudeau video,

00:41:49.980 and then we'll go to Sheila Gunn-Reed, who I see is standing by. Play the Trudeau vid.

00:41:54.780 Mr. Prime Minister, you keep telling Canadians the carbon tax program is revenue neutral,

00:42:00.060 but you have the opposition and a lot of premiers saying it's costing them money. Do you think you're

00:42:04.620 losing the communications battle here? The facts matter.

00:42:09.900 The premiers, conservative premiers specifically, are misleading Canadians.

00:42:19.740 The conservative opposition in Ottawa and Pierre Polyev are not telling the truth to Canadians. The

00:42:28.300 parliamentary budget officer himself says very clearly that eight out of ten families across the

00:42:37.660 country do better with the Canada carbon rebate because we have put a price on pollution.

00:42:47.340 It is more money in the pockets of families right across the country at a time where more money is

00:42:53.980 needed, and it's concrete action to fight climate change at a time where we're seeing the impacts of

00:43:00.540 extreme weather events, floods, fires, droughts. Conservatives are ideologically opposed to fighting climate change,

00:43:12.700 to making polluters, even big polluters, pay. And we put a price on pollution that makes sure people are

00:43:22.620 looking for ways to reduce their emissions. And families, particularly low-income and middle-income families,

00:43:31.340 do better with more money in their pockets to continue to raise their families and build a future.

00:43:37.340 That's what our price on pollution is all about. And that's what the conservatives, politicians across

00:43:45.180 this country are trying to mislead Canadians about. What a mishmash of things. So you're going to be

00:43:53.740 doing less polluting, which is what they're trying to do here, less carbon dioxide emissions. I refuse to

00:44:00.940 accept that that as pollution. But on the one hand, he's saying we're going to get people to use less

00:44:05.100 energy. But on the other hand, they're going to get more money from this? What, if they don't heat

00:44:11.020 their home or something? And at the same time, he implies this will change the weather. He implies, if you just pay

00:44:18.260 23% more, this will change the weather. There won't be extreme weather events. By the way, the weather has been

00:44:26.820 really peaceful over the last decade in terms of hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme weather events. There have been fewer

00:44:35.700 more than ever, actually. But he's engaging, I'm not going to call it disinformation, sort of a climate

00:44:43.200 cult, like sacrifice a virgin to the volcano, and the volcano won't erupt or whatever. Like he's literally

00:44:49.760 saying if Canadians pay 23% more in taxes, the weather will change. That's what he's, that's what he's

00:44:56.860 saying. Let's go to our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter, who is live on location at the

00:45:03.280 Saskatchewan, Alberta town of Lloydminster. It's a very interesting city. It actually straddles the

00:45:09.200 border. Sheila, great to see you. How are you doing out there?

00:45:12.740 I don't know if you can hear me over the horn honking and the wind. It's cold. We've been here since

00:45:20.420 745, but there are a few hundred people here. There's trucks. It looks like Canada Day behind me with all the

00:45:28.380 flags. So we're just on the Saskatchewan side where people are getting a little bit more money in their

00:45:36.500 pocket because of the Scotlow government's efforts to shelter the people here from the carbon tax by not

00:45:43.180 collecting the carbon tax on their home heating and electricity because they are, they're able to do

00:45:50.300 that thanks to a crown corporation that acts as the energy distributor here. But I mean, lots of

00:45:56.500 Albertans, lots of people from Saskatchewan, the entire parking lot across the way is full of

00:46:02.120 trucks, semi-trailers, RVs, tractors. It feels like the convoy again. It looks like it. It looks like a

00:46:11.560 lot of fun. It looks cool, but not deep freezing, although you look warm in your hat. And I saw your

00:46:18.360 footage earlier of the snacks. It looks like there was a grill and, you know, I guess it's, that was

00:46:25.080 breakfast out there. I'm very interested in what the snacks were. I hear some honking. It looks like

00:46:30.680 a bit of a party. I mean, I'm from Calgary and, you know, one of the fun things about Calgary is the

00:46:35.480 Stampede breakfast for one week a year. Everywhere you go, there's people cooking up pancakes and

00:46:41.880 sausages and serving coffee for free to walkers by. And it just has a team spirit. That's the vibe I

00:46:49.080 was getting from your footage. It looks like that's how it is. That's completely it. So there was a slow

00:46:54.860 roll of the trucks through town. They went to the Alberta side and then they came back a couple of times.

00:46:59.220 But yeah, when everybody got back, they came back to a full pancake breakfast, sausage, bacon, pancakes,

00:47:07.180 beans, coffee, juice. We did take part, that's for sure, because we were here really early.

00:47:14.220 And we needed some warm food in our belly. But yeah, free pancake breakfast. Very family friendly,

00:47:21.080 despite all the F Trudeau flags. Lots of little kids here. And there, you know, there are people

00:47:27.040 walking up and down the side of the highway giving out donuts and treats. And it's nothing but honks

00:47:34.180 of support. Yeah, that's us enjoying the pancake breakfast. That's our favorite volunteer, Lise.

00:47:40.420 She's from Saskatchewan. And then Kian and his beautiful fiance. We're taking a quick break from

00:47:46.100 working so hard.

00:47:47.000 Well, that's great. And I'm glad you gave me the whole menu breakdown. Now I'm even more jealous

00:47:52.740 that I wasn't there. Now I see some flags behind you. Again, I mentioned earlier that the

00:47:57.700 truckers and the freedom movement has appropriated the symbols of Canada, which I find delicious,

00:48:03.980 because I remember 20 years ago, the Liberal Party tried to own the flag and own the symbols of

00:48:11.780 patriotism. And they did so to fight the separatists in Quebec and their referendum. And it's amazing to

00:48:17.720 me now when when regime media and liberal politicians say anyone who says words like freedom or flies the

00:48:25.740 Canadian flag are suspect. They have actually conceded that the patriotic symbols belong to the freedom

00:48:33.040 fighting grassroots. It's really quite a change from 30 years ago.

00:48:37.400 Well, and I think a lot of these people in another time would probably have considered

00:48:44.220 themselves to be soft Western separatists. But I think a lot of the people here have that same

00:48:49.800 sentiment that Tamara Leach had, that she went into the freedom convoy being sort of finished with

00:48:54.460 Canada. And now she feels it's something important and something to fight for. And that's what we're

00:49:02.680 seeing here. I'm old enough to remember when this would be behind me, the majority of the flags would

00:49:08.900 be Alberta or Saskatchewan flags, and not Canadian flags. That's just the way it is out here. But,

00:49:15.040 you know, we're seeing the inverse where people are realizing that Canada is ours, and it doesn't

00:49:20.780 belong to the Laurentian elite. Yeah. And you know, I remember when Preston Manning debuted the Reform

00:49:27.160 Party. His motto was, the West wants in. And he basically said, hey, separatists, we can reform

00:49:32.900 things. So it didn't quite work out that way. But he gave people some constructive hope. And I'm going

00:49:38.280 to say that Pierre Polyev is doing the same thing. Aaron O'Toole, the last conservative leader,

00:49:47.380 was disgraceful. He wouldn't be seen with the truckers. He was a carbon tax aficionado. He said,

00:49:55.060 oh, I'll just call it a carbon levy. That's how different I am. I mean, just an absolute sellout.

00:50:00.840 And that demoralized conservatives, demoralized Westerners. And I think people felt, well, what's

00:50:08.660 the point? Every party in Ottawa is against me. But the truckers actually were the ones who managed to

00:50:16.280 throw overboard Aaron O'Toole and Jason Kenney. The truckers are responsible for the two greatest acts

00:50:22.700 of political hygiene in Canada of 2022. And Pierre Polyev, in his own way, has embraced the freedom

00:50:30.460 movement. He's certainly leading the charge on the anti-carbon tax stuff. He's cautiously talking

00:50:37.700 about transgenderism, cautiously talking about immigration, as opposed to being absolutely a

00:50:44.060 cheerleader for the liberal point of view, like Aaron O'Toole was. I think, oh, there's some honking.

00:50:48.580 I think that Pierre Polyev is giving Westerners in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and even BC, some hope

00:50:58.840 that maybe things can be fixed in Ottawa. I note that some of those flags are upside down, which is

00:51:03.760 a signal of distress, which is true, but they are still Canadian flags that are upside down.

00:51:09.580 Yeah. Well, and let's not forget that it's not just Pierre Polyev that is giving Westerners hope.

00:51:14.840 It's also our own premiers, Scott Moe, Daniel Smith, and, you know, their constant fight for

00:51:22.520 provincial autonomy against the federal government. They're showing these people that there is a way

00:51:26.620 forward within Confederation where the provinces have more control of their fate.

00:51:33.200 You know, you're so right to mention those provincial premiers. I remember when basically the entire map

00:51:40.640 was liberals—I'm speaking provincially now—liberals, New Democrats. I mean, Doug Ford is still pretty

00:51:48.740 useless as a conservative, but now you've got Scott Moe, who is a hero. You've got Atlantic premiers

00:51:54.620 willing to stand up and even challenge their own party. Doug Ford, late to the game, is sort of saying,

00:52:00.580 yeah, I don't like the carbon tax so much anymore. I think that there is a unity amongst premiers.

00:52:07.260 And in Alberta, especially, to go from a carbon tax-collecting Rachel Notley to a freedom-fighting

00:52:14.880 Danielle Smith is quite an about-face. I think there's some reasons for optimism, and I'm always

00:52:20.960 careful about saying that because how many times do you have to be burned? But I tell you, seeing

00:52:26.460 these grassroots protests gives me a bit of hope. Last word to you, Sheila.

00:52:29.460 Well, you know, it really does. It is much like the Freedom Convoy where Canadians who are

00:52:38.560 sometimes diametrically opposed—sometimes it feels like the provinces are constantly fighting

00:52:43.500 with each other—Alberta, Quebec—but, you know, this is something that really unites people. And

00:52:49.380 we've talked to, you know, dozens and dozens of people in the crowd today, and it is all the same

00:52:54.780 thing. If they haven't had to make tough decisions for their family because of the carbon tax, they

00:52:59.780 know they will. It's moms and dads complaining that they have to work too much, that they're

00:53:05.200 seeing their kids too little because of Justin Trudeau's punishing tax on everything. They're

00:53:11.040 talking about how young people will not be able to afford the same things that their parents

00:53:16.000 have. These are things that unite Canadians. This is not just a Western issue. This is something

00:53:21.220 that resonates with people in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Lloyd Minster, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver.

00:53:27.220 This is truly a problem imposed on Canadians by Justin Trudeau for no other reason than that he can't.

00:53:35.220 Well, I tell you, I really wish I was out there. I had that feeling during the Trucker Convoy. I went to

00:53:40.260 Ottawa for a few days. I loved every second of it. I'm deeply grateful that I did go. Of course, I couldn't

00:53:45.940 get out to Cooch because I was on the no-fly list because I wasn't jabbed. Now, just to see this,

00:53:51.860 I mean, we've been talking to Drea out there in Nanaimo. In a moment, we're going to go to Adam

00:53:56.420 Sos in Calgary. You're in Saskatchewan there. We saw some footage from the Atlantic. Alexa Lavoie was

00:54:02.340 in Ottawa. It feels like we got the old band back together. We're covering the truckers coast to coast

00:54:07.620 this time. They're joined by not just truckers, but farmers and ordinary people of all sorts.

00:54:12.340 It really is an exciting feeling and it is really fit for Rebel News because we tell the other side

00:54:18.580 of the story. So much of the media is lecturing us about why, no, no, no, carbon taxes are actually

00:54:24.100 really good for you. I mean, just an astonishing story in the CBC about how experts say the carbon

00:54:31.620 tax is good for you or experts. Who's an expert in my own life other than myself? No, no, no, you're wrong.

00:54:38.020 Experts say this is really good. This is just the regime media all over again, just like they were

00:54:45.140 during the truckers. Just no, no, you guys are wrong. You guys are January 6th insurrectionists.

00:54:51.700 You're probably violent. We're just going to read our press releases from Trudeau. They're doing the

00:54:57.380 same playbook again, but it looks like no one's listening to the bad guys anymore.

00:55:01.460 Sheila, it's great to see you. It looks like our camera froze there a little bit, although I think

00:55:08.740 we were pretty much done chatting with Sheila. It's great to see her out in the field. And like I

00:55:12.500 said, I'm a little jealous that I'm not out in the field too. I understand that our friend Adam Sos

00:55:17.540 is on location in Calgary. Olivia, let me know if we're ready to chat with Adam. Of course, Calgary is...

00:55:27.460 Oh, we've got some footage from... I can't hear you through my ear. I'm just hearing you through the

00:55:33.140 wall, but go ahead. If we've got some footage from Adam, Adam's based in... Oh, it looks like we've got

00:55:38.100 some drone footage. Oh yeah, let's show this for sure. Okay, some snow on the ground. Well, there's a

00:55:46.900 lot of vehicles. This looks like it's that Highway 1... Oh, maybe this is from the helicopter.

00:55:52.180 It's from there. I can hear the chopper. You know what? I bet those are the good guys who flew up to

00:55:58.580 the Mirror Alberta Whistle Stop Diner in helicopters. Okay, so you can see that's sort of the...

00:56:05.540 Looks like there's a lot of vehicles parked in that little turnoff. And you can see all the people on

00:56:13.140 the side of the road. Makes me slightly nervous that they're standing near traffic, but it looks like

00:56:19.060 the vehicles are slowing down. You know what? I'm not gonna be a safety Karen, but it makes me

00:56:25.460 slightly nervous that they're standing on the side of the Highway 1 like that. Here's some footage of

00:56:31.940 the city itself. And I don't suppose that that's the convoy there in the center. I don't think it is.

00:56:39.700 That just looks like a beautiful shot of Calgary. I grew up in Calgary, and one of my favorite things was

00:56:46.340 the cold, sunny days in the winter. Oh, here. Looks like Adam is ready in front of the helicopter. I

00:56:53.060 want to know more about this helicopter. Let's see if we can go live. Adam, great to see you.

00:56:59.140 Thanks very much for being on location. I was looking at that helicopter. Are those the good

00:57:04.820 guys who went up to the Whistle Stop Cafe by helicopter to patronize Chris Scott when he was

00:57:12.500 attacked by the government? That's right. In fact, when they posted these pictures on social media,

00:57:18.660 Chris Scott immediately said, are you coming up for a burger? This is also the helicopter that we

00:57:23.780 went down. We did some coverage of the Freedom Convoy as well as the Coutts sort of border protest. So

00:57:29.700 we've been very fortunate in a friend who has this helicopter, the Rebel Copter, as we lovingly call

00:57:35.220 it. But as you can see, emblazoned, axed the tacks. On the other side of the helicopter, you have

00:57:39.940 hiked the spike. They were working all weekend to get these decals done, and it looks incredible.

00:57:45.860 People have been waving from the ground. It's been pretty great. Did you actually go up in the Rebel

00:57:51.060 Copter? I remember we gave it that name when we had that special mission. I knew it. I thought,

00:57:55.780 yeah, these guys have got to be the guy. I met them. They're great. They're real. You know,

00:58:01.540 they're frisky, fun-loving, troublemaking Albertans, which is the kind you gotta love.

00:58:07.140 Did you go up with them today? Every time, yeah. Are you serious? You were up there.

00:58:13.460 That's my footage. Yeah, the tweets you're showing there. That's me filming. We actually flew over in

00:58:17.780 Angelica on the ground in Calgary. They were filming us from the ground. So we'll get that shot as well.

00:58:23.140 Oh, boy. So we're gonna have multiple angles of it. Incredible. And there was a big crowd there,

00:58:27.380 I'll tell you. If people look close on that footage, where the traffic is starting to back up,

00:58:31.940 the little shadows you can see is probably about 100 people along the side of the highway. But yeah,

00:58:36.900 we'll do a couple more laps around. I don't know if we'll quite get out to the borders. It's a bit of

00:58:41.860 a haul to get there and back. We'll stop in at a couple of the other sort of planned protests around

00:58:46.580 the city, certainly, before we head back in the Albee Airborne. We stopped to fuel up the pilot for a quick bite of

00:58:51.780 lunch. That's why I can join you without the coppers deafening us. But yeah.

00:58:56.020 Well, that's great. And of course, you know, helicopters don't fly on, you know,

00:59:01.060 pixie dust or solar. They fly on fuel. Everything that moves relies on carbon. Everything that keeps us

00:59:08.420 warm relies on carbon. So, but I know those guys from their support for the whistle stop diner,

00:59:14.500 and I am delighted to know, you know, I sort of, I forgot that we called it the rebel copter when

00:59:19.700 you were in sort of a mission down to coots. That's amazing. Well, please pass on my personal

00:59:24.900 regards to those guys. I had the pleasure of meeting them and it's wonderful to have an air force like

00:59:31.700 that. And as I was saying earlier, we did have a clip of one professional protester pro carbon tax,

00:59:38.980 but I just don't think any severely normal person would say, yeah, I don't think I'm paying enough

00:59:44.420 for fuel. I mean, like there's no one, there's no one in favor of this, is there?

00:59:50.020 No. Well, and the reason that this helicopter is out today is because he's a business owner. He has a

00:59:55.860 major construction company and he even commented in an interview that we'll be sharing at stop the

01:00:00.260 carbon tax.com. But the reason he's doing this is because the slurs charge, the surcharge on the

01:00:04.900 fuel today is nothing compared to all the construction vehicles that he's fueling. Furthermore,

01:00:09.540 maybe not everyone owns a business, but normal people just trying to keep their homes, just trying

01:00:14.420 to get by while those folks are struggling. And that's ultimately, it's the same thing as the

01:00:18.660 pandemic protests, severely normal people simply trying to live their lives in the government,

01:00:23.700 making that impossible. That's again, what this protest is all about. Yeah. And of course,

01:00:29.300 in some ways we are able to detect the carbon tax directly in our own lives. If we get a fuel bill,

01:00:35.540 if we get an energy bill, but of course embedded within everything we buy at a store is the cost

01:00:42.660 of getting it to the store. And if it's food, the cost of the farm equipment to grow it. So this really

01:00:47.700 is an everything tax. And I'm delighted to see this national uprising. I haven't seen a good national

01:00:54.980 anti-tax protest in more than 20 years. And it is a pleasure to see it again. Last word to you,

01:01:01.700 Adam. You know, I think the thing that I would just like to comment here, and if it's a little

01:01:06.500 bit boring and political, I apologize. Lots of people are commenting on the fuel tax going up

01:01:12.100 and saying, why aren't you criticizing that? Well, frankly, I would criticize that. But the difference

01:01:16.260 here is, is that is a sort of market linked oil price based thing that isn't being added to our

01:01:22.100 costs. So when oil prices change, that sort of price changes, it goes up and down. That is a

01:01:27.220 different thing altogether. And that's based on a plan, a plan sort of economy, a plan budget for

01:01:32.020 the province. Adding to that, this carbon tax that nobody wants, nobody needs, nobody voted for. And now

01:01:38.100 it's not just the people standing alone. It's seven provinces saying enough is enough. It's a

01:01:42.340 different conversation altogether. So for folks making that comparison, let's just cut it out.

01:01:46.340 Let's focus on the real new tax, this hiked carbon tax. Got it. And you're talking about an Alberta

01:01:52.180 specific measure that I understand. All right. Well, listen, Adam, great to see you again. And I'm

01:01:58.660 delighted that you are with the Rebel Copter, as we called it back then. I'm sure they have a nickname

01:02:05.140 for it too. Thanks very much for giving us those airborne shots. That's amazing. Thanks so much.

01:02:09.940 Appreciate it. All right. There you have it. Adam Sos from the Calgary area. I knew it when I saw that

01:02:16.100 helicopter. I thought, I bet I know who that is. All right. Well, let me just check with Olivia here,

01:02:23.300 who is our producer, who's managing this live stream. I've been very encouraged by it. I'm in high

01:02:31.140 spirits. It's reminding me of the happy times of the Freedom Convoy. Now, those were

01:02:39.860 sad times and dark times and tyrannical times and authoritarian times in many ways. When I say

01:02:47.140 the happy times, I mean the happy consequence of enough Canadians standing up and saying,

01:02:53.620 we are going to, in a peaceful Canadian way, push back. That is the happiness that I'm feeling again

01:03:01.540 here. I mean, obviously things are dark, economically in particular, and they're about to get worse. And

01:03:07.780 Trudeau is going to destroy many businesses and make it very hard for a lot of families.

01:03:14.340 I just saw statistics that Canadians are actually spending less on food in recent months. It's not

01:03:22.100 because Canadians are suddenly less hungry. It's because the cost of food is rising. So these are dark

01:03:31.300 times. But to see the happy warriors across the country go out and speak up is so encouraging.

01:03:39.060 And I saw a statistic the other day that nearly half the Liberal MPs have indicated that they will

01:03:44.420 not run again. I think they see the writing on the wall. Now, I see that our other Calgary correspondent,

01:03:52.260 Angelica Toy, is ready to join us. Is she ready yet, Olivia, or do we need a few more minutes to connect with her?

01:03:58.580 I didn't quite hear that because you're not coming through in my one minute. Okay,

01:04:04.660 so we'll go to Angelica in a minute. Oh, boy, here's something. I mentioned before

01:04:14.580 about how I saw those people on the road, and it made me nervous because I know this highway. This is

01:04:20.020 highway. This is the highway to Banff from Calgary to Banff. It's Highway 1, as it's called,

01:04:27.060 the Trans-Canada Highway. And cars go down there. I think the speed limit's 110.

01:04:33.700 And a lot of cars go 120, 130, let me tell you from personal experience. So they're putting out

01:04:40.740 pylons. They're reducing it by, it looks like they're reducing it by two lanes. Would you agree

01:04:48.020 with me? That's what it looks like. Angelica says, braking acts of tax protesters have blocked a lane.

01:04:54.740 So maybe one of those is, maybe there's only one lane being blocked and the other

01:05:00.260 is sort of an easement there. But I was wondering when I saw those people on the road,

01:05:07.300 it made me a little nervous, but traffic was slowing down. I see we have Angelica

01:05:11.380 on standby now, wearing her Rebel hat and a nice warm coat. Angelica, great to see you. What's the

01:05:18.500 temperature like there? I hear the honking horns. So it looks like it's warm in spirit. Is it chilly out

01:05:23.940 there? Hi, Ezra. It's supposed to be 11 degrees. I might say it's just a bit under,

01:05:29.700 but it's definitely brought the crowd out considering it's not minus 20. So yeah,

01:05:33.940 that's been great. Well, it's very exciting. I see someone behind you in a costume with a flag and I,

01:05:40.180 I saw some of the aerial shots of people on the road that made me sort of nervous because I know

01:05:44.820 that road, but it looks like they've got pylons and everyone's slowing down. And it looks like

01:05:50.260 most of the drivers are honking their support because they're not being blocked.

01:05:54.020 They're just temporarily being slowed down. And it sounds like they're supportive. Every other truck

01:05:58.980 is honking in its agreement. Yes, definitely. They've actually, originally they negotiated with

01:06:06.660 the RCMP to just block off a certain portion. And it looks like they are moving the lanes right now.

01:06:14.580 Now they're moving, they're moving them back actually. It looks like the RCMP are,

01:06:22.580 have turned on their sirens.

01:06:27.140 All right. So they, so you're saying they negotiated with the RCMP to close

01:06:30.900 a lane and now the RCMP are turning on their sirens. So the protesters are, are moving back. Is that right?

01:06:36.740 Uh, yes, that's what I've heard from some protesters that they were negotiating, but the protesters did

01:06:41.940 themselves then move the pylons up to fully block the lane. Um, but yes, it looks like right now the

01:06:49.700 RCMP are trying to interfere with what's happening here. So is that, uh, are those RCMP vehicles on the

01:06:56.980 left there or help, help me figure out what we're looking at. So, uh, we have the RCMP that is the white

01:07:03.140 vehicle with this, uh, I'm not sure if you guys can actually see the, uh, okay. So they're making

01:07:09.460 room for an ambulance. Oh, I see. Okay. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Well, look at that.

01:07:15.220 Getting her done. Safety first. Nice. Okay. Well, that's the right thing to do.

01:07:22.020 And there's the RCMP. So maybe if they negotiated that one lane,

01:07:25.620 maybe they'll take the lane back now. Let's see if that happens.

01:07:28.580 Essentially. Yeah. Let's see. Here we go. Yeah. That's exactly. There we go.

01:07:34.980 That's exactly what happened. Isn't that neat? There was an ambulance. So they cleared it.

01:07:40.020 Ambulance went through and then they closed it off again. Very interesting.

01:07:46.420 How many folks would you say are there? We saw an aerial shot. It looked like,

01:07:50.420 I don't know. I, I'm not going to guess you're right in the heart of it. How many folks would you

01:07:53.940 say are there? I would approximate around 200. Yeah. There is, uh, people keep trickling now,

01:08:00.660 I guess, since it's warmed up and it's later in the day. So people are more people are starting to come

01:08:04.180 in. Yeah. It's only 12 noon out there in Alberta right now. Now tell me, um, what kind of people

01:08:10.500 are there? I see Alberta flags, Canadian flags, some homemade placards about Trudeau with the odd F

01:08:16.420 bomb, which I can completely understand. So who are these folks? Are they locals? Did they come in

01:08:21.060 mainly from Calgary? What do they like? There is definitely a variety of people. I know some

01:08:26.980 people did convoy down from Edmonton and Red Deer. Uh, there's definitely quite a variety of people

01:08:33.540 here. And, um, and I, I, I see some guys, are there, are there any families there or probably

01:08:40.500 being by the side of the highway is not the best place for a kid to be? I don't see any kids. There

01:08:45.940 were some kids, I think, uh, up in Lloydminster where Sheila was. What's it like there? Is it just

01:08:50.980 sort of adults? The majority are adults, but I have seen some kids in some families. There was

01:08:56.500 actually a kid earlier, they set up, um, an axe attacks, uh, place where kids can like throw axes

01:09:02.340 and they have like a target on. So some kids have been playing with that. That's great. So basically,

01:09:08.580 uh, the police are watching over things, but they're not making any moves. They're not arresting.

01:09:13.860 Have you seen any tickets being handed out or even parking tickets?

01:09:18.900 I haven't seen any of that, uh, taking place, but I did stumble upon two RCMP officers speaking to

01:09:24.660 women earlier. And as I approached them with my camera, they asked me to step away. Uh,

01:09:29.860 so I did get that on camera. Hopefully we can add that to the reports that that's about it so far.

01:09:34.980 Right now you don't want to obstruct police, but you have the right to film them as long as you're not

01:09:39.860 interfering with their work. Um, you know, the RCMP, it's always a good idea to give people the benefit

01:09:45.220 of the doubt and treat everyone with respect. But I think the RCMP have shredded their reputation,

01:09:51.380 uh, given their misconduct in Alberta during the, uh, COVID lockdowns. And, uh, you know,

01:09:57.620 obviously we don't want you to get in any trouble. We wouldn't want you to be arrested,

01:10:01.380 but just because a cop says, don't film me, that's not how we roll. And you know that

01:10:05.860 because you've been a freedom fighter with rebel for years. They only stop us from filming when

01:10:12.020 they don't want us, uh, the public to know something. So yeah. All right. Well, listen,

01:10:16.500 keep up the great work. It's very exciting to hear all the horn honking. And it's very interesting

01:10:21.700 to see how, uh, it's one lane that's blocked. Is it just one lane that's blocked off? Is that right?

01:10:28.180 Yes. At the moment, there's one lane. There is a curb lane, uh, that makes it look like it's two

01:10:32.020 lanes because there's a merge into the, uh, into the Petra Canada gas station where all the trucks,

01:10:37.220 uh, usually are. Right. Uh, cause there is a rest stop here as well. So. Right. Well,

01:10:41.380 listen, thank you so much for going out there. It looks, uh, I'm not going to say it looks fresh

01:10:46.500 and chilly and, uh, but sunny. It looks like great Alberta weather. Thank you for being there.

01:10:53.620 Definitely. Thank you, Ezra. All right. There you have it. Angelica Toy on the ground. We just

01:10:57.860 spoke to Adam Sose who was in the air on land and air. We've got you covered. Very interesting.

01:11:05.460 And wasn't it interesting that we saw that the RCMP were asking people to clear the road,

01:11:11.540 but it was just for the ambulance to go by. And then the peaceful protesters took that lane back.

01:11:17.300 Very interesting. All right. Um, now I understand, uh, that our nation's capital,

01:11:25.860 uh, our friend Alexa Lavoie is on standby. Olivia, you tell me when we're ready to

01:11:31.860 talk to her. I have enjoyed going around this great country of ours. We saw Drea Humphrey in Nanaimo,

01:11:39.620 BC, and that was early morning out there in Pacific time. We saw Sheila Gunn-Reed having a nice

01:11:45.540 breakfast up there at the Lloydminster border. And I'm a little hungry just hearing how much fun that

01:11:51.460 community barbecue was. We went to Adam Sose, our eye in the sky. Isn't that neat? The helicopter

01:11:58.180 story and very interesting to see Angelica Toy on the ground on the highway one, Trans-Canada,

01:12:04.980 west of Calgary, where the RCMP were working with protesters to manage a lane reduction,

01:12:12.980 not a blockade, but a lane reduction. And if judging by horn honking is any guide,

01:12:20.820 Calgarians, especially truckers don't mind this symbolic lane reduction because they know

01:12:27.620 that the carbon tax will hit them all. Very interesting. And I tell you, I wish that I was

01:12:35.220 the guy who invented the F Trudeau flag because I'd be a millionaire by now. You see those flags

01:12:41.860 everywhere. By the way, I see a super chat come in by Michael Epp. He says, Hi, Ezra. Send Menzies

01:12:46.820 lawyer the following case law. Rice versus Connolly, RV Guthrie. Arbitrary ID in Canada is not passable.

01:12:55.060 Okay. Thank you for that. We do have a lawyer. And in fact, David's first appearance is this week.

01:13:01.540 So we'll have more on that. Okay. Olivia, how are we doing with connecting with Alexa Lavoie?

01:13:09.060 Okay. We're still waiting for Alexa to get in live. And by the way, I think our connections have been

01:13:14.100 quite clear. With Drea, it was crystal clear. With Sheila, it was pretty clear. The wind, I think,

01:13:21.460 made things a little bit hard to hear, but we could hear her pretty well. Same with Adam, same with Angelica.

01:13:27.140 I have to say that whatever the cell system we're using, it's been excellent today. Sometimes when

01:13:34.340 you go live in the field, it's a little grainy or choppy. That's not how it's been. Let me just

01:13:39.780 check to see if there are any other super chats yet. There's one from Ablist SL, who chips in five bucks

01:13:46.420 and says, Have you heard about the Babylon Bee anti-white racism scandal and related controversies

01:13:52.340 regarding the CEO being a Christophobe who bashes legitimate criticism of the Jewish faith and

01:13:59.060 community? No, I haven't heard about that. To call the Babylon Bee anti-white or anti-Christian is,

01:14:08.100 I'm just going to completely disagree with you. I follow the Babylon Bee quite closely. I think

01:14:14.500 they're hilarious and they're clearly Christian inspired. So unless you can point to something,

01:14:20.820 I just don't know what you mean. The Babylon Bee is the funniest and the most popular Christian

01:14:29.940 comedy on the internet. And I make a point of reading all this stuff, so I'm going to politely

01:14:35.060 disagree with you there. All right. I think you'll give me a heads up when we have Alexa. We're just

01:14:43.540 standing by for Alexa from Ottawa. In some ways, Ottawa is the most interesting. I'm not surprised

01:14:51.140 that you have a nice big protest in Calgary. I'm delighted to see you have a protest forming in

01:14:58.100 Nanaimo. Obviously, the Saskatchewan-Alberta border is going to be one of the best places in the world.

01:15:02.900 But how is Ottawa? And more importantly, how are authorities in Ottawa responding?

01:15:10.900 We have footage from the St. Catherine's overpass. So back to Ontario. Now let's take a quick look at

01:15:19.700 this. Trudeau must go with the Maple Leaf in distress. Looks like people on both sides of the

01:15:26.660 road. Lots of homemade signs. On that side, it looks like dozens of people. And it's tough to tell

01:15:34.500 on this side. I think it's safe to say there's 100 protesters on this bridge. Jail bird. I love the

01:15:41.060 homemade art. That's the thing about conservative or freedom-oriented protesters. They typically don't

01:15:48.660 have a prefab placard printed for them by some professional organizer. They make their own. You

01:15:55.540 know what? I've attended dozens of protests in our time. And you go to a left-wing protest. You ask

01:16:05.860 people, what are you here for? What do you stand for? They often clam up. They're afraid they don't know what

01:16:11.780 to say. And they say, talk to her. She's a spokesman. Talk to him. He's a spokesman. They don't know because

01:16:16.980 they're just a rent-a-mob. That's the left-wing professional protesters side. Whereas conservative

01:16:22.500 or populist or freedom-oriented people, like you go to any of the COVID lockdown protests, you ask people,

01:16:29.540 what are you here for? They'll talk your ear off for an hour. They know exactly why they're there

01:16:34.420 because they thought about it because they're not professional protesters. I'd say the same thing here.

01:16:39.060 Every single person at these protests knows exactly why they're there. And they made their own signs

01:16:45.700 because it's from the heart. All right. I see out of the corner of my eye that our friend Alexa Lavoie

01:16:50.900 is now joining us via Skype. And I see behind her one of the buildings of Parliament. Looks like she's

01:16:57.780 on Wellington right now. Alexa, how are you? Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you, Israel. Well,

01:17:04.740 it's great to see you. And I see that you're walking with a group of people. It looks like

01:17:09.460 you're walking east on Wellington. And behind you is the west block and the Wellington block,

01:17:15.700 if I'm getting the names right. And you're moving east towards the center block. How many people are

01:17:21.140 there? And have they shut off the road? It looks like you're on the road. Have they closed the road?

01:17:24.820 And so they closed one side of the street for now. But it seems that now they have closed both sides.

01:17:34.100 But the protesters went to the Quebec side. So they took the bridge, they marched the other side to

01:17:42.020 Quebec. And now they are on their way back to Parliament Hill. Wow. So how many protesters, it's a little bit

01:17:49.460 difficult to tell. How many protesters are still on the Ontario side with you? And how many, just rough

01:17:56.020 estimate, crossed the bridge over into Quebec? So there was some protesters who actually stayed

01:18:04.500 at the Parliament Hill. And so I would say about maybe a little bit less than a hundred.

01:18:13.460 I've marched to the Quebec side and back, I would say, roughly. A lot of people say that they were

01:18:23.940 expecting more people to protest today. But because the fact is, there is multiple protests across Canada.

01:18:33.140 And so that divide a little bit like the people in small spots. But right now,

01:18:39.700 everything is very peaceful. Police are really peaceful also with the protesters. We had one

01:18:47.780 incident where we had a counter-protester who came and tried to disturb the people.

01:18:54.820 She was actually a pro-Carbon tax. She was saying that this is actually good for people and it's

01:19:01.140 profitable for Canadians. So, so far now we are coming back. We just arrived at Parliament Hill.

01:19:08.900 Right. And people are slowly arriving. Now, let me ask you this. Are police allowing you

01:19:17.220 on to Parliament Hill? I can see Center Block and the Peace Tower behind you. Are you allowed up there?

01:19:27.300 Yes. So, because I think it's Chris Darcy. He did the demand for being on Parliament Hill,

01:19:34.740 starting at 11am, having the rights to use speakers and also flags. So right now, there is no

01:19:43.540 interabduction of anything. And so it's why the police is not bothering nobody with either like speaker or

01:19:51.780 you see like there is megaphone and loud noise.

01:19:55.700 Police. I see some police, I think, behind your shoulder wearing those police liaison vests. Are

01:20:04.340 those police officers? I can't quite tell from where I am. They are police liaisons. Yeah. So we have

01:20:10.820 on the ground, RCMP, Ottawa police. They is also the Parliament Hill officer and they are liaisons police.

01:20:24.580 It's so interesting to me that they've closed the road. What kind of signs are you seeing people hold

01:20:31.060 up? I imagine, I think I saw acts to tax as one of them. That's a great slogan. It rhymes. Are there

01:20:37.300 other creative slogans or even other subjects, other issues that people are protesting at the same time?

01:20:45.540 Yes. I saw also a sign mentioning the raise that Justin Trudeau and the MP will get today.

01:20:56.340 So they are increasing income to Justin Trudeau and the MP. And so a slogan with mentioning that since that the

01:21:06.420 the citizen is getting poorer, but the elite, the bureaucrats are getting richer. There is also sign

01:21:15.540 about children, protect the children. And I would say there is all kind of signs. By the way, we are farmers.

01:21:28.580 We are fishermen that are on the ground protesting the carbon tax that is actually stressing to mention.

01:21:39.460 Isn't that interesting? Now, one last question. You were on the streets of Ottawa for us as one of our

01:21:47.220 team covering the trucker Freedom Convoy two years and one month ago. And it was very interesting. And one

01:21:56.820 of the things that made me feel so great about that were the number of Quebecois truckers and others who

01:22:03.380 came to Ottawa. And it proved to me that Canadians of all backgrounds believed in freedom. Are there

01:22:10.260 Quebecers here today? Or as you said earlier, are they perhaps at Quebec based protests in Hull, in Gatineau,

01:22:18.180 in Montreal, in Quebec City? Do you do you hear any Francais being spoken on the street today?

01:22:24.740 There is few Quebecers. A lot of Quebecers are really disappointed to not see more of them, especially

01:22:36.740 because I have the impression that Quebecers feel that they are exempt from that rise of carbon tax. But

01:22:44.900 the thing is that sometimes they don't really think that in every goods we will be impacted by the

01:22:53.940 federal carbon tax. Right. And so there is just a few, I would say, I saw some people who speak French, but I

01:23:02.500 need to say that some people from Ottawa speak both languages. Right. So I don't know exactly where they are

01:23:09.140 coming from, but I met some people from Montreal and some people from Gatineau. So I know there is

01:23:15.300 some Quebecers here today. Right. Well, it's very exciting. I don't know if you know, Alexa, but over

01:23:21.300 the last hour and a half, we've been talking to to our reporters, Drea Humphrey in Nanaimo on Vancouver

01:23:27.460 Island, B.C., Sheila Gunn-Reed at the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta, Adam Sos and Angelica Toye

01:23:35.940 from west of Calgary, including in a helicopter. So we've had coverage from different, and we've

01:23:44.260 picked up other footage from the Atlantic. So it's been a very exciting national movement.

01:23:50.980 We've had footage from, I think, St. Catharines, if I'm remembering, and Hamilton. So really,

01:23:57.140 if you count up all the cities, and of course, we're not everywhere, but I'm so proud of our rebel

01:24:01.780 team for being out on the streets. I'm excited, because I feel that same democratic rebellion,

01:24:09.540 that peaceful rebellion that I felt two years ago. This time, it's about financial freedom,

01:24:17.060 whereas two years ago, it was about personal freedom. But I'm delighted that Canadians care

01:24:23.300 enough to stand up, especially when it's chilly. What's the temperature like there in Ottawa? I see

01:24:28.100 you're wearing a nice warm coat. It's not as cold as it was two years ago during the trucker.

01:24:34.820 What's it like today? Oh, no. No.

01:24:36.900 My God, during the trucker, it was so cold.

01:24:43.860 Here today, it's about six degrees. I don't know what is the field temperature, because

01:24:49.540 I would say the sun is pretty warm. So it's actually a good, good temperature today to be outside.

01:24:58.420 Yeah. Well, it looks great. And I'm so glad you're there. And I'm living vicariously through you and our

01:25:04.900 other journalists who are out amongst the people. Now, you started with us not long before the Freedom

01:25:12.820 Convoy went to Ottawa. In fact, I think your coverage in Ottawa really helped establish you

01:25:17.860 as a great citizen journalist. Has anyone recognized you and given you a shout out on the streets? I'm just curious.

01:25:24.900 Everybody. I would say there are so many people who recognize us, and it's good to see. Some people are

01:25:35.860 just marching in the street, and they recognize us too. So I think Ruben News have a lot of fans around here.

01:25:45.860 Good to see you. Isn't that great? Well, Alexa, thank you so much for going out there today and for

01:25:51.140 reporting and for joining us live. Again, a great connection. I'm delighted that all of our reporters

01:25:56.740 at Crystal Clear Connections today really made it feel like we were right there with you. So thanks

01:26:01.460 for joining us, Alexa. Thank you. Have a great day.

01:26:04.900 All right, you too. Well, there you have it, Alexa Lavoie. She's our chief correspondent in Quebec,

01:26:09.460 of course. And maybe you think I'm talking too much about how perfect the connection is.

01:26:14.340 It's just that sometimes when you go live on location, it's not. So I just really feel like

01:26:20.660 we got a really good sense of how it is across the country, don't you? And obviously, the numbers are not

01:26:27.620 as enormous as they were during the absolute crisis of the lockdowns. I mean, that was a civil liberties

01:26:34.580 bonfire, the worst in a generation. And the country had reached the boiling point. And it was actually

01:26:42.980 a miraculous working class-led freedom movement, completely peaceful. It was really, I don't think

01:26:50.420 in the rest of my life, I'll see anything as amazing as the trucker convoy was. But this has

01:26:56.260 those same vibrations. It has the same positive spirit, the team spirit, the community spirit,

01:27:03.060 the grassroots spirit. We did see that one person, Alexa mentioned, the pro-carbon tax protester. I think

01:27:10.100 I recognize her as Deanna Sharif, who's like a professional left-wing Antifa-style rabble-rouser.

01:27:17.380 So I don't even think that counts. We saw real people standing up against Trudeau, up against the tax,

01:27:24.580 and quite a few places made the same, like we saw Drea mentioning the sign about the

01:27:32.740 salary hike for the MPs, and we heard Alexa mention that too. It is not lost on people

01:27:38.420 that the same day they raise taxes on the rest of us, they give themselves a pay raise. Very

01:27:44.660 interesting. Well, I think, you know, we do have another reporter on the ground in Lethbridge, Alberta.

01:27:58.340 I referred to my friend Robert Krejcik, who is down there covering the trials of the Coutts

01:28:04.340 3, which starts tomorrow. In fact, I'm going to be heading out there myself for the first day in court.

01:28:10.500 I'm not sure if we'll be able to get Robert soon enough. Is he still some time away, Olivia?

01:28:18.660 All right. You know what? I'm going to make the decision that since we got Alberta pretty well covered,

01:28:23.380 we had the southern end with Angelica and Adam, and we had the more northern end with Sheila. So I'm

01:28:29.140 going to make the decision. If we can't get Robert right away, we'll just catch up with him tomorrow.

01:28:34.580 But I really enjoyed this live stream. Thank you to all of you who are watching on the different

01:28:38.260 platforms. And that's Rebel News for you. Our specialty is being out in the world on video,

01:28:46.660 telling you what the mainstream media will not tell you. And it's like a rerun of the Freedom Convoy,

01:28:53.940 where you have the regime media back then saying, take the jab, everyone's doing it. Anyone who's

01:28:59.620 against it is a conspiracy theorist. You see the regime media now, those 200 economists saying,

01:29:06.340 carbon tax is good for you. If you're complaining, you're wrong. Only far right people don't like

01:29:11.940 paying taxes. And oh yeah, if you pay the tax, this will change the weather. Yeah, no, that's not how

01:29:18.100 it goes. Yeah, look at that. Some more great footage. Axe the carbon tax, lest we forget our

01:29:24.180 war vets. Good one. Shame on Parliament. So these look like they're, we are the sign majority, but

01:29:30.340 okay. So someone made these beautiful signs. Okay, there's some controversial views there about

01:29:37.700 climate change. And Elias Lai, yeah, there's some good stuff there. You know what? Very interesting.

01:29:43.220 Some chalk. Listen to that great footage from Ottawa. Some different flags.

01:29:51.060 We saw that lady earlier. She was singing a song, wasn't she? They'll tax us till we're broke.

01:29:59.700 Spike the hike, axe the tax.

01:30:01.540 What an interesting collection of people. And the police out there in force.

01:30:10.260 But not getting handsy.

01:30:15.620 Make Canada great again, I think that said. The cops standing by there, but

01:30:21.380 just keeping an eye so far. A bunch of police cars there.

01:30:25.540 I think there are some cops who would like to crack some skulls, but I think they also know

01:30:33.140 that they overplayed their hand. And what they did during the trucker convoy, of course,

01:30:37.700 is being ruled illegal. The invocation of the Emergencies Act was illegal and unconstitutional.

01:30:45.940 Well, it's 2.31 Eastern time, 12.31 Alberta time, and 11.31 AM in British Columbia. What a

01:30:53.700 pleasure it's been to host this live stream over the last 90 minutes. I'll be back at 8 p.m.

01:31:01.540 Eastern time tonight with my show. It's called The Ezra Le Mans Show. Until next time, on behalf of all of

01:31:09.380 us here at Rebel World Headquarters and across the country, to you at home, goodbye, and keep fighting for freedom.

01:31:15.940 The NDP Trudeau carbon tax on the farmer who grows the food and the trucker who ships the food is a tax on

01:31:22.820 all who buy the food. Now they want to quadruple the tax. I'm Pierre Polyev. I'll ax the tax so you pay less

01:31:30.420 and bring home more.

01:31:31.460 I am the one being punished for speaking truth, yet he can mock females and say, you know, call me a bigot,

01:31:40.900 incite hate, and nothing's being done about that. But I'm the one being silenced by my federation.

01:31:45.940 A lot of women are silenced and feel silenced in that they have no voice or they're afraid to speak

01:31:50.900 up in fear of maybe getting kicked out of the federation to be called names, right, for backlash.

01:31:58.180 They're trying to silence everyone by using me as an example. So, I mean, more and more people are going

01:32:02.420 to be afraid to speak up. When it comes down to sports, which is my platform, it's bodies that play sports,

01:32:08.260 not identities. And we have to stick to biology. We got to call a spade a spade. We have to call

01:32:12.420 a man a man and a woman a woman. I have a huge amount of support.

01:32:16.020 We just need those voices to be heard and people to speak up more.

01:32:29.060 Folks, it's undeniable that our rights and freedoms are under attack. But how can we know what rights

01:32:42.660 we're losing if we don't even know what rights we already have? It's Freedom Passport's mission to

01:32:50.820 educate people about their rights and freedoms. The Freedom Passport is an easy-to-read, pocket-sized

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01:33:29.940 Freedom Passport today.

01:33:36.100 There's so much more energy in Canada to fight back against woke, to fight back against tyranny.

01:33:41.860 The counter-reaction eventually to relentless identity politics is for the other side to start

01:33:46.580 saying, okay, identity politics. Right or wrong, what it does is it creates more of itself. It's

01:33:51.620 like it's contagious. These tyrannical regimes weaponize the idea that people think they're the

01:33:57.460 only one who doesn't go along with everything, right? And so they're ashamed that they're not good

01:34:04.820 enough to get it. If they don't buy in, they're going to get excluded. They know that the ax comes for

01:34:09.860 them. And so they're going to do anything to stay included. That's the psychology of inclusion.

01:34:14.100 That's the word, right? People are waking up and saying, oh my gosh, what's really going on? And a

01:34:19.140 lot of them are getting answers and a lot of them are figuring it out. They cross the uncrossable line.

01:34:22.900 They mess with our kids. We've heard from Sikhs. We've heard from Muslims. We've heard from Christians.

01:34:26.100 We've heard from atheists. We've heard from all kinds of people. You don't mess with our kids.

01:34:37.860 And we're just wondering how many people think that they're the ones that

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SPECIAL BROADCAST ｜ Canadians take to the streets in protest of Justin Trudeau's carbon tax

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