A4C Special Guests Maxime Bernier and Aaron Rock
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1 hour and 39 minutes
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160.39748
Summary
In this episode, Pastor Maxime Bernier joins us to talk about the need for churches to be allowed to worship in the House of the Lord. We also hear from Action for Canada's Tanya Gah and Pastor Aaron Rock.
Transcript
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fantastic. And now we are ready to open up the floodgates. Lord, let them come in.
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Hey, how are you? Hey, Maxime, great to see you. It's nice that you joined us a little earlier.
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We're expecting you in a few minutes, but that's fantastic. We just opened it up for the pastors
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to join us. Yeah. And so we're looking forward to you connecting and delivering your views and
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message. And so we're going to give a few minutes, Maxime, for the pastors to come on board. And
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this is a culmination of pastors, church staff. The message to them was open our churches. Now,
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what's wonderful is that we were doing a little bit of research and there are some 35 megachurches
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across Canada. And a megachurch is anywhere from 1800 to over that, as far as the attendance.
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And we had one of our pastoral support go on and do a little bit of due diligence and research. And
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of those 35 megachurches, there are 20 that have now fully opened. Praise God.
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That's some really, really encouraging numbers. We are all about supporting our pastors and their
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church staff and their leadership to open, uncompromising and without restraint and restriction.
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And so we are so happy to hear that. There are still some churches where there are some limiting
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factors in the context of how many are allowed to come into the house of the Lord.
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And so, but we were happy to hear that the 20 of 35 have fully opened. And this is, you know,
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kind of a percentage where we're hoping across Canada for the other churches, because there's
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thousands of them. And unfortunately, up until the removal of, you know, the new, you know,
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stipulations that allowing for worship in the house of the Lord, there was only, to our knowledge,
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around 100 to 150 churches that had remained fully open. And during some level of, you know,
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fines, ticketing, and, you know, church shutdowns, etc. We're going to hear a little bit later on from
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Pastor Aaron Rock, a true legend and hero of the faith. And, and he's going to share his testimony
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about how he would not compromise and how God has blessed him in his stance. So we're truly grateful.
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We'll give a couple more minutes for people to join. And so, hello, everyone, whether you're pastor,
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church staff, or, or just join us to, to hear from our, our political Canada, hopeful for Canada's
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future. And so, Maxime Bernier, we're so excited to have him on board. And he's going to share in a few
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minutes about his, his passions and his views, and where he stands. And so we're excited to,
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to have him come on board, Aaron Rock will join us a little bit later on. But before we get into and
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just give Tani an opportunity as founder of Action for Canada to say a few words before Maxime comes
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on board, I want to give Ken Gilliard, pastor in Atlantic Canada, the opportunity to open us up in
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prayer, and commit our time before the Lord. And then we'll get into it. So Pastor Ken, would you
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open us up in prayer? Father, we just thank you, Lord, that you've given us this ability to reach
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out and contact each other. Lord, we just, just call upon your word that says, man makes his plans,
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but the Lord directs his path. And God, that's what I pray for each and everyone on this call,
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including all the politicians involved, Lord, that you would direct their path.
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We want to see your kingdom come and your will be done in Jesus name. Amen.
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Amen. Amen. And so without further ado, we want to introduce Tanya Gah, the founder of Action for
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Canada. It's been such a privilege and blessing to work with her these past six months. And I'm just
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honored to be a part of her team as pastoral support lead. Well, thank you, Ron, and welcome,
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everyone. We're excited to be able to put these meetings on every two weeks. Action for Canada
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launched a campaign back in October, saying that church is essential, freedom of religion is
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essential. And, you know, we saw that the what lockdowns were coming, a lot of people, I think,
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didn't understand how far this was going to go. And then in December, particularly here in BC,
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Bonnie Henry had put a complete shutdown on the churches, as we all say, as Costco is open and
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the liquor stores and everything else. It's nonsensical. It is obviously an attack against
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the church in Canada, because everything based on faith is what this country was founded on.
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And therefore, that is our freedoms and democracies. That's core. And it has been an amazing
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opportunity. What the devil meant for harm, God is using for good. Because for a long time,
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we've been told that this nation was secular, that this nation was multicultural. But secularism is
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one small step away from tyranny. And we're experiencing that because once Trudeau got in,
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he says, we're no longer, you know, a Christian nation, we're a post national state with no core
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identity. And you can better believe we cannot exist without an identity. And he's filling it with
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communism. And he has used under the guise of COVID, he has catapulted communism into this country.
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He has used our armed forces in our RCMP to hold us back in order to implement all these
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crazy orders that, you know, have caused our elderly to suffer immeasurable, immeasurable, cruel,
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cruel. I want I hardly have words for this. Actually, I was writing about this last night as well.
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The extent of the of the cruelty towards our elderly has has been off the charts isolating in these
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homes, not allowing family members to come and visit them, then being forced to die alone,
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the cruelty of total isolation caught in your own thoughts, your thoughts of a lifetime.
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And you know, where you deserve to have your loved ones there, they worked in this country,
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they provided everything that we are benefiting from today. And we need to fight for them.
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We need to fight for our youth. But we need to fight for the church. And we've been doing that for
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many, many months, and trying to get the leaders of the church to understand what's actually going
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on. We've got lots of amazing resources on our web page that I hope that you will look into if you if
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you have not already, we welcome you if you haven't joined Action for Canada, if you got this link from
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somebody else, we'll put a join link in the in the chat that you can access at the bottom. If you hover
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over the bottom, the chat option will come up. And yeah, I'm grateful to be here. I'm super pleased.
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We've been double blessed. We had Maxime on last night in a meeting with our group. And here he is
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today. So I'm very much looking forward to hearing from you, Maxime. So Ron, did you want to do that?
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That's awesome. So without further ado, we want to welcome Maxime to share your views and the audience
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that you're sharing with. They are also the catalyst to connect with their congregations and the body of
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Christ Jesus. And so we are happy to support you and we encourage you and just we got a taste of your
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passion and your zeal and your fervor and what you stand for. And it's it's really infectious. And so
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we look forward to hearing from you, Maxime. So you have the floor.
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Thank you, Ron. Thank you, Tanya. I'm very pleased. And it's an honor for me to be here to be with you.
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And, you know, we started that fight for freedom a long time ago. And I want to congratulate you for
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Action for Canada and other groups also that know that it's important to fight for our freedoms.
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I started that more than 30, 30 months ago when I did a video and I said no more lockdowns. We must
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reopen our businesses. We must be able to go back to church. And and now we're still in these kind of
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lockdowns. Actually, today in the news in Quebec and French, the premier Legault said that we will have
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a vaccine passport the 1st of September for people who decided not to have that vaccine.
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So it would be two kinds of citizens in Quebec with different rights. So that's why, you know,
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that fight for me was essential, because when I created the People's Party of Canada, as you may know,
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I was a conservative. I did run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2017. I didn't
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win with 49% of the vote. I tried to work with the establishment of the Conservative Party, Mr. Andrew
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Scheer and the establishment, because our ideas were very popular. Actually, that was the real
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conservative values and ideas. And in the end, Andrew Scheer said that they won't take any ideas
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coming from me. And I was speaking for myself. So I decided in August 2018 to resign. And we created
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the People's Party of Canada. We had our first election in 2019. And we had 1.6% of the vote. 300,000
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people voted for us. And if I compare that with the Green Party of Canada, it took them 20 years and
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six elections to have more than 1.6% of the vote. And we did that in our first year. And now we may
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have an election, I believe this fall, and we'll be ready. The People's Party will be ready. We will
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have a candidate in every riding. I think it's important. We want to give the opportunity to
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every Canadian to be able to vote for their values for the People's Party. And actually,
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we will run on the same platform. We will run on the same platform than the last election,
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because we're not a traditional political party. We are doing politics differently. We don't do
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polling and survey and focus group to know what you want to hear and after that to repeat it.
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The platform that we had that was based on four principles, individual freedom, personal
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responsibility, respect, and fairness. And all our policies are in line with these principles.
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So it would be the same platform that the one we had in 2019. And if we have another election in four
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years, that would be the same platform, because we have a vision of this country based on both the
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reforms and based on freedom and personal responsibility. We want to put people first, Canada first, the
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family first. And right now with the woke identity and doctrine out there with the cancel culture, with the
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censorship on social media, and for me as a politician on mainstream media, we need to fight against
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that. And that would be very important at the next campaign. We will focus our campaign on maybe five or
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six policies, ending the lockdowns for sure, more freedom, less government, more autonomy to provincial
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government, respecting the constitution, respecting taxpayers, being able to have a debate in Canada on a lot of
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subjects. Like, you know, abortion, for me, it's important. We are the only country that doesn't have a
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legislation on abortion. And we are like North Korea and China on that. I think it's not normal. You can have an abortion in
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Canada just before giving birth. And that would be legal. So we need to we need to have a debate. And like I said, this
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party is not a pro choice party or a pro life party, we will come pro life people in our party, we will come to debate. The party won't take
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position on that. Because for us, it's a conscience issue. And that's important. We will have a free vote on all these kinds of issues, and that are
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important. And it will be a free vote for everybody. And, and I think I'm welcoming the debate. Actually, I said that the last
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campaign on abortion, because one of our candidate table bill, and she said, if you elect me, that was
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Laura Lynn Thompson, she was running in Alberta. And she said, if you elect me, I'm against late term abortion. And this is my
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four pages bill. And I had a question from a journalist after that. And he asked me as the leader of the
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people's party, if it's my position, I said, first of all, the party doesn't have any position and won't have any
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position. But my personal position on that bill is yes, I'm against late term abortion. And I said something
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also about the sex selection abortion. I think we need to have a debate. It's too important. And on
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that, but also we need to have a debate on immigration in this country. I spoke about
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that at the last campaign, and people were saying that I was racist because of that. I can tell you
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that I'm suing Kinsella that said that I will win that case for defamation. And the Conservative Party of
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Canada paid him $22,000 a month to discredit the People's Party and myself. So I'm in court in Toronto,
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I will win that. And that's important. But we need to be able to speak about immigration also,
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we need to say that we need to have people that are coming here that are sharing our Canadian values,
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our freedom, our equality before the law, equality between men and women. I think it's very important.
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We need to have an interview with each of them. We need to have helping refugees. And I'm thinking about the
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Christians that are persecuted in other countries. So that's important. And right now, we are opening our doors to
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people that are not refugees, like the people who are crossing the Roxanne Road in Quebec illegally. And they claim that
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they're a refugee, I don't think that if you come in from the state of New York, that your life is in
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danger there. So we need to have a sustainable immigration, we need to have people that will come
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here and integrate our society. So we are the only party that have that is ready to have a discussion on
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immigration, with fewer immigrants, more skilled immigrants, more economic immigrants. And but we're
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against mass immigration, I believe that 400,000 newcomers every year, it's too much. And we need to
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have people that will come here and will be able to integrate to into our society. And we believe that
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a maximum must be 150 years. Actually, if we have 150,000 newcomers a year, by capita, it would be the same
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amount than the US and some European countries. So we cannot open our own arms to everybody. It's a
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privilege to be Canadian, we need to have the discussion. So the People's Party is for a
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sustainable immigration, real debate on on our culture, real debate on every subject, there's no taboo
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subject for us, there's no political correctness. I'm speaking about what I believe in, I hope with
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passion and conviction. And I like what I'm doing. I said when I quit the Conservative Party of Canada
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in October, in August, sorry, 2018, that this party was morally and intellectually corrupt. And I think
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that's true. We have another proof with Erin Moutoul that is not a conservative anymore, because the goal of
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the Conservative Party of Canada is to be in government. And now you must admit, like me, that we are in a
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socialist era, here in Canada, in North America, in Europe. And if you want to be in government, Erin Moutoul
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is speaking like a liberal, because just an example on lockdowns, 65% of the population in Canada were in
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favor of these lockdowns. That's why the Conservative Party, and the provincial opposition in every
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province didn't speak against the lockdowns, because their role is to be in government, and they didn't
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want to have 65% of the population against them. So we're doing politics differently, because we don't
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try to please everybody. If you like what we are saying, I hope you will support us. If not, it's okay.
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And that's why, you know, we will cut foreign aid, we will help Canadians first. So I'm asking you to
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go on our website, the People's Party of Canada, read our platform. And our goal at the next election
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is to grow our support. And I believe that you need our voice, and we need your vote. So if you want
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to support us, if you believe in a real Western civilization values, and the foundation of our
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society must be the family, and we must, everybody must be free, and we must help minority groups.
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But for me, the real minority is the individual. So that's why we are speaking for all Canadians.
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We don't play that game of racialized people and non-racialized people. You saw today that
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Justin Trudeau wants to spend money in propaganda, you know, in different cities across the country,
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to say to people that Canada is a systemic, we have a systemic racism in Canada, and Canada is a racist
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country. It's not true. That's not true. So we're not racist, we must be proud to be Canadians.
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And, you know, these two words, racialized people and non-racialized people, the first time I
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hear that, that was a year ago. And now they are speaking to us as a Christian and non-Christian,
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a racial person, a non-racial person, a part of a black or white. For me, it's not important.
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We want to judge people by their character, like Mr. Luther King said. And we are doing politics for
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all Canadians. That's a big difference. We won't pender to any special interest group. And if you
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like what we are saying, I hope you will support us. Our goal is to grow our support. If we have four or
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five percent at the next election, that would be great, because we will have a voice. I'm sure some of
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our candidates will be elected, will be in parliament, will have a voice and will be able
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to do this debate in the mainstream media. Now we're not. They're canceling us. So that's why it's
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important. And like somebody told me from Alberta and BC, you know, voting for the Conservatives today,
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it's a waste of your vote, because we know that Erin O'Toole won't win. And it's too bad that we may have
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just stand to go for another four years, because I don't believe that I'll be prime minister after
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the next election. But I believe that I will be reelected. I'll be in parliament, and I'll be
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able to speak for you. I'll be able to speak for all Canadians about our values and what we believe in.
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So that's an important election. And for the future of our society, for the future of our country,
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and for us as a people, at People's Party of Canada, we believe in you, we believe in people,
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we believe that you can do what you want to do in your life. And we have faith that you have the
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ability, the dignity and the right to make your own decisions and determine your own destiny,
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without having the federal government telling you what to do every day of your life. That's why we want
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to have a smaller government that will respect the Constitution and respect taxpayers. That being
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said, I want to have a discussion with you. I'll stop here, and I'll be pleased to answer some of your
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Yes. Thank you, Maxime. That wonderfully delivered. And there are going to be some questions. I saw some
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posted in the chats. I want to welcome you to look at your bottom tab. And when you do, you're going to
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see to the far right reactions. So if you have a question for Mr. Maxime Bernier, please click on the
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reactions and raise your hand. And then you can personally deliver that that question. If we don't
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see you do that, then we'll try to monitor the questions that you have, so that we can have those
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answered for you. So the first question we have here at Pastor Ken.
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My question is on a touchy subject, so I want to make it very clear right from the start.
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I'm not a member of any organization that would condemn anybody, but I don't believe the same
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way that everybody believes. And, you know, years ago when Pierre Elliott Trudeau was in,
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he was the Prime Minister, he said the government has no business in the bedrooms of Canadians.
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And we've gone from that to everything that relates to God being kicked out of the schools,
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kicked out of government, kicked out of society, to now everything that the LGBTQ promotes,
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which again, I'm not condemning them. They have a choice to live the way they want to live.
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But when their agenda gets pushed by government and gets pushed into society,
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and gets pushed into the schools and gets pushed into the curriculums,
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that's going to be the elephant in the room for this group here. Because, you know,
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we are looking at Derek Sloan, we're looking at Maxine Bernier, and we're looking at who can best
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represent us, and who has a chance. You know, and you say you may not be the Prime Minister,
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I know the odds are against you, but we as Christians have had the odds against us
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for centuries. And we believe in miracles. So, you know, I just, I just want to know,
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you said you don't support any special interest groups. But it seems like every time a political
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party forms, the LGBTQ gets very involved, so they can, in the background, continue to push an agenda on
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people. And, you know, we see sidewalks now that are the Pride flag. But the next week,
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if a Christian wanted to put a flag there, that would be totally opposed. If a Muslim group wanted
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to do it, that would be totally opposed. If some other group wanted to be opposed. But it seems like
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the government's just catering to the LGBTQ. They have a right to exist. God gives us choice and free
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will. I totally agree. But I just see where they continue to push their agenda. And I want to,
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I want to know where you stand on that. Yeah, thanks for your question. First,
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we don't have any policies concerning them, because for us, they're Canadians. And that's a nice example
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that we don't pender. I don't know what they will ask for the next election. Maybe they will ask
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something for politicians, but that's the way we're doing politics. If you're a special interest group
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like that, and you want something for us, you won't. Because we have policies that are
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for all Canadians on our platform. And you can see that on our website. And we don't have any policies
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for them. Because, you know, that's not, they represent less than 1% of the population in Canada.
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Why having this huge debate about them? You know, if they're a minority, it's okay. But for us,
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we are doing politics for everybody. So when I'm looking at them as a Canadians, and not as a gay
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person or something like that. I'll give you an example. At the last campaign, a journalist called me
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and called my team and said, you know, how many, how many gays do you have as candidate? How many black
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people do you have as candidate? And we didn't answer the question. I was the only political
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party not to answer. It's not important for me, if you gay or not gay or black or white,
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for me, you're a Canadians. And, and that's your choice. If you want to live like that,
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that's your choice. But if one of my member of parliament want to table a bill on any subject,
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and that would be their, their, their right. And we'll have a debate about it. But actually,
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that's why we won't pander to them. And I don't try to have their vote as a member of that community.
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Thanks for doing this. Maxime Bernier. I'm asking this question from the Kamloops Thompson
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Caribou riding. And it's, it's good to be able to ask this question. I want you to speak on the issue
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of the media. So I've heard quite a bit in terms of PPP, PPC statements about the media
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and how clearly they're biased and state run media, that type of thing. But what does the federal
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government, what role do, does the federal government have in media and social media to promote free
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speech, but not to interfere with the process of, of, of a fair election and, and fair information.
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getting out there. So if you could speak to the, what, what, what does the federal government,
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what, what is the role of the federal government in media and social media?
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Yeah. Thanks for your question. First, the federal government must, the media, sorry,
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must be independent from the government. Now they are dependent for the, from the government,
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government because they received a lot of money from the bailout that the Trudeau government give
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to the, uh, mainstream media, but also during COVID-19, uh, the federal government and provincial
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governments spend a lot of money in advertising in, uh, in, uh, all the media and in local newspaper
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newspapers everywhere. That was part of their propaganda. That's why they scared people a lot.
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So for us, the media must be independent. So the state and the government won't give any money to, uh,
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mainstream media won't give any money to the CBC. We have a platform that the CBC must be independent
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from the government. So they must, they must, uh, be able to find themselves, uh, asking money from
00:28:56.400
their viewers. If they, if they, if they, if they're good, the viewers will donate to them. If not the
00:29:02.400
too bad. So we will save a billion dollars there not to give money to the CBC. So that's what the
00:29:09.520
mainstream media for the social media, it's too bad that the Trudeau government table, the bill,
00:29:15.360
bill C36, this bill is not enforced and won't be enforced before the, the election. If we have an
00:29:22.080
election this fall, and I believe we'll have an election this fall, but that's part of their
00:29:27.280
platform. They believe that we have a huge problem in Canada with eight, eight speech and eight crimes,
00:29:34.800
and we don't have a problem there. Actually less than 1% of all the crimes in this country are related
00:29:42.960
to eight speech. So that's not a problem for them. They created a problem to have an excuse to regulate
00:29:50.560
what you are saying on social media. That's the bill C36. If the bill is passed and become law,
00:29:59.760
uh, the federal government and his agency will be able to look at what you're saying to social media
00:30:06.720
and something that you will say, and maybe somebody won't like it. So you can be a censor. We still have,
00:30:14.880
we have right now, censorship from the big tech corporation, Google, and all these big corporations,
00:30:22.560
YouTube. So we don't need censorship from the federal government, but that's the intent of that
00:30:28.560
bill. And we will fight for freedom. We will fight. We don't need another definition of eight crimes. We have a
00:30:36.880
definition in the criminal code. That's enough. That's okay. But now with the bill C36, they will
00:30:43.440
have a new definition that would be broader, that would be large and will include a lot of things.
00:30:49.120
So you will be censored on you. You will have a risk to be censored on social media. So we are against
00:30:56.400
that bill. We are for freedom. We don't think that the government must regulate the internet and
00:31:02.080
social media. It must be free to everybody. And, uh, that's, that's too important right now.
00:31:09.360
It's the only place that we can express our point of view and the federal government is looking at that.
00:31:15.280
And, uh, I believe that, you know, it's going against our democracy. Uh, the freedom of speech is the,
00:31:21.360
is the part of our, uh, charter of rights and must be defendant. And I can tell you that if that bill
00:31:29.200
passed after the next election, we will work with the justice center for constitutional freedoms,
00:31:35.760
to be sure that we will sue the government, we will, uh, in, in, in a court. And, uh, but we'll do
00:31:42.800
also, we'll try to educate the public opinion on the, these, uh, kind of, uh, uh, restriction of our freedoms.
00:31:51.040
Thank you, Maxine. Um, the next question we, uh, we're going to give Donna the opportunity to express.
00:32:04.480
Thank you, Ron. And thank you, uh, um, Maxine. So I have a question for you, if I may. Um, I am
00:32:13.680
also a member of vaccine choice Canada. I have been for about, um, I don't know since it's inception,
00:32:20.720
maybe, uh, 25 years or so. And, um, this is my, uh, question. I did hear you, um, Maxine say that
00:32:31.760
you are not opposed to vaccines. My question in all of this is, I believe that people are not having
00:32:46.000
a choice in vaccinations, that someone else, corporations are making that choice for them.
00:32:55.200
Never do I see the ingredients to vaccinations ever exposed by any politician, scientist, doctor,
00:33:04.720
and it, this, this is important for our children, our future. And so I, my question to you is,
00:33:12.800
what will you do to expose the ingredients to these vaccines? What's in it? And the science
00:33:21.840
that shows how toxic these vaccines are. Donna, can you, uh, repeat that the last part of that
00:33:28.560
question? What will you do to expose you cut out there? I'm sorry, to expose the ingredients to the
00:33:35.840
vaccination. What's in it. And the science behind the toxicity of these vaccines. And what will you do
00:33:47.840
to reinforce health and nutrition? So we have a healthier, uh, future for our children and a healthier
00:33:57.440
nation. Thank you. Okay. Thanks for that question. I must say that I said personally in French in Quebec
00:34:05.200
and in English that, uh, I didn't take the vaccine. I won't take the vaccine for three reasons. First
00:34:11.440
of all, I think I'm young and 58 years old. Second, I'm in shape and running marathons and I'm eating
00:34:18.800
very well. Uh, I'm not a vegan, but, uh, I'm eating some meat, but I'm eating more, uh, I'm eating more
00:34:26.480
like a vegetarian. So that being said also, if I have COVID, uh, the chances to die from COVID is 0.05%.
00:34:36.480
So that's why I didn't take the vaccine. And so I believe in freedom of choice because when I believe
00:34:43.680
in freedom of choice, I believe that Canadians are intelligent people. So, uh, they can, uh, and they
00:34:50.720
must be responsible of their action. They can do good action, good for them, and they can take bad
00:34:56.800
decision. You know, that's their, that's not their risk. So concerning the vaccine, I believe in the
00:35:03.040
freedom of choice, but you're right. When you have the freedom of choice before choosing something, you
00:35:08.880
must have all the informations and the right information. And that must be your responsibility
00:35:14.880
to look for that information. I know that a lot of Canadians don't look at for having more
00:35:21.040
information on vaccine. And I agree with you. Uh, I don't want to have an experiment vaccine on me.
00:35:27.440
And I decided not to have it also for that. So what I will do, I think that first of all, uh, I don't want
00:35:35.200
to also go on the vaccine passport. Like I said, in my, in the beginning of, of that, uh, meeting that
00:35:42.880
and against a vaccine passport, it would be, uh, uh, we'll have two kinds of citizens, one, uh, with
00:35:50.240
more rights than the other. So we need to fight that and, uh, we need to have more information and
00:35:57.440
I appreciate what you're doing with the, uh, the, the, that organization. So what I can do if I'm prime
00:36:04.640
minister or as a policy, we can be sure that before giving the vaccine, people must know more. So
00:36:12.720
I think it's the role of the federal government because, uh, healthcare, it's a shared jurisdiction
00:36:18.800
with provinces because the federal government is responsible of the coordination of the
00:36:24.800
healthcare in Canada. That's why, but the majority of the responsibilities are under the provincial
00:36:32.800
jurisdiction. But I think we can ask provincial government to give more information on the
00:36:39.520
vaccine. Now we have propaganda and that propaganda is very efficient. And here in Quebec, now they're
00:36:46.480
saying, if you don't have your two doses, uh, you won't be able to go to a bar, uh, this September,
00:36:53.600
you won't be able to go to a gym. And they're doing that because the young people, uh, are not kind
00:37:00.000
of a vaccine and they don't want to have a second dose, dose of, uh, of that vaccine. So they're,
00:37:05.040
they're, they're pushing. And I think it's, it's non, uh, ethical, uh, it's a non moral,
00:37:11.440
it's immoral doing that. So opposition, it's a freedom of choice. People must be able to have the
00:37:19.120
right information and the government must be able to give them the right information before taking any
00:37:25.440
decision and the decision to have that vaccine. I think it's an important decision. So in the
00:37:31.440
information, yes, we must know what is in that vaccine for sure. Uh, they must have that information
00:37:38.400
before having the vaccine. And I think, you know, it's too important. Now I'm looking at what they're
00:37:44.720
doing in Quebec and maybe in other provinces, they're pushing the vaccine for the 12 to the 18 years old,
00:37:51.760
knowing that the world, world health organization that I don't like said that we don't need to
00:37:59.120
impose a vaccine to people on their 18 years old. Uh, so, and in Quebec, they're pushing and pushing.
00:38:05.840
I think it's, it's immoral. And I said that publicly, so I will fight for being sure that people will have
00:38:13.040
the choice and parents will be able to decide, uh, to decide if their children will have the vaccine or not.
00:38:20.480
Okay. Oh, sorry about that. Uh, you cut out there. So were you finished your statement?
00:38:25.760
Yeah, I was just saying that also the parents must be able to decide if their children will have the vaccine
00:38:32.880
or not. It's not the, it's not the government that must impose that. And I, I believe up to now that the government
00:38:40.080
tried to, uh, to, uh, be acting like a, like, like being a parent, uh, the, the last decision was come from the parents.
00:38:50.160
If I can just add, please. I also do know that the federal government is involved in the vaccine issue.
00:38:58.240
Health Canada has not given that COVID vaccine a DIN number.
00:39:02.720
Yeah. So there is an involvement. Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you. Um,
00:39:10.640
before we have the last two questions from Alice and Danny, uh, Tanya has something to share.
00:39:18.640
Oh, you're on mute. I just saw that little, that little red stripe. All right. Um, yeah,
00:39:24.240
I just wanted to, uh, just speak into that as well. And, uh, Maxime, I'm, I appreciate that you're
00:39:29.520
saying that this is an experimental, it's very important. We use the term vaccine, but it's an
00:39:33.920
experimental, uh, injection that is being used and there's great deal of harms that are coming
00:39:40.880
because of this, uh, adverse reactions and many deaths. And so as of Monday, uh, action for Canada
00:39:47.520
is going to be launching a VAX victims page. We've been working with liberty.com. And because daily
00:39:54.000
I'm receiving phone calls from people whose loved ones have either died or are experiencing
00:39:58.880
neurological damage, uh, brain clots and undergoing surgery. I mean, this is an all out attack against
00:40:06.480
society. And in the, uh, for those of you who think the government is, uh, becoming more lenient
00:40:12.400
and going into phase three or whatever of the lockdowns, make no mistake. The church is going to
00:40:17.520
be locked down again in the fall. The businesses will be, uh, the children are going to be, uh, um,
00:40:23.680
motivated to have vaccines in order to see their friends or schools. Um, elected officials are
00:40:28.960
already making these, um, comments. Uh, the deputy minister of New Brunswick said, Oh, if you want to
00:40:35.280
see your friends and if you want to go to school in the fall, and that is one of the reasons why
00:40:40.160
action for Canada has created these notices of liability to protect our children. So you're putting
00:40:45.760
your teacher on notice, the principal, they're awesome, uh, for employees to give to their employers.
00:40:50.640
Costco is now demanding that, you know, uh, people provide their proof of vaccine. Uh, the employees
00:40:57.280
do. And so we're getting right behind this. And we also have a notice of liability directed
00:41:02.640
at, um, elected officials. They're going to be saying come the fall that there's a new variant
00:41:07.600
and it's going to be the non vaccinated who are the ones with the new variant. And, uh, the last thing
00:41:13.360
I want to say is the PCR test has been used fraudulently. They put it up at high amplification
00:41:19.280
so that it actually picks up dead cells in your system of a virus. You could have had six months
00:41:24.560
or a year ago, and they give you a positive. So they've been amplifying up over 35, uh, to 45.
00:41:31.920
Each province has admitted it. Now, all of a sudden they're dropping it to 25. So they can all of a
00:41:37.280
sudden say how the cases are dropping. So the news isn't reporting on deaths. They're reporting on cases.
00:41:43.200
Now they're saying the cases are dropping and they're giving the credit to these, uh, deadly vaccines.
00:41:48.320
So anyways, I just wanted to clarify that and make sure that people were aware. Sorry,
00:41:52.800
Ron, back to you. All right. No problem. So thank you, Tanya, for sharing that. Alice, you have a question.
00:42:00.720
Yes. Hi. Oh, um, can you see me and hear me? I cannot see myself, but can you hear me?
00:42:08.400
Okay. We can hear you. That's the key. Okay. Great. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Hi, uh, Maxim. Uh, yeah,
00:42:15.520
I met you, you know, actually, when you came to Vancouver for a night, uh, at the restaurant.
00:42:20.960
Yeah. It was very nice to, uh, meet you and glad to hear you yesterday and today. Um, well,
00:42:29.200
my question is, you know, last night you mentioned, okay, you won't be the PM. I hope you're wrong.
00:42:36.480
I hope that, uh, a miracle will happen. And I believe so that you'll be PM, but if you are right,
00:42:43.840
that, you know, you won't be, um, how are you, your party going to be able to help and lock down
00:42:56.400
permanently, like not, um, make, make it basically, uh, illegal, you know, just like us.
00:43:06.880
Yeah. Thanks. Thanks for the question. At least I really appreciate that. And just before answering,
00:43:14.640
I want to say that, uh, you're doing a good job, Tanya with action for Canada. That's important.
00:43:20.880
Out of groups like you are all there. And it's a question of education. And I think it's too
00:43:26.320
important. And I agree with everything that you said about the, the, the, the, the test and
00:43:31.520
everything. It's a shame what is happening right now in our country. That being said, to answer your
00:43:37.520
question, Alice, um, you know, it's about education. It's about education and the more people, and you
00:43:44.480
you don't need to actually be, you, we know that government are, uh, and traditional government
00:43:51.040
are acting on poll and survey and they want to stay in power. And so that's why, like I said,
00:43:57.600
you didn't have any opposition at the provincial level against these lockdown because the propaganda
00:44:03.520
was very efficient, the advertising that they did and all that. So it was so efficient that Canadians
00:44:11.120
bought that and they had a lot of support. Now it's coming on our side. We'll have more freedom
00:44:18.640
this summer and maybe, yes, you're right. These lockdown can come again this fall, but we'll have
00:44:24.960
more people on our side. Actually, I was pleased to hear from the, uh, health minister in Quebec
00:44:33.360
that he said, you know, we won't be able to impose lockdowns this fall. So that's why we need to have
00:44:41.680
a vaccine passport. The Quebec government is the government that spent a lot of money in advertising.
00:44:48.400
Like I said before, they're doing polling and survey every day. The federal, the Quebec government
00:44:54.800
spent $2 million in six months on polling on the COVID-19. So when the minister said,
00:45:02.960
we won't be able, that was what he said, to impose lockdowns this fall if we have another variant.
00:45:10.960
So that means that now we have the public opinion on our side against the lockdowns. So we just need
00:45:18.880
to be steady and speaking about what we believe. So yes, I may not be prime minister after the next
00:45:26.240
election, but we will have a voice. We will be in parliament. We will be able to speak. We will
00:45:32.320
have more coverage from the mainstream media. We will use all the tools that we can use as a member
00:45:39.280
of parliament to educate, to speak, and we'll have more people on our side. It's a question of winning
00:45:45.600
the public opinion. So, uh, and we'll do that together. So that's why if I'm not prime minister,
00:45:52.480
I think we can stop these lockdowns also by educating, informing the population, what Tanya is doing
00:45:59.600
and other groups like that out there, like Liberty Coalition Canada and us as a political party, we are
00:46:06.560
the only political party at the federal level against these draconian lockdowns. So that's important to have a
00:46:14.800
voice. That's why I said, you know, you need our voice and I need your vote. So all together we can win.
00:46:23.040
All right. Thank you, Maxine. One question there from Danny.
00:46:33.760
Yeah. Thanks guys. Another question from me and it isn't around the vaccine subject. It is around the
00:46:39.760
first nations issue that we've seen coming up. Uh, I live in Kamloops. So, you know, that was kind
00:46:47.840
of one of the big highlights having the Kamloops Indian band quote unquote discover this quote unquote
00:46:54.800
mass grave. I still think even though there's a lot of mistruth out there and the media wants to
00:47:01.200
fit a particular narrative to fit their white racism, um, issue. We still do need to deal with
00:47:11.520
the issue of indigenous people in Canada. And so, uh, you know, I know some of the policies of the PPC
00:47:19.360
in this area, but I'd like you to speak to that. Forget about the issues at hand. What do we need to do
00:47:26.960
as a federal government to address the issues of indigenous people in Canada? What's your, uh,
00:47:33.840
position on reparations, reconciliation, and, uh, these, um, these kind of new, um, keywords that are
00:47:45.120
spoken in the media right now? You're right about saying new keywords. Absolutely. And, uh, it's only
00:47:53.680
that. It's only that. It's not about policies. It's not about solving the challenges that we are
00:48:00.000
having. Um, and when you said a mass grave, it is not a mass grave. It's individual grave. It's not,
00:48:06.720
it's not a big mass one. They want to say that because it's like, it's looked like a genocide,
00:48:12.320
but it's not that. And, uh, and so it's, it must be important to use the right word on that also.
00:48:19.200
But that being said, uh, you know, if you read our platform, you know, our policies for the first
00:48:24.800
nation. And we, we, we are saying since the creation of our party that we must, uh, abolish
00:48:32.640
the Indian act. Uh, that's the only, uh, when, when, uh, Trudeau is saying that Canada is a racist
00:48:40.000
party, the only thing that is racist in our country is that act it's based on race and we must abolish
00:48:47.200
that. But it's easy to say we must abolish it. I understand that, but we must replace by what I
00:48:54.960
think they must have, you know, in, uh, on reserve, they don't have, it's, it's a community. It's a kind
00:49:02.080
of a communist system. They don't have a property rights on reserve. I think they must have a kind
00:49:08.240
of a property rights on reserve. If you want to build something, you need to be able to have property
00:49:13.600
rights. And so that's what we said. We need to replace, to abolish the Indian acts and try to have
00:49:20.560
a discussion with the first nation about having a kind of a property rights on reserve. I know that,
00:49:26.320
uh, a chief in BC, I don't remember which one, they developed a kind of a property rights. Uh,
00:49:33.200
so, and that, you know, non Indian can buy land, uh, on the reserve and things like that. It's pretty
00:49:41.200
new. So we must look at a solution like that, but we must open the discussion. Now it's all about
00:49:48.320
shame on us, uh, Canadians and white. And I don't like that discussion. I want to move the discussion
00:49:55.840
toward a solution. All right. Thank you, Maxime. And thanks for that question. Uh, I do have one
00:50:02.160
last question and I can't wait then to introduce pastor Aaron Rock, who's joined us. Uh, so with
00:50:08.320
regards to, um, the question is, is, uh, in the context of how will you protect our Canadian sovereignty
00:50:17.600
and, and the right for Christians to, to congregate and worship? Yeah. First of all, we'll be sure that,
00:50:24.320
uh, our charter, uh, the government will, will, uh, follow and not violate our charter
00:50:32.080
rights. And right now the government is doing that in different, uh, with lockdowns, with, uh, uh,
00:50:38.640
not being able to go to church. It's in our charter of rights. And actually it's the, the,
00:50:44.000
the criminal code also have something on that. You must, uh, police must not be able to go in a
00:50:49.760
church. So, but the federal government is doing nothing about that. So we must, we must be sure to
00:50:55.200
reinforce our charter of rights. And that's, that's the first thing to do. But at the same time,
00:51:00.560
also, I believe that, uh, to keep our sovereignty, uh, we need to, uh, be sure that the globalists
00:51:08.400
and these people who believe that they know better than us in Canada, like the UN, like all these, uh,
00:51:15.600
international organizations must not, uh, be able to influence our policy and our politics in Canada.
00:51:22.800
And that's why we're saying we're going to review the budget that the federal government is giving to
00:51:27.120
the UN when we go, we will cut foreign aid and bring back that money to Canada to help Canadians
00:51:33.760
first. So that's part of our foreign policy. I think it's important. And, uh, and like that,
00:51:39.600
you'll keep your sovereignty. Uh, we won't sign the, uh, global compact on migration. And because,
00:51:46.560
you know, we need to do our immigration law in Canada, and we have a strong position on immigration,
00:51:53.360
we won't sign the Paris accord. Uh, we need to do what we want to do in Canada. And if it's so
00:52:00.320
important fighting climate change, it can be done by provinces at the federal level for us as a
00:52:06.400
political party at the federal level, we won't do anything. We won't sign that accord. We won't
00:52:11.040
impose regulations or, or carbon tax. So that's very important. It's a core of our, of our platform when
00:52:18.160
we're saying, you know, individual freedom and personal responsibility it's and respect and
00:52:23.840
fairness. Respect is for respect, our constitution, our rights. So I think, um, uh, that would be
00:52:30.560
important. We must be able to go to church and we must be able to do what we want to do. I must be able
00:52:38.400
to go to Manitoba and do a rally over there. Uh, so that's the role of the federal government to
00:52:44.800
protect our charter of rights and the federal government is not doing that right now.
00:52:50.800
Thank you. Thank you, Maxine. We appreciate so much your time and your delivery and your message,
00:52:58.080
your views, and we were encouraged. Um, I know there's still some more questions. I'm, uh, but
00:53:04.640
we're, we're out of time. We need to introduce our next speaker. So, Maxine, we're, we're just so
00:53:09.360
grateful that you're able to join us today and deliver what you did, uh, to, to us. And, uh,
00:53:15.440
we, we just are encouraging and encouraged and support you. Um, so thank you. If you have to,
00:53:21.600
to leave Maxine, I give you the opportunity to do that. I I'm sure you're familiar with pastor Aaron
00:53:27.280
Rock and we are so privileged and honored to have him join us. He's a true hero of the faith.
00:53:33.280
This man has counted the cost. He has endured persecution, many tens of thousands of dollars
00:53:40.800
fines, his church locked down. Uh, he'll explain a little bit more as far as the extent of it,
00:53:47.520
but I I'm a big fan and, uh, I've, I've quoted, uh, uh, pastor Aaron, uh, one, a number of your
00:53:55.760
things. You wrote an amazing article, why divine obedience over civil obedience is, uh, a Christian's
00:54:01.520
duty. And in there, you, you talk about, uh, the word of God instructs God's people to meet for the
00:54:08.120
ministry of the word, sacrament, worship, laying on of hands, greeting one another with a holy kiss,
00:54:15.720
praying over the sick and fulfilling the one another's of scripture. And that's all scripture
00:54:20.740
based. And we're just so privileged and honored to have you be a part of our group today. And, uh,
00:54:27.120
we just give you the platform and the floor and welcome pastor Aaron.
00:54:31.480
Well, thank you, Ron. I appreciate the opportunity to share a little bit about some of the experiences
00:54:36.720
we've had and, and perhaps even suggest a little bit of a path forward. And I, I, I'm more than
00:54:42.860
welcome, more than willing to allow for, um, plenty of questions at the end of all of this. So
00:54:48.020
I'm pastoring in Windsor, Ontario. I started this church 20 years ago. So I've been in the same
00:54:53.820
pulpit for 20 years. And, uh, last year when the virus sort of touched down on our shores,
00:54:59.700
I think most of us were a little perplexed and unsure of, uh, what was happening in many respects,
00:55:07.120
I would sort of equate it to a situation whereby, you know, suddenly you get a message that German
00:55:12.940
bombers are overhead in world war two. And you're like, okay, we've never experienced this before.
00:55:17.520
So our church closed down for a few weeks and, um, very soon into that first lockdown last March,
00:55:25.940
this would be March of 2020. I, I began to be very concerned about some of the patterns and sort of
00:55:31.740
the cultural wars and the, the politicking and the opportunism, the lack of transparency that were
00:55:38.980
impacting the decisions that the government was making. So I wrote a letter, uh, to our premier in
00:55:45.740
Ontario. And before I sent it, I chatted with it, chatted about it, uh, chatted with my elders about
00:55:52.360
it. And we thought to ourselves, well, maybe we could get a few other churches to sign. And so I
00:55:57.880
talked to a friend of mine, Joe Boot, we kind of reworked the letter and we put it out hoping that we
00:56:02.540
might get, you know, 20 or 30 churches to sign. And we ultimately had 445 sign that led to a meeting
00:56:10.880
with the premier's lawyers and we were able to negotiate, um, the reopening of the churches last
00:56:18.260
June. Then of course, much like this summer, you know, the pressure's off June, July, August,
00:56:24.120
things seem to let up. The virus doesn't seem to be around, but we started to receive indicators
00:56:29.440
that there would be, um, more tyrannical lockdowns in the fall. And there was discussion even coming out
00:56:35.680
of Australia about the, the ongoing use of rolling lockdowns to stop viruses, future viruses, to reduce
00:56:43.280
climate change, this sort of thing. So we formed, um, several coalitions in the process. We, we wrote a
00:56:51.600
document called the Niagara declaration to reassert what is often missing in your typical high school
00:56:58.860
civics class. And that is that Canada is historically a Christianized country. Many of us are taught that
00:57:06.700
Canada isn't a Christian country. It's true that Canada isn't a Christian country, but it is a Christianized
00:57:13.840
country. We recognize the supremacy of God in the preamble to our charter. That's not a reference to whatever
00:57:20.340
God you so choose. That's a reference to the Judeo-Christian God. The laws that have established Western
00:57:27.520
civilization are traced back to divine scripture. Uh, Christians have historically played a critical
00:57:36.400
role in fighting for, for liberty and freedom. The church of Jesus Christ was actually the first
00:57:41.760
free institution in Western civilization. And while churches and church communities and denominations
00:57:48.960
have made all sorts of errors over the years, we acknowledge that we're not perfect. Uh, historically,
00:57:54.320
the church played a role in shaping culture and standing for liberty and for, for justice. Uh, in
00:58:01.460
our theology, we acknowledge that we're not the state, the state bears the responsibility to wield the
00:58:07.680
sword on God's behalf as God's servant, but the church is separate from the state and the church's
00:58:13.940
responsibility as it worships Christ is in part to hold the state accountable to do its job. So one of the
00:58:21.240
things that concerns me, concern me back then, it considered continues to concern me now is that the
00:58:27.600
Christian church in particular has been pushed aside and really considered less than an essential
00:58:34.840
business, less than a non-essential business. In fact, so we've had churches that are persecuted.
00:58:41.440
Uh, we have businesses that receive thousand dollar tickets. I've received four $100,000 court summonses.
00:58:50.920
And I'm staring down possibility of four years in prison for what, for opening my church,
00:58:59.080
for seeking to minister to depressed people, to lost people, to people that are in need of hope and
00:59:06.660
freedom and the gospel of Jesus Christ. I haven't made any money off this. I don't enjoy the drama,
00:59:12.680
but our church and other churches like ours continue to be harassed by police were surveilled
00:59:18.720
our church property. And some of the cars in our parking lot have been vandalized.
00:59:24.380
We've been misrepresented in the media, et cetera. I think I was probably the first pastor to be
00:59:31.640
charged in the whole country of Canada for reopening his church. And it just never seems to go away.
00:59:38.300
There's just ongoing problems, but nevertheless, we have pushed forward. We, I was instrumental along with
00:59:45.020
Maxine in, in organizing what we now call the, the Liberty Coalition Canada and the, and the lockdown
00:59:51.240
caucus. And I'm so grateful for men like him that are standing up for, for liberty. And it's difficult
00:59:57.060
because you get a lot of pushback. The, the cultural narrative, the social narrative is very
01:00:01.820
anti-liberty. Someone mentioned in the chat there earlier on that they use the word cultural Marxism.
01:00:08.900
That's very much alive and well in our country. And we're, we're concerned about that, but we formed
01:00:14.860
the Liberty Coalition. We initiated, as I mentioned earlier, the reopening Ontario church's website.
01:00:20.680
We wrote the Niagara declaration, which garnered 200 and some odd church signatures.
01:00:26.300
We've been doing podcasts, writing articles through my pursuit of glory.org website. We've had all sorts
01:00:33.100
of meetings with different pastors and political leaders and, and small business owners across the
01:00:39.540
province. So those are some of the activities that we've been involved in. The good news is we're
01:00:44.000
bearing fruit. We've baptized more people in our church than ever before. Uh, we have people coming
01:00:51.540
here. You see them walk in the front door, their shoulders dropped. They're just like, finally a place
01:00:56.620
that's normal. Um, people are finding refuge and hope and freedom. We had a small business owner in
01:01:03.700
our church on Sunday who's been repeatedly harassed for opening her restaurant. You might know her. I
01:01:09.240
also consider her a bit of a hero, Kirstie Lethem at the family kitchen in Leamington. She attended our
01:01:14.580
church for the first time on Sunday and was, was in tears, uh, because she's been repeatedly fined,
01:01:20.680
repeatedly harassed, misrepresented in the media. So we were a, we're a, we want to be a lighthouse
01:01:26.060
for Christ first and foremost, a gospel oriented church. We're declaring the absolute and utter
01:01:33.100
kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ over the worship and ministry of the church. If we are committing
01:01:39.780
a criminal act as a church, we would welcome the state to intervene. That's the state's job to wield
01:01:45.020
the sword. If we're committing criminal acts, the state has the power to enter our church and to rest or
01:01:51.560
do whatever it might need to do, but we will never relinquish to the state authority beyond that.
01:01:57.780
We're not going to relinquish authority to the state. Not now, not five years from now, not a hundred
01:02:04.520
years from now over our worship and ministry. We're going to preach what we want. We're going to baptize
01:02:10.900
whoever we want. We're going to continue to counsel and bless and encourage people in our community.
01:02:19.160
And we're going to continue to hold the state to account, to be honest, to be virtuous, to tell the truth,
01:02:28.080
to stick within their job description and not to, you know, continue to punish people for the crime,
01:02:37.960
apparently, of worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ. We have emphasized time and time again, we need to remind
01:02:45.160
people in a very scientized world that every human being on this call and on planet Earth isn't just the
01:02:53.880
sum total of their biology. So there's a biological threat out there. There's a virus. There's going to be
01:02:59.140
other viruses. You know, humanity has been dealing with viruses and bacterial infections since the beginning
01:03:05.000
of time. But we are not just biotic beings. And one of the travesties of this lockdown is that in an attempt to
01:03:14.080
protect us from a biological hazard, we have cast aside all perspective. We're not considering the mental
01:03:22.500
impact of lockdowns on people's health, the economic impact, the spiritual impact, the relational, sociological
01:03:30.440
impact. So we're concerned about the, you know, the holistic health of the individual. And we're concerned about the
01:03:38.720
trajectory of our nation. And we're, we're speaking out against tyranny, we're speaking out against tunnel vision, and
01:03:48.500
we're standing for liberty. So if anybody wants to ask questions, I'm, I'm, I'm comfortable asking questions, if you want to
01:03:56.520
ask questions, theological questions about the church or the church as it relates to the state, I'm happy to
01:04:01.320
talk to that point. If you want to know sort of how we're doing it as a church, you're, you're welcome to
01:04:05.920
ask. So I just want to sort of open it up. And if you have any questions for me, I'd be be happy to help
01:04:11.540
out. That's excellent. Thank you, Pastor Aaron. And there are going to be some questions. So I welcome you again to
01:04:18.300
raise your hand, go to the bottom right hand, you'll see the reactions, click on the raised hand, and then
01:04:24.120
Pastor Aaron would be more than happy to feel those questions. So Pastor Aaron, before you came on
01:04:29.940
board, I, I, we did a little bit of research on the 35 mega churches across our country, 1800 plus
01:04:37.260
members in the thousands. And we were happy to see based on their website, and that currently around
01:04:45.120
20 of those 35 are fully open now without restriction. There are still some that have gone
01:04:52.020
virtual, they remain virtual, I should say, and some with some type of criteria in the context,
01:04:57.660
whether it's 15% or 50, still compliant, you know, from what it was before. So right now is the time,
01:05:07.420
it's the season that the good Lord is allowed for the house to be open. But there will come a season,
01:05:14.300
many feel in the fall, where, again, there's going to be these these restrictions and variants. And so
01:05:22.480
we need to come together, what are your views on and your passions, convictions, what the Lord's
01:05:29.560
revealing to you in the context of now's the time you're open, let's remain open as a unified church
01:05:37.180
across our country. Now, one of one of the challenges that we've had is it's, it's not difficult to get
01:05:43.740
445 churches to sign a letter. But it's difficult to get a dozen churches to actually remain open when
01:05:50.960
they say they're going to remain open. And one of the challenges that people have that I think,
01:05:56.520
you know, people have different circumstances. So there's some men that are new to their church,
01:06:01.200
they're not tenured pastors, maybe they just showed up six months ago, they don't have the support of
01:06:05.900
their board, they want to be open, but there's, there's political dynamics in their church, you know, I give
01:06:10.960
them a lot of latitude. I'm concerned about a lot of churches have been told by their denominational leaders
01:06:17.240
for liability purposes, under no circumstances are we going to allow you to open. So there are people that are in
01:06:23.540
difficult circumstances, but I think the majority of Christian pastors have the wherewithal to teach and
01:06:30.760
educate and direct their church to obey God rather than man. And if churches would just altogether stand up and
01:06:39.080
say, no, we're concerned about the holistic health of people. You've had 18 months to do your thing and lock us
01:06:48.660
down repeatedly and develop vaccines and threaten us and fine us. We're done with it. If churches would just do
01:06:55.980
that, I think this would be over. You know, early on in this epidemic, aka pandemic, a person came to us who doesn't go to
01:07:08.020
church, and he said, you know, I have this sense that the church is like the last refuge, the last hope for our
01:07:17.600
country to push back against tyranny. And I'm like, you're absolutely right. The problem is, I think the majority of the
01:07:23.060
churches fail to actually do its job. And increasingly, it's sad to say, but the number one concern that
01:07:32.040
pastors have is getting fined, is getting ticketed. So, you know, you have maybe a dozen or so active
01:07:43.060
churches in the whole province of Ontario that have sort of stuck their head up above the turret, so to
01:07:49.360
speak and been shot and harassed, and a couple of them have been locked down, run out of their buildings, etc.
01:07:57.080
It's not a fun place to be. But if we could just get churches together to say, look, this is it. No more
01:08:03.720
lockdowns. We're done. We're not locking down under any circumstances. And if we do lock down, it's because
01:08:11.780
the leadership, the pastoral leadership, the elders of the bishops of our local church have decided to do
01:08:18.700
that for the benefit of our congregation without any coercion from the government. So if as a pastor
01:08:27.060
of my church, I meet with my elders, and we were to determine that there was some sort of terrible
01:08:33.500
disease rippling through our congregation, we're smart enough men. I love my people more than Justin Trudeau
01:08:40.020
loves my people. I love my people more than Doug Ford loves my people. We will make that decision for
01:08:47.300
our church. But just to put a little perspective on it, our church is a church of about a thousand
01:08:52.160
people. So one out of every 400 people in our entire county go to this church. And we've received,
01:09:00.380
we've had zero deaths. I've buried nobody in the last 18 months, except for one man who died of cancer.
01:09:08.680
We had a couple people hospitalized, not in intensive care. A couple older folks into the
01:09:16.580
hospital, they were on oxygen for a couple days and came out. We had one fellow who apparently
01:09:21.720
contracted COVID at Lowe's and had some reaction to some drugs and, you know, went through a really
01:09:27.500
hard time medically. But we're being told this virus is sweeping across the country and killing people.
01:09:33.260
I know thousands and thousands of people, and I don't know of anybody that's died of COVID-19.
01:09:39.620
But I do know of people that have committed suicide. I do know of marriages that have split up.
01:09:45.180
I do know of young men that have fallen back into pornographic addiction, sitting at their home
01:09:49.920
for months doing nothing. I do know of people that have lost their businesses.
01:09:54.440
You know, there's all this collateral damage that as a pastor deeply concerns me. So when I sort of
01:10:02.060
weigh the risk and reward, it's pretty simple for me. Zero deaths from COVID, lots of other damage
01:10:08.140
from these other things. I'm opening my church. So, you know, our perspective as a church is we do our
01:10:15.940
best to meet in our facility, in our location. We own it. We don't receive any dollars. We don't take
01:10:21.100
any money from the government. This is private property. We meet here. If they threaten us and
01:10:26.400
coerce us, which they've done a few times, sort of chased us out of our building, I'll just say this.
01:10:31.160
We still meet. We just don't meet here. And we're going to continue to do that because we understand
01:10:39.280
the needs that people have, and we want to be obedient to the Lord Jesus Christ in terms of
01:10:43.760
following his plans and purposes for the church. So it takes grit and perseverance, and it will lead
01:10:52.540
to a lot of sleepless nights. And it's uncomfortable. I've never been in jail. I've never been in trouble
01:10:56.680
with the law. It's uncomfortable. But to be honest, after a while, you kind of get used to it.
01:11:01.780
You know, you get a summons. You get another summons. You get another summons. There's more nasty stuff
01:11:05.440
on the internet. After a while, you get used to it, and you're able to tolerate it because you see the
01:11:10.280
Lord's blessing in so many other ways. Yes. Yes, that's so good. Thanks for sharing that,
01:11:15.320
Pastor Aaron. And we're hearing, I have the privilege and opportunity as Pastoral Support
01:11:19.540
Lead of Action for Canada to speak with the pastors who have opened their churches and endured the
01:11:25.740
persecution and vandalism and on countless fines and imprisonment, etc. And just like you shared as
01:11:32.420
well, too, as far as them making that stand, opening up the house to the community who have lost hope
01:11:39.280
and all the salvation that the decisions that have been made to receive Jesus. And just it's just God's
01:11:46.900
blessed that decision and you as well, too. And thanks for for confirming that. Alice, you have a question.
01:12:01.820
Hi, Pastor Aaron. I'm so glad I heard you interview with the Laura Lean Show. And I was really impressed and
01:12:11.940
encouraged. You know, like, yeah, you are one of the first pastors, you know, who spoke out. So I really
01:12:17.580
appreciate you standing up. And also, I do agree with what you said earlier that that is what I have a
01:12:26.860
lot more respect for pastor like you who are few, you know, defying because you guys show your, you
01:12:33.480
know, you guys pastor show that you care about your people, your shape, you know, your congregants
01:12:39.200
more than the fines and bullying, you know, from other pastors. So thank you so much. Thank you.
01:12:47.660
You know, I've been wondering why are some pastors are jailed and
01:12:56.120
yeah, treated so in your many and possibly like yourself, you know, who defy the same thing. But
01:13:07.220
I mean, like you got fines and suffer a lot too. But, you know, like, I wonder why they pick just
01:13:16.080
like the Alberta pastors, the few of them, not all of them, to be an example and none in BC or,
01:13:23.860
you know, Ontario or Quebec or rest of Canada. Well, one of the challenges in unifying the
01:13:30.500
coming up with a national response is all these regulations are provincially specific.
01:13:36.260
So in Ontario, they have the reopening Ontario Act, which is what they utilize to ticket and find and
01:13:46.240
deal with churches. Basically, the three groups that go after are churches and pastors, small business
01:13:53.400
owners, and people that speak at protests that challenge their authority. They don't go after
01:13:59.020
people that speak at protests on gay rights, or Indigenous issues. They don't go after, you know,
01:14:08.060
that the Ontario government actually amended the reopening Ontario Act to allow over 15,000 people
01:14:16.400
to attend a public funeral. And as a Canadian, I affirm the rights of these groups to do their
01:14:24.200
thing. But what I don't affirm is the duplicity, the double standards. So in Ontario, we have these
01:14:31.260
laws. And to your point, Ontario tends to have the highest fines. And they are the most likely to throw
01:14:41.620
injunctions on churches. So that's just their approach. And Alberta, from what I understand,
01:14:47.000
the fines are lower, but they're more comfortable locking pastors up. So we've had Pastor Coates and
01:14:53.040
Pastor Stevens locked up. So each province sort of has its own approach. And so when people have said,
01:15:00.300
well, let's write a letter to Justin Trudeau to get him to stop harassing churches. Well, Justin Trudeau is
01:15:05.100
not really doing this. He's behind it in a certain way. But this is the responsibility of individual
01:15:13.420
premiers. So here in Ontario, while we're trying to bless churches in British Columbia and Alberta and
01:15:18.980
network and stand together, we have our own unique challenges to deal with in Ontario. And then Alberta
01:15:25.020
has its own unique challenges. So it's, I'm not going to say that there's a mastermind that came up with
01:15:31.540
this, this plan to sort of fragment and divide. But it is very difficult to have a unified response to the
01:15:38.580
challenges churches are experiencing when each, each province has their own different way of responding
01:15:44.120
to it. So for me, it's, you know, heavy fines, threats of jail time. In Alberta, it's they show up with the
01:15:51.420
handcuffs, and they, you know, they drag you off.
01:15:57.820
Thank you for sharing that. There's, there is another question here, and I'm going to ask it first, and then I
01:16:06.880
believe, Tan, you have something to add as well, too. Jody has an observation and just some struggles that
01:16:13.500
she's experiencing at her home church. The narrative of obey the government, they have your best interest in heart is
01:16:20.820
how most churches ran here in Saskatchewan, our church included. As much as we try to challenge the
01:16:27.540
pastors and elders with this stance, it was met with a resistance and thoughts of this isn't the hill to
01:16:34.480
die on. I don't want to get a ticket or in the spirit of the law, we will do more than the government
01:16:41.640
requires. It's left us incredibly hurt, frustrated that they cannot see what this is really about. Instead of
01:16:52.200
looking at the facts of the virus and telling people to not fear, they preached, we needed to
01:16:59.640
obey better. How can we address this with a church that refuses to see the truth?
01:17:06.960
Well, I would first of all, just for the sake of time, direct you to my website. It's called
01:17:12.100
pursuitofglory.org. I've written several articles on our response to the church and the state and the
01:17:17.740
state's authority and the church's authority. I also have a podcast called Leadership Now,
01:17:24.220
which can be found in the Fight, Laugh, Feast network or on our website. And I've probably done
01:17:29.460
20 different podcasts, one hour podcast dealing with these issues. I don't say that to self-promote
01:17:35.140
folks. I'd rather just sort of fade into the woodwork. But right now I have a voice and there's
01:17:40.320
some resources there that would probably be of help to you in delving in. But fundamentally,
01:17:46.220
we have a major problem with the misinterpretation of Romans 13. I've read Romans 13 forward and back
01:17:53.260
in Greek and English. Romans 13 does not teach, and nor does the Bible teach anywhere, that the state
01:18:02.580
has comprehensive authority over the worship and ministry of the church. It just doesn't say that.
01:18:06.520
If that was true, what in the world were the early Christians doing meeting in catacombs
01:18:12.000
in violation of the law? The people that received that for the first time, why would they be doing
01:18:16.900
that? Why in Acts 5 did the apostles push back? So that passage is very specific. It's telling us to
01:18:24.740
submit to the government, which we gladly do, insofar as they are responsible to wield the sword,
01:18:31.700
meaning that they have in their job description responsibility for public justice. It's not the
01:18:39.100
church's job to arrest criminals, to execute people, to run prisons. That's the state's job.
01:18:45.480
They're responsible for public justice. And we must surrender ourselves to them. That's why Romans 13
01:18:51.000
says that if you do good, you have nothing to worry about. But if you're an evildoer, they're going to
01:18:55.060
come after you. So that's all Romans 13 says. And the rest of scripture, the testimony of the early
01:19:00.960
church teaches that. With regard to fines, you know, the funny thing is, this shouldn't motivate
01:19:06.860
you. All of the churches that have received heavy fines have received in 2020 and 2021 record giving.
01:19:16.740
Our church has all kinds of money in the bank. We're not suffering. We can pay all these fines
01:19:23.540
tomorrow and it wouldn't even really hurt us. We don't want to pay the fines. But our church could
01:19:27.820
write a check for $400,000 and pay off my fines tomorrow and it wouldn't sink our church.
01:19:33.240
Because people are going to give to authenticity. People are going to give to obedient churches.
01:19:39.500
But even if they didn't, and even if our finances dwindled down to nothing, and the state took our
01:19:46.460
building away, the Lord gives, the Lord takes away. And what we're not going to do is we're not
01:19:51.680
going to allow the state and our generation to coerce and to manipulate the church into obedience
01:19:59.860
to their edicts. I would just say, at this point, I used to be a little kinder in this regard.
01:20:08.780
At this point, a year and a half in, if your church leadership refuses to open your church to minister to
01:20:16.440
the people that God has entrusted them with, in some way, shape, or form. And their argument is,
01:20:23.080
while we're concerned about people dying from a virus, first of all, they don't have an inept
01:20:27.100
theology of resurrection hope. It's time to find a new church. Even if you have to drive two hours,
01:20:33.200
it's time to find a new church. Why not take the faithful remnant of Christians across the country
01:20:38.240
and get them into the faithful churches that are actually willing to stand up? Because these are the
01:20:43.460
churches that are also going to stand up against all of these horrible bills that have come down
01:20:50.600
during the pandemic. C6, C7, C10, C36. These are the churches that are going to stand up against the
01:20:58.500
tyranny of cultural Marxism, against the lies of Black Lives Matter, against the twisting of the
01:21:04.680
narrative when it comes to the indigenous tragedies. These are the churches that are going to stand up.
01:21:09.500
A friend of mine attends a church and he said, you know, we're basically keeping our, his approach,
01:21:14.860
his pastor said, we're keeping our powder dry. We're going to wait for Bill C10.
01:21:20.140
Well, that came and left and he didn't do anything. So I think that this is a delay tactic, in all
01:21:26.280
honesty. And the second thing is, you know, as an individual church, it's very difficult to make a
01:21:32.160
difference. So these churches that are just sort of hiding at home, if they suddenly stand up tomorrow
01:21:36.580
and say, hey, we're opposed to Bill C36, you know what the government's going to say? Get lost.
01:21:43.140
You're non-essential. You're comfortable with the title of being non-essential.
01:21:48.820
The Church of Jesus Christ, in many respects, in Canada, many churches, they're a joke to the
01:21:54.000
government. As far as they're concerned with the social clubs that run bazaars and have garage sales
01:21:59.700
once a summer to fund ourselves. We have actually contributed to the narrative that the church is
01:22:05.060
absolutely irrelevant. And that's a sad thing, because we, we have the gospel of Jesus Christ. So
01:22:11.840
I would, I would rebuke your leadership. I'm, I'm, I'm a big fan of being respectful of competent
01:22:19.540
leadership, obedient leadership. But if your leadership continues to disobey, rebuke them.
01:22:24.960
And if they refuse to change, find a new church.
01:22:29.300
Yeah, that's good. Thank you, Pastor. Listen, before Danny Jones, last question, Tanya Guy,
01:22:38.560
Yeah, it was to ask a question as well. I just love it, Pastor Aaron. You and I spoke
01:22:43.100
back in the fall sometime. Yeah, it was, and I got off the phone. I said, oh my goodness,
01:22:47.660
mom, this man is amazing. His, his uncompromising spirit was like,
01:22:52.560
so in sync with what the Lord has laid on my heart. And I've always said recently with all this
01:22:58.640
censorship, we as Christians, we don't have to rely on social media and the news because we got
01:23:04.520
the Holy Spirit and God, God in us, who is prompting us if we're listening to what it is that we need to
01:23:10.100
do. So I love it. You're again saying some of the greatest biblical characters, you know, they all
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defied anti-God governments and preach the gospel in spite of everything. Where does it say in, in the
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Bible that we are to receive a tax receipt for our giving? Where does it say that, you know, the church
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is to receive government funding for their building? And I so much see, because we've got quite a few
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pastors, a couple of them are plaintiffs in the upcoming constitutional challenge that we'll be
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launching in a matter of days here in BC against BC and federal government. And these pastors are the
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examples of how they are honoring God first and foremost. There is just numerous people coming
01:23:57.360
to the Lord and baptisms. They're being blessed financially, as you say, and these are the promises
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of God. If we do not compromise and we put God first in this nation, he will rise up and he will come
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and he will bless us. But I just wanted to put that out there because it's been a question on my mind
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since the job attestation had come in place some years ago, asking that if people were going to get
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government summer grants and churches were on the forefront of that because they had summer camps and
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how they were blessing communities. And the government said they had to sign this form and they had to
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agree with abortion. And many churches didn't. And there was a huge, wonderful win in Ontario this week
01:24:38.480
because one of those churches refused to bow. They went all the way through court, cost them $102,000
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and the judge reprimanded the government. They not only won their case and the freedom that they could
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have this choice not to sign this attestation and be bullied, but that the government has to pay back
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their legal costs as well. And these are the ones, right, thank you. Couldn't remember the name of them.
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And so these are the ones on the forefront. And I think that the Lord is separating the wheat from
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the chaff right now that he is going. There's a great exodus from these churches that are dead in
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the Lord and reliant on man. And I just wanted to just pose that question. Is there anything anywhere
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biblically that says we're supposed to be, the church is supposed to be reliant and that we as
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believers as well, because this is a step of faith for people who want to see that tax receipt and what
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it gets them at the end of the year? Where does it say that we need to do that?
01:25:35.120
Yeah, I just wrote an article called churches stop taking money from the state. And I'm sort of chastising
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churches in this regard. So I'm going to make two points to that effect. A, God's people should fund God's
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ministry. If it doesn't provide for your church, don't do that ministry. So let God's people fund God's
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ministry. It's also common sense. I don't want to fund ministry at the local Islamic mosque. I don't
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want to fund ministry at the Buddhist temple. So it infuriates taxpayers. And rightly so, when churches
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that are trying to do Christian ministry are taking money from them to try to fund their ministry.
01:26:16.760
But I want to make a really important point about taxation. And this is something that we really need
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to get this one down. And I speak to this in my article as well. Tax free status for churches is not a gift
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from the government. It's not a gift from the government. The reason why churches historically in Western
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civilization were not taxed is because they were considered the equivalents of an embassy. So if a foreign nation
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plants an embassy on your soil, you don't tax them, they're sovereign unto themselves. They don't want to do
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they're not allowed to do damage to the state criminal acts against the state that they're in. But historically,
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when you would enter a new land, the king would tax you at his border. But if you're an ambassador, you would not be
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taxed because it's a declaration is innately a claim to authority. So this is why the Christian church actually needs to
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fight for tax exempt status, or whatever language you want to use. Because if we give this up, what we're
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actually saying is, okay, we're not Christ ambassadors anymore. Now, what this means, we're not concerned,
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we don't need to concern ourselves with whether or not we get tax write offs or tax receipts, if they give
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it to us fine, if they don't give us to it, if they don't give it to us fine. If they give it to us, we'll just
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reinvest our money back in the ministry. But I will never pay taxes to the government for the building
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that we meet in for Christian worship. And if they try to slap taxes on us, we'll resist that.
01:27:50.080
Not because we're concerned about paying taxes, but because this is a claim by the state to have
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authority over sovereign territory. And the church is Christ's embassy on earth. So this is why
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historically, if you look at British common law, this is historically why in Western civilizations,
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churches weren't taxed. And then, of course, with the arrival of Buddhists and Muslims and so forth,
01:28:15.460
by default, they've also benefited from this tax free status. So there's a difference between having
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tax exempt status for a church, which we need to defend in order to maintain our status as Christ's
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embassy. That's a different question than taking money from the state, which we refuse to do. And we all
01:28:34.320
know, folks, that if you take money from the state, there's strings attached. And you might not know
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what those strings are for four or five years. But eventually, they're going to come knocking on your
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door and say, actually, do you remember we gave you that money? You're going to do what we tell you
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to do. So it's very wise for churches to fund their own ministry. And again, if we believe the Lord
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provides, I just find the more our church gives away, the more we get. The more we sacrifice,
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the more we get. And when we are stingy, or we're concerned about losing our building,
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or we're not sure how we're going to fund students for a summer camp. And we rely upon
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unbelievers to fund us things, things begin to spiral downward pretty quick.
01:29:15.000
Thank you. Thank you so much. So why such wise words? We do have like five minutes. Danny, I put you
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in the chat there, please express your question in the chat. I'll get it answered for you.
01:29:28.500
But right now, I would like to ask Pastor Aaron to close us off in prayer. And then we're going to
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take two minutes just to show everybody on here where to find resources on our website.
01:29:39.640
All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Father God, I thank you for the Christians, the churches,
01:29:49.920
the liberty loving Canadians across our country that are standing up and on one hand fighting for
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our nation. We love our nation. Many of us have been here for generations, hundreds of years,
01:30:03.560
in fact, and we love our nation. I love my nation. Some of my great grandfathers died for the freedoms
01:30:10.720
that we have. And I want to defend that. I want to honor them. We also pray, Lord, that more importantly,
01:30:16.940
that we would truly rise up and be a lighthouse for the Lord Jesus Christ in a very confused,
01:30:23.520
very wicked nation that has just gone crazy. We pray, Lord God, that you would restore some common
01:30:31.940
sense and some thoughtfulness to our nation. And that would come as the word of God is fully
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exposited and a Christian worldview is lived out by your people. We pray that you would give us
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strength for the journey. Sometimes it's very difficult. It's very frustrating. We know some of
01:30:50.480
our friends have left the country because of it, but we pray that you would help us to stand firm
01:30:54.740
and to remain faithful and thoughtful. And we pray that you would continue to raise up a faithful
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remnant that future generations can look back on and just be blessed by. So we pray this in Jesus'
01:31:07.780
beautiful name. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much, Pastor. Just a pleasure to have you on to inspire,
01:31:15.960
equip, and challenge the troops. And Lord bless you, Rich Lee. We'll be in touch soon, I'm sure,
01:31:22.180
through Michael Thiessen and Liberty Coalition Canada. We're big fans as well.
01:31:26.420
Very good. Thank you. Thanks for all you're doing.
01:31:28.560
Okay. Thank you. I'm just going to share my screen. And let's see here. Sorry about that.
01:31:34.420
We will go to share screen number three. Okay. So what you see up here on the screen, everyone,
01:31:44.560
is our Action for Canada website. Please, I've included the link in the post, in the chat,
01:31:52.900
I should say, right at the top. You can copy that, Action for Canada. And then you'll see here just
01:31:58.240
various different tabs, business resources, church resources. When you click on that,
01:32:03.140
you're going to see all kinds of supporting resources that we provide. So here's our Open
01:32:10.580
the Church. That's a delivery from our founder, Tanya Gah, to the churches. Here we have the
01:32:17.300
seminar that we did earlier in the year to equip and support our pastors. This is very important.
01:32:23.160
We're in need of pastoral support team members. We have a pastoral support weekly meeting coming up
01:32:30.220
at 4.30 in one hour. And if you want to be a part of that, just join our team. And we'd love to have
01:32:36.540
you come on board. As far as doing research, as far as what's happening with churches, international
01:32:42.280
rulings in favor of churches, we post all kinds of letters every two to three weeks. We have our
01:32:49.900
Canadian Rights and Freedoms clergymen highlighted there. We have no trespass signage. So if the season
01:32:56.400
gets into, you know, lockdown again, you're prepared. Interactions with government agents,
01:33:02.000
police clergymen. We have a 35-year constable, Vincent Jersey's veteran of the Ontario Provincial
01:33:09.100
Police, who delivers an amazing delivery on what to expect and how to properly handle law enforcement
01:33:15.520
when they come on to your church premise. How to file a complaint against law enforcement.
01:33:20.860
Amazing resources, sermons. And then we have pastoral testimonies of those like Pastor Aaron
01:33:27.840
Rock, who have been faithful and have not compromised. Did you want to draw a little bit
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of attention, Tanya, to some of our other things to call to action and our recent actions?
01:33:40.780
Yeah, thank you, Ron. Maybe if we just go to the notice of a liability, if you go under legal
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action, drop down as free, there we'll see vaccine notices of liability. We did one as well on the
01:33:52.900
main page. Let me back up under call to action. If you just hover on that without changing, you'll see
01:33:58.600
recent actions. And that shows everything that we've been doing actively week by week. When Pastor
01:34:05.760
Artur was arrested, for instance, in Calgary, I was already in contact with him saying, how can we
01:34:13.600
support you? And we were going to do a call to action asking people to come to his church. Next
01:34:17.520
thing you know, he's arrested. And so then we were doing calls to action about calling and contacting
01:34:23.160
the Calgary police, the premier and the head of the RCMP and stating as you know, Pastor Rock had just
01:34:29.700
said that this is unlawful. They cannot arrest pastors according to section 176, one to three of the
01:34:37.120
criminal code. Then we went to the solicitor general and did a campaign against him. We have further
01:34:43.420
actions that are coming. We're going to expose Judge Rook. We have this wonderful poster that we think
01:34:49.240
that everybody in Calgary should see about who this man is. And it's asking that he would recuse himself
01:34:55.440
because he's lost the trust of the public. In the meantime, as well, we heard about across the nation
01:35:01.660
how they were going to vaccinate children and they didn't need parental consent. So we put it into overdrive
01:35:06.820
and created these notices of liability. And they've been extremely effective. In fact, Rocco, a few
01:35:14.080
weeks ago, when he was sending me the draft statement of claim, he said, you hear what's happening with
01:35:17.740
the unions in Ontario? And I said, no, he says they're sending letters to the teachers saying do not
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discuss the vaccines in class, which is huge, because they the teachers were pushing in class, they were
01:35:29.500
promoting vaccines over the speaker, you know, during recess and lunch, etc, through classroom
01:35:35.920
announcements. And it was really it's quite horrifying, especially knowing how dangerous this
01:35:41.440
experimental injection is. And so the notices of liability are doing great. We personally sent them
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by registered mail to every single head of the Minister of Education in every province and the head of
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every teachers association, every union leader in Canada in each province got it. All 60 school
01:36:02.000
superintendents in BC also received it via register mail. And we have people across the nation who who are
01:36:09.840
launching this campaign, we're going to be putting it on pause right now because the schools are closed.
01:36:15.060
And now we are directing it at elected officials. We have 20 mayors here in BC who put out this challenge
01:36:21.820
scene who could get the most amount of their residents vaccinated. And they need to be held liable, they
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need to understand that they are not medical professionals, they should not be coercing the public
01:36:33.520
into doing this. And because we personally know how dangerous this is. And I wish the church was active
01:36:40.500
involved and ringing this from the mountaintops. But here we are doing a very grassroots movement across
01:36:47.400
the nation. And we've also got one, a message will relaunch it in August when we go to relaunch the
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notices of liability towards educators. And it was against the masks exemptions on kids mask exemptions.
01:37:03.820
Actually, Ron, just for a moment, we go to that one under recent actions. Yeah, click on that. And then
01:37:10.280
we'll just scoop down to the one that I'm talking about. We did a video just down right there where the
01:37:16.080
child is masked warning school mandates are causing severe. And to me, you know, as a body of Christ,
01:37:24.340
I believe that we should be talking, the pastor should be talking about these things. Do you want
01:37:29.480
to click on that one? We should be talking about these things at the pulpit. God very clearly says
01:37:34.880
in the word, you know, that we are to help the the widow, and the orphan, and that we're to protect
01:37:42.840
those who can't protect themselves. And with the amount of psychological warfare that we're
01:37:48.220
undergoing. Yeah, that can just pause. And so there's another notice here that we can sign to
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protect our children. And I think we as a community need to be very well educated through these materials
01:38:00.980
to understand what's really going on. And if you read even one notice of liability that we've produced,
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I think that you'll have a whole new look if you're not already aware. Anyways, that's just one of the
01:38:13.040
things we're into. And right now that we're we're really rallying on and coming up, we're going to be
01:38:19.500
getting behind the parties that are running. There's yesterday, Maxime had announced it regarding
01:38:26.500
Derek Sloan, but there will be announcement there coming in the next week. And I think that we also have
01:38:31.680
a duty to get behind people in our communities, and be involved in government. And I think that's
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biblical. Jesus had appointed those to the 12 tribes, and we're to look for those godly leaders.
01:38:44.760
And we have a responsibility and a duty to do that. So I'll leave it on that note. Super grateful to
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our special guest speakers today. And for all of you spending this time with us.
01:38:55.140
All right. Thank you so much, Tanya. One last thing on the bottom right hand corner,
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take a look at it. It says file, you're going to see three dots. Click on those three dots.
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And you will see save chat, everything that's been discussed, all the links, all the websites,
01:39:10.560
my email address, everything is there. So click on that save chat, it's going to be saved to your
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desktop, then you'll have all the information that we were going over today. And we just thank you so
01:39:21.500
much for being a part of this seminar. We pray God's abundant blessing upon you until we see each other
01:39:26.400
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