Empower Hour with Tanya Gaw & Derek Sloan Oct-20-2021
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Action for Canada is a grassroots movement reaching out to millions of Canadians and uniting our voices in opposition to the destructive policies tearing at the fabric of our nation. Through Call to Action campaigns, we equip citizens to take action. We are committed to protecting faith, family and freedom.
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To those of you who have just joined us, I want to welcome you.
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My name is Heather Fournier and on behalf of everyone here at Action for Canada, I'd
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Action for Canada is a grassroots movement reaching out to millions of Canadians and
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uniting our voices in opposition to the destructive policies tearing at the fabric of our nation.
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Through call to action campaigns, we equip citizens to take action.
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We are committed to protecting faith, family and freedom.
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The information presented at this meeting is for general information purposes only.
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While we endeavor to provide accurate and up to date information, we make no representations
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or warranties of any kind express or implied about the completeness, accuracy, reliability,
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suitability or availability of the information we provide.
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Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.
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The information we provide should not be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified
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legal professional, health practitioner or appropriate licensed professional.
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It is not intended to provide legal and or medical advice as we are not lawyers and or medical
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For those of you who are new to the Empower Hour, it's my very great pleasure to introduce
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you to Tanya Gaw, the founder of Action for Canada.
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For the past several years, Tanya has been working to expose destructive government policies
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She's a champion of those who have been oppressed by the unlawful COVID-19 lockdown measures that
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Tanya is a woman of courage and faith, and she has a true servant's heart as she works tirelessly
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to inform and empower fellow Canadians to stand up for our rights and freedoms.
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I look to be pausing on my end is is this rolling?
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yeah all gold all good okay i've got a little bit of a pause on this end that's all right so
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i'm just going to uh give us some updates and then i look forward to time with uh mr derrick
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sloan um so i'm just gonna start the hour off with uh last week's empower hour we had over 1200
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people attend and um we had david lindsey on along with our uh the lead of our business uh team
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lonnie and i i just wanted to let you know that that empower hour has been posted to our empower
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our page and in this description i have uh provided all of the resources that uh we had discussed
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during that um during that uh meeting and i've also made a final statement near the end that i
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have that somebody had requested they say what happens if you know we've done everything we can
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we provided the notice of liability we've covered all of these issues throughout the video and we
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spoke somewhat uh well really into detail about it and and uh so for the wording that you may need
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in holding your employer or your whomever it could be a teacher an educator a school superintendent
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fully accountable you need to let them know that this is personal we are not going after them as the
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superintendent of xyz school district we're going after them as a citizen and so if there's any loss
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of income um any harm that uh you know is uh as a result of their actions then we're going to go full
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force uh because all of us every single citizen can't in citizen in canada must comply with the rule
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of law and abide by the constitution and respect people's human rights and that is the virus right
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now going on in canada because people are torn uh because of the misinformation coming from the
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government and the media and their unions so i just want to say we're having absolutely uh great results
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uh from the process that we are providing you um i did go to the rally on saturday for one of the
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business owners and my heart was full because of the amount of people that showed up not only in
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support of the business owner but in support of action for canada uh so much gratefulness so many
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stories of success in using the notices of liability uh there was business owners there
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was parents and and this is what we want to hear more of and for those of you who said i've used the
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notice of liability it's just not working i can't get the masks off my kids well then we have those next
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steps but but you got to get into the information that we're providing you and you got to take the time
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to research and you've got to take the time to learn and we're providing you all those resources we
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can't hold your hand all the way through it uh so i look forward to more more great reports and we're
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actually going to be posting those uh good reports on the website to encourage all of you to let you
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know that this is that is this is working and we're having an impact and that could not be more evident
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than by what is going on in bc so uh we filed the statement of claim in august on august 16th
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the uh one of the defendants named is our minister of education and in bc right now uh of course with
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the federal instructions to mandate federal employees all of the teachers who is uh you know
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that's oversight by the province we're very very concerned like we're going to be next uh you know
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when are they going to mandate the uh vaccines for us well because i believe because the minister of
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education is named as a defendant she understands or at least she's beginning to understand uh the
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liability that she's facing and so she instead has put it on the school board trustees on the school
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boards to mandate that the teachers get vaccinated but we served all 60 school board superintendents
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months ago to let them know that they'd be held liable for any of the harms that would result from
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their actions and and so the school board trustees association actually sent them a letter misinformed
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them say they're saying they were protected under the school act and as we dissected that last week
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and i've provided that information you can see that they neglected to uh follow through with the
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sections uh the subsections two and four in that particular act which said you know that uh subsection
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one said you know what you don't have to worry about liability you're all immune from it no problem
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just carry on with the directives of the health order but section two and four told a different story
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and for that reason we ended up doing a call to action uh campaign which has been incredibly
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successful we're hitting every single school board trustee in bc and we're having reports not only from
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school board trustees but from teachers saying we want to get served because we don't want any part
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of this and then the media ones that are not particularly friendly to us have honestly reported
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uh results from school boards um who have had the meetings as to whether or not they were going to
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decide to mandate uh vaccines for teachers and they are they are irate with our health officer in bc
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they said this is not the position of school boards to make these decisions and they follow through with
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the final statement that they are actually concerned about liability and this is what we've been saying
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right we've got a shift from the the fear of the government and what would happen to us personally if
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we don't follow through with their orders to the reality of they need a greater fear and nobody wants to be
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dragged into court because there's such great uncertainty as to how that's going to go for an
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individual and and so not only are we empowering people that were serving the notice of liability to
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say i am not going to support these unlawful orders but we're also applying the right pressure to say
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you need to weigh your decisions very carefully right now and and this was an incredibly necessary shift
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now our business owner lonnie came on and lonnie has very effectively been following the process that
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action for canada has has been providing to business owners to educators to teachers whomever and
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and so ronnie has sorry lonnie has gone in he has had conversations with his city council he has met with
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his local police he has put a no trespass order up uh outside of his building and when the environmental
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health officer came to try and she came to uh attempt to interfere with his business he served her notice of
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liability she again turned around and said uh came back and said nope i'm protected under the health act
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um i'm immune from any liability and so we're going to proceed i'm going to come in to your place of
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business uh and i'm going to be talking you know we've had many many customers of yours that have been
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complaining which i think is a total and outright lie i think that he should request that information
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um i think they knew in advance who lonnie is and that he was not going to comply with unlawful
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orders and so therefore they wanted to get him real fast when bonnie henry put in this fake vaccine
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passport mandate and so um he came back and told her he educated her he went into the health act
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and he as well showed her the sections that proved that she was not immune from liability and so she
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changed her tune real quick and uh decided to have a very brief meeting with him in a park in the parking
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lot and left so lonnie's business is successfully maintains he's continued he's up and running and
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um this did did not bode well now on another situation there's a restaurant in hope you may know hope bc
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that's where rambo was filmed so so they're a little bit famous for that they're a quaint small town with a
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small community and uh raleigh raleigh's uh the owners decided that they could not comply with
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orders that were going to violate the rights of privacy for their customers and and so they drew the
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line they were trying their best to go along with whatever other orders bonnie henry had put in place
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and uh so when it came to this they drew the line and they decided that they were not going to be
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asking for vaccine personal information so we went out there on saturday and rallied hundreds of people
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showed up in support the place was full everybody was having a meal and it was lovely it was a lovely
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peaceful uh um gathering of canadians who are concerned not only for this restaurant owner but for
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themselves there was professionals business owners there were teachers there were nurses and so uh what
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transpired after that is i guess the government doesn't like to see anybody that is not complying
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and they were going to bring the hammer down and so they got a heavy load of lawyers that are connected
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to fraser health and to uh the provincial health officer and they decided to put an injunction in place
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against this business owner and so like late uh last night uh she was called into a court proceeding today
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and i can tell you that these they were lawyered up and ready to go i've spent pretty much my whole
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day in court uh in support for her uh she she she wanted it to she was calling for an adjournment
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because she absolutely 100 has a right to have counsel there and to be advised and uh they they would
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not permit her to do that and uh as a result the lawyers continued to proceed with their case and i
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tell you they were well prepared unfortunately um in my opinion it was incredibly biased of course
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the lawyer for fraser health came in and uh he had a long time of promoting vaccines saying that they
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were safe and effective i mean these individuals took everything that they possibly could put a twist
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on uh to the uh scenario that uh the governments across canada uh you know are standing on and quite
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honestly they lied through their teeth they misinformed the court and anything that was in support of
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our constitution they twisted around to say that bonnie henry had the right under certain matters that she
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could uh sidestep and trample on the constitutional rights of individuals and and so um it was a sad state
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of affairs today as we proceeded through this uh the final decision will be tomorrow at two o'clock
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people can attend that actually and uh we are going to continue to help and fight the battle uh this
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lady has already served the notice of liability she didn't know about action for canada prior to this
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she was just trying to do the right thing and i tell you i'm so proud of her because she went before
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the judge near the end when he was giving her a few minutes he would not permit me to come and speak
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he he said that i wasn't a lawyer and and so that i i couldn't help to speak on her behalf and which is
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completely false and they're relying on business owners who are doing their best to make ends meet
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and attacking them full force heavily loaded up with lawyers who have had he said he spent the weekend
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preparing but i can bet you that he spent the last couple of weeks preparing what he presented today
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and um anyways i was very proud of this lady because she said she had she had quoted
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uh the portion of the law where it says that mandates uh vaccines can't be mandated in canada
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and she said to him so what is it i'm supposed to do they're compelling me to break the law and violate
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the rights of my fellow canadians and of my customers and she says this is ethically wrong
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it's immoral and there was a long pause you could hear crickets and so i'm going to be very interested
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to see what this judge rules tomorrow uh but there will definitely be an opportunity this is not the
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end of this story for this particular business owner and that is why we are asking any business owners
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that are attending tonight to come to our tuesday business meetings so that you can be prepared
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when environmental officers or government officials come knocking on your door they should
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have had never have had the opportunity to get this far but it was because she didn't have the
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information that action for canada is providing so we're going to fight fight hard on her behalf to
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get her back in line um now on for some back to some good news uh the um longshoremen are going to be
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having a very large rally in vancouver and i'm extremely excited about this because i've been dealing with
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one of the heads of the of the uh longshoremen uh division for many months and they are ready to come
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out they're going to rally they're in opposition but gratefully their union is also um in support of
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them worldwide uh what they have basically come out and said and i know sorry terenzio i went in the
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wrong order is the longshoremen union has come out and said we reject these dictatorial policies
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and they are rallying in opposition around the world like you should see if italy it's fabulous
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so watching these men all you know singing in the streets and standing up there for their rights and
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these are vaccinated people along with the unvaccinated saying this is tyranny and we're not
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going to permit this to happen in our country choice matters around the world uh the last thing i want
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to just bring to your attention is the qp uh union in chilliwack has come out and they have said i love
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it they say that qp411 does not believe that an employer political body government or agents thereof
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should have the authority to mandate any person to be vaccinated full stop we see any such mandate to be
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a grotesque misuse of power and will continue to oppose any and all directives of this nature
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so we are having an impact we need everybody on board rising up in opposition the whole point is
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is that we are not reclaiming any of our rights they were never taken from us we capitulated and handed
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them over none of this has been lawful they've had no power to interfere with our rights that were
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constitutionally guaranteed to us there is no order that can supersede any right that we have under
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the charter of rights and freedoms anyway so that's just my update i'm a little bit off tonight i'll be
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honest with you because this was a full day you know before the courts you kind of felt trapped because
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you don't have an opportunity you know to speak i wanted to defend this lady outright and uh they they
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were very well strategized for this attack today but uh i just see it as a win we have to focus on
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the wins the win is that the minister of education is a defendant uh you know what she is on notice
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the bc fairies have backed off and said they're not supporting the vax passes they are a defendant in
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our claim and the qp unions and all of them are responding to the notices of liability and they're
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trying to cover their butts right now they're desperately trying to misinform their members
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to stop them from standing on their rights but the more we are educated i always say knowledge is power
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we're providing it we're sharing it you now have it and you have an obligation as well to share it with
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friends and family so just be bold this courage is contagious and and we just want you to feel
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so filled up when you come to our empower hours um because uh like i say we've got to spread the news
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and help canadians uh really really embrace their freedoms all right so i'm going to give this back
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to heather please bring derek on i want to hear all about you know where derek is going what he's got
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planned for the future and we just so much admire him uh he has been boldly speaking out uh against the
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tyranny and giving a voice to those who the government is trying to shut down so heather i give
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it back to you thank you tanya for that so joining us this week is our special guest
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excuse me just a moment our special guest derek sloan derek is a former mp and he is the leader of
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the true north party in his speech at the worldwide freedom rally last month in calgary derek explained
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that what we are witnessing here in canada goes beyond questions of science medicine and safety
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it's light versus dark it's good versus evil and we are in a spiritual battle for the heart and soul
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of canada if you've ever had an opportunity to listen to any of derek's speeches you'll know that
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he's a bold patriot and a freedom fighter and he isn't afraid of identifying the tyranny that is
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taking place in canada his mission is to defend canadian freedoms and to fight for true conservative
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values tonight derek and tanya will be discussing many important issues including the current political
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landscape exposing the corruption and rising up in defense of faith family and freedom welcome derek
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sorry about that okay great yeah thank you for that intro that was a great intro and um yeah so i've uh
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i've been on here before and it's always a privilege to come and speak to everyone here
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and um i just uh i just actually happened to just be looking at the chat and i noticed
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i don't know if you get trolls on this chat or not but someone was claiming there that i've been
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double vaccinated not true uh not even been single vaccinated so uh you've heard it from the horse's
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mouth and and unfortunately i will be subject to the same you know travel bans and all that that are
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going into place uh shortly and uh it is what it is and that's what we have to fight and and so i'm glad
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to be here to talk about it so many of you know that i was a member of parliament up until the the
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most recent election and um unfortunately i was not re-elected we live in a a country where
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uh independence and non you know non sort of establishment parties are not um you know really
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given the attention they deserve by the average canadian and so we need to obviously as a political
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leader we we need to work hard to change that and hopefully um you know what we're what groups like
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action for canada are doing and others are going to be opening canadians eyes to think about politics
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in a different way and so um my my goal of course is to to be uh uh you know the the political leader to
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have a party that canada needs and so you you may uh remember those that follow me that i announced
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that i was starting a new federal uh political party and uh nothing has changed so the papers were
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submitted in the spring of this year and unfortunately they were not um approved in time for the the the
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election this year so uh some people say maybe elections canada had an agenda i don't know one
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way or the other i know that obviously they when an election is coming or there's rumors of an election
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they focus on that uh more than anything else but we are now at the point where um our party will be
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approved uh very likely within the next probably four to six weeks and uh so we don't have an exact date
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but but we know the process and we're kind of at the last stages of that so really excited to see our
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party come to fruition and we have some exciting things planned we're we're we're dealing with some
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exciting friends both in this country in the united states and there'll be a lot of exciting
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announcements that that will be coming so i just wanted to address uh some issues and then later on
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we'll have time for some questions so maybe the first question is you know can politics
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change anything and um i believe the answer is yes and in in your in in your sphere action for
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canada you guys have been more um sort of involved in the league or the legal sphere of things so you
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guys are uh tanya and and the organization are are doing a court challenge right now you also have
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various other notices of liability which uh basically you know threaten as a consequence
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legal action if if certain things are not done and so i think the the legal system is kind of
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analogous to the political system because we could all say well you know the legal system is corrupt and
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you know judges are not um you know the judges are not listening to the arguments they're not ruling the
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right way but at the end of the day we still have to we still have to move forward and we still have to
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we still have to fight in the legal system and one of these days we're going to win something and there
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have been minor victories here and there but you know you could just as easily say the legal system
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is corrupt as as is the political system but those are the systems that we have and the great thing
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about the political system is you know not only not only do you um get to play in the game you get to
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change you get to change the team so when tanya is doing a court action which i think she should do and
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i wish wish her all the best she doesn't get to run to be a judge she has to deal with the judges that
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are there in politics you actually can be the person that you want to see elected you can you can
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you can change the choices that people have of who to vote for so i think that politics is very
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important i do agree that there are a lot of uh uh cowards there's a lot of people in politics that
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are not uh you know awake or concerned to what's going on but that's that's precisely why we have
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to get involved and to change it now for those of you who you know uh believe that we should get
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involved in politics but are but are wondering well derek you know why are you doing something new you
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know we have the conservative party we we have the people's party we have some options
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why are you doing something new and so as far as the conservative party is concerned i was a member
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of the conservative party for for many years i was a member of parliament for for several years as a
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conservative there is there is we don't have hope in the conservative party um unfortunately well
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there are some good mps the leadership of the party is not willing to stand up and to and to do what
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needs to be done and and the way that politics works today is that you know if you're an mp even a good
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one you have to do what the leader of the party tells you to do and if you don't then there can be
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consequences and that's uh what is what happened to me and what has happened to other mps who have
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tried to um you know stand up and be counted so we need we need we need an option that's not a
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mainstream party so not the liberals not the conservatives not the ndp and with respect to
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the people's party um i have nothing against the people's party but the problem that we have with them
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is that they do not have any democratic mechanisms within the party itself so they don't have you know
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leadership reviews constitutions ways in which the actual membership can be involved and it is true
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that now there there's many of their policies are good but to have a lasting and enduring party that
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can that can outlive any particular leader you need to have a strong democratic framework and mechanism
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within the party itself and the ppc has has not done that they they initially said that they would
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you know have a constant have a convention and a constitution and so on and they haven't and i don't
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expect them to and that's fine but we do need to make a party that can outlive uh leaders that can
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outlive uh periods of time and we need to have a party that is uh democratically structured and the
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democratic the importance of that of course is important from a membership perspective where your
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membership actually means something you can you can vote uh for example for who you want to represent
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you locally you can vote for policies that you want to be adopted by the party you can vote for the
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leader of the party it's important on that level but it's also important to have a constitution
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that mandates that members of parliament are free for example to vote according to the wishes of their
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constituents or according to their conscience so i'm glad that you know the people's party says that
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they're in favor of these things but you need to have a a constitution that mandates these things
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because you know the fact is is that there is you know there's a lot of wishful thinking even in the
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conservatives a lot of what they they say and used to say is good but when the rubber hits the road and
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crises come you need to have uh assurance that they're they're not going to cave in because we've seen
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so many poly good politicians or supposedly good politicians cave in on important issues so we need
00:30:01.180
to have founding documents that govern the party so that it's more than just kind of a personality cult
00:30:08.680
or more than just uh based on the leader of the day it's it's a it's something that can outlast
00:30:15.220
any particular leader so that's one reason why i felt that you know the ppc notwithstanding its
00:30:22.060
strengths and in fact in this last election it was the best option but i felt that it wasn't enough
00:30:28.740
for for canadians and i also felt that it wasn't enough with respect to having definitive stands on
00:30:35.960
value issues and the people's party has stands on certain issues but for other issues relating to
00:30:42.780
you know values and life and family values and so on they don't have any stance on it and i felt that
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we needed to have a party that had a definitive stance on those issues so that's why i decided to
00:30:55.760
to make a party i called it the true north party of canada because i like the symbol of sort of the
00:31:03.520
compass sticking to the north pole it's not left it's not right it's true north it's it's not about
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an ideology one way or the other it's about canada it's about canadians about it's about canadian
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families canadian citizens and it also indicates that we know where we're going we have a compass
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and we know exactly what direction we're going we're not swaying in the wind to the left or to
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the right or or whatever direction the wind is going we're going true north we're going directly north
00:31:35.540
and this is and this is something that really can only happen if you recognize the founding values
00:31:43.220
of canada and one of the founding values of canada yes it is true that western um democracies western
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governments are more free individually and politically than other parts of the world
00:31:57.540
but the question is why are they so and i believe personally and i i think that this is this would this
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would have been a common understanding in society even 30 years ago but i believe that all of that
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comes from our cultural history as a christian country now i know that not everyone on this call
00:32:21.940
tonight is a christian i am a christian but i fully understand that many aren't but we we have to
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understand that the very framework the very fabric of our country is in fact predicated on christian
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values and whether we um actually subscribe to them or not i know many people that don't call
00:32:44.680
themselves christian but understand the positive effect that christendom so christianity writ large the
00:32:51.380
the the the general affinity to christianity has had in western nations and if we were to take a look at
00:32:59.680
the way our country is structured it was structured with with christianity in mind that's why for example
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our um organizations at the government level that deal with things are called ministries they're called
00:33:12.220
you know the ministry of health or the ministry of the environment or uh all these different ministries
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there are so many things in our society that are predicated on a christian understanding and
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frankly i believe that the reason why our cultures are so civil is because we've had
00:33:31.720
2 000 years nearly of christianity in our dna and it's hard to shake that and so we need to recognize as
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a country and and i and i fully respect and in fact promote religious toleration and i fully respect
00:33:50.580
a freedom of religion i don't believe the government should ever be forcing you to go to church or
00:33:56.320
anything like that what i'm talking about is an ideological understanding of where we come from
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because you if you if you try to rip that out which it's impossible to do you create a vacuum that is
00:34:08.960
filled with other ideologies and we're seeing uh the effect of that in our society right now we're
00:34:15.580
seeing the rise of all kinds of radical ideologies whether it's um you know identity politics or gender
00:34:21.020
gender ideology these are new um ideas and philosophies that are trying to supplant our our western christendom
00:34:30.980
approach and so what what what what that is what what we're doing by trying to get away from our past
00:34:37.740
is we're supplanting new ideas that have not held the test of time and are and are and are more radical
00:34:43.820
and if we if we take a look at our history christianity as such has been the um the impetus for many many
00:34:54.560
positive things now of course there's been people who have done you know who have called themselves christians
00:34:59.180
and so on and official policies by certain church groups that have been negative but if you take a
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look at the the history of europe as soon as europe european kingdoms became christianized they moved in a
00:35:12.920
direction that we would all agree is positive um for example in uh in england and in in the in the area
00:35:20.940
now that would be considered great britain when the the local kings accepted christianity they began to do
00:35:28.060
things like make agreements that that uh they would not you know kill women and children they would
00:35:34.100
only fight with soldiers and things like this um you know if you can if you compare a a christianized
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england to a viking scandinavia or or a post viking christian scandinavia the the differences are huge
00:35:50.160
and i don't i'm not i'm not going to bore you all with with with you know a multitude of details
00:35:54.940
but all the policies that we sort of uh uh you know view as um positive today with respect to
00:36:04.160
you know uh rules with warfare and promoting education and helping the poor and providing
00:36:12.620
uh equal opportunities for citizens whether they you know are rich or poor or or men or women
00:36:20.020
all of these things increased uh with the adoption of christianity in europe and i believe that that
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these things along with many other reasons are the the bedrock of why we are what we are you you can't
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explain what can it is without understanding our christian past and how that reflects on a government
00:36:40.240
is simply to understand that and to respect the role of faith in the development of a country
00:36:47.840
so you can't expect canada to get back on track if you don't understand why you know why we became a
00:36:56.920
great country in the first place so this is this is you know a complicated topic and i'm not
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for those for those who already agree with me obviously you agree with me and for those that maybe
00:37:08.040
have issue with that i'll deal with this more in another time but the fact is is that you need to have
00:37:13.500
a founding set of values and if you and and if at the basis of that you don't have kind of respect for
00:37:19.180
god and respect for uh your nation you'll never uh succeed and and right now what we're seeing is
00:37:27.620
a um a tendency to sort of supplant faith with sort of uh the church of science and the church of
00:37:36.880
radical secular humanism as well as supplanting the nation state with globalism and you know erasing
00:37:44.440
borders and things of this nature so it is absolutely uh critical that we have at least some respect for
00:37:51.800
faith and so it's it's interesting that i would have to go through this long talk you know even in
00:37:57.840
the even in the 1980s when they were bringing in the charter of rights and freedoms initially pierre
00:38:04.140
trudeau did not want to have the preamble to the charter of rights and freedoms which recognizes
00:38:12.640
that canada is founded on values that recognize the uh supremacy of god and the rule of law
00:38:19.420
and pierre trudeau made a comment along the lines of uh and forgive my language here but something like
00:38:27.120
i don't believe god gives a damn whether he's in the charter or not and at the time his party
00:38:33.280
basically said uh you know many people in his party said listen it's a common understanding that
00:38:38.880
canada is is more or less a christian country and we need to have some reflection of that so it's a
00:38:45.440
very uh uh you know what i'm saying is not new it's it's maybe sounds radical in the day in which we
00:38:52.480
live but that's just due to uh the the degree to which we've moved away from our traditional
00:38:58.260
understandings so it's it's imperative that a party that is governing canada has a respect for faith
00:39:04.340
and has a respect not just for any faith that of course i'm in favor of freedom of religion whatever
00:39:10.060
religion you want to have is your business but we need to recognize if you go to any other country in