In this episode, I speak with a man who was on the ground in the immediate aftermath of the truckers' protest in Ottawa, Canada on the day of the protest. He is a former police officer who served as a liaison between the protesters and the emergency response teams.
00:00:20.200They've come in huge numbers, landed in an unfamiliar location, essentially crashed on site with no logistics available.
00:00:27.220And Danny's team was there earlier and helping with humanitarian aid and acting as liaison with the existing police services to make sure everything was kept peaceful and very well organized.
00:00:41.660It was quite upsetting for us to see what happened near the end when a very, very wonderful gift from God, I guess I would call it, unification of Paged Cross Canada came together.
00:00:57.440French, English, black, white, every creed, every color, every religion.
00:01:04.540And people were just really, really wonderful.
00:01:21.480It was a lot of positioning from the government and rhetoric in order to inflate the situation and give a poisonous view, you know, through the media, with the help of the media, to the public in order to take the stand that they did.
00:01:35.460And, of course, they brought in some brute force to make that happen.
00:01:38.840Those are no officers we would recognize as Canadian police that actually are adhering to their oath.
00:01:45.300And traitors to the country, really, and shameful behavior that came out in those final days.
00:01:52.240You know, we're so excited today that the Emergency Act was rescinded.
00:02:09.580I didn't get an opportunity to hear hers, but I hear that she did a very good job as well in bringing the facts.
00:02:15.300And I would say as the day was proceeding, Trudeau was probably weighing what his options were.
00:02:22.000It's real mud on his face, and the Senate was about to turn on him.
00:02:26.420So what's your position on all of this, and what can we maybe anticipate moving forward?
00:02:32.180Well, that was my purpose on the scene.
00:02:36.180And to continue the narrative that I have been saying right from the beginning is that there is a blatant violation against our charter rights that are enshrined within our Constitution.
00:02:47.120And this is what people are upset about.
00:02:50.660This wasn't a coordinated, organized movement.
00:02:52.920This was just an organic movement of individuals across the country who have had enough of their loss of rights and wanted to be vocal on that to our federal government.
00:03:03.900It's something we've been seeing happen for quite some time, and what I believe to be our last right that had not yet been taken away, which was the right to assemble peacefully, to protest peacefully, was in fact annihilated on those last two days.
00:03:19.580And a substantial amount of force on behalf of our government agencies, there's no question this was a peaceful protest until the police came in with the amount of force.
00:03:32.400The closest example I could use is if anybody's ever been to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, that it takes place every year, usually in August.
00:03:43.120It's a family gathering event where people are interested to gather together as family.
00:03:49.580And people from all across the country show up to this event.