Greg Wycliffe - Four Years ago today..

00:00:00.000 Four years ago today, to the date, I was downtown Ottawa with my friend Igor, and we were live

00:00:08.660 streaming the crackdown on peaceful protesters at the trucker convoy.

00:00:17.760 That was an ugly day. A lot of people came together, a lot of people from different

00:00:23.320 backgrounds came together on that day, and they really saw how ugly the government was,

00:00:29.820 how authoritarian the government was. Four years later, that authoritarianism hasn't really been

00:00:40.380 addressed by any members of the political establishment. I have kind of crashed out for

00:00:48.760 the past few years at the Conservative Party and the leader now, Pierre Polyev, for never really

00:00:56.800 saying, like, hey, Trudeau is a tyrant, because he really, some actions he took were definitely

00:01:04.580 tyrannical. You could make that argument. And the left will call the right tyrannical for way less.

00:01:10.900 But I feel like it's never really been addressed. To this day, the sort of popular narrative around

00:01:17.220 the convoy with the average Canadian, I don't really know what it is. I feel like it still 1.00

00:01:22.780 might be the CBC-approved narrative that these were a bunch of racist hicks who wanted to overthrow 0.85

00:01:28.960 the government. It was people standing up for bodily autonomy, for those unaware. Their mandates

00:01:35.840 are no longer around, thanks to the convoy. It actually helped inspire many movements around the world

00:01:42.000 enough of this fucking, you know, COVID vaccine nonsense. But anyway, it was a very clear example 0.97

00:01:50.620 to me and many other people that if you disagree with the ruling ideology, if you disagree with

00:01:57.540 the government, they will crush you. They will crush you physically, they will crush you

00:02:04.140 metaphorically, they will crush spiritually, they'll crush you in all sorts of ways. And right now I'm

00:02:09.420 working on the final cut of my documentary, which is really all about this phenomena that, you know,

00:02:15.340 we don't really live in that free of a country. If, if you have the wrong opinion, and various

00:02:22.120 government institutions will come after you. Sometimes it'll just be your own local school

00:02:28.100 board coming after you for having the wrong opinion. But anyway, I just wanted to kind of remember

00:02:33.840 this day specifically, when that crackdown happened. I mean, it was it was the few days at the end of the

00:02:42.020 convoy that were really quite detestable. And I guess there was the announcement of the emergencies

00:02:47.600 act several days before that as well. But yeah, we can't soon forget that, folks. They are now trying

00:02:54.680 to resurrect Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act. They're propping up children to try and use children 0.95

00:03:00.880 to push censorship laws across the internet, and to redefine hatred. With Bill C-63 failing to move

00:03:09.740 through Parliament, there's no meaningful policy that adequately addresses the concerns and needs

00:03:14.000 of young people. As a result, youth are navigating escalated online harms without cohesive protection.

00:03:21.200 If anybody feels harmed, then you're now a criminal potentially if you say something harmful. This

00:03:27.320 needs to be stopped because if we don't have free speech, then pushing back against any amount of

00:03:32.120 other issues is going to become impossible. It'll give the government a big toolbox to smash anybody that

00:03:39.480 they don't like. They already do this with the tools available to them. But this will give them

00:03:45.160 even more to work with. I apologize to those who have not seen my documentary yet and want to see

00:03:50.860 it. When is it available online? It's still coming. We're working on the Final Cut. It's going to be

00:03:55.340 part of a larger campaign to save free speech in Canada. You can go to savefreespeech.ca to see the

00:04:02.660 trailer. The Final Cut's coming together and we're also cataloging and organizing the over 20 different

00:04:09.880 interviews that I did. So the full versions are available online along with a lot of different

00:04:14.800 shorts, contents, just so we can kind of get this out to as wide audience as possible and really,

00:04:20.340 you know, bringing it back to the documentary. But also like this urgency of like we can't agree to

00:04:27.220 disagree anymore in this country culturally and also the government is getting geared up to rip our

00:04:32.580 tongues out. So yeah, never forget the trucker convoy and what they did to peaceful protesters four years

00:04:39.040 ago.

Greg Wycliffe - February 19, 2026