Greg Wycliffe - Guess who I met at the airport!

00:00:00.000 packing up the gear back to Toronto this is the new camera I got Lumix G4

00:00:06.060 shoutouts to a brother that sent it to me he's the man this is the Canon 90d

00:00:11.880 this is also the Lumix GH2 only does HD but still good these are some nice nice

00:00:18.600 Rode microphones these are a couple of old smartphones which are handy I

00:00:24.120 actually record backup audio in one of them and yeah here's the nice here's

00:00:30.240 the nice camera lens for the 90d and this is where all the good stuff is guys

00:00:35.580 these are where the hard drives are I'm gonna protect this with my life and look

00:00:39.840 at this I gotta be careful with this but look at this model release forms model

00:00:47.580 release forms look at all those these are all the interviews I got here in

00:00:55.800 Calgary that's a lot I'm not gonna show them because I don't want to dox

00:00:59.100 anybody's identity but yeah we got a lot we got a lot and I got to pack all this

00:01:05.220 stuff up I didn't have this camera coming here so I'm hoping it's not too much of a

00:01:10.740 problem at the airport but we'll see if we can make everything fit and of course

00:01:16.440 let's look at the bag of tripods I've packed and unpacked this so many times

00:01:21.480 now I'm gonna be very happy I don't want to see a tripod for probably at least a

00:01:29.500 couple weeks after this trip I just want to take it take a break from the tripods

00:01:33.780 okay little we freakin did it that's kind of tight but I don't know should I wear

00:01:39.620 this hat in the airport this hat in the airport I kind of want to see if people

00:01:46.200 look at me if I wear that made it to the airport

00:01:51.240 like do we always does it need to be everywhere all the time it just needs to

00:02:01.020 be everywhere all the time

00:02:03.240 we thought we were gonna have flying cars in the future but we have rainbow flags

00:02:09.780 everywhere instead I'm just waiting at the gate to my flight and look who I ran

00:02:15.120 into fancy meeting you here yeah yeah the one and only Bruce party uh how was your

00:02:21.540 visit to uh the great problems it was outstanding great really nice to be here

00:02:26.400 terrific place good people it was good fun is it are we gonna is Alberta gonna

00:02:31.740 separate yet how long how many weeks how many days good question you know this is a

00:02:35.940 funny thing people ask me this question of course I don't I don't know when and I

00:02:40.680 don't know whether I don't know how because I don't know the people well and I

00:02:46.440 don't know the political temperature here because I'm not here I know other

00:02:51.720 things like the perspective I mean the one thing I think I can bring them is

00:02:56.400 connected from somewhere else right but but as to what the political situation

00:03:01.620 here is exactly I don't know I'm not sure yeah I I I feel what you mean because I

00:03:08.940 was talking to you before before I turn the camera on and it's like there's it's

00:03:13.320 very liberal in the east whatever especially in the city centers not so

00:03:16.680 much in the rural areas there's a big there's a big difference between the

00:03:21.840 rural and the urban yeah it sounds like it I've I've been told this by Albertan

00:03:26.100 Sue no yes it's exactly as you say which is in the in the rural areas support

00:03:31.740 separation is is is pretty strong yeah and in the urban centers not so much

00:03:39.960 maybe yeah and I noticed in some of the urban centers like I went into this nice

00:03:44.160 cafe downtown Calgary yeah and I'm like well these people look like very liberal

00:03:48.540 almost like they're like overcompensating you know I'm 10 right uh but uh yeah I

00:03:54.720 shared with you the list of people who I interviewed yeah documentary and uh

00:03:59.220 what what's your reaction it's a great great list very very interesting uh you

00:04:03.660 got it's it's eclectic yep um but you got some big players there in the freedom

00:04:10.920 movement in this country yeah yeah people have been picked on yeah yes people who've

00:04:15.660 been picked on exactly so yeah yeah and who've been involved in a very genuine

00:04:20.640 and personal way like yeah this is not this is this is something that has struck

00:04:24.960 them to the center of their lives yeah yep yep what's top of mind for me is my

00:04:31.500 last stop was Lethbridge yesterday uh-huh and I was learning about the coots and

00:04:36.000 what happened oh yeah yeah and it's you know it's such a long saga as I'm sure

00:04:39.900 you're aware oh sure you're a lawyer did you follow this to some extent yes well

00:04:44.700 I see coots is coots is one of those cases one of those scenarios that make you

00:04:53.880 concerned about the rule of law and it's doing me wrong it's not the only one yeah

00:04:59.160 uh you saw that with the way camera which was was was uh treated as well um you know

00:05:06.300 more so in Tamara's case by the lower courts than the higher courts but in her in her ordeal

00:05:13.140 uh but but there are lots more as well that that that make you concerned that that Canadian

00:05:20.100 tradition of of blind justice that is no political interference in the way the law is supposed to work

00:05:28.680 blind justice no means no political interference the laws are supposed to apply to everybody in the

00:05:33.900 same way with an even hand right without fear or failure right and and you know one has to start

00:05:41.580 to wonder about whether or not that's still the case yeah do we have that that's a great question

00:05:46.860 that's a great question and yeah I mean I I feel like there's going to be spin-offs so I'm like I

00:05:51.240 got a lot you know I like to run long in the interviews and I think there's gonna be a lot

00:05:55.740 of opportunities for like spin-off projects and one specifically on the justice system could be in

00:06:00.600 works I think right because uh there's a lot of great examples of oh my gosh you're well you're

00:06:07.080 the expert on this stuff I my my my eyes glaze over they were they were uh defamed they were

00:06:12.660 counter defamed they appealed there's the counter appeal like it's it's also uh it's also complicated

00:06:18.420 but um I'm not a criminal lawyer I'm not a criminal so but I do like to watch from afar

00:06:24.800 about what's going on because you can you can sometimes see early warning signs for the system

00:06:31.160 as a whole in the in what happens in the criminal law yeah not always not somewhere else but yeah yeah

00:06:37.280 yeah I um having learned more from the people on the ground in coots and over the like the like

00:06:44.840 the yesterday when I was there I and maybe this was obvious to other people but like I realized oh

00:06:51.020 like what Ottawa what people in Ottawa were worried about happening happened in dudes you know like

00:06:57.020 this sort of like because from what I can tell yeah and like you know don't quote me on this or whatever

00:07:02.300 it's on YouTube now but um I'm pretty sure it was a domicile trailer that had properly stored the

00:07:12.120 firearms in it and then also somebody who didn't store their firearm properly and then some guy was like

00:07:18.800 talking a bunch of bullshit to impress some woman oh and that's the entire really that's the entire 0.54

00:07:24.380 set of evidence really as far as I understand in my non-legal expert opinion uh it sounds like that's

00:07:31.280 all they had to go on which is again legally stored fire firearm one firearm which was not properly stored

00:07:38.780 which is usually like a fine or a ticket or something on your like you know your you get your

00:07:43.100 bar pal taken away right and then also some dude was like sure but like uh recorded saying a bunch

00:07:50.180 of bullshit with the way the whole thing was framed so right so I was saying I was citing a column the 0.73

00:07:56.780 other day I was sending a column that was published in the global mail in February 2022 okay and if I can

00:08:03.920 remember correctly the title was it's time to stop the sedition by enforcing the law and following the

00:08:14.840 money and the first line went something like people have been terrorized for over a week so column in the

00:08:26.280 global mail February 22. who are they talking about the truckers in Ottawa the truckers in Ottawa they're

00:08:36.600 calling they're calling the truckers in Ottawa seditionists and terrorists I don't even know what

00:08:44.100 what is seditionist well it means you're you're trying through illegal means to overthrow the government

00:08:49.260 and guess who wrote the columns February 20 February 2022 uh Marco Medicino uh no not far not far off but

00:08:59.760 not uh it's it's gonna be the uh finance minister at the time uh what's it what's her name no more

00:09:09.180 disturbing than that more disturbing than that the police not not true though no but very very close

00:09:17.100 not a conservative no

00:09:21.360 who's who's up there that's not uh I I give up I give up Mark Carney oh what so this was like sorry

00:09:35.940 was this like an editorial column an editorial column an op-ed on February 22nd which was like

00:09:42.340 February February 2026 which was like a few days after I think I think it was no no no sorry well

00:09:47.860 it's February 2022 but the exact date I from memory I think it might have been February 7th so not very

00:09:53.140 long in like in the middle of it in the middle of it yeah say say a week or so in Mark Carney comes

00:09:59.080 along right to not bad saying these people are seditionists and terrorists so everybody knows 0.81

00:10:05.800 in Ottawa no violence no weapons no no none of these things so that to me is about how our ruling class

00:10:17.560 has lost its compass yep which reflects what you're saying was there any evidence in this opinion

00:10:26.680 piece no no no no no it didn't sound like he was even on the ground right he was writing it from uh

00:10:33.400 from I don't know where he was no idea where he was but right right right did he did he cite the

00:10:38.200 typical like you know uh um fire in the apartment building the nazi flag uh the pdf you know again

00:10:47.560 I'm going from memory now but I don't think he does huh that's a scary thing I've noticed about

00:10:54.200 Carney when he speaks is he has this sort of like bullish confidence where he says outrageous things

00:11:00.760 and it's like oh my gosh he doesn't he doesn't even flinch when he says this stuff uh yeah it's it's

00:11:07.000 scary yeah I think he's scarier than Trudeau because you know Trudeau's charisma ran out of the gas

00:11:11.960 and uh Carney's got a full tank but I don't think it's charisma that Carney runs on you don't think so

00:11:20.600 no no it's uh it's it's it's adrenochrome I would call it I don't know I would call it the uh

00:11:28.680 it's a joke guys the the the the appearance of managerial expertise okay okay I mean that that's

00:11:38.280 that translates to like credibility though yes oh yes yeah but that's different from charisma

00:11:43.240 yeah no I guess you're right but yeah I mean I I think Carney's secret weapon is that if you look

00:11:50.920 at the parliament buildings and they have a certain like prestigious look they're kind of like established

00:11:57.720 and I feel like when Carney speaks you get that same vibe it's almost like wallpaper and people are

00:12:03.720 like oh yeah that's the way it's supposed to be he's the prime minister that I'm just gonna not pay

00:12:07.400 attention anymore sure because everything's fine sure you know like he like his superpower is making

00:12:13.080 Canadians indifferent and and fueling up their apathy to just not pay attention well that's what I mean

00:12:18.680 when he when I say he's a manager he's a he's a he's he's the almost the archetype of a technocratic

00:12:27.000 governmental uh authority a manager a manager of I don't when I say a manager I don't mean like a bank

00:12:33.960 manager I mean right I mean the head of the bank of Canada a guy who makes policies and rules to

00:12:41.000 guide society and shape it properly and make sure we're all behaving and sure right absolutely that

00:12:48.920 actually reminds me uh of the conversation we had right because this is another guy I interviewed for

00:12:53.960 the documentary uh your interviews are already being cut up and put into uh into the editors I thought you

00:13:00.440 gonna say cut up and fall on the floor no no no no uh there's definitely there's definitely some

00:13:07.480 diatribes that will not make it in there but uh it was great running into you uh anything else you want

00:13:13.240 to share with the people out there about Canada or Alberta independence well only this that for those

00:13:20.040 people who understand that Canada is in bad shape let me suggest to them that maybe the best

00:13:30.440 that at the moment is Alberta going its own way for the good of Alberta but also in a strange way for

00:13:39.000 the good of Canada itself yeah yeah I mean Quebec certainly gets a lot of leverage over the rest of

00:13:45.160 the country by threatening to leave right yeah I think I think this will unfold differently than

00:13:50.280 the Quebec situation right because we got the oil um but yeah we will see you back in Toronto yeah

00:13:59.160 yeah yeah great to great to see you that's great chat with Bruce there getting on the plane back to Toronto

00:14:05.720 see you back in Ontario on terrible

00:14:13.320 back in Toronto back in Toronto I was at the very back of the plane I really gotta get to editing oh my god I gotta go quick

00:14:41.160 no I really gotta go to the bathroom right now

00:14:46.360 oh much better much better it feels good to be back in Toronto you know what I'm thinking I'm like

00:14:53.800 I like to know where I'm going on the road you know back to kind of knowing uh where I'm at

00:15:03.000 because when I was over in Calgary it was always just like enter the GPS follow the GPS

00:15:09.000 don't even think about it that being said after at the end of the 10 days I did have a good idea

00:15:14.280 of the structure of Calgary and a little bit more about you know getting around Alberta so that's good

00:15:21.400 but huge huge thanks to the people who hosted me out there they knew they know who they are it honestly made

00:15:31.960 the trip so much more enjoyable and uh gave me a lot more like agility to be able to kind of maneuver and

00:15:42.600 fit in as many interviews for the documentary as possible and we fit in a lot we fit in a lot

00:15:48.760 I got like four on the last day like rapid fire in Lethbridge there that was uh that was great um

00:15:58.840 yeah I have to get back to editing and all sorts of stuff but to support the documentary

00:16:05.560 go to give send go dot com slash say free speech give send go dot com slash say free speech and of

00:16:12.680 course thanks for watching these vlogs we'll talk to you soon

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Greg Wycliffe - October 20, 2025

Guess who I met at the airport!

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