House Arrest - Ep. 51 Diego Machado

00:00:00.000 Okay guys, when is enough enough? January 23rd. I say we start a slow roll across Canada.

00:00:07.580 hello mr barber how are you i'm doing all right it's a long day how are you how are you doing

00:00:34.360 It was a long day. We've been cleaning scrap up around, and Jonathan and I have been playing with our little Heritage Farm Salvage Services business that we were kind of tinkering on, and then one of my other trucks broke down last night around Regina, so I had to get up really early this morning and go and rescue a trailer on the side of the road, deliver it, and then carry on with that truck's work for the rest of the week, so I got my permission granted to be out and about. How was your week?

00:00:58.160 oh it's crazy my weeks are always crazy but but i can't really complain i mean it's uh yeah it's

00:01:06.680 it was pretty good i mean it's so beautiful here you know every i just want to soak it all in i i

00:01:13.060 love watching the sun come up i love watching the sun go down it's not like being in the city so

00:01:17.300 i'm really sad that i have to leave next week but hopefully i'll be back out here uh soon enough

00:01:23.520 it's good i'm watching that i'm watching that notorious prairie sunset right now off to the

00:01:29.300 west and i'm parked in central saskatchewan and the sky is clear and gorgeous and not a breath

00:01:35.580 of wind right now starting to get cool when the sun goes down of course so that'll be what we get

00:01:41.260 into here for the next little while but so far fall is a beautiful fall it has been and well

00:01:47.700 i sent you that video before i ran to show lake today to pick up the kids because that's where

00:01:52.900 go to school and i came back and it was this thick smoke like there was like a forest fire somewhere

00:01:58.340 and it was just over by russell manitoba which is about an hour east or west of here so um but

00:02:04.420 i was getting a little concerned because the closer i got to the farm and in the valley it

00:02:08.100 was just thick thick smoke so anyways it's all good and uh we are good to go we are good to go

00:02:16.900 it's been it's been an uneventful summer for players yeah yeah it has been uh hello everybody

00:02:23.460 and welcome to house arrest it is our which episode are we on 51 episodes chris barber

00:02:30.460 crazy yeah it is it is totally something let us know let us know where you're from in the chat

00:02:38.580 please everybody watching right now usually wind up with about is carla back good carla yep fawn

00:02:47.400 carol christy renee hard tomato hard tomato that's funny i like that i like that name susan

00:02:56.420 hi susan nice to see you well as you all know tonight's episode is brought to you by the

00:03:01.780 resistance coffee company i tonight am having myself some trigger happy it seems like a really

00:03:08.500 good day for it and this is uh absolutely amazing dark chocolate vanilla and roasted almond so thank

00:03:15.200 you so much to resistance coffee of course they are a family-run company with strong canadian

00:03:19.520 values and they brew premium coffee it's it's the best coffee ever i just uh ground these beans right

00:03:25.540 before we came on tonight so i'm gonna enjoy this and we are also brought to you by the tallow truth

00:03:31.120 which is a skincare company based out of ontario all of their products are sourced from canada

00:03:37.440 and made in canada i've actually been using it uh steady i have been using it now for two weeks and

00:03:43.960 i love it i've used it on my there's no dishwasher here so i have to do all the dishes by hand and

00:03:51.320 of course my hands got all cracked and sierra's like we'll use some of your tallow and it's uh

00:03:55.420 yeah it's uh it actually works great stuff absolutely great stuff if you guys uh want to

00:04:00.980 order some coffee by the way we have a code for you it's house arrest one zero and you can head

00:04:06.520 over to resistancecoffee.com and get yours there today all right remnants of it in my cup from

00:04:14.060 this morning but uh yeah if i drink coffee this time of night i will be up all night long

00:04:19.880 i might be up all night long but that's okay i've got a book to edit

00:04:24.300 i was in regina coffee

00:04:28.860 i won't i won't exactly oh man regina beautiful here as well yeah chris is up there somewhere by

00:04:37.300 regina he was just saying yeah just north of regina right now i've uh i parked it a little

00:04:42.140 earlier and then got to log on here and i'm headed for saskatoon for tomorrow morning unload and

00:04:46.880 down to the beautiful southwest of saskatchewan and rain and snow is forecasted for tomorrow so

00:04:52.420 we're trying to get as many loads as we can done before the weather hits i don't think it's going

00:04:56.760 to be much for weather but um everybody's freaking out right now wanting their stuff

00:05:00.420 hauled before the potential for for salt and then that's what we'll fight for the next

00:05:04.600 four to five months right are you in big red tonight or did you park her i am

00:05:09.960 nope when the snow falls and when the salt trucks come out then i will park it we still have a

00:05:15.020 little bit too much to do yet jonathan's trucks been down all week we had uh we had our drill

00:05:19.600 truck the gray peterbilt that pulls the air seeders one of the air tanks had a hole in it

00:05:23.080 we noticed when we were doing our uh inspection on it on the weekend so that was about five days

00:05:28.400 for an air tank to get in so jonathan just what a good excuse he had he was like i'll just take

00:05:32.540 the parts off my truck put them on that truck and so then he was able to stay home and we were

00:05:37.520 hauling scrap steel all over the place it was awesome we had a good week together until this

00:05:41.680 morning when i had well i gotta tell you i was in shoal lake last week and i saw this uh farmer

00:05:49.760 pulling an old tractor and i thought of you because it was old like it was all it had the

00:05:54.480 metal wheels oh the steel wheels yeah some kind of old i think it was a versatile anyways if i

00:06:00.700 wouldn't have been driving and i could have slowed down i actually thought of stopping at the

00:06:04.000 intersection and taking a picture of it for you but but uh yeah i was right in the middle of middle

00:06:08.980 of town so i just we're starting it up i like we're starting up this little venture that john

00:06:15.280 and i have and and just because of my social media and you know i did a video here a few days ago

00:06:19.060 of jonathan and i working in the yard cleaning up you know one of my neighbors he sold out

00:06:23.680 his farm and he no children and uh he's retired now so he sold out to the you know one of the

00:06:29.780 big farmers in the area and now we're going to clean his yard up so he's got you know 60 years

00:06:33.540 of scrap in the tree lines and then there's a lot of loads there but we hauled it all out of there

00:06:39.120 and then one of the things that i wanted to do with this side venture called heritage farm

00:06:43.240 salvage service is i watched the big scrap guys come into farm yards and they make a mess they

00:06:47.760 come in and they have tires and broken glass and wood and crap lying everywhere when they leave

00:06:52.340 they take what they want and they walk away from from all the mess and so I wanted I wanted to try

00:06:58.240 and do a little bit better of a job than that so I hit a bunch of fence posts I dug a hole and knew

00:07:02.620 where the lines were and yeah we'll clean the yard up and make it presentable and that's kind

00:07:07.940 of what my goal is and the aspiration so with that I like I said did a social media post to

00:07:12.980 John and I working with steel and I got a call from a guy I haven't talked to in probably 20 years

00:07:17.540 and he's in regina and he works for one of the big scrap companies and he said chris

00:07:22.240 you've stockpiled the steel we'll come to you we'll low you load us up we'll haul it out of

00:07:27.460 there and save you the trucking which we're not quite set up for the trucking part of it so yeah

00:07:31.720 it's amazing the opportunities that are out there so i'm excited for this little venture

00:07:35.920 yeah absolutely and i think it's so great that you get to do that with your son like i mean it's a

00:07:41.720 great hobby first of all but it's really i think that's really cool chris and yeah it's a great

00:07:46.580 hobby i don't really have any hobbies anymore my hobby is trying to stay sane in an insane world

00:07:53.820 oh my god so obviously there is some big news that came out today uh with the uh supreme court

00:08:03.560 of canada allowing the appeal of the government's uh the government's appeal of the invocation of

00:08:09.660 the emergencies act however uh we were talking with brendan miller last night as you remember

00:08:15.120 And it is to be expected. And I looked up why they are going to be allowed to.

00:08:21.640 And it's because of Section 40 of the Canada Supreme Court Act.

00:08:27.000 And I guess it does make sense to me from the lawyers that I've spoken to today about it.

00:08:32.620 They don't think that they will overturn the decision because apparently that's never been done before.

00:08:39.520 But I just thought for everyone out there, I would read what section 40, sub one of the Supreme Court Act means, and then maybe it'll make a little bit sense.

00:08:51.820 Subsection one appeals with leave of the Supreme Court subject to subsection three and appeal lies to the Supreme Court from any final or other judgment of the federal court of appeal or the highest court of final resort in a province.

00:09:05.940 whether or not another court has refused to leave where the Supreme Court is of the opinion that a

00:09:11.680 question involved in the case ought to be decided by it because of its public importance or the

00:09:17.300 importance of an issue of law or mixed law and fact. So basically because it's considered this

00:09:24.200 is an issue of public importance, they basically have to hear it. So honestly, that made me feel

00:09:31.980 a little bit better about it because um they have to accept the appeal or hear the appeal that

00:09:38.540 doesn't mean they have to overturn it so um but you know as we were talking before the show chris

00:09:44.720 i mean i don't have a ton of faith that um that they won't because you know after what we've seen

00:09:52.260 they just make the rules as they go now it seems and i mean even in our case and some of the other

00:09:58.780 freedom convoy cases i mean they they were neither one of us were found guilty of actually committing

00:10:05.360 mischief we were found guilty of aiding and abetting a mass mischief which i mean that's

00:10:10.100 a brand new because i mean like they just make this up as they go you know and it's uh so here

00:10:17.000 we are more taxpayer money oh it'll be a big lengthy fight and and you know that's the other

00:10:24.880 thing i shared something on twitter today i think all of us did they're gonna need money for lawyers

00:10:28.760 to fight this too so if people are out there the civil liberties what's the organization called

00:10:33.320 that's fighting this right now canadian civil liberties uh canadian constitution foundation i

00:10:38.780 think it's a ccf yeah one thing i see in the comments section here from thomas do you think

00:10:45.840 the government will throw you guys back in prison if the supreme court ruling overtures to the lower

00:10:50.800 court decision i just wanted to address this we were never charged the emergency act we were charged

00:10:58.000 under the canadian criminal code under mass mischief yeah yeah you're right i think we want

00:11:04.620 we want like dr evil to say mass mischief you know like from awesome powers i've been

00:11:11.360 disappointed so i don't know you know as most people know we're going to be facing our appeals

00:11:18.240 uh in the spring of 2027 i don't know where that's going to go obviously they'll do whatever

00:11:23.940 they can to keep stepping on people i'll go back to the you know the one of the truck drivers that

00:11:28.700 was found with 17 pounds of fentanyl in a semi you know transporting it down the highway and

00:11:32.800 his charges were stayed you know that would have taken how many lives in canadian in canada just

00:11:38.320 that amount of fentanyl 17 pounds and they stay the the crown stays the charges and the guy goes

00:11:43.920 walks free um but here we are with mass mischief and we wouldn't want that fentanyl to to interfere

00:11:51.280 with his uh immigration application that was christopher yeah there's a bias in this country

00:11:58.340 i'm sure he's also some sort of doctor or engineer and canada cannot do without having him here in the

00:12:04.020 in the country so there you go yeah exactly i i don't know it's really it's really funny because

00:12:11.440 um oh there's my mom hi mom bonnie's in there hello to you both a couple of my favorite uh

00:12:17.920 i can't wait to get back home and see you mom i hope uh maybe i can stop in moose joe on my way

00:12:22.000 home next week if we're going to be around i will call you um before we come home anyways have to

00:12:27.580 always do a shout out to my mom she's a piloting somewhere miss bonnie she is one of the best

00:12:32.460 and that reminds me i also have to say a very happy birthday to my youngest daughter's boyfriend

00:12:37.040 tom who is from australia and he is trying to immigrate to canada now and i'm really excited

00:12:43.040 for our guest tonight for a ton of reasons but one of them is for his perspective on immigration as

00:12:49.180 a Colombian who immigrated to Canada and his experience and in talking with Tom

00:12:55.360 it's really it's it's there's such a stark difference and you know a lot of people that

00:13:01.040 immigrate to Canada have to go through the proper channels they spend thousands and thousands of

00:13:06.440 dollars they got to jump through all these hoops so he's telling me about his experience here and

00:13:11.780 what's been going on in his case he's just here on a temporary work visa right now um and i said

00:13:16.940 buddy i'm like hop on a plane fly down to the states walk across roxham road i said they'll

00:13:23.940 carry your luggage they'll put you in a taxi they'll give you a debit card you'll get a cell

00:13:28.380 phone you'll get a nice hotel room you'll get all the free food you want and basically all you

00:13:33.840 really have to do is you know on election day hop on the bus and go vote liberal i mean that's

00:13:40.700 literally it. It's really sickening to me how, you know, people like our guest tonight, Diego,

00:13:47.000 and these guys and other immigrants that do it the right way, you know, like I said, they spend

00:13:53.300 thousands and thousands of dollars, hours and hours of their time talking to consultants and

00:13:57.600 organizations. And, you know, here we are with a mass immigration problem. So I think I'm really

00:14:04.160 excited to hear diego's thoughts on that tonight um but uh yeah so anyways mom i will give you a

00:14:12.240 call uh before i head home hello hello mama t uh and fun that's nice you guys are sweet thank you

00:14:21.360 all right well without further ado uh we should bring on our buddy diego and let's uh let's uh

00:14:28.620 let's do this mon ami bf new hey camera chris can you hear me

00:14:38.140 we can hear you loud and clear oh even with my accent

00:14:45.340 how are you doing guys good very very well buddy it's been a while since i've seen you

00:14:50.460 oh my goodness a lot of time a lot of time but thank you so much for this opportunity i was

00:14:55.980 waiting at this moment

00:14:58.260 to talk directly with you.

00:15:01.180 My family

00:15:02.280 is listening too,

00:15:04.560 so we are proud

00:15:06.380 of you guys, and

00:15:08.060 I'm happy to join you today. Thank you

00:15:10.200 so much for having me.

00:15:12.040 I seen today...

00:15:14.380 I seen Diego, you were slaying

00:15:16.220 the dragons on Twitter today defending us.

00:15:18.380 We appreciate that.

00:15:19.880 It seemed like we triggered

00:15:21.420 that battle after I'm

00:15:23.980 some Belton ladies.

00:15:25.200 i don't know why man we continue here in canada with the labeling and you know stereotypes and

00:15:36.000 you know treating the other like an enemy instead of an adversary that we need to talk

00:15:42.840 you know and yeah we're gonna talk a lot of things today how are you doing i might i might

00:15:51.540 get in trouble here there's another convoy truck pulling up on me oh you're kidding it's dale

00:15:57.560 dale and erin you're kidding the people you run into out here for those that don't know uh that

00:16:09.060 truck and dale he dale sorry diego i don't want to cut you off but dale was one of the road

00:16:13.280 captains that came to ottawa with us and he was a part of the organization and that is what are

00:16:19.980 the chances incredible he's gonna come knocking at your door uh he knowing dale he knows that

00:16:27.960 we're on the podcast right now so he'll probably uh it's probably listening him and erin they

00:16:31.920 travel they truck all around the prairies together amazing people um yeah dale is

00:16:37.100 dale is dale's listed on the 290 million dollar lawsuit as well with tamara and i and others

00:16:44.240 so uh dale's got a lot of interest in this yeah that's right uh fight the good fight says my

00:16:50.380 first time catching house arrest live i want to just welcome you to the show and uh before we go

00:16:56.260 any further i just want to say hey guys if you like it please give us a like share this and

00:17:01.140 subscribe my husband hates when i say that because every channel says that but hey you gotta do what

00:17:06.940 you gotta do times are tough times are tough in canada so first let's get rocking and rolling

00:17:12.260 here Diego um I just want to just take a minute to explain to people how I met you and um that was

00:17:20.540 I think the day that I was arrested or that maybe the day before but I remember um my sister flagging

00:17:28.080 one of your emails because I had like I don't know 40,000 emails coming in you know the notifications

00:17:33.020 on your phone I'd never seen this before but I knew I needed somebody to come and help me because

00:17:38.540 I was watching my email notifications actually change in Ottawa on the fly 15,000 15,001 15,002

00:17:47.220 I was like I'm never going to read this all anyway so my sister flagged you and uh Diego came to see

00:17:53.040 me at the Swiss hotel where we were staying and the day I was arrested he brought me a little uh

00:18:00.680 truck miniature truck from Colombia and he gave me a copy of and I do talk about this so he gave

00:18:05.740 me a copy of 1984 and um when I got arrested of course I couldn't take the book with me I actually

00:18:13.460 ordered it and I read it in jail but not only that um Diego when I was arrested the second time on

00:18:19.960 that fake breach charge um you know he sent me letters and one of in one of those letters was

00:18:26.920 a poem called Invictus and I sat in my cell and I wrote that poem out and I read it out loud and I

00:18:36.340 I don't remember it now but I took the time to memorize it because it was so powerful Diego and

00:18:41.640 I just want to personally thank you for being my friend and I want to thank you for everything

00:18:47.300 that you've done to support all of us and just tell you how much that all of those letters meant

00:18:52.880 to me when I was in jail.

00:18:54.720 So thank you very much.

00:18:57.060 Tamara and Chris, there is a lot of things

00:18:59.120 that I want to say, especially for that specific moment.

00:19:03.940 You know, but the thing that I remember too

00:19:06.620 is that when I became a citizen here

00:19:10.500 after like doing all the things that you need to do

00:19:15.680 to become a citizen, I received a charter of rights copy.

00:19:20.460 and I give you that that day too that's right yes you did yes and I hope your audience and you

00:19:32.480 and after listening a little bit of my personal history they gonna understand why I did the

00:19:41.120 things that i did yeah the probably the first thing that i want to say is um i read your book

00:19:52.120 tamara and and the thing that i want to highlight at the beginning is your fight against stereotypes

00:20:01.840 you put it in your pages and this is my fight too and i hope your audience and you guys i know you

00:20:11.200 you know something about me but this is a friendly conversation um for respect to my wife and my

00:20:18.740 family i uh i'm not gonna ask for empathy when i share this aspect of my personal life here and

00:20:29.540 i want like to be um more known for my knowledge or wisdom and not by my personal tragedy you know

00:20:38.880 only for respect to my wife and my kids because um this is something that happened for every

00:20:47.880 family i mean in canada many families are struggling now and i'm gonna share with you

00:20:55.700 because you are my friends some aspect of my personal life but also some very important

00:21:03.780 topics of conversation that we need to have here in Canada for the greatest good of all

00:21:10.080 so if you allow me Diego Machado nice to meet you for your audience I was born and raised in

00:21:20.560 bogota colombia huge city 10 million people living there uh once bogota was called the

00:21:31.200 athens of south america because bogota had a lot of universities cultural centers libraries

00:21:40.380 it's very the culture is there you know you can breed it but as all big cities in south america

00:21:50.980 they have a lot of problems in terms of security in terms of development etc so i was born and

00:21:59.940 raised in a country that has a 70 years civil war i was born there in the middle of the war

00:22:08.480 and when i told you about the stereotypes labeling etc is because those um linguistic

00:22:18.180 aspect of humanity preceded civil war in colombia and many countries in latin america was the same

00:22:26.600 labeling giving names to people you are the different you are my enemy you know

00:22:33.160 and probably the first thing that I want to say coming from a civil war is that in a war there is

00:22:43.260 not a good side or bad side basically both sides in a war are bad war is the probably the

00:22:53.980 abdication of rationality and humanity and the thing that I want to share with you about my

00:23:01.100 by ground as a human right

00:23:03.260 lawyer in that

00:23:05.160 country, in Colombia, is basically

00:23:06.900 because I want to avoid

00:23:08.780 these conditions in Canada.

00:23:12.000 Absolutely.

00:23:12.640 I saw a lot of

00:23:14.800 keyboard warriors talking

00:23:16.900 about civil war is the next step.

00:23:19.580 We're going to do it.

00:23:21.060 We're going to deport all of them,

00:23:23.300 et cetera.

00:23:24.740 And I said, probably

00:23:25.940 they don't know what

00:23:28.820 is a war.

00:23:29.420 so first thing i want to say what is a word as only my perspective it's not the reality

00:23:38.360 and if you allow me to introduce my approach basically is to conceive that our perspective

00:23:47.820 is not necessarily the reality because normally we think oh i'm awake no i know the truth so

00:23:58.480 i go with my echo chamber to validate my approach and i feel something and the feeling of belonging

00:24:07.640 no and i pick another another approach it's more difficult but it's more i have more satisfaction

00:24:17.140 doing it and on that so i decide to start a study law in colombia because basically the rule in

00:24:29.740 colombia is injustice everywhere you know is is the partner so uh coming from a humble family

00:24:40.660 education in colombia is almost a privilege so uh really soon i understand that and

00:24:48.520 i i decide for destruction of my father to start reading a lot of books and um educate myself

00:25:00.020 and when i had opportunity to to to study law in the university i understand that is

00:25:09.840 there are something different between legal and justice normally just just start studying law

00:25:18.440 looking for justice seeking for justice you know but you really you understand really quick that

00:25:27.700 legal can be injustice sometimes as we very well know we very well know that now yep

00:25:36.100 i forgot to mention something to your audience and i want to do it now english is my third

00:25:43.640 language so i understand that my accent can be sounds weird for somebody my first official

00:25:51.220 canadian language is french and i'm trying to improve my english but i understand that sometimes

00:25:57.700 accent or the pronunciation can be weird and i can repeat it if you don't understand me or

00:26:05.040 your audience have questions etc i i'm able to do it and i can understand you're on a good deal

00:26:12.880 with this no worries thank you and okay so i decided to study law and immediately i said okay

00:26:21.880 we have a civil war i gonna go deeper on that what happened why etc and start with the same

00:26:30.600 thing no in colombia we had since 1948 a civil war of labeling you are liberal you are conservative

00:26:40.200 but i was our story tragically is a story of violence in colombia and yeah you need to accept

00:26:50.820 that many countries have that you know tragically south america is like a laboratory from policies

00:26:58.460 and we had experienced a lot of violence in Latin America.

00:27:03.620 It's not only Colombia.

00:27:05.280 You can take Chile, Argentina, et cetera.

00:27:09.920 We have Cuba.

00:27:12.520 It's like a big example too.

00:27:16.420 And in Colombia, motivated probably for the Cuban revolution

00:27:22.020 had a lot of Marxist guerrilla, no?

00:27:25.360 after the violence between conservatives and liberal starts,

00:27:31.060 they were a massive construction of Marxist guerrilla, you know?

00:27:39.880 Inspired probably into the Cuban Revolution and the Soviet Union

00:27:49.500 and started the violence from both sides, you know?

00:27:54.280 And we have guerrilla in one side that is left, far left, the state in one side, and paramilitary forces in the other side that was called far right.

00:28:08.140 That is far right.

00:28:10.100 A paramilitary armed group is far right.

00:28:12.820 I hate when people normally call, oh, you're a far right, et cetera.

00:28:17.740 No.

00:28:18.780 A far right is an extreme that is violent.

00:28:22.040 It is.

00:28:22.300 It's armed, et cetera.

00:28:23.700 is not people who think differently.

00:28:27.500 That's great.

00:28:30.300 Okay, the world is terrible, massacres everywhere,

00:28:34.960 and nobody thinks about the victims, you know?

00:28:38.640 Propaganda from the states target the guerrilla like the bad guys

00:28:44.540 and put the paramilitary forces,

00:28:47.880 because they were doing the work of the state, of the government,

00:28:51.720 Like, no, there are civilians that are armed and that are tired and they need to defend themselves, etc.

00:28:58.980 There is always propaganda, no?

00:29:02.060 Of course.

00:29:03.280 To initiate war.

00:29:04.800 Yes.

00:29:05.440 So there is a lot of stereotypes about Colombia.

00:29:10.520 Being Colombian, you are used to stereotypes.

00:29:16.820 so the first thing that i heard when i said i'm colombian is oh pablo escobar i saw the

00:29:25.340 i saw the scenes in netflix narcos and obviously narco traffic was a huge huge

00:29:34.220 resource for the world you know and we have like the 80s and the 90s was terrible for colombia in

00:29:43.360 terms of terrorism and pablo escobar even philip boss with tnt and exploded in the equivalent to

00:29:55.060 the c as sorry c is c is from the intelligence agency from canada c sorry correct me c s i s

00:30:05.780 CSIS

00:30:07.080 CSIS

00:30:09.880 boom, Pablo Escobar

00:30:11.860 a scholar booth

00:30:13.880 full of TNT

00:30:15.300 the building was

00:30:17.180 that was

00:30:18.920 in 1911 in Colombia

00:30:21.200 I did not know that

00:30:22.860 it was terrible

00:30:24.100 and ministers were

00:30:27.800 killed

00:30:28.540 and journalists were killed

00:30:31.600 bomb attacks everywhere

00:30:33.640 you know

00:30:34.180 that's terrorism that's war and i grew up in that in that context you know and even um with

00:30:45.640 that context i have a beautiful um memory about my father when i was young i was traveling with

00:30:52.840 them i know chris you you you love tractors and agriculture machinery my dad was a salesman of

00:31:02.400 tractors in colombia so i traveled oh wow around colombia selling cubota massive yeah

00:31:11.060 case tractors we have a few in our collection diego

00:31:15.820 old old old ones though you need to go down and visit

00:31:20.620 Case, Case is specific.

00:31:23.020 Case?

00:31:23.760 Yeah, International, Case,

00:31:27.300 Kubota, yeah.

00:31:29.400 So many.

00:31:31.360 But you probably, like, how old

00:31:32.940 are we talking for truckers?

00:31:34.680 I like

00:31:35.060 truckers, the jig brakes. I don't know if you can hear

00:31:38.960 that or not. Somebody in Ottawa would literally

00:31:40.920 be triggering the sound of that if you can hear it

00:31:42.920 through my headphones.

00:31:45.680 As long as they're not honking

00:31:47.120 their horns, they're okay.

00:31:48.680 Exactly.

00:31:49.160 otherwise mordor i told you that way later but so yes my dad no and he was an example for me a good

00:31:59.600 dad etc i traveled with him around rural colombia and obviously in a civil war you said that the

00:32:06.460 more affected regions are the rural regions stereotyping people etc and to conclude that

00:32:14.700 tragic episode

00:32:17.200 of Colombia in the world,

00:32:19.100 I want to tell you about

00:32:20.860 one massacre that was terrible

00:32:23.060 in Colombia. It was called

00:32:24.940 or the town where

00:32:27.040 that occurred was

00:32:29.120 El Salado.

00:32:31.040 Salty.

00:32:32.340 You put it like salt.

00:32:34.920 El Salado. It was

00:32:36.980 in 2001, I think.

00:32:39.360 And basically 400

00:32:41.140 men from a paramilitary

00:32:43.160 force surround a town i don't know if we can display a photo probably i i send it late i know

00:32:50.740 but it's it's the photo of a northern town in colombia that you can only see um the basketball

00:32:59.380 court in front of a church and despite the stereotypes about colombia you know drugs

00:33:09.120 etc

00:33:09.780 I'll say we are

00:33:12.980 a Catholic nation

00:33:15.180 because the Catholic Church

00:33:17.320 has a lot of influence in Latin

00:33:19.360 America

00:33:19.740 we love music in Colombia

00:33:22.860 and we love soccer

00:33:25.440 football soccer

00:33:26.400 okay which one is it? Is it football or is it

00:33:29.500 soccer Diego? Come on

00:33:30.600 honestly?

00:33:32.680 Thank you for your question

00:33:34.580 I understand that we

00:33:37.320 call in canada and united states soccer but it's football football has an history as everything

00:33:44.300 in football in start in mexico at the beginning but then the english people create the modern

00:33:51.560 football soccer right in canada is doing great you know women sports it's great in football

00:33:59.380 soccer and canada male team is also great i love it i love soccer but i don't want to impose

00:34:07.020 my love about soccer

00:34:09.440 to anyone.

00:34:10.900 But I'm working as a volunteer

00:34:13.360 football soccer coach for

00:34:15.380 kids. Oh, good.

00:34:16.460 Oh, good for you.

00:34:18.520 I was literally

00:34:20.520 just going through my storage shed the other day,

00:34:22.380 cleaning some stuff up. I opened up a box of

00:34:24.320 Jonathan's old toys when he was

00:34:26.220 six, seven years old, and there was his

00:34:28.400 soccer shoes on the top of the box.

00:34:30.920 I kind of get rid of

00:34:32.020 from his sports days.

00:34:34.180 That's so cute. Just little

00:34:36.320 shoes it was cool you need to keep it always chris oh yeah i probably keep away too much stuff but i

00:34:43.620 was throwing a lot of stuff out that day but stuff that didn't matter so when did you decide to like

00:34:51.300 first of all i can't remember i know you've told me but what year did you come to canada and what

00:34:57.020 made you choose canada i i i'll tell you tamara it was in 2013 but let me just finish that example

00:35:05.600 about football and music and religion in that small town in the north of colombia that was

00:35:12.300 called el salado de salti 400 men paramilitary forces surrounding the town you know and with

00:35:20.800 labelings in paper oh this is guerrillero this is guerrillero this is guerrillero this is

00:35:25.960 they were knocking door by door asking come to the central court piece to the basketball court

00:35:34.260 in front of a church and they start decapitating people and playing football soccer with the heads

00:35:44.600 of those people while playing music in front of a church and i don't tell you that to ask you for

00:35:56.520 your empathy or or to play a victim card that's war that's that's that is consequences of war

00:36:06.840 you know yeah i heard those testimonies tamara and chris and i can tell you that my soul is not

00:36:13.960 in peace until we found justice not justice but real justice i had a lot of histories like that

00:36:23.180 You know, and I know we are with our time is running fast and I don't want to forget something important.

00:36:31.040 But this is the condition of a civil war, you know, completely.

00:36:34.860 And so it must be so frustrating for you, I mean, to have seen that and live through that experience and then come to Canada, say 2026, where people are triggered by hurt feelings.

00:36:51.300 I mean, we literally sat through the POEC, Diego, and listened to people try to turn violence into feelings, right?

00:37:00.820 Like, remember, we had Steve Bell on the stand, and he kept trying to say it was violent, it was violent.

00:37:06.960 And then he finally had to say, well, it felt like it was violent.

00:37:10.340 There was no violence.

00:37:11.560 So coming from somebody from your experience, to have to sit through all that drama and nonsense must make you sick to your stomach.

00:37:20.760 because that is war that is violence that was terrible and that shows the tone the weakness

00:37:28.840 of a government you know we just got nick here this is colombia we're talking about right now

00:37:33.260 yeah i was just gonna write that in the chat yeah yeah colombia colombia british colombia

00:37:39.360 colombia in south america that's right i love that country but i decided to immigrate because

00:37:45.980 i never felt that colombia gonna give me the opportunities that i was looking for

00:37:51.580 not only in professional terms because i being a human rights lawyer in colombia

00:37:58.580 expose you to violence to threats i was threatened by armed guys in in suit with a with a gun because

00:38:08.260 my work you know and obviously i heard a lot of testimonies that is is really hard to to share

00:38:15.940 in public and for respect to the big things i need to keep it um in my mind only however

00:38:25.700 at the beginning of our process we thought canada is wonderful you know we need to go there and

00:38:34.100 at the time when we decide to to immigrate i was working as a university teacher trying to

00:38:42.100 co-op young lodgers students and say hey you need to find justice not only legality but justice and

00:38:50.340 try to read other things about um sociology archaeology economics not only law and the law

00:38:57.520 is like this and you need to follow the law started to immigrate and we did it as skilled workers

00:39:04.980 as a skilled workers program.

00:39:07.640 And I know immigration and especially mass immigration

00:39:11.540 now is the current topic everywhere.

00:39:14.460 We saw yesterday, I think,

00:39:17.400 our European Commission President Ursula,

00:39:22.860 what is his name?

00:39:24.480 Ursula von der Leyen, I think.

00:39:27.680 Yes, von der Leyen, yep, yep.

00:39:29.200 And after 10 years of massive immigration

00:39:33.020 in the United States, Canada, and Europe,

00:39:36.480 they are saying, they are recognizing now

00:39:39.020 that there is a problem with immigration,

00:39:41.740 but they said, or she said, it's Russian propaganda.

00:39:46.300 It's Russian wants to invite us with mass immigration.

00:39:50.460 So they create the problem and they offer the solution,

00:39:55.100 like always.

00:39:55.900 That's right.

00:39:56.520 Yes, that's right.

00:39:57.540 Yeah.

00:39:58.340 And when we talk specifically about mass immigration,

00:40:01.180 i i i give you more more inputs about it but well we immigrate and and from day one from the first

00:40:10.920 week i started working because i came here as a skill worker but before i came here i spent two

00:40:17.800 years in bogota colombia learning french oh this is my book for people yeah wow oh wow look at how

00:40:26.320 young you look there Diego and I was like handsome in the past now living in a survival

00:40:35.040 has its consequence yes and your beautiful wife Paola is basically everything for me but

00:40:42.160 of course I prepared myself two years and a half before coming to Canada I paid to the government

00:40:50.100 of canada to initially start the study of my files etc i paid every time medical exams security

00:40:59.800 exams etc i paid for everything the government never gave me nothing gave me nothing so even

00:41:07.320 and that's something that advertents need to know quebec has like the only prerogative

00:41:14.780 are in canada to select their own immigrants you know quebec and i did it in in that process in

00:41:23.520 quebec so i to be approved i need to have an interview with a consul from quebec in french

00:41:30.480 explaining my project of immigration with points i was lucky because i i work since i i i was 15

00:41:40.600 years also i have a lot of experience in colombia i had a lot of experience in colombia my

00:41:46.280 pointage was really high the process was well i had an amazing interview with the consul in

00:41:53.960 two years and a half okay your passport the permanent residency approved the dream of

00:42:03.480 everyone in our families we are the first one that immigrated from our families so

00:42:10.440 it was perfect and from the first week knowing that i have the right to work in canada i start

00:42:18.940 working i start learning french in that time because quebec has a particular accent not only

00:42:26.280 accent but the french is particular differently from belgium france etc france yeah that's right

00:42:32.920 I was able to talk in French, but the standard French that we learn from France, etc., but Quebec has a particular accent, and it took time to adapt, but my goal and my wife's goal was always to integrate and try to contribute to society.

00:42:50.600 Right.

00:42:51.140 So, we did it.

00:42:51.880 Absolutely.

00:42:52.920 My wife, that is a biologist in Colombia, she decided to start studying to be a nurse, and she did it.

00:43:02.920 In her second language, she obtained a diploma as a nurse,

00:43:08.040 and I made a master's degree in international law in French, too.

00:43:12.840 I obtained my diploma.

00:43:14.820 First thing that I want to share with you is,

00:43:17.500 before my diploma, I worked in everything,

00:43:20.900 because I wanted to work,

00:43:22.480 and I know that I need to learn French and understand.

00:43:26.880 You go to Rome as Romans.

00:43:30.360 Right. Yes. Yeah.

00:43:32.920 For me, that was a priority. I understand the French and I studied a lot. I even had a diploma as a second language instructor in French. I obtained my diploma. And in the meantime, my dad, the same that I refer you to, be a salesman in agricultural machinery, he wanted to come here and see the machinery that we have here in Canada.

00:44:01.060 that it's amazing you know it's amazing we have everything here in terms of machinery for farms

00:44:08.000 etc he wanted to come i started the process with them etc boom cancer start for him restarted

00:44:16.400 then my diploma he cannot travel i i was like in at the beginning thinking okay with my master's

00:44:26.400 degree diploma i'm gonna be a consular diplomat or journalists etc but my reality at that moment

00:44:32.840 was that after obtaining my diploma i was working in harvesting fruits in quebec

00:44:38.800 being as i i wasn't i wasn't citizen yet but i was a permanent resident at that moment

00:44:46.480 my diploma was delivered for me but i was harvesting fruits because in the region and

00:44:52.640 my niche is very specific it's international law international relations so it's not easy

00:44:57.680 to find a job and i love i love to work in with farmers harvesting is you know i did it but with

00:45:09.700 his um condition my dad basically died waiting for uh medicine in colombia he died he passed

00:45:20.680 away and the day he passed away

00:45:22.880 I was harvesting fruits

00:45:24.200 with a diploma

00:45:26.460 master's degree with experience

00:45:28.660 here and I didn't have the

00:45:30.700 money to return to Colombia

00:45:31.700 for my dance in general

00:45:33.960 Diego I'm so sorry

00:45:35.760 I never told you that Tamara and Chris

00:45:38.580 and I'm sorry to do it in public

00:45:40.640 with your audience but

00:45:42.020 I want to share that not

00:45:44.380 looking for empathy of nobody

00:45:46.760 but because

00:45:48.460 people have to hear the stories

00:45:50.580 people need to understand um like like i said at the beginning people in your situation that come

00:45:57.360 here and do all the right things and they try and do everything the proper way and go through the

00:46:01.280 proper channels and i mean there and and when you do that it seems like there's always these

00:46:06.460 roadblocks right but but if you come here anyways we don't have to get into that but um thank you

00:46:13.340 for sharing that and i'm really sorry sorry to hear that carla carla zippy is uh zippy is just

00:46:18.500 fine he uh we're gonna just knock the laptop up zip is just fine here he is there you go carl

00:46:29.060 i know carl carl was a huge fan how old is he chris he's good he's 14 years old and he has some

00:46:36.180 sort of uh windpipe issue so every now and then he'll start he'll start hacking and i have to just

00:46:41.540 mute my mic and it wasn't quite quick enough so

00:46:44.380 so guys i passed really quick on that personal stuff because as i told you we have more importance

00:46:53.640 in future working in everything making my master's degree i even work in a subway

00:47:00.800 artist sandwich doing sandwiches for everyone and the thing that i told you at the beginning

00:47:06.920 was stereotypes Tamara and I had those kind of situations where I proved that I need to do

00:47:14.740 something else to be the stereotype when I was doing sandwich sandwich artists in subway my

00:47:22.360 boss always called me gringo gringo come here gringo or tomato in front of clients and I felt

00:47:30.640 honestly uncomfortable like weird immigrants always have that feeling of not belonging

00:47:37.200 anywhere you know like this is in the odyssey of homer we are traveling and we don't have like

00:47:44.200 roots and she called me gringo gringo ringo and i remember that my colleagues in high school in

00:47:50.560 colombia in bogota called me the same way because i love english rock metallica and black saba

00:47:59.040 and they call me you are better than us i like english music and yes i like it and

00:48:07.640 she remembered me that and one day i explained to her like the origin of that war and that is like

00:48:14.460 the way that the mexicans call the army of the united states because they were a green uniform

00:48:21.100 and they were saying like green go right go it's something basic but she didn't know that and

00:48:31.140 from that day she started calling me diego instead of green oh good and then i i was thinking oh

00:48:37.360 it's only ignorant people but i have a phd professor at my university that called me

00:48:44.140 with pedro with the list you know they attend this list um pedro why and i asked her i asked him

00:48:54.220 why are you calling me pedro oh everyone from mexico to the south calling the same way

00:49:00.200 so i explained the origin of my name my last name diego armando maradona was a football player

00:49:08.260 argentinian football player like you go to argentina and and say diego armando maradona and

00:49:15.080 he's like whoa so i'm not like that i'm colombian i'm not argentinian but my dad loves soccer my mom

00:49:23.240 too so i'm diego armando machado i explained that and from that day he called me diego instead of

00:49:29.720 pedro but i always think if i i was silent if i were be silent in that moment and say oh yes my

00:49:38.560 name is pedro oh i am the funny guy or yes call me gringo and put in my name here el gringo no

00:49:47.280 sometimes you need to stand up you know and say even if yours your truth is important so okay i

00:49:56.540 I passed the death of my dad, et cetera.

00:49:59.880 A lot of survival jobs, you know, others were, were official.

00:50:06.720 My, my resume is full of experience of work during this 14 years here in Canada,

00:50:11.340 but I finally get a position in the federal government.

00:50:15.220 I always dream with that.

00:50:17.320 Right.

00:50:18.880 Because I am truly, well, I am an international lawyer.

00:50:22.100 So I get, I start working at IRCC.

00:50:26.540 The Immigration Refugees, IRCC, Citizenship Canada, no? IRCC.

00:50:31.960 I worked there. I started working as an admin and I started seeing things that I didn't like at that moment, you know, like the enormous amount of requests that came from a specific country that I want to name it without fear, you know,

00:50:54.820 because sometimes we are so self-censored that oh i need to be politically correct etc

00:51:01.440 but most of the requests came from india for example you know express express express express

00:51:08.800 entry i saw that right in my personal professional career then i changed from ircc

00:51:17.340 division access to information i privacy i know that legislation too i changed for employment

00:51:26.340 and social development canada esdc and i worked there for only six months

00:51:32.900 because the mandates basically right right but for the mandates i want to tell you and your audience

00:51:41.320 what happened i always dreamed with the possibility to work in french in english and spanish

00:51:48.380 and that appeared in a in a moment of my life that everything will be would be considered perfect

00:51:55.600 and i reached that position as policy analyst in the international division of employment and

00:52:05.500 social development canada in the team who negotiate the labor chapter of the kusma treaty

00:52:12.640 so can you imagine for an immigrant being able to work in their mother language but also french

00:52:23.380 also english i had my own responsibility all the international development projects

00:52:31.500 it's a lot of money from peru colombia costa rica and a part of mexico and the kuzma

00:52:39.620 so i was only happy at that time that appears in my life the dream that i always had

00:52:47.200 i just had a beautiful home in latino quebec and my wife was pregnant for our second

00:52:56.160 child i reached the goal and i told my family i did it mommy i'm i'm winning right and then

00:53:07.500 the my the mandates arrived no and i was exposed to defend my perspective my rights to a person

00:53:17.160 that was my boss but initially was my mentor i admired him and then he decided to know your

00:53:25.580 document, your 20-page document

00:53:27.680 about the exception of this policy is not

00:53:29.680 valid and your

00:53:31.460 possible

00:53:32.320 undetermined, like

00:53:35.560 I can be a federal

00:53:37.640 worker forever.

00:53:39.840 I also

00:53:41.200 would be able to

00:53:42.960 have a diplomatic passport

00:53:45.640 and you cannot

00:53:47.660 imagine for an immigrant how

00:53:49.520 it can be important to

00:53:51.600 reach that level, you know?

00:53:53.180 Not only my passport, but

00:53:55.120 being a diplomatic for canada is my yeah no kidding and boom 2021 i think was that no yeah

00:54:07.020 2021 and i have the worst christmas eve that year i lost my job because obviously i wanted the best

00:54:17.400 for my family but my wife and i decide to reach the things to think for ourselves to

00:54:26.440 take hard decisions our family in colombia say are you crazy you are you only think take one

00:54:34.400 shot two shots in my case i needed to take three shots in less than one month and i prepare a

00:54:41.820 twain page document telling my boss that why i was skeptical towards that you know not only my

00:54:50.440 car data but later please let me talk about the covid contracts i i knew that information

00:54:56.720 long time ago and i exposed that and basically he said that i had a teamful

00:55:04.760 hot

00:55:06.180 you're anti-vaxxing etc

00:55:09.260 and labels

00:55:10.280 I was labeled

00:55:12.520 anti-vaxxer

00:55:13.840 I lost my job

00:55:15.600 I need to return my equipment

00:55:17.340 in the door of that beautiful building

00:55:19.480 I never was able to say

00:55:22.520 goodbye to my colleagues

00:55:23.680 I was disappeared like this

00:55:26.000 and that is basically fascism

00:55:28.440 you know

00:55:29.240 fascism is a guy

00:55:32.280 with an arm

00:55:33.340 armband

00:55:38.080 isn't it funny how they call us

00:55:40.340 a fascist

00:55:40.960 they call us all the time

00:55:45.340 but yet they are themselves

00:55:46.900 they support that

00:55:48.660 so fascism

00:55:52.240 basically is the hybrid

00:55:54.420 into the public

00:55:56.760 and the private sphere

00:55:58.600 you know

00:55:59.180 you have a big

00:56:00.920 a huge propaganda machine in the public but you have private citizens who execute the norms the

00:56:08.500 mandates etc that's fascism works yeah so boom i lose everything and on the only person that was

00:56:18.100 with me was my wife the worst christmas that i had and then my even my wife in january told me

00:56:27.120 hey Diego look that the truckers are coming to Ottawa and I said what is something weird what

00:56:36.080 is that and I start following you guys but at the same time I started following the propaganda that

00:56:42.940 was created behind you you know and basically you were treated like insurgent people and I and this

00:56:51.480 This is something coming from a guy who understands what insurgent people are

00:56:57.320 and the propaganda that is behind that kind of war.

00:57:02.280 You were treated like that.

00:57:04.260 Insurgents, far-right, separatists, nationalists, white supremacists.

00:57:11.460 What other label, guys, do you remember?

00:57:14.860 Yeah, all of them.

00:57:17.400 Tamara and I were just talking this morning, Diego.

00:57:19.480 I think both of us have been called

00:57:21.280 a traitor more than, well, you said

00:57:23.560 the C word, but

00:57:24.860 it has gotten absolutely vile.

00:57:28.180 In the last number of days,

00:57:29.560 they've ramped this rhetoric up

00:57:31.320 and it's hilarious. All the bot accounts

00:57:33.540 that are probably paid for by the

00:57:35.380 government of Canada, we assume.

00:57:37.580 Yeah, that's right.

00:57:39.340 Diego, keep talking. I just got to pop backstage

00:57:41.380 because I got to close some windows. It's getting cold

00:57:43.380 and I'm just in a camper, so I can still hear

00:57:45.520 but I'll be right back, okay? You guys keep rocking.

00:57:47.400 i continue with my history chris so i saw from the beginning the the rhetoric you know they were

00:57:57.400 portraying you like terrorists far right white supremacists etc and i was really curious not only

00:58:07.480 for the hope that you gave me because when i say you know and or i i shared my personal

00:58:15.300 experiences because as human we are victims or this kind of stuff you know and i i was in a

00:58:23.760 really high depression thinking about everything and the only thing that gave me hope and you

00:58:29.620 probably chris had heard that a lot was the freedom convoy you know the fact that you were

00:58:37.020 standing up for everyone that's amazing chris and i don't need to to to to remind you the

00:58:44.940 respect that i have towards you well thank you as a human i uh i want to tell you chris that your

00:58:52.960 presence always gave me safety and we don't have we didn't have a lot of time to share you know

00:58:59.880 but your presence always gave me safe that safety feeling and i felt that when ottawa starts so i

00:59:09.500 I was living in Quevedo at that time, without employment, in a high depression, etc.

00:59:16.580 And when you start the Freedom Convoy, I went every day to Ottawa.

00:59:22.940 Jacob, did you see the racism?

00:59:25.720 Did you see the burning the city, trying to overthrow the government, complete chaos?

00:59:31.380 Did you see any of that in Ottawa in your experience?

00:59:35.200 Nothing, Chris.

00:59:36.280 Nothing.

00:59:36.520 I only see people, I only see the diversity of Canada, the real diversity of Canada, you know, because now politicians and some think tankers are thinking, think tankers are talking about the post-national state.

00:59:52.880 We are, you know, we are living in a stolen land.

00:59:56.800 Man, the Freedom Convoy was the most pedagogical exercise that Canadians have had in a lot of time.

01:00:04.520 probably you go

01:00:06.180 you can go to

01:00:07.680 Louis Riel

01:00:09.000 and see the same

01:00:10.660 energy

01:00:11.140 you know

01:00:11.480 but I was there

01:00:13.800 so

01:00:14.540 the government's

01:00:15.740 trying to do to us

01:00:16.640 right now

01:00:17.200 what they did to

01:00:17.860 Louis Riel

01:00:18.400 and Regina

01:00:19.040 what year was that

01:00:20.040 they wanted some

01:00:22.100 hmm

01:00:23.740 I saw that coming

01:00:25.820 and my goal

01:00:27.160 was to try to

01:00:28.780 reach you guys

01:00:29.760 every day

01:00:30.720 I say to my wife

01:00:31.680 I need

01:00:32.660 to go

01:00:33.220 with the organizers

01:00:34.080 And I made my sign, like it says, like freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

01:00:41.960 Because when COVID starts, I saw the ritual starting too, you know?

01:00:48.320 You need to wash your hands, put the mask on, keep your distance.

01:00:53.740 It's a ritual, guys.

01:00:55.180 It's a ritual, you know, like a cult.

01:00:59.100 I saw that coming.

01:01:00.580 And I spoke with some lawyers and I said, this is a tyranny.

01:01:07.140 A tyranny? This is coming.

01:01:09.340 This is coming.

01:01:10.260 And the thing with me is that the year before the Freedom Convoy,

01:01:17.160 I was helping Colombian protesters in a huge,

01:01:23.360 in a massive national strike in 2021.

01:01:27.620 and guys normally we said we are a constitutional monarchy what is our description as country

01:01:36.140 constitutional democratic democratic society there are three words i mean we are a banana

01:01:43.920 constitutional monarchy and i i tell you why colombia 17 70 years in war they had a massive

01:01:53.060 national strike in 2021 two months and clashes like we can saw in france we could see in france

01:02:01.480 milano etc in europe in general i want to talk about that later and colombia was like that

01:02:09.580 every day was a combat you know and with our history of violence in colombia i can tell you

01:02:16.600 that at least 200 people died,

01:02:20.580 2,000 people were injured.

01:02:23.560 And even in those conditions,

01:02:25.800 the president allowed negotiation with the protesters.

01:02:31.100 They created a committee to listen to their requests.

01:02:36.400 In Colombia, in a banana republic, 70 years of work.

01:02:41.800 So no frozen bank accounts?

01:02:43.920 No.

01:02:44.200 And one important thing that I want to tell you, the war invocation, the emergency sacked invocation that before was called like the War Act, no?

01:02:57.120 Yes.

01:02:57.920 Colombia had, and as many democracies, Colombia has that, had that.

01:03:03.240 And it's called like a state of exception.

01:03:08.640 So we give to the executive, to the president, a lot of power.

01:03:12.260 They don't need the Congress for a decision, etc.

01:03:16.340 But even in a banana republic,

01:03:19.920 word declarations requires the approval of the lower chamber

01:03:24.120 that are the parliament, the upper chamber that are the senate,

01:03:28.080 and the constitutional court that is the higher constitutional tribunal

01:03:34.820 or the closed tribunal in Colombia.

01:03:37.680 That process takes at least 90 days, 90, three months.

01:03:43.820 Wow.

01:03:43.920 You know?

01:03:44.620 Yeah.

01:03:45.600 Wow.

01:03:46.620 You know how that happened in Canada, no?

01:03:49.520 One day, two days, everything.

01:03:53.620 Yeah.

01:03:54.060 So the propaganda was useful to the declaration too.

01:03:59.860 So yes, I was there in Ottawa.

01:04:02.700 I spend most of my time

01:04:06.200 Only in the day shift

01:04:07.820 Because my kids

01:04:08.920 My oldest was in

01:04:10.840 Kindergarten

01:04:14.320 In daycare

01:04:14.940 So I went during the day

01:04:16.360 I never was in Oroa during the weekends

01:04:18.720 Or in the parties

01:04:19.760 We have a question here Diego

01:04:23.280 Is Colombia still like that to this day?

01:04:25.120 That's a good question there Debra

01:04:26.400 Oof

01:04:28.420 It's a really heavy question

01:04:31.300 because Colombia now is starting a new process of violence.

01:04:36.120 After signing peace agreements

01:04:40.500 with the biggest guerrilla section or division,

01:04:45.060 we are now seeing small violence groups,

01:04:49.260 small cartels, I can say,

01:04:51.000 trying to perpetuate violence.

01:04:55.040 I feel strange sometimes because my concerns,

01:05:00.460 because my my family is still in colombia i i always see the the colombian news etc but i

01:05:07.340 recognize that i need to fight in the soil that i am if probably i i will be i i will be in colombia

01:05:17.340 i will be there but if if i continue being alive uh i will work for colombian and guys i'm preparing

01:05:26.220 like a series of content also in spanish for colombian people but the region is changing

01:05:31.380 really fast i can say recently colombia had elections peru had elections

01:05:37.880 there is something that i'm forgetting and it's very important when i say our perspective is not

01:05:45.700 our reality it's because we have two eyes no but normally we see only with one eye wow

01:05:54.740 you know but we have two eyes to see both sides of the spectrum and and understand

01:06:03.560 okay they that media is saying that but i need to validate with the other one and

01:06:08.560 try to have a comprehension of that so latin america needs an

01:06:13.220 analyze in that way you know many people are gonna say oh latin america is better in terms

01:06:20.520 of security but other people gonna say oh in terms of human rights we are in a feudalism 2.0

01:06:28.500 and that's something that that i want to say about the european union too and

01:06:35.520 but let me let me just um conclude that episode of the freedom convoy tamara increase because

01:06:43.120 it's very important for people to understand first i understand the narrative i understand

01:06:49.280 the rhetoric against you guys and my goal was always to park my car in um by one market do you

01:06:57.660 remember yeah yeah and start walking with my sign in in the wellington street reach the stage try to

01:07:06.280 share some words with uh people and then ask for you guys how can i found tamara how can i found

01:07:13.700 chris i i understand that there were other people also like vocal you know i i didn't found i i

01:07:24.340 didn't have the possibility to find every there was deborah's asking another question here diego

01:07:30.820 in your opinion uh can the country reverse the course you know where the road that we're going

01:07:37.620 down to canada right now are you seeing a lot of similarities between i mean you were probably born

01:07:42.260 before the civil war started obviously

01:07:44.000 so you wouldn't have known

01:07:46.120 Cuba before but

01:07:48.360 the one thing that I heard from Ottawa

01:07:50.460 from so many different immigrants

01:07:52.260 that I spoke with was

01:07:54.040 the emotion in knowing that they

01:07:56.260 came to Canada to get away from

01:07:58.040 the country of Congress where they

01:08:00.240 were and how they were seeing

01:08:02.320 the remnants or the similarities

01:08:04.240 of Canada turning

01:08:06.400 down that dark path and that's why they were

01:08:08.180 in Ottawa with us to help us stand

01:08:09.920 I can't tell you how many people I spoke with

01:08:12.240 it's a tragedy honestly it's a tragedy we are being destroyed on purpose and and and the i i

01:08:24.500 want to say that my goal to have this public conversation is not for fame or power or i don't

01:08:30.560 understand that terms those terms but i want to advise canadians that something big is

01:08:37.100 going to happen. We have

01:08:39.620 probably for years to restructure

01:08:41.840 completely our country before

01:08:43.860 the globalist agenda

01:08:45.800 can be

01:08:47.540 completely on course.

01:08:50.000 We are seeing it

01:08:51.600 now and it's

01:08:52.840 the question is we can

01:08:55.700 fix it? Yes, we can fix it

01:08:57.860 but we need

01:08:59.780 to get out of our comfort zone

01:09:01.960 our echo chamber

01:09:03.360 it's a sacrifice that

01:09:05.800 we need to get out of

01:09:07.960 comfort.

01:09:09.880 Because I think the thing that

01:09:11.780 difference, the

01:09:13.040 main difference between that

01:09:15.660 we call the first word and the third word is

01:09:17.720 comfort. Because

01:09:19.740 in the global

01:09:21.620 south, we were used

01:09:23.660 to uncomfort, you know,

01:09:25.780 scarcity, precarity.

01:09:28.360 So we develop

01:09:29.500 solidarity.

01:09:31.660 And I don't want to say that

01:09:33.600 all Colombians are good,

01:09:35.800 All Venezuelans are good, but we in Latin America understood that we need to be solider.

01:09:44.860 We need to have solidarity.

01:09:47.580 Yes, right.

01:09:48.820 Stand in solidarity together.

01:09:50.700 Yes.

01:09:51.040 And the thing that I recognize that we need to work on it is that.

01:09:55.380 The government has this figured out quite well, the divide and conquer scheme that they've been so good at with society.

01:10:02.900 Always.

01:10:03.760 They're propaganda specialists.

01:10:05.800 yeah yeah there's there's there's specialists about i'm very skeptical about the politicians

01:10:10.840 chris and tamara i recognize that everybody has a right to their opinion and believe me as a

01:10:18.880 free thinker i'm gonna die for the right of others to say whatever they want to say

01:10:25.080 you know freedom speech that's the the that's the the core of the concept of paresia paresia

01:10:34.120 is a Greek word and said

01:10:36.060 it's free speech

01:10:37.540 but knowing the consequences

01:10:40.200 of your free speech

01:10:41.860 I'm operating in that

01:10:44.240 way you know I don't want

01:10:46.000 to complain to anybody

01:10:48.340 I was called

01:10:50.160 antisemite

01:10:51.700 Islamophob, transphob

01:10:54.220 bootlicking

01:10:55.480 whatever stereotype

01:10:57.740 you can imagine

01:10:58.920 gringo for my own con-nationals

01:11:01.940 I don't care

01:11:03.940 because I think humanity

01:11:06.240 is more than labels and stereotypes.

01:11:10.240 But well, freedom convoy,

01:11:13.020 emergency sack,

01:11:14.720 everything was broken in Canada

01:11:17.660 and we accept that.

01:11:20.620 And the problem that I want to share with you

01:11:23.140 that Latin American countries have

01:11:25.960 is to be used to injustice,

01:11:29.060 is to be used to the daily scandal.

01:11:32.700 You know?

01:11:32.940 desensitized you become desensitized to it it starts to feel like normal life

01:11:38.140 it's normalizing corruption is normalizing incompetence is normalizing irresponsibility

01:11:44.600 and this is what we're hap this is what we're seeing happening if i could just interject because

01:11:50.040 i mean even as we saw today with the uh the supreme court um is going to hear i mean the

01:11:57.700 government of canada has a lot four judges have already said that they were wrong and

01:12:01.380 invoking the emergencies act but that's not good enough but i mean it's it's it's liberal this is

01:12:07.320 what we've seen happen for the last 11 years with this liberal government like they want to kick

01:12:12.320 this issue down the road until there's a lot of changes maybe another election everyone's going

01:12:18.120 to forget about it we have seen scandals in this country like snc lavaland we charity all these

01:12:24.960 things where there should have been criminal charges absolutely i mean the guys from snc gc

01:12:30.320 strategies haven't even been charged with anything and they stole millions of dollars and so you know

01:12:37.420 this is exactly the same uh mo that they're doing with the emergencies act invocation they're going

01:12:42.500 to kick this down it's going to be another year or two before it even gets to the supreme court

01:12:47.680 for them to hear this in my opinion um probably at least a year from now and then you know then

01:12:53.820 we're almost six years in and here's my my problem we have been found guilty chris and i have been

01:13:00.080 found guilty in a court of law fine okay you know what we're appealing it because we're not

01:13:04.740 because with everything that's come out we were on the right side of history and we did the right

01:13:09.980 thing and i mean these guys froze bank accounts uh threw us in jail solitary confinement um they

01:13:18.420 beat veterans in the street they beat truckers in the street they beat ladies and women you know and

01:13:25.580 at maggie lebron's head and no accountability not a single arrest everyone still has their

01:13:33.360 jobs nobody has been fired david lametti is retired mendicino has moved on christopher

01:13:39.300 freeland's got a nice cushy job laundering money for the ukraine um you know justin trudeau's

01:13:45.460 bopping around katie perry videos uh like rocket scientist meet astronaut give me a break

01:13:51.820 so when when will we see accountability for this and this is a huge problem and you and i've talked

01:13:59.300 about this before diego uh i was talking with one of our lawyers last night and one of the comments

01:14:04.600 that he made about this whole supreme court of canada thing is that you know people just want

01:14:09.040 to move on and i said how can people move on people have died people are dying people are

01:14:15.820 injured people have their livelihoods destroyed look at your own situation and there's a lot

01:14:20.360 more to your story even than what you've told people tonight you know how desperate you were

01:14:24.920 feeling before then all these lives have been destroyed and there's no accountability and we

01:14:30.240 cannot move forward and heal as a nation until and i'm not even seeing jail would i like to see

01:14:36.840 some people in jail absolutely but at least effing fire someone nobody's even fired from their job

01:14:45.600 they just keep getting promoted and and sent here and sent there and you know i this is the stuff

01:14:52.400 that i don't understand and this is not the country that i grew up in and people cannot move

01:14:58.080 on until there is at least justice is seen to be done right and it's not happening sorry it makes

01:15:06.300 me we require we require that you know it's a like a please doing it no it's our right to ask

01:15:14.180 afford it. Because the next

01:15:16.060 government is going to do the same thing.

01:15:18.280 You know?

01:15:19.540 Guys, I'm going to have to bounce. I have

01:15:21.980 somebody waiting for a separate date here.

01:15:24.960 No problem.

01:15:26.260 Usually we keep it to about an hour.

01:15:30.220 Diego's a fly.

01:15:31.940 Diego's got so much

01:15:34.200 more to talk about. So yes,

01:15:35.880 we will definitely

01:15:36.620 get Diego back because there's a lot of stuff

01:15:39.900 by his perspective on immigration

01:15:41.280 that I also want to talk about.

01:15:43.600 but yes i uh i'm gonna go have supper i'm gonna go have supper with my fellow convoy guy here

01:15:49.120 dale and his wife aaron and uh before the restaurant closes so diego it was amazing

01:15:54.400 to see thanks for coming on tonight i will bounce and i will keep in touch with my friends so

01:15:59.680 absolutely please give uh them a hug for me and uh say absolutely i'll wrap up here take care

01:16:07.040 everyone here chris have a good night you too anyway so i'll get chris kicked out of here bye

01:16:14.320 bye all right there's so much more that we literally have to cover and you know we're

01:16:20.940 gonna we're gonna wrap up here but um we will definitely get you back on so hang on to those

01:16:25.960 notes because we have a lot uh more things to talk about um your story and your experiences

01:16:31.680 and the immigration process as a whole, honestly.

01:16:35.280 Tamara, I only want to say before we conclude

01:16:38.380 that we are living difficult times, hard times.

01:16:41.740 And it's the moment for tough guys to appear, to show up.

01:16:47.180 I don't want to tell you because my background,

01:16:50.480 I'm a strong guy, no.

01:16:51.580 But I understand the nature of what is happening

01:16:54.340 and I want to share with your audience

01:16:56.740 and other Canadians too.

01:16:58.260 and we only share a part of my personal story but also you know my family was

01:17:06.280 expelled from Quebec basically because we were close to the gender identity ideology

01:17:15.380 and I only want to say some words about it I know we have some minutes and basically after

01:17:21.960 the freedom convoy i restart my life working with the food uh food food banks harvesting fruits

01:17:30.440 again but time helping other people that need to eat then i work with the provincial government

01:17:37.960 and i work with universities too in the international division and i saw everything

01:17:43.320 that happened with the temporary residents especially international students um how

01:17:51.400 we cannot control the people that is coming to Canada

01:17:55.580 and we don't know what happened with them.

01:17:58.880 Give me only, let me only give you a number.

01:18:03.560 CBSA, no?

01:18:04.960 Canadian Border Service Agency

01:18:06.920 had identified more than 3,000, 300,000.

01:18:13.020 300,000, yep.

01:18:15.040 Foreign nationals that need to be removed from here.

01:18:19.000 and i know there are a lot of fraternity groups that are talking about re-immigration everything

01:18:25.520 that is not a co-caution need to go because canada is white canada is an ethno state

01:18:32.400 but we have a process here in canada to be removed and that's a three-step process and cbsa is finding

01:18:41.900 more than 300 foreign nationals that disappeared.

01:18:47.240 And IECC, the ministry where I work,

01:18:51.960 that minister estimated that more than 500,000

01:18:57.000 undocumented immigrants are living illegally in Canada.

01:19:01.940 I don't say that from a moral pedestal

01:19:07.700 and say I'm the best immigrant in the world.

01:19:10.020 no but i understand the rules i respect the rules i know many people respect the rules so the first

01:19:17.700 thing that i want to conclude if if you allow me is i understand that many people are frustrated

01:19:24.620 with the changes that they are seeing in their little towns in their cities with people from

01:19:30.700 other countries you know but you cannot judge a book by its cover behind every immigrant there

01:19:39.140 is a person and you need to judge that person by their actions and no by your stereotypes or your

01:19:47.540 you know perception i have a background who loves canada who wants to keep canada safe

01:19:53.900 and i have a lot to say about immigrations i'm only thankful with you tamara and chris

01:20:00.500 to introduce those topics that is a huge topic that i want to share with you tamara and chris

01:20:06.880 It's COVID justice, you know?

01:20:10.680 For my curiosity, I discovered that the Colombian COVID contracts were released, you know?

01:20:20.680 And because the Constitutional Supreme Court of Colombia gave an order to that, so I read those contracts.

01:20:29.440 I understood how much Colombia paid for each vaccine.

01:20:35.620 Approximately $12 by jam.

01:20:39.040 So I created a long post on X and explaining everything.

01:20:46.860 And my post was deleted.

01:20:50.220 Wow.

01:20:52.000 And I don't know.

01:20:53.740 Yeah, you were telling me about that.

01:20:55.500 That's right.

01:20:55.880 You told me about that.

01:20:56.620 It disappeared.

01:20:58.120 Incredible.

01:20:58.760 And I don't want to say that the contracts that HANA can keep redacted are the same ones, but any lawyer can compare the content of those contracts and going to say, wow, it's the same.

01:21:13.700 Oh, it's the same.

01:21:15.320 Today is, I think, is the first or second day of trial in Netherlands, again, a civil trial against Bill Gates, no?

01:21:25.740 i've heard that yes i'm not following it too closely but yeah that's right yeah so people

01:21:30.660 we had attention yes alison uh sorry um what is what's the name of the commission at least alison

01:21:39.600 alison alison inquiry alison inquiry some weeks ago all the people who participate in that committee

01:21:47.120 please see what is happening in netherlands because until we find justice they want to

01:21:55.220 repeat it always that's a good point i will uh i will definitely um check that out because i've

01:22:03.180 seen a little bit about it but i've i haven't really dug into it so i definitely will uh

01:22:08.400 let's do this again um oh yes i have like two more minutes yeah two days ago this lady ursula

01:22:19.760 from Europe Commission said that they're going to work

01:22:24.960 in an emergency measure to constrain immigration, mass immigration.

01:22:31.800 Everything happens 10 years ago when the World Economic Forum

01:22:36.740 said that we don't need to fear immigration.

01:22:39.760 And then every first world country was invited with mass immigration.

01:22:44.700 probably in the next chapter we're gonna go uh deep more deeply on it everything is orchestrated

01:22:53.760 the we are seeing with only one eye the protest in france milan etc but you need to see with the

01:23:02.720 other eye what is happening in albania because we have almost one more month in protests what is

01:23:10.260 happening in Argentina with that protest. We have two eyes. Use it. Yes, exactly.

01:23:18.360 Je t'aime mon ami. Tamara, it was my pleasure. Can you allow me to say goodbye in French?

01:23:26.040 Absolutely.

01:23:40.260 la chambre d'écho. Merci. Je vous aime. Merci beaucoup. Merci beaucoup. Thank you so much.

01:23:49.160 Okay, we need to have a part two, so we're definitely going to have a part two to this,

01:23:54.900 but thank you so much for coming. Our audience, absolutely so grateful, and Canada is lucky that

01:24:02.060 Diego Machado chose to immigrate to Canada. Sorry, I know. It's going to make me cry. I love you so

01:24:07.660 much buddy thank you paula hug okay and uh i'm coming to calgary on the 31st for a rebel news

01:24:15.560 live event so if you have a chance to speak down yes and i'm no longer on house arrest just a

01:24:23.040 curfew so i'm sure that we can organize a visit where i can zip in to come and see you guys so

01:24:27.320 let's do that i'll be back i'll be there soon so thank you so much my friend and uh let's do this

01:24:34.040 again. We'll be in touch to get something

01:24:36.000 booked for part two. Absolutely.

01:24:38.420 Count to me, please. Adios.

01:24:40.140 Duero. Gracias.

01:24:41.840 Deborah, thank you so much. Adios, Deborah.

01:24:44.900 And last message,

01:24:46.020 I promise. For some people,

01:24:48.420 I will never

01:24:49.980 be Canadian enough. I receive

01:24:52.200 that kind of comments, you know.

01:24:54.440 But my kids are Canadians.

01:24:56.820 I am an immigrant

01:24:57.920 who loves this country, and we

01:24:59.680 need to save this country together.

01:25:02.800 Please. We do.

01:25:03.900 think think about it okay yeah okay i love you my friend see you soon i hope have a good night

01:25:11.500 oh my gosh i'm not gonna cry but i tell you that guy is uh he's something he's been through so much

01:25:20.840 and he's been a very good friend and he has the most beautiful family and the most beautiful

01:25:24.880 boys you can ever possibly imagine so i want to thank diego for coming on tonight i want to thank

01:25:30.440 all of you guys for interacting asking some amazing questions and um again just a quick

01:25:36.800 shout out to resistance coffee company for sponsoring our show you can head over to

01:25:41.640 resistancecoffee.com uh pick up uh you get a discount if you use the promo code house arrest

01:25:47.200 one zero and of course they sell premium coffee they are a canadian company and uh with strong

01:25:54.840 family values and to the tala truth of course uh we appreciate uh your support so much and to all

01:26:00.660 of you in the audience we will be back next week uh next week i believe i have to still confirm

01:26:06.740 but i think we've got a paramedic from the united states coming on his name is harry fisher you may

01:26:11.260 follow him on x but he's got quite a story of the things that he's seen um during the pandemic and

01:26:17.520 after he's recently gotten back from the uk after being over there doing some interviews over there

01:26:22.920 so uh that's going to be a heck of a fantastic show uh i love you guys so much i hope you have

01:26:29.800 a fantastic week and in the meantime keep your eye on the prize and we'll see you next week

01:26:34.920 from Medicine Hat. Bye.

House Arrest - October 20, 2026

Ep. 51 Diego Machado

Episode Stats

Transcript