Juno News - MEP Christine Anderson is coming to Canada to meet freedom protesters

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.

00:00:05.580 This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.

00:00:10.780 Coming up, an in-depth conversation about freedom,

00:00:13.360 about the intersection of European and Canadian politics.

00:00:16.520 Believe it or not, there is one, and lots more,

00:00:19.520 with Christine Anderson, the member of the European Parliament from Germany.

00:00:23.420 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.

00:00:26.700 Hello and welcome to you all, Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show here.

00:00:31.240 This is the Andrew Lawton Show on True North.

00:00:34.540 It's not often that we cast a wide net and talk about European politics exclusively on this show,

00:00:40.940 and I am going to try to steer clear of that on this,

00:00:43.720 although I think what's fascinating is that in this global era,

00:00:47.100 the freedom movement is one that really transcends national borders.

00:00:51.160 We saw people from the United States, from Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria,

00:00:56.100 Germany, Australia, and many other places all link up during the COVID era

00:01:00.480 because they realized that what united them as people pushing back against government overreach

00:01:05.200 was ultimately a stronger bond than what might have divided them

00:01:09.340 as far as space and time and geography and all of that fun stuff.

00:01:13.760 And as people looked at the global picture,

00:01:16.360 there were some very standout examples of people standing athwart history

00:01:20.720 and yelling stop of people pushing back against this,

00:01:24.000 even at great political risk to themselves.

00:01:26.580 One of them was the member of the European Parliament, Christine Anderson,

00:01:30.640 who hails from Germany, but obviously she works for the European Parliament, 0.95

00:01:34.660 and she is part of a small but mighty and small but vocal group in the European Parliament

00:01:40.640 that is standing up so unequivocally for freedom.

00:01:44.000 And Canada caught Ms. Anderson's eye a little over a year ago

00:01:48.740 when the freedom convoy was headed to Ottawa

00:01:52.000 and then when the federal government had its massive crackdown on that convoy.

00:01:57.320 Take a look.

00:01:58.440 This message today goes out to all the Canadians,

00:02:01.580 especially the Canadian truckers.

00:02:04.260 I am so very proud of you.

00:02:06.960 I applaud your bravery and your determination to stand up

00:02:11.140 for freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

00:02:16.140 You have given hope to so many people in the world.

00:02:20.560 You have shown the world that this small fringe minority 1.00

00:02:25.060 is not all that small after all.

00:02:28.740 More importantly, you demonstrated how to deal

00:02:31.940 with an ever-increasing governmental overreach.

00:02:35.060 This is not something you put up with.

00:02:38.360 No, this is something you need to shut down.

00:02:42.440 That was certainly what put Christine Anderson 1.00

00:02:45.040 on a lot of Canadians' radars,

00:02:47.920 and she wasn't finished there when Justin Trudeau

00:02:50.440 some months later went on his European tour

00:02:53.200 and actually sat down in the European Parliament in Brussels.

00:02:56.540 Christine Anderson had some harsh words for him then as well. 0.99

00:03:00.060 It would have been more appropriate for Mr. Trudeau,

00:03:02.200 Prime Minister of Canada, to address this House.

00:03:05.060 According to Article 144, an article which was specifically designed

00:03:10.400 to debate violations of human rights, democracy and the rule of law,

00:03:15.480 which is clearly the case with Mr. Trudeau.

00:03:18.740 Then again, a Prime Minister who openly admires

00:03:21.940 the Chinese basic dictatorship,

00:03:24.260 who tramples on fundamental rights

00:03:26.340 by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists,

00:03:30.520 just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy,

00:03:35.540 should not be allowed to speak in this House at all. 0.98

00:03:39.140 Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy. 0.97

00:03:43.960 Please spare us your presence. 0.99

00:03:46.600 Thank you.

00:03:47.000 As you can see, a woman who doesn't shy away from saying what she thinks.

00:03:51.420 We need a few people with those instincts in politics in Canada as well.

00:03:55.780 But Christine Anderson is going to be coming herself to Canada 1.00

00:03:59.200 in just under one month, February 18th to 25th.

00:04:03.420 She is going to be touring Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

00:04:06.880 You can get all the details of this tour at www.cadtour.com.

00:04:12.620 Now that's what would Christine Anderson do? 1.00

00:04:15.020 That's the acronym there, www.cadtour.com.

00:04:19.340 And you look at the itinerary there.

00:04:20.880 She's going to be going to Alberta at the Calgary Petroleum Club,

00:04:24.980 Southside Victory Church.

00:04:26.260 She's going to be speaking at the Canada Christian College in Whitby

00:04:29.520 and doing a dinner in Toronto.

00:04:31.320 And then off to Quebec for a send-off cocktail dinner

00:04:35.060 with dessert and dancing.

00:04:36.460 You don't often get that at freedom events.

00:04:38.800 Although the convoy did have dessert and dancing.

00:04:42.080 And I don't know about cocktails, but maybe they should have had that.

00:04:45.040 In any event, it is my great pleasure to welcome

00:04:47.740 Christine Anderson onto the program now.

00:04:50.180 Christine, it's wonderful to talk to you.

00:04:51.880 Thank you so much for joining me today.

00:04:54.520 Thank you for having me.

00:04:56.220 So let's start with the obvious question here.

00:04:58.920 You're a member of the European Parliament.

00:05:00.900 I know you've got a full plate of things you need to deal with there.

00:05:04.200 Why is it important to you to tour Canada?

00:05:07.500 And actually, if I can be frank, why do you care about Canada?

00:05:11.960 Well, you know, first of all, I just want to meet the most bravest people in the world.

00:05:18.420 What I consider the most brave people in the world in the past three years, at least.

00:05:23.420 And it was just, you know, Canada, I mean, Trudeau really did overplay his hand there

00:05:30.780 with the, you know, violations on fundamental rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

00:05:35.420 And he just, he was so obvious about it.

00:05:39.100 And he didn't even seem to care.

00:05:40.680 And I was like, I mean, Canada, you know, once free country, how is it possible?

00:05:48.020 And how quickly did that all, you know, come about?

00:05:52.360 And that just, you know, struck me.

00:05:54.480 And it was like, something is going seriously wrong here.

00:05:57.960 So, yeah, I took a particular interest in that.

00:06:01.740 And then plus, you had, I mean, you had the freedom convoy over there.

00:06:05.440 And, you know, just think about what, what started this.

00:06:10.640 I mean, what, you know, what happened from there?

00:06:13.720 It was really the trucks went rolling and they did not only roll in Canada.

00:06:19.500 You know, it was a symbol of hope, a symbol of freedom, and that traveled throughout the world.

00:06:25.500 And I really just want to meet the people that made this all happen.

00:06:29.560 Because that really woke a lot of people up.

00:06:32.940 And they came to realize something is not right here.

00:06:37.200 And what my government is telling me, it may not all be true.

00:06:42.120 I know that you obviously lived in the United States.

00:06:45.240 So you're familiar with North America.

00:06:47.080 And obviously you've picked up a bit of the political culture there.

00:06:50.440 But was Canada on your radar in any meaningful way before the convoy happened?

00:06:56.980 I've always wanted to go and see your country.

00:07:00.420 I mean, you know, but I didn't have any particular interest in Canada.

00:07:05.080 No, not that I could say.

00:07:07.320 But like I said, the freedom truckers, they really struck a nerve with me.

00:07:12.780 And yeah, and now I just have to come, whether you like it or not.

00:07:16.400 Well, it's funny you say that, because a lot of people I think will like it and I think should come.

00:07:23.020 And I know tickets are already going for your events.

00:07:26.080 But there are going to be a lot of people that are trying to look at people like you in Europe and with European parties.

00:07:33.140 And they use these scary words like far-right, populist, extremist.

00:07:38.160 And in Europe, do you have the same problem with those terms just being applied by the media and by people on the political left to try to discredit you?

00:07:46.760 You know, they can try, but they are not successful.

00:07:52.080 I mean, you know, they can label me with whatever they want, but no one gets to define me.

00:07:58.140 I know who I am.

00:07:59.320 I know what I stand for.

00:08:00.900 And I know I am on the right side with this.

00:08:04.020 And so no one gets to define me.

00:08:07.260 They may try, you know, but I'm not going to go for this.

00:08:10.920 So whatever label they want to slap on me, let them, you know, I can't deal with that.

00:08:17.000 That's no problem at all.

00:08:18.880 One story I found interesting when I learned a little bit about your political party, Alternative for Germany,

00:08:24.900 is that it was, as I understand it, at one point targeted by German intelligence and investigated as being this extremist group.

00:08:34.140 And that struck me as very similar to what Justin Trudeau does to his political critics,

00:08:38.540 what he did throughout the convoy, where he takes this apparatus of the state and uses it for political purposes

00:08:45.460 more than what these things are supposed to be used for.

00:08:49.220 Right.

00:08:49.780 I mean, yeah, we've been seeing that in Germany.

00:08:52.700 I mean, we do have the state, you know, secret intelligence service, if you want to call it,

00:08:57.700 you call it Bundesverfassungsschutz.

00:09:01.000 And the primary, or what they should do, is to actually protect the constitution.

00:09:08.540 And they should be on the lookout for any groups, you know, that want to undermine the constitution,

00:09:16.380 overthrow the government, you know, with violent means.

00:09:20.040 But it's been abused to pretty much suppress the opposition.

00:09:27.460 And that's just a no-go in, you know, in a democracy.

00:09:31.360 You should never do that.

00:09:32.980 But they're just doing it.

00:09:34.340 And, you know, they're coming up with all kinds of accusations.

00:09:37.160 And the latest group they arrested, I'm not kidding here, was a bunch of elderlies, you know, 1.00

00:09:46.640 like 78, 80, 82.

00:09:49.360 And it was like, I think like eight or nine of them.

00:09:51.400 And they passed around this picture of this old lady holding, you know, some bag or whatever.

00:09:58.300 And she is now being paraded around as this terrorist trying to overthrow the government. 0.99

00:10:03.840 I know, it's so ridiculous. 0.95

00:10:05.320 These 80-year-olds were a threat to the national security of Germany somehow. 0.97

00:10:09.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:10.400 And they were, they were being accused of having tried to kidnap our secretary of health.

00:10:17.780 I mean, him of all people, who would want to kidnap this lunatic, you know, seriously.

00:10:22.960 Yeah, but it's like a lot of people, they still fall for this. 0.98

00:10:26.760 And they don't even realize how ridiculous that even sounds, you know. 0.61

00:10:31.980 I mean, eight, nine, 80-year-olds, yeah, really. 0.93

00:10:36.520 But they're doing it.

00:10:38.240 And yeah, we have been a target of that too.

00:10:40.160 And we still are, by the way.

00:10:42.980 So, but, you know, when I found out that they were, you know, observing us, I just said,

00:10:49.900 well, you know, tell you the truth, if I have to leave the house at night to, you know,

00:10:53.760 walk around the block or whatever, you know, get something, I feel much safer now.

00:10:58.980 Yeah, you've got free personal protection from the government.

00:11:02.380 That's a good way to put a positive spin on it.

00:11:04.640 But let me ask you about where Europe is in your view compared to North America.

00:11:09.940 Because I know that for Canadian conservatives and certainly American conservatives, they have

00:11:15.740 historically looked at Europe as being the place where freedom is just no longer within reach.

00:11:21.260 They've said Europe is dead.

00:11:22.880 And a lot of this, you can trace back to the way European governments have just completely opened their borders to unfettered migration.

00:11:30.940 Civil liberties have been trampled on.

00:11:33.060 When the COVID was happening, we saw some very extreme measures around the world, though, in Australia and Canada,

00:11:39.920 and even the United States, which still right now has a vaccine mandate.

00:11:43.920 So what's your perspective as a European representative in the European Parliament, rather,

00:11:49.360 to where Europe is compared to North America for freedom?

00:11:53.020 Is it still within grasp, in your view?

00:11:57.060 That's actually a tough one to answer.

00:11:59.860 They've been on this for so long now, and what we are seeing is they are redefining certain concepts.

00:12:09.180 For instance, fundamental rights.

00:12:11.040 They're now privileges, you know, that the government can grant you or can withhold, depending upon your behavior or whatever.

00:12:19.720 And that is such a perversion of, you know, these concepts.

00:12:26.600 Then you take human rights, for example, you know.

00:12:31.040 Now it is a human right to have an abortion, you know.

00:12:34.880 And it will call out on any country that they presume to be in violation of that fundamental right.

00:12:42.620 For instance, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

00:12:47.720 I mean, this place was, went ballistic here.

00:12:50.580 All of these poor women and there have been, you know, whatever. 1.00

00:12:53.700 And, but they fail to see when there are actual violations of fundamental rights,

00:13:00.820 as happened in Canada, as happened in the United States or here, you know,

00:13:05.340 where people were locked in their homes because they were asymptomatic, might have been asymptomatic,

00:13:12.000 you know, with some virus or whatever.

00:13:13.600 I mean, they fail to see that these are the actual violations of fundamental rights.

00:13:19.520 Take a freedom of speech, for instance.

00:13:22.040 You may have heard of, or I'm pretty sure you have, Jordan B. Peterson.

00:13:26.660 You know, they're now threatening him that he has to undergo re-education, you know,

00:13:32.040 or he stands to lose his license.

00:13:34.180 I mean, on what planet would that be considered something you would do in a democracy?

00:13:43.420 It's absurd.

00:13:44.920 So the real problem actually is, and you mentioned that, it did not only go on here in Europe

00:13:52.260 or in Germany or in France or Italy.

00:13:54.360 It was in, in Australia, and you see, I mean, in every single Western democracy,

00:14:00.820 you had exactly the same thing happening.

00:14:04.120 They were basically in, in lockstep as we, and literally down to the same words,

00:14:09.820 build back better vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, you know, safe and, and effective and all of

00:14:15.760 that.

00:14:15.940 And it came from all of them.

00:14:17.300 And that is actually the most scary thing about this all, because like I always say,

00:14:22.300 if it was two or three countries going broke, you know, and, and, you know, kind of like

00:14:27.540 violating on fun and fundamental rights, uh, you could hope that one of the other democratic

00:14:33.400 countries will step in eventually and put a stop to it.

00:14:36.640 But if it's all of them, who in the heck is going to bail us out?

00:14:41.520 Who?

00:14:42.240 China? 0.73

00:14:43.000 I think not.

00:14:43.900 North Korea? 0.67

00:14:45.100 Hell no.

00:14:45.560 And it's not going to be Russia either.

00:14:48.080 So who is going to do that?

00:14:50.560 And that is actually the conclusion from that has to be, there is only the people left.

00:14:57.100 We have to do it.

00:14:57.980 The people have to do it.

00:14:59.860 There isn't going to be anyone else coming.

00:15:02.920 You're very right about that.

00:15:04.460 And, and I, I think, you know, Canada is a tremendous example of that.

00:15:07.800 This is normally a very passive country.

00:15:09.740 We're not born of revolution.

00:15:11.160 And, and unlike your country, we don't have in, in living memory, a time when there was

00:15:16.440 such a thing as an East Germany for, or a Soviet union that was directly, uh, in affecting

00:15:22.300 Canadians like it was in Europe. 0.88

00:15:24.040 And, and I think that's often been to our detriment that we don't have that in our history

00:15:28.280 and in our, our collective memory.

00:15:29.920 But you do raise an important point that when government pushes too far, they can awaken

00:15:36.520 this sentiment that pushes back against them.

00:15:39.360 It was the truckers.

00:15:40.400 I look at what happened in, in Austria when Austria was planning one of the most evil 0.98

00:15:44.440 totalitarian policies of the COVID era, which was mandatory vaccination, a fine of, I think

00:15:50.360 it was something like 6,000 euros or around that if someone didn't get vaccinated.

00:15:54.880 And Germany was considering something like that too, were they not?

00:15:58.560 Yes, they were.

00:15:59.720 And, you know, just talking about it and just threatening to come up with a vaccine mandate

00:16:05.760 actually made people, because they figured if it's going to come anyway, then I might as

00:16:10.460 well do it now.

00:16:11.160 And that, then I'll be allowed to go to a restaurant again, you know?

00:16:13.980 And that's the coercion.

00:16:15.620 They don't even have to pass the law to get the effect.

00:16:18.640 Exactly.

00:16:19.260 It was coercion.

00:16:20.560 And, um, they, they didn't even try to hide it.

00:16:23.320 I mean, our secretary of health, he just came right out and he said, well, you know, if

00:16:29.820 we, if we have a mandatory, uh, vaccine, then, uh, people are going to get, get vaccinated.

00:16:35.120 And that's what we want.

00:16:36.140 We want them to get vaccinated and we need to put pressure on them, you know?

00:16:40.180 And it was talk of, um, they wouldn't be allowed to go to work anymore.

00:16:43.340 It was talk of if they were hospitalized, they get no treatment or they have to pay for the

00:16:48.940 treatment themselves.

00:16:50.040 You know, I mean, I am German and, uh, we have, you know, 12, very, very dark years

00:16:55.020 now.

00:16:55.240 And we remember it every year on a particular day, by the way, tomorrow, once again, we

00:16:59.560 will, you know, uh, remember the end of the Holocaust.

00:17:02.160 So, um, but, uh, people fail to recognize the mechanisms that were put in place back then

00:17:10.380 to enable such a regime.

00:17:13.680 And they're looking at it right now and they do not see it because now it's the good guys

00:17:20.520 doing it.

00:17:21.180 Yeah.

00:17:21.480 Right.

00:17:21.880 When you talk about everyone in the world being in lockstep, that is, I think a very

00:17:28.640 important point to consider here.

00:17:30.440 And I mentioned to you just before we started recording and my listeners and viewers are

00:17:34.980 aware I was in Davos last week covering the world economic forum.

00:17:38.980 And the challenge of events like that is that all of a sudden the world leaders that show

00:17:43.560 up are not representing their own countries anymore.

00:17:45.780 They're all representing this little club of global elites in the Swiss village of Davos

00:17:51.900 when they show up there.

00:17:53.040 And I think the European union is a big part problem here because you have countries that

00:17:57.620 are a member of this body that tries to have a, its own pseudo national European identity

00:18:04.760 and which you cannot really have unless you give up a, at least a part of your German identity

00:18:10.680 or your French identity or your Italian identity.

00:18:13.360 And I see that as being a huge issue.

00:18:16.100 And I think every country in the world should be protecting its sovereignty far more than they

00:18:20.940 have been.

00:18:22.460 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:18:24.020 And that's exactly what they're doing.

00:18:25.620 This is a major attack on our very identity.

00:18:31.220 And, you know, we're not only talking about national identity.

00:18:34.140 We're not only talking about cultural identity.

00:18:36.480 We're also talking about sexual identity.

00:18:39.340 You know, your sexual biological identity that goes down to the very core of who you are as

00:18:47.160 a human being.

00:18:47.940 And they're trying to take that away too.

00:18:50.600 I mean, they're added as, as we speak.

00:18:53.760 And, uh, I always wonder, you know, if I can be anything at any time, you know, a woman today,

00:19:00.320 a man tomorrow, maybe something completely different on the next day or whatever.

00:19:03.880 And you can, I mean, what are you going to be in the end?

00:19:07.900 Nothing.

00:19:08.820 You will be nothing.

00:19:10.440 You have no identity left.

00:19:12.140 Uh, there will be nothing.

00:19:14.360 So, um, yeah, we are in big trouble.

00:19:17.620 And, uh, if people don't start realizing it pretty soon, uh, we may not have a chance to

00:19:24.720 prevent it anymore.

00:19:25.560 I see this as being very tied into digital ID and central bank, digital currencies, again,

00:19:33.120 two policies that the European union is, is going full steam ahead towards.

00:19:37.120 And what people who are apathetic about these things are supportive of these things don't

00:19:42.880 realize, or maybe some of them do and are very enthusiastic about it is that when your

00:19:47.920 identity is the property of the state, or it's something that you can't physically hold

00:19:54.020 in your hand and control in your hand, it is the state's power.

00:19:57.880 And anyone who looked at the freezing of truckers, bank accounts in Canada should have no interest

00:20:03.960 and no time and no patience for anything digital that is controlled by someone other than themselves.

00:20:10.320 But so many Europeans are going along with this. 0.86

00:20:13.140 And I'm wondering if you think the reason is that they're too trusting in government or

00:20:17.940 that they just don't even think about the long-term implications of these things.

00:20:21.960 If you, when, once you look at the countries in the Eastern European countries, it's not

00:20:27.480 been that long ago that they had to live under a totalitarian Soviet rule, they remember, and

00:20:34.060 they have learned how to read a newspaper.

00:20:35.860 It, you know, the point is not what's in the paper.

00:20:38.820 The interesting stuff is what's not in the paper and you have to read between the lines.

00:20:44.060 So they see it, they feel it, because it feels exactly the same as what they had overcome 30 years ago.

00:20:52.140 So, but we, as we have been born and raised in Western democracies, we are spoiled brats.

00:21:02.200 And the totalitarian regimes of the past, they were rather blunt about it.

00:21:07.100 You know, they just started rounding up people and, you know, locking them up or whatever.

00:21:11.540 Now they're way more clever.

00:21:13.420 They just tell it's for your own good.

00:21:15.520 You know, we want to protect human rights.

00:21:18.100 So it's every human right.

00:21:20.140 You can be a man, a woman.

00:21:21.820 You can go into a woman's restroom or locker. 1.00

00:21:25.740 You know, if you feel like a woman, you can go in there, you know, all of these things.

00:21:30.000 So this complete shift of what we once thought were our, that the concepts of what democracy was built on is now being deconstructed completely.

00:21:42.740 And that's what we have to deal with.

00:21:44.800 And the people, I can't stress this enough, people need to start realizing and they need to revisit what democracy is all about.

00:21:54.020 That's an incredibly important point you raise about the redefining of terms.

00:22:01.620 I've followed a number of cases over the years that have gone towards the European Court of Human Rights, which in and of itself is, I think, an offensive existence.

00:22:10.880 But the European Court of Human Rights has a very malleable view of what freedom of speech is.

00:22:16.540 And they try to balance this against other harms.

00:22:19.160 And you could make a comment about radical Islam that has happened in a case not that long ago that the European Court of Human Rights says, well, your free speech doesn't really apply there.

00:22:29.160 And this is something people should be terrified of because they are giving up the power.

00:22:34.340 It's not being seized.

00:22:35.560 They're giving it away.

00:22:37.600 Right.

00:22:38.740 You're exactly right.

00:22:40.720 So we're seeing this.

00:22:42.580 And that actually concerns me the most because Northern America, the United States and Canada, I mean, I can only really speak about the United States.

00:22:52.920 They had a very strong concept of freedom of speech.

00:22:58.320 I mean, that was the most fundamental rights you could even imagine.

00:23:02.900 Yeah.

00:23:03.020 There's a reason it's the First Amendment.

00:23:05.380 Exactly.

00:23:05.940 And the U.S. courts, they generate a freedom of speech.

00:23:12.380 But now even, well, you know, you might be hurting people and, you know, this, that and the other.

00:23:17.520 And I had it happen here in the FAM Committee, that is the Committee on the Equality between Men and Women.

00:23:25.180 And so I was, a colleague of mine, she urged the chair of the committee to launch an investigation into me because I might have, might have violated, oh, what was the term she used?

00:23:38.420 I might have, I might have committed the crime of hate speech.

00:23:42.480 Can you imagine?

00:23:44.060 So she was accusing me.

00:23:44.940 And what was it, what was it you said that was so hateful?

00:23:47.760 Oh, I'll get to that.

00:23:49.460 So she, I launched an investigation, I could have committed a hate crime.

00:23:55.620 And what had I said?

00:23:57.600 I said, just to be clear, there's only two sexes, men and women. 0.99

00:24:03.600 That's it.

00:24:05.080 So I committed a hate crime, really?

00:24:08.400 I just kind of laughed at her and said, yeah, sure, whatever.

00:24:11.400 So, yeah, but it's absurd, you know?

00:24:14.120 I mean, this is a biological fact, you know? 0.93

00:24:19.020 But, yeah, that's the clown world we live in right now.

00:24:24.240 And people should be terrified of that.

00:24:26.820 I mean, haven't they written 1984?

00:24:30.120 And that book was not supposed to be a blueprint.

00:24:32.660 It was a warning.

00:24:34.320 And now it's being banned in school, by the way.

00:24:38.020 Yeah, and the books that they're trying to ban are always the ones that I think independent thinkers should be flocking to and reading because there's something they don't want you to see there.

00:24:49.180 Now, I know, Christine, you're speaking across Canada.

00:24:52.440 I've mentioned the dates at the beginning, and I'll mention them again at the end.

00:24:55.440 But are you also, as a representative, a foreign representative, going to be meeting with any politicians here or hoping to meet with any politicians here?

00:25:04.540 Yes, I will be meeting some politicians, too.

00:25:07.780 I mean, since I'm there, I might as well.

00:25:09.680 I mean, you guys do have a couple of politicians I would actually like to meet.

00:25:15.460 They seem to be pretty good guys.

00:25:18.800 So, yeah, I'm going to be doing that.

00:25:20.840 But the main focus is really on meeting the people and, you know, yeah, just getting to know, like I said, some of the most brave, brave people, the bravest people in the world.

00:25:32.860 And the last question I'll ask you then, when you think about the message that you'll be bringing to Canada and perhaps elsewhere when you speak, are you an optimist or are you hopeful?

00:25:43.860 Oh, absolutely.

00:25:47.220 If I wasn't hopeful, I mean, you know, I wouldn't be doing any of this because then, you know, I would just, I don't know.

00:25:54.440 But, yeah, I am optimistic.

00:25:56.020 I am hopeful.

00:25:57.520 You kind of have to be because otherwise you could not do what I do.

00:26:03.180 And the freedom truckers, they have to be optimistic, too, because they would have never been able to pull this off, you know, had they not had some hope.

00:26:11.560 And had they not had the reassurance that it will, in the end, all turn out for the better.

00:26:19.480 So, yeah, absolutely.

00:26:21.080 We certainly look forward to your visit, Christine Anderson, member of the European Parliament.

00:26:26.160 Great to talk to you.

00:26:27.080 Thank you so much for your time.

00:26:28.800 Thank you so much for having me.

00:26:30.140 And I'm really looking forward to coming over.

00:26:32.280 That was Christine Anderson. 0.96

00:26:34.020 The upcoming tour starting February 18th.

00:26:36.620 A little bit of a significant date as we talk about the end of the Freedom Convoy and the one-year anniversary of it.

00:26:42.600 She's going to start in Alberta, then make her way to Ontario, and then a final send-off in Quebec. 1.00

00:26:47.580 The details are at www.cadtour.com.

00:26:51.980 What would Christine Anderson do? 1.00

00:26:53.840 Tour.com.

00:26:55.460 So that is going to be coming up.

00:26:56.820 And I'll certainly try to make it out to at least one of them.

00:26:59.440 And I hope to see some of you there as well.

00:27:01.240 So thanks again to Christine and to all of you for tuning in to The Andrew Lawton Show today.

00:27:06.120 We will talk to you next week.

00:27:08.180 But there's a Fake News Friday in the meantime that you can see on Friday, I guess.

00:27:12.700 That's why we call it Fake News Friday.

00:27:14.380 So hope you enjoy that.

00:27:15.660 We will talk to you soon.

00:27:16.840 Thank you.

00:27:17.300 God bless.

00:27:17.920 And good day to you all.

00:27:19.460 Thanks for listening to The Andrew Lawton Show.

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Juno News - January 26, 2023

MEP Christine Anderson is coming to Canada to meet freedom protesters

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