Juno News - January 28, 2022


The elites couldn't be more wrong about the freedom convoy


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

165.90562

Word Count

6,322

Sentence Count

416

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Coming up, the growing divide between the elites and the everyman about the convoy on its way to Ottawa. Plus, former NHL great Theo Fleury stops by the show to talk about his support of the pro-vaccine movement.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.
00:00:06.660 This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
00:00:12.920 Coming up, the growing divide between the elites and the everyman about the convoy on its way to Ottawa.
00:00:19.100 Plus, former NHL great Theo Fleury stops by.
00:00:23.660 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.
00:00:30.000 Hello and welcome to the Andrew Lawton Show here on True North.
00:00:34.140 It is Friday, January 28th, 2022.
00:00:38.100 I was going to say T-minus one day until the convoy,
00:00:42.360 because the big, of course, arrival is in Ottawa tomorrow on Saturday.
00:00:47.200 And I'm going to be there. I'm actually leaving right...
00:00:49.120 I'm going to, like, run out the door at rapid cartoon speed at the end of the show
00:00:53.100 to get my rear end to Ottawa, which, well, my rear end's pretty much the size of an 18-wheeler.
00:00:58.540 So, it'll blend right in on the convoy.
00:01:01.120 But I can't even say it's T-minus one, because the convoy is bigger than just tomorrow.
00:01:07.200 The convoy has been for the last week.
00:01:10.100 The convoy's been growing every single day.
00:01:12.300 We've got multiple routes from all over the country.
00:01:14.740 And the message itself is more and more under attack by the media and by the political elite.
00:01:21.360 I'm not going to rehash all of the criticism here.
00:01:23.600 The Toronto Star, however, Cal Suprise, on their front page this morning,
00:01:28.660 was talking about the danger, the risk, the fear of the convoy.
00:01:33.060 That was all they were doing, highlighting solely the negative.
00:01:37.280 That's the front page story of the Toronto Star.
00:01:41.200 So, if the Toronto Star is against you, you must be doing something right.
00:01:44.920 That's generally always been my approach, not just to this, but just to the world itself.
00:01:49.340 So, let's talk about the real people here, because I said on the show yesterday,
00:01:53.880 I've never seen in Canada in the last decade a bigger divide between the downtown Ottawa consensus,
00:02:00.680 the Laurentian elite consensus, and what everyone else in the country who's paying attention
00:02:06.280 is seeing in the same story, the same event.
00:02:10.940 And in all honesty, I said it yesterday, I'll say it again,
00:02:13.220 I've seen more and more people that are not part of a political orbit by any stretch,
00:02:17.640 let alone a conservative political orbit, that are paying attention to the convoy,
00:02:21.360 that are supporting truckers, people that I know are totally pro-vaccine,
00:02:25.780 in many cases pro-vaccine mandate historically, have been saying to me,
00:02:29.800 I've had a couple of them, you know, this convoy seems like a pretty,
00:02:33.020 this seems like the real deal, this seems legit.
00:02:35.640 So, more and more people are paying attention,
00:02:37.820 yet if you were to look at the mainstream media,
00:02:39.340 you'd think that Canada was on the verge of a Charlottesville hate rally of transport trucks
00:02:44.700 on its way to Ottawa.
00:02:46.760 Kian Bexty over at the Counter Signal shared this video clip that I wanted to play a little bit of here.
00:02:52.060 These are two Indigenous women supporting the convoy,
00:02:56.060 talking about how as Indigenous women, they feel attacked not by the convoy,
00:03:00.700 but by the government.
00:03:02.400 We've been shut out of so many things, travel,
00:03:06.840 our own community, our own community.
00:03:10.140 Yeah, anything in our community, we're not allowed to go to our health clinic
00:03:13.680 in our community, we're not allowed to attend
00:03:17.540 round dances in our community.
00:03:23.700 Like, I've lost so much family and friends
00:03:26.860 because of this.
00:03:28.420 I have loved ones across the U.S. border
00:03:33.300 that I haven't seen for two years.
00:03:36.380 We're not allowed to get on a plane, a boat, a train.
00:03:42.840 Alright, so you think it's time to end the pandemic policy?
00:03:47.220 It's time to end the mandates.
00:03:48.580 And all the ridiculous, crippling responses to this.
00:03:56.960 Yeah, the hate.
00:03:57.640 Yeah, the hate is awful.
00:03:59.460 Would you call Justin Trudeau a hateful person?
00:04:01.720 Absolutely.
00:04:02.580 For sure.
00:04:03.200 Absolutely.
00:04:03.980 He's got to go.
00:04:05.280 Alright.
00:04:05.900 Alright.
00:04:06.280 Thanks so much, you guys.
00:04:07.880 Woo!
00:04:08.280 Oh yes, those must be those evil, scary, indigenous, white supremacist, racists
00:04:15.060 we've been warned about.
00:04:16.400 Yes, we must protect everyone in Canada
00:04:18.680 from these indigenous, racist, white supremacist types.
00:04:22.500 My goodness, this is absurd.
00:04:24.080 And if you start looking at the makeup of this,
00:04:26.700 it is minorities, people from all walks of life,
00:04:29.580 young and old, different religious groups
00:04:31.440 that are all coming together saying,
00:04:33.240 we've had enough of the vaccine mandates,
00:04:35.360 we've had enough of the restrictions,
00:04:36.620 we've had enough of COVID.
00:04:39.800 Because now that the narrative has shifted a little bit,
00:04:42.440 you start to see the debate change in pretty fundamental ways.
00:04:46.040 One of the big examples of this is people saying,
00:04:48.900 well, I mean, why are they protesting Ottawa?
00:04:51.880 If their issues are lockdowns,
00:04:53.160 why are they not going to Victoria?
00:04:55.540 Why are they not going to Edmonton,
00:04:57.080 to Toronto, to provincial capitals?
00:04:59.420 Why are they not devoting and directing their ire at provincial leaders?
00:05:03.500 And this is a fair question.
00:05:04.880 Listen, if there were a national coordinated effort
00:05:07.980 to send truckers to every provincial capital,
00:05:10.660 it might be a neat story.
00:05:12.340 But one thing that strikes me,
00:05:13.940 and this came up a couple of years back,
00:05:16.040 or maybe it was September of 2020,
00:05:18.300 when the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights,
00:05:21.060 the CCFR,
00:05:22.240 was putting together its big integrity march in Ottawa.
00:05:24.960 And Tracy Wilson and Rod Giltaka were asked,
00:05:27.560 why not just have these in every city across Canada?
00:05:30.100 And they said, because you need to make an impact
00:05:31.900 by showing how many people you have.
00:05:34.740 You don't want to diffuse your efforts and your numbers
00:05:38.780 where people can't see how many of you there are.
00:05:42.300 Despite the logistical challenges,
00:05:44.000 it is going to be a sight to behold
00:05:45.580 when in Ottawa, we have tons of people,
00:05:48.780 trucks, sedans, SUVs, individual people
00:05:51.720 that are all there saying,
00:05:53.320 hey, we want to be seen, we want to be heard.
00:05:56.400 And Ottawa is, yes, a location,
00:05:58.440 a physical geographical location
00:06:00.120 where the federal government sits.
00:06:01.380 But it's more of a metaphor for government
00:06:03.620 at this point as well,
00:06:04.720 because when these truckers are going there
00:06:06.620 to Ottawa, to Parliament Hill,
00:06:08.660 they're not exactly turning away
00:06:11.360 from provincial restrictions.
00:06:12.780 They're just saying,
00:06:13.940 we want to all be in one place.
00:06:15.160 And if we're going to be in one place,
00:06:16.380 what better place to be than the national capital?
00:06:20.320 And that's what's happening here.
00:06:21.560 And the misrepresentation we're seeing
00:06:23.840 of the convoy in the media, by the media,
00:06:26.220 is absolutely insane.
00:06:28.740 People are noticing.
00:06:30.180 People are noticing.
00:06:31.500 Russell Brand, who is an actor,
00:06:33.860 actually, I haven't seen much of him in a while
00:06:35.140 in acting, although I see these little clips
00:06:37.140 from his podcast.
00:06:38.180 He did a video.
00:06:39.000 It's 15 minutes long.
00:06:40.060 I won't play the whole thing,
00:06:41.080 but he did this little mini one,
00:06:43.140 which I think encapsulates
00:06:44.720 how people outside of the country
00:06:46.640 and more importantly,
00:06:47.800 outside of the elite are seeing this.
00:06:50.540 All right, well, do the Canadian trackers.
00:06:52.660 There's a great big convoy
00:06:54.780 heading across Canada
00:06:56.320 to protest vaccine mandates.
00:06:58.400 When we prepare these videos,
00:06:59.420 we have to find mainstream media content
00:07:01.260 to comment on and to build our content
00:07:02.940 and to help us formulate a perspective
00:07:04.980 so that we can get in a discourse with you.
00:07:06.400 We can't find any
00:07:07.400 about these Canadian truckers,
00:07:09.000 and yet people want to hear about it.
00:07:10.680 So what is going on?
00:07:12.400 And the main questions I have to offer is,
00:07:14.500 how come the truckers go from being heroes
00:07:16.500 one minute when they're delivering
00:07:17.560 vital goods and services
00:07:18.740 to being loathed
00:07:20.020 if they won't participate
00:07:21.580 and capitulate
00:07:23.240 according to the will of the powerful?
00:07:26.360 The answers are probably
00:07:27.560 pretty bloody obvious
00:07:28.800 to any of you that switched on.
00:07:30.180 Now, I should say
00:07:31.140 that I'm not one of these people.
00:07:32.520 Well, I do like Russell Brand.
00:07:33.520 I'm not one of these people
00:07:34.480 that puts a huge emphasis
00:07:35.980 on what celebrities say and think.
00:07:37.940 I think that sort of,
00:07:38.980 that approach works against conservatives
00:07:41.180 more often than it works for them.
00:07:43.120 However, I do think it is interesting
00:07:44.900 the few celebrity renegades
00:07:46.920 we've seen on this.
00:07:47.800 Rob Schneider,
00:07:48.600 who I, him, I absolutely love.
00:07:50.420 I love Adam Sandler,
00:07:51.480 Adam Sandler's movies,
00:07:52.280 and it's hard to find
00:07:53.340 an Adam Sandler movie
00:07:54.180 without Rob Schneider in it.
00:07:55.620 He had a couple of tweets yesterday.
00:07:57.240 He said,
00:07:57.840 Trudeau may have to redefine
00:07:59.120 what a small fringe minority is,
00:08:01.820 as he showed the picture
00:08:02.980 of the convoy stretching
00:08:04.360 from Manitoba to Ontario.
00:08:06.540 And then he also tweeted later on
00:08:08.540 after Justin Trudeau's COVID isolation
00:08:11.440 that he doesn't actually need to be doing
00:08:13.080 because the public health guidelines
00:08:14.700 say you don't have to
00:08:15.520 if you're negative, but whatever.
00:08:16.920 And he says,
00:08:17.800 Generalissimo Trudeump has,
00:08:20.140 I'm not one for name calling,
00:08:21.220 but it's Rob Schneider,
00:08:22.920 has conveniently contracted
00:08:24.340 the truckers are coming for me variant.
00:08:27.640 Official statement should read,
00:08:29.000 staying safe,
00:08:29.740 avoiding any vehicles
00:08:30.660 with more than 17 wheels.
00:08:32.740 Hashtag truckers for freedom 2022.
00:08:35.800 So in my view,
00:08:36.940 this is just Rob Schneider
00:08:38.060 telling all Canadian truckers,
00:08:39.820 you can do it.
00:08:40.680 I'm not going to do the voice,
00:08:41.640 but if you've seen a Rob Schneider movie,
00:08:43.320 you know exactly the voice
00:08:44.500 in which that was meant to be said.
00:08:45.780 You can do it.
00:08:46.940 His message to Canadian truckers.
00:08:49.840 And Elon Musk, of course,
00:08:51.120 started with saying
00:08:52.440 je maple syrup,
00:08:54.420 which is not just poor French,
00:08:56.320 but it's actually a Franklish pun,
00:08:58.720 which good on Elon Musk
00:08:59.900 for being able to pull off.
00:09:01.720 And then he also said
00:09:02.500 just Canadian truckers rule
00:09:03.800 and CB radios are free
00:09:05.960 from government and media control,
00:09:08.060 which is not entirely true.
00:09:09.520 Government does control CBs,
00:09:11.020 but I do know the government
00:09:12.360 is not controlling the convoy,
00:09:13.900 which is why the convoy
00:09:14.960 is making such an impact here.
00:09:17.860 So we've got some of these
00:09:19.180 renegade celebrity types.
00:09:20.580 We've got independent media.
00:09:22.040 I mean, the number of independent journalists
00:09:23.520 that I know are on their way
00:09:25.080 to Ottawa right now
00:09:26.840 or are in Ottawa right now
00:09:28.240 ready to cover this is insane.
00:09:30.560 And again, independent media,
00:09:31.740 I've often said,
00:09:32.880 lacks the budget of mainstream media
00:09:35.360 because we're not on the government payroll.
00:09:37.660 We don't get the big corporate donations.
00:09:39.340 So when independent journalists
00:09:40.940 are making a point of going there,
00:09:42.700 that speaks volumes
00:09:43.860 about the appetite there is
00:09:46.060 to cover this honestly and fairly.
00:09:48.060 True North is going.
00:09:48.880 If you want to chip in
00:09:49.720 and support our costs,
00:09:50.760 you can head on over
00:09:51.380 to donate.tnc.news.
00:09:54.040 I know a lot of you
00:09:54.760 have donated to the convoy itself.
00:09:56.420 We're asking if you can
00:09:57.540 send a couple of bucks our way
00:09:58.780 so that we can cover this fairly
00:10:00.260 and represent this accurately.
00:10:03.540 And the reason I bring that up
00:10:04.940 is because we sent out
00:10:06.100 a fundraising email to our supporters
00:10:07.740 just letting them know our plans.
00:10:08.940 We're going to have,
00:10:09.780 I think, four people there
00:10:11.200 covering this.
00:10:12.600 And it's important
00:10:13.580 because we don't know
00:10:14.840 what we're in for.
00:10:15.800 We don't know how much
00:10:17.200 there's going to be to cover.
00:10:18.580 We don't know how long
00:10:19.440 this is going to last.
00:10:20.600 I know there have been
00:10:21.440 some events that have been
00:10:22.480 announced for Sunday.
00:10:23.860 Some people have talked about
00:10:24.840 staying until the mandates
00:10:26.500 are lifted.
00:10:27.500 I think all of this
00:10:28.420 is going to be something
00:10:29.240 where we have to
00:10:30.020 just play it by ear.
00:10:31.560 But I do want to talk about that
00:10:33.200 because as much as
00:10:35.020 I do not believe
00:10:36.420 the maligning version
00:10:38.040 of this that's circulating,
00:10:39.340 that this is an event
00:10:40.480 of radicals and extremists
00:10:41.880 and all of that,
00:10:42.640 I'm not going to deny
00:10:43.480 the possibility
00:10:44.140 that there are people
00:10:45.120 with impure intentions
00:10:46.680 for whatever reason
00:10:47.840 that want to disrupt,
00:10:49.620 that want to destroy.
00:10:50.720 It's certainly possible.
00:10:51.860 It's what happens
00:10:52.640 when you have a large
00:10:53.360 grassroots movement.
00:10:54.740 There's no passport
00:10:55.860 to enter the convoy.
00:10:57.200 Anyone can just say,
00:10:58.140 I'm a part of this.
00:10:59.100 I'm going to be there.
00:11:00.420 And I unequivocally,
00:11:01.900 preemptively denounce
00:11:03.200 any violence,
00:11:04.540 any hateful rhetoric
00:11:05.800 that we hear
00:11:06.300 because fighting for freedom
00:11:07.880 is supposed to be unifying.
00:11:10.080 Fighting for freedom
00:11:11.020 is unifying
00:11:11.960 because it affects us all.
00:11:14.140 And anyone who doesn't get that,
00:11:15.400 anyone that's out there
00:11:16.100 for their own reasons,
00:11:17.120 anyone who seeks
00:11:18.420 to usurp or undermine,
00:11:20.120 you're not welcome
00:11:20.880 in movements
00:11:21.840 that are about freedom.
00:11:23.800 And as I said yesterday,
00:11:25.340 I'll say again,
00:11:26.140 you are also not doing
00:11:27.280 the movement any favors.
00:11:29.280 Morally wrong, yes,
00:11:30.380 but also practically
00:11:31.520 not going to help anyone.
00:11:33.320 And this brings up
00:11:34.380 the question of blockades
00:11:35.720 because some people
00:11:36.440 have said they want
00:11:37.100 to actually disrupt Ottawa,
00:11:39.460 disrupt the flow of Ottawa.
00:11:41.740 And this is a difficult question
00:11:43.200 because a lot of people
00:11:44.400 on the right,
00:11:44.980 myself included,
00:11:46.200 were very much
00:11:46.980 against the blockades
00:11:48.140 we've seen in Canada
00:11:49.380 against pipelines.
00:11:50.800 People blockading rail,
00:11:52.420 disrupting critical infrastructure.
00:11:54.380 Conservatives generally
00:11:55.240 supported laws
00:11:56.320 prohibiting that,
00:11:57.480 not prohibiting protests,
00:11:58.820 but prohibiting protests
00:11:59.820 that disrupts infrastructure
00:12:01.960 or destroys infrastructure.
00:12:03.560 And I support that.
00:12:05.180 So just as I did then,
00:12:06.680 now I do not support anyone
00:12:08.860 blockading roads,
00:12:11.180 denying entry,
00:12:12.220 denying access,
00:12:13.600 doing anything
00:12:14.400 that disrupts infrastructure.
00:12:15.840 That is not what
00:12:16.600 peaceful law-abiding protest
00:12:18.380 is about.
00:12:20.140 And be very careful
00:12:21.240 about consistency
00:12:22.080 because if you were against
00:12:23.080 the idle no more rail blockades,
00:12:24.860 you should be against this.
00:12:25.940 And the same goes
00:12:26.640 to the left, by the way.
00:12:27.680 The left that was all
00:12:28.680 defending the blockades
00:12:29.840 shouldn't be coming up now
00:12:30.960 and being like,
00:12:31.320 oh, these truckers
00:12:32.560 better not try to block a railway
00:12:33.940 or something like that
00:12:34.780 because, again,
00:12:35.560 you have to be consistent.
00:12:36.800 And one thing that I've noticed
00:12:37.960 in myself
00:12:38.880 is that I pride consistency
00:12:40.180 more than pretty much
00:12:41.500 anything else
00:12:42.200 and will continue to be
00:12:43.940 because if you aren't consistent,
00:12:45.260 you veer into hypocrisy,
00:12:46.940 which is not something
00:12:47.600 that I'm comfortable with
00:12:48.580 and I hope you're not as well.
00:12:50.420 But all of that negative stuff
00:12:51.680 out of the way,
00:12:52.160 I remain optimistic
00:12:53.140 and I remain hopeful
00:12:54.260 that the tide is turning
00:12:55.740 and that more and more
00:12:57.460 real people
00:12:58.460 are talking about this
00:12:59.440 and the great thing is
00:13:00.700 when real people
00:13:01.580 start paying attention
00:13:02.560 and they see the signs,
00:13:04.180 they talk to their neighbours,
00:13:05.320 they watch the convoy,
00:13:06.560 they hang out on an overpass,
00:13:07.940 whatever the case may be,
00:13:09.180 when that happens,
00:13:11.480 when that happens,
00:13:12.620 all of the media ignorance
00:13:14.620 about this
00:13:15.580 becomes less and less relevant
00:13:17.480 and more importantly,
00:13:18.520 more distrusted.
00:13:20.400 When people see that video
00:13:21.880 of the Indigenous women
00:13:23.040 crying because of
00:13:24.140 what they've had done
00:13:25.540 to them by the state
00:13:26.700 because they're not vaccinated,
00:13:27.820 when they see that happen
00:13:28.760 and then they see
00:13:29.700 on the front page
00:13:30.480 of the Toronto Star
00:13:31.200 that, oh,
00:13:31.680 this is just some racist hate event,
00:13:33.380 most people are thinking,
00:13:34.760 well, hang on,
00:13:36.060 what about those Indigenous people?
00:13:37.400 Why aren't you telling their stories?
00:13:39.680 What about these working class people
00:13:41.360 that are just distraught
00:13:42.440 about their lost livelihood?
00:13:44.220 What about them?
00:13:46.080 And that's why this is so important.
00:13:47.920 Everyone's coming on board,
00:13:49.260 even, by the way,
00:13:50.760 Aaron O'Toole.
00:13:51.660 The last couple of shows
00:13:52.840 I've pointed this out,
00:13:53.820 Aaron O'Toole
00:13:54.320 not wanting to give
00:13:55.200 a straight answer,
00:13:55.900 not able or willing
00:13:56.940 to give a straight answer
00:13:57.940 about whether he supports
00:13:59.320 the convoy.
00:14:00.440 Finally, yesterday,
00:14:01.920 he decided he is in favor
00:14:04.380 of the convoy.
00:14:05.700 He's in favor of the truckers.
00:14:07.280 You might say
00:14:07.900 it's too little too late,
00:14:09.040 but I have to acknowledge
00:14:10.040 in the interest of completeness
00:14:11.300 that Aaron O'Toole
00:14:12.240 has finally come around
00:14:13.340 to what I said
00:14:14.580 would probably be inevitable
00:14:15.580 when he sees
00:14:16.180 just how many people,
00:14:17.300 including and especially
00:14:18.400 including those in his caucus,
00:14:20.720 were on Team Convoy.
00:14:22.220 He came out
00:14:22.820 and gave a statement yesterday
00:14:24.640 in which he laid out
00:14:25.960 that, yeah,
00:14:26.480 he's pro-convoy.
00:14:27.720 Although,
00:14:28.260 he said in this particular instance
00:14:30.060 that he's always been
00:14:31.600 against mandates
00:14:33.000 and his position
00:14:33.840 hasn't changed
00:14:34.620 from earlier in the week.
00:14:35.840 I don't buy that
00:14:36.480 because he was asked
00:14:37.300 seven or eight times
00:14:38.460 earlier this week
00:14:39.380 about the convoy.
00:14:40.320 He was asked to condemn it
00:14:41.420 and it was asked
00:14:42.780 to support it.
00:14:43.680 I mean,
00:14:43.780 he was just asked to say
00:14:44.680 what he thinks about it
00:14:45.920 and wouldn't.
00:14:46.780 So his mind
00:14:47.420 has definitely changed.
00:14:49.000 But he released yesterday
00:14:50.220 a video.
00:14:51.120 I won't share the whole thing,
00:14:52.280 but he talks about
00:14:53.160 how important the truckers are
00:14:54.620 and that he's going to be
00:14:55.280 meeting with them
00:14:55.900 in Ottawa.
00:14:56.900 Do you know what
00:14:57.500 vegetables grow really well
00:14:59.080 at minus 30?
00:15:00.860 None of them.
00:15:02.540 Canada is a trading nation.
00:15:04.580 If you own it,
00:15:05.800 a trucker delivered it.
00:15:07.380 You probably noticed
00:15:08.340 some empty shelves
00:15:09.200 at your grocery store.
00:15:10.560 That's because
00:15:11.040 Justin Trudeau
00:15:11.760 put in place a mandate
00:15:13.020 that all truckers
00:15:14.260 entering this country,
00:15:15.200 either Canadian or American,
00:15:16.540 have to be fully vaccinated.
00:15:18.360 If Trudeau's attack
00:15:19.180 on truckers
00:15:19.740 is allowed to continue,
00:15:21.560 tens of thousands
00:15:22.360 will be unable to work.
00:15:24.260 And more than that,
00:15:25.180 grocery prices
00:15:25.920 will become
00:15:26.660 even more expensive
00:15:27.640 while fruit and vegetables
00:15:29.140 rot
00:15:29.660 in American warehouses
00:15:31.020 unable to get to Canada.
00:15:33.100 The produce
00:15:33.800 that will be able
00:15:34.900 to get to Canada
00:15:35.560 will see their shipping costs
00:15:37.120 skyrocket by 25%.
00:15:39.200 And Canadian families
00:15:40.380 and small businesses
00:15:41.220 will be the ones
00:15:42.300 ultimately paying
00:15:43.440 Trudeau's bill.
00:15:44.840 Two years ago,
00:15:45.560 truckers were crossing
00:15:46.380 the border between
00:15:47.160 Canada and the U.S.
00:15:48.040 when no one else
00:15:48.880 was allowed
00:15:49.420 when no one else would.
00:15:50.900 They're often the unsung
00:15:52.060 heroes of the essential services.
00:15:54.780 Drivers are still active
00:15:56.200 in moving supplies
00:15:57.240 during a pandemic,
00:15:58.320 but they face
00:15:59.300 some unique challenges.
00:16:00.940 In the face of a new disease
00:16:02.240 and all the confusion
00:16:03.220 at the start of the pandemic,
00:16:04.640 it was many of these
00:16:05.440 brave truckers
00:16:06.300 that helped get us
00:16:07.140 through COVID.
00:16:08.060 There's no way around it.
00:16:09.880 Fast forward to today
00:16:10.960 and Justin Trudeau
00:16:11.860 is demonizing
00:16:12.660 many of those truckers
00:16:13.800 and threatening
00:16:14.820 both our economy
00:16:15.720 and our food supply,
00:16:17.260 all to distract
00:16:18.580 from his inflation crisis
00:16:19.840 and his failures
00:16:20.860 on COVID.
00:16:21.700 Now there's a convoy
00:16:22.620 of truckers
00:16:23.120 on a cross-country protest
00:16:24.360 to draw attention
00:16:25.660 to how unfair
00:16:26.760 this mandate is to them.
00:16:28.520 The freedom
00:16:28.900 to peacefully assemble,
00:16:30.400 to protest,
00:16:31.360 is a critical part
00:16:32.260 of our democracy.
00:16:33.620 Truckers want to work.
00:16:35.280 Justin Trudeau
00:16:35.860 is telling them no.
00:16:36.960 We're really,
00:16:37.800 really alienating
00:16:39.260 big pockets
00:16:40.440 of our population
00:16:41.420 with some of these mandates
00:16:42.680 and whether it's
00:16:43.600 justified or not,
00:16:45.120 it's hard to say.
00:16:46.280 Whenever a policy
00:16:47.780 is being implemented,
00:16:49.580 I think we have
00:16:50.080 to ask ourselves,
00:16:50.920 what's the goal here?
00:16:52.300 Like, what are you
00:16:52.840 actually trying to do?
00:16:55.060 That's probably
00:16:55.660 one of the most
00:16:56.360 important aspects
00:16:57.560 to question
00:16:59.360 when you're making policy
00:17:00.660 and sadly,
00:17:02.080 I think sometimes
00:17:02.780 that gets lost.
00:17:04.400 This policy against truckers
00:17:06.160 is an attack
00:17:07.140 on common sense
00:17:08.540 and it's an attack
00:17:09.720 on every Canadian's
00:17:10.740 household budget.
00:17:12.320 Canadians deserve access
00:17:13.660 to affordable food.
00:17:15.560 Truckers have
00:17:16.200 been our COVID heroes.
00:17:18.040 Period.
00:17:19.120 Canada doesn't function
00:17:20.360 as a trading nation
00:17:21.240 without them.
00:17:22.400 Bitting Canadians
00:17:23.080 against one another
00:17:23.960 is un-Canadian,
00:17:25.060 but just watch
00:17:25.820 as Justin Trudeau
00:17:26.780 and the Liberal Party
00:17:27.580 try to demonize
00:17:28.620 these hard-working
00:17:29.760 men and women.
00:17:30.620 But that's how it is
00:17:31.560 in Justin Trudeau's Canada.
00:17:32.900 You're only a hero
00:17:33.820 if you agree
00:17:35.080 with the Trudeau Liberals.
00:17:36.800 It's really important
00:17:38.140 that you share this video.
00:17:40.200 We need to show truckers
00:17:41.540 that we appreciate
00:17:42.920 their hard work
00:17:43.760 and that we're going
00:17:44.800 to stand up
00:17:45.580 for their right
00:17:46.180 to peacefully protest.
00:17:48.120 And we need to get
00:17:49.180 the truth out
00:17:49.820 before Justin Trudeau's
00:17:51.160 inevitable smears
00:17:52.440 and attempts to divide.
00:17:54.280 We're going to hold
00:17:55.140 Justin Trudeau
00:17:55.800 to account for this.
00:17:57.100 We're going to make sure
00:17:58.020 when Canadians start
00:17:59.120 to notice their
00:17:59.760 grocery stores empty,
00:18:00.960 it's because Justin Trudeau
00:18:02.700 played politics
00:18:03.920 with Canada's food supply.
00:18:05.620 Now, I know it angers
00:18:10.020 a lot of you
00:18:10.560 because a lot of you
00:18:11.180 have very strong opinions
00:18:12.200 about, you know,
00:18:12.780 being pro-CPC
00:18:13.560 or pro-PPC
00:18:14.840 or anti-CPC
00:18:15.900 or anti-PPC.
00:18:17.040 I don't have a team.
00:18:18.060 I give credit where it's due
00:18:19.220 and I give criticism
00:18:20.140 where it's due.
00:18:21.260 No one can accuse me
00:18:22.240 of being an O'Toole shill
00:18:23.400 given anything else
00:18:24.440 I've said this week.
00:18:25.320 But I tweeted
00:18:26.300 that I thought
00:18:27.080 it was a solid video
00:18:27.980 and then I had a bunch
00:18:28.720 of people saying
00:18:29.320 I was shilling for the CPC.
00:18:31.580 When in that same tweet,
00:18:33.340 by the way,
00:18:34.140 I also said,
00:18:35.040 where the heck was this
00:18:36.220 a couple of days ago?
00:18:37.500 So I do think
00:18:38.760 it's a completely defensible tone
00:18:41.240 he's striking.
00:18:42.260 I also have serious questions
00:18:44.480 about why it took so long
00:18:45.940 to reach that conclusion,
00:18:47.620 why it took so long
00:18:48.240 to realize this was
00:18:48.960 the right thing to do.
00:18:50.580 And again,
00:18:51.400 was it just because
00:18:52.160 he was waiting
00:18:52.600 for the polling to come in?
00:18:53.780 Was it that he didn't know
00:18:54.640 how many people
00:18:55.380 in his caucus
00:18:56.460 were going to outflank him on this?
00:18:58.380 I think either one
00:18:59.640 and both
00:19:00.360 are perhaps plausible.
00:19:02.340 But the whole point is
00:19:03.320 is that we have not had
00:19:04.740 a conservative leader
00:19:06.380 of the opposition
00:19:07.380 in politics,
00:19:09.460 in elected office.
00:19:10.840 That's the key.
00:19:11.760 In elected office
00:19:12.500 who's been opposing
00:19:13.460 the government
00:19:14.040 on pandemic restrictions.
00:19:16.560 Just has not happened.
00:19:18.120 We have not seen that
00:19:18.920 in Canada.
00:19:19.640 So if this does not become
00:19:21.580 something enduring,
00:19:23.640 I'll be very disappointed.
00:19:24.920 But that is my hope.
00:19:26.180 My hope is that
00:19:27.000 something clicks
00:19:27.960 in Aaron O'Toole's head
00:19:29.040 and he realizes
00:19:30.260 that, you know what,
00:19:31.040 perhaps he can actually
00:19:32.220 take up the fight,
00:19:33.740 take up the battle
00:19:34.560 and start being
00:19:35.420 the opposition leader
00:19:36.720 that Canadians want
00:19:38.100 on these pandemic restrictions.
00:19:39.520 Because right now,
00:19:40.660 pretty much every mandate
00:19:42.080 has gone in unopposed.
00:19:43.720 Despite maybe a press release
00:19:44.920 saying,
00:19:45.580 well, you know,
00:19:46.040 we think rapid testing
00:19:46.940 should be an alternative.
00:19:48.080 There's been no real
00:19:49.040 opposition on this.
00:19:50.080 Trudeau has not been
00:19:50.860 wedged on this,
00:19:51.960 on the question of
00:19:52.800 why are you forcing
00:19:53.960 Canadians to do
00:19:55.200 X, Y, Z?
00:19:56.840 And if you believe
00:19:57.760 power flows from the top,
00:19:58.980 a lot of the provincial
00:19:59.760 restrictions are,
00:20:01.160 yes, provincial responsibility,
00:20:02.920 but there's been
00:20:03.540 federal leadership here
00:20:04.760 and a federal narrative.
00:20:06.340 And that has gone
00:20:07.080 basically unchallenged.
00:20:08.740 And you know what,
00:20:09.420 in the absence of
00:20:10.620 a conservative opposition leader
00:20:12.360 in Ottawa doing this,
00:20:14.180 that's why truckers are.
00:20:15.740 Truckers are filling a void.
00:20:17.180 Nature abhors a vacuum,
00:20:18.980 as they say.
00:20:19.920 We've got to take
00:20:20.580 a quick break here.
00:20:21.420 When we come back,
00:20:22.260 we'll talk to one of those people
00:20:23.360 outside the political elite
00:20:25.200 who is cheering this all on.
00:20:27.340 Stay with us.
00:20:27.940 That's coming right up.
00:20:29.980 You're tuned in
00:20:31.240 to The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:20:34.760 Welcome back
00:20:35.720 to The Andrew Lawton Show.
00:20:37.340 Well, the theme on this show
00:20:39.020 has been the growing divide
00:20:40.520 between the downtown Ottawa consensus,
00:20:43.520 the Laurentian elites,
00:20:44.760 about what's happening
00:20:45.640 on this majestic convoy
00:20:47.620 rolling toward Ottawa
00:20:48.600 and people virtually
00:20:50.220 everywhere else in the country
00:20:51.740 and elsewhere in the world as well.
00:20:53.880 I mentioned earlier
00:20:54.600 a couple of these
00:20:55.940 Hollywood celebrity types
00:20:57.160 that have been looking
00:20:57.740 at this from afar
00:20:58.560 and saying,
00:20:59.040 yeah, this is exactly
00:21:00.040 what we need to be supporting here.
00:21:01.840 Canadian truckers
00:21:02.700 rolling for freedom.
00:21:04.300 Well, one Canadian celebrity,
00:21:06.040 if I may be so bold
00:21:06.860 as to call him that,
00:21:08.120 has been doing the rounds
00:21:09.320 and has attracted
00:21:10.200 global attention to this.
00:21:11.600 And that is a good friend
00:21:12.720 of True North,
00:21:13.360 Theo Fleury,
00:21:14.280 former NHL great
00:21:15.660 and Olympian
00:21:16.400 who has been cheering
00:21:17.980 on this convoy
00:21:18.980 from Calgary
00:21:19.800 where he joins me now.
00:21:21.380 Theo, good to talk to you.
00:21:22.260 Thanks for coming on today.
00:21:23.440 Yeah, my pleasure.
00:21:24.200 I finally got on the show.
00:21:26.760 It's awesome.
00:21:27.400 Love it.
00:21:28.020 Well, I appreciate you
00:21:29.420 taking the time.
00:21:30.300 I know you did
00:21:30.920 some great work
00:21:31.660 in Candace Malcolm's documentary,
00:21:33.320 Calgary in Crisis
00:21:34.300 a couple of years back.
00:21:35.160 So it's good
00:21:36.220 to talk to you here.
00:21:37.220 What is it that attracted you
00:21:38.720 to this convoy?
00:21:42.480 Well, I think
00:21:43.340 what attracted me
00:21:44.880 to politics
00:21:45.440 in the first place,
00:21:46.660 you know,
00:21:46.920 you know,
00:21:49.520 I didn't really know
00:21:50.760 a whole lot
00:21:51.200 about politics.
00:21:53.180 You know,
00:21:54.240 I grew up
00:21:54.820 in a family
00:21:55.580 where, you know,
00:21:56.740 we didn't really
00:21:57.400 talk about politics
00:21:59.760 or I wasn't around politics.
00:22:01.580 And to be honest with you,
00:22:03.960 I didn't know
00:22:04.460 if I was liberal,
00:22:05.440 conservative,
00:22:06.600 libertarian,
00:22:07.600 patriot,
00:22:08.400 nothing, right?
00:22:10.940 And 2015,
00:22:13.080 Trump comes down
00:22:13.820 the escalator
00:22:14.660 at Trump Towers
00:22:15.680 and, you know,
00:22:17.100 announces to the world
00:22:18.020 he's going to be president.
00:22:19.120 And I'm like,
00:22:20.220 what?
00:22:21.640 Well,
00:22:22.320 why does this guy
00:22:23.180 want to be the president?
00:22:24.140 You know,
00:22:24.600 I'd met Trump
00:22:25.260 a few times in New York
00:22:27.340 when I was playing there.
00:22:28.700 And, you know,
00:22:30.060 to be honest with you,
00:22:30.780 I really liked him.
00:22:31.720 You know,
00:22:31.900 he was a genuine guy
00:22:34.000 and, you know,
00:22:35.260 shook my hand,
00:22:36.420 looked me in the eye,
00:22:37.300 you know,
00:22:37.560 was interested in my family
00:22:39.660 and all those other things.
00:22:41.060 So I started
00:22:41.500 following politics, right?
00:22:43.860 And,
00:22:44.220 so I started
00:22:47.920 obviously watching CNN
00:22:49.260 because that's
00:22:49.940 what everybody does.
00:22:51.420 And,
00:22:51.700 you know,
00:22:52.540 I was like,
00:22:53.700 something's just not right,
00:22:54.840 right?
00:22:55.320 So I went to,
00:22:56.100 so I switched over to Fox
00:22:57.580 and then I went,
00:22:58.280 oh,
00:22:59.020 okay,
00:22:59.380 I get it,
00:23:00.060 okay?
00:23:01.180 And then,
00:23:01.980 you know,
00:23:03.380 really figured out
00:23:04.160 that I was a,
00:23:04.980 you know,
00:23:05.800 a patriot,
00:23:06.840 you know,
00:23:07.200 freedom lover,
00:23:08.440 freedom of choice,
00:23:09.440 freedom,
00:23:09.920 just freedom in general.
00:23:10.940 And so,
00:23:12.240 so the convoy to you
00:23:13.200 is about freedom
00:23:14.380 and patriotism then.
00:23:15.440 Yeah,
00:23:15.620 that's,
00:23:16.020 that's exactly what it is.
00:23:17.320 It's the greatest act
00:23:18.540 of patriotism
00:23:19.600 we've ever seen
00:23:20.720 in our country,
00:23:21.900 right?
00:23:23.080 Because,
00:23:23.740 you know,
00:23:24.320 I've represented my country
00:23:25.460 10 times in my life,
00:23:26.780 right?
00:23:27.360 And I put the maple leaf
00:23:28.420 on my chest
00:23:29.220 and any big hockey event
00:23:31.680 in Canada,
00:23:32.400 the country
00:23:34.500 shuts down
00:23:35.400 for two weeks.
00:23:36.600 Everybody goes,
00:23:37.520 gets their red
00:23:38.220 and white jersey.
00:23:40.480 They put their flag up.
00:23:43.020 They make signs
00:23:44.420 or they come
00:23:44.980 to the World Junior
00:23:45.860 or they come
00:23:46.440 to the Olympics.
00:23:48.340 And it's about pride.
00:23:50.760 It's about,
00:23:51.480 you know,
00:23:52.340 all of these things.
00:23:53.260 And so,
00:23:54.260 what I've seen
00:23:55.640 is the country
00:23:57.100 has been in,
00:23:58.060 you know,
00:23:58.520 a depression
00:23:59.320 for two years
00:24:01.980 because
00:24:02.400 our fearless leader
00:24:05.480 and the Canadian media
00:24:07.620 have just
00:24:08.840 constantly,
00:24:10.400 constantly
00:24:10.880 pumped fear
00:24:12.000 into the minds
00:24:14.400 of Canadians,
00:24:15.460 right?
00:24:15.780 And so,
00:24:16.360 everybody went along
00:24:17.340 with it
00:24:17.680 because that's
00:24:18.180 what Canadians do.
00:24:19.240 We're nice
00:24:19.940 and compliant
00:24:20.760 and all those things.
00:24:23.500 And then,
00:24:24.100 all of a sudden,
00:24:24.960 a bunch of truckers
00:24:25.760 get together
00:24:26.220 and they say,
00:24:26.800 yeah,
00:24:27.040 you know what?
00:24:27.480 Enough's enough,
00:24:28.720 right?
00:24:29.020 Enough is enough.
00:24:30.160 And what happens?
00:24:32.840 People start
00:24:33.880 coming out
00:24:34.720 of their houses,
00:24:35.560 grabbing their
00:24:37.340 red and white,
00:24:38.620 you know,
00:24:39.200 things they have
00:24:39.960 in their house
00:24:40.620 and they're coming
00:24:41.540 out in droves.
00:24:43.620 And to me,
00:24:44.540 that's the Canada
00:24:46.440 that I know
00:24:48.000 and that's the Canada
00:24:49.600 that I grew up in.
00:24:51.420 But unfortunately,
00:24:53.700 the Liberals,
00:24:55.560 who are all
00:24:56.440 completely insane
00:24:57.920 and out of their minds
00:24:59.340 and should not be
00:25:00.580 anywhere near Ottawa,
00:25:02.200 are trying
00:25:04.060 to push
00:25:04.920 this narrative
00:25:06.540 that has been
00:25:08.200 tried 24 times
00:25:09.880 in the history
00:25:10.620 of our planet
00:25:11.420 and every single
00:25:13.180 time it's failed
00:25:14.420 and the only
00:25:15.860 byproduct
00:25:16.620 of this type
00:25:17.600 of ideology
00:25:18.360 is what?
00:25:20.120 Death.
00:25:21.500 Which is what
00:25:22.500 we're also seeing
00:25:23.600 at the same time.
00:25:24.940 So,
00:25:25.400 I don't want
00:25:25.920 any part of that
00:25:26.960 to be honest with you.
00:25:28.040 And I would say
00:25:28.760 the majority
00:25:29.780 of people
00:25:30.460 do not want
00:25:31.980 that,
00:25:32.780 right?
00:25:33.480 And that's
00:25:34.320 exactly what
00:25:35.180 we're seeing,
00:25:36.240 right?
00:25:36.480 That's exactly
00:25:37.160 what we're seeing.
00:25:37.920 And now,
00:25:38.880 there is a panic
00:25:40.640 in the Liberal Party
00:25:43.120 or the Uni Party,
00:25:44.320 whatever you want
00:25:44.860 to call it,
00:25:45.460 and the Canadian
00:25:46.140 media.
00:25:47.500 Like,
00:25:47.640 it's,
00:25:48.240 these people
00:25:48.680 hate our country.
00:25:49.820 They hate it.
00:25:50.560 They hate our country.
00:25:51.560 They hate the people
00:25:52.240 that live in it.
00:25:53.480 They don't want
00:25:54.300 any patriots.
00:25:56.320 They don't want
00:25:56.640 anybody to be
00:25:57.360 prideful.
00:25:58.320 Nothing.
00:25:58.760 It's ridiculous
00:25:59.680 and it's a joke.
00:26:01.420 Let me ask you
00:26:02.320 about the patriotism
00:26:03.320 component,
00:26:03.880 because one thing
00:26:04.580 that I've seen
00:26:05.160 in increasing numbers
00:26:06.260 in the last
00:26:06.920 few months
00:26:08.020 in particular,
00:26:08.900 I think this winter
00:26:09.840 has broken
00:26:10.440 a lot of people,
00:26:11.280 is a lot of them
00:26:12.060 who have the means
00:26:12.940 to leaving Canada.
00:26:14.300 People that take up
00:26:15.320 residence in Florida,
00:26:16.540 people are going
00:26:17.000 to Mexico,
00:26:18.140 a couple that are
00:26:18.700 going to Europe,
00:26:19.280 which has never
00:26:19.980 historically been
00:26:20.680 the place that you
00:26:21.260 think of as being
00:26:22.000 freer on a day-to-day
00:26:23.300 basis than here,
00:26:24.220 but people are
00:26:25.080 leaving the country.
00:26:25.900 And I understand
00:26:26.600 the pessimism.
00:26:27.400 Every time we've
00:26:28.180 been plunged
00:26:28.680 into another
00:26:29.100 lockdown,
00:26:29.980 worse for me
00:26:30.560 here in Ontario
00:26:31.300 than for you
00:26:32.260 in Alberta,
00:26:33.100 I'm like,
00:26:33.600 oh, do I just
00:26:34.140 pick up stakes
00:26:34.940 and go?
00:26:35.880 Whereas what I am
00:26:36.760 seeing now
00:26:37.500 in this convoy,
00:26:38.500 there's a lot
00:26:38.960 of anger,
00:26:39.640 but anger comes
00:26:41.000 from a place
00:26:41.760 of hope in a way
00:26:42.640 because you have
00:26:43.240 to feel that
00:26:43.820 something is worth
00:26:44.660 getting angry about.
00:26:45.760 Don't confuse anger
00:26:47.520 with passion.
00:26:49.520 That's fair.
00:26:50.560 Those two things
00:26:51.840 always get
00:26:53.380 flipped around.
00:26:56.160 This has nothing.
00:26:57.060 To just finish the question,
00:26:58.540 people are hopeful now,
00:27:00.260 I feel, this week.
00:27:01.180 Right.
00:27:01.920 But take anger
00:27:02.960 out of the thing
00:27:03.740 because I've been
00:27:04.460 listening to the truckers.
00:27:05.860 I've been on spaces.
00:27:07.540 There is no anger.
00:27:09.520 None at all.
00:27:11.340 Zero.
00:27:11.600 It's called
00:27:12.660 passion and love
00:27:14.000 of country,
00:27:14.940 which Trudeau
00:27:16.540 hates our country,
00:27:18.780 hates the citizens
00:27:19.640 of our country.
00:27:21.400 It's unbelievable.
00:27:22.920 It is a passionate
00:27:24.080 cry
00:27:25.060 to
00:27:26.540 the people
00:27:27.700 who are asleep.
00:27:29.100 Please wake up.
00:27:30.580 Please wake up
00:27:31.340 because we're going
00:27:32.040 down a road
00:27:32.660 that we don't want
00:27:33.560 to go down.
00:27:34.760 He's tried to project
00:27:36.280 that hatred
00:27:37.160 onto the unvaccinated
00:27:39.160 specifically.
00:27:40.020 The vilification
00:27:40.580 we've heard
00:27:41.400 in terms of,
00:27:42.900 oh, they're racist,
00:27:43.660 they're misogynist,
00:27:44.620 they're unacceptable,
00:27:45.520 all of these things.
00:27:46.560 But it's interesting
00:27:48.000 because that's been
00:27:48.680 working in some ways
00:27:49.800 up until now.
00:27:50.640 But the last week
00:27:51.440 in particular
00:27:51.960 as this convoy
00:27:52.780 has gone on,
00:27:53.640 a lot of the people
00:27:54.520 vaccinated,
00:27:55.620 triple vaccinated,
00:27:56.740 no vaccine,
00:27:57.640 whatever,
00:27:58.140 that are coming
00:27:58.800 are saying that
00:27:59.440 this is not about
00:28:00.180 that anymore.
00:28:00.940 So I think something
00:28:01.760 has twigged
00:28:02.620 in people's minds
00:28:03.580 where they are realizing,
00:28:05.460 no, no, no,
00:28:05.760 you can't just vilify
00:28:06.980 large segments
00:28:08.080 of the country.
00:28:08.700 If you go for them,
00:28:09.400 you're also coming
00:28:09.940 after us.
00:28:10.520 That seems to be
00:28:11.120 the feeling.
00:28:12.020 And there's absolutely
00:28:13.300 zero science
00:28:14.400 that says the vaccinated
00:28:15.960 are the dangerous,
00:28:17.280 right?
00:28:18.340 Him in hiding,
00:28:19.560 that's perfect.
00:28:20.340 We love it.
00:28:21.280 We don't want to see
00:28:21.960 your face.
00:28:22.920 We don't want to hear
00:28:23.880 your rhetoric anymore.
00:28:25.360 It's perfect,
00:28:26.420 right?
00:28:26.720 So, like I said,
00:28:29.620 there's no science
00:28:30.540 that, like,
00:28:33.440 and the narrative,
00:28:34.460 the narrative is gone,
00:28:36.160 right?
00:28:37.400 Gaslighting has gone
00:28:38.340 out of style,
00:28:39.820 you know,
00:28:40.560 saying that we're
00:28:43.120 a white supremacist
00:28:44.900 movement.
00:28:45.640 I'm a Métis person
00:28:46.840 from Manitoba.
00:28:48.480 You know,
00:28:48.720 I'm the first Métis
00:28:50.000 racist person
00:28:51.660 in Canada.
00:28:52.840 You know what I mean?
00:28:53.900 So, the narrative
00:28:54.580 doesn't work anymore.
00:28:57.280 And that's why
00:28:58.000 these truckers
00:28:59.040 got in their trucks
00:29:00.000 and came to Ottawa
00:29:00.920 and then
00:29:01.760 they dragged
00:29:03.380 everybody else,
00:29:04.620 you know,
00:29:05.720 with them.
00:29:07.220 And so,
00:29:08.080 you know,
00:29:08.440 as far as I'm concerned,
00:29:10.080 this is over.
00:29:11.940 Whatever the liberals
00:29:13.020 and conservatives,
00:29:14.500 NDP,
00:29:15.120 the bloc,
00:29:15.720 all that,
00:29:16.240 it's over.
00:29:17.500 We know,
00:29:18.140 we know exactly
00:29:19.080 what you're trying to do,
00:29:21.360 what you're trying
00:29:22.280 to put on this country.
00:29:24.180 So,
00:29:24.700 it's over.
00:29:25.360 It's over.
00:29:26.860 You mentioned
00:29:27.760 being Métis
00:29:28.800 and I have to ask
00:29:29.800 about that
00:29:30.100 because more than
00:29:30.800 any other demographic group,
00:29:32.340 not that I like
00:29:32.840 segmenting the country
00:29:33.800 based on those terms,
00:29:34.820 but more than any
00:29:35.500 demographic group,
00:29:36.800 Indigenous Canadians
00:29:37.600 have more of a right
00:29:38.580 to be distrustful
00:29:39.440 of government
00:29:39.900 than anyone else,
00:29:40.740 just given the history
00:29:42.100 of Crown-Indigenous relations.
00:29:44.240 And we know
00:29:44.740 that Indigenous people
00:29:45.620 have less on average
00:29:47.680 vaccination in their population
00:29:49.260 than non-Indigenous people
00:29:50.500 and they're,
00:29:51.720 as such,
00:29:52.420 disproportionately affected
00:29:53.460 by mandates
00:29:54.160 and vaccine passports.
00:29:55.340 And it's amazing
00:29:56.140 that the government
00:29:56.740 that proclaims reconciliation
00:29:58.060 as its first
00:29:58.940 and foremost goal
00:29:59.880 isn't interested
00:30:01.040 in the effect
00:30:01.680 of its push
00:30:02.260 for vaccination
00:30:02.980 on populations
00:30:04.320 that have reasons
00:30:05.120 to be skeptical
00:30:05.880 of government-enforced medicine.
00:30:08.260 Yeah.
00:30:08.980 Well,
00:30:10.000 anybody who uses
00:30:10.660 the word misogynist,
00:30:11.960 racist,
00:30:12.580 whatever,
00:30:12.900 that's a projection.
00:30:14.740 You know?
00:30:14.920 Trudeau
00:30:19.000 has been caught
00:30:20.940 how many times?
00:30:22.660 Blackface?
00:30:24.980 Like,
00:30:25.180 Trudeau needs to resign.
00:30:27.100 He absolutely
00:30:28.020 needs to resign.
00:30:29.620 And,
00:30:29.980 you know,
00:30:31.460 but
00:30:32.440 to get back to,
00:30:34.360 you know,
00:30:35.000 the Indigenous people
00:30:36.220 of Canada,
00:30:37.460 you know,
00:30:37.800 I've done most
00:30:40.120 of my healing
00:30:40.860 in the Indigenous community.
00:30:43.960 And I believe
00:30:45.380 that the Indigenous community
00:30:48.860 has the greatest
00:30:50.740 untapped resource
00:30:52.080 of medicine
00:30:53.040 on the planet.
00:30:55.000 Because when I got COVID,
00:30:57.540 I called
00:30:58.480 a really good friend of mine
00:31:00.780 who's a medicine man
00:31:01.700 down in Cardston, Alberta.
00:31:02.920 and
00:31:04.340 he came,
00:31:06.200 dropped off
00:31:06.720 some medicine.
00:31:08.340 I did four doses
00:31:09.700 of his medicine
00:31:10.560 and I was
00:31:11.780 as good as new.
00:31:13.880 So,
00:31:14.880 like,
00:31:19.000 it's unfortunate
00:31:22.020 that,
00:31:22.820 you know,
00:31:23.520 a lot of people
00:31:24.260 can't really
00:31:25.200 actually see
00:31:25.920 what's going on,
00:31:26.940 you know?
00:31:27.900 And to be honest,
00:31:29.300 Andrew,
00:31:29.960 in the last two years,
00:31:32.880 all of my sexual abuse
00:31:34.180 has come back.
00:31:36.020 All of it.
00:31:37.840 All of it.
00:31:38.720 Why?
00:31:40.680 Because the same tactics
00:31:42.360 that my abuser
00:31:43.660 used against me
00:31:45.000 is the exact
00:31:46.220 same tactics
00:31:47.200 that the government
00:31:48.140 has used
00:31:49.220 to get people
00:31:50.900 to
00:31:52.040 obey,
00:31:53.820 line up
00:31:54.720 and get these
00:31:55.660 these shots
00:31:56.620 and it's been
00:31:57.720 just a constant
00:31:59.160 24 hours a day,
00:32:01.480 seven days a week
00:32:02.600 campaign
00:32:03.460 to get people
00:32:05.280 in this
00:32:05.600 mass formation
00:32:06.420 psychosis.
00:32:08.060 And because
00:32:08.440 the majority
00:32:09.660 of the
00:32:10.440 population
00:32:11.560 is traumatized,
00:32:14.080 right?
00:32:14.640 Previously,
00:32:15.200 they've been traumatized,
00:32:17.060 you know?
00:32:18.480 And so,
00:32:19.400 COVID-19
00:32:20.000 is the most
00:32:20.660 traumatic event
00:32:21.400 that's happened
00:32:21.980 since World War II.
00:32:23.720 Now,
00:32:24.200 we've had another
00:32:24.940 layer of trauma
00:32:25.940 on top of
00:32:27.420 already traumatized
00:32:28.700 people.
00:32:30.360 And so,
00:32:31.200 when you're traumatized,
00:32:32.240 guess what?
00:32:33.000 You can't think
00:32:34.160 critically
00:32:34.660 because you're
00:32:36.120 just surviving
00:32:37.040 day to day.
00:32:38.440 You can't.
00:32:39.420 And the abuse
00:32:41.040 from the government
00:32:42.240 feels
00:32:44.140 normal
00:32:45.300 and comfortable,
00:32:46.240 right?
00:32:47.320 And that's
00:32:48.280 why we've
00:32:48.900 seen people
00:32:49.740 go along
00:32:50.820 with this
00:32:52.220 globalist
00:32:54.380 narrative
00:32:55.220 is because
00:32:57.180 people
00:32:58.180 are living
00:32:59.700 in their trauma
00:33:00.480 again.
00:33:01.420 And thank God
00:33:02.020 I have enough
00:33:02.540 tools in my
00:33:03.300 toolbox
00:33:03.680 and people
00:33:04.480 around me,
00:33:05.240 surrounding me,
00:33:05.860 that I've been
00:33:06.260 able to
00:33:06.980 manage
00:33:08.500 what's been
00:33:09.660 going on.
00:33:10.380 And I'm not
00:33:10.780 the only one
00:33:11.280 that feels
00:33:11.680 this way.
00:33:12.100 the hundreds
00:33:13.500 of thousands
00:33:14.140 of Canadians
00:33:14.760 that have
00:33:15.180 reached out
00:33:16.380 to me
00:33:16.720 and texted
00:33:17.260 me,
00:33:18.060 they're all
00:33:18.520 going through
00:33:18.940 the same
00:33:19.340 thing that
00:33:19.740 I've been
00:33:20.060 going through
00:33:20.520 because my
00:33:21.540 government
00:33:21.960 is abusing
00:33:22.820 me constantly
00:33:24.320 24 hours a day,
00:33:25.540 seven days a week.
00:33:26.960 But nobody
00:33:27.660 talks about this
00:33:28.560 stuff.
00:33:29.040 Nobody talks
00:33:29.540 about this
00:33:29.980 stuff.
00:33:30.760 And you know
00:33:31.160 how they
00:33:31.460 counteract
00:33:32.060 my point
00:33:32.600 that I just
00:33:33.100 made?
00:33:33.480 I'm a crazy
00:33:34.400 conspiracy
00:33:35.080 theorist.
00:33:35.640 No,
00:33:35.800 I'm a critical
00:33:36.580 thinker
00:33:37.220 is what I
00:33:38.280 am.
00:33:39.000 And I've
00:33:39.640 been in this
00:33:40.120 space for
00:33:40.760 15 years.
00:33:41.700 And so I
00:33:42.740 know and I
00:33:43.460 know what
00:33:44.120 abuse is.
00:33:46.440 And I
00:33:47.580 said to
00:33:47.940 myself a long
00:33:48.640 time ago when
00:33:49.340 I saw abuse
00:33:50.280 that I was
00:33:50.880 going to speak
00:33:51.500 up because I
00:33:52.780 found my
00:33:53.260 voice in
00:33:54.560 2009 when I
00:33:55.680 wrote that
00:33:56.080 book and I
00:33:56.700 made a promise
00:33:57.340 to myself if I
00:33:58.200 saw it, I
00:33:59.720 would never
00:34:00.300 allow it to
00:34:01.440 stay silent.
00:34:02.400 Right?
00:34:03.480 And when you
00:34:04.520 shine a light
00:34:05.300 on abuse,
00:34:06.100 this is
00:34:08.820 exactly what
00:34:09.640 happens.
00:34:10.300 When you
00:34:10.820 bring the
00:34:11.360 abuse out
00:34:12.100 into the
00:34:12.520 light, what
00:34:13.120 happens?
00:34:14.180 Truckers get
00:34:14.900 in their
00:34:15.180 trucks.
00:34:15.960 People come
00:34:16.460 out of their
00:34:16.920 house.
00:34:17.780 You know,
00:34:18.080 that's what
00:34:18.560 happens.
00:34:19.460 And all of
00:34:20.940 the lies have
00:34:22.020 been exposed.
00:34:23.560 Let me ask
00:34:24.560 you then,
00:34:25.040 Theo, about
00:34:25.720 where this
00:34:26.600 goes because
00:34:27.520 you're right,
00:34:28.440 the truckers
00:34:29.140 and their
00:34:29.780 allies have a
00:34:30.620 great deal of
00:34:31.100 passion.
00:34:31.640 They're taking
00:34:32.000 that to
00:34:32.380 Ottawa.
00:34:32.800 They're making
00:34:33.200 a point.
00:34:34.000 People around
00:34:34.480 the world are
00:34:35.080 paying attention.
00:34:35.680 Everyone saw
00:34:36.440 that interview
00:34:36.840 you did on
00:34:37.860 Laura Ingram's
00:34:38.680 show on Fox
00:34:39.520 News and all
00:34:40.560 of this.
00:34:40.920 We're seeing
00:34:41.360 more and more
00:34:41.900 of this.
00:34:42.260 But you've
00:34:42.520 also talked
00:34:43.080 about how the
00:34:44.080 government has
00:34:44.920 not really
00:34:45.500 cared about the
00:34:46.800 people who are
00:34:47.320 protesting or
00:34:48.100 about, in many
00:34:49.080 cases, the
00:34:49.600 welfare of
00:34:50.160 Canadians in
00:34:50.800 general.
00:34:51.220 So what
00:34:51.980 motivation is
00:34:52.960 there for the
00:34:53.700 government to
00:34:54.340 respond?
00:34:55.220 I mean, how
00:34:55.640 does this get
00:34:56.680 a result and
00:34:57.540 not just fizzle
00:34:58.340 out and then
00:34:58.900 everyone goes
00:34:59.400 back and the
00:35:00.340 world goes to
00:35:01.020 the way it
00:35:01.360 was two weeks
00:35:01.980 ago?
00:35:03.240 It's not.
00:35:04.020 It's not
00:35:05.980 going away.
00:35:07.260 These guys
00:35:07.780 aren't leaving.
00:35:09.580 Nobody's going
00:35:10.640 home.
00:35:12.060 The truckers
00:35:12.700 are staying.
00:35:14.020 And they're
00:35:14.740 staying until
00:35:16.260 their demands
00:35:18.300 are met.
00:35:18.700 And it's
00:35:27.040 going to be
00:35:27.320 interesting to
00:35:27.920 see how the
00:35:28.460 government
00:35:30.880 responds.
00:35:33.640 And Trudeau's
00:35:35.260 backed into a
00:35:35.980 corner.
00:35:37.140 He's in a
00:35:37.680 corner.
00:35:38.440 And you can
00:35:38.900 see it.
00:35:39.760 If you look at
00:35:40.560 his nonverbal
00:35:41.320 communication,
00:35:42.900 not what's
00:35:43.260 coming out of
00:35:43.780 his mouth.
00:35:45.080 Look at his
00:35:45.520 nonverbal
00:35:46.140 communication.
00:35:46.860 He has
00:35:48.620 no idea
00:35:49.160 what to
00:35:49.520 do.
00:35:50.400 He has
00:35:50.760 no clue
00:35:51.540 what to
00:35:52.500 do.
00:35:53.620 And so,
00:35:55.060 you know,
00:35:58.280 the simple
00:35:58.680 fact that,
00:35:59.720 you know,
00:36:01.320 a small
00:36:02.740 fringe,
00:36:04.380 you know,
00:36:05.180 society in
00:36:06.100 Canada is
00:36:06.940 coming to
00:36:07.480 Ottawa.
00:36:08.900 He's in for a
00:36:09.880 rude awakening.
00:36:10.860 Right?
00:36:11.580 He is,
00:36:12.160 truly.
00:36:12.780 And,
00:36:13.140 you know,
00:36:15.760 it's a
00:36:16.260 peaceful
00:36:16.720 protest.
00:36:18.200 And if you
00:36:18.580 know anything
00:36:18.880 about patriots,
00:36:19.660 we're peaceful.
00:36:20.560 We're very
00:36:20.960 peaceful.
00:36:22.020 And we
00:36:23.060 love being
00:36:23.800 together.
00:36:24.760 We love
00:36:25.700 sharing ideas
00:36:27.380 together.
00:36:29.080 And so,
00:36:31.620 yeah,
00:36:32.140 from what I
00:36:32.740 understand,
00:36:33.320 these guys are
00:36:33.940 staying until
00:36:35.140 something happens.
00:36:36.260 Right?
00:36:36.860 And the
00:36:37.660 simple fact
00:36:38.360 that every
00:36:40.060 small business
00:36:41.400 in Canada
00:36:42.700 just agreed
00:36:44.700 to open
00:36:46.220 their doors
00:36:46.780 to every
00:36:47.440 single human
00:36:48.400 in Canada
00:36:49.180 tomorrow,
00:36:51.000 what does
00:36:52.620 that tell
00:36:53.100 you?
00:36:53.960 That we've
00:36:54.860 had enough.
00:36:56.560 Right?
00:36:57.300 Enough is
00:36:57.860 enough.
00:36:58.820 No more
00:36:59.280 complying.
00:37:00.620 No more
00:37:01.140 masks.
00:37:02.680 None of
00:37:03.080 that stuff.
00:37:03.780 We're not,
00:37:04.400 like I said,
00:37:05.260 the narrative
00:37:05.840 is gone.
00:37:07.700 It's gone.
00:37:08.780 Vaccines
00:37:09.280 don't work.
00:37:09.920 Masks
00:37:11.760 don't work.
00:37:14.060 Lockdowns
00:37:14.540 cause
00:37:15.140 severe
00:37:16.400 damage
00:37:17.360 mentally,
00:37:18.540 physically,
00:37:19.380 emotionally,
00:37:20.340 spiritually.
00:37:21.320 We're done.
00:37:22.420 We're done.
00:37:22.880 The narrative's
00:37:23.400 over.
00:37:24.160 It's gone.
00:37:25.260 Finished.
00:37:26.780 Theo Fleury,
00:37:27.740 former NHL
00:37:28.700 great and
00:37:29.600 Olympian.
00:37:30.200 A pleasure,
00:37:30.720 sir.
00:37:30.880 Thanks so much
00:37:31.380 for coming on
00:37:32.020 today.
00:37:32.280 Great to see
00:37:32.640 you.
00:37:33.060 You too,
00:37:33.480 man.
00:37:33.700 Thank you.
00:37:34.660 That'll do it
00:37:35.340 for us.
00:37:36.040 As I mentioned,
00:37:36.740 I am out the
00:37:37.300 door and off to
00:37:37.920 Ottawa.
00:37:38.380 So if you are
00:37:38.900 at the convoy
00:37:39.680 and you see
00:37:40.160 me,
00:37:40.700 do come over
00:37:41.380 and say hello.
00:37:42.180 It'd be great
00:37:42.520 to say hello
00:37:43.320 to the people
00:37:44.140 who listen to
00:37:44.780 this show
00:37:45.140 and make it
00:37:46.100 so much fun
00:37:46.620 for me to
00:37:46.940 do what I
00:37:47.280 do.
00:37:47.720 Hope you have
00:37:48.160 a great time
00:37:48.740 and a safe
00:37:49.460 weekend wherever
00:37:50.200 you are.
00:37:50.980 We'll talk to
00:37:51.400 you soon.
00:37:51.840 Thank you.
00:37:52.260 God bless and
00:37:52.860 good day to
00:37:53.340 you all.
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