Juno News - The Emergencies Act, one year later

00:00:00.000 welcome to canada's most irreverent talk show this is the andrew lawton show brought to you by true

00:00:09.320 hello and welcome to you all another edition of canada's most irreverent talk show here on true

00:00:22.200 North, the Andrew Lawton show on Tuesday, February 14th, 2023. It is Valentine's Day and I will not

00:00:31.260 serenade you because there is nothing that will suck the romance out of any situation than me

00:00:37.560 singing or so my wife reminds me. But I will say I hope you are all having a wonderful Valentine's

00:00:43.140 Day. It's not even a real day unless you decide to make it one. And I'm very fortunate that my

00:00:49.520 lovely wife was raised in a funeral family where flowers were ubiquitous so flowers have no special

00:00:56.160 meaning to her which means i'm off the hook on having to wait in line between uh you know behind

00:01:00.740 like every other man in southwestern ontario trying to buy flowers on valentine's today so

00:01:05.960 to the folks i didn't see in line at the florist haha suckers i'm in the clear but uh in all

00:01:11.820 seriousness it is also the one-year anniversary of justin trudeau's valentine to people who love

00:01:18.200 Freedom the invocation of the Emergencies Act and I wanted to do a bit of a different type of show

00:01:24.100 here and one that is a bit more reflective in nature looking back at the one-year anniversary

00:01:30.400 not only of the Emergencies Act but also looking ahead to the big news that's going to be coming

00:01:36.600 next week which is the Public Order Emergency Commission's final report which will ultimately

00:01:41.840 we hope not necessarily and i'll explain this in a moment but we hope explain

00:01:48.200 why the invocation of the emergencies act by the federal government was unjustified however

00:01:54.620 however i want to make a point here that i cannot stress enough which is that it is important but

00:02:01.840 at the same time it doesn't matter and what i mean by that is that canadians have i think who

00:02:08.540 care about this anyway. Canadians have been looking and wanting the truth. We've been wanting

00:02:12.160 Justin Trudeau to have to pay for deciding to suspend civil liberties, deciding to do everything

00:02:18.000 apart from admitting he was wrong, everything apart from meeting with the protesters that

00:02:23.000 brought a message to Ottawa. We all want this to be the silver bullet that either vindicates us or

00:02:29.760 shows he was wrong or triggers the downfall of his government. The Emergencies Act was a big

00:02:36.400 problem. And it required this commission that we covered at True North back in October,

00:02:41.640 November to look into it. But this thing is not going to be the end of Trudeau. And if you are

00:02:46.820 hoping it will, you are sorely mistaken. And contrary to other people, I actually thought

00:02:52.200 Commissioner Paul Rouleau was very fair. I thought he was certainly he indulged both sides equally.

00:02:58.500 It was not an adversarial process. So this is not an indictment of him. It's that right now he is

00:03:05.620 going to be publishing a report that comes with no penalty. There's no criminal wrongdoing that

00:03:11.080 he will find. There's no civil wrongdoing that he will find. And more importantly, the only

00:03:16.120 consequence could be a political one. And the NDP has already said it's going to continue to support

00:03:21.520 Justin Trudeau, irrespective of what's in the report. He's already said in an interview, I think

00:03:27.120 it was on CTV, that yeah, the report could find the invocation was unjustified, but he's still

00:03:32.320 going to keep backing the Liberals regardless because that has nothing to do with anything

00:03:37.180 that's going on. So all of this is to say that I'm looking for what the Commissioner finds and I think

00:03:42.740 it will very much inform future uses of the Emergencies Act but at the same time it's not

00:03:49.780 going to be what a lot of people want it to be and it will not trigger this grand reckoning in

00:03:55.700 this country unless Canadians decide it needs to be something that matters. Unless Canadians decide

00:04:01.740 that they want to take this document and turn it into a tool for political accountability.

00:04:09.520 And here's the problem is that we have a prime minister right now

00:04:13.240 that has been found to have violated ethics rules on a number of occasions.

00:04:18.900 He's violated the ethics rules.

00:04:20.760 He had the vacation with the Aga Khan's private island.

00:04:23.280 He's helped out his friends, his ministers, his MPs.

00:04:26.340 They've all been found guilty of a number of these ethics rules.

00:04:29.120 And every time what happens, we get the same boilerplate statement, which is that this

00:04:33.980 was a learning opportunity for all of us.

00:04:36.160 We can all do better.

00:04:37.380 We'll move on.

00:04:38.360 Kumbaya, yada, yada, yada.

00:04:40.020 Bob's your uncle next.

00:04:41.580 And we all move on.

00:04:42.900 We all forget about it.

00:04:44.980 This is a big deal, but it's one that I have no doubt if it goes the wrong way for Justin

00:04:51.260 Trudeau, he will do the same thing, which is, well, here's the statement.

00:04:55.480 And you can actually probably write this down, and it's going to be very close to what Justin Trudeau says if this document comes out and indicts him the way that it should.

00:05:06.680 He'll say, well, we didn't have a roadmap for this.

00:05:10.760 We didn't have a rulebook.

00:05:12.540 We used the information that we had available.

00:05:15.140 and one of the reasons we were so enthusiastic about this process and why we were so transparent

00:05:21.020 is because we wanted this to guide us and future governments so that they don't have to do what we

00:05:27.860 did which is fly in blind so that they have more information that we had and we welcome this all

00:05:33.120 I did it all wrong um so um we um didn't uh have um the um and I was water box uh drinking juice

00:05:47.240 water bottle and the emergency oh no sorry that's a different speech I was reading the wrong speech

00:05:52.160 my apologies but that's going to be the problem he's going to come out and say this is a learning

00:05:56.360 opportunity and now we know and whoopsie daisy didn't matter too too much uh we all just learn

00:06:02.720 we live and let live, we move on. There's going to be no contrition. And you can take from that

00:06:07.640 what Justin Trudeau has already said, which is, remember this clip when he talked about how serene

00:06:13.320 he feels, how at peace he feels about his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act?

00:06:22.080 The responsibility of a prime minister is to make the tough calls and keep people safe.

00:06:28.860 And this was a moment where the collective advice of cabinet, of the public service, and my own inclination was that this was a moment to do something that we needed to do to keep Canadians safe.

00:06:52.020 and knowing full well that this was an inevitable consequence of me signing i agree

00:07:00.480 on this note um i was very comfortable that we were at a moment where this was the right thing to

00:07:08.300 do and we did it and it is a certain amount of comfort

00:07:19.460 that first of all the system is working as it should that people who are defending civil

00:07:27.320 liberties are able to say you really should be careful about doing this maybe you shouldn't

00:07:30.980 have done it that we have a system pushing back on this because it's a big thing not a small thing

00:07:35.080 to do this but that also we were able to solve the situation with it that there was no loss of

00:07:46.680 life there was no uh you know serious violence that we were able to get neighborhoods back under

00:07:55.180 control a border uh border services opened and um there haven't been a recurrence of these kinds of

00:08:04.840 illegal occupations uh since then i'm not going to pretend that it's the only thing that could

00:08:09.920 have done it, but it did do it. And that colors the conversations we're having now with the fact

00:08:18.940 that these could be very different conversations. And I am absolutely, absolutely serene and confident

00:08:27.440 that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation.

00:08:31.580 serene and confident that he made the right choice so that does not again strike me as

00:08:43.320 something that will be shaken regardless of what commissioner paul releau finds now anyone who was

00:08:49.860 in ottawa when the freedom convoy protests were dismantled a few days after the emergencies act

00:08:55.380 came into play we'll know there was nothing serene about that you had people like alexa

00:09:01.300 the rebel reporter that was shot in the leg with a tear gas canister yours truly who was on the

00:09:07.620 receiving end of a hefty dose of the pepper spray you can see a picture of that there believe it or

00:09:13.680 not some police officer working on justin trudeau's orders i thought that this face of mine needed to

00:09:20.340 be more puffy and more bloated than it already was. So that was the image that you all had to

00:09:26.300 suffer through as I had to suffer through that as well. Oddly enough, still less painful to be

00:09:31.960 pepper sprayed than to have listened to Justin Trudeau try to justify the emergencies act. So

00:09:36.980 take from that what you will. But all of this is to say that this is not a situation that Canadians

00:09:44.200 should forget. And I wrote an issue of my sub stack earlier, which is the very creatively

00:09:50.440 titled Andrew Lawton sub stack. And I was trying to reflect a little bit. So I shared last week

00:09:57.000 that I was down with illness for a few weeks after I got back from Davos, Klaus Schwab's

00:10:02.860 parting gift, I've called it. And I had some time to reflect on my hands. And there was a surreal

00:10:08.060 quality that I said I had sort of felt when I thought back about things that had happened

00:10:13.540 over the last three years when I thought back about the fact that, wow, we put caution tape

00:10:19.620 around playgrounds and told people not to play on them. Wow, we forced seniors to hug and kiss

00:10:26.040 each other through basically like hazmat suits. Wow, we fined people who dared to have an extra

00:10:33.480 person at the dinner table, an illegal gathering. We threatened to fined people in Quebec for not

00:10:39.580 being vaccinated we banned unvaccinated people from air and rail travel when you rhyme off this

00:10:46.500 stuff which is very fresh and very raw for a lot of people for other people it's like oh wow

00:10:52.120 our government actually went there that was real that wasn't a bad dream that actually happened

00:10:58.520 and the freedom convoy is the flip side of that it's similarly surreal for a lot of people because

00:11:05.780 it was such a departure from what life had been for the two years prior. And I've often remarked

00:11:13.340 in speeches about this that Canada is not a country that has baked into its national DNA,

00:11:19.180 its collective DNA, a sense of rebellion or revolution. The United States was born of

00:11:24.180 revolution. The idea of rebelling against tyranny, speaking up against authority, that's a part of

00:11:29.320 the American existence. Canada is the contrary. We're a country that was almost an accident of

00:11:34.920 history if you learn about how confederation took place we're a country i think we should

00:11:39.040 be tremendously proud of but we're not a country built of revolution so we don't have that when

00:11:46.000 canadians stand up as they did one year ago one year plus you know two weeks ago when canadians

00:11:52.160 stand up that's a big deal and it was a watershed moment in canada it was a watershed moment in the

00:11:57.660 pandemic and i had a little bit of delight when the book i wrote about this the freedom convoy

00:12:02.400 the inside story of three weeks that shook the world got recategorized on amazon from a politics

00:12:09.080 book to a history book at one point they they moved this around so i i wouldn't read too much

00:12:13.960 into it but i was i was watching this and i'm like oh wow you know one day i was a bestseller

00:12:18.460 in politics and the next day i was like the bestseller in canadian history and i i an old

00:12:23.520 history professor of mine uh was quite jealous because his books never made it to the history

00:12:28.020 bestsellers list, but mine apparently did. And the reason is because I think there was an

00:12:33.400 understanding that this was history in the making when it was happening. The Emergencies Act was

00:12:40.920 similarly history in the making and not a good kind of history. This is not a history that we'll

00:12:46.040 look back on and be proud of. It's not one that I think Justin Trudeau should look back on and feel

00:12:51.660 serene about in any way whatsoever. And if you listen to those comments, I won't make you suffer

00:12:57.520 through them again. But if you listen to those comments he made, he was talking about, well,

00:13:02.840 it worked. And a lot of the defenders of the Emergencies Act, if you really break through

00:13:08.100 their arguments, they don't have a response to what about trampling on civil liberties? What

00:13:14.080 about this being used against people you agree with? What about this? What about that? They

00:13:17.900 don't have an answer because they don't care. Their argument ultimately comes down to, I didn't

00:13:23.660 like the truckers the emergencies act came into place a few days later the truckers were gone

00:13:28.360 so there is a Machiavellian defense that you see in here which is now the government's

00:13:35.720 sole defense for this Justin Trudeau saying right there well it worked it got rid of them they were

00:13:40.420 there we did it they weren't there so I don't want to rehash the public order emergency commission

00:13:46.680 because we're one year out from the emergencies act which means there should have been time for

00:13:50.840 reflection that goes beyond just the nitty-gritty minute details about, well, how much can a heavy

00:13:57.100 tow truck tow and could this tow truck have done it? And if a tow truck is driving east on

00:14:02.820 Wellington Street at 40 kilometers an hour and a big rig is parked, at what point does the sun

00:14:09.420 intersect? No, there was none of that. We need to talk about the big picture here, which is that

00:14:14.720 Justin Trudeau decided that rather than admit he had been wrong, wrong about vaccine mandates,

00:14:21.560 wrong about lockdowns, wrong about the divisiveness, wrong about his rhetoric, instead of admitting he

00:14:27.240 had been wrong, which is what his protesters that went to Ottawa from all across the country were

00:14:34.000 saying, he doubled down on the rhetoric, he doubled down on the mandates, and then he, I would say,

00:14:41.600 tripled down by deciding that you do not have the right to protest him on the streets of Ottawa

00:14:48.640 if he doesn't like you. And this is basically what it comes down to. Justin Trudeau did not

00:14:56.800 support the right to protest his government. He took an approach that he never would have with

00:15:03.580 Indigenous protesters, that he never would have with any other group of protesters. I should say 0.98

00:15:08.260 that there were a huge number of Indigenous protesters in the Freedom Convoy. It just wasn't

00:15:13.180 an Indigenous protest in the sense like some of the anti-pipeline blockades ostensibly are. But he

00:15:19.280 decided that you did not have a right to take a stand against his government. And there was a

00:15:24.600 unity in the Freedom Convoy that I pointed out in my newsletter that cut across political lines,

00:15:30.960 it cut across religious lines, racial lines, regional lines. The old story I've told of the

00:15:35.800 Quebec separatists and the Alberta separatists hugging each other and partying in the streets.

00:15:40.880 This is a silly moment, but it's not silly if you think about it, because what else can unite Quebec

00:15:46.620 nationalists and Alberta nationalists? But the Freedom Convoy did. And the Freedom Convoy united 0.57

00:15:52.940 people in a way that Justin Trudeau certainly didn't. The Justin Trudeau's rhetoric about why

00:15:58.620 should we tolerate these people, his rhetoric about, well, these people may have a right to

00:16:02.660 be unvaccinated but they don't have a right to get on a plane and spread the virus that

00:16:06.260 all of the rhetoric that we've gotten from this government which was divisive

00:16:09.940 was answered by the unity of the convoy and and if you talk to real Canadians about it

00:16:19.880 there was a huge amount of support I mean my anyone who covered the convoy there's something

00:16:26.220 we don't often talk about because it sounds weirdly self-aggrandizing but anyone who tweeted

00:16:30.900 about the convoy, who posted about it on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, the following just went

00:16:36.060 through the roof through that period. Like my Twitter followers went up astronomically. And no,

00:16:41.940 it wasn't all Russian bots. Maybe, you know, Olaf and Boris were in the followers, but it was real

00:16:46.860 people from Canada, from the US, from the UK, from Australia that were wanting to know what the heck

00:16:51.840 was happening and didn't trust the mainstream media to give them a sense of it. And the reason

00:16:57.480 was there was such this huge appetite and when I looked at the messages I was getting every now

00:17:01.880 and then you click on the profile and you know it used to be that if I get a message from someone

00:17:05.900 that said oh I love your show I'd click on their profile and it's you know proud conservative

00:17:10.660 Christian Canadian and that's absolutely fine I love it but the people that were following my

00:17:16.240 content during the convoy I would click on their protest and it was like you know lefty earth

00:17:23.320 loving homeschool mom or some variation of that. It would be, you know, stoner for life. It would

00:17:30.240 be all of these weird, different disparate groups of people that have never been part of the same

00:17:37.220 political movement in their lives, but we're all coming together under this. And the Canadians

00:17:43.240 that hated it, the Canadians that hated what the convoy stood for overwhelmingly were the poster

00:17:49.660 boys of this is your brain on cbc they were consumers of a mainstream media narrative about

00:17:56.220 the convoy that was not just slightly wrong but that was just blatantly and brazenly false

00:18:02.100 and this is why the convoy became a rorschach test a national rorschach test where you could look at

00:18:09.160 it and two people could look at it and see vastly different things because the lens through which

00:18:13.840 people were viewing this thing was very heavily tinted by the government narrative, the CBC

00:18:20.220 narrative, the CTV narrative, the global narrative, and some of the reporters that went in earnestly

00:18:25.700 and just, I think, had real conversations. There were examples of them, but they were relative

00:18:30.540 minorities in a landscape that overwhelmingly committed to a narrative before the trucks even

00:18:36.480 got to Ottawa and was unafraid to be taken off that narrative. And that was why it was independent

00:18:42.920 media's time to shine because people wanted a sense of truth they wanted to know what was

00:18:48.520 happening and you couldn't look at what was happening and then what became the government's

00:18:53.400 response to this without seeing that it was not what government said it was and here for example

00:19:01.460 is Justin Trudeau claiming that the Emergencies Act did not suspend fundamental rights and freedoms

00:19:06.800 are you drawing a distinction there between okay the premiers may say it's under control here but

00:19:16.120 that doesn't mean it's under control everywhere so they would have had to come to you with

00:19:19.820 something that would have solved the big problem as you saw it is that um i think there just would

00:19:25.740 have been a sense that that the measures i was proposing weren't going to be useful or effective

00:19:36.280 and what i heard on the contrary uh was uh concerns that we'd shared that this might

00:19:46.100 inflame the protesters to declare a public order emergency and bring in martial law um which was

00:19:53.800 one of the concerns or that they would interpret it as that of course it wasn't martial law and

00:19:58.700 it did not suspend people's fundamental rights and freedoms um but it it at the same time um

00:20:06.080 they expressed these concerns which we had shared uh but i was balancing off against okay um there

00:20:13.840 is a danger of of further uh inflaming the situation but the situation was already pretty

00:20:20.180 inflamed and my concern was if we continue to not do anything uh are enough citizens going to start

00:20:27.300 counter protesting and taking things into their own hands at various places across the country

00:20:31.780 now before i offer any commentary on that let me just shift to another clip here

00:20:40.520 of that one you just saw by the way was not beforehand this was after the fact he's had

00:20:46.880 time to reflect he's seen all the evidence he knows exactly what happened that was in november

00:20:51.800 of 2022 take a look back to february 2022 uh actually this video took place almost seconds

00:20:59.720 before i was pepper sprayed and it will give you a sense of exactly how fundamental freedoms were

00:21:08.120 protected specifically look for the woman who ends up on the ground in this video 0.99

00:21:12.440 Oh, come on through. Come on through. What is happening here? Wow. What is this lady doing? Trampling. Trampling horses. Trampling. Stop it. Stop it. 0.65

00:21:27.780 They just trampled that lady. 1.00

00:21:38.840 They just fully trampled that lady. 1.00

00:21:41.980 They just fully trampled that lady. 1.00

00:21:46.720 Here's the lady.

00:21:51.420 When I said earlier, there's a surreal quality to all of this.

00:21:55.440 That video replays over and over in my mind.

00:21:59.720 And again, where that video is taking place,

00:22:01.640 right off to the left was the Chateau Laurier.

00:22:03.440 That's where I was.

00:22:04.440 It was at that moment that the police horses broke through the formation

00:22:08.020 and police basically shoved people up against the wall.

00:22:11.560 They didn't give them the opportunity to walk back.

00:22:14.240 And I was caught up in the midst of that,

00:22:17.600 although I didn't get nearly as nasty a treatment as Candice Saro did

00:22:21.460 or as the gentleman in that video,

00:22:22.800 who as I understand it has not yet been named now when this first happened police said well there

00:22:28.440 was a bicycle thrown at police horses that was the comment made now let me tell you that video

00:22:34.140 has been played more times than I can count it was analyzed and discussed in the public order

00:22:39.960 emergency commission hearings the moment has been replayed police reports have been filed

00:22:44.880 I have yet to see one single shred of evidence that anything was thrown at police officers let

00:22:51.480 alone a bicycle. They might have been a little confused. That woman they trampled over, her

00:22:56.000 walker went flying, but that was after the moment took place. So perhaps it could have been

00:23:01.340 that it didn't happen, that the violence against law enforcement, the violence against the

00:23:06.060 government was non-existent. The violence took place against protesters. Everything that Justin

00:23:13.140 Trudeau claimed other people were doing, he was doing. They were not interrupting and interfering

00:23:20.980 with Canadian democracy, he was. They were not threatening the fabric of this country, he was.

00:23:26.860 They were not dividing Canadians, he was. The Emergencies Act was one of the grandest displays

00:23:34.480 of gaslighting and projection that I have ever seen in this country, and Justin Trudeau cannot

00:23:40.600 be allowed to get away with it. And the message in this has to be, never forget. And when I say

00:23:49.180 that, I don't mean dwell on this. I don't mean keep this moment alive. I've often remarked that

00:23:54.160 there are a lot of people who never seem to want the pandemic to end. People like that doctor who's

00:24:00.040 now a trustee in Ottawa that thinks that we should all basically wear N95 masks when we're in the

00:24:06.580 shower alone or something like that. But people like that never want the pandemic to end. They

00:24:11.000 derive great power and great purpose from it. And there are people on the other side that I think

00:24:16.260 have been immersed in this convoy world that have a new sense of purpose for themselves that

00:24:21.500 similarly don't want it to end. I'm not saying we shouldn't move on from this. What I'm saying

00:24:26.340 is that we should do as much as we can to distance ourselves from this chapter in the country's

00:24:33.060 history. And part of that is by saying to the government that this sort of thing will not stand

00:24:37.740 by not making it consequence free, which is what the liberals are banking on, that you get to just

00:24:43.800 invoke the Emergencies Act and a year later get away without even getting the cursory nominal

00:24:49.920 slap on the wrist, which is what I fear we are headed towards next week. So the call to action

00:24:56.780 here is that when this report comes out, whatever, read it genuinely. The worst thing we can do is

00:25:04.900 decide before something happens what it's going to be because that's what Justin Trudeau did to

00:25:09.900 the convoy, so I don't think we should be doing it to the Emergencies Act report that comes out.

00:25:15.240 But genuinely read it. If there's an issue with it, take issue with it. Don't just say the process

00:25:20.000 was biased, but actually identify what the problem was. If you watch the hearings,

00:25:26.780 you'll know that there was no bombshell evidence that came out about an actual emergency. There

00:25:31.440 was no bombshell evidence that came out that said, well, there was truly this national conspiracy,

00:25:36.940 there was this violent group, there was this threat of violence.

00:25:40.120 No, quite the contrary.

00:25:41.280 The whole debate came down to this very niggling technical detail

00:25:48.080 about how to interpret Section 2 of the CSIS Act

00:25:52.180 as it pertains to the Emergencies Act.

00:25:54.920 That was what it all came down to.

00:25:57.960 What is a threat to the security of Canada?

00:26:01.100 And I don't want to rehash this technical debate,

00:26:04.200 but I do think there's a significant takeaway here.

00:26:06.940 which is that when the debate became about a technicality,

00:26:09.840 when the debate became about such a minor detail,

00:26:12.240 it was because the government's overarching narrative

00:26:15.260 that there was this violent white supremacist, 0.88

00:26:17.540 racist, neo-Nazi insurrection had already crumbled. 0.90

00:26:21.540 The government narrative had already crumbled,

00:26:23.820 which is why it became about legal gymnastics.

00:26:26.680 And again, lawyers get paid a lot of money

00:26:28.260 to do legal gymnastics.

00:26:29.520 I'm neither a lawyer nor a gymnast,

00:26:31.900 although I think I'd make a more convincing lawyer

00:26:33.600 than gymnast.

00:26:35.140 but when it comes down to that it's because they had already lost so as I look back to this thing

00:26:43.740 one year ago my overarching message is to live your life as free people and that was why the

00:26:55.140 protest for me was so powerful because the life that convoy protesters wanted was not

00:27:02.000 anything dramatic. They wanted the life of 2019, the one that had been snatched away from them.

00:27:08.360 And it wasn't even really a protest. I mean, yeah, the first weekend there were people with

00:27:12.260 signs that were protesting government, but it just became a little world. It became a little

00:27:18.000 world where people just lived the life that had been taken from them. And that's what we all do

00:27:23.480 to win. We live the life that we want to live and we refuse to cow towards those who wish to take

00:27:29.000 our freedom away and I'm not one of these people that buys into the idea of pandemic amnesty of

00:27:35.140 just giving everyone a complete pass on what they've done certainly for people that were

00:27:39.160 purveyors and promulgators of fear propagandists of fear people like Justin Trudeau because for

00:27:45.920 them there needs to be political accountability and that won't come from the commission it will

00:27:51.360 come from Canadians so continue to take a stand but understand what the stakes are that's my

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00:28:15.640 a look at the trailer in order to stop vladimir putin's war machine we need to reflect on the

00:28:22.600 old expression, follow the money.

00:28:28.280 It's not a thriving, expanding, growing economy.

00:28:31.700 Russia today is essentially a gas station.

00:28:34.720 Vladimir Putin has been working behind the scenes to sabotage his competitors.

00:28:39.800 Putin and his cronies helped fund the anti-shale gas propaganda that led seven European countries

00:28:45.080 to ban fracking.

00:28:46.880 Do we stand up and help the world wean itself off of Russian oil and natural gas? 0.97

00:28:52.600 or do we keep our resources in the ground

00:28:55.000 and let the world stay dependent on tyrants like Vladimir Putin?

00:29:09.480 That is Colin Craig from secondstreet.org,

00:29:12.760 a good friend of mine and of the program and of True North,

00:29:15.900 so you can check out that documentary for free at defundputin.ca.

00:29:20.320 Just before we wrap things up,

00:29:22.200 last show i was spotted drinking out of this uh which is the authentic five of a kind andrew

00:29:30.120 lawton show mug and i had people asking where they could get one and we don't actually you can't is

00:29:35.600 the whole point of it uh right now but if there is really an appetite for it and you want an andrew

00:29:40.540 lawton show mug let me know and i can like rattle the cage of the powers that be at true north and

00:29:45.240 maybe start a new campaign we'll do like the uh canadian version of stephen crowder's mug club

00:29:49.960 although Stephen Crowder is Canadian so maybe that is the Canadian version of it but we'll do

00:29:53.620 he's he's sold out because he's an American now so uh we'll do the Canadian version of the uh the

00:29:59.400 mug club I I trust me when I say I would love to do it I just don't know like if I'm the one that 0.91

00:30:04.260 has to like keep them in my house and ship them all out so uh take from that what you will but

00:30:08.080 in the meantime it does uh keep the coffee warm that uh does it for us for today I want to give

00:30:14.100 a big thanks to all of you who tuned into the show today we will be back tomorrow with another

00:30:19.360 edition of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show. And do keep your eyes peeled. Next week, we'll have

00:30:24.100 a full breakdown of the Emergencies Act report, the final report from the Public Order Emergency

00:30:29.940 Commission. And if you want to support the work that we're doing at True North, please do head

00:30:34.100 on over to donate.tnc.news. That does it for me. Thank you, God bless, and good day to you all.

00:30:43.360 Thanks for listening to The Andrew Lawton Show. Support the program by donating to True North

00:30:48.020 at www.tnc.news.

Juno News - February 14, 2023

The Emergencies Act, one year later

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