Juno News - February 05, 2022


Where is this violent occupation the media keeps warning us about？


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

156.11974

Word Count

412

Sentence Count

44


Summary

On February 4th, 2019, True North's Harrison Faulkner was on the ground in downtown Ottawa covering the massive protests that were taking place in the streets of the city. On this episode, we speak to people who have not only witnessed no violence, but have even reported no violence themselves. Where are these reports coming from?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Harrison Faulkner for True North on Saturday, February the 5th in downtown Ottawa.
00:00:04.960 As you can see behind me, the scenes are incredible.
00:00:07.620 There's so much love, so much excitement, so much patriotism and unity here.
00:00:12.380 The media wants to try and paint this as though there's violence,
00:00:15.600 that this is some sort of occupation.
00:00:17.760 And so we were curious, we wanted to ask people if they'd seen any violence themselves.
00:00:21.220 Here's what they had to say.
00:00:22.180 We're trying to figure out if anyone's seen any violence today.
00:00:24.960 What have you seen?
00:00:25.520 We've been walking around for a couple of hours now, no violence, none observed.
00:00:31.580 Everything is nice, peaceful.
00:00:33.680 Officers are friendly and people are super friendly.
00:00:36.840 It's like a street festival here.
00:00:38.800 None whatsoever.
00:00:39.800 There's no hugs and hugs and hugs and hugs and smiles and friendship and all that you need.
00:00:45.640 No violence here, just peace and peace and love.
00:00:48.300 Peace and love, that's it.
00:00:50.260 We just want to have a relax again.
00:00:51.980 It's awesome, there is no violence whatsoever.
00:00:54.760 We do see a lot of police officers, which is great, actually.
00:00:58.560 It makes us feel even more safe, but nothing, nothing at all.
00:01:02.980 Not even suspicious.
00:01:03.860 All right, we're trying to figure out if anyone's seen any violence here today.
00:01:06.240 What have you seen?
00:01:06.980 I haven't seen a thing yet.
00:01:08.520 I haven't seen those counter-movement crowd.
00:01:12.880 Where are they?
00:01:13.660 The counter-protest, where are they?
00:01:15.920 Are you seeing the counter-protest?
00:01:17.740 Absolutely not.
00:01:18.660 Nothing but love.
00:01:19.500 None, zero.
00:01:21.060 Zero.
00:01:21.460 It's just all love.
00:01:23.960 Everyone is just so happy to be out here.
00:01:26.140 As soon as we got down here, just put a huge smile on your face.
00:01:29.140 Everyone's so happy to see everyone else.
00:01:31.420 Super peaceful.
00:01:32.300 It's like a huge party.
00:01:33.740 So many stakeouts, barbecues, and everyone's feeding each other, keeping each other warm while
00:01:38.220 we're trying to fight for our freedoms.
00:01:39.860 Hugs, handshakes, nothing but happiness.
00:01:43.400 No violence at all?
00:01:44.360 None.
00:01:45.040 Zero.
00:01:46.280 Awesome.
00:01:46.620 It's a beautiful, beautiful day with a bunch of beautiful people.
00:01:50.400 As you can see, every single person we've talked to could not provide us with one example
00:01:54.760 of violence that they have seen.
00:01:57.040 So that begs the question, where are these reports coming from?
00:02:00.120 We've been on the ground for the past few days and haven't seen any violence whatsoever.
00:02:03.960 We're going to continue to bring you more coverage.
00:02:06.100 Live from downtown Ottawa, Harrison Faulkner.
00:02:08.360 We're going to continue to bring you more coverage.