BREAKDOWN: Trucker Commission Day 4 | Ft. Eva Chipiuk & Tom Marazzo
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Summary
The Truckers Commission in Ottawa, Canada is a public order emergencies inquiry wherein the actions of the government are being examined because the government invoked a counter-terrorism law on a bunch of bouncy castles, hot tubs, and horror street parties. The government invoked the emergency act in order to crack down on the "protestors" who were demonstrating against the use of a counter terrorism law that was passed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government in the wake of the "anti-protest" legislation passed in 2011.
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hey good afternoon good evening everybody and welcome to the rebel news daily live stream
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wherein we have shifted focus from an afternoon or morning depending on where you are in the
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country live stream where we talk about the news of the day to the evening where we talk about
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the only news of the day and that's the truckers commission in ottawa it's the public order
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emergencies inquiry wherein the actions of the government are being examined because
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the government invoked really a counter-terrorism law on a bunch of bouncy castles hot tubs and the
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horror street parties and i'm joined today by my friend william diaz who's been working his butt off
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in ottawa covering the truckers commission and what a treat eva chipiak the best photo bomber
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in the country she's in the background of all my pictures with tamara leach and there's a reason
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for that is because if there's not a lawyer in tamara leach's pictures they're gonna put her
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back in jail eva thanks for being on the show almost my pleasure so happy to be here
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oh um big testimony today um and before we get too far into the weeds here um i should tell everybody
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satellite studio in ottawa which is exactly where william and eva are so there's your proof positive
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that we're spending your money in the right place um but today we had jim watson on the stand
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and it was interesting to hear him say that he never once asked for the emergencies act
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eva you're the legal expert what's your big takeaway of what you heard from jim watson today
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oh yeah there was so much like you said big day of testimony and i think um where it becomes really
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interesting is if you look at the contrast of yesterday's evidence to today's evidence so here
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we have um you know top dog of city of ottawa and painting a very different picture than what
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the top representatives at the city of ottawa were saying and it you know it makes me think a little
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bit going back to friday's uh evidence that we heard counselors politicians versus employees and how
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evidence is coming across quite differently depending on whether or not you are an elected
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official or not and we even saw that today with kim ayat who is a also an employee so lots of good
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credible information one big ticket big factor item is that emergent ceilings were always opened
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and they had um alternatives and they had already figured out what to do in the cases where they
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couldn't access and the one particular example really is kent street so they had the protocol in
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place so really you see the evidence is quite contrasting and that's what we saw in the media
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the whole of heavyweight you could look at the same scene and have two different accounts of it
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100 yeah it was weird to see jim watson sort of describe himself as a bystander in all of this
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so there was and it's like no you were on the phone with gofundme he testified that it took one
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phone call with gofundme to get everything cut off um he was and this is something we'll get to
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actively meddling with the prime minister throwing uh looked like the prime minister's office was
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putting pressure on watson to put pressure on uh the former police chief peter slowly to act in a
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certain way and they threw doug ford under the bus which is what you get doug ford uh because doug
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ford said yesterday he's standing shoulder to shoulder with prime minister trudeau on the invocation
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of the emergencies act and then today we see in private uh phone call exchanges that uh watson and
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trudeau were sort of saying well ford's not doing enough here he's the bad guy here and we're going
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to hold him to account likely in the media um there was one thing that i thought was outstanding and
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it was you know it was one of those things as i always say uh the kids say they need receipts and
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boy they had them today watson repeatedly said that the protesters were unreasonable and you could not
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reasonably negotiate with them and then there's like this letter yeah and then there's this letterhead
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from watson where he was negotiating with tamara leach and he kept saying i was involved in the
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negotiations it was dean french formerly of uh doug ford's office he was doing the negotiating it was
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um the city manager who's doing the negotiating it was my chief of staff who was doing the negotiating
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and then there's this letterhead that he signed to tamara leach detailing the uh negotiations with her
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uh eva why don't you weigh in on that oh did we lose eva i think we're having the same uh technical
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problems that we had yesterday um but yeah it was what i was saying to eva was um that jim watson just
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was doing his very best to rewrite reality eva now that you're back maybe you can weigh in on that
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right i um was going somewhere just remind me again where you were at before we caught off
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okay sure i was talking about jim watson repeatedly saying that the protesters you couldn't negotiate
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with them they were just absolutely unreasonable crazy people irrational and then there's this
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piece of paper where he literally negotiated with them yeah so a couple comments on that one is that
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the timeline of events you really have to think about it and i don't think that really came out
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in uh the evidence today so if you paid attention to the timeline the first time we met with the city
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manager that was a tuesday and that was under very tense circumstances and you'll hear that
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in evidence when um some of the protester group will be able to testify so it was like first meeting
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tensions are high and we're looking to de-escalate and that was i think somebody said today bring the
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temperature down and that was exactly it um dean french came into the picture a couple days later
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i believe we had a um kind of a preliminary meeting on friday friday night sunday this is two days
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two days later there's an agreement that is made public on letterhead like you just mentioned
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sheila not only from mayor watson with his signature but in response the freedom convoy signed by tamara
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leach so uh less than a week this is how quickly and and yesterday we heard very clearly um both uh both
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of the two um that were testifying they gave evidence saying that they did that to reduce
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impacts on the area residents they wanted to do it they didn't come here to
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i think we might have lost eva again it sounds that way yeah to i guess to just summarize what
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eva was saying um and we heard it repeatedly yesterday from both the city manager and the
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chief of staff to jim watson oh oh there you are having technical problems but this is what happens
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and he set up a satellite studio and have it controlled from toronto um yeah it was uh you
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know we heard that repeatedly and as i was saying to tom marazzo yesterday it was nothing but grown-ups
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in the room yesterday um we had a grown-up in the room in the afternoon today but not so much in the
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morning yeah very different from the hysterical accounts that we had from last week where people
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were reporting like my mom's dog's babysitter told me that the truckers were mean and so
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terrorism law them that's what we were hearing from yeah you know from some of the city councillors
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yeah i think jim watson mirrored a little bit the type of statements that we saw last week as well
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right yeah i think we uh olivia if you're able to we have a clip of um something that the politicians
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were doing that the grown-ups in the room the city employees did not appreciate um and that came
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out in testimony yesterday that they didn't appreciate as they were actively trying to
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negotiate with clients eva that they were bashing them in the media and they were you know they were
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pointing out like you're not being helpful you're making this worse but jim watson not one to learn
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from his mistakes he thought he would do a little bit of that today when he um said that the
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convoyers were nasty people maybe we can roll that clip this once you get down to 100 spread over
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three shifts of eight hours a day it's not a lot of officers and so while we appreciate it every time
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we saw a mountie or we saw an opp officer we needed the large number of 1800 to get this situation
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under control and kick these yahoos out of our city who are disrupting the quality of life of the
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people of ottawa fast forward we got what federal government the provincial government support we
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wanted it sooner because this thing should not have lasted three weeks this
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i don't know if we have the clip where he calls everybody's yeah that's the yahoos clip but we do
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have one where he said that they were nasty people that just don't represent canada i think
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as the mayor from ottawa has a better his finger on the pulse yeah i think it's written the transcript of
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his conversation with prime minister justin trudeau i think that's where he that's where we see in the
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way he spoke about the protesters and i do want to make a comment about that because yeah you the
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people that were in ottawa they saw these comments the people that were negotiating with the city saw
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these comments and what did they do they didn't um go out in the media and name call in return
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they continue to act like adults and they said that's not why we're here we're here to end the
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mandates we're not here to impact area residents we're going to be the adults in the room and we're
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going to abide by this agreement and move forward the other thing i wanted to note about what we heard
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from mayor watson today is and this particularly shocked me is that he continuously referred to getting
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his intel information from the media yeah it says yeah he lives here take a walk like counselor mckinney
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did and i actually do very much enjoy her video that she posted walking around with in the protest and
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if you actually watch it there's zero honking there's zero violence there's zero name calling
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she's taking a stroll down a street packed with trucks that's what we see i liked mckinney's video
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because if you do watch it sort of out of context and maybe tune her out a little bit yeah it just
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looks like a busy street uh you can see directly behind her that there's a an emergency lane that is
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wide open and she's ranting about the truckers and how awful they are walking right past them and
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none of them even engage with them and none of them engage with her they're just like yep we'll
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just let that crazy lady talk to her camera it was there yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly um there's
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some other things that i thought were quite interesting today um if we could bump ahead
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to uh kim iott olivia i know i'm putting you on the spot in the office there um maybe you might
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want to grab those those clips i think sydney cut them but we'll talk about now like you know you had
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jim watson in communications with justin trudeau and justin trudeau
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looked like he was pushing for an active change in the policing leadership because when we heard
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yesterday it sounded like slowly said no these people have a right to be here you might not like
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the traffic snargel they're causing but they we don't have an an ability or we shouldn't have an
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authority to limit their charter rights when they go downtown to protest as long as they're
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keeping a lane of traffic open and it looked like the prime minister was saying well what can we do
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what can we do to put some downward pressure on the police chief to bend to our political will and
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you can see that in the phone call readout and to his credit jim watson said uh we should be doing
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everything we can to support our police chief and not allowing this political pressure to come down
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on him from the top and it seems as though slowly and i'm only speculating here he just sort of fell on
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his sword i think rather than be fired i think he probably just took the gracious way out because he
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wasn't going to do the things that they wanted him to do well and i i don't know if you you caught
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this but uh definitely it was brendan biller's cross-examine
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it looks like we lost eva chippy x audio there um
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it's it was really something to see though just wanting to imply apply the same force to a local
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police officer that he's probably applied to brenda lucky a thousand times sorry eva we lost
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your audio if you want to pick up your thought oh no problem so i i just wanted to share that um
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when we less than with i think it was not even 24 hours that we were basically retained and told to
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get out here we came here thinking that we would be in court defending an injunction from the city of
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ottawa because that made sense to us as a legal tool um that didn't happen until well into our third
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week and they didn't even serve us with it so um and we clearly made ourselves known we were in city
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hall uh they knew who we were and who we represented not all the protesters but at least
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you know a good chunk that had been recognized um but that didn't happen and what we did see was an
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injunction from a private citizen and if you're looking to reduce impacts we know that that did
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help with the honking impacts yeah as we've got video evidence from the anti-honkers themselves
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um you were mentioning yeah you were mentioning something about um
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uh no we're back uh you were mentioning something about brendan miller's cross-examination
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and i keep joking on twitter that they're going to emergencies act him and cease his bank account
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if he doesn't stop with his cross-examination bloodbath you were going to make a point about
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his examination of watson so i don't know if it came out in watson but he had referred to
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the cross-examination with one of the witnesses about um chief slowly looking for an injunction
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so that is one of the legal tools that were available to the city and uh when we got retained very last
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minute to help with some of the protesters recognizing that the landscape is really getting
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a little hot and some legal assistance might be required we assumed the first thing we would be
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defending is an injunction from the city of ottawa to well we didn't know exactly what they would be
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looking for but probably parking we weren't on the ground so we didn't know the exact situation that
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made sense to us and as we know they did get an injunction but that was way late in the game we
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weren't even served although we had identified ourselves as representing some of the key players
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in the protest so um you know that tool was available and if mayor watson today is saying they
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wanted all tools available that was one that very much made sense and we saw how effective it was with the
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private citizen injunction with honking now watson said it was a very volatile situation and i you know
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i shouldn't burst out laughing when i'm watching these uh hearings but sometimes they're just so
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ridiculous and i think these people are just so darn fragile so watson says uh it was a very volatile
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situation and then he goes on to describe the volatile situation olivia maybe you can check that clip
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because it was just a little bit too perfect it wasn't like violent street thugs okay let's roll
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this sorry people started to realize this was turning into a very volatile situation uh when we started
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seeing fireworks going off and hot tubs brought in and the behavior i told you about those four or five
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incidents and uh you know the public um who are living here understood fully that this was a horrific
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situation and the sooner it got resolved the better it was for everyone a volatile situation sounds
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pretty darn fun to me you know fireworks and then hot tubs i never saw one hot tub and i'm still upset
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about that i'm just gonna put that out there so i don't know where they were i hear they were around
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but i didn't see one and the second thing i want to note and it was uh you know mayor watson today said
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that he met with the two most affected affected counselors during the protest and went to a
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downtown business to help support the downtown business in this chaotic volatile situation with
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yahoo's around so you know if you just really think about what he says when he's giving his personal
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accounts of what happened as opposed to what somebody may have told him or he may have seen on the
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television you get a different account so that's worth noticing and i'm going to make this point
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because i have heard this a lot and i'd love to say it here is people are really asking about hearsay
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why do people get to talk so much about all these things and you know this is an investigative process
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it's not an adversarial process so that's one thing uh normally in a situation like a lawsuit
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you also don't have 20 or 10 different lawyers cross-examining you later so that is uh difficult
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and that is where the evidence will be tested so if two people give the same evidence what the
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commissioner is doing and his job is as a judge or a commissioner will do is they test the credibility
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of the witnesses and then they weigh it so if two people say the same thing and you're not really you
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don't think this guy is as truthful as the other guy his evidence is going to be weighed with less
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less um just weighed less than the one that's more credible so that you know we we saw how engaged the
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commissioner was yesterday um with serge al pan which was that's also really nice to see from a um
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you know the the decision maker is to see how engaged they are with the testimony and the witnesses so
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i just want to point that out because i i'm also sitting through a lot of this and you know i'd rather get
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straight to the truth but that's what we're doing for the next six weeks yeah it's uh i noticed the
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commissioner was also asking questions again today of um oh darn what's his name kim ayotte
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kim ayotte the second witness he was asking questions of him and i thought that was kind
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of interesting too um i think you also asked questions of jim watson when he said okay so who do
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you think is more responsible the provincial government or the federal government for the lack of police
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resources that were sent your way and he said it was both definitely not jim watson himself though
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it's those other guys that are responsible for the screw-ups in ottawa
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do we lose the ottawa guys again okay perfect perfect um now speaking of kim ayotte he gave some very
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straightforward straightforward testimony today i think there was no bs with that guy he didn't try
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to spin anything uh you know you could sort of see where he was going with some things but he really was
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pretty darn straightforward so one thing i thought was interesting and it sort of blows
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holes in the hysterical testimony of the city councillors uh matthew flurry and uh katherine mckinney
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uh he testified i think it was under examination by the government lawyer that there were 28 toes so
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he's in charge of bylaw ticketing towing all that stuff but he also pointed out that if it was happening
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in the red zone the exclusion zone or the vehicles were related to the convoy his people were hands
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off they weren't going to do it so if people were saying why weren't you ticketing and towing these
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vehicles he was advised by the police not to and he has to he doesn't work directly underneath the
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police but they work in they don't work in opposition of each other but he noted that there
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were 28 toes on the first weekend and then a rapid decline in all the towing happening after
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and the government lawyer asked if this was because the tow trucks refused to come and we've heard that
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repeatedly we needed the emergencies act because we couldn't get the tow trucks to come for three
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different reasons either the tow truck drivers were scared or they didn't want to risk their uh
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business reputation being involved in doing this stuff or they were sympathetic to the convoy they've
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said that repeatedly but kim i ought said something different he said when the government lawyer asked
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him if this is because the tow trucks refused to come for whatever different reason and he said no he
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said it was because they didn't need them to tow because the emergency lanes were kept open which has been
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something that they've said all along is that they needed the emergencies act to get the tow trucks to
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come because it was dangerous and they couldn't get to these emergencies but the lanes were open
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yeah that's definitely something we heard today that emergency lanes were open everywhere except for
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there was a bit of a congestion more so on kent and brito and sussex so those were the two areas that
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were identified he identified protesters identified um so that's certainly the case and it is interesting
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to see and hear these um different accounts i think actually olivia whispers in my ear we have that clip
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so maybe we can show that maybe i'm paraphrasing wrong but i don't think i am
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is it not true that the protest leaders were actually concerned about maintaining the safety
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lanes and raise that with you they did right and they wanted to ensure that the lanes were open so
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that emergency vehicles could always get through correct right and the protest leaders cooperated
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with you and the city in maintaining those safety lanes right yes right and they maintained them for the
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most part yes yeah and when new trucks would even arrive they even organized to talk with the what
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they refer to as block captains did they relay that to you no all right but when new vehicles were
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arrived uh had arrived to your knowledge you agree that they always organized to make sure that those
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uh huh well isn't that interesting there was a one point where i ought uh reiterated that they were
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not in inhibited from attending emergencies by the convoy and he even said that they were getting
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complaints from the public poorly nuisance complaints that uh emergency services were taking too long but
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every single one of those they investigated they didn't have any high level risks that they were concerned
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about with regard to response time yeah and this is i i understand that tom araso is coming up um after
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here and he will definitely be able to speak to that a lot more because that is something you know
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volunteers came together with their um what they were able to contribute to and that's something that
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tom really took under his wing is to help organize and make sure that there were always um an emergency
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lane available it was a logistical nightmare and nobody was in charge but he was just trying to
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help facilitate to make that happen there was something else that i ought said and i i won't keep you too
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long eva i think we said we would only occupy a half an hour of your time and you've been in the same
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meetings that i have been today so um i know that it can be uh psychologically exhausting to sit through that stuff
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but there was um brendan miller also uh cornered iot and i was quite honest about it he said that there
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were 3 000 tickets issued for municipal infractions and provincial infractions between january 27th and
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february 14th so up and until the day before or the day of the invocation of the emergencies act
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um and the exchange was fascinating because brendan miller goes 3 000 tickets is a lot a lot of
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interactions with a lot of protesters and not a single assaulting an officer charge was laid
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and you know that was one of the reasons they said oh we need to invoke the emergencies act because
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you know there's we've got to crack down on these guys they're violent they're going to assault police
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officers none were ever laid against the bylaw officers whatsoever or against any crimes committed
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against bylaw officers whatsoever and so the threat uh you know one of the reasons they said they
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needed the emergencies act was oh the bylaw officers are going to get assaulted the tow truck drivers are
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going to get assaulted but any of the ticketing and in any of the subsequent towing nobody was
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assaulted i i thought it was very very fascinating i don't know olivia if we have a clip of that or not
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i lost the ottawa team again thanks olivia is going to bring one up while i rag the puck a little
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bit here we go that's a lot of interactions with a lot of protesters and not a single uh assaulting a
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peace officer charge was laid in relation to your bylaw officers that's correct
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well well well how about that i'm not sure if we lost the team in ottawa so i'll just figure this
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out on my own okay i'll keep going um okay perfect i uh
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it's funny because uh i've spent the whole day being excoriated by the entire left of the internet
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saying oh you're just repeating or you're just pushing an agenda i'm like i'm literally just
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repeating the facts here you might not like them though the facts aren't going to go your way
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because you might have had a little bit too much cbc um and you're relying on the same set of facts that
00:28:01.760
jim watson did to make his decisions instead of the facts before us yeah even even cbc you know
00:28:09.200
retracted their comments about the the tomb of the unknown children some of the crimes yeah exactly
00:28:16.240
they retracted their comments and both katherine mckinney and jim watson did not take into consideration
00:28:22.800
the fact that the state-funded canine broadcasting corporation retracted their comment they still went
00:28:28.880
along with the original narrative saying that it actually did happen one thing i'd love to add too is
00:28:34.880
um just going back to the three thousand uh tickets and and no violent interactions or charges
00:28:42.320
i'm not a criminal lawyer um that's not what we came here for and so we keith and i keith wilson
00:28:50.480
and i didn't witness anything that remotely resembled any criminal activity and we were with our clients
00:28:58.480
advising our clients and it was more of a discussion with we were talking to police officers
00:29:05.520
daily uh they had our numbers so so what are how are we acting criminally or assaulting people when
00:29:14.080
we have a direct line of communication with the police it just it doesn't even add up it's it's
00:29:19.440
very it's been an interesting already few days just to hear what was going on on the other side and all of
00:29:26.320
the interactions that were going on there when we were there on the ground having a good time with some
00:29:31.360
of the police officers really getting to know them and you know talking about how we can help what we
00:29:36.560
could do where you need trucks moved and thinking we're all getting along and and working together
00:29:43.520
yeah we saw that with uh the communications between kimia and i think it was chris barber
00:29:49.600
uh where they were a collegial sort of exchange uh i'm moving trucks i've been working really hard we're
00:29:57.120
going to start moving trucks again this morning although they didn't because the police were
00:30:00.800
redeployed after the invocation of the emergencies act um and you know kimia thanking him for his hard
00:30:07.600
work and that is a testament to how the truckers were dealing with the cops and the cops it seems we're
00:30:16.000
getting this pressure from above emergency services they seem to have a good relationship with the truckers
00:30:23.040
and it all changed everything changed when justin trudeau invoked the emergencies act and police
00:30:30.240
resources were instantly redeployed away from getting the trucks off the street so for all those people
00:30:36.480
who are complaining on the internet about sucking diesel fumes while they're sleeping with their window
00:30:40.960
open on the 22nd floor i'll have you believe that that doesn't happen a carbon monoxide goes down but
00:30:46.480
whatever um but the science doesn't work out but even if that were the case um a lot of their suffering
00:30:54.480
their misery the phantom honking and the phantom smells they tell me they experience that's on the
00:31:00.800
federal government because they were the reason there were not the resources to get those trucks off the
00:31:06.480
street anymore nailed it sheila there you go like there you see the background now of what was going on
00:31:13.600
with the like the our clients the protesters that we represented daily communications interactions
00:31:20.240
very friendly cordial reasonable as we heard yesterday and then um all of a sudden it it just ended
00:31:28.400
and that was because of um justin trudeau's actions yeah and now that we know the timeline
00:31:35.840
we do know that the city manager and the chief of staff for jim watson i think it was on the 13th
00:31:43.040
informed two ministers bill blair and marco mendicino that they had reached an agreement
00:31:49.680
with the truckers and trucks were already beginning to move they said that you your clients were operating
00:31:56.720
in good faith the whole time and still with that information in hand they invoked the emergencies act
00:32:03.120
the next day and derailed the whole thing you got it yeah so so that first monday we there was a bit
00:32:10.240
of logistical issues that and you saw that in the text message i think with kim ayat what's going on we
00:32:16.800
need to move and then the next day derailed chris barber was out there again in the freezing cold as
00:32:23.200
you saw he's like i worked my bum off yesterday got some rest ready to go again and he was ready to go
00:32:29.760
out there and they weren't moving removing the blockades and nobody talked to us so here we have
00:32:36.560
daily communication daily talking but i think that's something that's going to come out we've
00:32:40.560
already seen the miscommunication and the infighting with the city of ottawa and i i think we're going to
00:32:48.480
see a bit of miscommunication with police as well um and different departments of the police and i saw it
00:32:55.040
first hand so that's going to be coming up in some of the next few days i think
00:33:02.640
it's uh it was really something to listen to yesterday's testimony where the city officials
00:33:08.160
are saying we don't have enough cops you're not sending us enough cops we don't have enough cops
00:33:12.960
to get these trucks off the street because that's what we need to do that's the most pressing pressing
00:33:18.160
thing we need to move the trucks they've got a place where they're going to put them
00:33:22.480
they've agreed to let them be on wellington street they had another two locations outside of the
00:33:27.040
city where they were moving other trucks and they were saying we don't have enough cops to complete
00:33:33.840
this operation the feds weren't sending enough cops although they did deploy 50 of them to justin
00:33:39.600
trudeau's house um and then the next day they take all the cops or a couple of days later take all the
00:33:48.240
cops off the operation to clear the streets and focus it on uh i guess trampling old ladies and
00:33:54.400
shooting uh reporters with crowd control devices yeah yeah so um oh go ahead no please go i had a thought
00:34:07.680
oh we had a moment there where everything was working fine and then we both stuttered over who
00:34:17.440
was going to talk next um olivia do we have their audio back or did we drop it again
00:34:26.400
okay william say something speak to me william can you hear me sheila i can hear you now yeah perfect
00:34:33.920
um you know what maybe we'll let eva go um we've probably annoyed her enough with our technical
00:34:40.320
difficulties eva thanks so much please come back at any time you're such a pleasure to talk to and
00:34:45.840
uh you're fun at parties thank you and i'll be happy to photobomb anytime
00:34:52.400
perfect eva thank you uh let's throw to an ad we'll let eva just shuffle off set and then
00:34:57.440
maybe we'll bring in our next guest please thursday in ottawa the public order emergencies
00:35:03.600
commission kicked off it's an inquiry into the actions of the government or at least it's supposed
00:35:08.480
to be the inquiry is allegedly meant to examine whether or not the government was justified
00:35:14.400
in invoking an anti-terrorism law called the emergencies act to euthanize peaceful anti-covid
00:35:19.680
mandate protests taking place in the nation's capital but also in other locations across the country
00:35:27.440
my body my choice now the convoy to ottawa spent nearly four weeks completely peacefully demonstrating
00:35:34.720
against lockdowns and vaccine passports it evolved into a nearly month-long street party replete with
00:35:40.480
bouncy castles hot tubs street hockey concerts and community outreach efforts like soup kitchens and
00:35:46.720
food for the homeless rebel news as we were for the convoy to ottawa will be there on the ground in
00:35:52.640
ottawa to cover the commission from the beginning to the end because you just cannot trust the mainstream
00:35:58.080
media and in fact that's what today's report is about we've rented an airbnb in ottawa where we're
00:36:04.880
sending a rotating cast of journalists to report on the public order emergency inquiry now you can help
00:36:10.800
support our efforts there at trucker commission.com the mainstream media's reporting about the alleged
00:36:17.280
foreign nature of the convoy funding was cited as a reason the liberals invoked the emergencies act
00:36:22.640
to arrest detain and seize the property bank accounts and assets of anti-trudeau demonstrators
00:36:31.760
hey folks from october 13th to november 25th we are here in ottawa for the emergencies act inquiry
00:36:37.120
organized by the public order emergency commission but why why the emergencies act inquiry well because
00:36:42.640
during the freedom convoy back in february justin trudeau used a never invoked before emergencies act
00:36:48.880
to basically seize protesters bank accounts seize protesters money seize their assets trampled or
00:36:54.000
civil liberties so we're here this month for the next month and a half to figure out if the way
00:36:58.320
the government acted was lawful and was appropriate so we are here to hold the government accountable
00:37:03.040
but we need your help we are here to cover it for you because everyone else here is mainstream media so
00:37:07.200
if you want to help us cover it if you want to help us bring you the other side of the story factual
00:37:12.080
actual news go to truckercommission.com and consider making a donation if you haven't checked out our
00:37:18.000
special website covering the other side of the story of what's really taking place at the world health
00:37:23.840
summit 2022 in rebel news you should it's called rebelwho.com and there you can also chip in to
00:37:31.120
support our journalism because we've brought you many great reports that you need to check out there
00:37:36.000
but today we are speaking with a grassroots political party in germany called debesis you might
00:37:42.480
be familiar with their chairman he is a leading prosecutor in germany his name is reinar fulmich who's been
00:37:49.680
heavily involved in the corona investigative committee we're going to speak to some of their members here but
00:37:56.080
what they are informing the public about today is to stop the treaty that's the pandemic treaty that rebel
00:38:03.680
news has already put on your radar in fact we have a petition set up for you guys to sign right now
00:38:10.480
you can open up your tab go to another device and go to no pandemic treaty dot com
00:38:18.880
hello everyone william yes here with rebel news and say let me walk you through what you need to
00:38:22.960
know about day three of the emergencies act inquiry here in ottawa the inquiry is taking place since during
00:38:28.320
the peaceful freedom convoy that occurred back in february uh justin trudeau used a never seen before
00:38:32.960
emergencies act this served to override all the civil liberties of the protesters that were there
00:38:39.120
the inquiry's rules to determine whether or not the use of the act was necessary and justified first
00:38:44.240
of all the two people testifying were steve kanalakos from the city of ottawa and chief of staff serge arpin
00:38:50.160
what's your understanding of why they were refusing to tow well there's several reasons the first was
00:38:55.120
their own safety um i think they felt that trying to tow a vehicle uh without the site being secured
00:39:01.600
in amongst uh protesters you could imagine um you know it could be quite conflictual when you're
00:39:07.680
trying to take someone's truck and people are still around the truck so they were concerned about that
00:39:12.240
they were concerned about the damage potential of their own vehicle should things get out of hand and
00:39:16.800
it's a cost to their business some are concerned that they do business with with truckers and trucking
00:39:23.120
companies and that's this would damage them reputationally and they would lose business
00:39:30.000
well there you go we have that was steve k uh testifying that uh he felt that the tow truck
00:39:38.240
drivers were in danger but as it turns out in today's testimony from kim ayat they actually didn't
00:39:44.000
need to tow anybody because they kept the lanes of traffic open uh there were uh 20 something toes
00:39:51.120
i mean approaching 30 i think it was on the first weekend and then it just petered right off because
00:39:57.360
of people like tom marazzo who joins us now he was part of the convoy and he was one of the people
00:40:04.800
making sure that the lanes of traffic were kept open for emergency services and we heard kim ayat say
00:40:12.000
today today yeah there was not a time and we investigated all the complaints there was not a time
00:40:17.520
that we could not access an emergency scene in a timely fashion how did you do that tom
00:40:26.080
well you know um i have to i have to say first off i'm really really happy to see that final
00:40:32.400
acknowledgement in in the room today uh because for months and months we've been vilified for
00:40:39.600
that as being one of the issues and so i'm really happy to see that testimony coming from
00:40:45.200
an actual you know the key guy in terms of safety in the city right now um so that's a really positive
00:40:53.360
thing to finally see that level of truth come out and you know the reality is that uh you know my first
00:40:59.760
day on the ground um i remember being there we got a map of the city and there was uh several locations
00:41:07.520
that the the ops had requested that we avoid and so i had a list that was produced uh or given to me by
00:41:17.360
one of the other um members and we had the map and the first thing we said was okay let's identify
00:41:23.680
the vulnerable uh infrastructure within the city and we we highlighted it like we literally had it
00:41:30.160
on the map as as no-go areas uh and there were streets that the city had requested and by the way
00:41:36.560
i want to say the police uh department their building was one of the uh one of the pieces of
00:41:44.240
infrastructure in the city that we identified ourselves in and agreed that we would not go near
00:41:49.120
and um hospitals uh long-term care facilities everything so that's really where we started
00:41:55.840
and then we started to look at all those high-speed approaches to uh the hospital and stuff like that
00:42:01.440
and um so one of the things we did is is we we put word out and we said okay look if there's a single
00:42:08.800
lane street in this in this city and we know there wasn't one but we were trying to kind of emphasize
00:42:13.200
the importance of this we said if there's a single lane street we don't put any trucks on it
00:42:17.760
if there is a two lane street we will only block one lane if there is a three lane street and i
00:42:25.360
remember very distinctly being in those meetings and and i said okay we're gonna if if there's three
00:42:30.400
lanes we'll block two uh on the outside lanes and one of the the truckers said no let's do the outside
00:42:36.960
two so that as people travel down the middle between the trucks they can safely turn left or right
00:42:43.520
so you know we we did a good analysis on what was safest for drivers that were trying to travel
00:42:49.840
through uh safety lanes that we deliberately left open and we worked incredibly hard to make sure
00:42:55.440
that it happened now i want to say something of a personal nature during my time in ottawa one of my
00:43:03.280
children actually went to the hospital in an ambulance in where he lives not in the city of ottawa and so
00:43:09.520
it reinforced the idea that you know this was an important thing to the public i mean i had i had
00:43:14.560
actual skin in the game for for my own child and so i had conveyed this to the ottawa police myself to
00:43:21.520
say look this is an important matter for for us as you know participants in the convoy but it's the
00:43:28.560
responsible uh safest thing that we can do right now to work with the city to make sure that that we are
00:43:36.240
that we are not interrupting any form of emergency service to the people of ottawa and and we worked
00:43:42.480
really hard at that and you saw the testimony today that confirmed that we were actually very
00:43:47.520
successful of it because we made a conscious effort to do this for the city and for the truckers for the
00:43:55.200
police for the fire for the ambulance drivers for everybody that would be affected by an emergency
00:44:00.640
yes there was cooperation with the residents of ottawa there was consideration for their well-being as
00:44:04.960
well despite what yes i mean shimia despite what jim watson said that she came here specifically to you
00:44:10.320
know harass them to make their life inconvenient yeah i you know i yeah i the the testimony that we saw this
00:44:19.120
morning um was i usually don't get stuck for words but with what i watched but did
00:44:30.800
jim watson today um i i feel like we've gone back in time nine months and he
00:44:38.560
incorrectly regurgitated all of the legacy liberal funded media talking points from nine months ago
00:44:47.200
uh you know i i timed it i i actually looked at the clock uh 17 minutes into his testimony this
00:44:54.080
morning and i was like there are too many false accusations that uh he has recounted that even
00:45:01.040
the mainstream media themselves have uh retracted yeah and and to sit here and listen to him recite
00:45:09.200
these things as if though they were fact when they were pure fiction all hearsay and just garbage that
00:45:15.040
he was getting out of the media is it was it was beyond sickening and here's the most bizarre thing that
00:45:21.280
i personally heard him say this morning which which is unreal at about uh at about the time when the
00:45:27.840
convoy raised about three million dollars in the first give send go or go fund me campaign he had
00:45:33.760
made the statement 17 minutes and he made the statement that canadians came to ottawa so that they
00:45:41.600
could get a piece of that money that's why they came here that's why they were motivated to come to on to
00:45:48.000
ottawa was to get a piece of that donated money like i i it was bizarro world uh listening to the
00:45:56.960
testimony come out of uh the the i'm going to use the term the so-called mayor of of ottawa because
00:46:05.040
i honestly i i don't know where he was getting his information other than from the mainstream media
00:46:11.040
because it doesn't sound to me like he wanted to talk to the police either
00:46:14.000
no i think i think it's it's a mix he said he was getting it there he said he was getting his
00:46:20.400
yeah go ahead yeah i'm sorry sheila i was saying i think it's a mix of you know mainstream media and
00:46:25.520
willful ignorance as well no i think it's just seeing that fact that was brought forward by mainstream
00:46:31.040
media at the beginning and then refusing to even do a little bit more research about it what are we
00:46:35.840
going to say sheila no i was just going to say um it jim said he was getting his uh yes information
00:46:43.360
from the mainstream media he did he said that and so it's a neat little circuit these people close
00:46:49.120
isn't it so you spread misinformation while accusing everybody else of spreading misinformation
00:46:55.840
politicians react on the misinformation knowing probably full well it's wrong because it's literally
00:47:01.680
happening outside their doorstep and then you give them funding to perpetuate the next lie so that you
00:47:09.680
can react uh in exactly the way you want to and this circuit just goes on and on and on and and
00:47:15.920
thank goodness our team is there to try to hold these politicians to account actually i think we have
00:47:20.640
a clip of william um running into jim watson you know william i'm surprised i'm surprised that you
00:47:29.200
haven't been tossed out of the building quite yet i think every day that you are you're living on borrowed time
00:47:36.240
kid yeah well you know i'm polite i don't harass them i don't call them names i don't yell at them
00:47:43.360
i don't run after them i'm asking them simple questions like media used to do in the early 2000s in the
00:47:50.880
1970s 1980s don't think for a second that being polite and reasonable is going to keep you in there
00:47:57.200
because it's not about being polite it's not about being reasonable it's not about asking a
00:48:01.440
a good and fair question it's about asking the wrong question the question that they don't want
00:48:06.000
to answer and that's why you're going to get kicked out i get you know what i think you'll make it till
00:48:11.840
three weeks i think they'll give you till three weeks until they've just had enough of you um
00:48:19.920
yeah right before justin trudeau arrives true north is out we're kicked out no problem
00:48:24.560
um we've got that clip uh olivia's got it mr mr watson you stated earlier that protesters were not able
00:48:31.600
to discuss rationally to have rational conversations yet we saw yesterday keith wilson have a gorgeous
00:48:37.200
exchange why doesn't the evidence corroborate your testimony perfect thank you
00:48:45.440
well you said thank you because i'm polite too polite it's uh you know what could he answer though
00:48:57.120
well i was lying because he was i mean he really was he testified today that he was not negotiating with
00:49:05.040
the protesters because the protesters were so unreasonable they were just like wild people
00:49:09.120
in the city according to him a feral you guys were just feral people not worth communicating with
00:49:16.080
but there's letterhead there's letterhead from him yeah yeah we we saw this i mean the testimony
00:49:24.080
that we've been listening to thus far is is constantly uh demonstrated with the exception of a few like
00:49:31.360
steve uh k um and and uh a few of the others because i was in the room when when uh that second meeting
00:49:38.720
with kim and you know for the the most part you're seeing this this uh propensity between all three
00:49:46.720
levels of government just refusing to want to have any form of a dialogue with us whatsoever and but
00:49:55.040
they have this this deep desire towards law enforcement extraordinary powers powers of punishment
00:50:02.800
and really it seemed to me like every level of government's objective was to crush
00:50:08.400
the convoy not to actually listen to what our grievances were i mean there's six million people
00:50:13.680
or approximately that are unvaccinated and on two separate occasions we raised 10 million dollars we had
00:50:20.560
unlimited fuels and supplies given to us by the public yet we were not worthy of dialogue uh which
00:50:29.040
we all repeatedly throughout the entire convoy were asking for just simple dialogue yeah they felt that
00:50:36.320
we were um unworthy of their attention other than to put us down uh that was their stated objective and
00:50:47.040
that's that testimony is coming out i mean even even myself surrounded by many members of the board asked
00:50:54.560
for justin trudeau to come and sit at a table with us and of course the media spun that into uh a complete
00:51:01.360
you're trying to overthrow the government yeah it was ridiculous yes oh i know i know and and this is
00:51:08.640
this is the frustrating part right is you know we talked about this last night they're not kings and
00:51:13.680
queens they're you know they're they are elected representatives that are meant to serve us and when
00:51:21.040
they refuse to talk to us and you know two years two years people in this country protested all over
00:51:26.880
in trying to get a dialogue going with the government they refused so what was what was our option our
00:51:33.360
option was to go to the nation's capital and take our grievance right to the source and and that's
00:51:40.000
what the convoy was about it's like if you're gonna two years you know people people constantly say
00:51:45.360
well they're you know there was an election he won uh suck it up well i'm sorry but that is not how
00:51:51.760
our system is supposed to to work uh section two of the charter says we have a you know a right to
00:51:57.920
peacefully assemble well that's what we did and we wanted to be heard because after two years of trying
00:52:04.400
nobody was listening yeah you know what it's interesting i've i've seen people conflate the
00:52:10.160
word peaceful with the word convenient yeah and they're not the same thing you know i think peaceful
00:52:18.960
means doesn't mean not disruptive it means not violent and the people of ottawa although i don't
00:52:28.960
think largely i think a handful of activist busy bodies in ottawa yes they're really doing their
00:52:34.720
best to rewrite the language here to uh think that inconvenience is akin to violence and you know it
00:52:44.000
one of the things you're marking on about um jim watson one of the things he said to me
00:52:49.920
really stood out and it showed his very sinister side and just how sneaky he was behind the scenes
00:52:58.560
because as i i've seen firsthand with access to information filings these people will say to each
00:53:03.920
other in an email let's take this offline or let's turn this into a phone call because they don't really
00:53:10.320
want a record of what they're saying uh so that somebody can file for access to information jim watson
00:53:17.200
today testified that he said it was best not to make their request for 1800 additional police personnel
00:53:29.440
public because they didn't want to show their hand about their preparations to end the so-called
00:53:37.760
occupation they didn't want to show just how much force they were willing to bring to bear
00:53:45.360
on peaceful protesters who were doing their best to do everything right and who were doing their best
00:53:52.400
to work with the police on the ground the politicians were ready to smash heads and they
00:53:57.360
didn't want anybody to be prepared for it yeah it is incredible i mean you listen to you listen to his
00:54:05.920
testimony you know what struck me was um there was a moment that uh when brendan miller said to him
00:54:13.600
uh during his cross he said um were you aware that the government was planning to invoke the emergency act
00:54:23.040
and he immediately said no yeah he did uh that really struck me as bizarre because if you look at
00:54:29.680
his testimony in the number of meetings the discussions that he had from the pmo to the premier
00:54:36.480
and all three of those politicians like he said they're politicians all three of them had declared states of
00:54:42.960
emergency there's no way in my mind that i believe that that was a credible uh answer that he gave today
00:54:50.640
where he said he was not aware of the emergency act or the government's plan to invoke the emergency
00:54:56.480
act i think that that is um uh you know this is my own speculation but if you listen to his testimony
00:55:04.000
all morning long and the number of inter uh or sorry uh interactions that he had with the government
00:55:10.720
how could you have possibly not had some sort of a pre-warning of some kind that the ea was coming
00:55:17.120
because i think that he he judged his actions or he measured his actions according to the what he
00:55:24.240
probably believed the emergency act was going to be invoked and i think he danced around the the
00:55:32.400
memos going back and forth between him and tamara uh based off the fact that he probably knew the
00:55:38.800
emergency act was going to be invoked so he was hedging his bets throughout that entire interaction and
00:55:44.320
you can see he's a very skilled politician he's oh he was playing he was playing all sides yes oh he
00:55:51.200
was playing all sides um and i guess it was the prime minister and doug ford was playing all sides too
00:55:57.680
but i guess he just got rolled up into a carpet and thrown into the ditch um i i grabbed a screenshot
00:56:04.560
of uh the readout of the uh communications it was a phone call actually between the prime minister
00:56:11.680
and watson uh justin trudeau says listen yes you can say yes the federal government will be there
00:56:18.640
with more resources but again the thing that frustrates me and everyone is conflated and then
00:56:23.840
it's inaudible because it's justin trudeau he probably just mumbled or took a drag off a
00:56:29.520
of a left-handed cigarette too much yeah anyway anyways uh then he goes doug ford has been hiding from
00:56:37.600
his responsibility on it for political reasons as you highlighted and important that we don't let
00:56:43.600
him get away from that and we intend to support you on that so these two are colluding behind
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closed doors to hang this around doug ford's neck doug ford uh swimming in the shallow end of the
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political pool says oh i'm standing shoulder to shoulder with justin trudeau yesterday and then
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watson uh he says if they keep dragging their feet i'm happy to call them out on it it'd be nice if we
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have something firmed up with the federal government to shame them ford didn't even
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make an effort to come and see what's going on well watson you didn't die there by the way and
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neither did justin trudeau so it's a bit ironic that they might say those things but they were
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turning this into political gamesmanship for themselves they didn't care about the protesters
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i don't even think they sincerely cared about the people of ottawa they were positioning themselves
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to hang this around the conservative premier's neck conservative yeah progressive conservative
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very loosely yeah and and i agree i mean you can see you can see and brandon miller called them out
00:57:45.120
on it and said you know you basically politicized this entire thing and he denies it but that's
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what a skilled politician does and he's he's been in politics as most of his career uh that's what he
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does for a living and that's what you you got a great example of of you know how not to answer
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questions truthfully uh in in such a machiavellian skilled level and and you know one of the things
00:58:12.320
that i noticed um he's not quite on par with christia freeland for not answering questions but he
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certainly does take a long time to get to the punchline yeah yeah um which never really is very
00:58:26.000
funny in my book but uh just deeply disturbing to listen to this testimony today i i actually had
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to leave just after two o'clock i i couldn't take it to be i had had my fill uh and plus early in the
00:58:40.080
morning yeah yeah you were messaging me early in the morning and you had already had your fill by like
00:58:45.280
10 a.m yes yes and it was only the first half hour but eva sent me uh a way to do a homework
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assignment so i i took that opportunity to duck out and get that done so i think i think it was
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definitely a different crowd yesterday yes in terms of maturity in terms of the honesty of the
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answers that we actually got from the people that were testifying yeah that was definitely a different
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story the testimony yesterday was absolutely refreshing i mean you you could tell that the
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the two individuals that testified yesterday they they didn't want us in their city they didn't agree
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with us but i think they were very virtuous people in terms of being public servants and wanting to
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do the right thing for their city that is that's the responsibility whereas the mayor today i
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to me like he's not running for re-election but i think he is definitely running for a position
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in trudeau's government yeah 100 yeah 100 rumors are i've heard he wants to be in the un
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representing trudeau at the un well uh you know what yeah that seems about right no i think he's
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positioning himself he'll be the next mp for some ottawa backwater um now then one of the things that
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uh came out today was the as i was talking to eva although we had some technical difficulties with her
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the political meddling from the prime minister's office trying to put pressure on uh police chief
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slowly before he resigned before he was too deeply tied to the civil liberties infractions i think he
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just sort of threw himself on his sword um yes this is what the prime minister said he said but on the
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ottawa policing side have you seen as i have some concerns on how things were handled from the beginning
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how is your relationship with the police chief and how are you guys working together there are
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moments where you are saying one thing and he is saying another is there anywhere we can help around
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that and then watson goes on to say as you know prime minister now is not the time to change courses
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we have to do our best to support him so they were already putting pressure on watson to put pressure
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on the police chief um and that's political meddling but i mean this is just a justin trudeau's usual
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habit of leaning on the police to get them to bend to his political well we see it with brenda lucky
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all the time exactly yeah that's actually what i was thinking too like he's he's perfectly comfortable
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putting political pressure on the the highest jurisdiction police officer in the country why is
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he going to bat an eye over putting pressure on peter slowly i just yeah it's not a far far stretch for
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him uh he does this all the time so i don't see why uh the ottawa police chief would be an issue yeah
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yeah he is actually right i mean when when you talk about i mean police services board i have a friend
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of mine who is um you know on city council in her area i won't say where but um she's on the police
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services board and she has said you cannot interfere with police operations which we knew from diane dean's
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experiences uh in ottawa you cannot interfere you can as a police services board member you cannot direct
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police operations there's legislation against it and yet um i don't know i you know here in ottawa you see
01:02:18.080
that diane dean no longer kept the confidence of city council and she was removed as the president of
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the police services board right so even during that situation when they're getting rid of uh police
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services board um presidents or chairs and they're also getting rid of police chiefs what does that say
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to you it means that the people uh in power don't like the the people that have the legitimacy to to um
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either manage police budgets or manage police operations so you saw that these two people were
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no longer uh in their positions by the end of what day three of the emergency act yeah you know and i
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think this goes to our conversation yesterday about we're in for a real crisis and a crisis in our public
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institutions because all the people who will not bend to the politicians will they will be either removed
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or seek early retirement because the bs just isn't worth it um i think we've reached seven o'clock
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your time william you've been working hard all day um i have i'm approaching 10 hours in this chair
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um i know i could probably talk about the flaws of the federal government all day long but we will
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have an opportunity to do that tomorrow guys thanks so much for joining me on the stream tom your insight
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is always so essential because you know we can only speculate about what happened on the ground
01:03:45.440
and inside these conversations but you were really there and so uh your insight is just so so valuable
01:03:51.360
um you're such a great resource for us here on the stream william keep ripping it up out there until
01:03:56.400
they kick you out young man it's all just intruder the sides and that's enough yeah
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uh we'll see everybody back here uh this time tomorrow although it won't be me on the stream i'm
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uh hosting a movie premiere in edmonton with ezra levant and kian simoni it's our um documentary
01:04:16.240
ungovernable um if you want tickets for that there i think there's just a handful left it's dinner and
01:04:22.320
a movie at a really great restaurant a restaurant that stared down the uh chinese consulate
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and it sent uh protesters and a three thousand dollar bribe to get them to cancel a book signing
01:04:34.640
there um on ezra's book uh china virus so they turned down the bribe they they were going to call
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the tow trucks on the protesters um which would have been um just wonderful to see but they didn't um
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so we're there tomorrow night if you want tickets uh it's albertadocumentary.com for remaining
01:04:53.920
tickets we hope to see you there um guys great work i will watch the live stream replay of what
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you guys talk about tomorrow um for my updates and as uh david menzies always says stay sane
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you had no plan in that period 8 to 13th no plan was possible in your view without collaboration
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and collaboration was late in coming is that a fair summary it's a very very very summary and may i
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respectfully add that i believe that uh you know there's a lot of armchair quarterbacking
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and in hindsight i'll give one example a member of council was tweeting no mass arrests that was at
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the start uh the the chief of police was telling us um the charter writes he told the mayor the mayor has
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no authority to overrule the chief of police on all police operations he told the mayor the charter
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uh dictates that we allow this demonstration clearly we have learned all everyone the city
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ops our partners have learned that that the world of policing is