EZRA LEVANT ｜ A major New York Times poll shows most Americans hate the media and worry about stolen elections
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A major New York Times poll shows most Americans hate the media, worry about stolen elections, and say the government is only working for elites. Plus, Ezra talks about Joe Biden's declining health and why he should get a nanny.
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Hello, my Rebels. Boy, I found such an interesting poll in the New York Times of all places.
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I'm going to take you through it. The number of Americans who hate the media,
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the number of Americans who do not trust the government and say they're only working for
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elites. And there's just some wonderful questions in there that I'm really surprised the New York
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Times asked and that they published the answers to. I hope you'll find it interesting. That's
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Tonight, a major New York Times poll shows most Americans hate the media and worry about stolen
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elections. It's October 19th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you sensorism bug.
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If a conservative told you that people just don't trust the media, you wouldn't be surprised. But
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what if a liberal said that? What if the New York Times itself, the flagship liberal newspaper in
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America said that? That's surprising, and it can't be written off as some conservative spin. Well,
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that is exactly what the latest New York Times poll showed. I'll put a link to the poll under
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this video. It's the full cross tabs, as they say. That means very detailed results by different age
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and gender and race. Here's the poll. You can see it on the New York Times website. There's so many
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things in it that I think are interesting, and the fact that it comes from the New York Times
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adds to its impact. I just think that if a liberal newspaper is publishing something that hits this
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hard, well, it means it's bad out there. Remember, up here in Canada, look, we're focused on our own
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things right now. We've only been out of the lockdowns for a few months. Unvaxed people have
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only been allowed to fly for a few months. The mask mandate in airplanes was only lifted three weeks
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ago. I mean, we're a mess. Our politics are busy. There was just a Quebec election. There was a
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leadership vote for the Conservative Party of Canada. There was just a leadership vote last week
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for Alberta's United Conservative Party, both of which leadership races were caused by the truckers,
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actually. A momentous set of city elections across B.C. last week. A bunch of leftist incumbents
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thrown out. Of course, the Trucker Commission of Inquiry is underway right now in Ottawa.
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Inflation is crazy. I think it's pretty clear we're headed into a recession. I'm so sorry to say it.
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So Canadians are busy. We're focused on our own things as a country. But the United States is just
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weeks away from their midterm elections, remember? November 8th. It's been two years since Joe Biden
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was elected, and he's visibly declining right in front of our eyes. I mean, it's embarrassing.
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Look at your child. You know, the needs of this is very to live to live and not having the money to
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pay for it. Not a joke. Think about it. Think about what you'd think about at the time. Think about how
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you'd feel if you didn't have the insurance and didn't have the money. It's wrong. It's not who
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we are, and we're going to fix that, too. And will people who have privately held loans,
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will they at some point become eligible for this forgiveness because they no longer are?
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We are working on pathways there to support those, but we're moving as quickly as possible
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to provide relief to as many people as possible. Thank you.
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The right that I pushed hard and it finally got changed, the married couples and the privacy of
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the bedroom. Excuse me. I'm thinking about the Dobbs decision. Imagine. Well, I'll get to that in a
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second. He does other weird things, too, like touching and groping young girls. He keeps doing
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Oh, look at him. Look at him. Now, the very important thing I told my daughter and granddaughters,
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no serious guys are 30. Okay. No what? No serious guys are 30. Don't keep that in line. At least.
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You know, Biden hasn't done a one-on-one interview with a reporter in about a year. He only appears
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with his wife with him as a kind of spotter or nanny. That's a fact. You know, Biden's on vacation
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almost half the time just to rest up his weary bones. I think he's actually the president only
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in name. I think other people are running the country, and I think what President Dwight D.
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Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex, I think that's a big part of it. So in three weeks,
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Americans get to vote, not for or against Biden. He's not on the ballot, but he really is a kind of
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ballot question by proxy. Do you like where things are going in America right now? Do you like the
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direction of the country? It's fascinating and telling to see so many local Democratic candidates
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shying away from Biden. No one is asking for his endorsement, unlike Republicans who seem to get big
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energy from a Trump endorsement. Every single congressional seat is up for grabs, and a third
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of the Senate. The Democrats control things right now, but if it tips back to the Republicans,
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Biden will be as good as done. He'll get very little of his remaining agenda through,
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at least through the legislature. Remember, he still has massive executive power,
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ranging from foreign policy and wars to nominating judges. But the era of Biden is quite likely over if
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it ever started. So let me show you this massive New York Times poll three weeks before election day.
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Do you think the United States is on the right track, or is it headed in the wrong direction?
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That really is the key question, isn't it? It's actually all you need to know. All you need to
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ask people, isn't it? And the result is shocking. I think it's just unbelievable. Unbelievable if you
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use CNN and the New York Times as your source of information about the world, because the media
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party, as I call it, well, they're like press agents for the Democrats. They love it. I mean,
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Are you concerned about, just one more economic one, are you concerned about the strength of the
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I'm not concerned about the strength of the dollar. I'm concerned about the rest of the world.
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Yes. Our economy is going as hell in the internals. Inflation is worldwide. It's worse off
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everyone else than it is in the United States. So the problem is the lack of economic growth
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and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours. And that's how it's worldwide inflation.
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The mainstream media ran that clip without blushing, but here's what the people say.
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24% say America's on the right track. 64% say it's on the wrong track. Even 35% of Democrats say
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wrong track. That is shocking. Now, some Democrats would still vote for Biden, even though they say
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he's on the wrong track. But here's the generic party split today. If this year's elections for
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Congress were held today, which party's candidate would you be more likely to vote for in your
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district? And 45% say Democrat and 49% say Republican. And this next question is truly
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amazing. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?
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Well, look at the answers. Only 18% strongly approve. Another 21% somewhat approve. 13% somewhat
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disapproved, but a whopping 45% strongly disapproved. They're mad about it. Despite full-time puff pieces
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by the media party. Trump was demonized 24-7 for years. I don't think he actually pulled this low
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when he was president. Now, the New York Times takes a break from the upcoming midterm elections to talk
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for a minute about the 2024 presidential race. Fair enough. They asked this. Among those who plan to
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vote in the Republican primary, they only asked Republicans this, if the Republican 2024 presidential
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primary were held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were? And then they list them.
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Trump gets 47%. And look at that, 60% of young Republicans. Ron DeSantis of Florida gets 28%.
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The rest are all single digits. Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, and others. And then they do a hypothetical
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matchup, Biden or Trump in 2024. And would you look at that? Trump would just beat out Biden,
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despite all the demonization of Trump. So what's on people's minds as they're going into vote?
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This is fascinating. Compare this list to what your news feed is likely full of. I mean,
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depends on what country you're in. If you're in America, you probably hear about black
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lives matter and transgenderism and non-binary and drag queen story hour things. You probably hear
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about the war in Ukraine, the need to fight global warming, people listing their pronouns.
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You hear that word Latinx that no actual Latino has ever said. Now compare those weird distracting
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issues that the news serves up for real life. Here's what real Americans say they care about.
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The economy, jobs and the stock market. 26% of people say that's their issue, even higher among
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young people. The next is inflation and the cost of living. I'd say that's actually the same sort of
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subject. That's another 18%. It's all people are thinking about is money issues. Nothing else is
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above single digits. Abortion and immigration are next, which I believe. But look at that, Russia,
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Ukraine. That's 2% of people think that's the big issue. Global warming is 3%. And look at coronavirus.
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less than 0.5%. Talk about a chasm between what the elites care about and what actual people care
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about. The media party is still obsessed with the pandemic, talking about mandatory vaccines for kids,
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new waves. But less than 0.5% of Americans feel the same way. Hey, look at the next one. I think it's
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going to be the most lopsided number in the whole poll. Seriously. Which comes closest to your views,
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even if neither is exactly right? The government mainly works to benefit ordinary people,
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or the government mainly works to benefit powerful elites. Well, only 22% of Americans say it works for
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ordinary people. 68% say the government is for elites. And for young people, look at the charts. It's crazy.
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17% say for the little guy. 79% say elites. I can't think of a single other issue that 79% of young people
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would agree upon. Elites. That means the political class, bureaucrats, the people who invoke the lockdowns,
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big pharma executives, Hollywood, the military-industrial complex, globalists of the United Nations,
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World Economic Forum, the deep state, all the people on TV. Let me show you a couple more.
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The mainstream media, major threat to democracy, minor threat to democracy, or not a threat to
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democracy? What a great question, by the way. It's amazing the New York Times asked it, and the answers
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are amazing, too. 59% say major threat. Another 24% say minor threat. Add them together, that's what,
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83% say it's a threat? I guess that's even larger than the elites question. And again, young people
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feel it hard. 93% of them. I think that's amazing, though. I mean, come on, that's 93%? Do you think
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any journalists feel responsible for this, or do you think journalists need to simply shout louder at
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people, call them racist more, call them sexist, call them Russian disinformation agents more, call them
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transphobic, whatever the insult of the day is? Do you think any journalists are actually reflecting
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on that poll result? That's a stunning number. Do you think a single media party journalist cares?
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Do you think they realize it's why people are leaving mainstream media for alternative media?
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Even like us, we're alternative. Quick snapper, 49% of Americans say electronic voting machines are a
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major or minor threat to democracy. I agree. Look, just mark ballots by pen and count them by hand.
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50% of Americans say voting by mail is a threat, too. I agree also. Only 37% of Americans say they
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have, quote, a great deal of trust that the upcoming midterm elections will be accurate.
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In fact, only 63% of people think Joe Biden is the legitimate president from last time.
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People don't trust the regime. They don't trust the official narrative. I think that's incredible,
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and it's even more incredible to read it in the Times. One last question that just made me
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chuckle. You know, I meet a lot of people, especially now that I'm not under, you know,
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Trudeau's no-fly list anymore. I should tell you, in my entire life, I have met precisely two people
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who believe in something called QAnon. It's a kind of conspiracy theory or ideology or political worldview
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that's sort of cryptic, lots of, you know, secret signs and symbols. It suggests that someone named Q is
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giving secret hints about the world. There are other parts of the worldview, some of which could
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be called legitimate, conservative, or skeptical viewpoints, but some of it is actually quite
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conspiratorial. I have literally only met two people in my whole life, and I think I meet a lot
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of people. But the media party is obsessed with QAnon. You hear about QAnon every week in the liberal
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media. They project it onto conservatives. They want to write off all conservatives as dupes, as cult
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members, as foolish conspiracy theorists. But the poll shows that no one even knows about QAnon, other
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than the media, I guess. Do you personally find the QAnon theories or movement believable or not
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believable, or do you not know enough to say? Only 5% say they're believable, 39% don't, and 52% say,
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what are you talking about? Q what? Isn't that amazing? I think that's amazing.
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What do you make of this poll? I believe it's largely accurate. I believe a lot of these same
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questions would get similar results here in Canada. The distrust of a lease, the hatred of the media
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party, the completely different set of priorities for the people, as opposed to the media political
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class. I'm glad the New York Times published this, because for them to admit this, you know it must
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be bad. And in three weeks, we'll see what this yields in the U.S. midterms. If those midterm
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elections are accurate, a proposition that only 37% of Americans deeply believe. Stay with us.
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David Menzies has a guest interview. I'll be back in a minute to read your letters.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here in Richmond Hill, Ontario. And folks, the war on the farmer
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took a really perverse turn last Saturday here in Richmond Hill. When it came to a demonstration,
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you are not going to believe what happened. David Menzies for Rebel News here in Richmond Hill,
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Ontario. And folks, I'm in the midst of dueling protests. On one hand, we have the people that
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we spoke to earlier across the street there. They're protesting against the 10,000% increase
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in stormwater management fees for the farmers of Richmond Hill. And on the other hand, we have
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a group called A Better Richmond Hill. Now, A Better Richmond Hill, they claim to be, quote,
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a nonpartisan nonprofit organization with a mandate to encourage public engagement and public
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participation in municipal issues in Richmond Hill. End quote. Nonpartisan. That's kind of odd,
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isn't it? Because I'm looking at these signs here, which state vote out Pirelli, Barrows,
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and Munch. They put an advertisement in the Richmond Hill Liberal this week stating the same thing.
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Why are these individuals aligned? Well, they are right of centre councillors. Pirelli, Burroughs,
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and Munch sit on the right of centre of council unlike the rest of council. Because if this was all
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about ethics and morality and malfeasance, wouldn't the first name on that sign be Karen Selowitz? But
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she's okay, according to A Better Richmond Hill, which claims to be nonpartisan. Well, let's wade into
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the crowd and find out how they can justify who they approve and who they smear. Hey, ma'am, I see you got
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a sign there. Vote out Pirelli, Burroughs, and Munch. What about Karen Selowitz? Absolutely. She's got to
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go too. Oh, okay. That's interesting. Thank you. Why isn't she on your sign? Well, I didn't make the
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sign. So someone just gave it to you. I believe in this sign. Okay. And I believe there should be
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another name on that sign. Hey, sir. How you doing there? Good. Are you part of a Better Richmond
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Hill group? Yes. Okay, then. So why were... This is what I'm using. So you want to talk to him? He's
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going to trap you. Oh, okay. My goodness. Did that man try to French kiss you, sir? So, just wait a
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second. Okay, just wait a second. We have a support speaker. He will arrive very soon, okay? Oh, he told
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you not to speak then, right? No, no, no. Not to speak because I'm busy for this one. So, okay. So why are you
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a part of a Better Richmond Hill then, sir? Because we want a Better Richmond Hill. That's
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the reason. So, I see you don't want... Okay. Go ahead. See why we're against him. Yes.
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This is very detailed. We have very detailed explanation why we're against these candidates.
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Right. Why are you not against Karen Selowitz, the convicted fraudster? So, we are not involved
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that. Right now, we have only limited resources. We only focus on these three, I think, seats.
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How about yourself, ma'am? Why are you part of a Better Richmond Hill?
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I'm not talking to you, bud. Oh, is that right? Why is that? I have nothing to talk to you
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about. Why are you a supporter of Karen Selowitz, a convicted fraudster?
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Hey, sir, what brings you out to this demonstration? No comment, man. I'm just hopping out.
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No comment, did you say? Okay, then. You can't articulate why you're at a demonstration?
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Pardon me? From a Better Richmond Hill. John Lee from a Better Richmond Hill.
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I'm in a public place. I'm in a public place. Don't get aggressive. You do not own the coroner.
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You do not own the coroner. We don't want... You do not own the coroner.
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Don't get personal. You do not own the coroner. You do not own the coroner.
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So, folks, as I said, I'm here at the Donor Farm. This is Paul Donor. He's the head honcho
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here. And you might recall earlier this month, we reported that the city of Richmond Hill passed
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a 10,000% increase in the stormwater fee schedule. That means that for the donor farm, the bill
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is going to go from $150 to almost $15,000. Again, it's like the war on the farm that we
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see around the world. It has now come to the municipal level here in Richmond Hill. And that
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caused a protest to happen a week ago Saturday. And here's some... We were there for that.
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Tell me about what's going to happen in the next hour. I see many pickup trucks with trailers
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on them with signage. You're going to send your message to the mayor and council, at least
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those councillors that voted for this. Do you think it will change anything, Paul?
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I have no idea if it'll change anything. I hope that it'll raise some awareness, at least, and let
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them know that the stormwater management fee issue is not going away, that we are fighting it, and
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we're going to continue to fight it, whether the council likes it or not. You know, we're not going
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anywhere. So, we're here for a while yet, and we're going to keep doing what we do.
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Well, Paul, thank you so much for your time. Good luck with your demonstration. And we're going to keep
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on this file because this is an injustice. People, like I said, 100% of people on this planet need
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farmers. And to target farmers, I just cannot explain it. So, good luck with your demonstration.
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I hope it, you know, gets some results at City Hall here. Okay, so, a peaceful protest, and there was a
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counter-protest. People with the anti-development organization called A Better Richmond Hill. But, Paul,
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there was another demonstration I could not attend yesterday. And it was the same deal. It was pickup
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trucks with trailers, with signage, denouncing this 10,000% stormwater fee increase. You are around
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Young and 16th in Richmond Hill. And suddenly, it didn't really turn so peaceful. What happened?
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Well, it remained peaceful, first of all. We were told by the York Region Police that we weren't
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welcome there, essentially. They said we weren't supposed to be driving our wagons in that area,
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and that they were there on the direction of the superintendent, apparently, from the day before
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he'd given them direction to go in and basically stop us. They threatened to pull our trucks and wagons
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off the road and have them inspected, which would basically delay the whole purpose of it and
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take any momentum we had out of the demonstration. And what was the reason they gave you for shutting
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down this peaceful protest? Originally, I think they said it was in the interest of public safety.
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And they were concerned with us obstructing traffic, which we were not. Traffic could go around us. It
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wasn't being obstructed. In fact, I was driving one of the wagons on Yonge Street and traffic wasn't
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moving anyways. A number of times I had to wait for the traffic to clear even to start going again. So
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it wasn't that we were obstructing traffic. Traffic was bad, period.
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And you know, folks, just a few weeks in the exact same area and beyond, there was a protest by more
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than 50,000 people against the Iranian regime. Traffic was snarled, but I didn't see the cops
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interfering with that demonstration. We were there for that one too. Check it out.
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The Islamic Republic is not Iran. I think most people here, virtually everybody would agree with
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that. I guess there's a lot of people experiencing buyer's remorse from the 1979 revolution.
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Yeah, I agree with that. And that's why we're all here and we're supporting the people and our people
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And you know, it's such a shame what happened to Miss Amini. She was arrested by the morality police,
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died for not allegedly wearing her hijab properly. How can this force be called the morality police? That
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seems to be the most immoral thing possible, killing someone for not wearing clothing properly.
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Um, there, these protests have spread to all 31 of Iran's provinces. They've spread to major cities
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around the world. Here we are in Richmond Hill, thousands of people. Um, here's the big question
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though. In terms of tangible change in Iran, what would you like to see countries like Canada do to
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help the Iranian people? Sure. The main thing that we want to get across is getting the IRGC as a
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terrorist organization. They have a lot of family here. There's going to be people here that you
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don't know they're associated with the regime back home, but they are. They're going to be taking
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pictures of everyone, trying to catch them back home, putting them in prison. So that's something
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we want to put a stop to. They own a property in Bridal Path. They own multiple businesses all around the
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GTA. We want to put a stop to that. Vancouver, all across Canada. We want to put a stop to that.
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So there you have it, Paul, 50,000 people, uh, plus gathering in about the same area where you were.
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And, uh, that's okay though. The, the police let that peaceful protest go on. And what I understand
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and correct me if I'm wrong, the cops said that you either leave now or we're going to measure the
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air pressure in your tires. And for each tire that's out of compliance, each tire that's not
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exactly right. Air pressure wise, you're going to get a ticket. You're going to potentially receive
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thousands of dollars of tickets. Did that actually happen?
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So what they said is they would pull us over and have our vehicles inspected for as a safety
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inspection, which, uh, I believe can only be done by an MTO officer anyways, but, uh, that was their
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threat to us that, that we'd be pulled over. We'd be forced to a roadside inspection. And if they found
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anything wrong, then that would be an issue. Something like air pressure in your tires could
00:25:42.820
be a potential safety violation. Uh, if you were a couple pounds over the limit on what the tires
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rated for, for instance, um, there was certainly some concern with, uh, uh, with having them deal
00:25:54.340
with this and we didn't want the hassle. So we went home.
00:25:57.140
Paul, this strikes me as so incredibly petty. And I mean, when it comes to safety, you weren't driving
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these pickups and wagons like these were NASCAR, uh, racers. I mean, you were just slowly going up
00:26:09.860
young street. I mean, it just seems like I said, petty and, uh, preposterous. Um, were you surprised
00:26:18.100
that they came down on you? Whereas the other protests, the, a better Richmond Hill people,
00:26:23.220
they were back at that corner and they had planted signs in the grass, which I understand is contrary to
00:26:30.180
by law, but it was a matter of nothing to see here. Folks move along. I was disappointed.
00:26:35.780
We were the only ones that were being forced out. Um, you're, you're correct. I was told the same
00:26:40.740
thing as you, that their signs were illegal and erected illegally on the corners that they had,
00:26:45.300
uh, the better Richmond Hill had put up. Um, yeah, I, I was very disappointed in the police that, that we
00:26:51.860
were the ones that were targeted. Um, for the record, our vehicles were all equipped with slow moon
00:26:57.460
vehicle signs, um, as farm machinery when it's operated on the road has to have. And, and we
00:27:03.060
are restricted by that sign to go a certain speed. And, uh, the police completely ignored that fact.
00:27:09.700
You know, Paul, it strikes me as sort of, there's a comparison here with the, the freedom convoy
00:27:16.180
movement that was in Ottawa and at the ambassador bridge and how eventually, at least in the Ottawa
00:27:22.900
situation, the federal government had to invoke the emergencies act and then really brutally, uh,
00:27:29.300
put down, uh, that peaceful protest. And it's kind of like here in Richmond Hill, um, the city has gone
00:27:37.940
weaponized with its war on the farm by sending in, uh, the guys with guns to lay down the law, but lay it
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down very selectively, I should think. Yeah. I, uh, I'm not quite sure why they chose to target us.
00:27:52.660
Um, the police did say at one point, you know, did you talk to the mayor's office about doing this
00:27:56.660
protest? Uh, I didn't realize I needed authorization from the mayor to drive a wagon down the road.
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Um, never have in the past, you know, we, we've, I've, I've been operating machinery on the road since I,
00:28:08.180
I was allowed to legally. And, uh, you know, that, that was quite a number of years ago now. And,
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you know, I've never had to get a permit in the past. So, yeah.
00:28:17.860
Well, it is shameful in my book. I have reached out to Mayor West because there's a rumor that
00:28:23.940
he or one of his allies were, was the person who called in the police in the first place.
00:28:28.900
And I have reached out to the media relations, uh, desk of York regional police service,
00:28:33.700
and I'll see what they have to say. Um, Mayor West never gets back to me, but, uh, I'm hopeful the,
00:28:39.300
the, the cops will, I guess one last question, um, any more protests, or do you think, uh,
00:28:45.380
that's a moot point that the cops are going to be sicked on you and come up with incredibly
00:28:50.580
petty reasons why you can't drive your wagons? Uh, as for more protests, I don't know, maybe we'll see.
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Um, we're certainly not looking to get in trouble with the police. Uh, you know, we've,
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we've had a good working relationship over the years with, with, with all emergency services. Uh,
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you know, the fire departments quite often come here to the farm to, uh, for, for training and
00:29:13.300
whatnot, and, and just to walk around and see, um, you know, about, uh, the grain bins and potential
00:29:19.220
fires on those types of things. You know, the police have been around too. I mean, we, we've,
00:29:23.780
we haven't had any issues with them in the past. We don't want to ruffle any feathers and get,
00:29:27.460
get in trouble with them. Um, but I, I, like I said, I'm disappointed that that's what
00:29:31.460
happened yesterday. They took away our right to protest. And I'm still baffled by that stormwater
00:29:35.940
management fee, especially since you don't even receive the service, Paul. Um, I don't get the
00:29:41.940
idea why Mayor West and four other councillors would have voted for this in the first place.
00:29:49.140
Uh, when it comes to food, 100% of the people on the planet have to eat. What's your take on why
00:29:56.660
there is this growing belligerence towards farmers the world over?
00:30:04.980
I, I honestly don't know. The, the farm or farmers in general have always been looked
00:30:11.300
at as, as, uh, dependable people. I thought I, I've always, you know, thought of, you know,
00:30:16.580
and they've been, uh, shown in a positive light over, over, you know, they do the work,
00:30:21.140
they work the land, they provide our food, that they're good people. Um, there seems to be a
00:30:25.460
growing movement to villainize the farmer. Um, you know, whether it be, uh, uh, genetically modified
00:30:32.420
crops or pesticide use, or, or in this case, we're being taxed, taxed and taxed and taxed. And, and,
00:30:38.820
you know, some of the other areas are having fertilizer issues, uh, which is going to get
00:30:43.380
worse and prices that in the grocery store are going to go up. Yeah. I mean, people think that
00:30:48.580
they've gone up now. No, we're still on last year's prices. Um, you know, the crop we're selling
00:30:53.860
today is last year's crop. Whereas six months from now, it's going to be this year's crop,
00:30:58.420
which was grown on higher expensed inputs. Um, so it's going to, it has to go up.
00:31:03.620
Well, Paul, um, I wish you all the best. You're fighting a good fight. And maybe your problem,
00:31:10.020
your fault is that you are growing corn and you're not raising crickets. Because if you open a cricket
00:31:17.060
farm, like Aspire Foods in London, Ontario, there's no war on the farmer. Indeed, the Trudeau Liberals
00:31:23.220
will cut you checks for tens of millions of dollars. So maybe that's what you have to do
00:31:27.940
is reinvent yourself from a food farmer to an insect breeder. Well, maybe that's the future.
00:31:32.820
Maybe, maybe we have to look at that. It's, uh, uh, it's unfortunate though, that we would have
00:31:36.820
to change. You know, we've been doing this for over 200 years on this farm. And, uh, uh, that's what
00:31:42.260
we do is what we've done well. And, uh, I don't, uh, don't foresee us changing to a cricket farm.
00:31:47.380
Okay. That's good. I prefer a corn with my steak at any event. Uh, thank you again, Paul. And we're
00:31:54.500
gonna, uh, speak to, uh, war two counselor, Tom Munch, who's been an ally on your side. He was
00:31:59.940
someone who voted against the stormwater fee increase. We'll see what he has to say.
00:32:16.900
Hey, welcome back. Your letters. A lot of these are about our live stream. You know,
00:32:19.700
we're covering the trucker commission of inquiry all day through live tweets. We're streaming the
00:32:25.220
commission during the day. And then we have our own commentary live stream every night. Jaws says,
00:32:30.660
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson really revealed how unprofessional he is when he resorted to calling
00:32:36.180
names by calling the protesters a bunch of yahoos. Well, that's the same thing that conservative
00:32:41.460
premier Doug Ford says. Um, to his credit, uh, Jim Watson did not lie. When he was asked if he
00:32:47.380
observed any violence or threats of violence, he admitted he had not. He just heard rumors in the
00:32:53.060
newspapers. Arthur NS says the emergencies act was clear and being annoyed by protesters is not a
00:32:59.700
valid reason. Exactly. There had to be a grave danger to people or the country itself. And in the
00:33:07.300
word and not, or, and it, that problem couldn't be solved by existing laws. The invocation of
00:33:13.860
martial law was a fraud. Someone named got to go says the emphasis has been, why didn't you come down
00:33:20.900
harder? No representation from the truckers, no effort at the time to mediate with the truckers.
00:33:26.340
Instead, every effort has been made to paint the protesters as being in lead with bikers,
00:33:30.500
being terrorists, et cetera. This is a show trial to justify the suspension of Canadians' rights.
00:33:36.020
I think that's the media narrative, but I think, uh, over the last few days you have seen
00:33:41.620
a lot of city officials, including Jim Watson, the mayor, acknowledge that they had substantive and
00:33:47.940
meaningful negotiations and discussions with the truckers and the truckers were acting in goodwill.
00:33:53.300
Uh, I think that's why it's so important that we cover what's going on because the media party
00:33:58.660
lied about the truckers in February and they're lying about the commission now. You just can't
00:34:03.940
believe a word they say. The New York Times would agree. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow,
00:34:09.380
on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:34:14.260
Mr. Watson, why do you keep talking about incidents that you only see on the media and not by yourself?
00:34:23.140
Mr. Watson, why did you vote against a motion to pursue the Emergencies Act,
00:34:27.620
but then welcome it a week later? Why did you vote against that at Council?
00:34:31.060
Mr. Watson, why did you vote against the Emergencies Act?
00:34:35.300
Hey folks, William Diaz here in Ottawa for the fourth day of the Emergencies Act inquiry here
00:34:40.100
that's happening since Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on peaceful protesters during the
00:34:44.740
Freedom Convoy back in February. So today I'm here to ask Keith Wilson, the lawyer for the Convoy
00:34:49.940
organizers, some questions about the testimonies, the bizarre testimony we heard from Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson
00:34:56.420
today. Let's check it out. You know, we saw earlier Jim Watson said that the protesters had,
00:35:01.620
you know, not, were incapable of discussing rationally, of negotiating rationally. What
00:35:06.180
do you have to say to that? Because I saw that you were able to have, you know, courteous text messages
00:35:10.100
with the city of Ottawa during the convoy and even some truckers were willing to move their trunks to
00:35:14.820
Wellington Street. What do you have to say to his claims that the truckers weren't willing to negotiate
00:35:18.980
rationally? Well, it was pretty clear that what the mayor was doing this morning was using every
00:35:24.180
opportunity he could to say bad things about the protesters. And one of the things he said was
00:35:29.220
that they're an irrational group and you couldn't negotiate with them. Where, in fact, we did negotiate
00:35:35.780
with the mayor. And he acknowledged that the agreement was successful. He acknowledged that over 100
00:35:42.740
vehicles left the downtown and several blocks were cleared. And he acknowledged that the truckers had
00:35:50.580
upheld their end of the bargain. So I think it's pretty clear when you look at the repeated derogatory
00:35:59.780
phrases that the mayor used. I think he's trying to help the prime minister out. I don't know what
00:36:04.900
promises the prime minister has made to Mayor Watson as who you know is not seeking re-election and
00:36:11.620
will be on the job market soon. So I don't think the commissioner's buying it. I think the evidence
00:36:20.980
yesterday from the city officials about the goodwill nature, the credibility that the truckers and their
00:36:29.940
representatives had in the negotiations and in the dialogue with the city officials, I think is going
00:36:35.460
to prevail in the end. I think what we're seeing here is just political posturing, the mayor trying
00:36:40.900
to win favor with the prime minister and do his best to slight Canadians who came here to protest for
00:36:50.020
their freedoms. Yeah, you know, talking about political past and political biases, you know,
00:36:53.620
earlier we saw Brandon Miller try to, you know, find out what the political past of Jim Watson was.
00:36:59.140
He talked about federal politics, about provincial politics, about mayoral politics. Can you explain
00:37:03.380
what was the point of this line of questioning? Well, I think it was to emphasize that the mayor
00:37:09.620
is and always has been a political player. You know, he's the former minister of housing and
00:37:16.180
municipally related matters here in the province of Ontario. That's something I didn't know until today.
00:37:21.940
He's been an active member of the Liberal Party. So, you know, he's played politics all his life and
00:37:28.980
he was playing politics in the hearing room again today. And he said that he didn't
00:37:32.740
politicize the protest when Brendan Miller asked him if he agreed that he politicized the protest.
00:37:37.380
Do you agree with Miller's assessment that he did politicize the Freedom Convoy?
00:37:42.020
Well, again, look at what he's doing today. He's completely contradicting the evidence of his city
00:37:47.860
officials, his own chief of staff, the city manager, in terms of how they described their dealings with
00:37:55.220
the freedom protesters and their representatives. And they described them in a very positive way.
00:38:01.540
And they explained how they honored the deal to de-escalate. But for the intervention of the
00:38:08.500
federal government and the police stopping the movement of trucks out of the downtown area,
00:38:14.580
the protest would have been largely consolidated to Wellington by the Wednesday of the same week that
00:38:20.820
the federal government and the prime minister decided to invoke the Emergencies Act.
00:38:24.500
Yeah. And finally, one last thing, you know, you said that the testimonies that happened,
00:38:28.580
you actually don't corroborate with the testimony fully that happened today. I keep receiving a lot
00:38:33.700
of messages about hearsay and, you know, lies that are being told the commission. Why do you think we're
00:38:39.220
seeing so much hearsay and what can council do? How much do you think is going to have an impact on the
00:38:43.620
result of the commission? Well, you know, we have a very seasoned judge who is the commissioner. He's a
00:38:53.220
justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal. He has 20 years of experience of being a judge and adjudicating
00:39:01.940
matters. I think he has a keen eye and a keen ear and he will seek to sift out the real evidence from the
00:39:09.620
political posturing. And because it's a commission inquiry, the formal rules of evidence don't apply.
00:39:17.780
So hearsay evidence is allowed. But what a decision maker does in that circumstance is it goes to
00:39:23.220
weight. How much weight do they give that evidence? And we'll have to see.