EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC's $1.5 billion lie machine： Fake graves and smear campaigns
Summary
In 2019, CBC aired a sensational segment suggesting black olives weren t naturally ripened, but chemically dyed. It spooked a viewer in Quebec so badly, she launched a class-action lawsuit against the CBC and grocery giants like Walmart, Loblaw, and Sobeys.
Transcript
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How CBC's lies about Black Olives led to a lawsuit against the victims of CBC's misinformation.
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And it appears the era of political debanking is not yet over.
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It's July 24th, 2025. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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The federal election has kicked off, and many of you have asked how CBC News will be fact-checking claims made on the trail.
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From missing context to full-blown conspiracies, we have a game plan.
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The fact-check team is responsible for researching, writing, and reporting on claims made by political parties and their leaders on election issues.
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This could include policy statements, campaign matters, or issues about the leaders themselves.
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Every morning, the senior producer, me, decides on the fact-check priorities, in collaboration with the election assignment desk.
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Then I assign the fact-check team with what stories they're going to work on, as well as what treatments they might do, and which platforms they'll go on.
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The team will build a database of facts that reporters and producers can then refer to.
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It's meant to be comprehensive and easily searchable for journalists who are working on stories.
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Let's talk about the truth, or at least the version of it pumped out daily by Canada's state broadcaster, the CBC.
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CBC likes to pretend it's a firewall against fake news, a champion of the facts, the moral compass in an age of misinformation.
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But if you've paid any attention over the last few years, you'll know they're not the hoes putting out the fire.
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They're the ones lighting the match and then also bringing a jerry can of gas to make it worse.
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Let's talk about something seemingly innocent, black olives.
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I saw this story this morning and I knew I just had to talk about it.
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In 2019, CBC's French-language show La Pisserie aired a sensational segment suggesting black olives weren't naturally ripened but chemically dyed.
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It spooked a viewer in Quebec so badly, she launched a class-action lawsuit.
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Not against CBC, mind you, but against grocery giants like Walmart, Loblaw, Sobeys.
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She accused them of selling fake food to millions of unsuspecting Canadians.
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As first reported by Blacklock's reporter, the process in question is called oxidation.
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And ferrous gluconate, a federally approved compound, is used to stabilize the black color.
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The judge threw the case out, calling the CBC-fueled panic vague and imprecise.
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That's a nice way of saying it was misinformation.
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And innocent businesses get hauled to court to defend themselves.
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In 2017, CBC's Marketplace claimed Subway's chicken sandwiches were only about 50% chicken.
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Why would you need to put more protein in a chicken product?
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And in some sense, it also makes the product slightly more cost effective.
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Remember, our DNA test shows Subway strips and oven-roasted chicken could be only about 50% chicken.
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So it's very likely that they're probably making more of a product that contains this ground chicken
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If you care about not eating soy, and I do, you were not going back to Subway.
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The results showed far more chicken than CBC claimed.
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So Subway sued CBC for $210 million in damages, alleging defamation and reputational harm.
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A judge tossed the case under Ontario's anti-SLAPP laws.
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But because it was deemed in the public interest, even if it was wrong.
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But in 2021, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned that decision, saying Subway's case had merit,
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and I think it does, and deserved a full trial.
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And yes, you the taxpayer, you are footing the bill for CBC's legal defense.
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So we've got bogus olive stories triggering lawsuits,
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and chicken scandals leading to multi-million dollar court battles.
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But the CBC doesn't just hurt companies with their lies.
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During the 2025 federal election, Draya asked a question at the leaders' debate.
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Your party takes great pride in standing against hate,
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such as white supremacy, Islamophobia, and online.
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You know where I'm going to go with this, though, right?
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I'm just going to say you know where I'm going to go with it, though.
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Your party takes pride in standing against hate,
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such as white supremacy, Islamophobia, and online hate speech.
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Yet you stay silent about ongoing attacks against Christians,
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even after Conservative MP Jamil Javani's order paper question
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revealed that over 200 churches have been targeted by arson and vandalism
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since claims of remains being discovered at former residential schools swept the nation in 2021.
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These claims have been disproven by bans that excavated and remain unproven by those that have not.
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Will you condemn the rise in acts of hate against Christians today
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and explain what your party will do moving forward to keep Christians safe from hate in Canada?
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Again, thank you, but I'm not going to respond to an organization that promotes misinformation and disinformation like Rebel News,
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so no, I'm not going to respond to your question.
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Over 200 Christian places of worship have been attacked in Canada since 2021.
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Many served First Nations communities, many were historic,
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and they diverted police and resources and put others at risk.
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What do you say to Canadians who see your refusal to answer,
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especially from one of the few media outlets here that are not funded by the state,
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as proof that a vote for you is a vote for a dangerous radical party
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that gaslights the public into thinking it stands against hate
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when its silence is instead emboldening Christophobia?
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Your question is another example of why I don't respond to agencies like Rebel News
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that promote misinformation and disinformation.
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Now, that same night, CBC's Rosemary Barton accused Drea on national television
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of spreading misinformation about Kamloops' residential school graves and church burnings.
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There's three right-wing, very right-wing media, we can call them media,
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They get in line to ask a question like anybody else.
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Their accreditation has been approved by the Commission of Debates.
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And so they get the right to stand in line and ask a question that they choose to ask.
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In this case, you saw Mr. Singh, and this has been his position for some time,
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Rebel News in particular, traffics in misinformation, facts, lack of facts.
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And as you heard in that question, which was woven with some truth
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Yes, there have been burnings of Christian Catholic churches.
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Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places around the country,
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We'll see if Mr. Poiliev gets any questions from right-wing organizations.
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And by the way, Drea was on site at CBC Radio Canada.
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Did Barton ever invite Drea on to give her the right of reply to get her side of the story?
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CBC and responsible journalism, they don't know each other.
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Now, Barton's smear was so egregious that CBC had to issue a correction on its website.
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Did she correct the record on air the way CBC's own retraction policy demands?
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There was no retraction during the nightly news.
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No apology to Drea, just a silent back-page correction online.
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And speaking of Kamloops, let's not forget how CBC breathlessly reported that 215 children
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In fact, the CBC still calls residential school discoveries mass graves.
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And to this date, it should be noted that at least at Kamloops, no bodies have been exhumed.
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No forensic evidence has confirmed the existence of a mass grave or any grave at all.
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The CBC, however, didn't question any of those facts.
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And when the truth began to trickle out, again, CBC, quiet.
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CBC scares viewers with a false story about olives.
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I mean, it's laughable, but innocent grocers got sued because of the lies.
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CBC fuels mass hysteria over a mass grave that has yet to be proven.
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And no one at the network gets held to account.
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CBC receives $1.5 billion a year in taxpayer money.
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That's your money funding this misinformation train wreck.
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They bulldoze it, spin it, bury it, and then demand praise for the wreckage.
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That phone call is coming from inside the house, CBC.
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And when they get caught, they issue a one-line correction on a webpage nobody sees,
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while the reputational damage they caused lives on.
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But ask yourself, who's protecting the public from them?
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Joining us after the break, convoy lawyer Eva Chipiak, who is just debanked by RBC.
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You know, I thought with a new prime minister in Canada and a new president in the United States
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that the era of political debanking might, might be over.
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But we just saw in the United States, Michael Knowles, podcaster Michael Knowles with the Daily Wire,
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fighting with Stripe over a political debanking.
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And yesterday, I saw online good friend of Rebel News and good friend of Freedom in general,
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lawyer Eva Chipiak, saying that her bank, RBC, was ceasing their business relationship.
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She, for those of you who don't know her, and I don't know how you couldn't,
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she's the convoy lawyer who examined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his role
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in violating the rights of thousands of peaceful, freedom-minded Canadians for standing up
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to mandates and other forms of government overreach.
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When did you and your government start to become so afraid of your own citizens?
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So, you posted the letter that you received from RBC, Royal Bank of Canada, yesterday.
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Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm still in a bit of shock.
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I opened the letter not expecting that, and so I was taken aback, didn't honestly know what to do,
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and then decided to post it, and clearly it's gone.
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What I just want to highlight right from the start is just how many people said they had
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similar experiences, which really causes me pause and concern, because here I get this letter,
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and of course, we know about some of them during the convoy, and they suggested it was connected
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to that, and now it's just so many more people are sharing their story that they've had similar
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Yeah, and just going back to the convoy, how quickly the big banks buckled under pressure
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The federal government decided that they were going to treat freedom-minded Canadians
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as though they were terrorist financiers and freeze their bank accounts, leaving them all
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but indigent with no clue about how long those seizures would last, and yet we have a federal
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government right now that doesn't seem to be using their powers under Fintrack to figure
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out who's funding these pro-Hamas protests every single week.
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Like, it's hard to argue that this targeting isn't political when you see it like that.
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Yeah, and I think you're right, and I think I would even go almost further in some of the
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evidence that we saw at the Public Order Emergency Commission, and I know we were talking almost
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daily at the time, is there was evidence when Chrystia Freeland at the time, the deputy minister
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and finance minister, I think it was, was showing, she was being questioned on some of the notes
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she took, and it was, she was having discussions with the CEOs of the big banks, and it wasn't
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even the government telling them, it was them telling the government, label them as terrorists.
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That's something you can't, we can't forget, is that closeness between the CEOs and the bank,
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and then without any due process then, same thing, no due process now, and like, it, it happening
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to me, it just is, really feels like, obviously, a huge violation.
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You get a letter in the mail, and you have no recourse, not even a one, two, three strikes,
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you're out, it's just, you're out, and we rely on these online banks and banking in general
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for our day-to-day activity, and basically, you're not invited into polite society when
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Yeah, you know, there's this increased digitization of how we do commerce, how we do business, how
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we interact with retailers, but, and it, it is convenient, let's be completely honest, it
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is convenient to just take out your phone and go, boop, and you're done, but we're trading
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a lot of freedom away when we do that, because all of a sudden, just like that, you don't
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have access to your cash, because you've bought into this state of convenience, you don't even
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have to carry a wallet anymore, everything's on your phone, but then pretty quick, because
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somebody doesn't like your politics, or you run afoul of the government who wants to paint you as
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a terrorist, all of a sudden, your life savings are just locked away from you, I mean, it's a
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terrifying thing, and I've heard stories of people during the Freedom Convoy, the fear that they lived
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in, that their bank account could be seized every single day, and thinking, how am I going to feed
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my kids, how am I going to pay my mortgage, and then there were those people that it actually
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happened to, did the bank ever, have they offered you an explanation, or at least an excuse, I'll say
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explanation, but what I mean is an excuse for doing this. No, and I posted about this, you know, obviously
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it's a bit hard to explain things on Twitter, or online, but the last interaction was kind of my third
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strike, and you're out with the Royal Bank, so it was the third time my bank account was frozen
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out of the blue, and I had to, I called, and then they said, you have to go in, and I had to beg to
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get access back to my bank account, I'm like, it's me, transactions are valid, you know, please unfreeze it,
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and just, I was always met with this disdain, and I, you know, I don't know where that came from,
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but it was always unpleasant, and I had to fight, and advocate for myself, which I'm fine doing,
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obviously, but I don't expect it, when it's my own money, and my bank, and we, I thought we had
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a contract that, you know, I'm the customer, and we have this equal relationship, it certainly never
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felt that way, and so this time, I actually was at a Bitcoin conference in Calgary, and was inspired to
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buy a bit more Bitcoin, I made two transactions in a row, to, in two days, and on the second one,
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the bank froze my bank account, without notifying me, and that's also a frustration, if you're gonna,
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you know, claim to be the virtuous one, and may want to make sure that I'm not being scammed, and
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thank you for that, I appreciate it, but maybe let me know that you've also frozen access to my
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account, that would be the first thing, without knowledge, so I go to do a transaction, no access,
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I call, they say, I have to go in, I went into the bank, and talk to the teller, and then they had
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to call the fraud department, and then this is where, and I posted the interaction, because then
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the fraud department made this young man ask me a series of questions, including, did, did you have
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to download software on your computer, how long have you been doing, and I'm just like, I'm not a child,
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I am a professional, I have a young gentleman, he was lovely, other people in the bank, not so,
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I have to say, he was really lovely, and I'm just like, I, I, it was so uncomfortable, and so
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unnecessary, and that I recorded it, and I posted that, he went back to the fraud department on the
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phone, I waited there, like, the criminal that I was, and then at the end of it, he said, okay,
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your bank account is in order, just be careful in the future with crypto, and I'm like, again,
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unnecessary lecturing, and then I got the letter, a couple weeks later.
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Buying crypto isn't illegal, you're not committing a crime by buying crypto, I mean, I guess you might
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be committing a, a crime against the sensibilities of the big banking system by trying to go outside
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of it, but it's not a criminal activity to buy crypto.
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Yeah, and that's where I took offense, too, because I, well, what are you buying with it,
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and I'm like, well, you know what, it's kind of none of your business, and so, of course, that's
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where it, you know, escalates, when they're making these demands of me, and I'm like, I know you don't
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have the ability, the right to be asking me these things, and so I'm not willing to share that
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information with you, that's just how it's going to be, and so, anyway, but they would not let me
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access my bank account until I answered those questions, and then, apparently, that was too
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much for them, and then the letter came in the mail. So, I think the letter came because you exposed
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what they were up to, they're, they're, like, I think the fact that you posted your conversations
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with them, they found offensive. Oh, that was only today. Oh, that was only today. Yeah, yesterday.
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So, this came before you did it. Because people asked for context, and I'm like, all I have is
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this. I wasn't, I just recorded it because I was so uncomfortable. I never posted it. I wasn't
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intending to do anything with it, and then, when this letter came, I, I think I said right from the
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start, I didn't even know what to do with the letter. I just felt so helpless, basically, and I'm like,
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I'm going to put this on social media, and it took a life of its own. Yeah, I mean, and I see now that
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you have till the 18th to move all your funds, your, take your business somewhere else. I'm worried
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that you're going to have a tough time finding another bank that will do business with you now,
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right? Because, I mean, they all collude. We saw that during the convoy. Yeah, well, thankfully,
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like I said, after that incident, I knew I, that relationship was not a pleasant one, and it wasn't
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one that I really wanted to continue. Yeah. So, I have set up a bank account with Bow Valley Credit
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Union. Nice. And they have been lovely, so that's been great. And so, you know, I wasn't rushing to
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make any changes, and it's also just a big hassle. So, I guess I'm just going to have to hurry up with
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making those changes. And so, I guess that's what's next for you. You're moving over to a freedom-minded
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credit union, Bow Valley. We like those guys over there. Pretty open-minded to the idea of your
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money being your money, and your opinions should not debank you. How very controversial.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. How very 10 years ago, very mainstream, but not in 2025 Canada. But, I guess,
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what's next for the people that were debanked during the Freedom Convoy, or the people who have
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gotten similar letters as you? And you can make the inference that it has something to do with their
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politics. And, you know, people have forgotten. Farm Credit Canada denied farmers credit. And they
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never actually explained why, but documents show that it was related to their support of the Freedom
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Convoy. They actually didn't even have to donate to the Freedom Convoy to have their credit denied for
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political reasons. What happens for those people now? Like, you're a lawyer, you found a great bank
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that you can work with, but what happens to all those other people who were denied their right to
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political free speech for fear of being debanked? Yeah, really good question. And I think it really
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goes to where this country is heading at the moment, and what people are willing to do about it.
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You know, there's people's... The one thing is that when you push people so far, is people are creative.
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They're thinking outside the box. And I think that is good. I think in Canada, for a while, we've been
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quite comfortable with things. And so nobody was pushing the boundaries and the box. So now I think
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people are looking at alternatives during the COVID era. It started with healthcare. People were
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recognizing there was an issue here that they were being denied access. So I think in the end, the more
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tyranny pushes people away, the more people become resilient. And I think that that's also a good thing.
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It's really exposing what's going on in this country. And because I sue the government, I see it a lot.
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And it's just, you know, lots of people don't realize how public sector in Canada, and you know,
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I'm not happy saying this, but it is not serving the public. And we really have to open our eyes up to
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that. And it's not hard to see when you look around and the public services that are provided to us are
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failing us. And we're just happily paying more. We really have to come to terms with the fact that
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something is not right, we need to hold our elected officials to account, demand what's going on in
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behind the scenes, there demand some accountability and transparency, I think that would really help
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Yeah, you see, like Bow Valley Credit Union, you see these alternative institutions
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popping up to address the problems with the legacy institutions. While I have you, I want to talk to
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you about the elephant in the room. And that is the sentencing arguments underway right now.
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Um, with Tamera Leach and Chris Barber, not just the longest, but I think the most expensive
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nonviolent mischief trial in the entire Commonwealth. Um, in a normal country, these two wouldn't see
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the inside of a jail cell, the Crown wants seven and eight years respectively for Tamera Leach and
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Chris Barber also want to leave Chris Barber unable to support himself and his family by crushing
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Big Red his iconic truck. Uh, I did some research. These are in line with the sentences received by
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the Toronto 18. So terrorism related sentences for mischief, because I think the Crown wants to
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treat these two as terrorists, even though that's not what's happening. But I want to get your take
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because you were in the public order emergency commission advocating for the truckers. Um, you're
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really there from the very beginning. What do you see here? What's your take?
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Well, it goes to everything we've been talking about is what, who is the public
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servants and institution serving? It's certainly not the public. They are serving and protecting
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themselves, the system, the bureaucracy. And that's what this is. If you look at crime went down in
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Ottawa. Tamera Leach and Chris Barber were interacting with the police on a daily basis.
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They were setting up meetings with city officials. Everyone else abandoned them. All elected officials
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and anybody in power with the police abandoned them. And they mismanaged the entire protest. And these
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two individuals are being blamed for elected officials failing, uh, policing officials failing,
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and a general mismanagement of a protest. Citizens in Ottawa should be rightfully mad at elected officials
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and the policing department, not Tamera Leach and Chris Barber. They were just the convenient pawns.
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Yeah. And I think at the end of the day, where else are you supposed to protest to the federal
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government? If not Ottawa, I think there's a lot of, uh, bureaucratic class grossed out by the fact
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that blue collar people went to their fancy well-kept city. Um, us Albertans, us Westerners,
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us blue collar people, we should stay out of their bureaucratic safe space. Yes. We're yucky. We have to
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stay out of their safe space. There's a lot of that. They felt invaded, uh, by their fellow Canadians.
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They seem to forget that there are, there are lots of different kinds of Canadians and they think
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Ottawa is just for their kind of Canadian. Well, and the way you describe that, can you wonder at
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all why there's such a growing movement of Alberta independence? It's like, okay, clearly we're not
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aligned. Clearly you're not interested in welcoming us into this kind and inclusive Ottawa you proclaim
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to have. And just it, you know, Albertans and Westerners are rightfully frustrated. It just is
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the next step. Uh, I would argue we're culturally incompatible and that's okay. Um, but how do people
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find out more about the work that you do? I know you have a podcast, um, you encourage conversations,
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which is something we're not allowed to have anymore with each other, according to the, the fancy
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people. So how do people find out more about what you're up to and learn more about your story?
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Because I think we're going to learn more about your debanking in the coming, uh, days and hours.
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Yeah. Well, you can find me on X, uh, at each IPAC. That's where I post most of my stuff and on other
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social media. And, um, just while I'm here too, I'm also anything related to the two class actions
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I'm involved in that's suing the government, one for the, uh, business restrictions in Alberta. And
00:31:06.600
one is on behalf of vaccine injured the way, again, the government has treated these two groups that
00:31:11.480
have been legitimately harmed by the government directives and mandates. Um, and that is all,
00:31:19.200
you can find all that information on wrath and company. We regularly post, uh, updates, but, um,
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I have a little website just to pick up, uh, .ca, um, where you could find more about me, but
00:31:31.820
I'm pretty easy to find. If you put my name in, I didn't ask for this everywhere.
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Nobody ever does. Eva, thanks so much for the work that you do on behalf of Canadians who've had
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their rights violated at the hands of the state. Uh, it's important work. Um, and, uh, it's,
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it's important that what happened isn't memory hold by the people who control what his, who think
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they control what history is. Yeah. Agreed. Well, thank you for having me so much and keep doing what
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you're doing. We will. Thank you, Eva. Stay with us. Your letters to Ezra unceremoniously read by me
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up after the break. Last portion of the show is always yours. We exist only because of you. We
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will never take a penny from any level of government to hold them to account, to do the journalism
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that we do. So of course we care about what you think about the work that we do. So, uh, we take
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your viewer feedback, your letters to Ezra on my regular Wednesday night show. I do the last segment
00:32:44.260
viewer feedback. Um, so the viewer feedback today comes from Ezra's reporting at the sentencing hearing,
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the sentencing arguments are being heard for, as I said, with Eva Chipiak, Tamara Leach and Chris
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Barber, the two leaders of the entirely peaceful anti-mandate freedom convoy back in 2022. And
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Ezra's out there on the streets with the big, beautiful Revel News billboard truck. And I went over
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to the comment section on YouTube to see what you guys had to say. So Alec Turek 433 says the freedom
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convoy gave me and likely a couple million Canadians hope during a dark, tyrannical moment in this
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country. I was uplifted by the thousands that came out during the frigid winter to show solidarity
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and support for those of us that dare to stand up against the vaccine madness mandate. I've heard that
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over and over again, over the last three years, that when the people saw those trucks rolling
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and the convoy get bigger and the crowds get bigger and bigger coming out to watch the convoy,
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people had the scales fall off their eyes because they knew something was wrong, but they didn't know
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how many other people also felt that same way. But because the government kept us apart, stay home to
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stay safe. You didn't really know how many other people felt the same way as you. It sort of lifted
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the gaslighting of the government. Hante Weekai 1215 says, I cried when the freedom convoy rolled
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through Canada. So proud. I'm crying right now for the heroes who tried so hard to free us. And we have
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other Canadians and our government treating them like this. It's so devastating. Freedom. I can't believe
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how Canada changed so much. Next one. YouTube Free Speech Outlaw says, as an outsider looking in,
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this seems very ridiculous to me. It seems as long as you're a lefty or have left-leaning protests,
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you can get away with whatever you'd like, no matter how violent it is. But if you're right-leaning
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and have a peaceful protest and are semi-noisy, look, all protests are noisy. You think those
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Hamas protests are quiet? You get treated like a terrorist. And if I were the judge, I would have
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said this is a waste of my time. This case is null and void. I would go after the government or the
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premier for wasting people's time. Time and money. This is the most expensive mischief trial in Canadian
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history. Deerland AB9833 says, I remember being so grateful to and for the truckers taking the
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actions they took. Somebody had to do it. And so often these movements are led by blue-collar people
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who just don't take it anymore. That someone was standing up for us when most of us were feeling
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so helpless. All the people cheering them on as they went down the road. I was in tears of hope
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and gratefulness and the horrifying shock that I felt as our country's government did not even give
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them the grace to talk to them or us as citizens of our country. I send you love. I mean, that's the
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thing. We weren't being listened to by the federal government. So where do you go to talk to them?
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Ottawa. Justin Trudeau will meet with anybody. He didn't meet with them.
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I remember he met with Chief Chicken Noodle. You remember her? 10 years ago plus,
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Chief Teresa Spence of Attawapiskat. The Harper government was auditing her reserve for
00:36:41.760
mismanagement of funds. And she went on a hunger strike. You know, like the houses in Attawapiskat
00:36:50.020
were falling down. She's rolling in an escalate, her and her boyfriend, who is the financial manager of
00:36:55.340
the band. And she went on a hunger strike, which was the fakest hunger strike ever because she didn't
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lose any weight during a hunger strike. And she said she was sleeping in a tent in a, or a teepee
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in a park in Ottawa. She was going to a hotel every night. And Justin Trudeau went to meet with her.
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He went and sat in her teepee with her mid-afternoon because, you know, she wasn't there at night.
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John Katsaros, 7340. There have been at least 100 free Palestine protests in Ottawa with police
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escorts since October 7th, 2023. Someone should do a Freedom of Information request to find out
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how much has been spent for that policing. I think it would be in the millions. Thank you.
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That's what I love to do around here at Rebel News is file Freedom of Information. I'm writing a note
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for myself. I want the policing costs. And I will tell you, those protests have been violent.
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Violent. Chris Dacey, independent journalist, he was violently assaulted in Ottawa at the hands of
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these people. Their bank accounts, not frozen. No one's even wondered, where's all the funding
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coming from? We have actually a government agency called FinTrack. It's set up to track the proceeds
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of terrorism. But the only time in recent memory that I can recall it being used was to go after
00:38:25.680
the Freedom Convoy. And we have quite likely Iranian-funded protests on the streets of the
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nation's capital every single week that are violent and FinTrack. I don't know. There's the
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tumbleweeds rolling through that office. Mary Martins, 6805. The police in Ottawa knew the
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truckers weren't breaking any laws, so they allowed the protests to go on. The only dangerous thing that
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we all saw on TV was the black-clad terrorists that came on horses and trampled the protesters.
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That surely was breaking Canadian laws. The ones on horseback should be the ones facing time in jail
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for attacking a group of people who were peacefully protesting in a free country called Canada.
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During the trial, they weren't able to find any of the protesters breaking any of Canada's laws.
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Well, they were able to convict them of mischief, which is really just a catch-all of the police
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don't know what to do with you. So, mischief. The protesters were and are Canada's heroes. They
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don't deserve to spend one day in jail. Tamara spent 50. Maybe this case should be taken to the
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United Nations to get some proper results without the horrible bias of Trudeau and now
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Carney's government. This is a terrible slur on Canada, which used to be a country to be proud of.
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tomorrow, depending on how long the sentencing arguments go on in Ottawa for Tamara Leach and Chris
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Barber to see his coverage and to support Tamara because we found out that she was not like she's
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paying out of pocket for bodyguards. We thought that's outrageous. You can go to helptamara.com.
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So, that's it. Let's keep Tamara and Chris and their families in our thoughts and our prayers if
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that's something that you do. And as Ezra Levant always says, keep fighting for freedom.