Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Five highly paid government prosecutors are trying to crush the Whistle Stop Diner

00:00:00.080 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'm on location in Red Deer, Alberta, for a hearing in the case of the government versus Chris Scott.

00:00:06.480 He's the owner of the Whistle Stop Diner in the small town of Mirror, Alberta, who refused to close his shop during the pandemic.

00:00:13.020 And oh my God, did they want to make an example of him. I'll talk to him, I'll talk to his lawyers, and I will cover the trial itself.

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00:00:44.240 All right, here's today's show.

00:00:46.120 Tonight, I'm in Red Deer, where five highly paid government prosecutors are trying to crush Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop Diner.

00:00:54.260 It's April 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:58.220 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.820 You might remember the case of Chris Scott from the small town of Mirror, Alberta.

00:01:16.620 He was a restaurateur who refused to lock his doors during the pandemic.

00:01:20.600 But he's much more than a restaurateur.

00:01:22.460 For those of us who live in the big city, there's hundreds, even thousands of restaurants and stores.

00:01:27.020 And in Mirror, Alberta, though, population 502, there's basically just the Whistle Stop.

00:01:32.820 And it's a gas station.

00:01:34.120 It's a general store.

00:01:35.000 And it's a restaurant.

00:01:35.860 It's the hub of life.

00:01:37.220 If you don't find it at the Whistle Stop, you've got to get into a car and drive all the way down to Red Deer, Alberta, where I'm standing today.

00:01:43.220 Because today is a trial, not the actual trial of the various charges against Chris Scott three years later,

00:01:51.820 but rather an attempt by Chris Scott's lawyers to get secret documents being deliberately hidden by the government.

00:01:59.540 What's so incredible is that, as you know, when the government comes to get you, they have to disclose their notes to you.

00:02:06.380 And there's a special obligation to disclose what's called exculpatory evidence.

00:02:11.160 They don't just have to disclose to you the things that embarrass you or that would incriminate you.

00:02:15.160 The government has a very special obligation enshrined in common law and our Charter of Rights that they have to give you anything that makes you look good and them look bad.

00:02:25.000 It's just an essential part of fairness when an ordinary citizen is fighting against the unlimited resources of the state.

00:02:31.340 And that's what's so crazy here.

00:02:33.320 Little Chris at the Little Whistle Stop in Little Mirror, Alberta, was deemed enemy number one, the same way Toronto demonized Adam Skelly of the Smoked Meat Company.

00:02:42.720 You'll recall in that city, they deployed 100 police, riot horses, 50 police cars.

00:02:49.640 They were trying to make an example and it worked.

00:02:51.820 The shock and awe destruction, the personal destruction of these few dissidents was so essential to the compliance by the masses.

00:03:00.100 They needed everyone to obey.

00:03:02.360 Anyone who showed resistance could inspire others.

00:03:05.420 That's why Trudeau hated the trucker convoy so much.

00:03:08.320 So the government is hiding records from Chris Scott.

00:03:13.000 Records that Chris Scott suggests show that they were conducting illegal activity, things that would be exculpatory, things that show this is a malicious prosecution.

00:03:24.520 I'm going to live tweet the hearing.

00:03:28.460 Actually, this will air the day after the hearing.

00:03:31.160 You can see my live tweets.

00:03:32.440 We've also summarized them at SaveTheCafe.com.

00:03:38.160 I'm going to break now, cover the trial, and we'll talk to the lawyers and Chris Scott himself.

00:03:43.900 Stay with us.

00:03:56.160 Chris Scott, you have been through hell.

00:03:58.140 I don't think you imagined back in 2020 that you would be standing here outside a courthouse three years later fighting for your freedom.

00:04:06.400 And not even on the substance of it.

00:04:08.220 You're battling some side skirmish about government disclosure.

00:04:11.860 There's five government lawyers there.

00:04:13.860 If you knew three years ago what you would go through, would you have still fought for freedom?

00:04:19.360 Absolutely.

00:04:19.760 I mean, it has been a little bit of hell, but the reality is it's a lot easier to walk through hell when you've got millions of people standing beside you.

00:04:28.080 Right?

00:04:28.240 And that's what's happened.

00:04:29.140 We, you know, the government did these things.

00:04:31.620 They interfered in our lives.

00:04:32.660 They infringed on our rights without justification.

00:04:35.180 And some people stood up.

00:04:36.560 And Canadians from all over the country, and actually people all over the world, stood up with us and for us.

00:04:42.640 So, yeah, absolutely, I'd do it again.

00:04:45.680 Well, I'm glad to hear that.

00:04:47.060 And you're a rare breed to stand up for freedom.

00:04:50.340 Most people are compliant.

00:04:51.640 Most people are risk-averse, conflict-averse.

00:04:54.060 They just go along to get along.

00:04:55.620 And people have something to lose.

00:04:56.960 You certainly had something to lose.

00:04:58.020 What was interesting to me is hearing in the hearing today how they tried to destroy your life,

00:05:04.340 how they tried to get your liquor license taken away, tried to get your landlord to evict you,

00:05:08.360 tried to get your insurance revoked.

00:05:13.220 Like, they went after you like Tony Soprano goes after a rival enemy.

00:05:18.560 I was shocked by that.

00:05:20.580 Did you feel that at the time?

00:05:22.220 Did you know there were literally 30 government agents working on your case?

00:05:27.060 That's the number that I just heard from your lawyers.

00:05:29.440 Wow.

00:05:29.720 Well, you know, I knew it was a possibility.

00:05:31.700 And I know the farther you go in defiance of tyrannical rules, the farther they'll go in their pursuit to crush you, right?

00:05:40.440 So I'm not surprised that that happened.

00:05:42.600 But I do want to point something out.

00:05:43.800 I didn't just immediately stand up and say, hey, this isn't right.

00:05:48.080 I mean, we went through a year of restrictions and lockdowns where my restaurant was just about annihilated.

00:05:52.680 And we worked really hard.

00:05:55.100 We tried to follow the rules.

00:05:56.360 And at every stage, we always tried to be as polite and respectful and compliant with what we could as we could.

00:06:03.120 You're way more polite than I would have been.

00:06:04.920 And I know that's just a knock against myself.

00:06:07.360 But you were never mean.

00:06:09.740 You were never rude.

00:06:10.720 You never swore.

00:06:11.840 You never threatened.

00:06:13.120 You were friendly.

00:06:14.880 I don't know how you kept your composure when these bullies came at you every day.

00:06:20.120 You're a better man than me.

00:06:21.440 Well, there was one time I lost my composure.

00:06:24.600 And that's when they put the chain on my doors of my restaurant.

00:06:28.540 I had some angry words for David Brown.

00:06:31.100 I swore a little bit.

00:06:33.440 But aside from that, you know, I made a point of walking with the inspectors and making sure that people knew to be respectful.

00:06:41.340 That's incredible.

00:06:42.100 Yeah.

00:06:42.360 And because there's somebody's mom, there's someone's dad, there's someone's son, and someone's daughter.

00:06:45.940 And they're really no different than us.

00:06:47.260 And aside from they have a different job and a different opinion maybe of what they should be doing.

00:06:51.660 Well, I mean, they were happy to be cogs in the machine.

00:06:54.620 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian dissident, Soviet dissident, said, I'm paraphrasing.

00:07:01.040 He said, it's not up to you to fight.

00:07:02.680 But at least don't let the evil flow through you.

00:07:06.540 That's what he said.

00:07:08.020 There was one more thing that I'd like to ask you about.

00:07:11.160 It came up several times again in the hearing today.

00:07:13.240 Again and again, these 30 bureaucrats who are targeting you, and by bureaucrats, I'm including cops, health cops, inspectors.

00:07:22.900 They didn't talk a lot about public health.

00:07:24.700 I think they knew no one was getting sick.

00:07:26.480 I think they knew instinctively people don't get sick outside.

00:07:30.360 They just were obsessed with politics.

00:07:33.720 And again and again, their memos that were read out today, they were talking about PR and social media and media coverage.

00:07:42.920 And, oh, there's Chris Scott making a public statement.

00:07:46.560 I really don't think they were motivated at all by COVID, the bug.

00:07:52.920 I think they were motivated by the raw power and the fact that you refused to kneel before them.

00:07:58.400 That's all they talked about is politics and media, not about health.

00:08:03.980 Yeah, and it wasn't surprising to hear that because we were saying that right from the start.

00:08:08.680 For that first year that we complied and followed the rules, we knew that it was political.

00:08:12.940 It became glaringly obvious it was political.

00:08:16.300 There was even in court, Dina Hinshaw testified that her health orders, that she gave the government a buffet of ideas to do 0.70

00:08:24.760 and let the government pick based on political policies.

00:08:27.580 That's not medicine, that's politics.

00:08:30.840 It's absolutely politics. It never had anything to do with health.

00:08:33.260 And the statistics support it. The things that we said in the beginning were to support it.

00:08:37.040 The things that you and Sheila and Rebel reported on in the beginning support our stance.

00:08:41.540 And I think the truth eventually is going to come out.

00:08:43.760 And then those that went along to get along are going to realize the error of their ways.

00:08:48.680 I hope so. You're a Christian, man.

00:08:51.000 And maybe that's the difference. I've got a more Old Testament view on things.

00:08:53.720 But, you know, I want to come back to what you said earlier, and I'll wrap up this way because I know you've got a busy day.

00:09:02.740 We.

00:09:03.320 We have busy. I want to go out there and get a bite of those Whistle Stop burgers.

00:09:07.560 Because I have not yet gone to your fine establishment, but I know our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed was there.

00:09:12.980 She did all that great reporting back in the day.

00:09:15.180 I want to look into the camera and say to our viewers that I'm not independently wealthy.

00:09:20.760 There's no way I could muster, and I'm not going to disclose the amount, but it's hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:09:26.580 Between the different court actions, God, I hate to say, but you were actually jailed for several days.

00:09:32.400 It was terrible.

00:09:34.120 Lots of court appearances.

00:09:35.580 This is certainly not the last one.

00:09:36.920 There is simply no way this would be possible.

00:09:39.320 Were it not for hundreds and hundreds of ordinary people chipping in 50 bucks or 100 bucks or, if people are able, 500 bucks.

00:09:48.200 And we are not done.

00:09:49.560 What I've learned today is that we are nowhere near done.

00:09:53.520 And the government has thrown, through today alone, they threw five lawyers against you.

00:09:59.080 What do you figure that costs?

00:10:00.220 Yeah.

00:10:00.620 Oh, they've got to be at the millions now for both the enforcement side and the prosecution side.

00:10:04.800 So let me look into the camera and say, folks, if you think what they tried to do to Chris was outrageous, what they did do to him was outrageous.

00:10:12.420 If you think it's important that we keep standing and that we keep sending the lawyers out to fight for him, please go to SaveTheCafe.com.

00:10:21.360 And there you can read all our stories on this, and you can chip in.

00:10:26.100 Donations to SaveTheCafe.com are actually through the Democracy Fund, which is a registered CRA-compliant charity.

00:10:33.480 So you'll actually get a charitable tax credit for it in Canada.

00:10:37.080 So your donation is actually, it's before tax money, not after tax money, which is a good thing.

00:10:45.060 So please consider going to SaveTheCafe.com.

00:10:47.700 Keep up the fight, Chris.

00:10:49.220 Will do.

00:10:49.940 It's not over yet.

00:10:51.920 All right.

00:10:52.440 There you have it.

00:10:53.040 Thank you.

00:10:53.100 Thank you.

00:11:03.480 What an atrocious waste of resources I have just witnessed.

00:11:08.140 I spent half a day in the courthouse here in Red Deer, Alberta.

00:11:11.900 Besides the judge and the clerk and the officers and everyone, there were seven lawyers inside litigating the case of Chris Scott,

00:11:22.020 the businessman and restaurateur of the Whistle Stop Cafe in the tiny town of Mirror, Alberta, population 502.

00:11:28.940 Five of the lawyers were prosecutors of different stripes.

00:11:32.580 The two lawyers standing with me are crowdfunded lawyers for freedom.

00:11:36.360 As you know, Chris Scott is a mere human being and thus cannot afford to defend himself against the unlimited resources of the state.

00:11:43.440 That's where the dream team comes in.

00:11:45.700 We've talked before to Chad Williamsman.

00:11:47.300 Chad, nice to see you again.

00:11:48.580 Nice to see Ezra.

00:11:49.440 Right on.

00:11:49.920 And Yoav Niv, you were on your feet in court today as well.

00:11:53.520 Nice to meet you.

00:11:54.340 Nice to meet you too.

00:11:55.200 We've met before, but it's the first time we've interviewed you.

00:11:58.040 All right.

00:11:58.420 Well, we've just spent half a day here and we were arguing not the substance of Chris Scott's case at the Whistle Stop,

00:12:06.240 but a collateral matter, an application for further and better disclosure of documents.

00:12:12.640 Is that an accurate statement of what we were doing in there today?

00:12:15.260 Yeah.

00:12:15.520 So this is the first part of a multi-part disclosure application.

00:12:19.180 And for any of the viewers that had remembered some of the prior proceedings during the cross-examination of the Alberta Health Inspector,

00:12:27.980 Mr. Ian Plischke, who was one of the central figures that was in Chris Scott's life for the four or five months preceding the charges that got dropped.

00:12:36.740 During the cross-examination, we simply asked him if there were any internal emails,

00:12:41.540 if they had had internal correspondence and discussions about Chris Scott and collecting evidence and about enforcement of Alberta Health Service mandates.

00:12:51.640 And he said, yeah, we were.

00:12:53.100 And we said, did you provide those to the Crown as you're required to do?

00:12:57.100 And he said, no, we didn't.

00:12:58.340 And then we said, we'd like to see those, please.

00:13:00.600 And that's what's brought us down this path today.

00:13:03.960 We did get the emails.

00:13:05.540 We got about six or 700 pages of them.

00:13:07.640 We think they're tremendously, they're not flattering to Alberta Health Services.

00:13:14.800 And that's what spurred the further disclosure because within those emails,

00:13:19.160 they've now mentioned that there was meeting notes and there's a whole bunch of other materials alluded to in the emails

00:13:24.500 that were not provided in that batch of emails.

00:13:26.860 So this is the first of many returns, I suppose, to the court on this particular matter.

00:13:32.160 And there were five government lawyers saying, do not show the records.

00:13:35.380 And there's a lot of layers here.

00:13:37.140 The first is, this is what happens when health bureaucrats who, until this moment in time,

00:13:42.220 their chief duty was checking to make sure there was no mice in the kitchen.

00:13:45.800 You're giving them quasi-police powers.

00:13:48.260 So of course, they don't know about disclosure.

00:13:50.440 Of course, they were political bureaucrats.

00:13:53.340 So that's another thing that shone through in the few disclosures you did get.

00:13:57.360 It's just how petty and malicious and vindictive they were. 1.00

00:14:01.280 They were mocking Chris Scott, calling him stupid. 1.00

00:14:04.540 They were conspiring to see if they could get his landlord to a victim, which is bizarre. 1.00

00:14:11.060 What health officer has that power?

00:14:13.280 There was even some offhanded remarks where, during the correspondence, they had found a case of COVID at Save On Foods.

00:14:22.480 And Mr. Plischke said, can't we just tell everybody that they all have COVID?

00:14:26.740 And then another HF staffer, kind of joking around, said, well, I really, you know,

00:14:31.600 I secretly wish that this one came from the whistle stop.

00:14:34.640 And frankly, I think that that's disgusting.

00:14:37.060 These are people who should be protecting our public health,

00:14:39.660 not joking about wishing that they had discovered COVID at some public protests.

00:14:45.160 I think that that's, it's irreprehensible for people who are on the government dime to be doing that.

00:14:50.580 And if I may also comment, it really does undermine the legitimacy of their argument

00:14:54.920 that COVID is something that is such a significant public health factor.

00:14:58.980 And yet, at the same time, they're wishing it upon someone else, notwithstanding the fact that it looks like

00:15:04.600 they're taking it as some kind of a joke and personal vendetta against Chris Scott,

00:15:08.880 where there's no evidence that any COVID cases came from that.

00:15:12.320 And in fact, Ian Plischke testified that he didn't know of any COVID-related cases from any illegal outdoor gatherings at all.

00:15:20.020 I don't even know if that happens.

00:15:21.200 I think from a scientific basis, that's just not something that happens.

00:15:24.500 I looked at, I did read through these disclosures, and there's very little talk about public health.

00:15:30.760 It's all, how do we get this guy?

00:15:32.560 They were seized with collateral purposes.

00:15:35.700 What I mean by that is, they were, the reason they have the money and the power they're given

00:15:39.640 is to protect us from the pandemic.

00:15:43.240 But that is not what the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of memos and notes and emails and meetings were about. 1.00

00:15:48.560 It was all, how do we get this stupid guy? 0.99

00:15:51.280 How do we, they tried to get his insurance knocked out. 1.00

00:15:53.680 They tried to get his alcohol license knocked out.

00:15:56.480 Nothing to do with anything.

00:15:57.940 They wanted to destroy this man.

00:15:59.780 It was like I was watching a Tony Sopranos show or something.

00:16:03.420 Absolutely.

00:16:04.300 And their personal agenda is so powerfully reflected in those emails.

00:16:10.040 And it's not reflected in the trial transcripts.

00:16:13.720 It's as if that disclosure never existed.

00:16:16.900 When you read the trial transcripts, you say to yourself, I didn't know any of this was going on.

00:16:22.280 We were just enforcing public health.

00:16:24.600 Emails tell a different story.

00:16:27.200 And that's something that some of the five government lawyers were trying to say at the end today.

00:16:32.000 They were saying, oh, you brought this up late.

00:16:34.660 We only heard about this recently.

00:16:36.560 Well, I don't know how you would ask about something you don't know exists.

00:16:39.460 It sounds like you discovered this trove of emails because one guy blurted it out.

00:16:44.620 And he sort of said, oh, did I mention that, that we have weekly meetings about it?

00:16:48.680 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:16:49.200 Did I mention?

00:16:49.820 Like, the only reason we're here now is because one of those guys on the other side doesn't know the code of Omerta.

00:16:55.600 You've worked with Tony Soprano.

00:16:56.940 You're supposed to keep it silent.

00:16:58.420 One of these guys blabbed to you, and that's caused this domino effect.

00:17:02.100 Boy, they don't want those records released.

00:17:03.980 Well, and the other aspect of it, too, is that it's pretty obvious disclosure when you think about it.

00:17:09.220 These witnesses, main witnesses in the prosecution, Plischke, Holliday, Plischke's managers, 30 different people from all these different agencies.

00:17:19.280 30 different people to hunt down.

00:17:21.100 Absolutely.

00:17:21.980 And all they're doing is they're talking about Chris Scott and they're talking about his charges and furthering his charges and getting consultation from the Crown as to how to.

00:17:32.620 How is that not relevant?

00:17:35.100 Obviously relevant.

00:17:35.960 You shouldn't have to ask for that.

00:17:37.640 That's information that you should get at the very beginning.

00:17:40.280 And in fact, normally, in the normal course, counsel for the defense regularly gets this type of correspondence.

00:17:47.660 Well, and that's one more thing I want to ask you about because, of course, they came at Chris Scott five different ways.

00:17:53.340 They were trying to come up.

00:17:55.140 I mean, I've never seen anything like this.

00:17:57.360 This is how Rudy Giuliani went against the mafia in New York City.

00:18:01.460 This is how they went after, you know, Al Capone.

00:18:04.760 They, you know, male fraud, like you had the best and brightest minds in the country trying to stop the mafia.

00:18:10.960 And I don't think there's a single criminal investigation against a biker gang, a fentanyl drug gang against human trafficking.

00:18:19.340 I don't think there is a single criminal matter in the province of Alberta that had more resources, more ingenuity, more people, more agencies than the war to get Chris Scott.

00:18:29.940 It is super gross.

00:18:31.620 Yeah, it's astounding.

00:18:33.440 It's astounding.

00:18:34.180 Even on a terrorism or a wiretap case, typically you have the RCMP, you have the Crown, maybe you have the Department of Justice.

00:18:42.840 We have those same actors plus plus on a ticket case.

00:18:47.960 It's a ticket case.

00:18:49.960 Tickets.

00:18:50.100 Well, now, Chad, you've been fighting the good fight for various democracy fund cases and rebel news cases.

00:18:59.880 It's funny because the underlying laws of the lockdowns, many of them are dissipated.

00:19:05.380 They've been repealed.

00:19:06.680 Some of them have been challenged in court say, oh, that's moot now because it's not afoot.

00:19:10.480 But it frustrates me when high courts say, oh, we're not going to review the constitutionality of the Arrive Can app.

00:19:16.820 We're not going to review the constitutionality of the airport hotel quarantines because that's all moot now.

00:19:22.160 Oh, but we have thousands of cases like Chris Scott, like Arthur Pavlovsky, like ticket cases, mask cases that we're still going to hunt these people down.

00:19:32.620 There were five lawyers.

00:19:33.540 I Google this story, the CBC and the prosecutors are complaining about how under-resourced they are.

00:19:39.460 Or, oh, my God, we're going to have hundreds of real crimes letting go.

00:19:43.600 They had five lawyers.

00:19:44.460 And they actually, some of those lawyers were private sector lawyers, right?

00:19:47.460 Is that correct?

00:19:48.680 They've hired private sector lawyers to beef it up?

00:19:50.720 I think those are all in-house.

00:19:53.340 Okay, those are all in-house.

00:19:54.260 But we're on other cases, and now they're hiring the big boys, the magic circle firms that we've got experience going after in other matters.

00:20:01.740 So no expense appears to be spared against the political opposition.

00:20:06.860 But when it comes to domestic violence, when it comes to sexual assaults, when it comes to property crimes, when it comes to the things that actually matter to Albertans, yeah, the purse strings tighten up a little bit.

00:20:21.380 Now, this judge, he didn't say a lot.

00:20:26.080 There was some banter about what the government said was your dramatic reading of the tweets. 0.99

00:20:32.480 And I thought about that, and I thought, well, it's tough to read a tweet saying Chris Scott is stupid, or how do we hide the political nature of that without it being dramatic? 0.98

00:20:42.100 I don't think it's a dramatic reading. 0.99

00:20:43.300 I think it's a dramatic content.

00:20:44.360 I thought the judge was, he didn't show his hand, although he did refer to some drama.

00:20:50.280 I think twice he referred to the crowd.

00:20:53.040 He referred to the crowd and how full it was, and he said something for the benefit of the audience.

00:20:58.660 I think he's keenly aware that the public is watching this.

00:21:02.100 I mean, I don't think that judge has a trial a year where every single seat is taken.

00:21:06.700 You know, we can never know what's in a judge's mind until he tells us in the end.

00:21:11.620 He's going to have his answer to your application on May 9th.

00:21:15.260 Is that right?

00:21:16.380 I believe so.

00:21:17.620 And then if it's in our favor, we've got a whole nother circuit that we've got to do in order to meet the test for what is relevant and needs to be disclosed.

00:21:29.180 Once we get the disclosure, then it's likely reopening, reopening examination of witnesses with the new disclosure.

00:21:37.680 Except for the one witness who passed away, who, and I'm sorry to say, it's a tragedy, the chief cop on this took his own life.

00:21:44.840 And the biggest issue, obviously, with, you know, the utmost heartfelt and deepest condolences to his family, because the circumstances, I understand, were quite tragic.

00:21:56.360 But in terms of the prejudice that Chris Scott now faces, having had late disclosure, which is, I mean, this is on the record.

00:22:04.400 We, you know, they didn't provide disclosure.

00:22:06.620 We made a request.

00:22:07.460 Now they provided us all these emails.

00:22:09.400 This deceased witness is in those emails.

00:22:13.020 Our cross-examination of him, which was already done, would have been way different if we had this email bundle.

00:22:19.060 You know, I was talking to Chris a bit, and I've talked to other clients that we've crowdfunded for.

00:22:24.520 No regular human can pay these legal bills.

00:22:29.280 No poor person, for sure.

00:22:31.540 No small business person.

00:22:32.800 That's insane.

00:22:33.720 And by the way, no rich person would either.

00:22:35.500 A rich person would just take the loss, pay a fine, and get on with their life.

00:22:38.580 A rich person is not going to burn up a half a million bucks fighting a ticket.

00:22:43.080 But only through crowdfunding is that possible.

00:22:46.340 I love that phrase, an army of Davids to take out a Goliath.

00:22:50.400 One David is not enough to take on the Goliath of government.

00:22:52.800 And Chris Scott's wife told me that that deceased cop, Sergeant Holliday was his name.

00:22:59.420 He said to Chris, he looked Chris in the eye and said, you're not going to win this.

00:23:03.640 You're not going to beat the system.

00:23:05.940 You know, you can't fight City Hall.

00:23:07.600 And he's right.

00:23:08.920 Because he knew the insane resource.

00:23:12.600 They were going to smash this guy to make a lesson out of him.

00:23:16.440 And I think the five government lawyers in here today did not expect that you guys would be standing with Chris Scott and that you would still be fighting.

00:23:24.880 Well, and it was very telling when the Alberta Health Services lawyer said, what they're asking for is impossible.

00:23:30.580 We only have 100,000 employees.

00:23:33.840 And they complained that one of them had to work for three days on disclosure.

00:23:38.160 And judge, that's unfair.

00:23:39.500 She literally said it was unfair that they would have to go through their records.

00:23:44.140 I couldn't believe my ears.

00:23:45.760 It's absolutely crazy when my office has a handful of excellent lawyers.

00:23:51.160 We're family-run.

00:23:52.860 We're Albertan.

00:23:53.780 And we, I mean, these are important cases to the people in my office because we live here and we're affected by them.

00:24:01.320 And without the crowdfunding efforts, I mean, we're reasonably priced lawyers for the value that we bring to files.

00:24:07.600 No one could afford this.

00:24:08.940 I'm asked all the time.

00:24:09.800 They're saying, hey, well, you know, I've got a COVID masking case, you know, and I can't find a charity to help me.

00:24:16.180 You know, how much is it going to cost?

00:24:17.360 And we're reasonably priced, but we're still lawyers.

00:24:21.160 You know, I'm really proud of the Democracy Fund, which has 2,500 clients, and Chris Scott is a Democracy Fund client.

00:24:28.220 Rebel News has some clients directly, but it all comes down to the same view.

00:24:31.660 I'm going to let these fellows go, have a well-earned lunch.

00:24:34.200 They were fighting like hell today.

00:24:35.920 I love it when we fight the long odds.

00:24:38.020 Chad, sorry, pardon me, Chad Haggerty, another one of our lawyers inside.

00:24:43.620 But Chad Williamson, we've got two Chads in the house.

00:24:46.320 There's a lot of stuff to give back while I have lawyers for freedom.

00:24:49.140 I love it.

00:24:49.600 He's a really nice guy, and I mean, he's got some great jokes.

00:24:53.480 He's really witty.

00:24:54.520 And I mean, it's the kind of crew of lawyers that the Rebel and Democracy Fund have kind of brought together to fight these important constitutional issues are some of the best lawyers I've ever seen.

00:25:08.840 And I'm routinely up against people at the Magic Circle firms who just kind of time punch cards.

00:25:15.680 They've got underlings that they just delegate work to.

00:25:19.180 The crowdfunding money that is going to Democracy Fund, it's really getting into the hands of excellent counsel that are doing great work.

00:25:28.620 Well, I agree, and you're one of them.

00:25:30.100 And you had that long shot victory for Rebel News, 701, the lawyers, seven government lawyers versus yourself.

00:25:36.160 Or I think it was maybe even more lawyers on the back.

00:25:38.100 Nine.

00:25:38.540 And we beat Justin Trudeau.

00:25:41.080 So even the uphill battles can win.

00:25:42.820 Y'all have great to talk with you on camera, Chad.

00:25:44.720 Great to see you again.

00:25:45.740 Another Chad, freedom lawyer in the house.

00:25:47.580 I will have some final thoughts next.

00:25:51.780 Stay with us.

00:26:04.380 All right, there you have it.

00:26:05.820 It's a delight to be in Alberta.

00:26:07.720 What a sunny day.

00:26:09.400 I was sitting next to my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter.

00:26:12.380 We were live tweeting away.

00:26:13.880 I'm pleased to say there was a local reporter there from the Red Deer Advocate.

00:26:18.200 I don't know what his coverage will be like, but I think it's a good sign that he understood this was an important case.

00:26:24.780 I look forward to reading his coverage.

00:26:26.800 As you heard from the lawyers, this is not a cheap prospect, and we are in the middle of the battle.

00:26:32.040 The government doesn't want those records.

00:26:33.500 I think we have to continue to stand up to them.

00:26:35.960 They thought that Chris Scott would be crushed by now.

00:26:38.420 They thought that he wouldn't be able to stand back up, and he wouldn't be if it weren't for you.

00:26:42.940 So consider going to savethecafe.com and chipping in a few bucks to help his legal dream team.

00:26:47.940 I really enjoyed watching them in action today.

00:26:50.160 That's it from beautiful, sunny Red Deer, Alberta.

00:26:54.040 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us, to you at home, goodbye, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:27:00.140 Keep fighting for freedom! 0.97

00:27:03.180 Shame on you, you sensorious bug! 0.92

00:27:06.220 Have a great day. 0.91

00:27:25.500 wahrscheinlich000

Rebel News Podcast - April 13, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Five highly paid government prosecutors are trying to crush the Whistle Stop Diner

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