Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Freedom Convoy protestors take the feds to court over 'illegal' invocation of the Emergencies Act

00:00:00.300 Hello, my friends. Very interesting show today. I'm going to talk at length with Keith Wilson,

00:00:05.180 the lawyer who just filed a massive lawsuit against the government of Canada on behalf of

00:00:10.800 victims of the Emergencies Act. The people who had their bank accounts seized and frozen.

00:00:16.520 We'll go through the lawsuit line by line. I'd love for you to have the video version of this.

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00:00:27.740 version and have the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting Rebel News. All right, here's

00:00:32.240 today's podcast. Tonight, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

00:00:53.520 As Martin Luther King said that, and it's coming true in Canada. It's February 14th, 0.74

00:00:58.540 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:09.320 Hey, welcome back. That quote I just said to you was from Martin Luther King. I think about it a lot

00:01:14.620 when justice is slow. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. That's what

00:01:20.120 Martin Luther King said about racial equality in the United States. It was a very long time,

00:01:25.680 centuries even, but finally blacks had civil rights. And I think that in Canada, when we had a mass 0.68

00:01:31.180 suppression of civil rights during the pandemic lockdowns and during the crisis of the invocation

00:01:37.380 of the Emergencies Act and the suspension of civil liberties, well, it's been two full years since that,

00:01:44.220 and justice has been slow to lace up its boots while the repression of our rights has run around

00:01:51.840 the world several times. But it looks to me like justice is finally coming. I have in front of me

00:01:56.240 various printouts of various lawsuits filed today. And I'm going to take you through them. These are

00:02:04.320 lawsuits filed by Canadian citizens against the government of Canada for the false invocation

00:02:12.400 of the Emergencies Act, which has been found by the federal court to have been unreasonable,

00:02:16.740 unintelligible, unacceptable, and unconstitutional. I'm going to take you through this with the lawyer

00:02:22.920 who drafted it. The lawyer is Keith Wilson of the Wilson Law Firm in St. Albert, Alberta. And the court

00:02:31.280 case we'll walk through together are two names you'll know, Tamara Leach and her husband Dwayne Leach,

00:02:38.260 and they're suing His Majesty the King and the Attorney General of Canada. Joining us now via Skype

00:02:47.320 is Keith Wilson, who filed the lawsuit today. Keith, great to see you again. Thank you very much for

00:02:52.480 coming on the show, and thank you for sharing with us the statement of claim that was just filed hours

00:02:58.120 ago. Why don't you introduce the story, and then we'll go through the lawsuit, because I think our viewers

00:03:03.080 want to see the details. Sure. Thanks for the interview, Ezra. Well, as the world knows,

00:03:12.440 the Trudeau government invoked war measures against its citizens who were exercising their

00:03:18.860 charter rights of protest. But not only did the Trudeau government do that, our Prime Minister and

00:03:26.960 Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, used a tool that no government's ever been able to use

00:03:33.400 against its citizens before, because the technology didn't exist. They froze my clients' bank accounts.

00:03:40.200 They cancelled their debit cards. They blocked them from getting access to cash. They cancelled not only

00:03:48.180 the bank cards, but the credit cards as well. So they completely isolated them from society and put them

00:03:54.700 an incredibly precarious position that resulted in a run on the banks and international condemnation

00:04:01.980 of the tyrannical behavior of the Trudeau government. So today, on behalf of Tamara Leach and Chris Barber

00:04:11.940 and Tom Marazzo and Danny Bullford and Sean Tyson and Miranda Gracer and some others,

00:04:19.600 we filed lawsuits against the federal government for the illegal seizure, surveillance, harassment,

00:04:28.760 abusive process, intimidation, and charter violations that the federal government engaged in,

00:04:35.920 as was recently confirmed by our federal court with Justice Mosley's decision.

00:04:41.680 That's incredible. I'm glad you're doing this. You, more than almost anyone else in the country,

00:04:46.720 would know the facts on the ground because you were there in Ottawa during the trucker convoy. You

00:04:50.000 were the liaison between the truckers and the government. You told me just before we turned

00:04:56.000 the camera on that you filed, was it half a dozen of these lawsuits today? How many have you filed and

00:05:02.480 what provinces are they filed in? We filed in four provinces in the superior courts of each of the

00:05:08.960 provinces that we filed in. We filed in Ontario. We filed in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.

00:05:15.440 And the reason we did that is we're suing the federal government. It is the federal government

00:05:21.200 that initiated this step. It's the federal government that ordered all of the banks and

00:05:25.440 credit unions to not only seize our clients' bank accounts, but surveil their accounts and report all of

00:05:34.240 their transactions to the police to cease. Is that new news or has that been out there before?

00:05:42.080 I think it's been buried out there before. I mean, it's not new, but I understand why a lot

00:05:48.400 of people wouldn't be aware of it. Yeah. To have the banks spy on their customers,

00:05:54.240 that truly is China-style social credit. By the way, we looked very carefully at the federal

00:06:01.200 court ruling that struck down the Emergencies Act and declared it illegal and declared the

00:06:09.760 manner in which it was invoked unconstitutional. One of the specific things that the federal

00:06:15.520 court said was, by attacking bank accounts, it was a sloppy, broad brush that punished people

00:06:24.880 imprecisely, entire families would be destroyed because one person was targeted. I mean, a lot of

00:06:32.480 people have family joint bank accounts between spouses, but all of a sudden the mom can't afford 1.00

00:06:38.000 groceries or school costs. That was something specifically mentioned by the federal court.

00:06:43.440 Is that reflected in your lawsuits today? Yes. And so what we've done is any of the people that I

00:06:51.440 represent that had joint accounts. So one of our clients, her accounts were frozen,

00:06:57.840 but she had a joint account with her adult daughter. So we've sued on her behalf as well,

00:07:02.320 because they were all punished equally. People who weren't even in Ottawa or close to Ottawa

00:07:07.600 had their bank accounts frozen. And Justice Mosley was very concerned about that. He cited that as an

00:07:14.240 example in his decision. The idea of collective punishment is not a concept in Canadian law. It's

00:07:21.760 not a concept in Western law. That's a barbaric form of punishment. And that's what the government 0.78

00:07:29.840 of Canada chose. I'd like to walk through the lawsuit because our viewers, although most of them are not

00:07:36.320 lawyers, they, I think they can, they're familiar with lawsuits and they understand that lawsuits are

00:07:43.120 a tool that you need sometimes to correct outrageous acts of public policy. So I would like to now walk

00:07:51.680 through the filed lawsuit that was filed this morning in Alberta on behalf of Tamara Leach and her husband

00:07:59.600 Dwayne. So we're going to show this on the screen. You can see the stamp in the top right hand corner,

00:08:07.440 Tamara Leach and Dwayne Leach. And I'll just skip over some of those preamble and then I'll just come to the

00:08:12.800 party. So I'm just going to read, I'll read a paragraph or I might skip over some of the more

00:08:16.720 administrative ones. And then I'll ask you to give some expansion of these, because I think it's very

00:08:21.600 interesting to see the primary documents. And by the way, I don't know if the regime media, if the CBC are

00:08:27.680 going to cover these things fairly, they might, by the way, I don't want to prejudge, but I don't

00:08:31.920 know if they will. So let's just jump right in. The parties, the plaintiff Tamara Leach is an 1.00

00:08:36.240 individual Canadian citizen and resident of the City of Medicine Hat in Alberta. The plaintiff Dwayne

00:08:40.800 Leach is an individual Canadian citizen and a resident of the City of Medicine Hat in Alberta,

00:08:46.000 and is the spouse of the plaintiff Tamara Leach here and after collectively referred to as the

00:08:50.560 plaintiffs. The plaintiffs have five children and four grandchildren. So you're just describing who they

00:08:56.320 are. I think that's sort of obvious. The defendants are-

00:08:58.800 Well, the reason that's important, I'm going to stop you right there, because that's critically

00:09:01.440 important. I won't stop you on every one, is those are the people they needed to care for.

00:09:07.680 Right, right, right.

00:09:09.040 Those are the people that they could not care for.

00:09:12.160 Wow. So-

00:09:13.760 Tom Marazzo has a son, and this is in his lawsuit, and it's explained, and Tom has spoken publicly about

00:09:20.320 this so I know that he will be okay with me telling you and your viewers this. His son has a severe

00:09:29.280 genetic-based heart issue, and during this period of time where his account was frozen,

00:09:35.440 he needed on an emergency basis to get a prescription filled for his son's heart.

00:09:40.320 Wow. Wow.

00:09:42.000 He couldn't.

00:09:42.480 Wow. Huh. Well, thank you for that interruption. That was a very useful- I mean, that's why it's

00:09:50.640 relevant. You've got five kids and four grandkids. It's very relevant because they were the punching

00:09:54.240 bag for this government too.

00:09:56.080 That was the fear of my clients, is that they felt so isolated, so overwhelmed. It's like, oh my god,

00:10:02.960 what's going to happen to our mortgage, our car payment, our insurance payment?

00:10:05.680 Yeah.

00:10:06.720 We can't get gas. We can't buy food. We can't even move. We can't move, like move is in terms of

00:10:12.960 physically transport ourselves. Yeah. Now, paragraph three is a little bit technical,

00:10:18.000 but I'll read it anyways. The defendants are His Majesty the King and the Attorney General of Canada,

00:10:25.120 being the statutory nominee of His Majesty, who proceedings against the Crown may be taken

00:10:29.680 in the name of pursuant to Section 23-1 of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act. So that's

00:10:37.440 basic. When you're suing the government, you say you're suing the king. Obviously, it's got nothing

00:10:41.040 to do with King Charles, but you can sue the government for wrongdoing. And we have the proof

00:10:46.800 of the wrongdoing in the form of the federal court. So this is how you go about suing the feds,

00:10:51.200 basically is what this paragraph is, right?

00:10:53.040 That's correct.

00:10:54.400 Okay. Background. On or about February 15th, 2022, at the request of the Government of Canada,

00:10:59.920 all of the plaintiffs' personal accounts at the Toronto Dominion Bank, including related

00:11:04.720 debt cards, ATM access, and credit card services, were frozen without notice. The plaintiffs were

00:11:10.320 unable to withdraw or deposit money from their frozen accounts or make credit card purchases,

00:11:14.560 and any automatic payments associated with the frozen accounts were canceled. That's terrifying,

00:11:19.760 that automatic payments, like a lot of people set up their phone bills or their utility bills or

00:11:25.520 even their mortgage on an automatic payment. That's frozen too, eh?

00:11:31.040 Everything. And they couldn't get paid.

00:11:34.400 They couldn't get paid. You know what? I dare say that most people, if their bank account was frozen,

00:11:41.200 within two weeks they would be in a crisis of some sort. They would miss a mortgage payment,

00:11:45.440 they would miss a payment, things would be starting to shut down in their lives. But before I move on

00:11:49.600 to the next paragraph, this was February 15th, and it's no coincidence that today is the last day

00:11:58.400 for the two-year period, because in law there's certain limitations. You have to move quickly on

00:12:05.440 your rights. And today is basically the last day to sue the government to be sure you're within the

00:12:11.440 two-year window. There may be some arguments that, you know, you could do so a little bit later because

00:12:17.120 the damage is considered, continued later, etc. But by suing today, a day before the second

00:12:23.760 anniversary, you are ensuring that you're within the two-year time period, right?

00:12:28.320 That's right. I mean, there's a good argument, Ezra, and last time you interviewed me on the

00:12:33.280 federal court decision on the EA, I mentioned that, you know, you could argue that the limitation

00:12:37.920 period starts to run from when Justice Mosley released his decision. However, as an experienced

00:12:44.320 litigator, you want to avoid issues. So if you can file before the earliest conceivable possible

00:12:49.920 limitation period, then you don't have to waste time on the other side. In the government,

00:12:55.680 when you're fighting the federal government, they have unlimited resources. So even if they have a 5%

00:13:00.480 chance on knocking you on a limitation argument, they're going to run it, and they're going to make

00:13:03.680 you spend money for your clients. And I don't want to dissuade other people from taking legal action

00:13:09.120 because I think it could easily be argued that the pain and damages and punishments continued.

00:13:16.320 It wasn't just Feb 15. It was Feb 16, Feb 17, Feb 18. I forget exactly how long it was around. So

00:13:22.400 obviously, it's not over yet, but do not sit on your rights. Okay, I'll keep reading. The plaintiffs were

00:13:28.400 not notified of the freeze on the frozen accounts. The reason for the freeze or how long the freeze period

00:13:33.440 would last. They first realized the frozen accounts were frozen when their debit cards and credit cards

00:13:38.240 were declined and payments were rejected. How do you eat? So many people don't even carry cash anymore.

00:13:43.280 They just beep with their Google Pay or Apple Pay or just tap with a card. I mean, I used to walk around

00:13:49.920 with 100 bucks in my pocket. You never know what for, a cab or a meal. I think a lot of people go out with any cash,

00:13:57.440 without any cash at all. You might not even be able to eat that day if your credit cards are all frozen.

00:14:05.040 And the next thing you're going to do is look at your gas gauge.

00:14:08.320 Right, right. And you're going to hope it's close to a full tank because you're not getting fuel.

00:14:13.840 Right. Okay, I'll keep going. The government of Canada is freezing the plaintiff's accounts

00:14:18.240 caused immediate financial instability and fear. I bet you. And I think that's one of the reasons they did it,

00:14:22.800 a PSYOP, to terrify people. There was a lot of that going on during the lockdowns. That outrageous interim

00:14:28.640 police chief in Ottawa who threatened any donor, we're going to track you down. A lot of the abuse

00:14:34.400 that was theatrical to terrify people. I think it was a form of terrorizing others so they don't step

00:14:43.600 out of line. Let me keep reading your lawsuit. The plaintiffs were unable to access funds necessary for

00:14:47.760 daily living expenses, purchase food, fuel, medicines, bill payments, and other essential services.

00:14:52.240 This disruption deprived the plaintiffs of the ability to conduct basic financial transactions

00:14:57.280 and live normal lives, leading to severe inconvenience, hardship, embarrassment.

00:15:01.760 That's another thing too. I mean, it's embarrassing when you can't pay a bill.

00:15:04.640 You're embarrassed to the person, you know, you go to a restaurant, your credit cards decline.

00:15:09.200 That's an abominable embarrassment.

00:15:12.320 Or the lineup at the grocery store with the kids and the carts loaded with the bagged groceries.

00:15:19.360 And everybody's getting impatient because the calls I was getting in Ottawa at the time from

00:15:24.720 spouses back home was they would try their credit card number one, their credit card number two, 0.99

00:15:29.920 and then their debit card.

00:15:32.560 Yeah. And every time they try it, then the cashier would grab it and rub it on their sleeve

00:15:36.800 and try and stick it in.

00:15:37.520 And it would be a whole thing.

00:15:39.440 And then having to leave with the kids with no groceries.

00:15:42.080 Oh, boy. You know, and I'll finish the sentence in your lawsuit, leading to severe inconvenience,

00:15:46.080 hardship, embarrassment, exclusion from modern society, and damaged personal and business

00:15:52.000 relationships. I can only imagine, I mean, it doesn't happen to me often, but every once in a

00:15:56.400 while a credit card I use has declined. And I am deeply embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for myself.

00:16:01.200 I'm embarrassed that I put the other person through this. And I can imagine if I was shut down in

00:16:05.280 every single way and you can't go to an ATM, like you would be scared. I mean, I guess you would call

00:16:10.880 your closest friend and say, can I borrow some cash? But, you know, it's, but even that, okay,

00:16:16.880 I'll keep going. Paragraph eight, the plaintiffs also suffered and experienced fear and anxiety

00:16:22.240 due to the anticipated loss of income due to the freezes, as salary, wage, and payments were

00:16:27.120 directed to the frozen accounts, causing delays in meeting financial obligations, such as rent,

00:16:31.520 mortgage payments, and loan repayments. Additionally, the freeze resulted in accrued fees. Yeah,

00:16:36.160 of course, penalties and interest charges on outstanding balances exacerbating the financial

00:16:41.440 strain. Well, I think that speaks for itself. Do you have anything to add there or should I keep going?

00:16:46.640 Keep going. Okay. You know what? And I'm not going to read every word of this because some of it is a

00:16:52.560 little bit technical, but I think that this is a good reminder of what it was like. And it's been two

00:16:57.520 years and most people don't wear masks anymore. And I don't think people follow this six feet of

00:17:02.400 separation rule anymore. And no one's banned from flying on planes anymore because they're unjabbed. 1.00

00:17:07.280 So a lot of us has moved on and the, you know, the body heals, the mind heals. And we, we forget

00:17:13.200 what it was like, but at the time it was a crisis. It, it, it felt terrifying. And I can only imagine,

00:17:19.360 and by the way, we didn't know if it was going to get worse or better. We didn't know how long

00:17:23.040 the Emergencies Act would be in effect. And was this just the first step? By the way, I remember the

00:17:26.960 media party wanted more. They wanted the government to go harder, by the way. Okay.

00:17:32.320 Let me get back to your lawsuit. The plaintiffs state that the government of Canada initiated the

00:17:38.160 freezing of bank accounts and credit cards for the improper purpose of dissuading and punishing

00:17:42.800 the plaintiffs for their exercising of fundamental charter rights in the form of protesting

00:17:47.120 government COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. The plaintiffs continue to suffer negative effects

00:17:51.600 from the frozen account, really to this today, including rejection of business funding

00:17:56.240 application. I bet, because of course you've got all these black marks in your credit now.

00:18:01.600 Rejection of business funding applications and the necessity to secure a loan through a lease

00:18:05.600 company at a high interest rate with full collapse. So that's still going on.

00:18:09.360 Representatives for the banks have stated the plaintiffs bank accounts will be marked

00:18:13.520 indefinitely into the future, affecting their ability to conduct normal banking and financing. And banks,

00:18:19.360 you know, once they have something on you, you're never purging that from their files. I mean,

00:18:22.880 banks are tough to deal with at the best of times.

00:18:27.600 On March 7th, 2022, the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Canadian Bankers Association

00:18:38.560 testified before the House of Commons Committee on Finance. And she was asked this a number of times,

00:18:46.240 and she volunteered because she was asked by some of the members of parliament on that committee

00:18:52.400 as to whether there would be any lasting effect to those Canadians, including my clients, who had their

00:18:58.480 bank accounts frozen. And she said, yes, the accounts will be marked for life.

00:19:04.560 You know, I know a little bit about being debanked. I don't know if you remember the story a couple

00:19:13.040 years ago, Rebel News applied for a mortgage at the Royal Bank and they were thrilled to give it to us.

00:19:17.840 They told us that on the phone, but then they checked with their headquarters and for political

00:19:21.520 reasons, they denied us. And that was painful to me, but it was just an idea for an office.

00:19:25.760 And I mean, I guess I got over it, but I was still very mad at them.

00:19:32.880 But that's the best of times. And if you've got this mark on you that the finance minister called

00:19:40.080 the bank and said, you, this is a bad dude, you're never getting that mark of cane off of you.

00:19:44.560 I just, you know, I want to read the next paragraph here because I just glanced ahead.

00:19:47.920 Sure do.

00:19:48.320 Yeah. In addition, the government of Canada also announced publicly in early February 2022 that

00:19:54.400 it had ordered the banks to conduct surveillance, I didn't know this, of all the plaintiffs' personal

00:19:59.440 and business transactions and to report that confidential financial information to the RCMP,

00:20:05.440 CSIS, and the government of Canada's Financial Intelligence Agency for anti-money laundering and

00:20:11.680 anti-terrorist FinTrack. We got Hamas protesters in the street flying the literal flags of 0.81

00:20:18.240 terrorists, but the RCMP and FinTrack are chasing down moms and dads who sent 50 bucks to the truckers.

00:20:25.520 Insane.

00:20:27.600 Yeah. And that's an abusive process. It's a clear violation of charter rights. And that's something

00:20:33.360 that Justice Mosley with the federal court was very concerned about, was the collection of that

00:20:39.440 information without any process, without clear authority to do so. So yeah, it's another layering

00:20:46.720 of the egregious activity that this government engaged in that we don't recognize as a Canadian

00:20:53.760 thing to do that we associate with a communist or a total authoritarian regime.

00:21:00.960 Yeah. Unbelievable, but completely believe. You know, it's funny. I read the book 1984 more

00:21:08.240 often now than I did before, especially since the Rebel News republished it in our own version. And I

00:21:14.960 listen to people who experienced tyranny in the Eastern Bloc, in the Soviet Bloc, people from Poland,

00:21:22.160 people from Romania. And the way they describe it is one thing, and I've been to the House of Horrors 1.00

00:21:27.840 in Budapest, Hungary, which is a museum both to the Nazi and the communist repression.

00:21:35.600 By the way, the Secret Service of both the Nazis and the communists used the same headquarters,

00:21:41.280 which I think shows you a lot. And of course, what they did was horrific, and they engaged in

00:21:45.600 murder and things like that. But let me say this. There wasn't the total surveillance state back then.

00:21:52.240 They didn't track, there weren't credit cards back then in any way that, like the tracking of money and

00:22:00.320 the surveillance was, I'm not going to say lighter because it had a much bloodier hand,

00:22:07.600 but they didn't have this panopticon scrutinizing your entire life. They didn't have the same surveillance

00:22:15.760 tools then that we have now. In some ways, you could have avoided it more easily back then,

00:22:22.320 even though they were totalitarian regimes. At least that's how I take it here.

00:22:26.080 Listen, I want to skip ahead a little bit because there's some technical, you have a section

00:22:32.000 two called claim of the plaintiffs, where you describe how the Emergencies Act was invoked

00:22:39.120 and the February 15th orders. I'm actually going to skip over that because you're just retelling the

00:22:44.800 history of it. What I'm going to do though, Keith, is I'm going to put this PDF on our website for people

00:22:50.880 to click in and read at their leisure, to read it slowly. And some of it they're going to, you know,

00:22:55.680 you're talking about special order, you know, order in council that you just skip that if it's

00:23:00.480 gobbledygook to you. But that's just describing how these orders came into force.

00:23:06.960 I'm going to read section 18 though, even though it's a little bit complicated,

00:23:14.640 because I'm going to ask you a question in a minute. So let me read this.

00:23:17.760 Sure. Section 2-1 of the February 15th economic order, so this was one of the orders under the

00:23:23.280 Emergency Act, required that the following entities freeze accounts and access to assets belonging to

00:23:29.440 anyone that owns, holds, or controls on behalf of any designated person, banks, including foreign

00:23:35.600 banks as per the Bank Act, cooperative credit societies, etc., etc., and then insurance companies.

00:23:42.320 So I remember reading that, and I looked up the list of foreign banks, because there's an official

00:23:48.000 government of Canada list of foreign banks that are allowed to do business in Canada. There's the

00:23:51.680 Canadian banks that we all know, but then there's foreign banks like Citibank, you know, Wells Fargo,

00:23:57.280 the bigger American banks have some branches in Toronto and maybe Vancouver and Calgary.

00:24:02.400 Same with some European banks, at least I read the American banks.

00:24:06.880 And what was incredible to me is that this emergency order applied to them, too.

00:24:12.240 And my first thought was, okay, a Canadian bank that is totally within the laws of Canada,

00:24:18.160 and that has to deal with Chrystia Freeland, who I think was finance minister at the time, 0.84

00:24:22.880 they're going to do exactly what Chrystia Freeland says.

00:24:26.400 But what about a foreign bank, especially an American bank, that their main concern is

00:24:32.160 U.S. law, including privacy law, including the First Amendment, which protects Americans to some

00:24:38.960 extent for their politics. So you're an American bank, you have to follow American law, and you

00:24:44.400 better not mess around. But you've got maybe five branches in Canada, and Canada has gone full

00:24:50.560 Venezuela now. Canada is asking you to spy on customers that probably have certain legal rights

00:24:59.440 against you because you're an American bank. And so I don't know, and maybe you know, I don't know

00:25:06.160 if any American banks complied with this. I imagine they were in a terrible pickle, because on the one

00:25:12.640 hand, break Canadian law, and you're in trouble in Canada. On the other hand, follow Canadian law,

00:25:17.440 and maybe break American law. Now you're in deep trouble. This is the kind of moment that a foreign 1.00

00:25:23.360 bank probably calls up the finance minister and says, you know, if you make us go through this,

00:25:27.760 we're going to have to shut down our branches in Canada, and you want to see a run on the banks.

00:25:31.920 Imagine if every U.S. bank pulled out of Canada saying it's no longer a reliable jurisdiction.

00:25:36.560 So that was something that was always on my mind. One of my thoughts was that maybe it was American banks

00:25:41.760 who got on the phone to the government and said, you've got to end this, or we're going to do

00:25:45.760 something that will truly embarrass your country being run on the banks. That was my speculation.

00:25:50.320 Do you, Keith, have any knowledge or information about how, whether or not any foreign banks actually

00:25:58.400 implemented these draconian rules on their own clients?

00:26:01.200 I do. I've seen no evidence that any foreign bank did. That was one sector that decided this

00:26:09.680 was a bridge too far. They were not going to go there. Another was the insurance companies. They

00:26:16.000 were told to cancel all of the insurance policies. If you read the economic order, February 15th,

00:26:22.400 2022, it instructs the banks to stop providing financial services, credit cards, debit cards,

00:26:29.200 access to bank accounts, mortgages, credit lines, lines of credit, et cetera, credit facilities.

00:26:35.280 It instructed the insurance companies to cease providing all forms of insurance, automobile

00:26:40.480 insurance, home insurance, life insurance. And it also instructed the financial investment firms,

00:26:47.840 RBC Diminished Securities, Scotia McLeod, all those to somehow cancel people's RRSPs and all these

00:26:55.760 other things. Well, the latter two didn't play. The insurance companies didn't do it. And the

00:27:01.120 investment firms were like, well, what are we supposed to do? Sell their stocks? How are we

00:27:05.600 going to do this? That's crazy.

00:27:06.640 So they didn't act. But one last point on this, because it goes to what you're wondering about is

00:27:13.200 Krista Freeland has said a number of times in the last year and her notes to this effect

00:27:22.000 around this banana republic issue. This banana republic comment were put in evidence at the

00:27:28.560 POEC, the public inquiry into the Emergencies Act invocation that occurred in the fall of 2022.

00:27:34.560 And Freeland says that she had investors and bankers calling her from the U.S. saying

00:27:42.320 Canada is a banana republic because of the protest. But if you actually look at what it said in the

00:27:47.280 notes, it was, I'm concerned Canada's become a banana republic because what you've done with

00:27:52.960 freezing protesters' bank accounts. So, yes, they did have a strong reaction. And I think it was a

00:27:59.280 part of the strong impetus for them to so quickly revoke the invocation of the Emergencies Act. But the

00:28:05.520 freezings of the bank accounts lingered for many months for a number of my clients.

00:28:09.920 I did not know that. Now, you said something, but you said it, I think,

00:28:13.920 sort of quickly. And I just want to make sure I heard you correctly.

00:28:18.080 Sure.

00:28:19.600 Did you say that the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the orders that flowed there from

00:28:27.440 required insurance companies to cancel life insurance for these?

00:28:32.720 Required them to cancel all insurance. It ordered them not to provide any insurance services to any

00:28:40.080 Canadians. That's insane. That's crazy. And by the way, life insurance, if I have life insurance, 0.95

00:28:47.680 it doesn't benefit me. God forbid, when I die. I mean, we're all going to die. It goes to my family.

00:28:53.520 So you're not even hurting the guy who's got the insurance. You're hurting the beneficiaries,

00:28:59.120 the to-come widow and orphans.

00:29:03.280 Let me describe something, Ezra, that no one's asked me to describe before.

00:29:08.960 So we knew on the Sunday evening, the 13th, that we heard rumors that the IRC and the Committee of

00:29:16.240 Cabinet were meeting over at the Parliament and the Executive Office, and that they were likely to

00:29:20.960 decide to invoke the Emergencies Act. We were tipped off about that. That was simultaneous while we had a

00:29:25.840 meeting going on at City Hall with the police and the emergency services and the trucker leadership on

00:29:31.040 the coordination of moving all the trucks out of the downtown residential area starting the next

00:29:34.960 morning. On the Monday, Valentine's Day, two years ago today, was when the federal government

00:29:42.320 officially announced the invocation of the Emergencies Act. And then it was the next day,

00:29:47.680 the Tuesday of that week, so the 15th of February 2022, where we actually got to see the two,

00:29:54.480 the emergency order and the economic measures order. So all of the leadership of the convoy assembled in a

00:30:00.000 big boardroom at the top of the Sheridan Hotel, and I sat at the head table with Tamara and I was

00:30:04.000 asked to explain to them what this meant. And at that point, they were all learning that through

00:30:09.120 phone calls in real time from spouses and others that their bank accounts were frozen. And I had to

00:30:13.440 explain to them that not only can they freeze your bank accounts, this order says that you're supposed

00:30:18.480 to have all your insurance policies cancelled. Could you imagine the reaction? But you know what was

00:30:22.400 interesting? The reaction around the room was strength. They didn't buckle and cry. They understood

00:30:30.480 that the tyrant was desperate. Wow. Wow. Absolutely. Yeah, I don't know if you know this,

00:30:37.520 Keith, but when they started seizing bank accounts here at Rebel News, I thought we're not truckers,

00:30:43.840 but we're trucker adjacent, if I can make up a word. You know, we were covering the truckers,

00:30:48.480 we were checking the truckers. Sure. We even crowdfunded for different legals, as you know.

00:30:53.440 Yeah. And so I thought to myself, you know, we didn't actually protest at Rebel News. It might have

00:30:59.840 sort of felt like it, but we were covering the protest really close up. We were sort of embedded

00:31:04.640 with them. And by the way, we had nine, we had two guys down at the Cooch blockade right in the saloon.

00:31:10.480 And so I thought, you know, because we didn't know how bad it was going to get. Was this

00:31:15.440 the first step down to a deeper basement or was this a blip? We didn't know. How would we know?

00:31:20.800 How would we know it would last this many days or that many days? So I thought, you know, just the

00:31:27.120 same way there instantly was a domino effect, a cascading effect of bad things when your credit

00:31:32.320 cards are gone. I forgot. Question one is how do I eat? Question two is my gas tank. Like,

00:31:38.160 I just imagine all the things that happened. So I thought

00:31:42.560 it would be very easy for either Christian Freeland herself or just some highly partisan staffer in 0.99

00:31:47.680 her office to give a call to our bank and say, hey, seize Rebel News. Is that paranoia? I don't

00:31:54.240 think it's particularly paranoid to say that because they hated Rebel News. So we prepaid our entire staff

00:32:00.960 a month's salary. Wow, brilliant.

00:32:02.960 We paid off every bill we had. Like, you know, sometimes you wait 15 days or 30 days to pay

00:32:09.520 bills. We paid all our accounts payable down to zero. And we prepaid the entire staff a month.

00:32:16.720 And I said to people, that's not a bonus. That's not extra money. That's your next month's money.

00:32:22.000 Because I thought the same thing. If they cut us off, you know, how many of our staff would be able to

00:32:28.320 wait around two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks? They wouldn't. They would have had

00:32:32.880 to quit. So I was very scared. And it sounds like I had reason to be scared. Now, thank God they didn't

00:32:38.560 come for us. But I felt like we were paper thin away from it. I don't mean to talk about ourselves,

00:32:44.080 but I remember how I felt. I was very scared about that very scenario because there's no way a bank

00:32:48.800 would have stood up for us. We're nothing to a bank. They don't even like us. Okay, let me move forward.

00:32:53.680 There's a lot here. There's no way I can read it all. I want to encourage people to read the whole

00:32:57.600 document, which we're going to post on the website. I'm just going to pick and choose a

00:33:01.840 few paragraphs because I'm cognizant of the time. I get paragraph 20. Section five of the economic

00:33:08.560 order compelled all financial service entities to immediately disclose to the commissioner of the

00:33:14.320 RCMP or the director of thesis any information with regards to transactions and property owned,

00:33:20.480 held, or controlled on behalf of a designated person. So all of a sudden your property, what

00:33:26.720 does that got to do with it? Your property to cease this to the RCMP? Do you have a word on that

00:33:33.200 other than how crazy it is? Well, I mean, can you believe you're even hearing this happened in

00:33:39.360 Canada? Yeah. Like that's how bad things have become in our country under this government. These

00:33:43.920 are the tyrannical. And remember, remember in your mind, and maybe you can find the clip at some

00:33:49.440 point, the next day when Freeland held the press conference to announce these measures and how she

00:33:55.440 was particularly, well, her normal degree of extreme twitching, but she was giddy. She was laughing.

00:34:03.280 I remember that. It was so chilling. She was so excited. As of today, a bank or other financial

00:34:12.480 service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order. In doing

00:34:22.800 so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in good faith. Federal government

00:34:31.680 institutions will have a new broad authority to share relevant information with banks and other

00:34:39.840 financial service providers to ensure that we can all work together to put a stop to the funding of

00:34:47.120 these illegal blockades. This is about following the money. This is about stopping the financing of

00:34:57.520 these illegal blockades. We are today serving notice. If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades,

00:35:08.480 your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended. Send your

00:35:18.240 semi-trailers home. The Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work, not to be illegally

00:35:27.760 making us all poorer. You're so right. And here's something that I remember Judge Mosley of the

00:35:33.520 federal court pointed out. These are insane orders, just absolutely insane. But here, this next one's

00:35:39.280 important. Paragraph 21, neither the February 15 emergency order or the economic order specified a

00:35:45.520 procedure through which financial service providers would identify individuals or entities that met the

00:35:50.720 definition of a designated person or their surveilled personal financial information. So they're just

00:35:56.480 saying to the banks, I'm no fan of the banks, but the banks are not used to working as spies. I mean,

00:36:01.840 they sort of do, they keep an eye, you know, there's no your customer rules. And if there's a huge cash

00:36:06.480 deposit, maybe the banks, you know, a light goes on and they check, is this money laundry? Okay. So

00:36:11.440 they do sort of keep an eye on things, but to start building enemies lists, to start making lists,

00:36:17.360 like, I don't think the banks were built for that. And so I can only imagine the haphazard, bizarre

00:36:25.360 ways that they, that they tried to fulfill this order. I'm glad to hear the foreign banks did it,

00:36:29.840 but I wonder, do you have any information about the ways in which banks tried to follow these laws?

00:36:36.000 Well, first there was the list. And I remember I revealed that list to you

00:36:40.720 first, uh, on, on an interview I did with you. Cause I just received it. I think I was back from

00:36:46.080 Ottawa at that point. Yeah. I would have been back here just a few days, uh, from the crackdown on the

00:36:51.280 protest. But the other thing that they did was they instructed. So some of my clients who I've sued for

00:36:58.720 today were not on the list. And at first I was puzzled by this, but a justice mostly talks about

00:37:04.240 this. The banks were instructed to be on the lookout for anybody they thought. So apparently

00:37:10.560 farm credit corporation was caught and it was been documented. You can, people can Google this

00:37:16.240 reporting any customer that came into their branch office and, and, and they had a pickup truck with

00:37:21.840 a Canadian flag on it. Oh my God.

00:37:24.640 So they were looking for people coming in with any signs that they were. Oh my God. That, that is true

00:37:31.920 third world. That's exactly what happened. And they, they were searching, they were searching social

00:37:37.120 media and the legacy media. They, cause it placed the banks under two positive duties initially, like

00:37:45.200 in the first instance of the process. One was to respond to the list from the RCMP, which we know from

00:37:50.480 that interview I did with you years ago was made up of some RCMP officer searching, uh, and finding

00:37:56.640 who's who in the freedom convoy on CTV news website, which was just ridiculous. But then the second thing

00:38:03.200 they were supposed to do was regardless of the list, they were to look for signs that, that their

00:38:11.360 customers were freedom fighters or were protesting government COVID mandates. And that was enough,

00:38:16.000 their suspicion. They were then under a positive legal duty to do it. And a couple of my clients

00:38:21.840 were not on any list, but they were self caught by, by, and then they were using the rumor mill. And,

00:38:28.000 you know, I talked to Gertrude and she said that Bob was in Ottawa last week. Oh, there you go. Freezes

00:38:32.800 bank account. That's literally what happened. And that, you know what, if for those who study the Soviet

00:38:37.440 bloc and those who study the Nazis, the, the gossip, the informants, the snitches, I mean, how many people were

00:38:45.360 KGB informants or Stassi informants? That's exactly. And, and, you know, I often say that,

00:38:52.240 you know, we're genetically the same as the people who were in the Soviet Union and the Nazis were,

00:38:56.400 were, in fact, I would say we're morally the same. We're in fact, we're, I think we're weaker

00:39:00.400 morally than people were 80 or a hundred years ago. And there are those amongst us who in a

00:39:06.720 society built on tyranny and fear, that would, that would be their moment. There were people who

00:39:13.120 were terrified and outraged by this emergencies act, but then there were people who were positively

00:39:18.160 erotic about the new world and their place in it. And they wanted to be in forces and they wanted to

00:39:23.680 be snitches and they wanted, they, they, they wanted to be on the side of the tyrant. And don't think for

00:39:30.480 a second that, um, that there weren't people who were thrilled to be, to be ratting out friends and

00:39:38.880 even family. I want to whip through this because there's no way to go through this entire document

00:39:44.080 in, in less than like three hours, especially if we're chatting about it. Um, sure.

00:39:50.880 I'm going to read what's called cause of action, which I think is legal speak for the reason you're

00:39:56.320 suing or, or summarizing the grievance. So I'm going to read these in a row. Um,

00:40:04.000 and, uh, I shall read them one at a time and maybe you can give me a sentence or two

00:40:10.080 rather than having me read the page just because we're short of time.

00:40:13.360 Yeah, I can do that, Ezra. Cause of action. Number one, the government of Canada violated the

00:40:17.760 plaintiff's rights protected by section eight of the charter and damages for said violation under

00:40:24.400 section 24 are appropriate. What's section eight of the charter? Well, section eight is the charter is

00:40:30.880 the section that protects you against unreasonable search and seizure by government and police,

00:40:35.520 but section 24 is really important. And it's the basis for this lawsuit because a lot of people

00:40:39.600 don't understand this because people have been frustrated. I see this online and elsewhere. Well,

00:40:44.880 how come the prime minister hasn't been arrested? The federal court, Justice Mosley said what he did

00:40:49.840 was illegal. Well, you only get arrested if you engage in criminal or statutory breaches of law,

00:40:54.880 not, not, not other, uh, uh, extra, uh, judicial or rather an act where you exceeded your legal

00:41:02.800 jurisdiction, which is the case here with the emergencies act. However, under our charter of

00:41:08.960 rights and freedom, section 24 exists to say, if the government violates your rights as a citizen,

00:41:17.360 you have the right to sue the government for damages and the government has to pay you compensation.

00:41:24.080 Right. And the reason is to create accountability, accountability. And we all know that we have

00:41:32.080 lived through a time of a complete absence of accountability by this government for everything

00:41:37.760 from arrive can scam to his travel nonsense to I'd be here for an hour, just listing off the scandals.

00:41:44.880 So section 24 is a mechanism baked into the charter of rights and freedoms.

00:41:50.240 It's made of steel, legal steel. And it says, if the government breaches your rights,

00:41:56.560 they're going to pay. And the reason it's there, and the Supreme Court of Canada has made this clear,

00:42:02.080 is to show that the charter rights mean something. And that's something that's frustrated a lot of us,

00:42:08.960 lawyers and non-lawyers alike. What happened to the charter during the last three, four years?

00:42:13.200 Number two is if you've suffered harm through your breach or to get compensated. And the third one,

00:42:21.040 get this, the purpose of section 24 is to deter the government and future governments from stepping

00:42:28.640 on Canadians' rights. So that's why we've sued and its fundamental foundation is section 24 of the charter.

00:42:35.520 You're right. And let me take a crack at this, explaining it from another perspective. And you

00:42:39.840 correct me if I'm wrong. So if, if you're in a car accident, you know, the courts will assess,

00:42:47.040 well, how much have you actually been damaged? Well, your car was worth 10 grand and you broke

00:42:51.440 your leg and we think that's worth 20 grand. So they do the math based on the loss that you had.

00:42:57.440 Can you quantify it? If you, if you have a breach of a contract, well, how much should you lose?

00:43:01.360 Maybe you can prove it. But if someone breaches your rights, how do you quantify that? It's not

00:43:06.640 the same as a normal tort or a normal contract dispute or a property dispute. So is it correct 0.64

00:43:12.160 to say that what section 24 does is it, is it basically says when you violate freedom of speech

00:43:18.960 or freedom of the press or freedom of association or freedom from warrantless search and seizures,

00:43:23.440 which is one of the issues here, you can't, it's not just a verbal rebuke from the court,

00:43:29.520 you will pay someone because these are valuable, tangible things, even though they're sort of

00:43:34.080 intangible, right? It's worth something and you got to pay up. Is that, is, am I thinking about it

00:43:38.960 the right way here? It's, it's giving. Precisely. Yeah. Okay. I thought so. Cause,

00:43:43.680 cause that's what's been missing the last two years. And that's why I lost these lawsuits today.

00:43:49.200 Okay. I want to rip through this cause we're coming up on an hour here. Cause of action number two,

00:43:54.560 the government of Canada committed the tort of interference with an economic interest of the

00:43:59.600 plaintiffs. So that's, that's not necessarily relying on the, on the charter. That's actually,

00:44:05.520 you can quantify how much you've been damaged financially by this obviously. Right. That's

00:44:11.280 right. And there's also what we call general damages, which are the intangible things that you

00:44:16.880 can't, you know, an accountant can't calculate for you, uh, because of the, uh, the conduct being

00:44:23.840 so egregious and so deliberate that, um, uh, it should attract a word of damages.

00:44:29.360 This, this litigation will be studied in law schools. I tell you that because to the number

00:44:34.880 of torts, the number of charter violations by the greatest violation of our civil liberties in

00:44:40.400 the generation, that's what it is. I don't think it's dramatic to say that invoking the Marshall,

00:44:46.240 the new version of the war measures act is the greatest abridgment of our civil liberties in

00:44:50.800 the generation. In fact, it wasn't even used during 9 11. So I don't think it's dramatic to say that.

00:44:55.440 And so obviously you're, if you're someone who was abused by it, if it was imposed illegally,

00:44:59.440 which the court has said, obviously you're going to have a festival of, uh, causes of action.

00:45:05.760 Next one, the government of Canada committed the tort of abuse of process against the plaintiffs.

00:45:10.880 I think that speaks for itself. Give me one sentence on that.

00:45:14.880 By not establishing criteria, by telling banks to look out for anybody wearing a Canadian flag,

00:45:20.800 for telling the banks to collect all the information about your transactions and send

00:45:24.720 it to CSIS and FinTrack and the RCMP. Yeah. Cause of action number four. And I think of that

00:45:30.720 interim Ottawa police chief Bell who tried to scare people. Remember that? Here's a clip of him

00:45:35.520 basically threatening to hunt down anyone who donated 10 bucks to the truckers. Here's a clip of

00:45:40.880 this odious man. Take a look. As I indicated earlier, we will have the opportunity to review

00:45:45.840 all of those files. There are complaint mechanisms for people to enter into if they feel that there is

00:45:51.120 excessive use of force by members of our police service. What I will also say is we have been here

00:45:58.480 for three weeks. I have been at this podium for the last five days, imploring people to leave,

00:46:06.080 asking them to get out of our streets. This occupation is over. We have advised them that

00:46:11.840 if they peacefully leave, they may go home. That still exists. We also indicated that we would escalate

00:46:18.720 and forcefully remove people from the streets if they did not comply. Some of that is what you're

00:46:24.000 seeing. So I will stand here today again and say this demonstration is over. Go home. If you don't

00:46:30.640 go home, we will remove you from the streets. If you are involved in this protest, we will actively

00:46:35.680 look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. Absolutely.

00:46:41.360 Yeah, that's not policing. That's something, but that ain't policing. I thought of it because

00:46:48.400 I'm looking at cause of action number four. The government of Canada committed the tort of intimidation.

00:46:54.000 Against the plaintiffs fundamental freedoms under the charter. Give me a line on that.

00:46:59.680 This one's really important. And I'm going to steal a steal a couple extra lines,

00:47:03.680 sentences if I can, because it links to other charter rights, which is right, right, right, right.

00:47:09.200 I mean, it seems kind of obvious, but I need to say it, you know, and go back to that clip we watched of

00:47:14.240 giddy twitchy deputy prime minister Freeland. They wanted to scare the leadership of the freedom

00:47:22.320 convoy out of the downtown. They wanted to scare them away. They wanted to intimidate them

00:47:28.640 into ceasing the exercise of their section two charter rights of freedom of expression,

00:47:35.040 of assembly, of political dissent. So they were using this tyrannical tool to wipe my clients out from

00:47:45.360 civil society and put the fear of God into them for their ability to provide for themselves and their

00:47:50.720 children and their loved ones and their businesses for the purpose, the improper purpose of causing them

00:47:57.600 to surrender their charter rights, their charter right of freedom of expression, political dissent,

00:48:01.840 and peaceful assembly. So that's a really important one. And it exists outside of any charter context,

00:48:09.840 because it's an old common law tort, and it's used rarely because you're so rarely going to get these

00:48:17.280 facts, but it fits here. Yeah. Huh. Isn't that interesting? Well, I think so much of the pandemic

00:48:26.880 policy was specifically designed to be as scary as possible. And I mean, I think of the hotel,

00:48:34.800 the airport quarantine hotels, which were so atrocious. And I thought, this can't be on,

00:48:40.160 this can't be. And the senior lawyer said, no, no, no, it's designed to be as abusive and outrageous.

00:48:46.640 So, so that people squawk about it and people tell a hundred friends about it.

00:48:50.880 And those hundred people are deterred from getting on a plane. So the very abusive nature

00:48:56.640 isn't a bug. It's a feature. They made everything here abusive, invasive, punitive, embarrassing

00:49:02.640 on purpose for the reason you suggest it to intimidate, to intimidate.

00:49:07.600 And add one more thing. Two days after they did this, February 15th, two days after February 15th,

00:49:15.360 February 17th, they arrested Tamara Leach and Chris Barber. Right, right.

00:49:20.320 And put them in solitary confinement on a concrete slab. Yeah.

00:49:25.760 You know, I've had a chance to get to know Tamara Leach a little bit over the last year, 0.71

00:49:28.480 we published her book and we're helping to crowd fund through the democracy fund her,

00:49:33.200 her legal bills. And I have to say that what she was put through is absolutely dictionary

00:49:38.880 definition, political prisoner. Absolutely. And even the way they're proceeding on the trial,

00:49:45.120 that trial shouldn't have even proceeded. If it did proceed, it's a half day trial. The fact that

00:49:49.200 they're stretching it months and months, they're still abusing process. They are still abusing the

00:49:54.960 process. And I certainly hope that her judge sees through it. And I have an optimistic feeling in

00:49:59.280 my bones. Let me get back to your lawsuit. Cause of action number five, the government of Canada,

00:50:04.160 via its public officials committed the tort of misfeasance of public office. Now that sounds old

00:50:11.200 timey. That sounds like an old time common law for misfeasance is a word you don't hear that often.

00:50:17.120 What does that mean?

00:50:17.840 It's when a government official elected or otherwise uses their powers for an improper

00:50:26.640 purpose where they, they almost gloatingly take advantage of their power. They use it in an abusive

00:50:36.640 way with a, with a, with a harmful and malignant intent. And it's pretty rare. Duplessis was the classic

00:50:46.880 case we learned Ezra in law school and administrative law about abuse of power. Right. And, and this is

00:50:53.520 it. This is, this is it. This, this, the facts of the conduct of the government of Canada towards its

00:51:01.360 citizens exercising their charter rights of peaceful process and civil disobedience is just so off the

00:51:08.160 scale that these rare torts that we studied in, in law school, um, 30 years ago fit.

00:51:16.800 Yeah. You know, that's that you're so right. I remember that case. You mentioned Duplessis was the name of the

00:51:22.720 premier of Quebec. The case was called Ron Corelli versus Duplessis. Ron Corelli, if I recall, was a local

00:51:28.000 tavern owner who really frustrated. Was Duplessis the mayor of Montreal, not the premier at the time?

00:51:32.800 I think it was. Oh, you know what? Thanks very much. Thank you. That's okay. It's 30 years. That's why

00:51:37.600 you're a better lawyer than, than I was. Uh, he was frustrated because this guy Ron Corelli kept

00:51:43.040 providing bail money for, if I recall, was Jehovah's witnesses. And, and. That's correct. 0.99

00:51:46.720 He didn't like the JWs one bit. And, but he was frustrated that this guy Ron Corelli 0.84

00:51:51.200 was giving them the dough. And so if I recall, and you correct me again, because I'm worried now that

00:51:55.920 I'm not remembering the case properly, that, um, Duplessis said, well, you're not getting a liquor license for your

00:52:00.720 tavern anymore. Correct. And it was obviously for this political reason. And the case went all the

00:52:07.520 way to the Supreme Court. And again, I'm relying on you to correct my errors. Uh, and the Supreme Court

00:52:11.440 said, no, you cannot use the powers of the government for a collateral purpose. You just can't do that.

00:52:17.600 You, you, you can't make a decision on his liquor license because you don't like Jehovah's witnesses. 1.00

00:52:22.800 And I think of that case a lot because I think that, um, too often government decisions are made for

00:52:29.280 punitive reasons. I feel rebel news is frankly being targeted a little bit that way, but absolutely.

00:52:34.400 We saw the public order inquiry commission, the desperate express attempts by politicians to

00:52:42.720 condemn and demonize and just get the result we need. We need to hurt these people. I don't,

00:52:49.360 it was so obvious. And yeah, I, I look forward to the misfeasance, uh, toward being revived.

00:52:55.760 I got to skip ahead to the end. Sure. Remedies sought by the plaintiffs against the government

00:53:03.600 of Canada. Judgment against the government of Canada in favor of each of the plaintiffs,

00:53:10.240 plus such further or other amounts as may be proven at trial of this matter, including

00:53:16.080 damages for the violation of their Section 8 Charter of Rights, $275,000. General damages for their

00:53:24.080 economic interference, $100,000. General damages for abusive process, $200,000. For intimidation,

00:53:36.240 $300,000. For misfeasance in public office, $200,000. Aggravated and exemplary damages, as in to

00:53:44.800 make an example, $300,000. Punitive damages for any all or a combination of causes herein,

00:53:53.280 $1 million. And I added this up just in the back of a napkin, $2.375 million dollars per plaintiff.

00:53:59.120 Correct. And my first reaction is,

00:54:03.840 if Omar Khadr can get $10.5 million, $2.375 million dollars for the way Tamara Leach was treated,

00:54:11.680 may sound like a large number, but frankly, I don't think it's a large number. For someone to be

00:54:16.720 arrested, humiliated, jailed for 49 days, put through the outrages that she has, let alone all

00:54:22.400 the things documented in this lawsuit, I think $2.375 million dollars is not outrageous. And I look

00:54:28.560 forward to this matter proceeding. I look forward to the documents that this lawsuit elicits in the

00:54:35.840 discovery process. I look forward to whatever testimony is compelled, if possible, in this.

00:54:41.920 I look forward to not only the result of this litigation, I look forward to the process

00:54:47.760 of this litigation. And maybe the table is turned, and maybe now the government must be put through an

00:54:53.200 excruciating process to explain themselves. I look forward to this lawsuit, and I'm delighted

00:54:58.240 that you've drafted it. And I'm so glad Tamara Leach and her husband, Duane, are amongst the

00:55:01.600 plaintiffs. And I'm glad it was done before the two-year limit. And I'm glad it was done in a

00:55:06.080 multiple of provinces. And I think this is an excellent lawsuit, and I invite our viewers to

00:55:10.160 look through it. And I'm glad you're doing it, Keith.

00:55:12.720 Well, thank you, Ezra. This is an important step for Canadians to start one step at a time,

00:55:18.480 taking our country back.

00:55:20.960 Well, I have enjoyed this very much. Maybe it's because I'm a former lawyer myself. And I remember

00:55:26.000 learning in torts class some of these more obscure cases, like Ron Carelli and Duplessis,

00:55:30.880 which you don't hear about a lot because you like to think those bad old days of corruption

00:55:35.840 are gone. But we saw the worst of it two years ago. Our guest this past hour has been Keith Wilson,

00:55:42.320 KC. That's King's Counsel, a lawyer in Northern Alberta who is the lawyer for plaintiffs.

00:55:48.320 And if I heard him right, four different provinces. Is that right? Four provinces.

00:55:52.160 That's correct. And I'm glad about it. Let's see what judges across the country think of this.

00:55:57.280 Keith, good luck. And please let us know when next phases of this lawsuit happen,

00:56:03.520 when the government files a statement of defense, when you get disclosure of documents,

00:56:08.800 if you're at liberty to share them publicly. I think we'd like to follow this every step of

00:56:12.960 the way as we followed some of your other litigation over the last two years. So thanks

00:56:16.960 very much for joining us today. Thank you, Ezra.

00:56:20.240 All right. There you have a Keith Wilson. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow,

00:56:25.440 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:56:29.920 And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - February 15, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Freedom Convoy protestors take the feds to court over 'illegal' invocation of the Emergencies Act

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