A Toronto court drops the last of the charges against David Menzies. Now we go on the hunt for the final of the remaining charges against him. Ezra and David are standing outside the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto.
00:16:25.960But because his charter rights were violated, he got $10.5 million from taxpayers.
00:16:32.400The Toronto police will obviously continue to keep harassing you and all of their other enemies until someone, namely a judge, gives them a $10.5 million bill for it.
00:16:44.740And maybe they'll think twice about coming after Rebel News and David Menzies.
00:16:57.920This whole defund the police, that's nonsense.
00:17:01.480What do you have then, the rule of the jungle?
00:17:05.760And I have a lot of respect for the individual men and women on the Toronto Police Service and other police services that I've interacted with.
00:17:14.140I truly think there's something bigger at play.
00:17:17.840I think someone maybe in the brass, maybe beyond the brass, maybe in the mayor's office.
00:17:28.820I mean, when you see this footage of those thugs actually carrying out physical assault against Efren and I, and I'm the one that gets arrested?
00:17:37.780How, you know, I can't even imagine the most incompetent police officer making such a bad call.
00:17:44.360I think there's some unspoken strategy behind the scenes, behind the current Ezra.
00:17:50.260And in disclosure, if this goes to trial, wow, I would love to find those answers.
00:17:55.580Well, I promise you, as long as we live and breathe, we will pursue this.
00:17:59.880And the Toronto Police Service should think twice about arresting you again.
00:18:04.800I remember in Australia when our Australian reporter, Avi Yamini, kept getting arrested and arrested and arrested.
00:18:10.440And finally, we took him to court and they realized that they were in deep trouble.
00:18:15.060They actually gave him a letter of apology.
00:18:18.820Then they went after Avi's bodyguard, Daniel, and we sued on his behalf, too.
00:18:23.680And they actually gave him a six-figure settlement.
00:18:25.920So, I would say to the Toronto Police, the RCMP, the York Regional Police, and any other police force that thinks it can handle Rebel News abusively, and that is think twice.
00:18:37.480We will sue you, we will find you, and we will come to court with you.
00:18:42.320We will outlast you, because unlike you, we actually believe in something called freedom.
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00:25:01.660I remember very soon after the pandemic and the lockdowns were announced that the state of
00:25:12.560California brought in draconian rules, including a prohibition on singing out loud in churches.
00:25:20.540Well, singing is a form of prayer, has been since before recorded time.
00:25:26.380And this, of course, was a violation of the First Amendment.
00:25:30.660This very quickly made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it was a wonderful ruling.
00:25:36.280I haven't looked at it in a couple of years, but it was written so poetically in which the Supreme Court of the United States said
00:25:42.820that the state of California was welcome to regulate singing.
00:25:47.120It absolutely could, but they couldn't regulate the singing in churches more harshly than they regulated the singing in American Idol in Hollywood.
00:25:59.280And so they struck down the rules because they had exemptions for the favored classes they did everywhere around the world.
00:26:07.040And even if they didn't, well, the fancy people simply didn't pass, didn't follow the laws themselves.
00:26:13.520Laws were for the little people, don't you know?
00:26:16.540But what I take away from that is this.
00:26:19.820The U.S. Supreme Court realized that it was a bonfire of American civil liberties and nothing less than the First Amendment itself was at stake.
00:26:28.600And so very quickly, I would say it was within months, they ruled and struck down that law and others as well.
00:26:36.100There was a famous case in California.
00:26:38.000I believe there was another one from Massachusetts.
00:26:40.680It's been a little while since I read them.
00:26:42.620And I say all this because it is now almost 2025.
00:26:47.760And we have been in this state of pandemic or post-pandemic for, what, four and a half years now.
00:26:53.980And if I'm not mistaken, and our next guest will correct me if I am, our Supreme Court has been too busy to take a single substantive case emanating from the lockdown.
00:27:08.060I'd say again, this dramatic case that dealt with violations of civil liberties was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in very short order, within months, I'd tell you.
00:27:16.600And here we are coming up on the five-year anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic, and I don't think our court has bothered with anything as trifling as the curfew in Quebec, as the mandatory vaccinations, or you'd lose your job, or a hundred other outrages.
00:27:34.600And so it brings me to the troubling headline I see before me today.
00:27:40.180Supreme Court of Canada declines to hear COVID vaccine travel mandate cases.
00:27:49.280And those are cases in which the plaintiffs included Brian Peckford, the former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.
00:27:55.360In fact, the last surviving signer of the Constitution and Charter of Rights of 1982, and another case with Maxime Bernier as a plaintiff.
00:28:05.900And the reason they say is that, well, the pandemic's over, so it's moot anyways.
00:28:14.360Our Supreme Court is so, so busy, you see, dealing with very important things.
00:28:19.140And lockdowns and pandemics just don't make the list.
00:28:23.340Joining us now to talk about this is the lawyer for the Justice Center of Constitutional Freedoms, Alison Pajovic, who joins us from Calgary.
00:28:34.660Thank you so much for having me today.
00:28:35.960Am I correct in saying that the Supreme Court of Canada has yet to hear a civil liberties case emerging from every level of government regulating to its heart's content during the lockdowns?
00:28:49.880And please correct me if I'm wrong, but I really don't think they've actually touched on a single lockdown case.
00:28:56.360That was the case up until this year when they announced that they have agreed to hear a case of Newfoundland called Taylor v. Newfoundland.
00:29:07.280It involved a case of a woman who wanted to travel to Newfoundland from out-of-province to visit her ailing mother.
00:29:16.120And there was a Newfoundland, a travel restriction that prohibited any out-of-province residents of other provinces from entering Newfoundland during that time.
00:29:29.260And she took that case to the Newfoundland court and she raised Section 6 of the charter, which is the mobility right.
00:29:37.780And the court found that the mobility right was infringed, but that the infringement was justifiable based on the circumstances.
00:29:48.240You know, it's COVID and government was just doing what it needed to do.
00:29:53.860And the case went to the Newfoundland court of appeal.
00:29:56.840The Newfoundland court of appeal dismissed it for mootness because it found, you know, the travel restriction is gone.
00:30:03.860The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear that case.
00:30:07.080It's unclear to me as to whether that the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment will, if the applicant is successful, whether the case will go back down to the Newfoundland court of appeal to be heard on the merits there, or if the Supreme Court will adjudicate the charter issue at the highest level.
00:30:29.680So they have agreed to hear this very narrow issue.
00:30:34.140But I will say, in contrast to our case, I mean, I'm sure that case was, you know, beautifully presented to the court.
00:30:41.380But we've got a mobility case on such a greater level where Canadian citizens couldn't get on airplanes to leave the country, basically walking Canadians in the country,
00:30:52.820unless you wanted to swim across the Atlantic, which government witnesses admitted was permissible in cross-examination.
00:30:59.820So it's really, really distressing to our clients and to Canadians as a whole, vaccinated or unvaccinated.
00:31:09.540Because now Canadians just don't know whether they're living in the kind of country where this is lawful behavior from the federal government.
00:31:17.140Well, first of all, thank you for telling me about that case.
00:31:42.680And when Canadian citizens are not allowed to travel across provinces because of a COVID scare, that's an atrocious violation.
00:31:50.840But what I don't understand, so you're saying this will be heard by the Supreme Court, whether they decide to send it back or hear it in full.
00:31:58.000You're saying they have accepted this case and it'll be heard in 2025.
00:33:34.940And I can tell you, it didn't get a lot of media attention.
00:33:40.220But one of our clients, as you mentioned, was the former Premier of Newfoundland, Brian Peckford.
00:33:46.020He actually had a hand in drafting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:33:49.300And when he comes to the court and says, I drafted the charter myself, and I'm telling you that I believe a plethora of my rights have been violated.
00:34:25.620It's very difficult for him to drive from city to city, town to town, across the country, meeting people and growing his party.
00:34:31.900He needs to get on an airplane to do that, to be competitive with his political opponents.
00:34:36.480And here you have one of his political opponents basically instituting a policy which prevents him from fairly participating in the democratic process and getting a fair shot at becoming elected.
00:35:04.220We've had other COVID cases, so we don't need to hear this.
00:35:07.360Actually, no, this is extremely novel for Maxime Bernier and anyone else who wants to follow in his footsteps and try to campaign across the country.
00:35:15.740If they can't do that, that is unfair and it's certainly undemocratic.
00:35:21.120You know, I can't believe that such an atrocious, draconian, bullying, tyrannical, unscientific, prejudicial, partisan, and generally unfair law can be implemented on people.
00:35:35.560And just because, I mean, how long was it in effect, the no-fly zone for unjabbed people?
00:35:50.940I think the first two weeks you could still get through with a negative PCR test.
00:35:55.440But then the end of November, the first couple weeks of December, you had to show proof of vaccination.
00:36:02.500And then the prime minister decided to lift the mandate in June of 2022.
00:36:09.060And ironically, that was immediately after some of the evidence came out that you referenced, which was that the COVID recovery team at Transport Canada admitted in cross-examination that she'd never received a word or a memo or a request or anything from the Public Health Agency of Canada,
00:36:30.960which gave a health reason, a medical reason to implement the travel mandate shortly after that evidence came out, the federal government lifted the travel ban for unvaccinated people.
00:36:43.600So, you know, it was a long time coming for people who were trying to see dying loved ones.
00:36:51.940And some of our clients had very sick loved ones in South Africa and in Europe, and they were unable to go and visit them.
00:36:58.760I mean, this was basically like something you would hear about in a country far away with what you'd think of as a far more totalitarian head of government than we think of as having in Canada.
00:37:12.100You know, the word lockdown heretofore had been used to describe prisons when there was a riot and everyone was confined in their cells.
00:37:21.140I don't really remember the use of the word lockdown on innocent citizens ever in history.
00:37:28.500And so if you're saying this is from November 2021 to June 2022, that's about seven months.
00:37:33.300I've got to think that that was millions of people who would have flown, taken a train or at least hundreds of thousands and for a very long time.
00:37:43.200And they didn't know when it would end, by the way.
00:37:45.240And there's certain things you can only do once.
00:37:47.560Attend a funeral, attend a wedding, attend a surgery.
00:37:51.620Yeah, hold the hand of your dying loved one.
00:37:53.660And for the court to say, well, it's no longer in effect now, so we don't need to tell you if it was unconstitutional or not.
00:38:03.160Basically, that sends a message to the government that the courts are so slow.
00:38:07.460Like I say, that U.S. Supreme Court moved wicked fast.
00:38:11.240I'd have to look it up, the case about praying in California.
00:43:03.680Yeah, there's nowhere else to go for us in this case, but, you know, it's a real travesty of justice, you know, being the lawyer, working on the file, getting to know the clients very well, and hearing the evidence that came out, you know, win or lose.
00:43:22.300And, of course, if we'd gone through the hearing and lost and gone through the approval process and lost, that's one thing.
00:43:28.920And, you know, as lawyers, we win some and we lose some.
00:43:31.500But having the kind of evidence come out that came out during those cross-examinations on such an important issue, not having that evidence properly adjudicated and going through the appropriate charter test with it is, I can't tell you what a tragedy that is for Supreme Court justice.
00:43:52.880Honestly, I mean, some of the information that came out, most people will never hear about it.
00:44:01.280I mean, I know we've done some news releases, but it's really, it's going to get lost.
00:44:07.100And the public deserves to know loud and clear that there was no medical health reason, at least testified to, admitted to by the government cross-examination, to put these draconian mandates in place.
00:44:20.300What would the court have done with that information?
00:44:25.320And they deserve to know the kind of country they live in.
00:44:28.800And if they cannot count on being able to leave when they want to leave, then, you know, they have to make decisions as to whether they want to join their family or their countries.
00:44:39.440So these are really critical issues, and it's so disappointing as an understatement, to say the least.
00:45:20.740Part of it is because if we don't do the lawsuit, no one else will.
00:45:24.200For example, when we sue politicians who block people on Twitter, when we sue David Lemeney, the former justice minister who was destroying the public records in his Twitter account after he was disgracefully kicked out of parliament, basically.
00:45:38.920You might remember he was the justice minister, brought in the Emergencies Act.
00:45:43.040The federal court deemed that illegal.
00:45:59.620Another example is when we are under attack, and our journalists are under attack more, I put it to you, than all other journalists in Canada combined.
00:46:07.740I know that sounds like an astonishingly large thing to say, but tell me any other journalists in this country who's been physically assaulted.
00:46:14.620Tell me other journalists who arrested four times already in the year.
00:46:18.420But that's what's happened with David Menzies alone.
00:46:20.260I think he's been, I think it's close to 10 arrests total since his time at Rebel News.
00:46:45.280One of my favorite examples is with the VVIPs in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
00:46:51.460Those are extremely important people if you can measure the importance of people.
00:46:57.200John Kerry, Tony Blair, Albert Bourla, the president of Pfizer.
00:47:03.140These are just names of individuals that I myself have scrummed.
00:47:05.660The head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, I don't know if you remember, I scrummed him on a walk and talk scrum for almost 10 minutes.