Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ottawa police drop the mask and reveal their authoritarian side

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today we talk about Ottawa police's shocking and authoritarian threats

00:00:05.680 against peaceful protesters at the trucker convoy in Ottawa. Just outrageous language and outrageous

00:00:12.020 claims that they're using national spy agencies. Literally, they say they're using national

00:00:17.820 intelligence agencies to spy on these peaceful protesters on everything from their financial

00:00:23.120 history to their car insurance. They're listing their misconduct. It's unbelievable.

00:00:29.320 I'll take you through what they're threatening, and we'll talk to our friend on the ground,

00:00:33.700 Lincoln Jay, who's actually there amongst the truckers today. That's ahead. But boy,

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00:01:02.900 it's just as riveting. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:01:05.840 Tonight, the Ottawa police drop the mask and reveal themselves to be an authoritarian political

00:01:27.900 police force. It's February 4th, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.

00:01:31.440 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:38.200 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:42.280 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's

00:01:46.680 my bloody right to do so.

00:01:53.100 Take a look at this press conference by Ottawa's police chief.

00:01:56.960 We have increased stability to identify and target protesters and supporters of protesters

00:02:03.920 who are funding and enabling unlawful and harmful activity by the protesters themselves.

00:02:12.920 Investigative evidence-gathering teams are collecting financial, digital, vehicle registration,

00:02:20.740 information, driver identification, insurance status, and other related evidence that will

00:02:26.420 be used in prosecutions.

00:02:30.340 Every unlawful act, including traffic and insurance violations, will be fully pursued,

00:02:36.220 regardless of the origin, at any time in the future.

00:02:38.900 The primary focus of each of these measures will be on the unlawful behavior connected to

00:02:46.280 the ongoing demonstrations.

00:02:48.320 This includes parallel and counter demonstrations.

00:02:51.900 We strongly urge all demonstrators and those engaging with the demonstrators to act lawfully,

00:02:58.340 peacefully, and respectfully.

00:03:00.140 The hatred, the violence, the illegal acts that Ottawa residents and businesses have endured

00:03:07.680 over the last week is unacceptable in any circumstance.

00:03:12.600 The Ottawa Police Service and the City of Ottawa are bringing significantly greater resources

00:03:16.500 to restore order, hold offenders to account, and protect our neighborhoods.

00:03:21.240 The current demonstration in the Parliamentary Precinct Red Zone remains unresolved, despite significant

00:03:28.740 successes in reducing the number of trucks and demonstrators while preventing riots, injuries,

00:03:34.420 or deaths.

00:03:36.040 We take no solace in these operational successes to date.

00:03:41.240 Our goal is to end the demonstration.

00:03:44.720 The demonstrators in the Red Zone area remain highly organized, well-funded,

00:03:50.000 extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstration safely.

00:03:55.700 That was an excerpt of his remarks, obviously carefully scripted, I don't know by whom,

00:04:01.600 but none of that is normal policing.

00:04:05.060 Much of that is illegal if it's actually done.

00:04:08.180 That's how a police state sounds.

00:04:10.020 That's how they do it in Castro's Cuba or Hugo Chavez-style Venezuela.

00:04:15.820 Both of those tyrants have passed on, but their authoritarianism remains.

00:04:20.000 As that police chief gave that bizarre threat, the Ottawa Police Twitter account published an

00:04:28.900 incredible 22-tweet temper tantrum outlining the chief's remarks.

00:04:35.020 I'm going to go through those 22 tweets and I'm going to respond to them.

00:04:39.800 And I'm going to tell you a little bit about what we're doing in reaction.

00:04:42.960 Let me just start.

00:04:43.600 I'm just going to read them.

00:04:44.400 I want you to see that this comes from the Ottawa Police, a scripted communications package.

00:04:51.400 This was not off the cuff.

00:04:52.940 You can see the chief was reading from his script.

00:04:55.860 You can see that same script in a 22-part tantrum online.

00:05:01.360 Let's go through it.

00:05:03.420 Ottawa Police and its partners, who are they?

00:05:06.180 They are implementing a surge and contain strategy in Ottawa's downtown neighborhoods to further

00:05:14.480 protect neighborhoods, restore order, and prevent unlawful activity.

00:05:19.240 Surge and contain.

00:05:22.020 Surge, that means they're attacking, contain, they're trapping.

00:05:26.140 There's a phrase for that.

00:05:27.240 It's kettling.

00:05:28.500 And that's exactly what police did illegally in the G20.

00:05:33.540 They trapped people in a cage, physically attacked them.

00:05:37.800 The thing is, in Ottawa, there's no violence at all.

00:05:40.580 In fact, in the first two days of the huge protest last weekend, when it was at its height,

00:05:45.560 there wasn't a single arrest, not even a single charge.

00:05:49.840 This isn't violence.

00:05:51.240 Why would you attack, surge, and contain, trap, a peaceful protest?

00:05:59.540 Why would you escalate rather than de-escalate?

00:06:02.880 Why would you threaten and antagonize unless you're looking for violence, unless you're looking

00:06:09.420 for that Reichstag moment, unless you're looking for that January 6th insurrection narrative

00:06:14.960 that the truckers themselves did not give you?

00:06:19.420 I'll keep reading.

00:06:21.240 In connection with ongoing demonstrations, Ottawa's downtown residents and businesses

00:06:26.500 continue to be severely impacted by unlawful acts, including harassment, mischief, hate

00:06:34.240 crimes, and noise violations.

00:06:36.720 Well, if any of those things are happening, they're happening by individual people.

00:06:41.420 I dispute that they're happening.

00:06:43.040 I doubt that they are, because I've seen what was called a hate crime before.

00:06:47.520 I saw some staged agent provocateur at the Chateau Laurier had a swastika flag.

00:06:53.160 Nowhere near the protesters.

00:06:54.680 I saw that someone put a cape over Terry Fox and someone briefly parked where they shouldn't

00:06:59.700 have near the war monument.

00:07:01.380 That's it.

00:07:02.280 But that was turned by the prime minister and his lackeys in the media into desecrating

00:07:07.100 the war memorial.

00:07:08.380 Yeah, mate, no, sorry.

00:07:09.600 That didn't happen.

00:07:10.700 It's one thing when Trudeau says it.

00:07:12.280 We know he's a politician who's in trouble.

00:07:15.040 It's another thing when the media party says it.

00:07:16.860 We know that they're Trudeau's paid, rented media.

00:07:20.220 They take the media bailout.

00:07:21.120 But it's quite something when the police say it.

00:07:25.160 I was there in Ottawa.

00:07:26.660 And it is true that roads are blocked, some of them by the trucks, to be sure.

00:07:31.140 But the hotel I was on, on Queen Street, for example, the road was blocked off completely

00:07:36.480 by police.

00:07:38.120 I tried to order in some dinner and the delivery person said he could not get there, not because

00:07:43.460 of trucks, but because of police.

00:07:45.720 I believe there are businesses that are cut off.

00:07:48.700 I also know that it's because of police.

00:07:50.720 I should tell you that there are reports from Ottawa that the police bought up every available

00:07:55.900 hotel room in the city to block protesters.

00:07:59.960 This is a political response.

00:08:02.020 It's not a police response.

00:08:04.760 The next tweet from Ottawa says, we know that additional demonstrators are coming and we

00:08:10.180 are significantly increasing our policing resources to respond.

00:08:14.420 Well, why are you doing that?

00:08:15.940 When I was there, I saw with my eyes police from Toronto, police from Durham, the RCMP.

00:08:20.800 We saw snipers on the roof.

00:08:24.020 Why are you saying this if there's no, there's no riot there?

00:08:27.580 No one has been charged with riot.

00:08:29.120 No one's been, the laws are on the books.

00:08:31.880 This is simply an attempt to intimidate Justin Trudeau's political opponent.

00:08:38.180 Let me keep reading.

00:08:40.220 To prevent and reduce the impacts of demonstrators entering the downtown core and to improve neighborhood

00:08:47.280 safety, Ottawa police is implementing the following measures effective immediately.

00:08:53.360 What does it mean to change the effectiveness of the demonstrators?

00:08:58.300 The point of a demonstration is to show your displeasure.

00:09:01.380 They're not honking their horns in suburban neighborhoods.

00:09:05.420 They're doing so in the parliamentary precincts.

00:09:07.340 And I am sure it's annoying.

00:09:09.380 You know, many years ago, I worked in Parliament Hill.

00:09:11.960 I was on the fourth floor, the center block.

00:09:14.260 I would have been overlooking these four.

00:09:15.940 You can hear honking.

00:09:17.220 You can hear protests outside your window.

00:09:19.440 And you know what?

00:09:20.880 That's sort of the point of a protest.

00:09:23.100 There have been protests on Parliament Hill from the left and the right and across the

00:09:27.120 spectrum and by many foreign diasporas in Ottawa trying to exert pressure on the government.

00:09:32.560 Why is it the place of police to determine who can or can't protest?

00:09:37.820 If there is violence, of course police should deploy.

00:09:41.860 But if these are peaceful protesters, why are police even talking about it?

00:09:47.120 I'll keep reading.

00:09:48.940 Major deployment of police officers in the downtown neighborhoods.

00:09:52.280 There will be approximately 150 additional uniformed and non-uniformed officers dedicated

00:10:00.080 to only patrolling and addressing unlawful and threatening conduct in the most impacted

00:10:06.760 neighborhoods.

00:10:07.640 Well, I have no problem with police dealing with actual unlawfulness.

00:10:12.880 They list Center Town, Sandy Hill, Lower Town, and the Byward Market.

00:10:16.660 This includes working with Ottawa City and National Capital Region officials to prevent

00:10:20.640 unlawful and unsafe use of public space by demonstrators.

00:10:27.280 Okay, I know what unlawful means.

00:10:28.760 You're breaking the law in some way.

00:10:30.040 And I say again, I have no problem with police addressing lawbreaking.

00:10:33.980 I was there walking around for hours.

00:10:37.880 I didn't see any lawbreaking.

00:10:39.040 In fact, it was sort of the opposite.

00:10:40.620 People had such goodwill, they were sort of engaging in random acts of do-goodery.

00:10:44.980 Maybe you were watching the live stream when someone sort of got in my way to pick up some

00:10:48.440 garbage on the ground.

00:10:49.760 They were picking up garbage. 0.99

00:10:51.060 They were shoveling snow and slush.

00:10:53.700 I have no problem with police actually dealing with unlawfulness.

00:10:56.960 But what is an unsafe use of public space by demonstrators?

00:11:01.760 These are peaceful protesters.

00:11:03.240 What's unsafe?

00:11:03.900 Do you mean politically unsafe?

00:11:05.800 What does unsafe mean?

00:11:07.480 Are they, you know, balancing on some edge and they're going to fall?

00:11:10.520 They're skateboarding or something?

00:11:12.100 No, what they mean is politically unsafe.

00:11:14.260 The police are trying to intimidate protesters.

00:11:17.240 I'll keep reading.

00:11:17.740 Expand and harden the perimeter of the demonstration red zone.

00:11:25.640 Ottawa police and Ottawa City will utilize concrete and heavy equipment barricades to create

00:11:30.300 no-access roadways throughout the downtown core.

00:11:34.140 Ottawa City will release a map of impacted roads later today.

00:11:37.300 Okay, so if there's a public highway, a public sidewalk, a public park, a public avenue,

00:11:45.200 it is completely lawful to stand there whether or not Trudeau likes you, whether or not the police like you.

00:11:53.160 You can protest anyone, including the police.

00:11:56.180 If you're on a public place, since when do police set up red zones where you have free speech and areas where you don't have free speech?

00:12:06.920 That's not up to the police to do.

00:12:08.920 Since when do the police say where you can and can't stand on public property?

00:12:13.180 Protester vehicles will be directed to designated parking zones outside the downtown core.

00:12:21.400 Illegal parking by demonstrators will result in Ottawa by law enforcement removal and impound.

00:12:28.500 If necessary, interprovincial bridges, highway off-ramps, and or roads will be closed?

00:12:37.300 You know, that's what they do in third-world countries. 0.98

00:12:43.140 They literally close highways, close bridges.

00:12:46.180 They seal off people from getting to the Capitol.

00:12:49.380 That's a typical third-world banana republic move. 1.00

00:12:52.880 If the tyrant is in trouble and he's got his private jet ready to take him and his family and his bags of cash into exile,

00:13:00.520 they seal off the roads to the presidential palace.

00:13:03.280 Trudeau really played to type when he ran away from Ottawa and was in hiding.

00:13:08.840 But who is it that gives the police the authority to simply say,

00:13:13.360 peaceful protests are coming to Ottawa.

00:13:15.860 We will close the roads to the capital city.

00:13:19.640 Do you own the capital city?

00:13:22.120 It's the capital city for all Canadians.

00:13:24.560 Section 6 of our Charter of Rights, as you remember from our show yesterday,

00:13:27.860 specifically allows you to travel wherever you want.

00:13:30.080 To ban someone from going to Ottawa because they have a particular affiliation or a particular point of view?

00:13:38.960 That is what Trudeau meant, I suppose, when he said China is the country he most admires for, quote,

00:13:45.200 its basic dictatorship.

00:13:47.000 How Castro-like of them.

00:13:49.280 I'll keep reading.

00:13:49.960 Well, listen, I did see some people throwing things at protesters.

00:14:15.040 I haven't heard of spitting.

00:14:17.180 Listen, I'm all for actually enforcing that.

00:14:20.760 But they're threatening peaceful protesters.

00:14:23.360 Their language switches back and forth to crimes that have not happened,

00:14:28.220 and I know they haven't happened because the police department itself says they have not happened.

00:14:32.820 So they switch back and forth to talking about peaceful protesters that they're going to banish,

00:14:37.800 and then coming up with crimes that have not been committed.

00:14:40.460 As a pretext, this is Reichstag fire stuff.

00:14:42.840 This is the scariest of them all.

00:14:47.620 Enhanced intelligence operations and investigations.

00:14:51.980 That's how you say spying.

00:14:54.700 National, provincial, and local intelligence agencies have increased efforts to identify and target protesters

00:15:02.720 who are funding, supporting, enabling unlawful and harmful activity by protesters.

00:15:09.060 Again, if someone is funding a crime, all right, how do you know and what's the crime?

00:15:15.860 And no crimes have been alleged, charged, or proven here.

00:15:18.680 But you're getting national spy agencies.

00:15:21.500 That's what they said.

00:15:22.760 National intelligence agencies.

00:15:24.740 CSIS.

00:15:25.200 The RCMP.

00:15:26.280 Maybe getting the FBI and the CIA involved.

00:15:28.520 You're spying on protesters, not for, I mean, unlawful.

00:15:34.780 I say again, there's nothing unlawful about a peaceful protest.

00:15:37.240 What's a harmful activity?

00:15:39.920 Look up the word harmful in the criminal code.

00:15:42.240 You won't find it.

00:15:43.280 Unlawful you'll find.

00:15:44.800 What's a harm?

00:15:45.720 You mean politically harmful?

00:15:48.280 You mean someone doesn't like it?

00:15:50.580 This is deeply disturbing that intelligence agencies, whose jobs are to protect citizens

00:15:55.640 from attack from foreign terrorists, are being turned against our own citizens by an 1.00

00:16:02.600 out-of-control authoritarian prime minister and a police department that is happy to go

00:16:08.780 along with it.

00:16:09.320 Who wrote that speech for that police chief?

00:16:11.520 Who wrote that?

00:16:13.320 I'll keep reading.

00:16:14.200 Investigative evidence-gathering teams are collecting financial, digital, vehicle registration,

00:16:22.960 driver identification, insurance status, and other related evidence that will be used

00:16:27.320 in criminal prosecutions.

00:16:29.400 What criminal prosecutions?

00:16:32.200 No one has been charged.

00:16:33.780 What are you, you're spying on people's financial information?

00:16:38.360 Digital.

00:16:39.500 What does that mean?

00:16:40.320 You're, you're hacking people's phones.

00:16:42.680 We already know that the federal government has been spying on Canadians through the app.

00:16:46.720 They said they wouldn't.

00:16:47.800 They illegally tracked our cell phones, millions of us.

00:16:50.940 They lied about it.

00:16:52.440 Here, they're not even hiding it.

00:16:54.580 What are they collecting?

00:16:55.720 By what authority?

00:16:56.860 And who issued the search warrant?

00:16:59.580 Are they literally saying they are spying on the personal, financial, and other information

00:17:04.480 of anyone who is a peaceful protester?

00:17:06.800 And they, they're doing that without a search warrant?

00:17:09.860 And they're saying this in an official press conference.

00:17:13.000 This isn't a gaffe.

00:17:14.460 This isn't a misspeaking.

00:17:16.760 They're saying this out loud.

00:17:19.620 They're saying the quiet part out loud.

00:17:22.080 You know, a lot of groups have lost all credibility and reputation over the last two years.

00:17:27.880 The colleges of physicians and surgeons, I think the media has been atrocious.

00:17:31.700 Judges haven't stopped a thing.

00:17:33.900 But the police and their willingness to be weaponized for political edicts is perhaps one

00:17:39.980 of the gravest losses we've suffered.

00:17:41.740 Never trust the Ottawa police again.

00:17:45.560 How can you, when they tell you they're spying on you in concert with national intelligence

00:17:51.740 agencies?

00:17:52.280 They're saying, I'm using their words, because you're a protester who is harmful.

00:17:59.100 I'll keep reading.

00:17:59.820 Every unlawful act, including traffic violations, will be fully pursued regardless of origin.

00:18:05.700 The primary focus of each of these measures will be on the unlawful behavior connected to

00:18:12.300 the ongoing demonstrations, including parallel and counter demonstrations.

00:18:17.560 We strongly urge all demonstrators and those engaging with demonstrators to act lawfully,

00:18:24.220 peacefully, and respectfully.

00:18:25.880 Hang on.

00:18:27.880 Are they doing that now or are they not doing that now?

00:18:31.180 Are they terrorists that you're spying on or are they lawful?

00:18:33.840 You said that you were going to close bridges and roads.

00:18:38.180 Have they actually done any of these things in your pretext, your fake excuse to crack down

00:18:44.420 on civil liberties?

00:18:46.280 This is a schizophrenic note, isn't it?

00:18:49.320 Are they talking about crimes or are they talking about peaceful protesters?

00:18:52.620 Are they talking about criminals and smashing them or are they talking about smashing about

00:18:56.520 peaceful people?

00:18:58.340 I'll keep reading.

00:18:59.380 Look at this line.

00:19:00.080 The hatred, violence, and illegal acts that Ottawa residents and businesses have endured

00:19:08.220 over the last week are unacceptable in any circumstances.

00:19:11.720 Well, what is he talking about there?

00:19:14.060 I haven't seen any violence.

00:19:15.860 What is he talking about?

00:19:16.960 The only hate I've seen, besides the one liberal provocateur with his Nazi flag, has been emanating

00:19:23.300 from Justin Trudeau himself, who has whipped up hate against unvaccinated people and demonized

00:19:28.640 them again and again.

00:19:29.440 What is the Ottawa police talking about?

00:19:31.100 And I'm not even looking for it to make sense.

00:19:33.980 I'm just saying, who put these words in their mouth?

00:19:38.580 I'll keep reading.

00:19:39.860 Ottawa police and Ottawa city are bringing significantly greater resources to restore order, hold offenders

00:19:46.940 to account and protect our neighborhoods.

00:19:49.100 Restore order.

00:19:51.600 What disorder?

00:19:52.600 Now, if they're talking about the honking, say so.

00:19:55.600 If they're talking about the signs, say so.

00:19:58.540 If they're talking about the fact that there are people there who the liberals don't like,

00:20:02.480 say so.

00:20:03.860 But what are they talking about violence and hatred?

00:20:07.720 They're smearing the protesters.

00:20:09.520 They're using language not of police, but of Justin Trudeau.

00:20:13.080 Who wrote that speech?

00:20:15.220 Was that speech written by Gerald Butts or by the PMO's media team?

00:20:20.540 That was not a police speech.

00:20:22.000 I'll keep going.

00:20:24.040 The current occupation.

00:20:25.420 Oh, is it an occupation of the parliamentary precinct remains unresolved despite significant

00:20:30.060 success in reducing the number of trucks and demonstrators while preventing riots, injuries

00:20:35.660 and death.

00:20:36.340 Okay, so now you're saying you prevented riots, injuries and death.

00:20:40.100 Because a moment ago, you said there was violence.

00:20:42.020 Well, which is it?

00:20:43.840 Were they violent or not?

00:20:45.080 Because you just said you prevented that.

00:20:49.700 Notice the word occupation.

00:20:51.840 I was there.

00:20:52.420 They're not occupying parliament.

00:20:54.600 Parliament is closed.

00:20:56.560 There is some debate in the West Block when there is some question period.

00:21:01.460 Protesters aren't anywhere near that building.

00:21:03.020 No one's gone inside.

00:21:05.960 Occupation?

00:21:07.180 It's called a peaceful protest at the capital city of a corrupt country.

00:21:12.320 That's literally in the fundamental freedom section of the Charter of Rights.

00:21:17.540 An occupation.

00:21:19.180 What, like some foreign military?

00:21:20.940 You know, Occupy actually was a thing.

00:21:23.100 Occupy Wall Street.

00:21:24.100 Occupy Toronto.

00:21:24.740 There actually were occupations across Canada for the better part of a year, about a decade

00:21:31.580 ago.

00:21:32.740 And the police were fine with that.

00:21:34.300 They're calling these peaceful protesters an occupation?

00:21:37.660 Who wrote this?

00:21:38.880 This is not police language.

00:21:41.160 This next one is just quite something.

00:21:42.520 We take no solace in these operational successes.

00:21:48.620 The demonstrators in this red zone area remain highly organized, well-funded, and extremely

00:21:55.520 committed to resisting efforts to end the demonstration safely.

00:21:59.120 Oh, hang on.

00:21:59.600 Hang on.

00:22:00.300 Hang on.

00:22:00.520 So the police are saying the demonstration's over.

00:22:04.600 Is that how it works?

00:22:05.520 So the police will tell you how many minutes you have for your demonstration.

00:22:10.540 So because they're resisting efforts to end the demonstration, they need to be correct

00:22:16.360 out.

00:22:16.520 They need to be surged against.

00:22:19.380 Let me read some more.

00:22:20.300 This remains a very volatile and very dangerous demonstration.

00:22:25.540 That is a wicked lie.

00:22:28.160 That is a wicked lie.

00:22:30.520 It's not, you know, the only footage from the ground shows people dancing, people giving

00:22:36.920 out free food, people hugging.

00:22:39.060 A dangerous demonstration is a wicked lie.

00:22:43.100 Let me read some more.

00:22:43.960 Ottawa police continues to work with national security agencies, the RCMP, the OPP, and other

00:22:49.700 police agencies.

00:22:50.560 We're also working with all three levels of government to effect a safe, timely, and lawful

00:22:57.200 end to this unlawful and unacceptably dangerous demonstration.

00:23:03.080 Well, which is it dangerous or not?

00:23:05.080 Because you just said that nothing bad happened there.

00:23:07.760 You just pat yourself on the back for saying nothing happened there.

00:23:12.160 But it's the police who are determining the end of the peaceful protest.

00:23:15.420 Is that how we are in Canada?

00:23:18.220 Public safety remains paramount, as does our commitment to work with all levels of government

00:23:24.100 and all parts of civil society to bring this demonstration to an end.

00:23:28.960 So I guess you're not working with that part of civil society that doesn't want the demonstration

00:23:34.160 to end.

00:23:34.560 So stop lying.

00:23:35.340 You know, it's quite something to have the police tell you when you can and can't protest

00:23:42.620 peacefully.

00:23:44.180 If there was violence there, I would agree with the police.

00:23:47.720 Now, I have some thoughts on this.

00:23:49.060 First of all, it's obvious that this is a political effort.

00:23:52.820 These are political words.

00:23:54.080 This is not police talk.

00:23:56.060 Police de-escalate situations.

00:23:59.320 Police try to keep the peace.

00:24:01.200 They don't ratchet up.

00:24:02.140 They don't threaten surges.

00:24:03.460 They don't use incendiary language designed to get people's backs up.

00:24:08.460 I think there's two parts here.

00:24:09.660 First is they're trying to appease the whiners, that political bureaucratic class that dominates 0.99

00:24:15.440 downtown Ottawa.

00:24:16.560 The protesters are not honking in suburban areas.

00:24:19.900 They're just next to parliament.

00:24:21.540 So all the fancy people, the lobbyists, the politicians, the bureaucrats, they don't like

00:24:25.280 these unwashed ruffians with their big trucks. 1.00

00:24:29.680 Only Priuses should be allowed on those roads. 0.97

00:24:31.880 Priuses and government limos.

00:24:34.460 So I think part of it is appeasing them.

00:24:37.100 I think part of it is also trying to scare away peaceful protesters.

00:24:41.240 There's some insane language here about being hunted and your banking information and being

00:24:45.700 prosecuted.

00:24:46.720 It's designed to terrify people.

00:24:49.640 And even if they don't mean it, it's still disgraceful.

00:24:52.180 If the police chief would have said something else he didn't mean, like, I'm going to physically

00:24:56.420 knock heads of anyone who comes, I'm using an extreme example, of course, he would never 0.99

00:25:00.400 be that ridiculous. 0.88

00:25:01.800 But threatening something illegal, threatening abusive conduct to scare people away, I can 0.86

00:25:09.420 understand the rationale to scare people away, but it's unacceptable for the police to threaten

00:25:13.740 abuses like this, even if they don't actually mean it.

00:25:16.460 Even if they're not actually going to do anything other than reading Trudeau's speechwriter's

00:25:20.060 speech.

00:25:20.660 It's unacceptable.

00:25:21.620 It destroys the modern approach to policing, which is policing by consent.

00:25:27.980 If you don't have the trust and support of everyone on the street as a policeman, then

00:25:32.520 you can't police.

00:25:33.740 This is police state stuff, not modern policing.

00:25:36.140 I should tell you there is a real reason for this.

00:25:41.840 I don't know if you saw this poll by Abacus Research.

00:25:43.880 I think I mentioned it the other day.

00:25:45.600 Abacus, as you know, is run by Bruce Anderson.

00:25:47.540 He's a senior liberal.

00:25:49.020 So this is not a pro-trucker poll by any state.

00:25:52.080 But look at that.

00:25:53.680 32% of Canadians say they see themselves in the protesters.

00:25:59.480 That they see the protesters are speaking for them.

00:26:01.940 What have you ever heard of a protest with?

00:26:03.840 Most protests are fringe.

00:26:05.440 That's why they're protesting, because they're angry at the establishment.

00:26:09.720 32%.

00:26:10.240 By the way, Justin Trudeau in the last election only got 32%.

00:26:14.180 I'm pretty sure he's below that number now.

00:26:16.980 In two weeks, these truckers have caught the hearts and minds of 32% of Canadians.

00:26:22.720 And look at this.

00:26:24.100 57% of Green voters.

00:26:27.140 Most Greens like the truckers. 0.97

00:26:29.140 Makes sense.

00:26:30.360 The Green Party used to be against Big Pharma.

00:26:32.940 The Green Party used to be for personal choice and distrusting big corporations and being forced to inject things.

00:26:39.320 Of course the Green Party supports it.

00:26:40.900 Even 25% of liberals support it.

00:26:44.040 It's just incredible to me.

00:26:45.880 The NDP, the level of NDP support, of course.

00:26:48.720 Since when did the NDP side with the bosses, forcing people in a collective agreement to get an injection or be fired without compensation?

00:26:57.260 These vaccine mandates have destroyed the very notion of collective bargaining.

00:27:03.140 This trucker convoy has a lot of support from conservatives and People's Party types,

00:27:08.440 but it has support amongst every single group out there,

00:27:12.960 precisely because the rest of the political establishment has gone mad.

00:27:16.900 This shocking series of tweets and the speech that it was cribbed from show how deeply endangered the political regime is by this grassroots group of peaceful protesters.

00:27:31.720 It's incredible.

00:27:32.820 It's already knocked Aaron O'Toole out of his job.

00:27:36.140 It's made Scott Moe announce an end to the vaccine mandates and vaccine passports,

00:27:41.160 although he still hasn't said when, so you better keep your eye on that slippery fish.

00:27:45.020 Jason Kenney is in a panic because of the blockade in his province.

00:27:48.860 He, too, is saying that an end to the vaccine passport will come within days.

00:27:52.540 But, again, you can't trust a word he says.

00:27:54.420 He actually, if you recall, once said there would never be vaccine passports, so you can't really trust him.

00:27:59.460 But across this country, these truckers have changed the political math.

00:28:03.960 According to Angus Reid, a majority of people want an end to the lockdowns now.

00:28:08.360 Even Francois Legault, the abusive premier of Quebec, who locked down that whole province and brought in a curfew,

00:28:13.900 even he has agreed to meet with the truckers.

00:28:18.260 This trucking convoy, a peaceful, grassroots, unified, and diverse group,

00:28:23.980 has brought about more political change in the last two weeks than anything else has in the last two years.

00:28:30.300 It has changed everything.

00:28:33.860 Everyone knows it.

00:28:34.820 Aaron O'Toole the most.

00:28:36.720 Justin Trudeau knows it, which is why he's panicking and having the Ottawa police stand up for him.

00:28:42.360 The one group that doesn't realize how much they've been devastated yet.

00:28:48.680 The one group that doesn't see how they've burnt to a crisp any of their remaining public support.

00:28:56.200 The one group that's been hurt the most is the media party.

00:29:02.600 They still think they speak for the people and to the people.

00:29:05.680 I think, until this point, a lot of Canadians distrusted the media.

00:29:11.960 Now they just hate it.

00:29:14.680 Stay with us for more.

00:29:15.660 Hey, welcome back.

00:29:29.380 One thing I didn't mention in my monologue was that the Democracy Fund,

00:29:32.380 the registered civil liberties charity with whom Rebel News has been working this past year,

00:29:37.860 they have dispatched lawyers to Ottawa to assist any trucker or any other peaceful protester that is being abused by police.

00:29:45.760 Part of me thinks it's just a scare tactic to scare away more peaceful protesters and appease the locals.

00:29:51.440 But Justin Trudeau has told us in plain English, I mean, why would you not believe him,

00:29:55.960 that communist China is the country he most admires, quote, because of its basic dictatorship.

00:30:00.240 So there are Democracy Fund lawyers on the ground there, and you can learn more about that at thedemocracyfund.ca.

00:30:07.280 But besides Democracy Fund lawyers, we also, of course, have our Rebel News reporters.

00:30:12.500 Our friend Alexa Lavoie is on the ground.

00:30:15.340 So is Lincoln Jay and others are going there, including our old friend David Menzies, who's back in full force.

00:30:20.660 But let's join in now from the streets with our friend Lincoln Jay.

00:30:25.360 Lincoln, how are you doing there today?

00:30:27.620 Good, Ezra. How are you doing? Thanks for having me on.

00:30:29.340 I'm great. It looks frosty. Is it still minus 20?

00:30:33.660 It's freezing out here. I don't think I can reiterate enough how cold it actually is.

00:30:38.880 You take your gloves off for a second, and it's freezing.

00:30:42.940 But it's not stopping people from coming out here, that's for sure.

00:30:46.420 Yeah, well, that's quite something. I mean, if the weather were warmer, I think there would be 10 times as many people there.

00:30:51.280 I mean, you forget how cold minus 20 is.

00:30:53.700 When you're a kid, you're out playing in the snow. You don't care. But holy moly.

00:30:57.020 A lot of the protesters are living in the cabs of their trucks, so they're not actually milling about.

00:31:04.120 It's hard to mill about when it's minus 20.

00:31:06.820 You just don't want to be out at great length.

00:31:09.400 And I think that's one of the reasons why the protest is so calm and why the Ottawa police statement is so weird.

00:31:15.460 It's not like you have marauding bands of wild youths going through the city like the BLM riots in America last year. 0.83

00:31:23.160 Everyone's pretty much just on Parliament Hill and staying warm in their trucks. Is that right?

00:31:26.680 Yeah, that's exactly it. You know, there's teams of people bringing around gas so that they can't keep the trucks up.

00:31:35.140 Sorry, the truck's running all night to stay warm.

00:31:37.220 So, yeah, all those truckers, they're sleeping in the back of their cabs.

00:31:40.880 They're dedicated. They're here to stay.

00:31:42.900 That's for sure. There's been rumors that there's hotel rooms provided for them to shower.

00:31:47.460 Now, we hear those honking trucks go by, and I think that's really what it is, is all the fancy pants in, you know, the imperial capital who are used to their luxurious life, everyone there.

00:32:08.100 Not a single person in politics lost a day's work, or they probably lost work, but they didn't lose pay.

00:32:14.220 They probably took a lot of time off. They got pay raises. MPs themselves gave themselves pay raises twice during the pandemic.

00:32:23.500 MPs have had two pay raises during the pandemic. No one's lost work. The lobbyists have had a feast.

00:32:29.020 They just don't like all these unwashed blue-collar people coming into their turf with their noisy horns. 0.99

00:32:35.760 I think it's the honking. I think they're just irritated by the presence of blue-collar workers who don't obey them.

00:32:44.220 I think it's sort of wonderful that they're irritated, and I don't think that's a crime or dangerous.

00:32:48.860 Yeah, you know what? We've been speaking to the actual locals here, and yeah, they are supporters, but we've actually been speaking to some locals on the street.

00:32:59.180 Alexa LeVar has a big video coming out where she's speaking to people who are around the area, who are from Ottawa, and aren't exactly participating in the protest, but she's able to gather their thoughts.

00:33:08.780 Yes, there are some people that are very unhappy, but half of the people that she interviewed have no problem with it, and they were waking up with porn talking and everything, and they're still in support.

00:33:19.180 So I think you have a valid point when it's just kind of the political class and the elites and the establishment that have an issue with this.

00:33:26.200 I can't quite recognize the exact street you're on. I used to live in Ottawa. I worked in Parliament for a couple of years, if you can believe it, in the last century for Preston Manning.

00:33:35.600 I was his assistant. You're probably in a very highly dense political place, but you go a few miles out to suburbs to regular Ottawa.

00:33:44.500 Not everyone in Ottawa works in Parliament. And the truckers aren't honking in residential neighborhoods. I mean, there are some downtown apartments, it's true.

00:33:52.860 But this is a very focused, peaceful protest. The way those Ottawa police tweets read, you would think it's BLM and Antifa burning down a city center like they did in America.

00:34:05.040 Yeah, and when you speak to the police officers on the ground here, you know, they don't fully say it, but you can tell that I think a majority of them are in support of what's happening here.

00:34:19.080 You know, they're giving high fives to people, and they're saying it's a peaceful protest, and I think a lot of them are going to be very disappointed if they have to use excessive force or whatever the case may be to try and end this demonstration.

00:34:32.180 Because the complete vibe I've gotten on the street here is that the police officers are, for the most part, in support.

00:34:39.960 I had a police officer actually help me get through a barricade when I was returning my rental car yesterday, and he looked at my hat, saw the hat, he said, Rebel News?

00:34:48.380 And I said, yeah, are you a fan? And he said, I can't answer that, and then winked at me.

00:34:53.940 You know, it's true. I mean, you were with me, I think, when I walked up to some cops, and I was pretty mad seeing all these out-of-town cops,

00:35:00.720 Toronto cops, Durham regional cops, and I went up to them mad, I won't lie, and they couldn't have been friendlier.

00:35:06.560 I mean, I was sort of expecting them to get into an argy-bargy with me, but they just said, no, we're just here to keep the peace.

00:35:12.180 And I have to say, and I'd have to check this, Lincoln, don't quote me on this, but I think the Ottawa police have not enforced a vaccine mandate.

00:35:21.920 I don't think they've fired their unvaxxed officers.

00:35:24.240 So that shows you that the police union in Ottawa, frankly, if they could speak candidly, they would be with the protesters.

00:35:32.060 I saw this morning an email sent around to the Canadian Armed Forces, to every soldier saying, don't tweet your support, you'll be reprimanded.

00:35:41.080 So you just know that a lot of these guys who are being called on to punish the peaceful protesters, cops and possibly soldiers,

00:35:49.180 they're actually standing with the protesters. It's quite something.

00:35:51.660 Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, we saw the mayor of Ottawa complaining that he's spending $800,000 a day on policing.

00:36:21.920 And I understand that the city or the police, I'm not sure which, has bought up every available hotel room downtown to make it impossible for people to come into the city.

00:36:30.880 That's got to be a million bucks a night, too.

00:36:33.340 So those are not the protesters incurring those costs. 0.97

00:36:36.180 That's a foolish mayor trying to appease Justin Trudeau. 0.70

00:36:40.060 Or maybe it's Trudeau that's paying for it through the public safety ministry. 0.99

00:36:43.460 Who knows?

00:36:43.960 So you have all these out-of-town cops who have flown in there, they're on overtime, they're getting special pay, they're overtime pay, all their accommodations.

00:36:53.500 But you're right. It's like they're on sort of a road trip, having fun of the protests, too.

00:36:59.940 So far, God forbid, they actually start swinging truncheons like that police chief said.

00:37:04.680 I don't believe that's actual policing.

00:37:06.300 That was a Trudeau speech put into police language.

00:37:10.440 That's not a real police speech.

00:37:12.100 What do you think?

00:37:13.960 Yeah, I don't know.

00:37:15.860 You know, I can't comment on it enough.

00:37:17.280 Everything is just, you can feel that the tensions are kind of getting a little bit higher.

00:37:21.480 People are sort of anticipating something is coming.

00:37:23.960 I think we all know that something is coming.

00:37:26.800 Trudeau, it's who knows what is planned, who knows what's going on behind the scenes, what is orchestrating behind the scenes.

00:37:33.180 But I think everyone is just kind of heightened right now.

00:37:35.940 There's supposed to be a ton of people coming here tomorrow.

00:37:38.560 There's supposed to be farmers coming with tractors.

00:37:40.660 So I don't know if they're going to put barricades or what they're going to do, what tactics they're going to use.

00:37:47.440 But as of right now, here on the scene, it's been like how it's been for the past week.

00:37:52.900 There's a little bit more undercover cops and undercover cruisers.

00:37:57.820 But that's about it.

00:37:58.800 Other than that, it's like business as usual as far as the truckers' convoy.

00:38:02.240 So we'll see.

00:38:03.520 Yeah, and well, that goes to my theory that maybe some of this was just for public consumption to, A, scare away people,

00:38:09.660 and, B, shut up the local wokesters who don't like the unwashed truckers.

00:38:15.220 So this, see, people just handing out gloves to me right here just for being outside.

00:38:20.260 That's the environment here.

00:38:21.660 Yeah.

00:38:21.960 It really is a festival feeling.

00:38:25.080 Well, that's exactly how it was when I was there.

00:38:27.900 I'm going to see if I can get there this weekend.

00:38:29.440 I'm not sure if I can break away to go there.

00:38:33.020 Very interesting times.

00:38:34.240 You're there.

00:38:34.620 Our friend David Menzies, if he's not there already, he's arriving shortly.

00:38:37.960 Some lawyers from the Democracy Fund are there.

00:38:39.920 I'm glad because if something goes sideways, I want them there.

00:38:44.240 You know, I want to tell you a joke.

00:38:45.980 If you say the farmers are coming,

00:38:47.340 If those farmers blockade avocados, you know, the woke breakfast is avocado toast.

00:38:57.560 By the way, it's delicious.

00:38:58.680 I'm not knocking it.

00:39:00.100 But if those farmers could cut off the avocados to Parliament Hill for just 24 hours, Trudeau would rescind every lockdown and every vaccine mandate.

00:39:09.760 Because those woke hipsters who are shouting at the truckers and, oh, stop honking your horns.

00:39:16.080 You take away their avocado toast, Lincoln, and they'll fold like a cheap suit.

00:39:21.040 Maybe you take away shampoo imports for Justin Trudeau.

00:39:24.800 And that's what it'll take to end the mandate.

00:39:28.020 We'll see.

00:39:28.600 Well, how are you doing otherwise?

00:39:30.960 You obviously found a place to stay.

00:39:33.100 And how long are you going to be down there?

00:39:36.300 I'm willing to stay as long as it takes.

00:39:38.800 I don't, like I said, it's unprecedented what's going on here.

00:39:41.940 So we don't know if it's going to take days, weeks, or what's going to happen.

00:39:47.100 But almost every trucker I've spoken to says that they're not leaving anytime soon.

00:39:52.040 Almost every supporter that I've spoken to has said that they're not leaving anytime soon.

00:39:56.340 So it's going to be really interesting what's going to happen here.

00:39:59.300 You know, from the sounds of it, again, like you said, it could be scare tactics.

00:40:03.780 Nobody knows, right?

00:40:05.220 So if it was my best guess, I would say that they are going to start to implement some sort of procedure like what we saw earlier tweeted out by the Ottawa police.

00:40:17.400 So who knows?

00:40:18.500 We're going to see.

00:40:19.160 And I'm here to cover it.

00:40:21.280 Very interesting.

00:40:21.980 Well, listen, keep it up.

00:40:22.820 You're going to be joined by a bunch of other rebels this weekend.

00:40:24.980 If they're not already in place, they'll be coming over the next few hours.

00:40:29.020 We're going to have the largest team on the ground.

00:40:31.920 It is true, obviously, that CBC, CTV, and the rest of the bailout media have more people than Rebel News does.

00:40:37.960 Obviously, it would be ridiculous to claim otherwise.

00:40:41.120 But we will have more people actually amongst the truckers, actually on the street, showing what it actually looks like.

00:40:47.540 And, of course, our friends at the Democracy Fund will be there on the lawyer's side.

00:40:51.140 So between the two entities, Rebel News and the Democracy Fund charity, I think there will be a significant force for freedom there.

00:40:59.740 And, Lincoln, you're obviously the pointy edge of that spear.

00:41:02.440 Stay safe.

00:41:03.620 All your vids will be compiled at convoyreports.com.

00:41:07.560 We'll also be crowdfunding there to help cover the costs of your hotel and food and stuff like that.

00:41:12.500 Keep it up.

00:41:12.980 Thanks for joining us today.

00:41:13.800 And stay warm.

00:41:15.240 Thanks, Enzo.

00:41:15.780 Thanks for having me on.

00:41:16.480 We are the Lincoln Jay, one of our half-dozen or so reporters who is on the ground or will very shortly be on the ground in Ottawa at the Trucker Rebellion.

00:41:27.560 I don't even want to say rebellion anymore because I want to emphasize how peaceful it is.

00:41:33.200 The bizarre language in the police chief's tweets and speech suggests that they're violent, dangerous, and hateful.

00:41:39.200 Well, the only thing that meets that test in Ottawa is the prime minister himself.

00:41:44.880 Stay with us.

00:41:45.840 Some final thoughts are next.

00:41:58.200 You know, we're going all blockade, convoy, all trucker all the time around here.

00:42:04.100 And there are other things I want to talk about, of course, but it's just so important.

00:42:08.280 And it's the most seismic political movement in the last two years.

00:42:13.920 For whatever reason, nothing else clicked.

00:42:16.360 Maxime Bernier has been consistent throughout the last two years, and his party is now in the low teens in the polling, which is important.

00:42:23.280 But these truckers, I showed you that abacus poll, 32%.

00:42:26.620 I think it's because they're so organic, so fresh, and so obviously uncontrolled by the establishment, so obviously causing heartburn in the establishment, that people love them.

00:42:36.420 It's a reflection of what people have wanted these past two years.

00:42:40.380 I don't know if the government's going to succeed in stealing the money raised by these truckers, about $10 million.

00:42:46.260 We saw that the truckers retained the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms as their lawyers yesterday.

00:42:51.380 That's excellent.

00:42:52.220 It's not even the money, though.

00:42:54.900 It's what the money stands for, this massive grassroots appeal.

00:42:59.100 And the fact that so many Trudeau liberals saying, I want that money, again, shows that they really are like Hugo Chavez.

00:43:06.080 They would nationalize your property, your money, in a heartbeat if they thought they could, and they're no longer keeping that point of view secret.

00:43:12.380 I was deeply disturbed this morning when I saw those tweets in that video by the Ottawa police that really felt like police state stuff.

00:43:20.140 On reflection, I think some of it was just shock and awe to scare people.

00:43:25.960 But if that's true, that's still not a good thing because these words were said, and the fear of the police state is emanating.

00:43:35.000 Even if the police state really won't manifest itself, it has announced itself, and that's no good.

00:43:41.100 We need our police to be apolitical, nonpartisan, and not a threat to people, but a supporter to serve and protect.

00:43:47.560 That's not what we're seeing in Ottawa.

00:43:49.640 Trouble is, I don't think we have any checks and balances left in Canada these days.

00:43:53.120 No courts, no media, no opposition parties.

00:43:56.420 I have some hope for the conservatives now, but not much still.

00:43:59.500 I'm worried that, whereas in the past, maybe some part of civil society would speak out against these abusive comments by the Ottawa police that none have done so.

00:44:10.340 I'm going to look.

00:44:11.080 I haven't seen anything from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association or other groups.

00:44:16.160 I think they like the lockdowns, and they like police beating up or threatening to attack, at least, these truckers.

00:44:22.860 I'll keep my eyes peeled, and I'll keep my eyes peeled on our lawyer friends from the Democracy Fund who are down there looking to protect people from police abuses.

00:44:30.520 We are in dangerous days, but I think they're dangerous precisely because perhaps we're on the precipice of turning this thing around, and the other side knows it.

00:44:39.500 Maybe the propaganda wouldn't be so loud if our side wasn't so promising right now.

00:44:46.940 I have a little bit of hope, which I have not permitted myself until recently.

00:44:51.120 That's the show for today.

00:44:52.060 Make sure you tune in all weekend at ConvoyReports.com.

00:44:55.400 I'm not sure if I myself will be able to go down there, but you can see we have a very able team on the ground.

00:45:00.060 Let me leave with a video by Alexa Lavoie, who investigates the allegation that the Terry Fox statue was desecrated by truckers.

00:45:08.820 I'll leave you with that until tomorrow's Convoy Reports.

00:45:11.720 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:45:16.760 And one of the first days we came back to where we were staying, and we saw Aaron O'Toole and a bunch of the liberal media saying that we completely defaced the statue, that the convoyers were destroying it.

00:45:32.540 They said that people were peeing on it, and so we came out here the next day, and there was nothing.

00:45:38.880 What had happened was they put a Canadian flag on him, a mandate freedom sign, a Canadian hat, and a flag in his hand.

00:45:46.060 And we've had people from downtown Ottawa come up absolutely livid.

00:45:51.680 They come and look at the statue, and they're like, wait a second, what's wrong with it?

00:45:55.780 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:46:00.160 Hey, Alexa, for Rebel News, and today I'm going to talk about what happened with the Terry Fox statue.

00:46:06.900 So recently, some protesters have put a Canadian flag on Terry Fox statue and a cap, and as well, a board writing some freedom speech on it.

00:46:22.540 But recently, not only the mainstream media, but Aaron O'Toole and Brad West, that is actually the mayor where Terry Fox come from, have went out to say that it was disgraceful, an inappropriate move, and that should be removed straight away, as it was the worst thing that the people have did so far.

00:46:48.720 So I'm going to ask some people about if they find it really disturbing to have done that to this statue, and what do you think about Terry Fox?

00:47:01.360 And as well, I have some people who saw a little bit of the Evan Man, so let's check it out.

00:47:06.920 Recently, the mainstream media have discredited the movement because some people put a flag and a board on Terry Fox.

00:47:22.500 Do you find that insulting to put, like, a freedom board on Terry Fox with a Canadian flag?

00:47:29.800 I personally don't find that offensive at all.

00:47:32.240 I mean, it's just freedom, it's a Canadian flag, you know, how is that, does that not seem neutral?

00:47:38.680 Should freedom be controversial, you know?

00:47:41.600 So how is freedom controversial, saying that on Terry Fox when he was free to run across the country, you know, and we all rally behind that?

00:47:50.280 I mean, how many people, how many of us run every year because of Terry Fox?

00:47:54.340 So that's great.

00:47:55.500 So shouldn't we all be free in Terry Fox's statue?

00:47:59.000 I'm okay with that.

00:48:00.400 So can you explain to me what happened exactly with Terry's statue the other day?

00:48:06.040 Yeah, me and my wife, we've been here every day for the past four days.

00:48:09.380 We traveled out with Convoy West, and one of the first days we came back to where we were staying,

00:48:14.660 and we saw Erin O'Toole and a bunch of the liberal media saying that we completely defaced the statue,

00:48:20.100 that the convoyers were destroying it.

00:48:22.900 They said that people were peeing on it, and so we came out here the next day, and there was nothing.

00:48:29.200 What had happened was they put a Canadian flag on him, a mandate freedom sign, a Canadian hat, and a flag in his hand.

00:48:36.840 And we've had people from downtown Ottawa come up absolutely livid.

00:48:41.920 They come and look at the statue, and they're like, wait a second, what's wrong with it?

00:48:46.060 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:48:47.420 So me and my wife created this sign that just says, we love you, Terry,

00:48:51.440 and we're just trying to push back against the fake news, against the fake media.

00:48:55.580 People have been, we've been, there's probably been about 2,000 people who've come and taken pictures of this.

00:49:00.620 My wife walked 10 blocks and picked up some flowers to set there. 1.00

00:49:04.420 There's a video of me just cleaning off the statue.

00:49:07.280 There was nothing dirty on it, but I just gave it a little bit of a polish.

00:49:11.060 And I've just been absolutely blown away and been sickened by how fake the news has been towards this convoy.

00:49:18.760 And realistically, they have absolutely nothing to throw on us.

00:49:22.420 I don't find it offensive that they did that to Terry Fox.

00:49:25.200 This is Canada.

00:49:26.580 He was and still is a part of Canada.

00:49:29.520 I support the Terry Fox Foundation with the Terry Fox runs, with educating my children.

00:49:36.320 When that happens, we talked about Terry Fox all the time.

00:49:39.460 They are suggesting with what they put on it to mandate freedom and to support Canada.

00:49:47.220 So I'm not offended by the fact that they did that to the Terry Fox statue.

00:49:50.620 I was just at the Terry Fox statue, and there is a bouquet of flowers at the Terry Fox statue.

00:49:56.380 And I'm sure the people that did that feel suitably chagrined by it.

00:50:01.540 If they should, but I'm sure that they do.

00:50:04.580 So I'm not offended.

00:50:06.960 I don't really know if I have an opinion on that.

00:50:09.960 I don't really know.

00:50:11.600 It doesn't bother me, but I'm not his brother.

00:50:14.940 So I don't know if I have an opinion.

00:50:16.920 I just have other opinions.

00:50:18.160 I have opinions like, everything's clean here.

00:50:21.120 It's not what Trudeau's saying.

00:50:22.380 It's not what the mainstream media's saying.

00:50:24.640 Everybody's peaceful.

00:50:25.480 The police are very happy with us and we with them.

00:50:29.160 I think that if they were to leave it alone, it would have probably been better.

00:50:32.860 But it wasn't really offensive.

00:50:34.160 There's been more offensive things done to it that I've seen pictures of that the media isn't covering.

00:50:39.120 Mainstream media.

00:50:39.940 Excuse me.

00:50:40.320 You guys are doing a great job.

00:50:42.420 Well, I find it entirely typical of what we've come to see from Trudeau and the mainstream media in this country.

00:50:47.240 It's just about their narrative.

00:50:49.560 They'll take any subject matter and twist it around to suit their desires.

00:50:53.540 It has nothing to do with the facts.

00:50:55.080 They care nothing for the truth.

00:50:56.400 They care nothing for the Canadian people. 0.99

00:50:58.460 Last year, we witnessed a series of protests across the country, in this country and the world, basically,

00:51:04.420 where all kinds of statues were torn down, decapitated, paint thrown on them.

00:51:10.720 Where was the outrage?

00:51:11.800 There was none. 0.99

00:51:13.060 Oh, those that tried to make outrage were vilified as evil, horrible, white supremacists. 1.00

00:51:18.740 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:51:20.160 This is the Canadian people. 0.98

00:51:21.720 We used to call these people the salt of the earth.

00:51:24.320 What happened to that?

00:51:25.860 What happened to that?

00:51:27.260 Where are we?

00:51:28.460 Let's come together.

00:51:29.780 These truckers are uniting the country in a way that I've never seen.

00:51:32.400 It's incredible.

00:51:33.500 The love, the support, everything here is powerful.

00:51:37.300 And I hope that you will see, you come down here with your own eyes and see what's happening in Ottawa.

00:51:43.920 These truckers aren't going anywhere.

00:51:45.760 Trudeau's regime is over.

00:51:47.120 And we're waiting for him to realize it.

00:51:49.360 If you look at the rallies that have happened in the past two years, there's been police cars burning.

00:51:54.040 There's been churches burning.

00:51:56.360 Police have been assaulted.

00:51:58.480 And they have nothing, no dirt to throw on this rally.

00:52:02.180 And it's been four days of hardworking blue-collar Canadians coming out, representing Canada well.

00:52:08.000 And me and my wife are so proud to still be here day after day.

00:52:11.920 And we're going to be here as long as it takes.

00:52:13.460 We're going to be here with these truckers for as long as it takes.

00:52:15.960 So do you think that it's someone who tried to discredit the movement by doing that?

00:52:22.320 Absolutely.

00:52:23.480 Even the person with the Nazi flag.

00:52:25.260 We have not seen a single Nazi flag in this whole grounds.

00:52:28.820 And we've been here for four days.

00:52:30.460 And I really believe that they're planting people.

00:52:33.460 People are walking up.

00:52:34.660 That photo you see of the Nazi flag, two things.

00:52:37.260 It was taken with a long-angled lens.

00:52:39.080 And we don't know when it was actually taken.

00:52:41.880 It may not have even been here.

00:52:43.420 Yesterday, I watched a video of these convoyers,

00:52:45.680 these protesters, forcing out somebody who had a completely covered face mask.

00:52:50.240 And he had a Confederate flag.

00:52:52.920 And the protesters, on their own, forced him out of the rally.

00:52:57.240 These protesters are not racist.

00:52:59.380 They're not pushing any religion or any other things than freedom.

00:53:03.780 These people, I've seen people from all different backgrounds,

00:53:06.820 all different faiths, religions, ethnicities,

00:53:10.260 coming together under one thing that is rallying together.

00:53:14.160 And they want their freedoms back.

00:53:15.540 They want the right to choose for their children.

00:53:17.900 They want to be able to watch their kids play sports.

00:53:20.180 They want to be allowed in the hospitals when their wives are giving birth. 1.00

00:53:23.360 They want to be there when grandma dies in her hospital bed.

00:53:26.660 And it's just, it's unreal.

00:53:28.180 So now you can see the other side of the story

00:53:31.560 of what happened to the statue of Terry Fox.

00:53:35.520 And so I hope you enjoy it.

00:53:58.180 Thank you.

00:54:28.180 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - February 05, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ottawa police drop the mask and reveal their authoritarian side

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