Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel News exposes gov't-sanctioned kill pen for ostriches

00:00:00.640 Tonight, feathers up everybody. I'm out here at the Edgewood Ostrich Farm.

00:00:04.640 It's October 6th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show. 0.87

00:00:10.960 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:22.560 Hi everybody, I've climbed up a hill that's about a mile away from where the ostriches are 0.82

00:00:29.520 and if you see when I turn slowly you can see some people along the road looking sort of like I am

00:00:36.240 trying to get a better vantage and over there you can see this sort of like a prison really

00:00:42.960 different rings of security the ostriches have no idea what they're in for they just think they're

00:00:48.480 out there having a lark but you can see the tents set up by the CFIA and the whole point of the high

00:00:55.840 hay bales there's no scientific reason for it there's no health reason for it it's precisely

00:01:03.200 so you have to go to great lengths to see the massacre that's about to happen that's why the

00:01:09.280 police put in a no-fly zone overhead banning any drones I don't know why the police would do

00:01:16.080 political errands like that I understand police wanting to keep the peace but in this case you

00:01:21.440 have the RCMP providing a protective ring around the CFIA and they're not building a protective ring

00:01:29.840 they're building an optical ring so you can't see through it as soon as the courts approve there will

00:01:35.840 be hundreds of birds killed very quickly and the CFIA wants that to be done in secret that's why

00:01:43.120 they illegally blurred and cut the surveillance cameras that's why they brought in those massive 0.83

00:01:48.800 bales of hay and that's why they're building an optical solution not a medical solution a political

00:01:56.640 solution I'm gonna head on back down hi everybody Ezra Levant here I'm standing above the ostrich farm

00:02:04.640 on a bit of a hill zooming in on my camera and you might be saying what are all those things it looks

00:02:11.840 like sort of a castle made of bales of hay and then there's a black fence and you can see those little

00:02:19.280 dots are the ostriches you can see some police vehicles those tents are from the Canada food

00:02:26.000 inspection agency and what we're looking at here you can see some people have stopped on the road

00:02:33.440 okay so this is the back section of the farm here that we where we have the ostriches so basically from

00:02:38.800 this pole right here where the tent is going this way we have access to that we can see the birds

00:02:43.840 that are in here once you go past that white tent you can't see anything at all the other concern that

00:02:49.360 we had like on the other side of there is the camp that we're set up at one of the concerns we had is

00:02:54.640 one of the ostriches turned around and laid an egg three days ago oh yeah and they haven't even so much

00:02:58.880 as went and picked it up they're saying that this is a biohazard but yet at the same time they're doing

00:03:04.080 nothing to to actually keep the biohazard under control like why would you leave an egg um you

00:03:10.880 know out in the open if it was that much of a concern there is a freezer in the barn from what

00:03:16.320 i've understood that they are supposed to collect the eggs and put them into so again they're not

00:03:21.200 following protocol or safety standards on that standpoint as well and we have the police

00:03:28.320 hang on if you can get a ticket for that just to let you know okay

00:03:33.120 all right come and get it

00:03:36.320 that um has been working with the farm so because of everything that happened with katie

00:03:55.840 and karen and them being arrested the way that it works now is jeff or dave has to bring the

00:04:01.440 the electrolytes down handed off to the liaison rcmp the rcmp then turn around and take it down to the

00:04:08.720 cfia they administer the liquids um and then they turn around and bring the bag up and then it gets

00:04:15.120 passed off to jeff again and then jeff has to bring it up to the house so that it's cleaned and started

00:04:19.040 all over so this is part of the farm here where you can see this is some of the rcmp set up out in

00:04:23.840 the field over here um so they turn around and go in this way they can there's a little entrance up at

00:04:29.200 the top where they can make their way in through the back so there's a field entrance here so they

00:04:34.880 can go straight up the crop the tree line here and go through the back of the ostrich farm is the way

00:04:39.440 that it works and then we were over on the other side so it goes right over to the other road where

00:04:44.000 we did the u-turn out which is quite a ways over so there's a lot of room here like i said for the

00:04:49.440 birds right um and again you know if if it was all about safety and protocol um they could turn

00:04:55.920 around and say okay this is what you have to do to keep your birds like i said they could turn around

00:05:00.480 and put go up like 15 foot we do this for elk anyway right where we have 18 foot fences and stuff

00:05:06.480 so we could turn around and put an 18 foot fence up and then put net over top or whatever needs to be

00:05:11.360 done so that we don't have wild birds coming in and and that would turn around and alleviate them

00:05:16.240 saying well you know it's passed through birds wild birds and such so this is the liaison if you focus

00:05:22.640 over here they are actually meeting you can see karen and katie talking to them at this point

00:05:27.200 so let's move up a little bit further into where jim is okay well i am here with brenda belanger who

00:05:34.640 is coming from well you're originally from ontario but you're in alberta now i'm in alberta now

00:05:38.560 you know a lot of people have come in from across the country i want to ask you what does ostrich

00:05:44.000 sheriffs mean what's an ostrich sheriff the ostrich sheriffs means that we are out here doing filming

00:05:50.640 and sending information directly to the family as well as we have our eyes open for any type of

00:05:56.560 infiltration that's coming through um you know again we're standing in unity and we are being

00:06:02.720 proactive so we do have people that's coming through and in order to get there's also um

00:06:10.560 an auction going on for stockings as well and you get one of these stickers but in order to get the

00:06:15.040 stickers and that in the actual pins you actually have to turn around and get a hug you have to

00:06:21.280 turn around and get hugs so i've been hugged quite a lot and it's not just because i'm sort of squishy

00:06:26.800 i've there's been a lot of hugs going around today we're joking around and you just sort of i think

00:06:31.280 that's sort of way of saying you're you're sort of a deputy volunteer is that right sure yeah yeah

00:06:35.840 but let me show you there's some real law in order i already showed folks some of the police but

00:06:41.040 apparently there's a 200 000 fine and six months in jail if they draw blood isn't that crazy if they

00:06:48.320 test their own birds and here's another sign zero of 399 um ostriches have been tested in eight months

00:06:58.400 and that's the crazy thing is that these bureaucrats have come in from ottawa they want to kill all the

00:07:03.200 birds because they say they're a menace the farm says test them the government says no testing allowed

00:07:09.280 or you'll get a fight the ironic part is i'm a farmer as well and what i'm seeing from a farm

00:07:15.680 standpoint is the fact that they're cherry picking they are honestly cherry picking we have animals

00:07:22.480 like sheep and goats and horses that actually have disease that is transmittable to humans but we don't

00:07:28.560 mass call okay you just take out the animals that are infected well what we have to do is we quarantine

00:07:34.160 the whole farm okay um i'll use the horses as an example with strangles um we turn around and we

00:07:40.880 have to basically disinfect our farm daily every water bucket every feed bucket um until it's till

00:07:48.960 it's cured so it's but they're not killed but they're not killed and then we have to turn around

00:07:53.360 after we've had all the animals healthy or what seems healthy um they have to pin for three months and

00:07:59.360 test these animals to make sure that there is no other cases before the animals can even leave our

00:08:04.240 farm well would you look at that a couple of frisky ostriches isn't that fun but what's all this

00:08:11.760 what's all that well that's police line do not cross because if we turn around a little bit there's one

00:08:16.880 two three four police cars a whole bunch of cops not letting us get any closer to the ostrich

00:08:23.200 and those ostriches have no idea what's coming for them if the court system does what i fear it might do

00:08:29.520 every single bird in this farm is going to be killed the rcmp won't do the bird killing they're here to

00:08:35.760 stop the hundreds of citizens that have come out in support of the birds from interfering with the

00:08:41.040 cull which is being done at the hands of the canadian food inspection agency an ottawa-run bureaucracy

00:08:48.080 the cops are here basically to stop the people from tearing the ottawa bureaucrats to shreds

00:08:54.400 bizarrely though the cops seem to abide law breaking from the food inspection agency themselves

00:09:00.000 including disabling the surveillance cameras that the farmers put up and astonishingly the food

00:09:05.760 inspectors have set up huge barricades so that when they do the killing of these hundreds of birds it

00:09:13.440 will evade the cameras of these citizen journalists it's a bad faith exercise all around but for at least now

00:09:21.040 those birds are frolicking hi everybody ezra levant here at the ostrich farm in central bc

00:09:27.680 that is under siege by i would estimate 50 rcmp officers and a smaller contingent of agricultural

00:09:35.120 bureaucrats who are the actual kill force that have come to well massacre if you want a hostile word 1.00

00:09:43.760 hundreds of birds because almost a year ago a couple of them had the sniffles they got better

00:09:49.920 though and all the birds have what's called herd immunity literally but still the government seeks

00:09:55.200 to kill every one of them even though the farmer says they're all healthy we're happy to test them

00:10:00.000 that's part of the madness here but i want to show you the popular response because it really does remind 0.95

00:10:05.280 me of the trucker convoy the i don't know if you can see i'll hold the camera up there and this isn't

00:10:11.760 even a full turnout this is who we have right now but the number waxes and wanes every day lots of

00:10:19.920 homemade signs and t-shirts and stickers discovery over destruction ostriches or hostages of the cfia

00:10:27.920 herb herd immediately ignored there's lots of artwork as well that's actually quite well done

00:10:34.240 there's funny t-shirts too messages of all sorts i'm gonna i mean this is truly a grassroots reaction

00:10:42.720 love wins beyond the divide unity ostrich lives matter you will regret what you're doing freedom

00:10:50.880 save ostriches save ourselves only evil comes after the innocent please come join us save the ostrich

00:10:56.560 science the cure feathers need freedom if your child got sick in your family would you kill the 0.99

00:11:04.080 whole family that's pretty brutal but that's what we're talking about here no farmers no food cfia

00:11:10.240 prepares for call protect our farmers the whole world is watching that i can tell you is true facts

00:11:16.560 not fear we are healthy we are strong we are beautiful we demand testing we demand the truth and that's

00:11:23.520 the thing the farmers have said look these birds are fine look at them here's a few of them going for a bit

00:11:28.400 of a run look at that they have no idea what's coming for them i hate to say it and you know people

00:11:35.760 here have uh been camping out our friend tamara leach was here the other day uh with a concert it really

00:11:43.440 has a peaceful earthy vibe here's some more every child matters um and these are the names of different ostriches

00:11:53.280 i'm told that the ostriches have names why not your pets have names farmers sometimes give their cows

00:11:59.760 names save the ostriches these are different names of hostages you can see of hostages excuse me

00:12:06.240 look at them here's one going back and forth they're funny critters and because they're so big

00:12:12.000 they've got a personality and you can see why people have grown attached to them now one of the reasons

00:12:19.520 for these tall structures if you can see this scaffolding here and then there's a scissor lift

00:12:26.080 i think that's what they call that orange device there is because like i mentioned earlier the

00:12:31.520 government has set up these very tall line of sight barricades have nothing to do with health nothing to

00:12:38.080 do with science or safety have everything to do with stopping people from filming the massacre of the

00:12:44.240 birds they've even put in place a no-fly zone to stop people from sending drones or helicopters

00:12:50.960 that's got nothing to do with health and safety it's got everything to do with this

00:12:54.880 is a political exercise and everybody knows it here the only difference between this is your enemies

00:13:01.600 across coming align you so they actually look at you in the eye the canadian food inspection agency

00:13:06.640 will not come to the fence will not look at us in the eye and that is cowardice look at us in the eye

00:13:13.360 you tell us that that animal is doing well you look at us in the eye i got one more question if you

00:13:20.640 don't mind me asking what is what is this device here i think i know i think i know but help me out

00:13:28.720 alberta okay so they cut our surveillance out here at the farm as you probably are aware they went in

00:13:34.240 they use tree trimmers those big long tree trimmers they used so the company out of alberta called alberta

00:13:40.800 portable surveillance solutions has provided us surveillance

00:13:47.760 as well as the internet they blocked us so this is all run off of starling

00:13:55.040 and this is just one of the companies that has supported the farm we also have the porta potties

00:14:02.240 that are absolutely everywhere um they're they've been donated to us they're coming in and cleaning

00:14:07.520 my course for free as well well that's good it is absolutely amazing considering there's probably

00:14:12.080 a good 12 to 15 of them here on the farm okay you don't want those things no and they're coming in

00:14:17.120 for free and they're jumping in for us because they're supporting their local farmers supporting

00:14:21.440 farmers sunbelt was another one that was absolutely amazing they turned around and they

00:14:25.520 had a contract they decided that they did not want any part of the contract they were looking at

00:14:29.920 the future and the fact that this is their community wow all right alberta portable surveillance yeah

00:14:37.520 for sure this has been amazing we have two of them we have this one here we have another one down at

00:14:42.080 the end wow you can see the white on it i do oh look can you see the eggs in here they're not an egg yet

00:14:52.560 there's an egg in there no 0.99

00:15:01.360 they're making an ass 0.98

00:15:12.080 which isn't set up 0.98

00:15:38.640 As you can see, leave it clean, sanitize, take you up for a few in our kitchen.

00:15:55.940 These are our wonderful ladies that do the cooking for us. 0.86

00:15:58.600 This is Ezra Levance.

00:15:59.520 Hi, how are you?

00:16:00.800 What you cooking?

00:16:03.540 I don't know, buddy.

00:16:05.040 I don't know, buddy, but we'll get you in.

00:16:08.640 Ezra Levant here at the Ostrich Farm.

00:16:31.220 I'm with Staff Sergeant Chris Clark of the RCMP, who I really appreciate you coming down to give me some information.

00:16:37.740 I know you've spoken to my colleague, Drea Humphrey.

00:16:40.200 I appreciate that.

00:16:41.900 Rebel News Armado is telling the other side of the story, and we're sympathetic to the Ostrich Farm and even the ostriches.

00:16:48.520 But it behooves us to get your side of the story, if the police indeed have a side.

00:16:53.740 Maybe you could start by telling us who's here on behalf of the RCMP and what your mandate is.

00:16:59.860 Yes, well, so in any situation where there's protest, we are an impartial party.

00:17:07.720 So in this particular case, we're on site at the request of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

00:17:13.680 And our role here specifically is public safety, to keep the peace, and to enforce the law if necessary.

00:17:21.100 Now, I spoke to some of the other officers.

00:17:24.220 They're coming in from pretty far afield.

00:17:26.020 I mean, it looks like a pretty big operation.

00:17:28.520 Are you at liberty to disclose how many RCMP are involved?

00:17:32.020 We don't speak to numbers specifically for operational security reasons.

00:17:35.100 What I can tell you is there are a number of different support units under the critical response unit here.

00:17:43.040 So overall operations is conducted by critical response unit, which responds to such things as wildfires, floods, things of that nature, as well as protests.

00:17:54.480 Those support services that you may have seen over the last couple of weeks, we have remote pilot aircraft system, obviously.

00:18:01.700 We've got some medics here, among others.

00:18:05.720 So to ensure that we don't compromise public safety in any one community, we bring in officers from across the province.

00:18:13.220 It's like a pretty big operation.

00:18:14.700 One officer said more than 30, and you just described other, you know, the ambulance, which I think I saw drive by.

00:18:22.200 How long have you guys been out here? Is it being a couple weeks down?

00:18:24.480 So we arrived early morning on September 22nd, and we will remain on site until CFIA concludes their business.

00:18:34.560 Can I ask, and maybe you don't know the answer, who's paying for that?

00:18:37.940 Because you guys, I'm guessing there's some overtime, I'm guessing there's some hotels and restaurants.

00:18:42.320 And even if it is just 30, and I suspect there's probably more, that's a pretty big operation.

00:18:48.940 I don't have the specific, where the funding model is.

00:18:53.580 With the CFIA, would they have contacted you or would, like, who said, hey, bring all the RCMP down?

00:18:59.980 Does the CFIA have the power to do that?

00:19:01.920 Or was that a decision by the Solicitor General, maybe?

00:19:04.540 So to be clear, this is a CFIA operation, and so it's a search warrant that they've executed, and we're here at their request.

00:19:14.040 Okay.

00:19:15.200 Now, this police line that says, you know, across the yellow tape there, can I ask why that tape is there, and by what authority?

00:19:23.860 Okay.

00:19:24.680 So the property north of Langeal Road here is subject to a search warrant under the Health of Animals Act.

00:19:32.580 It'd be true, you've searched it in the last two weeks now.

00:19:35.660 Okay, with any search warrant, we secure the property, search, or, sorry, quote-unquote search.

00:19:42.740 That search could take days, weeks, months.

00:19:46.440 It depends on what needs to take place.

00:19:51.080 So let's compare it.

00:19:53.220 When we usually conduct a search warrant on, say, a residence for, you know, a drug investigation or a homicide,

00:20:01.020 we will secure that property and only release it once we're completed what we need to do inside.

00:20:07.900 But are you gathering evidence?

00:20:10.440 Like, I mean, really, it's just whether or not these several hundred birds will be culled.

00:20:16.160 There's no, it's not like you're protecting evidence in a crime scene, is it?

00:20:21.080 I mean, I just feel like it's a turf grab that, I mean, I understand the power of the search warrant.

00:20:28.600 It just seems odd that it's being used to keep people out from a vast area when there's no sort of searching going on.

00:20:34.860 So, again, to be clear, this is a CFIA search warrant that they've executed.

00:20:40.540 Okay.

00:20:40.900 And we're here to secure the property until the conclusion of CFIA business.

00:20:46.120 All right.

00:20:46.380 I have to study that a little bit more.

00:20:48.160 It sounds like you're pretty resolved on the matter.

00:20:50.280 Now, there's an enormous number of people here, and I understand it grows and waxes and wanes.

00:20:54.100 Obviously, you guys want to make sure there is zero injuries, zero conflict and confrontation.

00:21:02.880 I'm guessing maintain peace and order is your top goal.

00:21:08.040 Do you feel like you're going to be able to accomplish that?

00:21:10.700 Because there's some people who here are very passionate about the animals and might try some civil disobedience.

00:21:15.700 I don't have any information.

00:21:16.600 Some of these people here are very emotionally moved by these birds, and they feel there's a grave injustice.

00:21:24.100 What is your strategy for assisting the CFIA in a manner that does not cause human casualties?

00:21:35.300 So, as I mentioned earlier, our rule here is public safety, keep the peace, and enforce the law if necessary.

00:21:43.160 So, you mentioned this is a large operation.

00:21:46.540 We have a number of resources here.

00:21:48.480 It's a large property.

00:21:49.260 So, we're here to secure that property from intrusion or what have you.

00:21:55.140 Certainly, our goal is to have no conflict, no confrontation, no violence with respect to the protesters here.

00:22:04.740 That would be the ideal situation.

00:22:08.120 I can't say if there will be, you know, based on what people are saying.

00:22:15.200 We're prepared to make arrests if necessary, to enforce the law if necessary.

00:22:19.800 However, ultimately, we would rather make no arrests.

00:22:23.240 A week or two ago, a farmer nearby let two Rebel News reporters get in a helicopter and take some images from above, which showed, I think, some interesting developments on the police side.

00:22:38.380 I understand that there's now a ban on drones and airplanes.

00:22:43.360 Is that accurate?

00:22:43.980 So, there was actually what's called a NOTAM, or a NOTICED airman, at the time that the helicopter was up last week.

00:22:52.080 However, it wasn't very big.

00:22:54.800 What was it?

00:22:55.800 The NOTAM.

00:22:56.780 So, it only goes to a certain elevation, and its radius is only so big.

00:23:02.400 So, we were aware of the helicopter.

00:23:04.660 It did not.

00:23:05.200 Okay, so for clarity, a helicopter could still observe if it was of a sufficient height.

00:23:13.380 Yes, currently.

00:23:14.200 The current NOTAM is unchanged, to my advice.

00:23:18.200 Would that allow certain drones to be used as well?

00:23:22.420 Do you know how high it goes?

00:23:23.740 Maybe it's not your department.

00:23:25.200 It's not a question for me.

00:23:26.460 I'm not an expert on drones.

00:23:27.940 The reason I'm asking is because it doesn't seem like a safety issue.

00:23:32.540 It seems like a, you know, to be pejorative, a sneakiness issue.

00:23:37.400 I saw some of the CFIA cops in full hazmat suits blocking the farm's surveillance cameras,

00:23:43.920 and I thought, what's that got to do with the health and safety of the birds?

00:23:47.360 And if they're bringing in these NOTAM rules against drones, I'm thinking,

00:23:50.940 maybe a drone buzzing near a bird would upset it,

00:23:54.840 but it seems to me like the Food Inspection Agency are trying to do something in the dark

00:24:00.340 and stop people from seeing it.

00:24:02.560 That's how it looks to me.

00:24:04.000 Am I wrong on that?

00:24:05.380 So, we'll go to the NOTAM.

00:24:09.040 And a NOTAM is put in place for a police operation like this

00:24:13.080 because we need to be allowed to have unfettered airspace.

00:24:18.840 So, we will put drones in the air, we will have potentially helicopters in the air,

00:24:22.780 and we need to be able to operate safely.

00:24:24.580 So, that's strictly why the NOTAM is put in place.

00:24:28.380 I can't speak to the questions about CFIA.

00:24:31.980 So, whatever business they're doing, that's questions for them.

00:24:34.220 Is there a spokesman for the CFIA here?

00:24:37.440 So, they have their own comms team.

00:24:39.960 I'm not sure.

00:24:40.960 I don't believe they're here, but they're answering questions through their portal.

00:24:44.700 In a way, you're sort of in a pickle because you're not the guys doing the dirty deed,

00:24:49.880 but you're the buffer and you're the ones most visible.

00:24:53.680 I haven't, I've only been here briefly, but I haven't seen any CFIA.

00:24:58.060 Do they interact with the people here at all?

00:25:00.880 Well, they're operating within the search zone.

00:25:05.680 So, that's mostly where they're focused.

00:25:09.300 And you are correct.

00:25:10.240 We're the ones that are visible here.

00:25:12.360 So, it's important to understand that this is a CFIA operation.

00:25:15.520 And we're here simply to keep the peace, public safety, and if necessary, enforce the law.

00:25:23.400 If the owners of the farm tried to restart the surveillance cameras, would that be something that you would impede?

00:25:32.040 And, again, I haven't spoken to them about this.

00:25:34.820 I'm just thinking, protecting people from intruding in the zone, I understand the search warrant.

00:25:41.720 It would be like a house that was a crime scene.

00:25:44.340 There's yellow tape, do not enter.

00:25:46.040 But when you deliberately take down security cameras, it's got nothing to do with a search warrant.

00:25:52.240 That's got to do with being sneaky.

00:25:53.720 Would you, as a police officer, stop the landowner from fixing those security cams?

00:26:01.100 What do you mean to enter onto the property?

00:26:03.960 So, this is all under, the property is secured now.

00:26:08.500 It's under a search warrant.

00:26:09.360 So, you cannot go on without CFIA approval.

00:26:13.960 So, for example, one of the owners was allowed on the other day because there's one of the ostriches that's injured.

00:26:19.740 Right.

00:26:20.420 That would be with CFIA approval.

00:26:23.820 So, not something for us to really speak to.

00:26:26.840 Do you follow what the CFIA is doing to see if there's anything that might be on its own illegal?

00:26:38.220 Or are you just sort of, like you say, it's a CFIA operation and you don't really get involved?

00:26:42.840 Like, because that seems to me that that is mischief.

00:26:47.440 That is beyond the scope of a search warrant.

00:26:50.280 That's political.

00:26:51.440 That's sneaky.

00:26:52.320 And, I mean, I don't know if the RCMP would abide that.

00:26:58.540 Are you making sure that they don't take liberties or is that just not part of your mandate here?

00:27:03.880 Well, I think you need to look at the contents of the search warrant because that may very well be part of it.

00:27:09.780 I can't say it.

00:27:11.160 So, that's something to look into.

00:27:15.360 You know, as indicated, we're here to enforce the law.

00:27:20.840 So, certainly if we were to witness an offense, then we would need to take action.

00:27:27.880 Last question for you.

00:27:29.080 How is the morale of the RCMP?

00:27:31.540 Because, like you said, this is not your fight.

00:27:34.780 This is a CFIA fight.

00:27:36.540 This is Ottawa versus the locals.

00:27:39.320 It's like it's a very strange battle.

00:27:41.300 And, in a way, I mean, look at you.

00:27:43.000 You're very much identified.

00:27:44.320 You have your hat.

00:27:45.180 You're such police.

00:27:46.960 You're the one butting up against these upset locals while the CFIA goes in incognito, has mats, covering license plates, etc.

00:27:58.880 That can't be fun.

00:28:02.360 Well, this is our job.

00:28:04.280 This is our duty.

00:28:05.040 We swear to you whether it's fun or not.

00:28:07.580 Exactly.

00:28:08.020 It's not the crappiest job you've had, but it's not the best.

00:28:10.780 So, over the past couple weeks, as you mentioned, the crowd has ebbed and flow.

00:28:16.400 There's been increases and decreases.

00:28:18.800 There's been, you know, overall, mostly a peaceful crowd.

00:28:24.180 Has there been any moments when it wasn't peaceful?

00:28:28.620 You said mostly peaceful.

00:28:29.980 And I wouldn't say that it's not peaceful.

00:28:32.060 Just more words have been exchanged, right?

00:28:35.980 So, but we've built relationships over those two weeks.

00:28:41.640 I think PLT, the police liaison team, was down here earlier.

00:28:45.680 It has been engaging with the protesters for months.

00:28:48.160 So, from what I've seen overall, the morale is quite good.

00:28:54.400 And certainly, there's a lot of emotions here, as you said.

00:28:58.720 And because, I mean, animals are involved.

00:29:01.960 So, anytime animals are involved, there's always going to be an audience.

00:29:04.380 It feels a little bit to me like the trucker convoy.

00:29:08.000 I was in Ottawa briefly, and there was a festival feeling.

00:29:11.080 There was a grassroots feeling, a dissident feeling.

00:29:13.880 And I remember there was a con before the storm.

00:29:16.020 The police were there, and it was pretty chummy until things changed.

00:29:19.540 And then it got sort of brutal.

00:29:21.100 I sure hope that doesn't happen here.

00:29:22.760 I hope it's a happy ending.

00:29:25.260 Well, again, I can't really speak to what may or may not happen, right?

00:29:30.100 We're here to ensure the public is safe.

00:29:33.880 To keep the peace and enforce the law if necessary.

00:29:37.800 So, the CFI can continue to conduct our business.

00:29:42.020 Once that's completed, we will no longer be required.

00:29:46.280 We're here to do that job until then.

00:29:48.880 All right.

00:29:49.380 Well, that's your motto.

00:29:50.100 Maintain the law.

00:29:51.100 Maintain the right.

00:29:52.540 Staff Sergeant Clark, thanks for taking some time with me today.

00:29:55.140 No problem.

00:29:55.620 Nice to meet you.

00:29:56.140 Take care.

00:30:03.880 Thank you.

00:30:33.880 You've arrived at your destination.

00:30:55.120 Thank you.

00:31:25.120 Thank you.

00:31:55.120 Well, we're going up on the scissor lift, which is like a movable elevator, and it's

00:32:05.780 to get a better view of the ostriches.

00:32:12.560 Scissor lift. 0.95

00:32:13.860 What did you call it?

00:32:15.020 I called it a movable elevator.

00:32:17.580 I knew what you called a scissor lift.

00:32:18.980 You know, I may not be a country boy anymore, but I know a scissor lift.

00:32:22.360 By the way, so when I used to come here, you could see tons of ostriches that would come here, they would visit with the people, they'd play, they'd mate, and now it's just so scarce.

00:32:37.780 So they're not even with each other, they're not even with each other, they're not with their farmers anymore, they're separated from each other.

00:32:43.160 But this is supposed to be a humane operation, and it just doesn't look like that at all.

00:32:50.620 And the thing is, we don't even know what's going on because the CFIA's main exercise has been deception to hide their activities, either by cutting off surveillance cameras or by building giant barriers out of straw and hay.

00:33:10.000 That's what makes this so weird, and I tell you, there's different theories about what's going on.

00:33:17.160 Some of them, I think, might even be called conspiracy theories.

00:33:20.080 And it doesn't help when the government refuses to be transparent and does super weird things like cutting off surveillance cameras.

00:33:28.300 You know what, it looks like bad faith.

00:33:31.100 When they came in with their hazmat suits from top to bottom, when nothing's sick, and it was just for theater, 1.00

00:33:37.180 you can't treat people like they're dumb. 0.99

00:33:40.500 We've already lived through COVID, we've lived through the BS and the deception. 0.99

00:33:44.520 It's like this government has learned nothing from the last five years.

00:33:47.860 Well, not only that, when they actually first came on day one, they weren't even wearing the hazmat suits, and people saw that.

00:33:54.080 People went online, wait, I thought they were sick, and then they're all head from toe.

00:33:58.880 But you're right, what is the average Canadian thinking when, number one, everybody knows if an animal had a flu 10 months ago,

00:34:06.520 they're not sick with that flu anymore.

00:34:08.560 But number two, like you mentioned, the state is blocking the farm's cameras so that they can't see.

00:34:17.640 That doesn't sit right with anyone.

00:34:19.400 I asked the RCMP about that.

00:34:20.840 I said, that surely wasn't in the court order.

00:34:22.860 That sounds like mischief.

00:34:24.340 And they say, well, it's not our mission.

00:34:27.100 Like, I think the police are in a pickle because the police are here to protect the bureaucrats.

00:34:33.080 And I can't imagine the police are happy about that.

00:34:35.660 Well, Andrea, you've been covering this story really for months.

00:34:38.940 And it's growing so much.

00:34:40.720 I was in the States last week.

00:34:42.900 People were saying, what's up with those ostriches? 1.00

00:34:44.920 It's not as big as the trucker story was in 2022, but it feels like it's getting out there.

00:34:51.720 It's so unusual.

00:34:53.380 Why do you think this story has the legs that it does?

00:34:57.060 You're right.

00:34:57.480 It's reached, apparently, Holland, China, and, of course, the U.S. have been big speakers to this issue.

00:35:04.160 You know, they've been speaking out before many of the politicians who are in recent weeks.

00:35:09.440 And I think what really at the core is everybody loves animals.

00:35:14.320 Like, most people actually just genuinely like animals.

00:35:17.380 And you can't vilify these animals.

00:35:19.880 You can't see their far-right extremists like they did with the trucker convoy or their anti-mass or whatever sort of rhetoric you want to use against them.

00:35:29.880 And I think everybody has respect for farmers, too, for the most part.

00:35:33.020 Right.

00:35:33.320 So you have that combination.

00:35:36.140 And then it's just fascinating what's been entangled in this story, and it keeps increasingly so.

00:35:42.040 So you have the grassroots, a lot of them the freedom sort of member.

00:35:46.220 But then you have just regular people because of that issue.

00:35:49.220 And then you have the trade issue coming in and the science.

00:35:53.260 Yeah.

00:35:53.460 It's all rash that they want.

00:35:54.280 There's so many things.

00:35:55.640 And also, where is this going?

00:35:57.140 I never thought of it.

00:35:58.040 If they can kill a farmer's ostrich for no good reason, can they kill your pet?

00:36:04.040 And there's all sorts of, your pet is not good for climate change.

00:36:08.680 Like, there's all sorts of anti-pet stuff out there.

00:36:11.700 And I just don't understand what is it that's so burning in the heart of these bureaucrats that they won't retest these animals.

00:36:21.460 Like, why?

00:36:23.180 And that's what I think baffles a lot of people.

00:36:25.200 Hey, tell me about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s role, because I think that surprised a lot of people.

00:36:30.660 What's going on there?

00:36:31.340 Right.

00:36:31.880 The House Secretary of the United States, RFK Jr., as well as head of Medicare and the NIH, they've all come out and said that these birds are worth more alive than dead.

00:36:44.200 Of course, they're seeing the opportunity in the science.

00:36:47.200 So, after 2020, the farm switched from selling them for food.

00:36:52.180 And by the way, it's the Canadian Food Inspection Agency coming to kill their flock.

00:36:56.260 Yeah, which is sort of weird.

00:36:57.080 Yeah, because these aren't food animals. 0.98

00:36:58.840 Exactly.

00:36:59.280 And their eggs were being used for antibody viral therapeutic research, which even before it was on RFK Jr.'s radar, he had already said,

00:37:10.980 we want to move away from the leaky vaccines, was the word he used, for mRNA technology, which is what Moderna's trying to work on. 0.99

00:37:17.720 Right.

00:37:17.940 So, these birds, they're not for leather.

00:37:20.940 They're not for meat.

00:37:21.860 They're not for eggs.

00:37:23.040 They are for testing an alternative to the mRNA vaccine.

00:37:26.460 Therapeutics, which is exactly what RFK Jr. said they want to shift into for looking at things for the avian flu.

00:37:32.620 It would not surprise me if that was the motivation here.

00:37:35.400 Right.

00:37:35.880 So, that was the U.S.'s motivation for getting involved.

00:37:38.780 And then, well, what is Canada's motivation for not saving this research?

00:37:45.220 And that's why the overlap with the Trekker Coinboy is there, too, because it's about this big pharma loyalty, it seems.

00:37:52.440 Now, you've been here, and I feel like walking around here, you're like the mayor of this place.

00:37:58.400 I mean, everyone respects your journalism.

00:38:01.440 You've spoken to almost everybody here.

00:38:04.480 I think you've really helped spread the word internationally.

00:38:08.360 How many stories have you had done?

00:38:09.960 Probably 20.

00:38:11.120 Oh, my gosh.

00:38:12.120 See?

00:38:12.600 It's 60.

00:38:13.220 60.

00:38:13.500 60.

00:38:14.040 60 stories.

00:38:14.880 Whoa.

00:38:15.340 For nine months, I've been covering this story.

00:38:17.480 Whoa.

00:38:17.800 You know what?

00:38:19.040 Just like Rebel News was the champion of the truckers, and we helped tell the world the story.

00:38:24.180 60 stories.

00:38:25.140 I'm sorry I undercounted so much.

00:38:26.960 Though it was funny, because at one point, Ezra put the story in slack, and he was like,

00:38:31.740 Draya, have you seen this?

00:38:33.060 And I, yeah, I've been covering it for months, Ezra.

00:38:35.240 Oh, I'm so sorry.

00:38:35.960 That's okay.

00:38:36.280 You know what?

00:38:36.700 I try and, we've got so much journalism going on, but you were having such an impact and having some fun.

00:38:42.680 I thought, I've got to come and check it out with my own eyes.

00:38:45.840 And Rebel News is beloved here, because they're not getting a fair shake from the CDC.

00:38:51.100 They're not getting a fair shake from a lot of institutions.

00:38:53.920 And so it is Rebel News that is getting their side of the story.

00:38:57.240 That's our motto, telling the other side of the story.

00:38:59.460 Telling the other side of the story.

00:39:00.460 And what I love is that there's so many just everyday people, which I feel like that's who I am.

00:39:05.220 I feel like Rebel just gave me a mic.

00:39:07.060 And I'm seeing other people here, too, and everybody's got their cameras out.

00:39:10.360 And what's happening with this almost non-partisan issue we're seeing here is people are finding everybody.

00:39:18.360 They're finding Rebel News for the first time because they want to know the other side of the story to these ostriches. 1.00

00:39:23.540 And I think it was CTE made the fatal error of saying that Katie was live streaming.

00:39:29.080 They said, oh, and she keeps live streaming.

00:39:31.100 And then, sure enough, her live stream went way up the next day.

00:39:35.740 So I think that these birds have the power to break through the echo chamber, too.

00:39:40.120 Isn't that interesting?

00:39:41.320 Which is something we've been, you know, that has been the key to get other people to go, hey, you know, Rebels talk about things the mainstream media isn't.

00:39:50.160 And mainstream media let me think they found a sick bird here the other day, which is what was out.

00:39:55.460 Well, you know, because a bird was injured, because the RCMP flew a drone, spooked the bird, it got in trouble.

00:40:02.460 And the way I saw that headline, it was phrased as if the bird was sick instead of injured by the cops.

00:40:08.240 The CFIA, intentionally it seems, would just say it's injured.

00:40:13.520 And the mainstream media, which should know, the background, should know that the farmers already said there was an injured bird.

00:40:19.540 So, you know, the value of people finding, everyday people talking about this, showing what's really happening, and Rebel News, I think we don't even know how measurable that is.

00:40:31.320 I'm so glad you're here.

00:40:33.460 Part of me wants to hope that it will have a happy ending.

00:40:36.880 But I've lived through COVID-19, and I know that so many attempts at compromise or reason have failed.

00:40:45.140 So many lawsuits were thrown out by the courts, and I don't want to be pessimistic, because where there's life, there's hope.

00:40:52.040 But, and it's a miracle that these birds have survived so long, because, and the cops have been here for weeks already.

00:40:59.300 I mean, just millions of dollars.

00:41:02.740 I don't know.

00:41:03.600 Are you optimistic?

00:41:04.560 I mean, I just don't know why a judge doesn't say, just test them.

00:41:08.160 Just test them, because they're all healthy.

00:41:10.300 And if they're not, okay, now we have a new fact.

00:41:12.120 But we believe, we understand all these birds are healthy, have been for almost 10 months.

00:41:19.220 These birds are over 260 days, healthy and asymptomatic.

00:41:22.960 And you're right, it is a miracle.

00:41:24.580 So the journalist in me is, yeah, it's pretty grim.

00:41:27.140 But I keep coming here, and every time I come here, it's because you think the birds are going to die, and they're alive.

00:41:33.140 So I'm rooting for the miracle.

00:41:34.840 But you're right.

00:41:35.420 I think the biggest red flag is the fact that the CFIA hasn't made it yet.

00:41:39.840 The fact that they've had, you know, even David Eby at one point saying something.

00:41:43.740 We have the Green Party saying, you know, why aren't you testing?

00:41:46.460 The fact that they know everybody is looking at this agency and saying, why won't you test them, and they still have it, is very concerning.

00:41:53.860 What is your official stance on the ostriches in British Columbia and the culling order that they are facing?

00:42:16.060 Really incredible that the Liberals have caused so much, because of the Liberal incompetence, we're in this mess.

00:42:24.420 And when you have an incompetent government, you have messes like the inflation crisis, like the crime crisis, like the border crisis, like the investment crisis, like the fastest shrinking economy in the entire G7.

00:42:39.340 When you have an incompetent government, you get lots of these messes.

00:42:42.400 Wait, on the ostriches, sir.

00:42:44.460 Sir, you didn't say what your stance is on the ostriches.

00:42:46.780 Why won't you answer your stance on the ostriches?

00:42:48.760 I just did. 0.97

00:42:49.280 I said the Liberals are incompetent. 0.96

00:42:50.600 That's my stance.

00:42:51.420 As a BC MP, I'm just curious what your take is on the ostrich situation at Universal Ostrich Farms.

00:42:58.060 What's your party's position on that?

00:43:00.040 I wrote the Minister of Health, well, so long ago now, a very different Minister of Health.

00:43:04.680 It was January 2025 that I wrote to say, look, can't we get the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to redo the tests?

00:43:13.240 That will remove a lot of the either anxiety divisions.

00:43:19.240 One wants to know why not redo the tests.

00:43:21.460 It's not that difficult to redo the tests.

00:43:23.440 But CFIA is refusing.

00:43:26.120 So I think CFIA could help themselves, potentially, by doing independent testing.

00:43:33.020 Do these birds have traces of avian flu?

00:43:35.740 And it's become such a divisive issue.

00:43:38.580 I must say most of my constituents who write me want that ostrich cull not to happen.

00:43:44.540 And I want to know.

00:43:46.540 I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't happen.

00:43:48.540 But why not get the evidence?

00:43:49.860 Why not, and this is our position as a party, why not redo the testing and verify the health of that flock of ostriches before engaging in what many see as animal cruelty?

00:44:04.420 And I can't imagine, this is absolutely astonishing to me, that an animal welfare issue in Canada has garnered the attention of MAGA-type billionaires in the United States,

00:44:18.320 which makes me sympathize with the ostriches less.

00:44:20.840 But that doesn't matter.

00:44:21.920 What matters is we get our facts first.

00:44:24.300 And we don't have all the facts because CFIA has refused to do the testing.

00:44:30.320 Well, isn't that interesting?

00:44:32.820 That's why I think there's some shenanigans afoot.

00:44:34.960 And I'm not by nature a conspiracy theorist.

00:44:37.040 But the explanations we have just do not add up.

00:44:42.460 You know, I'm just here to visit.

00:44:44.320 I actually have to go back to Toronto very shortly, but I wanted to see with my own eyes what's going on.

00:44:49.620 I'm so glad I'm here.

00:44:50.720 Now, you have spent a lot of time here.

00:44:52.480 And through the grace of our viewers, we have been able to crowdfund a little camper and a Starlink internet connection.

00:45:03.460 How long are you, like, you've got obligations back at home, but you've been here cumulatively for quite a long time.

00:45:12.280 Yes, a long time, sometimes a week at a time.

00:45:15.620 The bottom line is we're invested in this story.

00:45:17.840 We see the threat to Canadians when you have, like I said, the state covering up cameras, arresting farmers for wanting to feed their animals,

00:45:28.060 and just not bending to the public, to international trade offers, to anything.

00:45:33.700 Rebel has to be here and we have to tell the story right.

00:45:36.360 So, yes, it's been a sacrifice on my part.

00:45:38.920 And I'm happy that, you know, now I'm going to have help from my colleagues.

00:45:41.940 It's been a massive operation, just like the massive operation with the police, the CFI, and who else knows, except it's not on the tax dollars.

00:45:51.080 Instead, it's from people like you, great people who are here like this, who want us to be able to broadcast what's really going on.

00:45:59.280 And so people have been helping and there are more, there are a lot more costs as my colleagues come.

00:46:04.720 And so if you want to be a part of helping us do those stories, please go to SaveTheOstriches.com.

00:46:11.560 That's where you can ship in and that's where you can find the 60 reports.

00:46:15.720 And I should point out, of course, we always threw to the GoFundMe they have for their legal fees, which are a lot.

00:46:21.440 It wasn't until I physically started traveling here that we did ask for help with our journalism because this is the only way we survive.

00:46:29.300 We needed, now we've been facing the birds while we're talking, but the camera's been facing away.

00:46:33.320 I'm just going to rotate here just so people can see the incredible view that we've had.

00:46:37.420 We probably, I should have probably done the interview like this.

00:46:39.660 So you can see we're up high in the scissor lift and looking down at the birds.

00:46:45.460 They have obscured, they have built 10 foot high haystacks to block the view.

00:46:52.480 Drea, thank you for coming here.

00:46:54.100 Thank you for, I mean, it's a bit of a stress on anyone's family to be away from home.

00:46:58.720 And I know that too, because I travel a fair bit.

00:47:01.100 So thank you.

00:47:02.420 And I see how beloved you are here.

00:47:05.900 And it really is fun to be a rebel, wear this rebel shirt here, because everyone loves rebel news because of your 60 outstanding journalistic exposés.

00:47:16.700 And I mentioned I was in Texas and people were asking me about it.

00:47:19.940 You've done more journalism on this than anyone else.

00:47:22.540 And it's that repetition and following the ins and outs of the story that has made this bloom.

00:47:28.180 And so if there is a public pushback that saves the ostriches in the end, I think some of the credit goes to you.

00:47:36.880 Now, obviously the farm itself, very courageous.

00:47:40.360 I really enjoyed meeting some of the folks here.

00:47:43.920 There's a certain charisma.

00:47:44.840 And the whistleblowers that have been helping me inform the farmers and the public of what's going on.

00:47:49.780 And I mean, that's how a lot of people got here this time around is because I was able to say this is when it's going down and this is not a drill.

00:47:56.700 This is the real thing.

00:47:57.780 Right.

00:47:57.940 Well, let me just turn the camera one more time to look at the parking lot.

00:48:03.140 It really is like a festival.

00:48:06.280 And you know what was so interesting?

00:48:08.920 I was I was shown what's a gift.

00:48:11.160 The porta potties are a gift.

00:48:12.480 The cleaning of the porta potties is a gift.

00:48:14.140 Those solar-powered or diesel-powered surveillance towers to counteract the fact that the CFIA tried to destroy the surveillance.

00:48:24.020 It really is a fascinating cultural moment, political moment.

00:48:27.960 I use the word festival feeling because it really is like the Woodstock for freedom.

00:48:33.180 I mentioned it feels a little bit like the trucker convoy, and that's true.

00:48:37.680 Anyways, I'm up here on the scissor lift, and I think I should probably go back down to see.

00:48:42.980 It's kind of waffling a little bit.

00:48:44.380 It's a tiny bit waffling.

00:48:45.080 We look like we're holding it together.

00:48:46.200 That's right.

00:48:46.880 No, but thank you very much for operating the scissor lift for us.

00:48:51.380 And we probably should have been wearing the harness, but we were just having fun.

00:48:56.300 Yeah, we're rebels.

00:48:57.000 We weren't working too hard.

00:48:58.420 So let's bring her on down to sea level, and thank you, boss, for helping us.

00:49:02.360 Here we go down.

00:49:03.120 Yeah, there it is.

00:49:04.800 We're going down slowly but surely.

00:49:08.160 I'm getting the...

00:49:09.500 It's a little bit jiggly.

00:49:12.440 There we go.

00:49:15.340 Thank you very much.

00:49:16.360 Well, there you have it, folks.

00:49:17.820 And if you want to support Drea's journalism and the fact that she's out here in an RV with a Starlink,

00:49:23.500 because there's no hotels close by, I should tell you that.

00:49:26.420 There's one, and it gets booked pretty fast when you have the support that they're getting.

00:49:30.840 And I have to be here.

00:49:32.840 Right.

00:49:33.100 Because as you can see from our coverage, a lot happens like this.

00:49:37.100 And it can happen at night, including at 4.30 in the morning.

00:49:38.620 Yes.

00:49:38.940 There you have it, folks.

00:49:39.740 It's a good catch-up with our friend Drea Humphrey, who has carried this story for the whole world.

00:49:44.500 All right.

00:49:44.820 We're back down.

00:49:45.360 So check us out at SaveTheOstriches.com.

00:49:49.560 Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.

00:49:51.000 I'm in Edgewood, B.C.

00:49:53.280 At an ostrich farm, the one that's been in the news of late.

00:49:56.100 You can see all the police vehicles here.

00:49:59.860 And I don't know if you can quite catch a glimpse of ostriches in the far background.

00:50:04.880 Of course, between me and the ostriches is this yellow police tape. 0.97

00:50:08.580 It is not a crime scene.

00:50:10.500 It is not a health zone.

00:50:13.180 The birds are healthy.

00:50:14.900 Almost a year ago, about 10 months ago, several of the birds got the flu, the sniffles, as I call it.

00:50:20.960 But they got better, and the entire herd got herd immunity.

00:50:24.480 There's nothing wrong with the birds.

00:50:26.760 And yet the government, in the form of the CFIA, Canadian Food Inspection Agency,

00:50:32.100 has ordered that every single one of the hundreds of birds here be killed.

00:50:37.440 Now, the farm has said, no, wait a minute.

00:50:39.480 These birds are fine.

00:50:40.760 We'll even pay for the testing to show you that.

00:50:43.340 The government has said no.

00:50:44.940 In fact, bizarrely, the farm is not allowed to test their birds.

00:50:51.440 To do so could yield a jail sentence, if you can believe it, and certainly a fine.

00:50:58.040 There's been a standoff here because those Ottawa bureaucrats,

00:51:00.800 I don't even know why the Food Inspection Agency is involved.

00:51:03.480 These ostriches are not being raised for meat or for leather or for some of the uses of ostrich.

00:51:09.420 They're actually used to test therapies, not mRNA vaccines, but alternatives to that.

00:51:15.860 These birds may contain a therapy for different diseases.

00:51:21.020 And so some people think, well, maybe that's the reason that the government wants to wipe them out.

00:51:26.620 And maybe that's the reason why RFK Jr., the cabinet minister in Trump's administration responsible for health,

00:51:33.420 has actually said he is uncomfortable with the proposed mass killing of the birds.

00:51:39.460 Anyways, that's my attempt at summarizing what's going on here.

00:51:42.820 Our reporter, Drea Humphrey, has been out here.

00:51:45.660 She's actually done 60 news stories about this,

00:51:48.560 and I believe that she is one of the reasons why this story has such international prominence.

00:51:53.820 Now, I've been standing with my back towards various police cars.

00:51:57.000 One officer told me that there's at least 30 cops on site.

00:52:01.120 I think it's much more than that.

00:52:02.260 There's a staging area where other more heavily armed police are based.

00:52:06.820 I talked to one cop for about a 10-minute conversation today.

00:52:11.320 And the thing is, the RCMP themselves are not the ones going in for the kill.

00:52:16.480 They're the ones being brought in to cause all these people,

00:52:19.760 who have camped out here at the farm to keep them away from the health bureaucrats, the food bureaucrats.

00:52:27.360 In other words, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is here to do the dirty work,

00:52:31.460 and the cops are here to protect them.

00:52:33.680 Here's my conversation with a spokesman for the RCMP.

00:52:39.900 Well, I don't know if those answers were sufficient.

00:52:43.040 What's so crazy is the optics of all this.

00:52:45.680 Like I say, you can't really see the ostriches from here.

00:52:51.100 They have been moved, and the CFII has created artificial barriers.

00:52:57.120 Let me just move out of the way so I don't get driven over.

00:53:00.380 There's a lot going on on the ostrich farm here, let me tell you that much.

00:53:06.060 The CFII has created barriers with giant haystacks,

00:53:10.440 and they've built fences with black plastic barriers.

00:53:14.440 Not for any health reasons.

00:53:16.240 There's no health reason to build a 10-foot hay bale fence.

00:53:21.280 It's for one reason only.

00:53:22.700 So the people who are here, and other journalists,

00:53:26.180 and there are mainly citizen journalists here,

00:53:28.660 cannot observe the massacre when it comes.

00:53:32.220 Now, I was invited to go up a hill overlooking,

00:53:36.180 and we tried to use a telescope,

00:53:37.600 but I couldn't get my cell phone to work with the telescope.

00:53:40.900 Here's some footage of what we could see from across the road on higher ground.

00:53:46.900 You can sort of see what they're building.

00:53:49.960 It's not for health.

00:53:50.740 It's not for medical.

00:53:51.640 It's not for a public policy reason.

00:53:53.300 It is to hide what they're doing.

00:53:55.040 Take a look.

00:53:57.440 That's not it.

00:53:58.180 There's so much theater involved with the CFIA.

00:54:01.660 They're wearing head-to-toe hazmat suits,

00:54:03.740 while everyone else here, including the RCMP, are dressed normally.

00:54:07.520 No one believes that these birds are ill.

00:54:11.020 I think the hazmat suit was for shock and awe

00:54:13.760 so that the regime media could say,

00:54:15.980 oh, my God, the birds are sick.

00:54:17.440 But it's also to hide the identity of these disgraced bureaucrats 0.91

00:54:20.820 who have come in from Ottawa to do something deeply unpopular.

00:54:24.600 I mean, imagine that.

00:54:25.420 It's so unpopular that the RCMP have had to bring in 50 cops,

00:54:29.040 that's my estimate, from very far away.

00:54:31.320 There's not 50 cops in this part of British Columbia.

00:54:34.320 And what's so crazy is, as you know,

00:54:36.240 Canada is in the middle of a crime wave right now.

00:54:39.400 And imagine taking 50 RCMP officers off more important work

00:54:43.600 to come and be the personal escort for the CFIA. 0.70

00:54:47.280 That's super gross.

00:54:49.500 Yeah, so if they're not building hay bale barricades,

00:54:53.660 if they're not doing hazmat suit public health theater,

00:54:56.640 they're actually disabling the surveillance

00:55:00.500 that the farm had up there.

00:55:01.780 There's nothing in the law that gives them that power.

00:55:07.120 It's got nothing to do with public health.

00:55:09.380 They did that because they don't want their dirty deeds to be observed.

00:55:13.100 They've also brought in a flight ban

00:55:15.240 so no drones can come in overhead.

00:55:18.060 And there were images of sensors

00:55:20.660 and anti-drone technology.

00:55:23.900 I have no idea where they're even getting these.

00:55:27.220 I mean, does the CFIA have tens of thousands of dollars

00:55:30.980 worth of anti-drone guns just laying around?

00:55:34.800 Or is this borrowed from the Canadian military?

00:55:37.640 What the heck is going on

00:55:39.340 that there's this massive paramilitary operation,

00:55:43.460 oh, you can see some of the birds behind me now,

00:55:45.040 involved in the main to cover up journalism?

00:55:52.980 Like, everything I've just described to you

00:55:55.280 is about optics and PR.

00:55:57.500 Nothing to do with public health.

00:55:59.020 It's very weird, very weird.

00:56:01.700 I wanted to come here

00:56:02.820 because my friend Draya Humphrey has been covering it

00:56:04.580 and I wanted to show her support

00:56:06.580 and see with my own eyes what I see.

00:56:08.740 And it was really fun.

00:56:09.700 And she really is a little bit like 0.81

00:56:11.480 the mayor of this place.

00:56:14.620 Here, here's my conversation with Draya.

00:56:16.660 We actually got up on this scissor lift,

00:56:19.440 which is like a mobile elevator.

00:56:22.060 Here's my conversation with Draya.

00:56:28.160 I tell you, she's doing a great job

00:56:30.220 and we actually got a camper for her to stay in,

00:56:33.640 like an RV and a Starlink.

00:56:35.400 Now, you see there's a lot of signs around

00:56:38.620 and I took a little stroll down the alley

00:56:40.800 because there's some wonderful signs.

00:56:43.000 They're all homemade.

00:56:44.680 This really is a grassroots moment.

00:56:46.500 And I have to say,

00:56:47.120 it reminds me a little bit of the truckers in 2022.

00:56:49.900 Here's my little walk down the alley of signs earlier today.

00:56:58.960 Very, very interesting.

00:57:00.240 I had a lot of chats with a lot of great people

00:57:02.360 and they love Rebel News and they love Draya

00:57:04.520 simply because we're telling the other side of the story.

00:57:07.260 And that is our motto.

00:57:08.460 And the CBC is outrageous in their propaganda. 1.00

00:57:12.320 They're liars. 0.97

00:57:13.260 And it's interesting to hear the farm say so. 0.96

00:57:17.480 Here's my conversation with the boss of the farm earlier today.

00:57:22.800 By the way, that's a reference to a conversation I had with her.

00:57:26.280 I think Draya has the footage for that.

00:57:28.200 I sure hope so.

00:57:29.960 Well, that's my report from the ground here

00:57:32.300 in Edgewood, British Columbia.

00:57:34.900 I really enjoyed the trip.

00:57:36.920 I flew from Toronto to Kelowna,

00:57:38.760 rented a car,

00:57:39.660 drove,

00:57:40.300 and I have to do the whole thing in reverse

00:57:41.820 because I've got to get back to our world headquarters.

00:57:44.680 But our friend Draya will continue.

00:57:46.260 And in the days ahead,

00:57:47.600 Sidney Pizarre will be joining from Calgary.

00:57:49.640 And then Sheila Gunn-Reed will be coming down early next week. 1.00

00:57:52.640 So we intend to follow this story to its conclusion.

00:57:56.000 We have a few tricks up our sleeve too

00:57:57.740 that I'm not going to divulge now,

00:57:59.620 but you'll see them, I hope,

00:58:00.940 journalistically in the days and weeks ahead.

00:58:03.540 There's something very wrong in Canada

00:58:06.080 when you have 30,

00:58:07.780 40,

00:58:08.360 50 police taken off of fighting crime

00:58:11.700 and put onto fighting ostriches

00:58:14.540 who are completely healthy.

00:58:16.200 There's something super wrong

00:58:17.480 when the government says

00:58:18.600 you may not even test your own birds

00:58:21.020 with your own money.

00:58:22.220 There's something super wrong about that.

00:58:23.820 There's something super weird about this whole thing.

00:58:26.720 And people here know it

00:58:28.180 and it makes them uncomfortable.

00:58:29.420 What is this a test run for?

00:58:31.480 I've seen different theories

00:58:32.700 and that's the thing.

00:58:34.320 Speculation abounds

00:58:35.360 because the government is so non-transparent.

00:58:39.300 They're so opaque.

00:58:40.960 Translation, they're lying to you.

00:58:44.240 We're going to keep on the story.

00:58:46.200 My friend Drea Humphrey will lead our coverage.

00:58:48.160 Others in the Rebel team will circulate through.

00:58:50.120 If you want to help cover Drea's camper van,

00:58:52.920 if you've got an RV with a Starlink

00:58:54.660 and other expenses of just being here,

00:58:56.500 food, water, whatever,

00:58:57.840 go to savetheostriches.com.

00:59:00.800 All right, I'm going to go back to Toronto now,

00:59:03.280 but I will not put my head in the sand.

00:59:07.060 Goodbye, everybody.

00:59:14.400 Hi.

00:59:15.140 Hey, Katie, what's up?

00:59:16.640 Do you know we put the signs up today

00:59:18.940 to show us a picture of our head?

00:59:20.820 Yeah.

00:59:21.080 Right?

00:59:21.640 They're not tubing her. 0.86

00:59:23.040 She's just doing the kick of death. 1.00

00:59:25.240 They're not tubing her. 0.86

00:59:26.300 They haven't taken care of her.

00:59:28.400 If, I know, just let me speak.

00:59:30.660 We're just going to get PLT down for a good time.

00:59:32.400 If we would have just been allowed

00:59:35.660 to care for her,

00:59:37.480 she'd be okay.

00:59:38.400 She's dying alone.

00:59:39.880 She's dying alone.

00:59:41.040 We got the footage, guys.

00:59:42.400 It's gross.

00:59:43.560 She's dying alone.

00:59:45.680 We would have never done that.

00:59:47.140 Our birds don't die alone.

00:59:49.060 They're loved by us.

00:59:51.280 They're cared.

00:59:52.200 She's alone laying there,

00:59:54.100 dying right there.

00:59:55.180 We can't touch her.

00:59:57.180 We can't be with her.

00:59:59.020 They're not with her.

01:00:00.280 They know she's dying.

01:00:02.440 Because we did those films,

01:00:04.000 she's dying alone.

01:00:06.460 This is the most painful thing.

01:00:08.700 They're right there.

01:00:09.840 They're right there.

01:00:11.080 We're not aggressive.

01:00:12.940 We're not hurting anybody.

01:00:14.340 We just want to give her love.

01:00:16.820 They've been loved for 35 years by us.

01:00:20.120 We would have never let them die alone.

01:00:22.960 She's dying by herself

01:00:24.460 because we are being punished

01:00:27.520 by lying, by this tape.

01:00:29.860 We're being punished.

01:00:31.720 We just, it's not fair.

01:00:34.340 She's dying for being healthy. 0.99

01:00:36.900 She's dying because we spoke up.

01:00:38.760 She's dying because of trade politics. 1.00

01:00:41.280 She's dying alone.

01:00:43.060 And we would have never known

01:00:43.960 if we didn't just get a visual

01:00:45.480 because they're lying

01:00:46.800 and they're hiding.

01:00:47.760 They're hiding behind this.

01:00:49.600 They're hiding behind you.

01:00:50.760 And we're not going to force them

01:00:50.960 to be honest.

01:00:51.580 And that's not right.

01:00:53.200 This organization's hiding

01:00:55.000 behind your power.

01:00:57.540 This organization is hiding

01:01:00.000 behind your power.

01:01:02.540 You've got to stop it.

01:01:04.240 This is cruelty.

01:01:05.960 This is animal cruelty.

01:01:08.760 Please, please stop them.

01:01:10.880 Please stop them.

01:01:12.640 I'll get a hold of Ben for you.

01:01:13.780 Please stop them.

01:01:15.920 Please let us just be with her.

01:01:18.760 Let us just be with her.

01:01:20.340 I think it's beyond treatment now to you.

01:01:25.300 These are our family.

01:01:28.040 They told us yesterday

01:01:29.340 she was moving around 0.85

01:01:30.640 and she was backing

01:01:31.460 and getting up

01:01:33.180 and like

01:01:33.840 Family doesn't just look like us.

01:01:35.400 And it took us going public

01:01:37.060 and saying that.

01:01:38.060 These are our family.

01:01:38.860 I'm calling them out today.

01:01:39.880 These are everything we've ever loved.

01:01:42.420 She's dying alone

01:01:43.660 kicking her head back. 0.88

01:01:45.640 She's... 1.00

01:01:46.060 God, please take her. 0.82

01:01:49.800 Please.

01:01:51.180 Oh, God.

01:01:52.300 Please take her in peace.

01:01:54.400 This is so unfair.

01:01:56.820 This is animal cruelty.

01:01:58.000 They're hiding.

01:01:58.340 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency

01:02:01.680 is hiding behind your yellow tape.

01:02:03.860 They're hiding.

01:02:05.380 They're hiding behind you.

01:02:06.800 Really important power.

01:02:09.340 They're fighting. 1.00

01:02:10.480 They're cowards. 1.00

01:02:11.460 They're cowards. 1.00

01:02:12.840 In suits that don't even follow their own policy. 1.00

01:02:15.220 We know exactly what's going on behind those lines.

01:02:16.980 They're lying.

01:02:18.720 They're lying to you.

01:02:20.540 They're lying to me.

01:02:21.500 I will get the message off for you.

01:02:22.540 That's all I can do.

01:02:23.420 You know that.

01:02:24.340 I'll get the message off for you.

01:02:25.420 Right.

01:02:25.820 Okay.

01:02:26.080 The organization is lying to us.

01:02:28.380 You guys.

01:02:29.220 This country.

01:02:30.020 Please just tell them.

01:02:31.420 Please just tell them we just want to be with her.

01:02:34.240 Just one of us.

01:02:35.300 We can hang it with her.

01:02:36.140 Look at the message.

01:02:36.920 Even Dave, just someone to go be with her

01:02:39.020 at the last moments if she's not gone already

01:02:41.060 just to put her to rest.

01:02:42.880 So we can put her to rest.

01:02:43.420 Why should she lie there?

01:02:44.520 That's not how we treat animals

01:02:46.060 when they're blind guys.

01:02:47.100 We're honest.

01:02:47.520 They know it.

01:02:48.600 They know it.

01:02:49.300 They're hiding.

01:02:50.260 They're hiding behind us.

01:02:51.720 Thank you.

01:02:52.560 No, they're not hiding.

01:02:54.800 No, that's the Canadian food infection.

01:02:56.960 They are, yeah.

01:02:57.680 They're hiding behind the streets.

01:02:59.700 That's not the improvement.

01:03:05.560 That's an unbelievable.

01:03:07.640 It wouldn't hurt her to be there.

01:03:09.120 Anyway, thanks for your help.

01:03:10.540 What do you have?

01:03:11.080 We'll do with the kid.

01:03:13.000 Do please help.

01:03:14.520 Do please help me.

01:03:17.520 This is not a humble.

01:03:21.560 Are you live streaming?

01:03:23.700 Yeah.

01:03:24.300 Officer?

01:03:24.640 Yeah.

01:03:26.600 Are you live streaming

01:03:28.040 or are you just filming our faces?

01:03:29.760 Yeah.

01:03:32.460 What are you filming for?

01:03:35.940 Why are you hiding your own face?

01:03:37.840 Let's leave this, okay?

01:03:40.220 Katie doesn't want that. 1.00

01:03:41.440 All right.

01:03:42.140 Katie does not want that. 1.00

01:03:43.420 I don't think about Katie.

01:03:44.320 Yeah, but that's not great.

01:03:46.020 You can't even answer.

01:03:47.100 No, it doesn't matter.

01:03:48.260 You should ask her a question.

01:03:49.760 No, it doesn't matter.

01:03:51.020 I'm not taking pictures of them.

01:03:52.860 I'm not talking about Katie.

01:03:54.040 Katie doesn't want this. 1.00

01:03:55.940 Think about what she wants.

01:03:59.300 This isn't going to help the farm.

01:04:02.040 It's not your fault.

01:04:03.340 Well, that's...

01:04:04.080 But the CFIA are adults.

01:04:06.820 Don't blame them.

01:04:10.660 These guys made up...

01:04:11.660 This is, it's definitely...

Rebel News Podcast - October 06, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel News exposes gov't-sanctioned kill pen for ostriches

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