EZRA LEVANT ｜ Riots in Montreal, but police crack down on peaceful freedom protesters in Ottawa
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Riots in Montreal, but police crackdown on peaceful freedom protesters in Ottawa. Meanwhile, in Ottawa there was a peaceful gathering of Freedom Motorcycle and Veterans no charges were laid. But here s how the police ginning up fear and hate from the start.
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Hello, my Rebels. What an interesting weekend. We had our team out in force in Ottawa.
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In fact, we had the largest squad of reporters of any company in Canada covering the freedom gathering of the motorcyclists and the veterans in Ottawa.
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So we'll have coverage of that, including an amazing video that our friend David Mencey's captured.
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So I really want you to see it. It's quite something.
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This lady protester that David found, I'm not going to describe it to you, but can I invite you, if you don't have it already, to get the video version of this podcast?
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Tonight, riots in Montreal, but police crackdown on peaceful freedom protesters in Ottawa.
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It's May 2nd, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Hey, take a look at this highly organized riot.
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Look at the uniforms, the special attire and weapons of the rioters.
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the tactic is called the black block it's not just a name it's they dress in black so they
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can't be identified they are interchangeable to make it hard for police to spot them
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you have a photo of them a surveillance photo what good does it do you you have 10 people there
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who do you charge you can't identify them in a lineup highly orchestrated highly organized
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highly violent you don't simply stumble into that kind of activity these are professional
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rioters there was no emergency act deployed there were no riot police deployed justin trudeau did
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not have a press conference where he asked whether or not we should even tolerate these people that's
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just trudeau's team so why would he get upset why would the media get upset they didn't
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meanwhile in ottawa there was a peaceful gathering of motorcyclists and veterans
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no charges there no violence there but here's how the ottawa police were ginning up fear and hate from
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the very beginning they had a picture of motorcyclists and as you know people who drive
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motorcycles often wear leather jackets knee pads gloves in case they fall that way their body isn't
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torn up by the road but their protective gear is they wear leather chaps if they're old school or
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they wear other protection but here's what the ottawa police said about motorcyclists wearing
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motorcycle wear they said we are seeing freedom supporters wearing protective gear we are reminding
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everyone to remain lawful respectful and follow police direction okay you're wearing protective
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gear that's an implication that it's like somehow body armor or something for a battle against police
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it's a smear it's spin i would like to take this opportunity to remind the ottawa police to stay lawful
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and respectful and you know what i don't think it's up to the police to give direction on politics and
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peaceful protesters at all the ottawa police is out of control uh but of course this did not offend
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the usual types who are offended by police it's been a bit of an inversion the same people who are
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against carding and heavy-handed police brutality in the best of times well in these worst of times
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they lust for it here's how ctv really a charter member of the media party uh described the peaceful
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protests in ottawa they didn't have much to say about the antiva riders but here's what they said
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about ottawa they said current view it's been a full hour of speakers lots of freedom chants heard around
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this morning again the decision to get or not get vaccinated is a choice most masking and other
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covid restrictions have been lifted or eased rolling thunder ottawa did you catch that freedom
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choice i like that part is it a choice if you're told you'll be fired if you don't get the jab as
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millions of canadians were told right now to this day you can't get on an airplane or a train
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if you're unvaxxed in quebec they actually still have the masking rule that's ctv showing their cards
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there my only question is is that their natural stance because they despise populace and they love
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government control or were they one of these paid influencers getting the tens of millions hundreds of
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millions of dollars sloshed around by justin trudeau now with ctv here's david aiken with his comments
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he says in the tweet side by side just now in my twitter feed there are freedom fighters and then
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there are well guy who insists on riding his bike around parliament hill and it's vladimir zelensky
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and of course the man on the street being carded by police um i think that's david aiken's way of
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saying if you are not the most important thing in the world which david aiken decides is a country
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far away called ukraine you have no right to petition your democratic government and you're
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no freedom fighter um if you want to fly unvaxxed if you want your civil liberties in canada don't
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complain about civil liberties in canada it could be worse in ukraine i think is the argument ukraine
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is not particularly a place with strong civil liberties i don't really know what david aiken means
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i think he's saying is why don't you talk about what i care about which is ukraine instead of
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what you care about which is your civil liberties here in canada have you ever seen david aiken or
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any of these other reporters tell any other protester in the world how dare you protest for
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global warming or for whatever the cause of the day is while a country around the world has
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a crisis how dare you campaign for global warming here in canada while in china they're putting
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uigur muslims in a concentration camp how dare you campaign for black lives matter in canada by the
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way we never had uh slavery or the civil war over slavery like they did in america we were the
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destination of the underground railroad how dare you have an american directed black lives matter
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protest here when people are starving in africa makes no sense it's a logical non sequitur i've never
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seen it applied by these journalists except for to conservatives who are protesting for the first
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time in memory here's another reporter from ctv who was at the war memorial and was quite dismissive
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she said some kind of priest is speaking on the steps of the war memorial now he called on god to turn
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the hearts of abusers who propagate dishonest media such as the cbc then he said to bless the efforts
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of independent journalists like rebel news and true north center well first of all i'm glad he did
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thank you for that we can use all the help we can get it is true that cbc is a major source of
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disinformation um and i'm glad that that priest or whoever ctv was calling some priest said so i mean
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i'm not just referring to their kooky conspiracy theories like the vladimir putin organized the truckers
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but so many of the reports about the arson hoax or the violence hoax all the hoaxes that were used as
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a pretext for bringing the emergencies act they were all published by the cbc so i think that priest or
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whoever the ctv is mocking is actually right the cbc does need help um now everywhere these journalists go
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these days they are confronted by people who are unhappy with the authoritarian path we're on whether
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it's government censorship or lockdownism and the media are regarded as the enemy at least by populist
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conservatives who are concerned about freedom and that's because in the past uh reporters used to care
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about freedom too but now they've all chosen to go for the government the security of the government bailout
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so they've sold their freedom for a government paycheck and people notice that so there is this
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criticism of government journalists and i would call ctv a government journalist even though they're not
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owned like the cbc is because they get so many grants and regulatory favors from the state so all these
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journalists are reacting to being scoffed at or criticized by the public and they only mock i wonder if
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they ever engage in some sort of self-reflection in their own role in things or if they actually
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pretend that they're beloved um as they perhaps once were it's not just reporters i mean look at this
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crazy look at a couple of these crazy cartoons these were both published in the hamilton spectator
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which is owned by the toronto star uh the largest newspaper in the country i mean here's a crazy one
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that was uh published in advance of the motorcyclist coming to town and you can see a cop stopping a
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motorcyclist uh because the terror is he might bring a hot tub to town
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well better bring in martial law for that the same i mean that's just a dumb cartoon but look at this
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other cartoon earlier from the same artist who has an image of vladimir putin on the left there
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donald trump in the middle and that flag on the right is for the confederate states of america that
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was the south in the u.s civil war now i don't know what any of these foreign actors have to do
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with canadian truckers we there has been no evidence that there's been foreign involvement
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the vast majority of donations contrary to cbc propaganda for the truckers were canadian that's
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what the gofundme uh uh executives told parliament it is a bizarre conspiracy theory to blame foreign
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agitators for a genuine organic authentic canadian political opposition um it's just bizarre and
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you can have a conspiracy theory obviously in the form of a cartoon can we get a fact check on that
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please anyway so i've shown you the media reaction scoffing saying how dare you protest when ukraine is
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in a war how dare you say that the cbc isn't as good at rebel news or as trustworthy how dare you claim
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that these are authentic voices like the media is clearly at war but there are counter protesters on the
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street too which makes sense it's a government town a lot of people especially in the downtown of ottawa
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are bureaucrats or political staff and they were there in small numbers to counteract the
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motorcyclists who were there for freedom but they didn't really know what to say they really didn't
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know what to stand for let me show you um here's a tweet from ryza patel of the toronto star she used to be
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with the cbc i think she says in more creative things i have seen today these counter protesters are
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responding to this rebel news reporters questions with squeaky dog toys take a look at the video
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you know um if the shoe was on the other foot if there were white uh conservatives mocking and
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you know insulting a reporter of color on the left oh it would it would be endless charges of racism but
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you see racism is only what you say against conservative it's never what you say against
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leftists that uh reporter that uh razor patel the star is talking about is our head of video he's not
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just a reporter he's our boss of all the video on our site his name is efron monsanto and here's how it
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looked from his camera's point of view uh efron tweeted it himself getting the other side for our rebel
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news viewers from the counter protesters against the pro-freedom veterans rally they say other
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countries are preventing the unvaccinated from flying not just canada misinformed or malicious
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malicious watch yourself so just stop right there so efron is saying he deliberately asked the other
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side for their point of view which is something the cbc ctv global mail toronto star rarely do
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so efron was showing that even though he's got a strong point of view he's happy to hear what the
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counter protesters have to say um and when they said that when they disputed efron's point that
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canada is the worst in the world with punishing the unvaxxed they had no response to him other than
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breaking up the squeaky toys what exactly does the pigs represent there
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do you feel like it's still justified to prevent unvaccinated people from flying on federal
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uh it's only candidates preventing the unvaccinated from flying in the country no other country is
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doing that do you promote that the segregation policy
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um so efron asks are they malicious or misinformed i'm gonna go with
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both i think that's accurate but there was some actual violence at the ottawa freedom demonstration
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as you know there was no violence no charges no firearms no fisticuffs nothing during the whole trucker uh
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protest um there were uh there was violence over the weekend but it was ottawa leftists pelting eggs
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from their apartment uh balconies down at the rolling thunder protesters protesting against
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government powers gained through covid restrictions um it's you know you could this is from our friend
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marie oaks of the westphalian times there were police everywhere they saw these protesters being
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pelted with eggs i ask again if the shoe was on the other foot if it was a black lives matter rally
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and you had people from balconies and apartments throwing eggs down do you think the police would
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just smile and laugh it off i i this happened in toronto too i was on a uh march uh covering it about a
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year and a half ago in toronto people were throwing things down very dangerous to throw something from
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high heights like that police didn't care they couldn't care less so there was that violence of
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objects being thrown down from balconies but there also was an act of vandalism of a place of worship
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a church that was vandalized here's what sheila said about him um you can see uh the pictures of the
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uh graffiti that says fascist and on the inside of the church salman sima who's a refugee from iran by
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the way who's very active at these protests for freedom says the church is full of freedom loving
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people who pray for truckers bikers veterans and freedom this is the second room which is full also
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many are outside for being messenger of and freedom you don't need to follow any specific religion
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every good person is welcome in the freedom movement and he says that he's coming from iran
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so you have a place of worship that is vandalized and attacked
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if the uh defacers of that church were instead of being leftist defacing a freedom-oriented church
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if they were right-wingers defacing a left-wing church which is unthinkable
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it's unthinkable i've never in my life heard of a conservative person defacing
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a church it's unthinkable do you think the media and the police would ignore it or
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let's say if it were a mosque that were vandalized do you doubt that justin trudeau
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would be holding a press conference and you would have every mp calling for a hate crimes investigation
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my point is that the freedom movement in canada isn't just up against authoritarian
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laws by the government it's up against a police force that is no longer independent
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but rather acts as brown shirts for the government i'm sorry how else can you explain it when church
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vandalism and being pelted by eggs are ignored and instead peaceful protesters and the truckers
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are arrested some are still being held in jail right now if you can believe it from february bank
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accounts seized emergency act riot police deployed our reporter shot in the leg
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public versus that rioting in montreal actual rioting and smashing i don't think you can say
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our police forces are dispassionate objective balanced and fair i just don't think you can
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say that i mean i know there are some good cops still out there but the police forces themselves are
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now partisan squads they just arm the media i mean you know this already but it's quite something to see
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them tut tut a protest in a way i've never seen before have you ever seen what david aiken said
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there before have you ever seen a journalist say i'm going to deride this protest not on its own terms
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i'm not going to dispute what's happening here i'm not going to answer it i'm just going to say how
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dare you complain when somewhere around the world there's a worse problem i've never seen that before
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have you i think that we're in a dangerous place and that's why i'm hopeful that the conservative
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party is having a leadership race the first victory the truckers had was getting rid of
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erin o'toole and if that leads to other dominoes falling and a strong freedom-oriented leader takes
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the helm of the conservative party of canada maybe just maybe we'll finally have one institution in
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canada that pushes back against us because for the past two years there has been not a single
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institution fighting for freedom stay with us after the break we'll talk to our top mission
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specialist who is on the scene our friend david menzies that's next
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well look who's next to me david menzies he led our coverage in ottawa we had a huge team down there
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we're going to get to david in about a second but i just can't wait i want to show you a video that uh
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david and isabel filmed it's about two minutes long you really have to watch every second of
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it and it really starts to get good about 20 seconds before the end i have watched this video
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three or four times um i just checked a moment ago it had about three quarters of a million views
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in like a day and a half uh you'll see why take a look if you're going to protest something as nebulous
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as freedom then you can't encroach on others i'm not trying to understand is nebulous freedom
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the concept of a nebulous freedom they don't have a specific
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title of a specific reason for being here they're all over the place and all they're doing is suppressing
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ottawa residents ottawa businesses we are being harassed and held hostage for their
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supposed approachments on freedom what does a single white man have to say to anybody
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about a bodily autonomy freedom i'm not sure what race has to do with it i didn't say anything about
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race you said a white man single white man sure race okay so i mean what does race have to do with
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it when i look at people that are gathering here today it's right across the uh multi-diverse
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spectrum no more comments oh okay then well by the way when it says convoy go home didn't the
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convoy go home in february they called it a convoy it's a convoy you mean the um just gathering here
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is that a convoy please go away okay no more comments all right no more comments it just seems
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you can't articulate no more comments no more comments have i triggered you no more comments
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It's like interviewing a Coke machine when your soda doesn't come out.
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And you think that somebody is going to go on a corner?
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no more comments no more comments that's just unbelievable i don't know what happened there at
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the end it's like a record skipping or or just some computer loop like uh like some error loop
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or something that was unusual i i don't want to cast aspersions on people of a wiccan background
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because i don't need an hr complaint or a human rights complaint but i think i think she's wearing
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a witch's hat that's exactly what i thought when i saw it as or in fact one of the funniest comments
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i saw uh in the twitter feed was somebody going oh come on guys cut her some slack you'd be
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aggravated too if a house had just fallen on your sister right so i mean i love our viewers the
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the the witticisms that have come out from that but it was bizarre because ezra if you are on a
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street corner opposite of a uh a celebration a gathering because i know the rolling thunder
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they don't like to put the word protest in their event um and you have a sign and you have an
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amplification device uh with music and you're dancing and you're dressed up like like halloween
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yeah i assume you want media people to come and ask you what you're doing and then once we got into
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the gooey subject of race that began the malfunction yeah you know and that's the thing is she's not a
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private person just walking by the street if she was we wouldn't have any reason to engage with her
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but she went there as a counter protester with a public sign and she actually didn't stop talking to
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you in fact as you notice she just wouldn't wouldn't cork it in fact she it was very strange
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and i'm not really making fun of her appearance i mean choosing a hat is not a personal attribute
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it's just a choice i think it really was a halloween style costume what i've known over the last two
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years is that protesters for freedom protesters against forced vaccines protesters against lockdowns
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if you say to them what do you stand for get ready for half an hour's worth of detail
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references to websites and experts like they'll they'll talk your ear off because they really want
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to tell you what they're upset this lady couldn't answer the most basic questions you had and and
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then went into this childish defensive mechanism i don't even know what she was trying to do if she
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was just trying to drown you out or if it was just words that felt good so she kept repeating
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them while she thought it's something smarter to say and i know it's just one little anecdote and
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you can't extrapolate from it but i think it shows the difference between freedom protesters who i think
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have really thought through why they're there versus this lady who i i think was just out for a hoot
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and to wear her halloween costume again you know you're 100 right as i mean if i i don't think i've
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ever taken part in demonstrations i've covered hundreds of them i would say but if i was going to
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demonstrate on a street corner and bring a sign and what have you i would do a little research and
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rehearsal before going you know the day before uh what if somebody asked me a question about this
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what if they say challenge me on on my what my sign says i would come armed and have a lot of arrows
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in my quiver to say oh no no that's not right here's why you're wrong and i'm right but she just
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starts drowning me out i'm telling you and what lungs on that woman i mean if i'm the manager of the
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canadian opera company she was that was her yelling at full blast i i could maybe do that for
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three or four yells and then i'm croaking but she went on and far beyond where the video ends
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oh really oh yes you know what we're having some fun just because it was such a quirky
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video but there was actually some serious things i mean i showed a moment ago that there were eggs
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pelting people there was a church that was defaced yeah i should say that none of these things
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happened during the trucker protests there was not a single charge let alone conviction of anyone for
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violence no firearms of any sort were found the lockdown or the blockage of the city streets was
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done by police yeah um here you have counter protesters throwing eggs and an egg's probably not
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going to kill you but that's you know throwing you try throwing an egg at at a cop and see if you get
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away with it so they were throwing eggs they were vandalizing a church and um no emergencies act
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there no riot police there no media uh you know calling out fascists there um it just shows none of
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this is about actual law and order none of it is about violent versus peaceful protests it is 100
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about black lives matter protests are fine i don't know more protests are fine antifa protests are fine
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but you conservatives you get out of the protest game that's our turn you know i think it's even worse
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than you're uh depicting it ezra i liken it to the movie of almost 20 years ago a minority report with
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tom cruise where it's a dystopian future where the police have um a pre-crimes unit they get their
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intelligence from psychics and they think you know what sir we we have really good psychic
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intelligence that we think you're going to kill your wife you're charged with first degree murder
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uh you're convicted and you're put away for life uh the only flaw of course is that the intelligence
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is not 100 accurate i am saying that if you own a motorcycle and it is insured and you have a driver's
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license there is no valid reason to prevent you from uh going down in your motorcycle circling the
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war memorial laying a wreath let's be honest law enforcement knew that was the case the bureaucrats
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know it's the case justin trudeau knows that it's the case this was not going to be um a um convoy 2.0
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there weren't going to be people lining up their motorcycles and i might add ezra a lot of people
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might not know this but wellington avenue um for i would say a kilometer and a half where parliament
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hill is is still closed with concrete barriers and that's the police obviously it's not protest
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oh it's ottawa city council oh it is closed at least until the end of the year and it might be closed
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forever that's what they're debating but based on this one protest that ideologically justin trudeau
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disagreed with it was grotesque at the capital city um uh bikers church because what they did there ezra
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like they did in downtown ottawa was that for a few blocks all around the church they put up signs the
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police it said special event i guess the special event was curtailing your rights and freedoms no
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stopping they had cops there ready to ticket and tow anyone that dared to stop and what it was all about
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ezra was pettiness it was making people park half a kilometer away and walking to the church you know
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finding the first legal spot and that church had on its you know at the front of the church in big
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graffiti letters um hey this is no haven for fascism or words to that effect you know what i saw
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beautiful lovely people taking part in a wonderful service by the pastor uh rob mckee i didn't see any
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hate it was all about love ironically in a perverse way ezra the only sign of fascism was by the people
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that desecrated this church with their spray guns and dropped thumbtacks all over hoping to flatten the
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tires of people coming to the service yeah i mean it there is a professional protest class in this
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country and there's also a professional riot class in this country we saw black block riders smashing
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buildings in montreal and black block is a is a look it's a style it's a tactic dressed from head
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to toe in black so you have no identifiable marks so you're not wearing clothing that can be identified
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you're not showing your face so the black block is a police foiling tactic cover your face they love
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the masks for that reason and these are organized riders smashers highly well trained and financed
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um i'm not saying that the emergencies act should be invoked to go after them but how about just some
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regular coppers how about take some cops off the mask beat they still are forced to wear masks in
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quebec you know i think that um what's the most troubling to me is the absolute complicity of the
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media yeah oh yes i was watching the media cover ottawa and and they were either mocking anyone who said
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freedom like they were saying oh you like the freedom like d-u-m-b like they're just mocking the
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canadian flag which is bizarre because it's the flag of the protesters and if they couldn't mock them for
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those reasons they would say well how dare you say you don't have freedom look at ukraine and the
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sacrifices they're making like i've just never in my life seen the media so desperately at the service
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of power and to to crush uh with their sneering any peaceful protests i think the greatest the police
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are atrocious but the media have let them be atrocious i think that's the worst thing um you've
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raised many excellent points there uh ezra i think freedom has become the new f word a canadian flag
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has become a hate symbol law enforcement we're targeting people who are walking or driving with a
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canadian flag can you imagine the same piece of cloth that flies over uh parliament it's bizarre
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when it comes to the policing when we parked about a half kilometer away from the church the biker's
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church we're walking along isabelle and i that was my camera woman and uh we happened upon three
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audible motorcycle police officers and i started asking them questions well that video will be coming
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up later this week and i said um you know guys i'm just wondering why are you so hell-bent on
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ticketing and towing churchgoers when there was a hate crime committed there all the vandalism on
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the church the officer said to me what vandalism i said you don't know in a very condescending way
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as he says do you have any idea sir how large ottawa region is a patrol i said i'm not talking about
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ottawa region i'm talking about that church that you can see 350 kilometers away um and he says well i
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don't know anything about that and uh and it got surreal i said okay uh if you want to play the
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sergeant schultz routine i know nothing i saw nothing he says to me who's sergeant schultz
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i said you've never seen hogan's heroes he goes what's hogan's hero this guy doesn't know anything
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right i mean well you know uh you know he doesn't know about civil rights i'm not surprised he doesn't
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know about uh tv history well david i'm glad you were there we had a great team there i feel like
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we show what was really going on as opposed to the media party which were which either ignored it
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attacked it or lied about it yeah so uh thanks very much for going there or wrote in an approving
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fashion of the way law enforcement you know ezra i don't know how members of the print media type out
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their stories with the cheerleaders on their wrists you know uh that the the pom-poms on their wrists
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anymore it's they're they're perverse cheerleaders and the fact that we're paying for this appalling
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coverage it's despicable yeah all right david thanks very much for that all right folks stay with us more
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ahead david is a hoot and he has a knack of finding people who are unusual i don't know why it is is it
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because david himself has is so friendly and welcoming that uh people feel comfortable coming up to him and
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just going a little kooky like that is it because he doesn't leave until he plums every you know um
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hidden alley or blind alley of their thing i don't know but david sure finds them i think it's also
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because he has a straight face while people say the craziest things and he just asks very short
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questions just to prompt them he's he really is deaf that way and it makes me chuckle that you know we
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put that video online and oh my god did they go viral not just in canon but around the world um
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that is the state of left-wing protesters today um but really is justin trudeau any deeper than that
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is the media party any deeper than that i mean at least that uh no more comments gal wasn't claiming
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that putin did it well that's our show for today until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world
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headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom and let me leave you with
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an interview our friend alexa lavoie spoke with leslin lewis of the conservative party see you tomorrow
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so hey alexa for rebel news we are tuesday the 26th of april and we are currently in montreal at the
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hotel double tree because leslin lewis one of the candidates for the race of the conservative
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party leader are here today for meeting her supporter and as well to do a speech so we take
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the opportunity to talk with some of them and as well to ask some questions to leslin lewis also so
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and i did that by being a bridge builder i believe that the next conservative leader
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will have to build bridges we will have to heal this nation we will have to restore faith in government
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so many people have lost trust in our government when we saw what happened with the truckers irrespective of
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where you stand on the issue we had canadians who reached out to their members of parliament who
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reached out to their counselors and they weren't getting answers and when they came to ottawa to hear
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from the people who they elected irrespective of where you stand on this situation on this issue that is
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how a democracy should work and we lost a very good opportunity by not reaching out and hearing
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from canadians what was on their hearts we need to restore faith in our democracy we also need to
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restore faith in our media because when the media is operating like an arm of the government it tells you
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that our democracy is in peril this is how totalitarian regimes operate with the media as an arm of the government
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aujourd'hui je m'intéresse à savoir qu'est-ce que les gens voient en leslin lewis qu'ils voient pas dans
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les autres leaders qui se présentent à la chefferie des partis conservateurs je pense qu'elle l'a dit un
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peu aujourd'hui dans sa prestation comme quoi qu'elle ne se considère pas une politicienne en tant que telle
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qu'elle se considère comme une citoyenne qui a à coeur des valeurs conservatrices pour notre pays et nous
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expliquer un peu son inquiétude en voyant la façon que le canada se dirige vers un état plus ou moins
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totalitaire elle a à coeur vraiment de défendre les valeurs du canada et qu'on revienne vraiment dans
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un dans une situation où ce que notre souveraineté est protégée en tant que canadien puis québécois aussi
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i think the readiness to open to answer any question i went for pierre poilier and everybody
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could ask a question only for a second while here i think she's very real not a born politician maybe
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or she's uh but i i'm impressed i'm very happy i was here je veux dire que leslin lewis c'est une
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candidate qui à mon sens est probablement parmi les plus intègre puis je dirais même toute famille
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politique confondue quand c'est exprimé tout à l'heure en tout cas on a vraiment l'impression de
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comment dire qu'elle dit vraiment ce qu'elle pense et j'ai comme l'impression que sans politique
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aujourd'hui on a souvent l'impression qu'il ya des games qui se jouent qu'il ya des certains politiciens qui
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disent certaines choses en espérant parler à certaines comment dire certains pans de l'électorat ou qui s'adressent à
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chaque ligne de leur discours est comme on va dire cadré cherche à convaincre un groupe un autre ensuite
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etc c'est comme une espèce de succession de discours publicitaires honnêtement ce soir vous pourriez prendre
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son discours c'est de voir à qui s'est adressé de ligne en ligne vous serez pas nécessairement capable de
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le faire parce que c'est un discours qui est organique c'est un discours qui s'adresse à tout le monde puis
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voilà en fait c'est une personnalité intéressante à entendre parler c'est que moi je vois elle est
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quelqu'un qui est présente elle est présente et elle sait exactement c'est que la population en
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besoin donc c'est vraiment quelqu'un comme ça qu'on a besoin pour nous représenter first of all uh about
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the journalist license that mr trudeau wants to create to give to medium i was wondering are you
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agreeing with it or are you against it i'm very concerned when government delves into the area
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of media because i believe that they should be two separate institutions i'm concerned about bill c-11
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and the encroachment of governmental powers on the media the media needs to be independent in order to
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get out the message to the people and when governments pull the string then that message
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is tainted and it affects our democratic rights so no i don't i don't uh agree with it and we know
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that pia paulia want to defund cbc but it's not really for defunding the french cbc side so
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the radio canada what is your uh opinion about it and are you for going to defund as well cbc
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well i think cbc should return to more like a public broadcasting system where they raise money um
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people subscribe and uh they do do some good work and in the rural area areas i've spoken to people
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that they say that's all we have if you defund we'll have nothing and so that's worth considering
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in areas where they do well uh such as the rural areas and uh radio canada um that's that's considered
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worth being paid for but when in areas like in the uh urban centers and where people are online and
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getting their news from alternative sources i don't think that's a good use of our resources and do you
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think that the federal should do some funding for project that it's reserved to the province so example
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right now in quebec they want to uh create a tramway uh but they want that the federal government
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pay 40 percent of the bill um they want to that the government of canada pay 40 percent of the
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bill of the tramway of quebec are you for that the federal government is involved in funding project
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of the province well the federal government generally funds the projects of the governments
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through transfer payments so i think that once the transfer payments are fair between the different
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provinces and that those provinces can use those funds to enhance their communities their local
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provinces in ways that meet those regional needs should that being a tool for the election i don't know
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if you remember by reno tool was promises to pay 40 percent of the quebec tunnel like third link do you
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think that it should be like a tool for the um election well i think that your election promises should be based
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on what is good for the entire nation and if if that's a need that's needed here as i said it should
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it should be funded through transfer payments and if ontario has a different need then perhaps you
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could look at that too but your policy should be to enhance the entire nation not catering specifically
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to one group or the other and my last question is about i heard you about the digital identity we know that
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um in 2018 mr trudeau uh accept to be one of the pilot project for the key cut key d t high uh with the world
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economic forum and action tour that he want to uh start and i believe yeah air canada and um as well like the
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airport of montreal airport of uh toronto um do you think that we should go further on this or we should
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ban i think we should stop because the population the public citizens have not received full disclosure
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on what this entails digital currency has a lot of unknowns and people have questions and those questions
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deserve to be answered before our government ushers us down a certain path so the election for the
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conservative party leadership will be on the 10th of september but you have until the 3 of june for
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being a member of one of the leader so if you want to see everything about the coverage of the race of
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the leadership conservative party you can do so at leadership report.ca thank you