Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Tamara Lich's sentence is revenge disguised as justice

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I was in Ottawa today for Tamara Leach's sentencing for her role in the

00:00:06.020 trucker convoy. It was a very frustrating day for me, but at least there's no jail time. But

00:00:11.020 they did get a sentence. I'll explain it to you in today's show. But first, let me invite you to

00:00:15.320 become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of today's podcast. And there's

00:00:19.960 a certain thing I want you to see, just how crazy the crush of people was outside the courthouse.

00:00:25.740 It was sort of regime journalists versus citizen journalists pushing each other around. It was

00:00:31.060 quite something. I was standing right in the middle of it. So if you don't have the Rebel News Plus,

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00:00:55.740 Tamara Leach is sentenced, but not to jail. It's October 7th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:07.240 You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:13.660 Hi, everybody. I'm back at our world headquarters in Toronto. I spent the day in Ottawa where Tamara

00:01:29.520 Leach and Chris Barber were finally given their sentence. You know, it's been a three and a half

00:01:35.720 year legal process for them both, the longest mischief trial in Canadian history. I'm very

00:01:41.760 frustrated with the judge who, it seemed to me over the course of time, sort of loved the attention,

00:01:47.120 loved having a full courtroom, loved the banter, and was certainly in no rush for anything. She

00:01:51.560 took two and a half months to come up with her ruling today for her sentencing hearing. I won't

00:01:58.260 tell you the result right now. I will show you what I recorded on the scene. It was very interesting.

00:02:03.980 A huge crowd was there of both mainstream media and more citizen journalists than I've ever seen

00:02:10.020 in Canada before. I think you've heard me remark that citizen journalism has reached a real critical

00:02:15.580 mass in the United Kingdom, especially with Tommy Robinson's big rally on September 13th.

00:02:20.960 What I saw in front of the courthouse today felt like the same critical mass in Canada. There were

00:02:27.540 so many citizen journalists, some with just a simple cell phone, some with a little bit more gear.

00:02:32.500 It was really exciting. In fact, there's a little bit of jostling with the regime media,

00:02:37.220 the mainstream media, when basically citizen journalists decided, why should we wait for

00:02:43.160 the fancy journalists to go first? We have our own questions. And of course, the legacy

00:02:48.160 media don't like being dethroned. There were some, a little bit of tussling. I won't lie.

00:02:53.640 Let me show you what it was like today. I did a lot of live tweeting from the court, but I don't know that if you want the minutia,

00:03:02.020 the minute by minute, you can go to my X account. But here's my report from the scene.

00:03:07.000 I'm standing outside the Ottawa court. I'm going to turn around here.

00:03:13.940 A huge crowd outside. A lot of journalists. Look at the wall of TV cameras. It's tough these days to

00:03:19.940 understand who is with the mainstream media and who is the alternative media. One thing for sure,

00:03:25.740 I don't know if you can see it, but you can't really see it through the windows there. There are at least

00:03:30.980 seven police right inside the vestibule and another seven police downstairs outside the courtroom,

00:03:38.920 plus two police in the courtroom. My math tells me that's 16 different cops.

00:03:46.560 What are they expecting will happen? One of the things the judge said repeatedly in her sentencing

00:03:51.680 was that Tamara Leach and Chris Barber were completely non-violent and encouraged others to be non-violent

00:03:57.260 in tune. And yeah, let me catch you up. What's happening now? We're right outside the court house

00:04:01.340 minutes after Justice Heather Perkins McVeigh issued her sentences in the cases of trucker leaders

00:04:08.520 Tamara Leach and Chris Barber. The prosecution had asked for astonishing sentences, the kind of sentences

00:04:15.900 that murderers would get. Eight years for Barber and seven years for Leach. The judge did not do that.

00:04:22.780 She said that there was no basis for that. And she gently chided Doug Ford's prosecutors. And remember

00:04:28.780 that the prosecutors who have hounded Tamara and Leach and Chris Barber for three and a half years,

00:04:34.580 they weren't for Doug Ford. They don't work for Mark Carney or Justin Trudeau. They'll let the court

00:04:38.620 off the hook. Anyways, today in the sentencing, neither of the two accused were given a custodial sentence

00:04:46.780 in plain English. What do you make of these sentences? Well, for my point's comment, he respects

00:04:52.540 that there is not appealable in terms of the sentence. They are conditional sentences. He gets

00:05:01.500 house grits. Yes, he does. And in terms of his reaction to Ford, does he feel any regret in terms of

00:05:07.820 what has happened in terms of his role in the height of power? I'll let him speak to that when he's due and

00:05:14.060 ready to do that. Are you surprised by the verdict of the sentence today, Ms. Nagas?

00:05:17.820 No, I'm not. It was expected to be in the realm of sentences, the sentences that were provided to

00:05:26.060 other members or leaders. So, it was expected.

00:05:32.060 Madame Nagas, is-ce que vous êtes satisfaite de ces 18 mois d'empiliement avec ceci?

00:05:38.060 C'est une sentance qui est raisonnable selon nous et puis qui, mon client, respecte la

00:05:44.060 décision du juge à cet effet-là.

00:05:45.820 Don't question me, wherever you are. Don't question me.

00:05:47.820 Can you tell me what kind of message this may send to other individuals who may want to protest,

00:05:53.740 given if it's another protest against government overreach? We see something going on in the

00:05:58.940 ostrich farm right now. What message does the court send in terms of other mass protests? 0.77

00:06:04.380 I think the message from the judge was really clear that my client and Ms. Leach had the best

00:06:11.180 intention when they came to Ottawa. It was a lawful protest and she found that it turned into unlawful

00:06:17.980 because of the blockage of the streets and that's what the message is. Like, protest but don't block

00:06:23.340 street. Don't interfere with other people's enjoyment of their property is the clear message.

00:06:30.140 I think the judge wanted to make sure in her decision today and even in her decision on

00:06:34.700 conviction that protest is allowed. That's not the issue. It's the manner of the protest.

00:06:39.740 Do you think there's a double standard with how Hamas protesters are really unmolested by police?

00:06:45.660 None of them are being jailed. There's no three-year prosecutions like this for mischief,

00:06:49.980 whereas trucker protesters have been jailed and the enormous amount of resources thrown at them.

00:06:56.700 It's hard for me to comment on another protest that I don't know the facts of each of the protests.

00:07:02.140 So it's, I can't comment on that unfortunately. I can tell you that this trial took very long to

00:07:09.580 succeed or complete but I can't comment on the other ones.

00:07:14.860 Do you think the judge has a lot of attention to the fact that he has collaborated with the police?

00:07:21.580 There you go. That's against the lawyer, Chris Harbour, having a bit of a scrum.

00:07:28.700 Um, one of the questions, I think it was CTV who asked it, was, um, is there any lesson here for

00:07:34.940 the ostrich farm? Isn't that interesting? That's what's on their mind. I'm just keeping my eye peeled

00:07:40.940 about, uh, what's going on. It's a little bit of madness here. I didn't realize that scrum was happening,

00:07:47.340 but I tried to jump in front of it. I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for when Lawrence Greenspan

00:07:53.500 comes out. A little bit of hollering between the citizen journalists and the regime journalists.

00:08:01.500 Let me get back to the story at hand. The headline news, the big news right now,

00:08:06.540 is that Chris Barber and Tamara Leach have been sentenced for their role at Trucker Thonsway.

00:08:11.100 Neither of them has been sent to jail, but both of them have received enormously long

00:08:15.100 house arrest. Um, in both cases, 18 months of house arrest, uh, or 18 months conditional sentence,

00:08:23.500 excuse me, of which 12 months is house arrest, reduced somewhat in the case of Tamara Leach because

00:08:29.500 he's already spared the legal equivalent of 74 days in jail. So 15 and a half months of house arrest,

00:08:36.220 during which time they are not allowed to leave other than for medical emergency, five hours a week for

00:08:43.100 shopping, um, legal medical and dental appointments and other things that they negotiate with their

00:08:52.540 supervisors. Um, in the case of Chris Barber, he's a trucker, a long-distance trucker. So obviously

00:09:01.900 his employment would count as an exception to that, but I have not heard of such a strict house arrest.

00:09:08.460 I'm trying to think of, of, uh, of a peaceful political protest that yielded such a brutal sentence.

00:09:15.100 And you can compare it to Omar Khadr, the Al Qaeda terrorist, who didn't have any of these

00:09:20.860 conditions. In fact, he was given 10 and a half million dollars of taxpayer money. Um, he was given

00:09:27.980 the red carpet. He had a, you know, he was the golden boy of Justin Trudeau. I asked, uh, Ms. Magus,

00:09:34.940 that's the lawyer for Chris Barber. If there's an evident double standard in between how these

00:09:41.020 truckers are being treated and how the Hamas protesters are being treated, I don't know of

00:09:45.100 any Hamas protesters who've been jailed for months. I don't know any of them who have been prosecuted

00:09:50.780 with the obsession that Doug Ford has prosecuted to Merrill Leach or the Alberta government has

00:09:55.420 prosecuted the Coutts protesters. Her answer was fair enough, but I think it was a tiny bit of a

00:10:00.460 Catholic symbol that has gotten familiar with those other protests. I don't know the facts.

00:10:05.660 I suppose that's a proper lawyer's answer, but it's pretty easy to say. There's a two-tier

00:10:11.100 standard for protests in Canada. All right, I'm going to extend. I'm sort of in the thick of it.

00:10:15.900 I hope you don't mind. I tried to film the scrum. It's a little bit hard when I'm using a selfie stick.

00:10:21.820 As you can see, there's a ton of folks here. Watch this video. And there's so many cameras.

00:10:29.020 Some of them are more official-looking sources. Many of them are citizen journalists like myself.

00:10:37.020 I'm going to keep my camera rolling because I do expect Lawrence Greenspaw, the lawyer,

00:10:42.780 for Tamer Leach to come out, and I'll try and put some questions to him. He's very knowledgeable.

00:10:48.540 He's a very senior lawyer. And I know that even the regime media deferred to him because he's very

00:10:56.300 progressorial. He teaches when he answers questions. And I'm pleased to say that we have crowdfunded

00:11:02.860 his legal fees. Him and he has had two junior lawyers. He's been working on this case for two years.

00:11:09.180 And I know from my previous conversations with him and Tamer Leach that Tamer Leach intends to

00:11:17.180 appeal her convictions. So I don't know if they're going to appeal the sentence as well. When you

00:11:22.380 appeal the conviction, and if you were successful, then there would be no need for any sense at all,

00:11:27.180 of course, if you found he's on his video. Anyways, I'm just going to turn the camera around a little

00:11:32.380 bit so you can see there are some protest sides here. And you can see inside there are a lot of cops,

00:11:39.340 which is a bit rich. I think the Ottawa Police Service has some psychological trauma from the

00:11:47.980 truckers. If they're literally sending 16s off, and those are just the ones that I counted.

00:11:53.020 I think they haven't got over it. I think the Ottawa Police were just raising the country. And that's

00:11:59.580 not just my opinion. According to the Federal Court of Canada, the invocation of the Emergencies Act

00:12:04.620 and the conduct of police in its aftermath, including the arbitrary search and seizure

00:12:10.860 and shutting down of bank accounts of anyone who was there, including the spouses. A lot of people,

00:12:16.300 of course, share a bank account with their spouse. And imagine you're a mom who had a grocery 0.99

00:12:20.620 store and suddenly none of your credit cards worked because your husband was at a protest

00:12:25.340 and some liberal politician said, hey, shut down this guy's bank account. He's a trucker.

00:12:31.580 Absolutely abusive. The Federal Court of Canada itself found that to be illegal

00:12:36.460 and unconstitutional. I think the Ottawa Police Service has some explaining to do, but

00:12:41.500 they don't really ever explain now, do they? So anyways, I'm out here with this huge crowd.

00:12:47.340 I would say it's fair to say that in addition to the regime media, there's dozens of independent

00:12:52.700 media, got a lot of people who are just plain old Tamara Leach and Chris Barber supporters.

00:12:59.420 I think that if you were to ask me where are Tamara Leach and Chris Barber right now,

00:13:03.820 I think they're actually doing paperwork with what they call the supervisor. I think that may be a

00:13:10.460 newfangled way of saying parole or probation officer. So they're doing the paperwork. And one of the

00:13:16.380 things the judge said is that the responsibility for enforcing this house arrest will be shifted to

00:13:22.380 their respective homes. Oh, I see Lawrence is on his way out. He's the lawyer

00:13:29.580 for Tamara Leach. Okay. Then we'll do our best to let him move now.

00:13:36.540 Back it up, guys. Come on, back it up.

00:13:40.060 Rolling, rolling.

00:13:40.860 You guys gonna back it up. That means all in the door.

00:13:47.100 Lawrence Greenspun here. Mr. Greenspun, how many people do you think the Freedom Convoy positively impacted?

00:13:53.820 Well, in our submissions, I said thousands, if not tens of thousands. But we received letters of

00:14:01.100 support from hundreds of people. We've received messages. Tamara has received messages. So

00:14:08.620 this was one of those rare cases where I was able to say to the judge, there was some very positive

00:14:13.660 things that happened as a result of this, what was found to be an offense. And the positive is that

00:14:20.860 there are a lot of people who were inspired by Tamara's example. A lot of people who were lifted up

00:14:26.540 and given oath by what she did. Are you satisfied with the verdict or the set scene today, sir?

00:14:32.220 Yes. The main objective was to make sure she didn't spend one more day in jail. And that was achieved.

00:14:41.100 So yes, in that sense, we are still very seriously considering it a meal of the conviction.

00:14:48.380 Yeah, okay. We need a little bit of an agent as far as the safety goes. 0.99

00:14:52.060 We're pleased that she is not going to be spending any more time in jail.

00:14:55.980 Do you think there's been a double standard with how the truckers have been treated

00:14:59.900 with jailing, prosecution, enormous resources, compared to the pro-Hamas protests

00:15:06.140 that blocked streets in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere? Is there a double standard on the streets?

00:15:12.140 I think that this case, on its own, demonstrates the conflict between freedom of expression and

00:15:22.540 peaceful assembly. And as contrasted with some of the other protests that you're referring to,

00:15:29.580 the pro-Palestinian protests, there's definitely a different way that those are being treated as opposed

00:15:36.060 to the way that this peaceful assembly and freedom of expression was treated in this moment.

00:15:41.100 Lawrence, was there a balance struck by the judge in this case, in terms of freedom of expression,

00:15:45.500 in terms of the regular protest?

00:15:47.100 No. No. There was none. And in Canada, constitutionally protected freedom of speech,

00:15:56.220 which encourages peaceful assembly, must prevail over the rights of property owners,

00:16:02.540 the enjoyment of property. That's not an equal balance. And that's the primary basis that we're

00:16:09.180 considering for an appeal of conviction. What do you think the post effects will be? I mean,

00:16:15.020 even if you might be happy with the results, or as of now, what do you think just takes the feeling

00:16:19.820 of free speech very forward? The process, of course, the pre-trial custody? I'm concerned that going

00:16:27.100 forward individuals who advocate peaceful assembly, and that's all that Tamara did was talk about 0.99

00:16:35.100 peaceful assembly and encourage people to come to Ottawa to assemble peacefully and lawfully.

00:16:40.380 That's all she did. And if that becomes, and at this point, it remains criminal. It's been found to

00:16:47.100 be the offense of mischief. If that's allowed to stand, then I'm very concerned about the future of

00:16:52.940 freedom of expression in this country. Lois for appealing Ms. Luigi's conviction. We're, we're

00:16:58.700 seriously considering an appeal of the conviction for mischief. What about the impact on the

00:17:03.660 piece of awareness that Jake also knows that he didn't get impressed here on his diversity? There was,

00:17:09.740 there is definitely, and that was something that we were prepared to admit right at the beginning

00:17:13.580 of the trial, that there was an impact on the people and businesses in the core of the city of

00:17:18.860 Ottawa. Uh, freedom of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly do not come without some price.

00:17:26.860 And in a, in a contest between the two, peaceful assembly, freedom of expression that encourages

00:17:33.020 that, should win every time. Mr. Greenspan? Nowhere in the constitution are the property rights or the

00:17:38.860 enjoyment of property to be found. Freedom of expression, peaceful assembly are fundamental freedoms

00:17:44.220 that are supposed to be protected by the charter. Mr. Greenspan, were you surprised by the sentence today?

00:17:49.340 Uh, the federation? Given, given the reign, uh, absolute discharge to seven years,

00:17:56.780 uh, there was really, there's really nothing that could surprise me. What, what surprised me was that

00:18:01.900 in 45 years of doing this work, I've never been this far apart from the Crown in terms of a sentencing

00:18:06.860 position. The judge, the judge made comments about the Crown Sentencing Commission, and I'll, I'll leave you to that.

00:18:11.740 Has Ms. Leach ever expressed any type of remorse for her role in this, even though she did not

00:18:17.660 advocate for violence, but it resulted in 65 million dollars of belief costs.

00:18:23.980 You heard the portion of the, uh, of the letter that she wrote, and she recognized,

00:18:30.460 as did Mr. Barber, that there were many people in the downtown Goran businesses that were affected by

00:18:35.980 the Freedom Harbour. She doesn't deny that. Uh, that the question, the question of it then,

00:18:41.740 was there remorse for what she did? No. She pled not guilty. She's been found guilty of mischief.

00:18:47.980 And we're seriously looking at a feeling that. Do you think Camara actually saved her?

00:18:52.700 Judy, go down a little. 1.00

00:18:54.220 She may have. She may have saved her.

00:18:58.060 She may have saved her life by her advocate. Thank you.

00:19:00.220 She may have. One, one thing we know, uh, is that there were men and lies, many people that were

00:19:05.660 inspired by her example, but it said in the union how she did it. There were lies that were changed as a

00:19:12.060 result of her standing up on the path with many thousands of people, perhaps even tens of

00:19:17.340 parents. So her life saved, I don't know, but, uh, may well have been. May well have been.

00:19:23.820 Absolutely.

00:19:24.540 Do you have any word of edge I've found?

00:19:27.260 Thank you.

00:19:27.580 Thank you.

00:19:31.580 And it doesn't say, uh, these things.

00:19:33.980 Do you want me to get out of these things?

00:19:36.140 Do you want me to get out of these things?

00:19:40.140 Get in here. Go. Go. Go. 0.98

00:19:43.100 You're on my court.

00:19:44.060 Get in here.

00:19:48.300 No, I know it doesn't.

00:19:49.100 I mean, some could stay, but you said something else.

00:19:52.140 Did you say, uh, so live on Philip's, the bigs,

00:19:56.060 they're there or what?

00:19:57.100 I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean,

00:20:01.260 I mean, I mean, it's really big, what do I make?

00:20:03.260 There it is?

00:20:21.020 Do you have anything more to do with James Bowders or is that facields?

00:20:24.140 No.

00:20:24.780 A finishment yes.

00:20:26.140 I'm done with James Bowders.

00:20:28.060 No, I think she canvassed all of the, as many of the protest cases that were familiar with the Antifa protests generally involved violence and damage to property.

00:20:54.180 So, there would have been no point in her, you know, mentioning those and then saying, but they don't apply in this case.

00:21:03.400 He mentioned something I would impeach in a remorse. What did you say to her?

00:21:08.760 What I said is, no, she has not indicated to the court that she's remorseful for what she did.

00:21:15.680 Well, I'm going to take a few steps away from this drum.

00:21:23.640 Lawrence Skritt, sponsor, and the man of the hour outside the courthouse here.

00:21:27.200 What I learned from his remarks is something he said before, is that in our Canadian constitution, property rights do not trump freedom of speech.

00:21:35.020 Now, we love both property rights and freedom of speech, but he does have a point.

00:21:39.160 The Charter of Rights mentions freedom of speech. It does not mention property rights.

00:21:43.340 And in a protest situation like the Tracker Convoy, don't be surprised if some dainty people are put out by some noisy grotesque.

00:21:52.720 The second thing, which he said clearly, is that they have not yet officially decided whether to appeal the conviction, but they're seriously considering it.

00:22:03.680 I had understood previously that they were going to appeal.

00:22:06.480 If that's the case, we'll certainly crowd fund it through the Democracy Fund.

00:22:10.760 It's a little bit crowded there, and I managed to sort of get beyond hearing range, but it shows you the tremendous interest in this case.

00:22:21.880 So, I'm going to try and film just a little bit more.

00:22:27.400 It also fleshed out there that things happen in the first place.

00:22:32.440 If that's the case, it happens in the first year, and, uh, the...

00:22:37.440 I'm not thrilled at all.

00:22:41.640 I saw that. You made that very public.

00:22:46.640 Where they were directed as a goal, it should have been an issue.

00:22:50.000 And it very quickly clarified that this use of the mating of trucks to reduce the footprint was something that was stopped, not by the, uh, convoy organizers, but rather stopped by the chief.

00:23:03.000 So, I'll go...

00:23:04.000 What's the name?

00:23:05.000 What's the name?

00:23:05.400 What's the name?

00:23:06.000 What's the name?

00:23:07.000 What's the name?

00:23:08.000 What's the name?

00:23:09.000 What's the name?

00:23:10.000 What's the name?

00:23:11.000 It's not a floor, Sothe the border.

00:23:13.000 What's the decision to convict Tamara Leach for a mischief for what she did? 1.00

00:23:18.000 In the name of peace or Assembling and Freedom of Expression is something that we're looking to energy as they're challenging further on.

00:23:27.560 Mr. Greenspan, there's been a lot of misunderstandings and message information about this entire process.

00:23:31.960 If there's one thing that communicates with the people of Canada that may have not been properly communicated, maybe lost in the weeds, what would that be?

00:23:41.020 It's this message. It's that freedom of expression has to mean something when it is encouraging peaceful assembly.

00:23:52.420 And those two things are both constitutionally protected fundamental freedoms.

00:23:57.740 That has to mean something. And it has to mean, unfortunately for some, that it prevails over the right to enjoyment of property, which is nowhere to be found in our charter of rights and freedoms.

00:24:11.220 Good job, Larry. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Greenspan.

00:24:14.380 Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. I'm in a cab headed from the Ottawa courthouse to the airport.

00:24:19.220 I just want to give you a quick update super quickly on the case of Tamara Leach and Chris Barber, the two co-accused who were charged with mischief and other offenses in relation to the trucker convoy in early 2022.

00:24:31.880 They were found guilty a few months ago. And today, finally, the judge, Justice Heather Perkins McVeigh, issued her sentencing.

00:24:40.200 Now, the Doug Ford's prosecutors, remember, it's not Justin Trudeau or Mark Carney who's prosecuting, it's Doug Ford.

00:24:46.360 Doug Ford's prosecutors wanted seven years in prison for Tamara Leach and eight for Chris Barber. 0.93

00:24:52.120 The defense wanted what's called an absolute discharge, which is basically we all walk away as if, you know, you know, we just walk away.

00:24:59.960 I mean, of course, Tamara Leach has already spent 49 days in prison. 1.00

00:25:03.040 The judge rejected both of those, but came much closer to the defense proposal.

00:25:10.520 Neither Chris Barber nor Tamara Leach will spend another minute in jail.

00:25:14.260 Unfortunately, though, they'll have a conditional sentence for 18 months, of which a year will be under house arrest.

00:25:20.320 And it's brutal.

00:25:21.240 They have to stay on their property unless they're working, going for legal, medical, or dental appointments, five hours a week allowed for shopping, and a handful of other exceptions.

00:25:31.460 Now, I suppose it's possible to get a job that permits them to travel widely.

00:25:36.000 But this is a very suffocating house arrest.

00:25:39.280 And I think by comparison to the terrorist Omar Khadr, who didn't have any conditions when he came back to Canada.

00:25:45.960 In fact, he got a ten and a half million dollar check from the government.

00:25:49.900 And in fact, one of my questions that I put to Lawrence Greenspan in the scrum afterwards, actually I put it to both defense lawyers, was,

00:25:56.900 can you comment on the double standard between how these peaceful trucker protesters are being abused by police and prosecutors versus how the pro-Hamas protesters take great liberties every day?

00:26:08.480 And I think both realized I was right, but they didn't want to dive into that pesky issue.

00:26:13.200 Anyways, I'll have full reports later on rebelnews.com.

00:26:18.240 And if you want to help be part of the solution, go to helptamara.com and you can chip in to help cover her legal fees for defense.

00:26:26.740 I'm sorry it's so bouncy.

00:26:28.040 I'm in the back of a car on the way to the airport, but I promise you my report in the main will be a lot more steady.

00:26:35.140 Once again, that's helptamara.com.

00:26:37.400 We've got to help her fight back.

00:26:38.760 Just in the cab on the way to the airport, it's a bit bumpy and a bit rainy.

00:26:45.440 I had two more thoughts that I don't think I expressed in my little commentary outside the courthouse.

00:26:50.200 The first is the judge repeatedly talked about how much the city of Ottawa spent, including on policing.

00:26:56.640 I think she said $55 million, as if that were all attributable to two truckers, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.

00:27:03.660 And had they not been there, the city wouldn't have had to incur those expenses.

00:27:07.220 Well, the first response to that is it's a city.

00:27:09.760 Police is an expense.

00:27:10.780 And when you're the capital city, expect to have protests from time to time in your capital.

00:27:14.820 If you don't like it, go move somewhere else.

00:27:17.660 Go move out into the country.

00:27:18.740 Part of the price of a capital city is that is a place where people are allowed to come protest.

00:27:22.880 But if that's the argument, oh, my God, that cost enforced and foisted on taxpayers, what was the cost of the lockdowns?

00:27:32.820 What was the cost of the you're not allowed to work orders?

00:27:36.580 You're not allowed to go to school orders in the billions, maybe in the hundreds of billions, maybe even in the trillions.

00:27:42.760 I don't know.

00:27:43.560 But the idea that this trucker convoy harmed the economy is a laugh.

00:27:49.060 I was here, as you remember, for a few days at the beginning of the convoy.

00:27:52.680 And it was the first time that many convenience stores and restaurants had any customers because the truckers were not afraid to go out for a bite.

00:28:00.020 And the second thing, and I don't know if I emphasized it, but I think it was Judy Trim from CTV, she asked a question if the sentences here would deter other protesters, like at the ostrich farm in B.C.

00:28:15.080 And I thought, look at how the regime connects the dots.

00:28:18.140 Look at how they're thinking already, as if the ostrich protesters are evil people who need to be prosecuted, jailed.

00:28:25.980 They haven't done a thing wrong.

00:28:27.080 In fact, the only people who have done anything wrong and who have engaged in any violence, to be quite literal, is the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which has killed at least one, maybe two ostriches without legal right.

00:28:40.920 But imagine being a regime journalist based in Ottawa thinking, how can I blame the ostrich people?

00:28:46.300 How can I whip up some mania against them?

00:28:48.880 Can we perhaps get the idea of police brutality and prosecutorial vendettas against them, too?

00:28:55.260 Just a very interesting visit.

00:28:57.380 Anyways, I'm on my way to the airport, got to get back to Toronto.

00:29:00.800 News keeps happening all across this country.

00:29:03.180 I'm delighted to have the privilege to report it to you, and in some cases, to be part of the solution.

00:29:08.840 As you know, we have helped Tamara Leach in a number of ways. 0.93

00:29:11.300 We published her excellent autobiography called Hold the Line.

00:29:15.240 And if you believe in crowdfunding her legal fees like I do, you can do that at helptamara.com.

00:29:20.680 All right, I'm going to sign off now.

00:29:22.260 Talk to you later.

00:29:25.260 Talk to you later.

00:29:55.240 It was so crazy, and you could see the maliciousness, the malice of the regime media in that moment.

00:30:01.880 Now, speaking of ostriches, our friend Drea Humphrey, who I call the queen of the ostriches,

00:30:07.180 she is still on location along with other rebels, including Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:30:11.340 who has just arrived on the scene in Edgewood, British Columbia.

00:30:15.080 I tell you, I really enjoyed my brief visit there.

00:30:17.820 I feel like I'm busy, so I have to keep going.

00:30:20.140 But if I had more time, and let me say this, if you are in British Columbia or Alberta or even more adventurous from further afield,

00:30:27.780 and you want to get an interesting feeling of populist, activist, grassroots, Canadian freedom lovers,

00:30:35.840 you should consider going to the farm.

00:30:37.720 I was there fairly briefly, but even in my brief time there, I loved the feeling, and it did indeed remind me of the festival feeling,

00:30:46.320 the unity feeling that I encountered when I was at the trucker convoy in early 2022.

00:30:52.380 So, I know it sounds sort of unusual, but if you have time, and if you are political,

00:30:58.720 and if you've got like a camper van, or I mean, some people are even sleeping in their cars,

00:31:02.840 there are porta-potties, there's a sort of a group kitchen, like there are some amenities, they're not much.

00:31:08.200 It's pretty, I mean, you want to bring your own stuff.

00:31:10.460 But it's something that I would encourage you to consider doing.

00:31:14.340 I certainly enjoyed my time there, and I think Drea is too.

00:31:16.660 Anyways, Drea was out there at the ostrich farm, and she did streeters asking people there what they thought of Tamera Leach. 1.00

00:31:24.360 I should say Tamera was recently at the ostrich farm. 0.96

00:31:27.820 She played a rock concert there.

00:31:30.620 Here's Drea's report.

00:31:34.260 Drea Humphrey here with Rebel News at Universal Ostrich Farms.

00:31:37.660 I want to speak with some of the supporters of the farm's plight against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

00:31:43.560 who remains on their property over there trying to call their healthy flock.

00:31:50.320 I want to get the supporters' opinions on the news that's come out on the Freedom Convoy.

00:31:57.480 Leaders, Tamera Leach, Chris Barber, receiving no jail time, but very, very stiff conditions.

00:32:05.340 It's actually breakfast time out here.

00:32:07.500 There is an overlap to the Freedom Convoy, so I'm told.

00:32:11.040 When it comes to the food, the donations that are coming in and the hard-working people that make sure everybody here is fed.

00:32:18.960 Now, the farmers don't know when donations are coming in, so if you come to camp,

00:32:23.200 they, of course, still ask you to be prepared to feed yourself, but so far it's been good.

00:32:28.860 Can I ask you your opinion?

00:32:30.420 Did you hear the good news?

00:32:31.540 I did!

00:32:32.440 Woo-hoo! 1.00

00:32:32.780 It's good news as far as jail time.

00:32:35.660 What were your thoughts, both Chris Barber and Tamera Leach not having to go to jail again?

00:32:41.200 Again.

00:32:41.860 I love it.

00:32:44.240 It's a step in the right direction.

00:32:45.780 It's a step in the right direction.

00:32:46.080 It's a step in the right direction.

00:32:46.860 Yeah, absolutely.

00:32:48.340 I can't be more happy for them, and now we're on this one.

00:32:53.040 What do you make of the stiff sentences, though?

00:32:55.340 They're still getting a lot of conditions to Tamera Leach on house arrest for a complete year. 1.00

00:33:02.020 Chris Barber has his conditional 18-month sentence.

00:33:05.820 What do you make of that, and how long this whole mischief of trial has gone on?

00:33:10.980 It's ridiculous.

00:33:13.920 It's bad.

00:33:15.300 I don't agree with it.

00:33:17.180 Again, overreach with the government.

00:33:20.640 And I don't think they should have got nothing.

00:33:26.120 Nothing at all.

00:33:27.040 Do you think there's any overlap between your stand here at the Freedom, see, I'm calling

00:33:32.580 it the Freedom Farm, the ostrich farm, and the Freedom Convoy?

00:33:36.080 And if so, what are those?

00:33:44.320 They're people standing up for what they believe in.

00:33:47.180 Freedom of speech, asking for your rights.

00:33:52.940 Both of them are, and they're both being unjustly punished by the government's own ideas of the

00:34:05.160 way things should be.

00:34:06.360 It's not right.

00:34:08.180 It's not right.

00:34:08.960 It's horrible that people, both sides, Freedom Convoy and these guys, have to go through so much pain and

00:34:19.560 everything to bring to light how corrupt our government is.

00:34:26.440 Yes.

00:34:26.660 On all sides.

00:34:27.460 A lot of government overreach.

00:34:29.320 I mean, we thought, thank you very much, we thought during COVID we had constitutional rights.

00:34:34.360 One of those was the right to peacefully gather.

00:34:37.000 And in many ways we saw that wasn't true during COVID, but it was the ultimate, you know, test

00:34:42.420 when we saw the brutal force and impact that the officers did.

00:34:47.400 But the injustice of the overlap I'm seeing here between the ostrich farm and the convoy

00:34:52.500 is the injustice of the tax dollars being sent to go after peaceful people.

00:34:57.680 Again, if you haven't been following this, there is a standoff that's been going on for two weeks

00:35:02.560 as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency sits and seizes the herd of nearly 400 ostriches

00:35:10.020 that they want to call who are not sick based on an illness that swept through the farm 10 months ago.

00:35:15.880 And they're here on the taxpayers' dimes.

00:35:18.260 They've got tons of cops here every day, shift chains, all of that.

00:35:22.980 And that reminds me of this mischief trial in a way.

00:35:26.220 This is the longest mischief trial in history.

00:35:30.440 Now, of course, our founder, Ezra Levant, has been on the scene reporting every second of the way.

00:35:37.380 I'm going to read his exact reporting of the conditions.

00:35:41.100 First, the decision which was made by Justice Heather Perkins.

00:35:45.580 I'm going to move away from the generator.

00:35:48.260 Heather Perkins McVeigh.

00:35:50.480 The first ruling came in for Chris Barber.

00:35:53.980 And Ezra says this, there are terrorists out on bail with fewer conditions than what he received.

00:36:01.200 Also, Tamara Leach, what a gross, sloppy, whiny judge carrying out errands for the political establishment. 1.00

00:36:08.360 That's what this whole thing has been.

00:36:10.140 So he says Chris Barber must remain on his own property during the first 12 months except for employment of traveling to and from any legal, medical or dental appointments or religious services.

00:36:26.140 Once a week for up to five hours, he can go shopping.

00:36:30.740 Isn't that nice?

00:36:31.740 For what?

00:36:32.360 Honking horns and feeding the homeless.

00:36:35.140 Or by written permission.

00:36:37.860 Tamara Leach.

00:36:39.520 I'm just going to swipe over here.

00:36:40.940 Justice Perkins McVeigh says same thing.

00:36:45.440 Conditional sentence of 18 months, less time already spent in custody.

00:36:50.700 So that makes it 15.5 months.

00:36:53.460 And remember, they spent a lot of time already.

00:36:56.660 It's ridiculous.

00:36:57.720 So conditional sentence, as we said, first 12 months, house arrest.

00:37:03.540 So we saw Barbara had some exceptions for working, it looks like.

00:37:07.360 House arrest, except to and from court.

00:37:10.780 Oh, oh, so nice.

00:37:12.680 That's so nice.

00:37:13.920 Medical emergencies.

00:37:15.160 Well, I should hope so.

00:37:17.120 Appointments and religious services.

00:37:19.080 So can go for that.

00:37:20.460 Five hours a week for shopping can go to her grandchild's birth. 1.00

00:37:25.640 So she's a grandma, that's right, who took a stand for Canada and has been paying the price ever since.

00:37:32.940 Remaining 3.5 months of curfew will be 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., except for medical emergencies.

00:37:41.020 And, of course, Chris Barber also has, you know, a curfew for his remaining sentence, too.

00:37:48.340 They're getting some wood together here, over here.

00:37:51.000 Can I ask you about the news with Barber and Leach?

00:37:54.160 Are you here?

00:37:54.960 Very happy that Chris is not being sentenced and most likely will be free.

00:37:59.320 Let's hope that Conor will be next.

00:38:01.760 Absolutely.

00:38:02.380 Yeah.

00:38:02.900 Oh, so he hasn't heard.

00:38:04.260 Yes, Tamara Leach got no jail time. 1.00

00:38:06.240 Really?

00:38:06.720 Yes.

00:38:07.980 Tamara got no jail time.

00:38:09.440 Yeah.

00:38:10.060 None.

00:38:10.780 Both of them.

00:38:11.680 Woo! 0.99

00:38:12.580 Both of them got no jail time.

00:38:13.540 Hopefully they're coming here.

00:38:14.980 We need to meet all the support.

00:38:16.500 Right.

00:38:17.360 We're more than welcome, Chris, and Tamara.

00:38:19.260 Well, they can't.

00:38:20.260 That's the second part I want to ask you about.

00:38:22.540 They can't come here. 0.75

00:38:23.440 Oh.

00:38:23.880 You go.

00:38:24.400 Get in there and help them, goddammit.

00:38:27.180 They actually can't come here because they have really stiff conditions.

00:38:32.920 So Tamara Leach is on house arrest for an entire year. 1.00

00:38:36.340 Oh, no.

00:38:36.760 Well, it's just, to me, it's not an offence that he deserves a sentencing of that length.

00:38:52.440 There's bigger criminals out there, like the polling, for example, community stuff.

00:38:56.920 And he might be only getting four years.

00:38:58.040 Right.

00:38:58.400 So he's done, obviously, worse things than protest and convoys.

00:39:02.120 So we need to get our justice system sorted out.

00:39:05.220 We need to go after real criminals.

00:39:06.900 And even the funding here, I think it's $500,000 a day for the cops and all that.

00:39:10.260 I'm not sure about that.

00:39:11.580 But that could be used for fentanyl, for real criminals.

00:39:15.700 Exactly.

00:39:16.740 That's the overlap I see.

00:39:17.780 Tell us a little bit about what you guys are doing here.

00:39:20.920 This is from 24-7 Firewood in Florida.

00:39:23.180 They just donated us a couple cords of wood for free.

00:39:25.780 Oh, wow.

00:39:26.460 Yeah.

00:39:26.980 Just came out, made our day.

00:39:28.660 And we're just stocking everything.

00:39:30.600 We're just working in the kitchen and getting hemp sorted out.

00:39:33.400 We'll be watching the gate one more day and keep the fight up.

00:39:37.200 That's awesome.

00:39:38.060 Never quit.

00:39:39.780 Auster's patriots.

00:39:45.080 She's Dick Van Dyke from-

00:39:47.120 Dick Van Dyke.

00:39:49.020 That's pretty awesome.

00:39:50.220 You see everybody working together to keep people warm.

00:39:53.880 And also, you know, what he said about Diddy.

00:39:56.180 I haven't been following that case anymore.

00:39:58.020 He claims that he only might get four years.

00:40:01.400 I should point out that with Chris Barber, the prosecutor was asking for eight years.

00:40:07.800 Eight years for what exactly?

00:40:10.900 Let me see if I can bug these guys who are working hard, too.

00:40:13.480 We've got Jim Kerr here.

00:40:14.800 What do you make of the news so far?

00:40:16.860 The big news of today.

00:40:20.240 I was really concerned that if they got jail time, it would be really bad.

00:40:24.100 So I'm really glad that didn't happen.

00:40:26.960 But the fact that these people who didn't do anything got charged for what they did,

00:40:30.780 and now they're going to spend 12 months under house arrest and six months probation, three months.

00:40:34.200 So that's ridiculous.

00:40:36.920 I'm glad and I'm happy that they're not going to spend time in jail.

00:40:41.760 Yeah.

00:40:42.360 But, you know, it's kind of hollow.

00:40:46.700 Yeah, I'm the same way.

00:40:48.020 I thought, you know, maybe they're going to throw them in jail just to prove a point.

00:40:51.300 But the point has already proven what they're saying.

00:40:53.660 You know, don't go against the state.

00:40:56.080 What do you see here, Jim?

00:40:57.360 I know you were involved with the Trucker Convoy in some ways supporting that.

00:41:01.740 And now you're here with the Ostrich Farm.

00:41:03.920 Do you see any overlap, connection between these two?

00:41:06.760 And if so, what is it?

00:41:07.800 It's remarkably similar in so many ways.

00:41:11.280 Specifically, the spirit that it evoked.

00:41:13.640 Do you know, when you were at the Trucker Convoy, the thing that you couldn't kind of tell on the news

00:41:17.380 was how everybody was just so happy and generous and loving.

00:41:22.280 It's kind of like a Woodstock-y feel, like a winter Woodstock-y feel.

00:41:24.860 Yeah.

00:41:25.280 It's not winter.

00:41:26.080 Stock and wood.

00:41:26.780 But yeah, oh, there you get the Woodstock.

00:41:30.400 Dude.

00:41:31.860 I'll get to you, Colin.

00:41:33.900 It's got that really positive, peaceful vibe.

00:41:37.400 As much as I saw people praying at the Trucker Convoy, it's prominent here now.

00:41:43.720 It wasn't always.

00:41:44.700 And the vibe wasn't always what it is right now.

00:41:46.700 That's a good point.

00:41:47.720 You know, but now it's meditative.

00:41:49.760 Like, it's like we're not, at first we were shocked and angry and crying and all that.

00:41:53.340 We still cry and stuff.

00:41:54.300 But now it's more peaceful.

00:41:55.760 Yeah.

00:41:56.420 And it's just more like this.

00:41:59.380 Yeah.

00:41:59.560 And everybody just wants to help.

00:42:01.100 Our prime directive here is twofold.

00:42:03.480 One is to save the ostriches and the other is to support the family.

00:42:06.320 That's it.

00:42:07.060 And any time the camp or anybody else gets off track, it's because they forget one of those

00:42:11.220 two things.

00:42:11.800 Yeah.

00:42:12.000 And as long as we remember it, like people are remembering without having to be told.

00:42:16.580 It's beautiful.

00:42:17.340 It feels like the Trucker Convoy in so many ways.

00:42:19.900 And I've said this right from many, many months ago, that this has the potential to impact

00:42:25.400 more than the Trucker Convoy just because it crosses boundaries.

00:42:29.640 It's not left.

00:42:30.500 It's not right.

00:42:31.100 It's life, death kind of stuff.

00:42:32.500 Yeah.

00:42:33.220 Yeah.

00:42:33.300 It's busting through the echo chamber because you can't vilify ostriches.

00:42:38.240 You can't say they're mega.

00:42:39.440 You can't say they're far right.

00:42:41.060 We saw Elizabeth May take a dig at it. 0.99

00:42:43.740 But even she's like, no, why are they testing these birds?

00:42:47.720 And so you're right.

00:42:48.420 I think it has bigger reach.

00:42:49.420 And also it still has the same elements of going after big pharma and saying, hey, there's

00:42:55.260 a bunch of the story on that side.

00:42:57.300 And it's incorporated trade issue into all of this, which of course has been the biggest

00:43:02.660 thing this year in 2025, the trade tension.

00:43:05.620 So it is quite remarkable how much is at stake with that flock where the farmers and supporters

00:43:12.300 are fighting for.

00:43:13.100 That's amazing.

00:43:13.560 Thanks, Jim.

00:43:14.160 Thank you for everything you do, girl.

00:43:15.340 You're amazing.

00:43:15.920 Now this is, I want to get you to say your name.

00:43:20.700 I don't want to say it wrong.

00:43:22.980 Hi, everyone.

00:43:23.720 I'm Chief White Buffalo Man Man and Feathers.

00:43:25.880 That's just my name that I got in the ceremony years ago.

00:43:30.700 So I guess I earned that name.

00:43:32.400 Yeah.

00:43:33.400 What do you make of the big news so far today about Tamara Leach and Chris Barber?

00:43:37.940 Have you heard it?

00:43:39.660 I heard it last night.

00:43:41.080 You heard it last night?

00:43:41.980 It just happened today.

00:43:43.000 You heard it up here, right?

00:43:45.020 No, we were talking and I told Nate everything's going to be okay.

00:43:49.540 Right.

00:43:49.940 Everything's switching now.

00:43:51.520 Yeah.

00:43:52.020 The way it's supposed to be.

00:43:52.980 A turning point.

00:43:54.040 Yes.

00:43:54.660 Yeah.

00:43:55.140 And they're going to be free and stuff like that.

00:43:57.240 We were talking now.

00:43:58.220 We're dying.

00:43:59.800 And we knew it.

00:44:00.940 Yeah, so you knew it?

00:44:02.160 Any words about seeing it, you know, come official?

00:44:05.780 No jail time, but very, very stiff conditions.

00:44:08.760 But that's okay.

00:44:10.000 We still got a solo win for us.

00:44:13.160 Yeah.

00:44:13.440 And it's amazing that, you know, they even looked at it.

00:44:16.100 Mm-hmm.

00:44:16.540 Right?

00:44:16.880 So that's a big, huge step for us.

00:44:19.380 All right, Big Bear, come over here.

00:44:21.500 All right.

00:44:21.840 You heard the good news, obviously.

00:44:24.740 Yeah, and you were part of the convoy, too.

00:44:27.020 So first, tell us about the news of the day, what you think about it.

00:44:29.640 Okay, so everybody, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber are not going to prison,

00:44:35.300 but there's still conditions, 12 months health rest, I think, for Tamara.

00:44:40.680 18, is it for Barber?

00:44:42.100 18 conditions.

00:44:43.100 For Barber.

00:44:43.380 And she's not even allowed to leave Saskatchewan.

00:44:46.500 To me, that's kind of a joke.

00:44:49.320 You know, they were a symbol of freedom.

00:44:51.380 I was a big part of the freedom convoy right along with them.

00:44:54.420 Me and Chris Barber are actually friends.

00:44:56.120 You know, I've touched base with him here and there throughout the whole thing.

00:44:59.180 I didn't meet Tamara, actually, until not that long ago.

00:45:01.760 But she was a lovely soul, you know.

00:45:03.480 And, yeah, I think the politicians would have been committing political suicide

00:45:09.180 if they honestly would have thrown them in jail.

00:45:13.020 You know, looking at our economy, the drug addictions, the overdose,

00:45:16.300 the mental health, people going broke all over the country,

00:45:19.660 going homeless, you know, encampments everywhere.

00:45:22.720 You know, people are at their breaking point.

00:45:24.840 And I think if they would have thrown them in jail,

00:45:26.980 they probably would have tipped people over the deep end to an extreme level.

00:45:31.040 So they probably made that choice to, you know,

00:45:34.640 let them not go to prison, you know, out of their best interest.

00:45:39.040 But, you know.

00:45:39.500 And what reason would they have to give the eight-year sentence

00:45:43.300 that the prosecutors were asking for?

00:45:45.900 Tell us why you're here,

00:45:48.220 why you've been coming back and forth at the farm,

00:45:50.520 and what it, how it connects to the Freedom Convoy.

00:45:55.580 Well, it's government overreach,

00:45:57.580 just like what was happening in COVID with the masks

00:46:00.180 and the mandates and all the chaos, right?

00:46:03.200 Like, it was madness, you know.

00:46:04.400 And then you have a government body coming to this family farm

00:46:08.920 and stepping over on overreach.

00:46:10.820 And we can clearly see the birds are healthy,

00:46:13.840 you know what I mean?

00:46:14.600 So, yeah, we can see the birds are healthy.

00:46:18.440 And obviously, they don't need to be killed, you know.

00:46:22.220 And there's something not right about this picture,

00:46:24.580 just like there was something not right about COVID.

00:46:26.640 Right.

00:46:27.220 No, that's the key.

00:46:28.560 Government overreach, that's what we're seeing.

00:46:30.340 And again, thank you, Colin.

00:46:32.080 Yeah, no problem.

00:46:32.800 Thank you, again.

00:46:34.300 Congratulations, Chris and Tamara.

00:46:35.980 Definitely love you guys.

00:46:36.960 And I'm just, I'm happy you're not going to prison.

00:46:39.660 Yeah, hopefully you see this.

00:46:41.060 I saw some evil person saying,

00:46:43.020 they should take their internet away too.

00:46:45.340 Like, just demons.

00:46:46.840 But you know what?

00:46:47.900 The narrative was that they were actual terrorists.

00:46:51.840 But as Ezra said,

00:46:53.160 even terrorists are getting lesser sentences.

00:46:55.860 Can I ask you guys what you think about today's big news today?

00:46:59.480 Chris Barber, Tamara Leach, no jail time,

00:47:02.480 but very stiff sentences nevertheless.

00:47:06.960 Yeah, I mean, I think any sentence is preposterous, honestly.

00:47:11.580 Not bad.

00:47:12.280 However, it's a lot less than I think what was threatened

00:47:16.760 and what it was kind of made out to be.

00:47:19.340 And I think big picture, I'm sure if you asked them,

00:47:23.280 they would say it was absolutely worth it

00:47:24.720 and they'd do it again.

00:47:25.660 Oh, yeah.

00:47:26.360 Right?

00:47:26.620 And so I think, like, I know several people that through COVID

00:47:30.220 were asked to make big sacrifices

00:47:31.780 that went against their conscience.

00:47:32.840 They decided not to.

00:47:33.860 And every single person that I know who did that personally

00:47:36.580 was greatly rewarded for taking a stand for themselves

00:47:40.080 and following their inner guidance.

00:47:41.740 So I think it's just really big picture,

00:47:44.700 I think, more and more and more.

00:47:45.900 It'll just reinforce that,

00:47:47.160 that it's always worth following your conscience.

00:47:49.400 And it's freeing.

00:47:50.460 I mean, it really sucks that they're not technically free right now.

00:47:54.520 And of course, they were already in prison.

00:47:55.840 But I know taking the stands I've did

00:47:57.700 and gotten the consequences and everybody else,

00:48:00.060 it sets you free.

00:48:01.220 It really does.

00:48:02.060 To stand in truth.

00:48:02.840 So why are you both here today?

00:48:05.320 And for how many days at the ostrich farm?

00:48:08.020 I'm probably here for another day.

00:48:09.800 Yeah.

00:48:09.920 I'm here to help fight the fight for the ostriches. 0.97

00:48:12.560 Yeah.

00:48:12.920 So I think what CFA is doing is wrong.

00:48:15.860 Definitely should be other ways to help fight the virus.

00:48:19.160 So, and if the healthy birds get killed today or tomorrow

00:48:26.480 or the day after,

00:48:27.940 then who knows what they can come after.

00:48:29.600 They can come after your farm animals at any other point.

00:48:33.520 So there's got to be some policy change.

00:48:35.860 Yeah.

00:48:36.340 And you've been here for a while, coming and going.

00:48:39.180 You were here the day that the CFIA

00:48:41.100 and all of those cops descended on the farm.

00:48:43.920 And they're still here two weeks later.

00:48:46.500 What do you make of that?

00:48:47.740 That's awesome.

00:48:49.160 Even though there's a stay order, they're still here.

00:48:53.580 Yeah.

00:48:53.700 Like what?

00:48:54.420 I mean, gosh, what's I even say about that?

00:48:58.120 You know, I think it just goes to show

00:48:59.920 how much of a battle is really going on here.

00:49:03.800 Because it's clear.

00:49:05.340 There's a few things that are incredibly clear

00:49:06.500 for anyone paying attention.

00:49:07.440 One, they want those birds dead.

00:49:09.400 They want those birds dead.

00:49:10.600 Yeah.

00:49:10.880 Right?

00:49:11.140 They're not just here acting as a natural agency

00:49:15.360 for animal welfare

00:49:16.280 and for the integrity of the food industry.

00:49:19.160 If they were doing that,

00:49:20.320 then while there was a stay order,

00:49:21.420 they would act in integrity

00:49:22.520 and show compassion to the animals

00:49:24.700 and treat them as though they possibly have a life to live

00:49:27.340 when this is all said and done.

00:49:28.540 That's not what they're doing.

00:49:29.680 They're making mockery of the justice system.

00:49:31.280 They're just bulldozing ahead

00:49:33.280 as if they planned it to kill those birds

00:49:35.080 and showing not just incompetence,

00:49:38.300 but I think what this is really revealing

00:49:39.660 is the theatrical nature of a lot of our federal agencies.

00:49:43.460 Right?

00:49:43.600 That the people who have been hired

00:49:45.120 aren't actually experts in the field.

00:49:47.980 They're bureaucrats.

00:49:49.080 And the prerequisite is,

00:49:50.660 will you follow orders and toe the line?

00:49:53.000 And it's actually the opposite

00:49:54.640 of what we were just talking a few minutes ago,

00:49:56.180 which is like following your conscience,

00:49:57.980 listening to that inner knowing of right and wrong.

00:50:00.360 So the prerequisite for this kind of work

00:50:02.420 is someone who will override that system themselves.

00:50:05.240 So that's what we're seeing play out.

00:50:06.860 That's a perfect thing.

00:50:08.780 Thank you so much.

00:50:10.100 Yeah, just following the rules,

00:50:12.020 even if the rules make zero sense,

00:50:14.720 this agency is all about government overreach.

00:50:18.420 So was the Freedom Convoy.

00:50:20.700 I know I've spoken to Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.

00:50:24.000 They were expecting the worst.

00:50:25.360 And I think the gentleman there who said,

00:50:27.480 I think they'd still do it again.

00:50:29.060 I can't put words in their mouth about this,

00:50:32.100 but they know that they did what was right

00:50:34.180 and they fought for our country

00:50:36.000 in the way that they did,

00:50:37.440 in a way that should have been just peaceful.

00:50:40.360 The prime minister should have come out

00:50:41.800 to that Freedom Convoy,

00:50:43.060 shook their hands and spoke to them

00:50:44.680 and heard what they were asking,

00:50:47.140 not only representing the hundreds of thousands of people

00:50:49.800 that showed up there,

00:50:50.760 but the millions across the country.

00:50:53.040 And that's not what happened.

00:50:54.640 And so we're seeing the longest mischief trial unfold.

00:50:58.100 And we are definitely seeing the longest CFIA standoff unfold

00:51:02.920 on the taxpayers' dollars against Canadians,

00:51:06.340 against our freedoms,

00:51:07.780 against what is right.

00:51:09.780 I'm Drea Humphrey for Rebel News,

00:51:11.340 bringing you lots of reports from the farm

00:51:13.160 at SaveTheOstriches.com.

00:51:15.800 My friend, Sid Bitsard,

00:51:18.340 who's my co-worker as well,

00:51:19.700 came out to help me.

00:51:20.580 He's leaving today.

00:51:21.660 And we are expecting Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:51:24.940 and Lyndon to arrive here

00:51:27.160 because we don't want to miss a second.

00:51:29.940 We're hoping another good news comes.

00:51:33.480 And the Supreme Court says,

00:51:34.960 get out of here, CFIA.

00:51:36.460 We're going to let them take this to Supreme Court.

00:51:40.480 And oh my gosh,

00:51:41.480 wouldn't that be a beautiful sight

00:51:42.720 to see the CFIA officials

00:51:44.740 have to take this big, super safe blue fence down

00:51:49.480 and have to file out of here the way they came in.

00:51:52.600 I hope and pray

00:51:54.160 that's what Rebel News is going to be bringing you.

00:51:57.120 But if not,

00:51:58.160 if the worst happens

00:51:59.540 and they are going to be instead,

00:52:02.880 we believe,

00:52:03.460 shooting those healthy 300-pound ostriches

00:52:08.440 whose eggs the farmers say

00:52:10.320 are part of research

00:52:11.660 that's life-saving research

00:52:13.240 that competes with big pharma,

00:52:15.020 not mRNA technology,

00:52:16.920 antibody research.

00:52:19.000 If they shoot those birds down,

00:52:20.880 Rebel News is going to be here

00:52:22.000 to show you that great atrocity

00:52:24.720 just like we did.

00:52:26.120 We had our feet on the ground

00:52:28.200 during the trucker convoy.

00:52:29.860 We showed you everything

00:52:31.080 that what was happening.

00:52:32.680 We'll do the same here.

00:52:34.200 And so all of that

00:52:35.000 is at SaveTheOstriches.com.

00:52:37.040 If you want to be a part

00:52:38.480 of making our journalism possible,

00:52:40.260 just like we did in the trucker convoy,

00:52:42.180 having multiple rebels here,

00:52:43.800 having team back home, back east,

00:52:46.600 running things sometimes

00:52:47.780 through the middle of the night

00:52:49.280 when there's emergencies here,

00:52:50.840 please do so at our special website

00:52:53.020 called SaveTheOstriches.com.

00:53:04.400 Well, Trey is doing such a great job.

00:53:06.220 When I say she's the queen of the ostriches,

00:53:08.040 it's just sort of a fun little joke I have.

00:53:10.160 But actually, it felt like she's the mayor

00:53:12.140 of the whole area there.

00:53:14.380 She's been there so much.

00:53:15.540 She's done so many reports.

00:53:17.320 Last I checked, it was like 60.

00:53:19.640 And I think she has a lot of responsibility

00:53:23.160 for the fact that so many people

00:53:24.940 around the world have heard this story.

00:53:26.420 Anyways, let me read some of your letters to me

00:53:29.320 about my visit to the ostrich farm.

00:53:32.380 Wayne Venables commented,

00:53:33.660 RCMP protecting criminals par for the course.

00:53:36.640 Take them, FFS.

00:53:38.320 The cops are corrupt.

00:53:39.460 Remember, Coots,

00:53:40.120 when they vandalized private equipment

00:53:41.880 on private land?

00:53:43.780 They do not work for us.

00:53:44.980 On a lighter note,

00:53:46.260 them telling Ezra he could get a ticket

00:53:47.900 for using his cell phone while driving.

00:53:49.900 And he says, come get it.

00:53:51.480 If it wasn't for Rebel,

00:53:53.140 well, I just don't know where we would be.

00:53:55.000 God bless you all.

00:53:56.160 I will admit, I was a little bit rude.

00:53:58.360 You know, I actually,

00:53:59.460 I recorded a lot of stuff

00:54:00.840 and I sent it back

00:54:01.700 and I was on the go.

00:54:02.500 So I haven't watched

00:54:03.260 actually the final version of the show.

00:54:05.480 And I'm glad that made the cut.

00:54:07.080 I admit I was a little bit lippy,

00:54:09.320 but I was in no mood

00:54:10.860 to be talked to

00:54:12.400 by a massive police operation

00:54:14.900 designed to cover up

00:54:16.620 what the CFIA is doing.

00:54:19.420 I want to tell you that I read

00:54:20.860 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s letter again.

00:54:23.740 And that, I mean,

00:54:24.220 I had just read about it,

00:54:25.220 but I actually read the whole thing through.

00:54:27.120 It's a very well-written letter

00:54:28.500 where he says,

00:54:29.320 look, these birds are of

00:54:30.500 scientific and medical importance.

00:54:32.500 They were sick

00:54:33.300 and now they're better

00:54:34.180 and they have herd immunity.

00:54:35.200 We should study them

00:54:36.380 because we could learn

00:54:37.680 about natural immunity

00:54:39.320 for avian flu.

00:54:40.740 And these birds are very valuable.

00:54:42.160 And he says in his letter,

00:54:43.720 America stands by

00:54:44.900 to help you

00:54:45.540 with our most modern technology.

00:54:47.060 We'll give you the infrastructure.

00:54:48.640 We'll be partners with you.

00:54:49.760 Or even if you don't want to,

00:54:51.220 we'll do it ourselves.

00:54:52.140 So it was such a good offer.

00:54:53.760 And the letter really clarified

00:54:55.780 for me

00:54:56.440 why these birds are important,

00:54:59.040 which helped me figure out

00:55:00.380 my new working theory

00:55:01.520 for why the government

00:55:02.320 wants to kill them.

00:55:03.820 Because you could learn

00:55:05.160 about natural immunity.

00:55:06.260 We could study these birds

00:55:07.960 and how they got better

00:55:09.100 from the avian flu.

00:55:10.060 Or you could kill them,

00:55:11.860 erase all trace

00:55:12.860 of what happened to them

00:55:13.700 so Moderna and Pfizer

00:55:15.240 could sell their mRNA vaccines.

00:55:17.420 I think that's what's

00:55:18.000 really going on.

00:55:19.200 Peter Renzel commented,

00:55:20.860 welcome Canada

00:55:21.840 to the Great Reset.

00:55:23.420 How do you like it so far?

00:55:25.260 You know,

00:55:26.340 there's so much

00:55:27.320 World Economic Forum vibes

00:55:29.020 in the police operation there,

00:55:31.240 starting with the fact

00:55:32.580 that the Canadian Food

00:55:33.940 Inspection Agency,

00:55:34.780 what are they doing?

00:55:35.440 They're not,

00:55:36.240 there's no food here.

00:55:37.520 These birds are not

00:55:38.360 being farmed for their meat.

00:55:40.380 It's a scientific project.

00:55:41.900 They're going in

00:55:42.520 with the public health theater

00:55:44.400 of the hazmat suits

00:55:45.540 like they're in the

00:55:46.600 Wuhan Virology Institute

00:55:48.320 or something.

00:55:49.140 There's so much baloney

00:55:50.520 going on

00:55:51.200 and I salute

00:55:52.100 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:55:53.580 for trying to pierce through it.

00:55:55.340 And I just keep coming back

00:55:56.540 to that comment

00:55:57.120 I heard today

00:55:57.680 of Judy Trin of CTV

00:55:58.780 trying to draw a link

00:56:00.560 between the ostrich protesters

00:56:03.440 and the trucker protesters

00:56:04.960 and I suppose there is a link.

00:56:06.740 Both of them believe in freedom.

00:56:08.360 Both of them are opposed

00:56:09.040 to government overreach.

00:56:10.500 Both are sick of being told

00:56:11.520 what to do by distant

00:56:12.600 and partisan bureaucrats.

00:56:14.700 To Judy though,

00:56:15.760 she sees something different.

00:56:16.860 People who have to be smashed

00:56:18.480 by the state.

00:56:20.540 That's all from my report today.

00:56:22.440 We had other journalists

00:56:23.500 working on other projects

00:56:24.620 including Alexa Lavoie

00:56:26.400 in Montreal.

00:56:27.600 Today as you may know

00:56:28.780 is the two year anniversary

00:56:29.980 of the Hamas massacre

00:56:31.880 that killed over 1,200 people

00:56:33.380 in Israel

00:56:34.320 and took over 200 hostages

00:56:36.280 many of whom

00:56:37.160 are still being held in Gaza.

00:56:39.500 It's, as I've said before

00:56:41.800 what happened in Israel

00:56:42.940 was terrible

00:56:43.500 but I am much more worried

00:56:44.660 about what's happening in Canada.

00:56:46.780 Alexa will have that report

00:56:48.080 I imagine tomorrow.

00:56:49.200 Until next time

00:56:49.940 on behalf of all of us

00:56:51.320 here at Rebel World Headquarters

00:56:52.500 to you at home

00:56:53.080 good night

00:56:53.500 and keep fighting for freedom.

00:56:55.260 b

00:56:57.680 good night

00:57:02.000 a

00:57:03.880 good day

00:57:05.320 good night

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Rebel News Podcast - October 07, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Tamara Lich's sentence is revenge disguised as justice

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