00:05:36.480Makes no sense to you and me, but it makes sense when you remember that Carney still owns hundreds of millions of dollars of stock in Brookfield Asset Management, in fact.
00:05:45.680He won't even disclose the amount of his holdings.
00:05:47.660So just shocking and totally uninteresting to the incurious media party.
00:08:37.680Our department made changes to the screening process for permanent residents,
00:08:41.020significantly increasing recruitment in this population this was reflected in the report
00:08:46.180which showed that over a six-month period 763 permanent residents were recruited compared to
00:08:53.360a 30-month period previously in which only 177 recruitments were achieved that's christiane fox1.00
00:08:59.600the unethical deputy minister who him who improperly gave a contract to her old classmate0.98
00:09:05.140who was condemned by the conflict of interest commissioner for doing so and yet still holds1.00
00:09:09.100her job because liberals anyway she has the key to those super recruitment numbers hire foreigners
00:09:17.200and lower the vetting requirements just stop to think about it they're not canadian0.85
00:09:23.620they have not sworn an oath of loyalty to us they are not citizens they're foreign nationals and
00:09:30.000and here's the point you just heard them say they have deliberately reduced the vetting requirements
00:09:36.480I will acknowledge that even if it's morally weird to have foreign mercenaries in your army, it is possible that foreigners love Canada and are loyal and have no collateral purpose.
00:09:47.120I mean, sort of weird that they're not citizens, but sure, it's possible to have great soldiers.
00:17:11.120So it was never really, I don't think, abundantly clear what the rules were, especially given the vagueness of terms that were applied to stay out of the woods.
00:17:21.980And then there was an awful lot of questions as to what actually constitutes the woods.
00:17:27.640I did. I made my own effort there to to try to explain it to everybody in an earlier video that I believe you're familiar with.
00:17:33.560but the woods were apparently the gravel pathways in the park by my house that had yellow tape
00:17:40.800across them and the gravel pathways that did not have yellow tape across them were not the woods
00:17:45.580you know I remember that video you showed the absurdity of walking a few feet here it was legal
00:17:51.680here it was not here it was a bit of a mystery here let's play that clip again I remember playing
00:17:55.640that a year ago when we first talked to you here let's have a little refresher on how insane this
00:18:00.680was and that's really if you if you read some of the the books about dystopian societies or
00:18:05.520totalitarianism including franz kovsko's the trial um the mystery of it the the catch-22
00:18:12.480the the logical traps of it is is i think part of it here take a look jeff evely here i'm in
00:18:19.400petersfield provincial park in the most tyrannical province of canada which is nova scotia with my
00:18:25.200fuzzy friend Axel where we walk pretty much every single morning and here you can see that this
00:18:31.700area is taped off because that trail is the woods but this area is not taped off because that's not
00:18:43.500the woods. This area is taped off because that's the woods and there is a sign here that says
00:18:53.540trail closed due to extreme fire hazards. So that is the woods. This area is not the woods.
00:19:04.020This area is the woods. This area is not the woods.
00:19:12.740This area is the woods. This area is not the woods.
00:19:18.420this area is the woods this area is not the woods i'm glad you connected with what i regard as one
00:19:31.360of the leading civil liberty law firms public interest law firms in the country our friends
00:19:34.920at the justice center for constitutional freedoms and i think uh i think it was marty moore who was
00:19:39.760your lawyer is that right uh yeah it was marty moore he was arguing on the administrative law
00:19:45.520side of the house and alison pojovic was uh arguing the constitutional case well tell me
00:19:51.680how that went how how long was the trial uh were there it was was there interest in the trial was
00:19:57.760there any media there or did you have any supporters there uh how many days was it give me a little bit
00:20:02.980of the flavor of it uh and i i've got a lot of questions who who was there did they have police
00:20:08.400testify against you did they have any experts i i sort of wish i was there now that uh now that i
00:20:15.060think about it tell me a little bit about what it was like actually in the court so it was three
00:20:20.240days long um we actually had two uh judicial reviews before the court so the canadian
00:20:27.680constitution foundation submitted one in the public interest and the justice center for
00:20:31.180constitutional freedoms submitted one in my private interest and i think what i contributed
00:20:36.560was taking the fine because the government was not able to have it dismissed on standing or
00:20:42.400mootness this time um so uh we uh we went forward with that it was three days long and on the third
00:20:48.920day we heard from the government uh ctv news showed up jesse thomas down at ctv news halifax
00:20:54.820gave us some very fair coverage i was uh pleasantly surprised at that um and uh there were a couple
00:21:02.000other reporters there as well like uh radio canada showed up um and uh i i don't have any complaints
00:21:08.700really about the news coverage surprisingly and why do you think that is just because it was
00:21:13.200maybe they didn't think of it in ideological terms maybe they just thought this is a quirky
00:21:16.980news story a guy got flying for walking in the woods you know i think there has been a little
00:21:22.040bit of a shift i know when i first went into the woods like i got the usual kind of blowback
00:21:27.340online um with a lot of trolls but they seem to subside rather quickly and then i noticed that
00:21:33.060there was an awful lot of support for this. And I continued with my own little social media
00:21:38.560campaign of mockery and ridicule. And I think some scales fell from eyes. And I had people
00:21:44.680coming out to be in public and shaking my hand for what I did. So I have a sense that Nova Scotians
00:21:49.880are a little more fed up with this tyranny than outside, you know, than one might perceive on the
00:21:56.300outside. Well, I'm really glad to hear all of this. And the fact that, you know, you named some
00:22:01.180pretty mainstream media sources cbc ctv the fact that you say they gave you a fair shot is is a
00:22:07.420bit of a white pill moment as the kids would say it's a little bit of a reason for hope now about
00:22:11.800the government did they they i presume they had the the police there who said well we saw him go
00:22:16.900here and he admitted to that did they have anyone that they called an expert did they bring in an
00:22:21.920expert on how fires start for example i mean because that that's what was goofy here is that
00:22:28.740the rules were so vague and confusing it almost seemed like there was no rhyme and reason did
00:22:34.760they try and justify that somehow they did but it was all in their submissions all in their
00:22:41.060written submissions through affidavits and the like so they had a few affidavits in there from
00:22:45.520dnr or dnr personnel um but uh they didn't really do a whole lot there was no cross-examination
00:22:53.040um really throughout the course it was all um just the arguments based on the record
00:22:57.980and did you yourself take the stand no sir no need well and you know of course that's a strategic
00:23:05.780decision of course if the government has a weak case why why let them have a crack at you well
00:23:11.060um so the result came out you say on friday and uh it sounds like a win it was struck down i
00:23:19.300understand i'm reading the justice center's press release as unconstitutional so it's not just that
00:23:24.020it was that you were free to go it's the law itself failed it do i understand that right so
00:23:28.460the whole law itself was discarded as an illegal law is that right well the proclamation that was
00:23:37.480issued under the forests act so the law would be the forest sack and that uh empowers the minister
00:23:42.560to issue such proclamations but the proclamation itself was uh was the law remains on the books
00:23:49.620but this particular expression i understand so it's this particular and they make proclamations
00:23:54.720or orders all the time but this is very good now i have a question for you um federally the
00:24:01.300invocation of the emergencies act that's the kind of martial law that was brought in against the
00:24:06.060truckers the federal court of the federal court had a very serious ruling uh calling out the
00:24:12.760government in very strong language for for a judge this was upheld by three more judges
00:24:18.900unanimously at the federal court of appeal and yet liberals say they're going to appeal it if
00:24:24.300they can all the way to the supreme court so they they're being stubborn they don't want to take the
00:24:29.920loss how's uh the government of nova scotia have they in i guess it's only been a couple days
00:24:35.200have they indicated if they're going to appeal this one i would imagine it's not as big a deal
00:24:40.760for them it's just a proclamation and sort of i don't know how much of their pride is wrapped up
00:24:45.460minute. Do you have any sense that they're going to appeal this and try and rag the puck like the
00:24:49.580feds are doing? I have not heard any indication of that. And I think in this case, like it was
00:24:57.280such a succinct decision. It was only 17 pages long. And the legal framework that applied here
00:25:04.260was the DORE framework. And it's basically step one. We need to check to see whether the decision
00:25:10.940maker actually considered our rights before issuing the proclamation. And there's no evidence
00:25:16.300anywhere that they did that. In fact, even in their own briefings, DNR's briefings to
00:25:22.640the minister under the heading legal, all that is discussed is the potential of them being sued by
00:25:29.040industry if they don't allow industry to conduct their business in the forest. But they just threw
00:25:34.600the little guy under the bus and didn't consider our rights whatsoever. So the proclamation fails
00:25:38.980on its face it's unconstitutional isn't that good well you called yourself the little guy you
00:25:43.340you are one man and indeed considering the scale of the resources of the state it is true
00:25:49.180that any one person is little but sometimes courage uh can equalize things and i tell you i'm so
00:25:56.600pleased with this story and i remember i remember when you came on the show a year ago and i had a
00:26:02.760bit of nervousness in me because you know they there was a mania out there about these fires
00:26:10.960just like there was a mania like people were hysterical about them I think some people would
00:26:17.300have had you locked up not just fine they would have had you locked up they were it was the same
00:26:21.440sort of panicky authoritarianism we saw during COVID it really felt like an echo of that to me
00:26:27.720Is that how you felt at all, that this was a redux of COVID?
00:26:32.580Yeah, they were really driving the fear narrative again.
00:26:38.400And like you mentioned, it was almost like the rules were such so that nobody could really understand whether they were doing the right thing or the wrong thing, much like in Franz Kafka's The Trial.
00:26:50.880Um, so, uh, there, there was a lot of that kind of hysteria in the beginning, but, uh,
00:26:58.700I was, I was fortunate that even as I was kind of running my own little social media
00:27:02.460campaign, the firefighters unions were calling out senior management for their inability to
00:27:08.740properly respond to the crisis, their mismanagement of resources.
00:27:13.220Um, they, they didn't use their volunteer firefighters properly.
00:27:16.800so it's really a management crisis and their failure to lead does not constitute an emergency
00:27:24.900on my part isn't that interesting i didn't know that about the firefighters unions well anyways
00:27:30.800congratulations big thanks to the public interest law firms that came in because of course i think
00:27:36.520the government always counts on people not having the dough to fight i mean if you had to hire
00:27:42.580your own lawyers you'd probably be out 50 grand right now let alone the fines so congratulations
00:27:49.680all around jeff thanks very much for coming back to the show to to let us know how the story ended
00:27:54.060and it certainly ended well so congratulations to you and uh i hope this makes you a stronger
00:27:59.400fighter in the future even uh well we don't get stronger by not lifting heavy things so uh uh yeah
00:28:08.240In the future, I'll be in Ottawa in a few weeks for, uh, the, the next engagement.