EZRA LEVANT | Trudeau blinks; the truckers win; the Emergencies Act is dropped. But it has shown us who the tyrants were, didn’t it?
Summary
Why should others go to jail when you don't have to pay the price for carbon emissions? Why should others be jailed when you can't pay your carbon taxes? Why does the government have the power to fine truckers who don't pay their carbon tax? What is the difference between a thief and a thief?
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tonight trudeau blinks the truckers win the emergencies act is dropped but it has shown
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us who the tyrants were didn't it it's february 23rd and this is the as for the band show
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why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers
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here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to the government
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the house of commons debated the emergencies act and it passed with the grotesque support of the
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ndp to their everlasting shame the ndp then in 1970 voted against pierre trudeau's war measures act
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this time they were shamefully united with trudeau because they're moral cowards and they would
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rather avoid an election in which they would surely lose seats they'd rather have their own personal
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comfort than stand for civil liberties and think of every liberal mp who violated civil liberties
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themselves liberal liberties the root word is the same in latin it comes from the word for freedom
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but we now know that liberals do not believe in freedom they believe in power we also know that
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so many of the people in society who call themselves the keepers of liberty the keepers of our society
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they're liars the biggest advocates for the emergencies act other than the thuggish police chief
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many of them and the violent police rank and file who were let loose the biggest advocates were
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journalists and they raged and raged at anyone who dared to disagree with them i showed yesterday how
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many journalists were raging against the new york times for daring to report that trudeau deployed men with
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guns they you know they just couldn't handle the contradiction being shoved in their face
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that these liberal journalists were shilling for a police state when we documented it at rebel news
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they could discount it oh that's rebel news but when the new york times said it they couldn't make it go away
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so they shrieked imagine being someone who decided to burn up their personal political capital
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to support such a tyrant literally today as trudeau was writing his short speech
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announcing that he was blinking and abandoning the emergencies act his shills in the senate
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were standing up and torching their reputations by speaking in favor imagine burning up a lifetime of
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political capital only to have trudeau walk away from it a moment later oh well it was a useful exercise
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to see who went along with it to see who would cheer and follow orders which politicians
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including those in the conservative party who condemned the truckers in the same language
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the cowards in the liberal party who announced that they were very much against it but that they were
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going to vote for it against their conscience because trudeau was forcing them to that's not a thing
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by the way each mp controls their own vote but they said that liberals said they were voting against
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their conscience and against the charter because trudeau told them to they really do they really
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will do anything to follow orders the carnage here the carnage the smashed reputation of canada's banks
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who went along with the seizure of private accounts that smashed reputations of the mps of the liberals and
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the ndp the parties of the left the smashed reputations of the police i'll never forgive them
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and all for what trudeau is a disgrace but he has disgraced canada too there is no canadian reputation
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around the world like there once was we are a laughing stock now we are like belarus a small
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european country that defiled its reputation with stalinist cruelty
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do you really think they're done though i don't trudeau and christia freeland both warned us
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that they want the financial powers forever uh in terms of the financial instruments which our government is
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using right now to act against these illegal blockades and illegal occupation uh we reviewed very
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very very carefully the tools at the disposal of the federal government uh and we used all the tools
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that we had prior to the invocation of the emergencies act and we determined that we needed some additional
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tools now some of those tools uh we will be putting forward uh measures to put those tools permanently in
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place uh the authorities of fin track i believe do need to be expanded to cover crowdsourcing platforms
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uh and uh payment platform and their payment providers uh so that's that is something that we
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need to do and we will do and that needs to be in place permanently uh some of these other tools
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uh like uh the sharing of information between law enforcement and financial services and the requirement of
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financial services to be reviewing their accounts proactively and the immunity from prosecution that
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we have provided to them in doing this these are extraordinary measures measures that we absolutely
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believe are necessary in the current circumstances that are having an impact and let me also point
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out having a peaceful impact uh and the other aspect of the financial tools that i would point
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to as being really effective and important is uh being clear that insurance on trucks
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that participate in these illegal occupations and blockades will be suspended
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so we didn't have those tools i don't believe that those tools should be part of the toolbox of a
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government in ordinary times but they are necessary in these extraordinary circumstances and uh they are having
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a very uh clear impact do you suddenly trust trudeau and freeland now why would you it is relevant
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that christia freeland's grandfather was a nazi it is relevant that she helped him cover that up i'm
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curious what political lessons he taught her that she's applying now but i should tell you the
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emergencies are not over there is an official state of emergency in ontario that the fool doug ford invoked
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and it is being used brutally being used by trudeau actually let me show you how look at this story that
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i just saw today in the truck news mto that's the ministry of transportation of ontario grounds
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trucking businesses involved in freedom convoy protests it's from today's trucking a trudeau
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publication by which i mean they take trudeau's media bailout the ontario ministry of transportation
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has effectively shut down 39 trucking businesses in the wake of a crackdown on so-called freedom convoy
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protestors oh just that so they're protesters who as far as we know have not been charged with any crime
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but they've just had their businesses shut down what does that mean to have your business
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shut down the business they've built up their whole lives maybe a a truck a company license insurance
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all the parts of it just just ended no trial no judge no hearing no appeal no ruling just happened just
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done and of course it was done by doug ford but at ottawa's direction so there still is an emergency
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act in effect in the city of ottawa and the province of ontario doug ford is just stupid enough to let it
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be on him stupidity for sure let me show you the stupidest thing i've seen all day you really have to see
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this to know the moral and intellectual character the people who rule over you so this is from your
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ara sax that's i as i said yesterday she's in a battle to the death with seamus o'regan for the
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title of stupidest mp uh in the country and i'm rooting for her because she's my mp in north toronto
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here she is inconsequential in every other way for all i know she has never set foot on parliament hill
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never done anything for all i can detect i literally wouldn't know the difference
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until this spectacular speech in favor of martial law how many guns need to be seized
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how much vitriol do we have to see of hong hong which is an acronym for hail hitler
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do we need to see by these protesters on social media imagine saying that and then having trudeau
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throw it out she thinks hong hong stands for hile hitler but she can't really believe that can she
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i mean she just she was just told to say that right because it's so ridiculous but she's jewish
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so she only has one use to trudeau which is to convince jews to vote liberal and to smear
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non-liberals as nazis so of course they gave her that ridiculous speech to read i mean seamus
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o'regan wouldn't work with him so she read it she's like uh ron burgundy the fictional newscaster who
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would literally read anything put in his teleprompter hey you're making me look stupid get out here
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panda jerk great story compelling and rich well that's going to do it for all of us here at channel
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4 news you stay classy san diego i'm ron burgundy yeah i'm so proud of my local mpr sex she really
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was world famous for stupidity and so i feel special but she obviously felt stung by the worldwide
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reaction to that speech that went viral internationally so she doubled down she tried
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to prove she was right i swear here's what she said she went on twitter and said for those who
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think that hong hong is some innocuous joke i'll just leave this here so she tweeted this as proof
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this is a thread outlining a crazy conspiracy theory let's skip straight to this image just take a look
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at that there this looks like it's from a humorous troll website called 4chan it's where teenagers
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cook up schemes and share jokes and tricks on the normies normal people you might be able to detect
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a little bit of that from the frog dressed up as a clown and the fact that the message is written by
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anonymous do you see that you can also see that it's dated february 19th so long after the honking
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had been ordered stopped by the judge so this was just someone who cooked up a joke on the weekend
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and look what he says he says why honk honk is the next okay sign honk honk equals hh if you honk you're
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a honky and hh presumably is hitler that's where you are sex and so let me repeat this is a joke
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website by anonymous jokesters maybe the clown gave it away i don't know maybe the reference to the next
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okay sign these are the people who made the hoax that the okay hand symbol is a hate symbol
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and the idiots in the mainstream media ate it up it was it was a joke to trick them everyone makes that
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hand symbol from time to time you might detect that this is a joke but yara sacks literally cites this
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anonymous frog clown who makes reference to the last hoax the liberals bought and comes up with the
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craziest theory and i mean seriously he even says the word honk is related to honky
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which is a derogatory word for white people and yara sacks cites this as her authority this is why
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she said canada had to be under martial law for those who think that hong kong is some innocuous joke
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yeah you are the joke you literally link to a clown referring to a past joke making to a new joke
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you're that stupid congratulations to everyone involved so that's the funny part my mp is the
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dumbest in canada take that seamus o'regan we're not done though uh there are emergency powers across
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the country i mentioned ontario's of course there are emergency style powers being used to justify
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forced vaccine mandates being used to justify no-fly lists against unvaccinated people as if
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they're terrorists being used to justify every sort of cruelty that was once unthinkable i think the
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truckers have a win today but the cruelty of the state remains with us i think justin trudeau's next move
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will be to do it right he'll make sure there's no pesky independent journalists before he goes to
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implement martial law that's what i predict stay with us more ahead
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well as you know the leader of the convoy is a mysterious question i suppose because i don't
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think there really was a leader i think so much of it was organic it was sort of um spontaneous
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there were different threads of the convoy there were different convoys there were
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convoys heading from different parts of the country there were blockades in different parts
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there was coots there was emerson there was the ambassador bridge there was ottawa there was surrey
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there may have been some chatter back and forth but i really think they were local locally inspired you
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know they say think globally act locally i think that's really what happened i think the ottawa movement
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uh may have had some more official people but again what does that even mean if it's just a trucker
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deciding to go along with it i think the woman who can be called the leader if there was a leader
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is a young metis woman from the west named tamara litch who herself is not a trucker
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but was inspired by them and inspired them and she is the one who put up the gofundme page that
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caught fire raised 10 million dollars before it was shut down at trudeau's bidding
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she then set up a new account at give send go and that was hacked and seized by a bank so i don't
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know how much of that money has actually flowed to truckers i don't think the answer is much at all
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and i'm not sure if tamara litch was like a commander giving orders i just don't think
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that was her style her facebook videos were very much more emotional and heartfelt
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but if there was the leader of the truckers i say it would be her although again i say i don't think
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the men in coots or emerson or surrey even know her that said she was arrested the other night on the
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street in ottawa taken into custody and yesterday was her bail hearing for what for riot for sedition
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for insurrection for some serious crime like that no for inciting mischief incredibly
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she was not granted bail murderers in this country are granted bail terrorists are granted bail
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but not a trucker accused of mischief joining us now via skype from ottawa is a lawyer who watched
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the proceedings matt wolfson he is with david amber law a firm that works with rebel news and the
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democracy fudge matt matt joins us now via skype matt thanks very much for taking the time you're a
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lawyer in ottawa you practice criminal law from time to time i take it actually we practice exclusively
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criminal law and quasi criminal such as regulatory offenses like highway traffic act well that would
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be right on point because of course i don't think there's been any crimes that have been charged in
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the city of ottawa i don't think there were any violence committed i think they would have been
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parking type offenses tickets really or mischief which is really the lowest species of any
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um by the way you guys are taking cases for the democracy fund which i think is great um
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refresh my memory because it's been ages since i was in criminal court i used to be a lawyer way
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back in the day the two tests for keeping someone in jail while they await trial are number one
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are they a flight risk as in will they run away and not come back to court on their hearing
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and number two are they a danger if they're out so jeffrey epstein for example who had multiple
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passports and private jets obviously he was a flight risk and then there's the danger would you commit
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more crimes neither of these things i can imagine would normally be applied to a trucker accused of
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mischief but there you have it she she wasn't granted bail was she no she was not as for a few
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things in response to that is uh i think there are going to be a wide array i think there have been a
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wide array of uh charges coming down the pike in relation to this uh demonstration as you've identified
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the most common one does seem to be mischief through interference uh with lawful use or enjoyment of
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property we're also seeing a lot of breach of court order under section 127 that's the injunction and
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you can imagine a lot of protest related uh resist peace officer type charges would be coming down the
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pike what you say about the two tests for bail uh historically that was accurate but in 2002 the
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supreme court decided a case called hull which has been codified into the criminal code and that third
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prong really is the uh public repute to the administration of justice in other words the
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confidence in the administration of justice should a person be released miss lich was detained on the
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second ground as you identified the substantial likelihood of committing new offenses and of the
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third criterion as well the repute of the administration of justice okay so i thank you for
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correct me on that it's been a while since i was in a criminal court um so they say that the reputation
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of the law requires she be held behind bars omer cotter convicted terrorist war criminal murderer
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i guess that didn't bring the justice system into disrepute i was just going through different cases of
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accused murderers who have been let out on bail i just don't understand how tamara litch who is a
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harmless political organizer the worst thing she ever did was say the phrase hold the line which i don't
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know quite what that even means if all the truckers have left ottawa i don't know how that's what mischief
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she could get up to if the truckers are gone but that was used to keep her behind behind bars
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yeah well i mean i won't get into you know different cases for comparison because each case
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is going to turn on its facts what i will state is you've correctly identified as were that quite often
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when looking at that third criterion um we're often going to be looking at the severity of the
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offense and the harms that come with it and granted this was by no means a means offense
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this was uh you know it's generally unusual for a person to be detained on mischief alone although
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miss litch was charged with another offense as well but nothing about this has been usual this has been
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quite unprecedented and unprecedented and what uh justice bourgeois really um for lack of better
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terminology hung her hat on was that this was a protest or a demonstration that uh contributed to
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in her words the financial physical and uh mental harm to the the people of ottawa her view was that
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miss litch was uh counseling and continued to counsel at the time of her rest when the truckers were
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still there it was for that reason that her honor believed that there'd be a substantial likelihood that
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she would continue to counsel more mischief well she better stay in prison than i guess you know um
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i didn't see it till afterwards but this judge bourgeois is her name um is a liberal now normally i
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don't think i would heavily remark on that because most judges have a political hue which is how they
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suck up to the justice minister of the day and typically liberal justice ministers appoint liberal lawyers
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and conservative justices appoint liberal lawyers but um what's different about this judge is she
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wasn't just a liberal she was a liberal candidate for whom justin trudeau campaigned there's a
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video circulating of trudeau stumping for this judge when she was a lawyer she failed as a political
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candidate was given the appointment to the bench and of all the judges in ottawa she was the one
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assigned this case and her ruling was very political how would this judge have been chosen
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for this case could the government have shopped around and chosen their judge would it have been
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assigned by the chief judge of all the judges in the country to hear the case of trudeau's most
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unrepentant political critic for it to go to this judge seems highly unusual to me
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yeah i i don't know that's right i really don't have too much comments about that i i don't have
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any reason to think or comment about this being a politically motivated appointment to the case
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all i can state is uh in canada we are very very lucky to have a um to have a very well appointed judiciary
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with a lot of integrity and wit and um i just have nothing but confidence in the members of our bench
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they serve with a lot of integrity and they're some of the top legal minds in the country well i think
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you are uh saying what you have to say as an officer of the court and of course you don't want the law
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society to come after you so fair deal i'll leave that alone now i was surprised um to learn because
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i was following along i wasn't watching the video online i was watching other journalists live tweet
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it and it didn't feel to me like um tamara litch had legal counsel the the things she was saying her
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the things that her guarantor were saying felt um like they were unpracticed or felt like they were just
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providing too easy a way for the the government to hold her in jail but you you're saying that there was
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a lawyer and i think i confirmed that that the justice center for constitutional freedoms
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actually did hire senior legal counsel for is that true she was represented by counsel yes um and in
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response to what you just said ezra this is this was a bail hearing with probably some of the most
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unusual evidence that you could expect nothing was well very little was usual about this uh bail hearing
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it was quite entertaining i think what you might be alluding to really is the um the way in which
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her proposed surety testified um it it wasn't it wasn't great so the proposed surety that's basically
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if someone says look i'll i'll take responsibility for this woman i'll make sure that she doesn't get
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into trouble i'll keep an eye peeled on her that's what you mean by a surety the person who is basically
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going to say i'll be a human checker upper your honor is that right yeah basically you're jailer
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in the community a responsible person to ensure that uh that the accused is abiding by the conditions
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of his or her release and you're and you think that maybe some of the things that the the proposed uh
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guarantor surety said may have given you you say was entertaining or unusual is there anything in
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particular you can tell us about it like what what was weird about it well the top thing that came to
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my mind was uh the crown prosecutor questioned uh her husband the proposed surety as to uh how he had
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uh come to ottawa and this is in the context of him stating that he didn't really have uh finances or he
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wasn't eating very much when he came to ottawa and yet he noted that he came to ottawa by plane uh and
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it came out later in evidence that he came by private plane now when pressed who when pressed on
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who paid for his ticket he said he didn't know the person who paid for his ticket he then changed his
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answer and uh stated that he um he didn't want to give his name and then he gave his first name so that
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was a bit of evasive testimony that i really think disqualified him as a person the court could count
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on as uh could count on to be assuredy well that is too bad if that's the case i can understand why
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someone would not want to disclose who helped a fella fly out there given the witch hunt uh i'm i'm
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guessing that he was afraid that if he named whoever sent the plane that he would cause that person to
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have their bank account frozen um i mean it it sounds goofy on one from one point of view but
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another point of view is i'm pretty sure that if that person were identified they would find themselves
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with their plane seized their bank account seized and their their business licensure and their insurance
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canceled i mean i it i don't think it's quite as goofy as it looks i think it's because we live under
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suspended civil liberties right now that's that's my explanation of what you just said yeah well it's
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uh i mean we still don't know who that person is since people have their loyalties no doubt i think
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one thing that you're alluding to is as res uh a lot of what's going on down there has is i think
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has been symptomatic of the divided country and um there are people who are going to take one position or the
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other and are going to be looked on with a lot of suspicion by those on the other side
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um when is the hearing so how long is she going to be in jail now um is there a date set or is she
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going to be in jail indefinitely does it make sense to try and appeal this bail ruling or is she going to
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be out in a week or so anyways so what can happen what what normally would happen is after 90 days there
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would be a detention review if there hasn't been a review already the superior a judge of the superior
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court would look to see whether or not the uh the detention should have been ordered whether or not
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that person should still be detained and the purpose of that is to ensure that people don't
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need to languish in custody unnecessarily what can happen in the interim and before that is under section
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520 of the criminal code the accused can review um can the accused can request the court to review the
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order to see whether or not it should have been made in the first place and um whether or not that's
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going to happen soon i'm not sure well i think i think it's notable that the again i'm not sure if i
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would call her the leader of the truckers i think the truckers were in many ways leaderless but i think if
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anyone could be called the leader of the truckers it would be her and it's remarkable to me that the
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most effective political organizer or political critic of justin trudeau in years is thrown in prison
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for mischief reasons and we just think that's fine as a society no not serious crimes the one of the most
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minor crimes in the criminal code because her husband didn't want to say who sent him on a plane
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out there so she languishes in prison for up to 90 days or longer i think that's deeply disgraceful on
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the same legal system that claimed to put her in jail to keep up the reputation of the legal system
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throwing trudeau's political opponent in prison for 90 days i don't think that has the effect that judge
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bourgeois wants well listen i appreciate you speaking uh as an officer of the court i know
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you're limited in what you can say and that's smart no use getting under uh no use having your
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law uh license prosecuted because you say the wrong things and we're in dangerous days
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i think lawyers for truckers and lawyers for anyone who's charged are in a dangerous position these days
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so i'm glad that you and your firm are taking some of the cases for the truckers and uh
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the democracy fund i know is is covering the bills for at least some of them so i thank you for that
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work uh do you yourself have any of the cases that your firm has taken from people charged in the
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convoy in ottawa well yeah we're on my end pertain some cases um and what i i just would like to say in
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response to what you have uh just said ezra if i can weigh in pre-sentence and pre-trial custody
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is supposed to be rare it is a very rare thing to be ordered and it's it's important that i note that
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because people who are detained in custody have enormous pressure to bring the matter to a close
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sooner and i think it's just worth noting that yeah well of course i mean uh we see that in alberta
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too just sorry pastor arthur pavlovsky is thrown in prison he languishes in prison right now completely
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non-violent man tamara litch wouldn't hurt a flea languishes in prison right now completely non-violent
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woman both of them prosecuted under emergency rules i think it's a disgrace i'm glad you're
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representing some of these folks and thanks for giving us an update on things matt appreciate it
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thank you all right there you have it matt wolfson he's a lawyer with david amber law office
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they are representing some of the truckers who were arrested in ottawa stay with us more ahead
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hey welcome back your letters someone with the nickname truth seeker says
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that criteria for a state of emergency was not met this is a criminal operation and these cops are
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criminals canadians are getting the exact amount of tyranny they are prepared to tolerate freedom is
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not free if you won't put your life on the line to protect your freedom some tyrant is going to come
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along and take it from you and your children i don't think i would say police who were just out
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on the street were criminals but the police who attacked alexa the police who attacked guillaume
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our cameraman the police who stormed into a crowd on horseback injuring that elderly lady i would say
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that those are crimes police can commit crimes and when they do they must be charged with those crimes
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to maintain the reputation of the rest of the police i think it may go to the top i think that
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the police chief obviously was a rogue police chief the previous chief in ottawa was fired i think because
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he wouldn't do these terrible things so yeah i think that there have been some atrocious acts of policing
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and even if other police didn't engage in the conduct they approved it
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it someone with the nickname deborah star says you sure are scrambling because truth is getting out
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there reaching more places and people well you know um today i checked and we had a milestone
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last night i think we now have more than one million people who have signed up for rebel news emails one
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million and my estimate is that we have based on analytics on twitter and youtube and rumble and
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and other measurements is that in the last 30 days we have had 400 million views and impressions 400
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million i think it took us like three years to get our first 400 million and we had 400 million in
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the last month i really think the rebel news had a big role to play in shining a light of scrutiny on
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things i don't want to take more credit than it's due and of course by credit i give it to our reporters
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but i think that the enormous amount of coverage that rebel news achieved helped turn the tables
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helped show people the evil that was afoot i think so dt hunter production says it is sobering
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when we see so many people so willing to lie to others about what is happening with the refutable
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video proof they still try to spin things in a disinformational narrative i've come to think
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the liberals and the supporters are basically more interested in supporting the left of narrative
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than to report accurate information that live that in the end could save lives of their fellow
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countrymen oh there is no other excuse and and i think that you're going to see misinformation and
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censorship as the next as the next move i think you're already seeing it let me leave you with our video
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of the day ottawa police assaulting rebel reporters but investigating protesters for merely
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hackling mainstream media it's a video by our friend david menzies until tomorrow on behalf of all of us
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here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night keep fighting for freedom david menzies for
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rebel news here at ottawa police headquarters well folks there's going to be a press conference here soon
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and we're going to go in if they let us in i think they will and i've got a couple of questions to ask
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one why is it that my colleague alexa lavoie was shot point blank yesterday for simply practicing
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journalism in public secondly was the emergency services act really needed to shut down this
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peaceful demonstration i mean i don't think it met the benchmarks i.e uh the safety of canadians
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are at stake the sovereignty of canada is threatened so i want to see what the chief of the ottawa police
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service has to say about that i still can't say when uh we will ultimately need to complete this
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operation because we now need to enter into a maintenance portion of it to make sure that what
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occurred three weeks ago can never occur again so we will continue to have a posture protect their
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streets where so we protect our community members from unlawful organizations like the curb
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now we're moving forward for as long as it takes
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we are here to be able to respect the laws under the emergency measures and we are going to continue
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good afternoon chief uh david menzies with rebel news um chief can you kindly explain how it was that my
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colleague to my right here alexa lavoie was shot point blank with a tear gas canister doing some very
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painful damage to her what was the reason for that given that she was simply practicing journalism in
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the public square uh so i'm unfamiliar with the incident you're speaking of what i can tell you is
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that there is complaint mechanisms there is review mechanisms that will be engaged following this for
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any use of force uh incident that occurred i'll also say that it's been my uh observations and
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experience through the amazing extensive journalism coverage that's occurred through this that the
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vast majority of our members have been extremely professional they have ex executed an extremely
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methodical plan that has been focused on the safety of uh the residents the safety of our officers
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and the safety of the people engaged in the protest given that the emergencies act requires certain
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benchmarks to be met such as the safety of canadians must be at peril uh the sovereignty of the nation
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must be at peril do you think those benchmarks were met given this was uh for what i could tell
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a largely peaceful demonstration and protest so i guess i'm asking did you really need to have this act
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invoked in terms of uh what were minor unlawful uh acts and uh basically bylaw infractions uh so what
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the the federal government the provincial government both uh enacted legislation that was absolutely
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supportive to helping us to end the illegal occupation of our streets uh what could be described as bylaw
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infractions were actually terrorizing moments for the city uh for the city the residents and the
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communities that came around those areas uh the powers that were provided to us through the
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emergencies act through the provincial emergency act through the injunction and through any of the
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other legislative means that we got to end this protest were extremely beneficial in us being able
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to be where we are today see clear streets and have residents that can again walk through their downtown
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core that they own thank you well folks i think that was fascinating first of all in terms of the
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emergency services act the chief said it was essentially a good tool for them to carry out the um i guess
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deconstruction of the protest site federal government the provincial government both uh enacted legislation
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that was absolutely supportive to helping us to end the illegal occupation of our streets but really did
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they need it i mean there were already laws and bylaws on the books that would allow police to move in and do
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this in the first place uh i don't think there was any threat to the sovereignty of canada or any threat to
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individual canadians in fact the crime rate during the so-called occupation went down in ottawa what does that
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tell you and then of course he was unfamiliar with the assault to my colleague alexa lavoie uh so i'm
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unfamiliar with the incident you're speaking of maybe the chief is telling the truth but given that it's
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received international coverage i'm kind of taking his answer with a shovel full of salt and finally did you
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catch what the chief said at the end he was lauding the media coverage of the demonstration and of the
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take down of this weekend uh that would be the mainstream media coverage of course
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i'd just like to make one uh just to make a couple more last comments if you don't mind please
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so um first of all what i'd like to say is uh the the media coverage the participation from the media
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throughout this has has been quite incredible um the the documentation of the activities that are going
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on has given people the real life experience of what's occurring out there so for that i thank you
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and then he said and this really stuck with me that he was um i guess disturbed perturbed by the fact
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that some of the members of the mainstream media were subjected to verbal abuse i also know the media has
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been subjected to um slurs to abuse to illegal activities to themselves so we have one active
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investigation ongoing right now and i would ask that if there are any more activities that need
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to be reported please report them to the ottawa police service because we will take them seriously
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and conduct an investigation around those activities oh really they were called nasty names they were
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maybe an f-bomb was dropped evan solomon's feelings and sensibilities got hurt and again i go back to
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my uh colleague alexa she gets shot point blank and gets pepper spray in her face and it's uh oh well
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nothing to see here i guess this confirms the police state we're in we have the government uh enabled
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police services we have the government funded media and if you have a contrarian opinion
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it doesn't matter nothing to see here folks move along move along i think that is a disgrace