While the world is focused on the Trump tariffs and the Carney selection, Trudeau s cabinet ministers are raiding hundreds of millions of dollars and shoveling it out the door to their terrorist friends. While Canadians are distracted by the Trump Tariffs and the ascent of Mark Carney, Trudeau's worst allies raid the bank.
00:08:05.000Why don't you just take a bale of hundreds and throw them in the bonfire?
00:08:09.060We are creating a brighter tomorrow for the global community.
00:08:13.160How about the community of Canadian taxpayers?
00:08:15.740And this was announced as a counterpoint to the United States.
00:08:20.020Quote, the money to be spent alongside contributions from other foreign partners and donors will provide new funding for 14 different projects in Bangladesh and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
00:08:30.100The federal liberal government's move highlights a dramatically different Canadian approach to foreign development assistance compared to American Republican President Donald Trump's government,
00:08:38.020which halted funding through the United States Agency for International Development, USAID.
00:08:43.560So they're buying nurses in Bangladesh, not that we need nurses in Canada.
00:11:08.620And that is something that we celebrate in Canada, the freedom of speech.
00:11:11.620However, when we have somebody labeling a certain group as something they're not, all of a sudden now it becomes, when there's an Islamophobic undertone, if someone is calling a Palestinian rally a Hamas rally, then all of a sudden people start getting afraid.
00:11:28.200And they think, oh, wow, these are people that support an entity that's been labeled as a terrorist organization.
00:11:32.660However, the people that are there protesting, they're there for a different cause altogether.
00:11:36.960So then that becomes active discrimination when you classify an entire group with a group that they don't even identify with.
00:13:18.360Here, let me read Omar al-Ghabra's tweet.
00:13:20.120Today, the government of Canada announced several key measures to help the Syrian people build a stable country that respects all of its citizens.
00:13:28.900Eighty-four million dollars in humanitarian aid, easing economic sanctions, restoring diplomatic relations.
00:15:19.580Not what you did, but who was doing it.
00:15:22.680I give you the example of my friend Tommy Robinson, who right now is serving nine months in solitary confinement.
00:15:28.100He was actually sentenced to the maximum two years, but the kind of math, you reduce it by a few months there, a few months here, you're out.
00:15:35.160Anyhow, he'll be out in a grand total of nine months, served in solitary confinement, not for any crime.
00:15:43.120He hasn't actually been convicted of a crime.
00:15:59.500By contrast, thousands of different rape gang members in the United Kingdom, these are men who repeatedly rape young girls again and again in these child exploitation networks.
00:16:14.100They're typically sentenced to a couple of years in jail and get out much sooner for a much more heinous crime.
00:16:20.360So I say again, you know, where you stand is based on where you sit over there and who you are.
00:16:28.620And that's why the British prime minister has a nickname.
00:16:31.740His name is Keir Starmer, but everywhere he's called Two-Tier Keir.
00:16:37.000And he was even asked about it when he visited the White House.
00:16:41.580J.D. Vance asked him some questions about the state of freedom of speech, and it depends on who you are.
00:16:47.160Let me show you a little bit of that exchange. Take a look.
00:16:49.880I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the U.K.
00:16:55.700and also with some of our European allies.
00:16:57.360But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them,
00:17:07.820but also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.
00:17:11.920So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.
00:19:23.580Well, is that what's happening now in Ottawa?
00:19:27.680Because a group of Ottawa leftists, led by a bureaucrat named Zexy Lee, have filed a class-action lawsuit—actually, they filed it a few years ago—against Tamara Leach and Chris Barber and the truckers—for a staggering $290 million.
00:19:49.500Was this the greatest bank heist in history?
00:19:52.400No, that's how much they claim they and the rest of their class was harmed by the trucks honking their horns for a few days in Ottawa.
00:20:01.260Bad news is the federal court—sorry, the Court of Appeal of Ontario recently upheld Zexy Lee's right to proceed, denying an application by Chris Barber and Tamara Leach that this was simply a slap suit, a strategic litigation against public participation.
00:20:21.300The truckers went to court and said, you're on, or kick this stuff out.
00:20:42.600We're helping to defend Tamara Leach in the criminal court, but the Justice Center is helping to defend her in the civil court.
00:20:50.000Tell us a little bit—I think we've talked about this before, but not recently.
00:20:54.620Maybe recap, what is this lawsuit about?
00:20:58.720Like, how on earth—like $290 million.
00:21:01.080I feel like I'm listening to Dr. Evil when he puts his pinky to his mouth and says, billion, a trillion.
00:21:07.020I mean, why not ask for a trillion dollars while you're at it?
00:21:10.040It's just such a, to me, a laughable answer.
00:21:12.520What would Zexy Lee, the Ottawa bureaucrat who's one of the faces of this suit, what would she say has been damaged to the extent that she and her friends get $290 million?
00:21:25.580Well, Ezra, I want to—I'm glad you asked, and I want to sort of maybe re-situate this for you.
00:21:31.140I'm not sure that the viewers are really aware of how this all started.
00:21:35.080Back in 2022, as the Freedom Convoy protest was going on, that's when Ms. Lee started this lawsuit, you know, in the first place.
00:21:48.740Originally, this was a much smaller lawsuit.
00:21:52.360It was only for about $8 or $9 million, I think, which is a lot, but it's obviously only a small fraction of what it is now.
00:22:00.700Anyway, Ms. Lee was the only plaintiff at that time.
00:22:04.900It was against a couple of people, a few people, Tamara Leach, Chris Barber, and a few of the other well-known people in Ottawa at the time.
00:22:15.180And she was only claiming damages for herself and her, you know, some—I think her neighbours, the people in her apartment building directly.
00:22:23.720It wasn't a very big, you know, area that she was claiming was the subject of a nuisance.
00:22:55.400But it was a very small claim, comparatively.
00:22:58.920That has since ballooned, exploded into a $290 million Frankenstein, if I could use the term, engaging different classes of plaintiffs.
00:23:14.020So now it's not only Zexie Lee and her next-door neighbours.
00:23:18.840Now it's all the businesses in Ottawa, downtown, who had to close.
00:23:24.980Now it's all the employees who worked in a business that couldn't work because the building was closed or the restaurant was closed or whatever.
00:23:33.760And it's all the people in the downtown core of Ottawa, not just her neighbourhood, everybody in a wide swath, kilometres long, who happened to be there at the time.
00:23:49.980And here's the interesting thing, Ezra.
00:23:51.520The new version of the claim, I don't know if people are aware, it says literally all the people in downtown Ottawa are part of the plaintiffs group except those who supported the Freedom Convoy.
00:24:05.160So apparently honking horns and nuisances affect only the people on that side of the political whatever divide and this issue and not the others.
00:24:17.380Horns don't apparently affect people who happened to support anti-COVID protests.
00:25:39.480We're at the bottom of the first inning in this case.
00:25:43.380And this issue with the Court of Appeal that you've flagged for us, Ezra, is really the result or the end result of a preliminary motion that we brought.
00:25:57.120Again, you were talking earlier on just now, Ezra, about the slap litigation.
00:26:02.880This is essentially a way that somebody uses to try to shut down somebody else because they don't like what they're saying.
00:26:11.140I'm going to sue you into the ground, Mr. Defendant, unless you shut up and keep your mouth shut.
00:26:17.160And if you don't, you're going to pay.
00:26:19.160Well, that's essentially a slap, strategic litigation against the court.
00:26:24.220I mean, I saw Zexi Lee testify at the Public Order Inquiry Commission.
00:26:29.020She couldn't be more of a political activist.
00:26:32.160Her lawyer, as you mentioned, Paul Champ, is a radical lefty.
00:26:35.980It's so evident to me this is just a punishment lawsuit against Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
00:26:41.560But you're saying the Court of Appeal said, well, no, it may have some elements of that, but there's something underneath it that deserves its day in court.
00:26:53.000And there's a lot of dimensions to this case, and I don't want to bog everybody down with all the details.
00:26:59.220But, for example, one of the things we were arguing was that this case engages the concept of a public nuisance.
00:27:06.700OK, I just want to be technical for a little bit here.
00:27:09.840There's a private nuisance in law and there's a public nuisance.
00:27:13.080Private nuisance is generally, hey, you can't interfere with me when I'm having a beer in the backyard and I'm trying to barbecue some chicken.
00:27:21.760You can't, you know, play your stereo too loud that I'm annoyed.
00:27:26.820That's essentially a private nuisance.
00:27:28.820I can claim damages from you if the court establishes that you have interfered with my property.
00:27:41.240Well, that means that there's a community-wide issue going on.
00:27:45.340For example, the chemical factory on top of the hill is, you know, spewing chemicals all over the place and interfering with everybody's rights to enjoy the atmosphere.
00:27:56.920Or there's a new runway at the airport and the planes are all coming in and making it impossible for people to enjoy their entire community.
00:28:17.000And normally what that means is the attorney general is supposed to be the one acting on behalf of the people who brings that entire claim against the defendant, whoever it is, the runway, the airport, whatever, on behalf of everybody.
00:28:34.920The remedy is an injunction, generally speaking.
00:28:37.820So what we are suggesting or what we're going to be saying is, to your point, is that in this case, Mr. Champ and Ms. Lee and everybody, they're really putting on the attorney general's hat in this case.
00:28:54.460And they're suggesting, hey, the attorney general didn't bring a lawsuit, which I guess he could have or she could have.
00:31:54.060But one of the things we were saying, for example, was that there wasn't enough evidence filed by the plaintiffs in the motion to get beyond part of the test.
00:32:33.280The Court of Appeal and the lower court judge said, no, we think they did, basically.
00:32:37.960For the purposes of this preliminary motion, we think it's enough.
00:32:41.440One of the things we were saying, for example, one of your employees, one of your famous employees, Ezra, his name is Jeffrey Devaney, employee of one of the random restaurants.
00:32:52.300He claims he couldn't have he couldn't work and he wasn't able to work because the restaurant was shut down and therefore he's claiming damages.
00:33:00.520Well, anyway, long story short, Jeffrey Devaney didn't file any evidence on this motion.
00:40:46.580I'm just worried that there's so many parts of the Canadian establishment, the deep state, that would stop that, whether it's the civil service or the courts or the Senate.