Rebel News Podcast - LEVANT： It’s Remembrance Day, the one day a year that Liberals say they care about our soldiers

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00:00:14.980 Hello, my friends.

00:00:16.140 It's Remembrance Day.

00:00:17.360 I have a Remembrance Day tradition.

00:00:19.140 I always read a certain poem from Rudyard Kipling.

00:00:21.920 I don't read Flanders Fields, but today I'm going to play you a beautiful recording of

00:00:25.680 Flanders Fields by Leonard Cohen.

00:00:27.460 He's got such a beautiful voice.

00:00:28.840 And then I'm going to read to you, in my own way, Rudyard Kipling's poem called Tommy,

00:00:33.500 which chokes me up every year.

00:00:35.740 I mean, I sort of well up.

00:00:37.740 I mean, I don't cry, but I get a little emotional at the same lines every year.

00:00:43.040 It just sort of gets me.

00:00:44.660 Then we have an interview with a trucker from the Coutts border blockade who is being prosecuted

00:00:50.000 now.

00:00:50.920 His name is Marco van Heugenbos, and we'll talk with him in a bit.

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00:01:25.480 All right, here's today's show.

00:01:27.200 Tonight, it's Remembrance Day.

00:01:28.940 The one day a year, the liberals say they care about our soldiers.

00:01:32.740 It's November 11th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:35.480 You're fighting for freedom.

00:01:38.680 Shame on you, you censorious bug. 0.72

00:01:41.820 Today is Remembrance Day.

00:01:52.420 I have a Remembrance Day tradition, as you may know, that I started a decade ago in the

00:01:57.100 Sun News Network.

00:01:57.760 I read a poem by Rudyard Kipling, which isn't so much about remembering soldiers who have

00:02:02.340 made the ultimate sacrifice, but actually about treating soldiers properly now all the

00:02:07.160 time.

00:02:07.600 Of course, I also love in Flanders fields, which is the reason we wear poppies on our

00:02:13.400 lapels.

00:02:14.060 Let me play for you a powerful reading of that by the late Leonard Cohen, if I may.

00:02:19.180 Come right back afterwards.

00:02:20.780 This is a video from Legion Magazine.

00:02:37.600 In Flanders fields, the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row that mark our place,

00:02:56.740 and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly, scarce heard amid the guns below.

00:03:08.080 We are the dead, short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved, and were loved, and

00:03:25.760 now we lie in Flanders fields, take up our quarrel with the foe, to you from failing hands we

00:03:38.200 throw the torch, be yours to hold it high.

00:03:43.560 If ye break faith, with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.

00:03:55.660 That's a great poem, but the one I think about more is simply called Tawny, written by the

00:04:12.060 poet Rudyard Kipling in 1890, which was before the horrors of the Great War were even imaginable.

00:04:18.700 The left thinks that Canada is a peace-knit country, but that's just their historical illiteracy.

00:04:24.280 Canadians have paid a disproportionate price in the wars for Western liberty.

00:04:29.460 We joined both the First and Second World Wars before our American cousins did, and in very

00:04:35.260 high numbers too, and those wars, and the war in Korea, and the dozens of military missions

00:04:39.980 over the decades, none of them were to defend our own soil.

00:04:43.600 They were to defend our friends and allies, and the very idea of freedom and democracy.

00:04:49.500 It's one of the reasons Canada is so well-loved around the world.

00:04:51.920 It's the reason why Parliament Hill is awash in colorful tulips every year.

00:04:56.680 That's a gift from the Netherlands for helping to liberate them.

00:05:00.800 It's important to the Dutch, but it's not so important to Justin Trudeau, who had more important

00:05:05.680 things to do in Cambodia.

00:05:10.020 That's where he is.

00:05:11.060 The things Trudeau cares the most about, I think, are the things that he remembers hearing

00:05:16.540 as a child when his father was Prime Minister, mocking Queen Elizabeth, hostility to Alberta,

00:05:24.520 especially Alberta oil, and of course demeaning our soldiers, despising them, really.

00:05:31.100 I mean, look at this.

00:05:31.920 This is Pierre Trudeau reincarnated.

00:05:34.420 So my question is to you, Mr. Prime Minister, what veterans were you talking about?

00:05:40.400 Because you have ISIL or ISIS members coming into a reintegration program.

00:05:49.400 You did a backdoor deal with Omar Khadar with not even stepping into the courtroom.

00:05:54.180 You know, so, again, my question is, what veterans were you talking about?

00:06:01.120 Was it the ones that fought for the freedoms and values that you so proudly boast about,

00:06:06.060 or was it the ones who fought against?

00:06:08.540 Because, honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty

00:06:14.220 when I joined the military.

00:06:16.260 Nobody forced me to join the military.

00:06:18.460 I was prepared to be killed in action.

00:06:21.760 What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.

00:06:33.400 So which veteran was it that you were talking about?

00:06:38.940 Thank you, sir.

00:06:40.160 Thank you for your passion and your strength and being here today to share this justifiable frustration and anger

00:06:48.840 with me and with all of us here.

00:06:50.560 Thank you for having the courage to stand here, and thank you for listening to my answer

00:06:55.260 on a couple of elements you brought up.

00:06:59.000 First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans' groups in court?

00:07:05.660 Because they are asking for more than we are able to give right now.

00:07:10.660 They are asking for more than we...

00:07:13.080 Well, no.

00:07:14.260 Hang on.

00:07:15.000 You're asking for honest answers.

00:07:20.700 Imagine talking that way to a wounded veteran.

00:07:23.400 To his face.

00:07:24.820 Imagine what he says behind his back.

00:07:27.320 If only Trudeau treated our veterans as well as he treated Omar Khadr,

00:07:31.200 the terrorist, murderer, and war criminal that he paid $10.5 million to and gave an apology.

00:07:37.560 Trudeau always mocks our military.

00:07:40.520 Remember this?

00:07:41.560 So will you be Jean Tretien, though?

00:07:44.260 You still want to see the proof is the proof is the proof?

00:07:46.320 Or are you pretty well made up your mind that it would be better for us to stay in a non-combat role?

00:07:51.100 I haven't made up my mind, but the onus is on Mr. Harper to demonstrate that a shift from a non-combat role

00:07:58.900 that we've established right now to a combat role is the right thing for Canada, 0.84

00:08:05.160 the right thing for Canadians, but also the right thing for the international community.

00:08:10.880 There are an awful lot of things that Canada can and should be doing.

00:08:14.500 I mean, think about Canada's reputation around the world and what we've done around refugees, 1.00

00:08:19.000 whether it be the Vietnamese boat people, whether it be the Ismailis in Uganda, in East Africa,

00:08:30.420 whether it be, even more recently, the Tamil community fleeing a civil war in Sri Lanka.

00:08:39.540 You know, Canada has been a place that draws in and helps refugees in a significant and serious way. 1.00

00:08:47.080 Now, in this situation, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of displaced peoples in the region

00:08:51.960 who aren't looking to all, you know, leave the region.

00:08:55.560 That's where their homes are.

00:08:56.600 They need support to get through this very, very difficult time.

00:09:00.320 Canada has a capacity and an expertise in doing just that.

00:09:04.620 Why aren't we talking more about that?

00:09:06.740 Why aren't we talking more about the kind of humanitarian aid that Canada can and must be engaged in,

00:09:11.920 rather than, you know, trying to whip out our CF-18s and show them how big they are?

00:09:16.620 You know, it just doesn't work like that in Canada.

00:09:20.060 It's just weird to see this anti-military activist sound so butch now about war in Ukraine.

00:09:25.780 He really treats soldiers as political pawns on a chessboard.

00:09:29.680 The whole thing reminds me of that poem by Kipling called Tommy.

00:09:33.120 Tommy Atkins being the British nickname for a soldier like G.I. Doe is a nickname in America.

00:09:38.200 Here's the poem. I'll do my best to read it.

00:09:40.940 You can see lots of beautiful readings of it on YouTube, including a great one by Roger Moore,

00:09:44.660 the old James Bond actor. I really recommend that.

00:09:47.860 I'll try it.

00:09:49.180 I went into a public house to get a pint of beer.

00:09:52.120 The public can he up and says, we serve no redcoats here. 0.91

00:09:55.800 The girls behind the bar, they laughed and giggled fit to die. 0.98

00:09:59.340 I outs into the street again and to myself says I,

00:10:02.340 oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy go away.

00:10:05.020 But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.

00:10:08.760 The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play.

00:10:12.340 It's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.

00:10:16.480 I went into a theater as sober as could be.

00:10:19.440 They gave a drunk civilian room but had none for me. 0.77

00:10:22.840 They sent me to the gallery around the music halls.

00:10:25.620 But when it comes to fighting, Lord, they'll shove me in the stalls.

00:10:29.100 For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy wait outside.

00:10:31.900 But it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.

00:10:35.980 The troop ship's on the tide, my boys.

00:10:38.360 The troop ship's on the tide.

00:10:40.720 Oh, it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.

00:10:45.380 Yes, making mocking uniforms that guard you while you sleep

00:10:48.320 is cheaper than them uniforms and their starvation cheap.

00:10:52.580 And hustling drunken soldiers when they're going large a bit

00:10:55.480 is five times better business than parading in full kit.

00:10:59.540 Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy, how's your soul?

00:11:03.520 But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

00:11:07.100 The drums begin to roll, my boys.

00:11:08.920 The drums begin to roll.

00:11:10.640 Oh, it's thin red lines of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

00:11:14.600 We aren't no thin red heroes.

00:11:17.060 No, we aren't no blackguards too.

00:11:19.660 But single men in barracks, most remarkable like you.

00:11:23.000 And if sometimes our conduct isn't all your fancy paints,

00:11:25.920 why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints.

00:11:30.020 Well, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy fall behind.

00:11:34.440 But it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind.

00:11:38.360 There's trouble in the wind, my boys.

00:11:39.860 There's trouble in the wind.

00:11:41.900 Oh, it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind.

00:11:45.860 You talk a better food for us in schools and fires and all.

00:11:49.860 We'll wait for extra rations if you treat us rational.

00:11:52.540 Don't mess about the cookroom slops, but prove it to our face.

00:11:56.960 The widow's uniform is not the soldier man's disgrace. 0.59

00:12:00.320 Where it's Tommy this and Tommy that and chuck him out the brute. 0.96

00:12:03.500 But it's savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot.

00:12:07.980 And it's Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please. 0.89

00:12:11.860 And Tommy ain't a blooming fool.

00:12:13.060 You bet that Tommy sees. 0.94

00:12:15.440 I have a tough time reading that every year.

00:12:18.400 Stay with us.

00:12:19.220 After the break, a special interview with Marco van Hugenbeuys, who's one of the three peaceful protesters charged.

00:12:29.640 And the Crown is seeking 10 years in prison for him.

00:12:32.620 I'll talk to him next.

00:12:33.780 He's one of the Cooch truckers.

00:12:35.460 I find that poem very hard to read without choking up a little bit.

00:12:50.660 Every single year, the same line gets me.

00:12:54.500 Anyways, Remembrance Day.

00:12:57.520 One of the things the soldiers fought for was freedom.

00:12:59.900 Freedom of peaceful protest.

00:13:01.140 Freedom to dissent.

00:13:01.940 In fact, not just the freedom, the right, the duty to oppose your government.

00:13:07.160 Well, that's what our next guest did.

00:13:10.840 He was one of dozens of truckers at the Cooch border crossing in southern Alberta.

00:13:16.480 A peaceful protest, completely peaceful.

00:13:18.860 And it actually had the desired effect.

00:13:21.260 The province of Alberta dropped their vaccine mandates in response to it.

00:13:24.660 It was wonderful.

00:13:25.280 However, in his last month as premier, Jason Kenney fired off a salvo.

00:13:30.840 He launched a prosecution against three of those peaceful truckers.

00:13:34.720 Rebel News promised to defend those men.

00:13:36.760 And indeed, we did.

00:13:37.480 I went down to Lethbridge last week, you might recall.

00:13:40.700 And I met Marco there.

00:13:41.940 And today I spoke with him when he was in Ottawa.

00:13:45.480 What I'm going to show you is an excerpt from our live stream earlier today.

00:13:49.400 As you know, every single day we have had wall-to-wall coverage of the Trucker Commission.

00:13:55.480 That's the inquiry into the invocation of the Emergencies Act by Trudeau.

00:13:59.820 We rented an Airbnb in downtown Ottawa right near the commission.

00:14:03.920 And we've got four bedrooms there that our rebel reporters are staying in.

00:14:07.420 And we've set up a kind of makeshift studio in the kitchen of this Airbnb.

00:14:11.140 And it's like our base camp just for a month and a half.

00:14:14.040 And it's a hub of activity.

00:14:15.260 And I was there when we just got it going.

00:14:17.580 It's a hoot, but a lot of work there.

00:14:19.820 We're live tweeting the commission all day.

00:14:22.180 We're having an evening wrap-up every single day.

00:14:26.140 We're interviewing lawyers.

00:14:28.200 We're interviewing witnesses.

00:14:29.660 It's a great project.

00:14:31.560 If you haven't checked it out, please go to truckercommission.com.

00:14:35.060 Anyways, I appeared on the live stream today.

00:14:38.020 And I interviewed Marco van Huygenbus from Fort McLeod, actually.

00:14:43.640 It's a town in southern Alberta.

00:14:45.540 And I'll play for you some excerpts of that and some other things I think might be of interest.

00:14:50.580 I just didn't want you to miss it because I thought it was an interesting conversation.

00:14:55.340 So here's my conversation earlier today with Marco van Huygenbus.

00:14:58.620 The man of the hour, Marco van Huygenbus.

00:15:02.040 He's a town counselor from Fort McLeod, Alberta, not too far away from Coutts.

00:15:07.380 Fort McLeod is near Lethbridge, which is a larger city in southern Alberta.

00:15:11.280 He's a town counselor.

00:15:13.220 I had the pleasure of meeting him last weekend in Lethbridge when he briefly appeared in court with two other truckers who are being prosecuted for inciting mischief.

00:15:23.420 I think that's the species of crime.

00:15:26.180 Now, mischief is the kind of charge that is often given out for vandalism or spray painting something.

00:15:31.340 It's the kind of thing normally you get a slap on the wrist and the judge says, I don't want to see you back in this court again.

00:15:35.840 Fly straight, youngster.

00:15:37.320 But no, no, the crown is proceeding by what they call indictment.

00:15:40.460 I understand that the government wants 10 years in prison for Marco, Alex, and George, his other two truckers, completely nonviolent.

00:15:50.780 I say again, Marco himself is a town counselor.

00:15:53.860 He's an upstanding citizen, a leader of his community, and he's actually in Ottawa because he was testifying for the commission.

00:16:00.300 Do we have Marco in the studio?

00:16:03.820 Yes, we do.

00:16:04.440 You know, we're going to have a quick ad break.

00:16:06.000 Oh, no, there he is.

00:16:06.760 No need for an ad break.

00:16:07.540 Marco, how are you doing?

00:16:08.180 Nice to see you.

00:16:09.360 Good to see you, Ezra.

00:16:10.460 Thanks for having me.

00:16:11.340 Well, it's a pleasure, and thanks for waiting patiently.

00:16:13.200 I understand you've been there, and welcome to our little pop-up studio in Ottawa in our Airbnb.

00:16:19.560 Now, last I saw you were in Lethbridge, and you were one of the three defendants.

00:16:26.480 And I know you have to be careful about what you say publicly because, of course, the prosecution will be watching this,

00:16:32.780 and they'll want to scrutinize any word and use it to hang you.

00:16:35.140 So I'm not going to ask you anything about the case.

00:16:37.140 But maybe you can tell me without referring to anything that would touch on your trial.

00:16:41.320 I want to be careful for you.

00:16:43.680 Why were you there?

00:16:45.200 Why were hundreds or maybe even thousands of men and women from all across southern Alberta and other places streaming in?

00:16:51.800 Why did they feel it was important to peacefully protest that day in February?

00:16:58.060 We were there to stand up to a government-gone rogue.

00:17:02.120 During the 18 months at that time of COVID, we had seen our local municipalities, our boards,

00:17:13.620 all of the powers that are given us through our Westminster Parliamentary Democracy,

00:17:18.500 essentially put in a box and put on a top shelf.

00:17:22.140 And Kenny, with his pick committee, and the authorities given to AHS through their emergency measures were running the province.

00:17:31.640 And the inability to communicate with our elected officials drove us to a place that essentially drove us to Coutts.

00:17:41.560 That was where we made the stand, to demand accountability from our representatives.

00:17:49.700 And the mayor of Coutts, and again, mayor is a big word for a place or two.

00:17:55.180 I was a student council rep in school, and I had more constituents than the mayor of Coutts does.

00:18:02.180 But he is the mayor.

00:18:05.820 Tell me how the local town reacted.

00:18:08.580 Like everyone knew people who were on the line, and there may have been disagreements about it,

00:18:13.880 but these were not strangers.

00:18:15.060 These were friends and neighbors and family in many cases, weren't they?

00:18:18.480 Correct, correct.

00:18:19.940 I'm not from the Coutts area, from Warner County, but a lot of the individuals,

00:18:25.540 a lot of the residents of Milk River and Coutts supported this.

00:18:28.360 The mayor himself testified that it was probably a 70-30 split, and it comes back to 70-30 split.

00:18:37.700 30% of the people might not have agreed with certain tactics that were being used,

00:18:43.220 but to say they didn't support us, I would disagree with that.

00:18:47.120 I believe all of Alberta supported us, but being an organic event,

00:18:53.160 there were things that happened that were out of our control.

00:18:59.380 We responded to it, right?

00:19:00.880 Essentially, we built the plane as we were flying it.

00:19:04.160 I've heard that comment a few times this week.

00:19:06.120 But to say 70-30, I think that's a pretty accurate description.

00:19:14.660 But back to that 30%, I never really interacted with that 30%, 0.91

00:19:20.280 so I can't attest to that, but the support was there from the communities surrounding Coutts and the county.

00:19:30.580 Yeah, we're looking on screen of different imagery.

00:19:32.720 That's our friend Kian Simone, who, along with Sidney Fazzard, was down there for the bulk of it.

00:19:37.540 Very interesting to be embedded with the truckers.

00:19:40.460 They were right there in the saloon.

00:19:41.840 They watched the negotiations.

00:19:43.120 Tell me about the role of, I remember getting a phone call from Sid and Kian about how it was going,

00:19:51.620 and there was a worry that the RCMP negotiators were not negotiating in good faith,

00:19:56.380 that they were misleading, that they were sort of silver-tongued devils and tricking folks.

00:20:00.960 And I thought, boy, there's a chance that's going to go wrong.

00:20:03.460 So we mustered some crowdfunding money, and we sent down a lawyer, Chad Williamson,

00:20:08.400 who I think was a perfect fit for this project, and Chad is representing you and the other two truckers.

00:20:15.400 There's Chad right there.

00:20:17.100 But he's representing you in court now, but back then he was sort of a go-between,

00:20:21.400 just to make sure that everyone knew their rights and to liaise with the cops so that they had someone.

00:20:29.320 I'm not saying that the truckers were unsophisticated.

00:20:31.720 I'm just saying that they aren't used to hard-bitten negotiation with tough hombres on the other side.

00:20:37.100 That's what a lawyer does every day. 0.53

00:20:38.760 A litigating lawyer fights against another side all the time every day.

00:20:44.680 That's how they're mentally trained, whereas a trucker is a friend to all.

00:20:49.360 He's not getting into fights.

00:20:50.740 So you put a bunch of truckers in the room, then you send in these silver-tongued devils from the RCMP.

00:20:54.960 That's not actually a level playing field.

00:20:56.860 You add Chad Williams into the game, and now it's a level playing field.

00:21:00.760 That's at least how I think of it, but I wasn't there.

00:21:04.120 How was it, did Chad fulfill that kind of a rule when he was there as a liaison?

00:21:12.080 Absolutely.

00:21:13.000 Chad, with his colleague Martin, they came down and they, you know, in layman's terms,

00:21:19.860 explained what we were up against and what could happen, and if it happened, how we had to respond.

00:21:25.820 You know, you have a right to a lawyer.

00:21:29.040 I remember the exact terminology, I think it was something, yes, yes, no, but it was in the event of arrests.

00:21:39.060 And we felt that that would be what it came to.

00:21:44.840 We weren't going to resist.

00:21:46.720 We weren't going to fight back, but we were going to stand our ground.

00:21:50.000 And we also knew that eventually, systematically, the government would have to remove us.

00:21:55.400 We were aware of that.

00:21:56.480 We made that decision.

00:21:58.240 And that decision, when you have truckers and farmers and families who come down there,

00:22:04.980 knowing they could go into the world of legal prosecution, something they're not aware of,

00:22:10.820 something they're not familiar with, but showed up anyways and stood their ground, that was powerful.

00:22:17.960 You know, it was amazing.

00:22:20.200 I was just, we were showing on the screen there, men and women, truckers, farmers.

00:22:25.040 I think they were singing, oh, Canada, one fellow had his hat off over his heart.

00:22:28.180 We also saw about 20 cops, you know, and again, so those are the truckers there.

00:22:34.300 I think this was sort of the showdown day where a bunch of truckers came and were basically saying,

00:22:38.740 you got to get out now.

00:22:39.800 But you can just see what I mentioned earlier, Ottawa, Windsor, those are big cities with big police forces.

00:22:46.460 You could get three, four, 500 cops, a SWAT team, riot horses, helicopter dispatched in a matter of hours in those cities.

00:22:54.660 But in Coutts, Alberta, the best the cops could muster was 20 folks.

00:22:59.040 And the exuberance and the sheer numbers and the flat open spaces, those cops were showing it on camera.

00:23:09.340 And now they turned and walked away.

00:23:12.960 Like they thought they could get the truckers to blink.

00:23:15.720 The truckers didn't blink.

00:23:16.620 The cops blinked.

00:23:17.740 I thought that was a fascinating moment.

00:23:20.800 That was an extremely powerful moment.

00:23:22.880 That was the Tuesday of the first week.

00:23:25.800 I remember that clear as day.

00:23:27.220 I remember their first attempt.

00:23:28.480 And this syncs with the farmers and the truckers breaking the very preliminary Milk River blockade at that time.

00:23:39.940 They blew through there.

00:23:40.920 You might have seen videos of that previously.

00:23:43.140 But they had made the attempt and had essentially told a few truckers because we didn't have a barricade.

00:23:48.880 We didn't have a barrier.

00:23:49.680 We just had trucks on the highway facing east and west.

00:23:51.820 So we had no real way to stand our ground in a way that the RCMP would have to essentially come to a standoff with us.

00:24:02.160 And they had convinced a few truckers to leave by essentially saying, you know, you're leaving or you're getting arrested.

00:24:08.040 So that's a pretty obvious decision.

00:24:10.280 But out of the, you know, it was a pretty, the weather was pretty crappy.

00:24:15.320 Out of the, out of the blue, I would say blue, but out of the white came these truckers and these, these farmers who had seen on the social media platforms that the RCMP was enforcing in coots.

00:24:26.040 And they could not watch that happen to their, to their friends, to their families, to, to their fellow Albertans.

00:24:32.940 So they broke through that barrier.

00:24:35.640 And the timing of that was, was just phenomenal.

00:24:39.740 It wasn't planned, but the timing.

00:24:41.140 And when they showed up, we ended up taking that equipment and forming a, a fence to fence, um, metal barrier with equipment, trucks and trailers and farm implements.

00:24:53.780 I remember this one tractor coming in with a big double disc and it just parked on the highway and it folded its wings down.

00:25:00.140 And there it was.

00:25:01.380 And it, it's the, the RCMP had essentially retreated when those trucks and tractors rolled in and they made one more attempt.

00:25:10.920 And that's when the, the, the, the, the, the protesters came out of the saloon and came from their, their trucks, et cetera.

00:25:18.140 Cause it was minus 30 and with windshield and we formed a line and we stood in front of the, the, that barricade.

00:25:25.020 And we sang, Oh, Canada.

00:25:26.660 And I remember, um, you know, clearly indicating, you know, we maintain our distance.

00:25:33.020 We did, we wanted a no contact.

00:25:34.780 Um, that was our goal and we were successful with that.

00:25:39.160 The numbers and, and, and, and the, the force that was presented with, with, with, with equipment and, and the people on, on that highway, um, turned the enforcement effort into a failure.

00:25:51.540 And the RCMP took an approach that led to more of a, uh, uh, that essentially led to negotiations, um, going forward.

00:26:00.280 Now we're gathered here today because we're talking about the trucker commissioner inquiry and whether or not the use of the emergencies act was legally, morally, constitutionally, politically justified.

00:26:09.500 It's pretty clear that the answer to that is no.

00:26:11.760 And the way I know that is that your blockade, which was by far the most effective in the country was resolved before the emergencies act was deployed.

00:26:22.160 It was resolved.

00:26:23.580 Tell me a little bit about your testimony, um, before the trucker commission this week.

00:26:28.120 Yeah.

00:26:28.600 So that's, I got to P note, um, a couple of months ago and, uh, obviously leading up to it.

00:26:34.280 Um, not sure, um, you know, what, what, how it would transpire.

00:26:38.960 So I, I, I watched a lot of it from Alberta and this is not something that has ever happened.

00:26:44.000 Essentially the, the emergencies act has never been enacted.

00:26:46.340 So the inquiry has never been necessary.

00:26:49.200 Um, so becoming familiar with the proceedings, et cetera, I remember showing up a couple of days early and just getting my feel of the room, but going in, um, prepared.

00:26:58.360 I sat down with, um, with, uh, Martin, my legal counsel, uh, who was, um, uh, who was sponsored by a TDF.

00:27:07.280 And, uh, my criminal lawyer, you know, who, who works, um, with Chad, uh, from Williamson law, we did a lot of preliminary prep.

00:27:15.380 And I came in and, um, I was able to articulate well and speak to what, you know, there I was subpoena, but there was also a willingness on my part to, to get in front of the commission, to get in front of the country.

00:27:27.580 And to, to, to, to share the truth of, of what happened in Coutts, um, that the truth of what happened has never been fully shared.

00:27:35.860 And, and a lot of the truth cannot be shared yet as there's legal prosecution, but the, the narrative in, in the mainstream media has changed from an event, a peaceful event where there were unfortunately, uh, situations outside of the main blockade that, that cast a bad light on us.

00:27:55.320 But it was separate, but over the last 10 months, that separation has been, has diminished.

00:28:01.700 And now all of Coutts, you know, it's essentially goes back to the way the media paints us now is that every trucker was on that highway holding a gun. 0.79

00:28:11.320 And that's ridiculous. So that was part of my, my goal was to come to the commission and to share the truth of that.

00:28:17.340 And to also share that, um, it was not necessary. We, who, you know, we're in Alberta, we're in Coutts, like no disrespect to, to the, to the, to the people in this great city, but who's Ottawa to us?

00:28:29.140 You know, Ottawa is this, this far away place for us. And, and we understand the role of Ottawa, but the emergencies act, I might've heard about it, but that was not something that, that, that, that made me shake in my boots that we, we, we, we had gone there with, uh, with, with the goal to, to, to communicate with our, or to demand accountability of our provincial government.

00:28:49.540 But when things turned to the situation on hand, we were prepared, we were prepared to, to make that stand. So there was nothing in the emergencies act that was going to change that situation. So in, in leaving our decision and the timing of it, uh, which is public has nothing to do with, with the invocation of the emergencies act. And that had to be shared, um, from my part.

00:29:12.840 And unfortunately, uh, and this is probably, you probably lead to this in your questioning, but unfortunately the government, government of Alberta in their cross-examination of me, and even the testimony of the deputy justice minister, um, a day or two later was very vague in this.

00:29:29.320 It was the, you know, if their goal as the province of Alberta, which they also believe that the emergencies act was not necessary. And that's why they requested standing at the commission.

00:29:39.160 But I'm, I'm, I'm surprised as to how they represented, you know, the, the, the government of Alberta is their count. The council essentially put me on the stand. It was a prosecution of Marko Van Uygambas in Ottawa.

00:29:52.420 Well, that's a, that's obviously a holdover from Jason Kenney's regime. The new premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith is more sympathetic to freedom and more critical of lockdownism. But obviously, uh, she's only been in the office for a few weeks and you have all these, in fact, your prosecution, the prosecution of you and George and Marco, sorry, your Marco, excuse me. And Alex, um,

00:30:16.240 the prosecution of you three peaceful protesters was started under Kenny in his last month as premier. Correct. And now it's like a zombie that's operating under its own energy. And I think the premier has to call it off. And I think it's absurd. The demand for 10 years in prison. I think your lawyer is right. When he said last weekend at the rally outside the courthouse,

00:30:43.740 that there's no jury in Lethbridge to convict. Like if 70, 70% of the people of Coutts were in support and their town was being blockaded, but still 70% of them supported it. You're not going to find a jury to convict in Lethbridge. This is pure vendetta. But you know what, Marco? And, and I appreciate your time today. We got your back. And when I mean that, I don't just mean we have your back morally and journalistically, but we're, as you know, we're crowdfunding the legal offense. You mentioned the lawyers, Chad Williamson. He's got a couple of colleagues.

00:31:13.720 You all have, Neve is one of them. We even put up a billboard, put up some digital billboards around Lethbridge. I saw one with my own eyes. And the website we set up is truckerdefensefund.com. Truckerdefensefund.com.

00:31:30.960 Cause I think one of the, those are the three men there. There's Marco. That's you on the right. And then that's George in the middle. And then that's Alex on the left. I had the pleasure of meeting all three of you at the courthouse last weekend for the, for the first time. And I was very glad I came down there. There's me early in the morning. My face is blue. Cause there's a police light flashing.

00:31:50.920 I got there very early and police in Lethbridge, they were police with their flashers on every single street corner. Um, I don't know what they were expecting. If they were expecting Lethbridge to be locked down by the convoys, I don't know. But, um, this is all about intimidating you, overwhelming you, stressing you out, bankrupting you, taking up all your time and money.

00:32:13.840 And we can help with some of that, namely the money side. And so we have committed. And this is, I made this commitment to the truckers when you were in the saloon. I remember that our reporters were in the saloon with you and they called me and I was at home. It was dinner time. It was after dinner in Toronto. That's where I live. And I got the call from the lads and he put me on speakerphone and we chatted back and forth. And I said, fellas, we'll crowdfund a lawyer to help.

00:32:43.340 And if any of you get charged, we'll crowdfund the lawyer to defend. And that has come to pass. And so I went down there to Lethbridge to see you guys look in the eye and say, we're going to help you. Now, I myself, I'm not independently wealthy, but if we have enough ordinary people chipping in 10 bucks, 50 bucks, a hundred bucks, we can pay for a whole trial. It's going to be an expensive trial. Yeah. You can see that. That's, that's me speaking with my face, reflecting the flashers. It was crazy.

00:33:11.820 Like every street corner in downtown Lethbridge had a police car with flashers on. You can see I was standing right. Like they're still crazy. The cops down there are still mad at the courthouse. They had 20 cops. I said to one of them, is there some trial of a drug kingpin? Is El Chapo inside or something? And I made a joke to one of them. All you need is a police helicopter. He said, yeah, I wish we had one. Yeah, brother. I think, I think you're going after the wrong bad guys here.

00:33:36.560 So folks, if you can help out at truckerdefensefund.com, Rebel News is paying for Chad Williamson and the rest of his firm to defend Marco, George and Alex. Listen, you'd be generous with your time. It's nice to see you. I'm glad you're in the nation's capital. I'm glad you had a chance to put your side of the story on the record.

00:33:51.880 I'm disappointed, but not surprised that the Alberta government thought they'd try and put you on trial. That's the same government that imploded on itself because of its abusive lockdowns. I mean, it's quite something that Jason Kenney, once the leading politician on the right in Canada, didn't even finish his term. And it's because of this abusiveness.

00:34:10.780 I'll give you the last word, Marco, before you head back west. Are you hopeful? Do you think the Trucker Commission of Inquiry will do a good job? Just give me your reflections. As you said, this is a whole new thing for you. You've never been subpoenaed before. You've never participated in a hearing like this before. You've never been charged with a crime like this before. Give me your thoughts.

00:34:40.780 Well, we're definitely hopeful. We always have to remain hopeful. Otherwise, what is the fight for? But as to any real consequences, I'm concerned we're not going to see a lot. We may see some minister take the fall, but to see anything actually change, I don't believe that will happen.

00:35:04.200 And that's very unfortunate because the goals of Coutts, Emerson, Sarnia, Windsor, Ottawa specifically, it was a demand for accountability.

00:35:19.420 You know, our representatives have forgotten who they represent.

00:35:23.000 And like I keep on saying, if for trust to be rebuilt, we need to see accountability.

00:35:32.360 And this is just one part of that process.

00:35:35.600 Well, stay there for one more second. I want to play clip number two, which is Trudeau when he was asked, would he resign if there was no justification for his invocation of the Emergencies Act?

00:35:47.700 And here's how that exchange went. Take a look.

00:35:49.440 The inquiry that starts today, 65 witnesses over 30 days, you know, when it's all wrapped up and the commissioner, if he finds that there was no justification for the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act, should there be consequences for the federal government, including your resignation?

00:36:05.620 But we knew from the very beginning that invoking the Emergencies Act is a big step.

00:36:11.680 It had never been done before.

00:36:13.120 Given these unprecedented illegal protests, we needed to take action.

00:36:17.480 We took it in a way that was measured, that was responsible, that was time limited.

00:36:21.980 And we knew full well that there needed to be a public inquiry.

00:36:25.900 Canadians need that level of transparency and accountability.

00:36:28.540 And that's why we launched this inquiry.

00:36:31.600 That's why I'm so happy to be, that I offered from the beginning to be part of appearing at this commission.

00:36:38.220 And we're going to make sure that Canadians see the situation we were facing and how the tools we used were appropriate.

00:36:44.880 It's found that there was no justification for it.

00:36:47.520 Again, what should the consequences be for that?

00:36:49.380 I think the important thing is for Canadians to understand the situation we were in and the choices we make.

00:36:57.660 We didn't enter into using the Emergencies Act lightly.

00:37:01.800 We used it with a sense of it was the necessary tool at the time.

00:37:07.080 We used it in a way that was measured and proportionate.

00:37:10.500 And we're really pleased that the commission is going to be able to hear from all these witnesses.

00:37:15.280 And that was why I offered to appear. 0.58

00:37:16.920 What an odious tyrant.

00:37:20.880 Of course he's not going to resign if and when the commission finds it was unjustified.

00:37:25.860 Here's a man who's been convicted under the Conflict of Interest Act more times than any other prime minister in history combined.

00:37:33.500 Of course he doesn't resign.

00:37:34.420 He laughs at it.

00:37:35.160 Here's a man where mere hours after the federal court ruled that he must accredit Rebel News Journalists to the debate commission.

00:37:43.260 And when we ask him questions, he says, I don't have to.

00:37:45.820 Well, actually the judge just said, you do, and you're violating our charter rights for naught.

00:37:50.180 He's a petty man who's a son of privilege who doesn't believe the law applies to him.

00:37:55.260 Of course he will not resign if and when he's found to have abusively used this law.

00:38:00.940 And of course the media party will let him get away with it.

00:38:03.280 Even in his answer there, he used the phrase illegal protest.

00:38:06.840 That's not a thing in Canada.

00:38:09.500 If you're engaged in a riot, that's illegal.

00:38:12.600 But protests by definition are not illegal.

00:38:16.780 Non-violent protests are not illegal. 1.00

00:38:19.120 He's a wicked liar. 0.99

00:38:20.100 And of course he'll skate as he always does. 1.00

00:38:23.560 Marco, last word to you.

00:38:24.680 I know I said that before, but I just wanted to play that Trudeau clip.

00:38:28.020 I'll say a last word to you and then we'll throw to a commercial.

00:38:30.740 And we do have other guests on standby.

00:38:32.660 It's almost the top of the hour and I've gone a little slowly here.

00:38:35.920 We've got a lot of clips.

00:38:37.340 My colleague Lincoln Jay is going to take over for me in the chair here.

00:38:41.600 But Marco, it's a pleasure to talk to you.

00:38:43.240 What message will you bring back to Fort McLeod and Lethbridge and if you return to Coutts from your journey to Ottawa?

00:38:54.220 Do you think justice will be done?

00:38:57.080 Let me ask you that.

00:38:57.820 Do you think Canada is still the Canada you thought it was and grew up in?

00:39:04.980 It's not the Canada that we grew up in.

00:39:10.060 That's a tough question.

00:39:11.500 Do I, yeah, there is hope.

00:39:15.440 I believe that's why we're here.

00:39:16.740 I believe that's why we stood up, but we have no choice.

00:39:19.560 This is, there is no last frontier somewhere else.

00:39:22.600 This is it.

00:39:23.420 And specifically Alberta, we look at that, you know, it's still, it's Alberta.

00:39:28.700 And there's a remnant there that speaks to generations past and we have to fight.

00:39:33.460 We have to protect that.

00:39:34.300 And ultimately, I, I, my, my goal to come down to the commission was to, to share a truth and to, to fight that.

00:39:42.080 But it was, it was a, it was a fact gathering journey.

00:39:46.200 And I just hope that Tyler Shandro and his ministry do what they plan to do and hold Trudeau accountable instead of fighting Albertans like they have for the last two and a half years.

00:40:01.300 Yeah, that's a great point.

00:40:02.780 Marco Van Heugenbos, nice to see you again.

00:40:05.300 Thanks for appearing on the show for such an extended period.

00:40:08.900 I'm going to say goodbye to you now and we're going to roll some short ads.

00:40:13.500 And when we return in my place will be my colleague, Lincoln Jay.

00:40:18.260 And we'll go back to you in the studio there, our colleagues, Celine and Sid.

00:40:23.380 And we'll continue our special broadcast at about the halfway point in the Trucker Commission of Inquiry.

00:40:30.200 So it's a pleasure sitting with you this past hour.

00:40:32.860 Marco, thank you very much.

00:40:33.880 We'll say goodbye to you and stay with us because there's more ahead after these messages.

00:40:42.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:40:43.240 Your letters to me as Tex Akot says, Democrats screaming about national security is a joke.

00:40:51.480 It's a joke, of course.

00:40:52.680 I mean, Hunter Biden is the most compromised man in America from a foreign affairs point of view.

00:40:57.360 It was like that with Hillary Clinton, too, by the way. 0.77

00:41:00.420 When she was secretary of state, her husband, Bill Clinton, ran the Clinton Foundation.

00:41:04.720 Basically, every foreign country, every foreign government, foreign business that Hillary dealt with as secretary of state,

00:41:12.240 Bill hit them up for a multimillion dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation.

00:41:17.320 It was such a total shakedown.

00:41:19.060 It's shocking to me that both of those people are not in prison for it.

00:41:21.860 But, yeah, imagine thinking that Elon Musk is the one compromising American national security.

00:41:28.320 AmericanHoney40 says, I love Trump, but we shouldn't be attacking our own right now.

00:41:33.400 Well, I mean, listen, politicians fight each other.

00:41:35.420 It's one of the things that politicians do. 0.99

00:41:37.200 But it was so unprovoked.

00:41:38.760 I mean, I follow Ron DeSantis pretty closely.

00:41:41.620 I really think he's interesting.

00:41:43.340 I think a lot of people around the world do, even here in Canada.

00:41:47.100 And I don't think he's ever said a word hostile to Trump at all.

00:41:50.980 It was just such an unprovoked outburst.

00:41:52.680 And then I got to tell you today, take a look at this.

00:41:54.760 As you know, Trump fired a salvo off at Ron DeSantis yesterday, just, you know, calling him Ron DeSantis

00:42:02.740 and saying he wouldn't be nothing if it weren't for Trump.

00:42:06.260 And, yeah, he's only a moderately successful Republican.

00:42:09.140 None of that's true.

00:42:09.780 None of that was provoked.

00:42:11.300 Today, Trump went after another successful Republican governor, Governor Youngkin, from Virginia,

00:42:17.800 who did a great job, came from, what, 10 points behind to win that state.

00:42:23.020 He's governing very well.

00:42:24.620 And he's sort of cut from the same cloth as DeSantis in that he's taking on wokeism.

00:42:29.460 And he just does it.

00:42:30.440 He gets it done.

00:42:32.240 I have no idea why Trump is attacking these two successful governors.

00:42:36.860 They're sort of the heroes of the movement.

00:42:40.340 I, you know what?

00:42:41.340 I mean, I like Trump for all the same reasons that other people do.

00:42:45.460 But, boy, stop shooting at your allies.

00:42:48.000 It is weird.

00:42:50.300 Someone with the nickname Sleepy Eyes says, let Trump in for four years and then DeSantis

00:42:54.740 for eight years after that.

00:42:56.200 Well, listen, I'd sign up for that.

00:42:57.900 Sure, I would.

00:42:58.660 In fact, DeSantis, he's fairly young.

00:43:00.520 He's got a long career ahead of them.

00:43:02.240 And maybe he should serve his full term, second term as governor of Florida.

00:43:06.320 But, you know, that would be a happy outcome when you just described 12 years of Republican

00:43:11.300 rule.

00:43:11.580 I'm not sure if that's likely to happen.

00:43:13.040 But I think that it's backfiring on Trump in a number of ways.

00:43:18.100 I acknowledge that Trump is absolutely the leader of the pack for the 2024 presidential

00:43:23.860 primary on the Republican side.

00:43:25.780 I mean, who else would it be?

00:43:27.680 I think all polls show it's Trump number one.

00:43:30.540 A distant second is DeSantis.

00:43:32.180 And then a bunch of also rands like Mike Pence, frankly.

00:43:35.160 But it's so unnecessary to shoot at fellow Republicans, especially by the way, the midterms are not

00:43:40.980 over.

00:43:41.720 I don't know if you remember, but the state of Georgia requires the winner in their Senate race

00:43:45.540 to have more than 50 percent of the vote.

00:43:47.840 And the Republican and the Democrat each got around 49 percent.

00:43:51.960 So they're having a runoff. 0.91

00:43:54.100 And imagine bringing that internal party quarrel to the headlines when your party is trying to

00:43:59.920 squeak in a Senate seat in Arizona.

00:44:02.880 Sorry, not Arizona, in Georgia.

00:44:04.600 I just don't get it.

00:44:06.140 That's our show for today.

00:44:08.660 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:44:12.180 good night.

00:44:13.340 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:44:14.800 Celine Gall is here with Rebel News here in Ottawa for the Public Order Emergency Commission,

00:44:19.140 a public inquiry investigating whether or not it was justified and necessary for Prime Minister

00:44:23.680 Justin Trudeau to invert the Emergencies Act, which was previously known as the War Measures Act.

00:44:29.880 The Liberal Cabinet essentially declared martial law back in February on the Freedom Convoy

00:44:34.780 protesters who were protesting federal COVID-19 mandates across the country.

00:44:39.680 While the convoy of trucks that traveled from BC to Ottawa were settling in, a grassroots

00:44:44.160 rebellion was taking place in Coots, Alberta, where protesters had blocked the border on and

00:44:48.880 off for over 14 days.

00:44:50.360 You can learn more about this at truckerdocumentary.com.

00:44:54.140 Our focus today is on Pastor Archer Povlowski, a preacher from Calgary who visited the blockade

00:44:58.640 to provide a sermon.

00:44:59.760 I'm again not talking about violence.

00:45:01.460 I'm not talking about swords and guns and all that stuff.

00:45:04.600 You've got the most powerful wings ever.

00:45:07.780 He was subsequently arrested under the Critical Infrastructure Act and spent 51 days in jail

00:45:13.380 after being denied bail.

00:45:15.000 He was the only person ever charged under the anti-ecoterrorism law.

00:45:18.600 This isn't the first run-in with the law that he's had.

00:45:21.180 Archer has been arrested four times during the COVID-19 crackdown.

00:45:24.880 Four pastors total were arrested over the last two years of the pandemic for not adhering

00:45:29.140 to restrictions.

00:45:30.180 You can actually still help him out in court as we crowdfund his legal defense through

00:45:34.360 the Democracy Fund, a registered charity at savearcher.com.

00:45:38.340 Let's go back to what we're here for.

00:45:40.600 During the inquiry, Marlon DeGrand, Assistant Deputy Minister of the Public Safety and Emergency

00:45:45.760 Services of Alberta was questioned on Archer Palowski's involvement during the blockade.

00:45:50.640 So let's take a look at that.

00:45:51.720 Here we see an indication from him on February 4th that Archer Palowski had showed up and fired

00:45:58.560 everyone up at the Coutts protest site to convince them to stay.

00:46:02.340 Are you aware of that?

00:46:03.320 Yeah, I actually am aware of that event, yes.

00:46:06.380 But I'm telling you, there is this huge opportunity right now that we have been given.

00:46:14.420 God has given us this moment in history.

00:46:19.840 Why?

00:46:20.720 Because international media are watching you right now.

00:46:23.960 That's power.

00:46:25.140 Not yet.

00:46:26.340 During 1980, there was...

00:46:29.920 Thank you.

00:46:30.880 Have you seen that speech before by Archer Palowski?

00:46:35.800 No, I haven't, actually.

00:46:37.340 Thank you.

00:46:38.600 You hear that he is singling out Premier Kenney as the source of the problem, and I believe

00:46:44.680 he referred to Kenney's mafia?

00:46:46.840 Yes, that's what I heard, yes.

00:46:49.280 And he said, this is our Alamo, referring, I take it, to the standoff at the Alamo in Texas?

00:46:55.880 That's, I assume, the reference.

00:46:57.920 But why?

00:46:58.540 Archer Palowski was charged because it was believed that he incited the crowd to possible violence.

00:47:03.880 It was believed that he had involvement in the blockade.

00:47:07.140 And yet, just a day before, during the testimony of Marco van Heukenbos, a participant and alleged

00:47:11.960 organizer of the Coutts blockade, it was reiterated that Pastor Archer Palowski had no prior involvement

00:47:17.300 whatsoever.

00:47:18.340 Take a look here.

00:47:19.480 Bye-bye that those individuals that had come in to leave for Edmonton, Coffee with Kenney.

00:47:25.440 That happened just before Pastor Arthur Palowski came in, and he might have actually been in

00:47:33.400 the audience while I was explaining the motive, et cetera, et cetera.

00:47:38.660 But the unanimous agreement was to stay.

00:47:42.700 And this has never been, Pastor Arthur has charges in regards to this, but his charge is that

00:47:53.340 he incited us to stay because Coffee with Kenney was seen as us leaving.

00:48:01.200 Before Pastor Arthur reached the podium or even reached the building, I'm not sure of the

00:48:06.240 events, the protesters had decided we were staying.

00:48:10.080 The decision to stay had nothing to do with Pastor Arthur.

00:48:12.780 Furthermore, the next testimony was Coutts Mayor Jim Willett, who mentioned in a revealed text

00:48:17.300 message with Alberta Minister Rajansani, quote,

00:48:21.100 Archer Palowski had shown up and fired everyone up to convince them to stay, unquote.

00:48:25.920 Regardless of who or what actually made the truckers stay, what does a COVID-defiant pastor 0.56

00:48:30.780 have to do with the Emergency Measures Act?

00:48:33.560 Who can move 10,000 truckers with 100,000 supporters?

00:48:40.860 I am calling right now every Albertan not to go to, not to go to Edmonton, but to come here.

00:48:48.380 Thank you.

00:48:49.100 Come here.

00:48:50.180 Let's go.

00:48:52.040 Let's go.

00:48:53.620 The testimony of Marlon DeGrant followed up with another thing that has nothing to do with

00:48:58.460 the Emergencies Act, explaining that Adam So's, a rebel reporter, had hitched a ride in a helicopter

00:49:03.640 heading down to deliver food for the truckers.

00:49:06.460 Let's take a look here.

00:49:07.440 Mr. Sani is still on the next day, February the 6th.

00:49:10.620 She's asking, was food dropped off to the protesters by helicopter, right?

00:49:17.820 Correct.

00:49:18.260 Yeah, and that's the character of the rumour that was going on about Paul Brandt that he

00:49:22.480 dropped off food by helicopter, right?

00:49:25.280 Well, I don't see his name on this text, but certainly that was one of the rumours.

00:49:30.300 Whether there was other rumours that the Minister was hearing about other helicopter drops,

00:49:35.620 there were, and I'm not even sure, I think by this point the NOTAM, or the Noticed Airmen

00:49:40.700 Restricting Airspace might have been in place as well, so that might have been, I don't want

00:49:45.080 to put myself on the mind of the Minister as to what she was inquired about.

00:49:47.520 Sure.

00:49:48.380 According to Mayor Willett, at least, he says Rebel rented a chopper and made a video,

00:49:52.400 which is what circulated.

00:49:53.340 Is that, is that according to your recollection of what happened there?

00:49:56.740 I see.

00:49:57.100 I'm not familiar with any information around Rebel News renting a chopper, but certainly

00:50:02.940 that's the, that's the post from the, from the Mayor.

00:50:06.700 It's important to note that a helicopter was planned because the RCMP were blocking off

00:50:10.740 the roads, and it points to where they were starving off peaceful protesters.

00:50:15.020 Let's watch a clip of Rebel News reporter Adam Sows heading down to Coutts.

00:50:18.860 Incredible scene here, we are just making our way into Coutts, and there is an RCMP set

00:50:24.620 up, a barricade preventing people attempting to join the protest, attempting to join the

00:50:29.080 blockade, and they are currently holding up the highway, an incredible sight to be seen.

00:50:33.620 Today was yet another day where we failed to see any compelling evidence to suggest that

00:50:37.780 the Emergencies Act was in fact justified.

00:50:40.780 Spoiler alert, the Coutts blockade was resolved before the Emergencies Act was even invoked.

00:50:45.020 If you missed that, it means that you haven't been watching our coverage at truckercommission.com.

00:50:50.460 So head over there right now, where you can also donate to fund our on-the-ground journalism

00:50:55.080 here in Ottawa.

00:50:56.200 For Rebel News, this has been Celine Gallis.

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Rebel News Podcast - November 12, 2022

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