Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Andrew Lawton's new book on the Freedom Convoy is already #1 on Amazon Canada

00:00:00.000 Andrew Lawton's new book on The Convoy is already a number one bestseller on Amazon.ca

00:00:05.280 and it's not even released yet. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:10.120 The book by True North's senior journalist called The Freedom Convoy, the inside story of three weeks

00:00:34.120 that shook the world, is set to be released on June 24, 2022. And as of June 13, 2022, it had already

00:00:41.580 hit the top spot on Amazon Canada's international politics category. And by the morning of June 14,

00:00:48.800 it was also the number one in the politics and government category. The book is described this

00:00:56.080 way. A small group of Canadian truckers fed up with nearly two years of COVID restrictions

00:01:01.040 and a new vaccine mandate for cross-border essential workers decided to take their

00:01:05.940 frustrations directly to the nation's capital. The Freedom Convoy quickly took on a life of its own

00:01:11.700 as hundreds of trucks and thousands of protesters made the journey to Parliament Hill. For the next

00:01:17.620 three weeks, the trucker convoy led a protest unlike any other, complete with bouncy castles,

00:01:23.660 pig roasts, and late-night dance parties. But to the media and government, it was a hate-filled

00:01:29.500 insurrection requiring the unprecedented invocation of the Federal Emergencies Act. The book is based

00:01:37.520 on Andrew's first-hand experience and his interviews with those involved in the convoy. And he joins me

00:01:43.580 tonight to discuss the book, why he wrote it, and if he thinks the Liberals will pay any price for what

00:01:50.720 they did to Canadians. So joining me now from his studio is Andrew Lawton. He's the senior journalist at True

00:02:04.360 North. And this is our second run through because the first time I didn't hit record. But I wanted to have Andrew

00:02:10.260 on the show today because he's got a great new book out. And I don't even know if it's great because I haven't been able to

00:02:18.320 read it yet. Nobody else has either because it's a number one bestseller and it's not even been

00:02:24.360 released yet. We're recording this on June 13th and the book doesn't even come out till the 24th. So 11

00:02:30.640 days. And yet, Andrew's new book, The Freedom Convoy, the inside story of three weeks that shook

00:02:37.520 the world, is already at number one in international politics on Amazon.ca. First of all, Andrew,

00:02:44.200 congratulations. But what inspired you to write this book? Thank you, Sheila. Well, I was in Ottawa

00:02:50.420 when the convoy got to Ottawa and I was there covering it for True North. And it was, again,

00:02:55.320 there was just this momentous episode of Canadian politics and Canadian history that I knew was not

00:03:01.880 just going to be a flash in the pan. And as we know, it ended up lasting three weeks. And I was there the

00:03:06.920 last weekend as well in the last few days. And I saw just how wrong the mainstream media coverage of

00:03:13.820 the convoy had been and had continued to be for the entirety of it. And I was seeing how much

00:03:20.360 complexity there was to this operation. It wasn't just the trucks and the horns and the bouncy castles,

00:03:25.880 but there was such a sophistication almost to the operation with these command centers and these

00:03:31.620 organizers and the fundraising campaigns and the cryptocurrency and all of this. And I kept saying

00:03:36.960 to a friend of mine, you know, I can't wait to read the book on this. I can't wait to read the book

00:03:41.040 on this. And then I realized, well, who better to write it than me? I was there. I had talked to a

00:03:45.340 lot of the organizers and I just decided, you know, I'm going to buckle down and make this my

00:03:49.520 spring project. And because it is time sensitive, I made sure to work night and day to finish it very

00:03:56.120 quickly. But I wanted to get it out to really start correcting the record as we knew there was

00:04:00.960 going to be this review into the Emergencies Act. The media was going to continue to report on the

00:04:05.600 trials of the organizers. And I thought it was important to really put on the record what this thing

00:04:09.720 actually was. Yeah. And there's a real thirst, obviously, based on the fact that you're a 0.71

00:04:15.480 number one bestseller on a book that hasn't even been released yet, which is kind of unheard of

00:04:19.440 in Canada. And I'll say that as someone who has had three bestsellers, a pre-release hitting number

00:04:25.780 one in politics in Canada. I think that's pretty indicative of the thirst from the Canadian public

00:04:35.400 to get the full story from somebody they trust and they know you and they trust you. They saw

00:04:41.180 your journalism from on the ground. But you've talked about the things that the mainstream media

00:04:45.940 has gotten wrong. True North has been incredible at just documenting where the media gets things

00:04:52.680 wrong, you know, with regard to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the lady that was dancing on

00:04:57.300 there. And then she wasn't even associated with the convoy. Tell us some of the things that the

00:05:01.980 mainstream media really got wrong. But so many of them are still part of the accepted public

00:05:08.800 narrative of this stuff. Yeah, you mentioned a few. And that first weekend, there was just a

00:05:14.840 bombardment of them. The Terry Fox statue, the apartment arson, the stealing food from the homeless,

00:05:21.060 all of these things that were just patently untrue. And still, even months later, would get cited by

00:05:27.640 politicians when they're debating this. So a lot of stuff like that is, I think, very much what the

00:05:32.700 book is seeking to correct. But some of the bigger picture things as well. One notable example of this

00:05:38.720 is the money. And this was an issue, not just that the media got wrong, but also the government and the

00:05:43.780 police. They tended to think that money was the lifeblood of the convoy and that if they could just

00:05:49.440 freeze the money and go after the money, that the convoy itself would dissipate. And that wasn't the

00:05:55.160 case at all. In fact, anytime police or government tried to go after something that the convoy had,

00:06:00.980 whether it was fuel or cash, they would get more the next day, because people would just bring more,

00:06:06.660 they'd show up with more fuel, they'd show up with more money. And I think that the one overarching

00:06:11.160 theme that really emerged from the book is that it was the people and the passion that fueled the

00:06:16.280 convoy, not anything that the government could take away.

00:06:19.580 Now, that was one of the things that I, one of my big takeaways from the convoy was this was

00:06:25.660 so indicative of the difference between people on the left and people on the right. In that,

00:06:35.680 and I think it goes to why we believe in smaller government, us people over on the right,

00:06:41.200 is because so often we see these far left wing radical protests, they just,

00:06:46.860 they do an occupation, and then it descends into drug abuse, violence and madness and squalor.

00:06:55.400 But with the convoy, when left alone without government intervention, a community grew,

00:07:03.160 the streets were being cleaned, they had community events, the homeless were being fed. And for me,

00:07:08.460 I saw this and I thought, yeah, that's why. That's why people like me believe in smaller government is

00:07:15.060 because the convoy demonstrated what happens when there's no overarching government and people are

00:07:21.820 just left alone. They do form their own community. Is that what you saw? That was my, my viewpoint on

00:07:27.260 the outside looking in is they, they created a community in three weeks on the streets of Ottawa.

00:07:32.740 Yeah, it was interesting. I mean, we all saw, I think it was last summer when they founded Chaz or

00:07:37.800 CHOP or whatever it was that the left wing autonomous zone in Portland or something like

00:07:42.640 that. Or Seattle, they're all the same. Portland or Seattle. But, but yeah, I mean, it was when

00:07:47.720 conservatives do that, it ends up being a more desirable place than the city around it. Whereas

00:07:52.680 when the liberals do it, it ends up becoming this godforsaken hellhole that no one in a million years

00:07:57.300 would want to go into. And that was the thing here. Like they had arranged their own garbage disposal

00:08:02.560 routine where, you know, they would bring the, they would collect all the garbage from inside their

00:08:07.120 little perimeter and then they drive it to the outskirts and then the Ottawa city police or the

00:08:11.860 Ottawa city trash collection. People could pick it up from there. They were doing their own snow

00:08:17.040 removal in this little section. So it is interesting that they did take care. And even those stories we

00:08:22.980 talked about earlier, like the war memorial and the Terry Fox statue, when these stories emerged,

00:08:28.300 the convoy then all of a sudden started protecting these places. They had a team cleaning up and

00:08:33.540 dusting off the Terry Fox statue. They had a bunch of veterans that were shoveling the snow

00:08:37.560 and making sure that the area around the war memorial was always tidy. And I remember the first

00:08:42.920 thing I saw when I got there was how all of the garbage cans were full and there was no garbage

00:08:48.300 anywhere else, which is not even like Canada Day in Ottawa, where there's just trash everywhere at the

00:08:53.500 end of it. Yeah. It was, uh, I just remember those images of Chaz and they couldn't keep the plants 0.99

00:08:59.200 alive in their community garbage. And then when you look at the convoy, they're feeding everybody,

00:09:05.500 including the homeless. And I thought, you know, that's exactly, exactly the reason.

00:09:11.000 They had a pig roast. They had a pig roast. They were frying chicken wings. They had hot dog,

00:09:14.500 all of it, anything you wanted, they had.

00:09:16.440 Now I want to ask you, cause we hear so much about how the people of Ottawa hated having the convoy there.

00:09:22.820 I know there are some of those people out there, but I don't think they were really the overwhelming,

00:09:29.200 uh, I don't think they were the mainstream or were they?

00:09:34.320 It's tough to say. I mean, there were undeniably people whose lives were disrupted by this that

00:09:40.960 lived in Ottawa, whether it was employees that worked at the Rideau center, which closed down

00:09:45.000 or people who lived in, in some of the residential streets where the trucks had parks. But

00:09:49.800 one of the things that was interesting that I learned in, in writing this, because I did just

00:09:54.400 hours and hours and hours of interviews with organizers and other people involved in this

00:09:59.700 was how the city and the convoy organizers were working very significantly to get the trucks off

00:10:08.580 of the residential streets to downtown Ottawa, or even outside the city. And it was never the

00:10:14.400 convoys intention to go to these streets. They ended up there because police had shut down

00:10:19.160 access to downtown and there was no room to go. So trucks just kind of said, well, you know,

00:10:23.780 I can't go anywhere. So let's just stop here. And it was really an accidental protest in some of

00:10:28.900 these areas. So, so people on these streets were definitely disrupted, but the convoys and the

00:10:34.420 truckers were, were trying to work with them and trying to mitigate that. And people were affected

00:10:39.440 by the honking, but that was a problem that was really dealt with very quickly by that class

00:10:44.940 action. And the one little bit from the book I'll give you that I found interesting, pretty much

00:10:49.460 every organizer I spoke to was so grateful when the judge issued that injunction because they were

00:10:54.180 fed up with the honking too. Oh no, I've attended some of these protests and you go home and you can

00:10:58.940 still hear the honking. Yeah. You bolt up at like three in the morning because you heard like a

00:11:03.160 phantom honk. Yeah. That happened even that night, the first night in Ottawa in the hotel,

00:11:07.000 I like bolted up in the middle of the night and I was like, did I dream that or did that truck horn

00:11:10.680 honk? I still don't know. Yeah. It's just a low, you know, like if you've been in the wave pool all

00:11:15.320 day and you can sort of still feel the waves splashing on your face, it was like that with the

00:11:19.620 honking. Now I wanted to ask you, you talked to some of the protesters. I'm assuming you probably

00:11:25.960 talked to Tamara Litch. I don't know, because I haven't been able to read your book yet because it's

00:11:30.560 11 days till it's released. Did you talk to Tamara Litch? And if so, what was her, did she tell you

00:11:39.560 about her experience on the inside of the prison system? So I talked to a lot of organizers and

00:11:47.040 volunteers and some of them I spoke to before I even started writing the book and I had access to

00:11:53.060 those interviews and others I spoke to over the course of it. And one thing I'll remind you is that

00:11:58.080 there are a lot of people that I would love to speak to that I just couldn't legally speak to

00:12:02.840 because of their bail conditions. So I have had conversations with Tamara Litch. She is in the

00:12:08.300 book, but because of those bail conditions, I haven't actually been able to do like a formal sit

00:12:12.420 down with her since she was released from jail. You know, and that's really been terrible. Her bail

00:12:17.360 conditions were recently just adjusted so that she can go to Ontario to deal with some family issues,

00:12:23.260 but they are still treating her like she is a monster. She cannot go anywhere near the downtown

00:12:30.500 core in Ottawa because the judge said it might be too traumatic for people to see her little blonde 0.97

00:12:36.460 face wandering around. It would somehow bring back the phantom honks of yore.

00:12:41.780 Yeah, it's a bizarre thing. And again, it speaks to one of the chapters is called dueling narratives

00:12:47.960 because there really were throughout the course of the convoy, these two vastly different stories that

00:12:53.860 were emerging from the same set of facts. You had Justin Trudeau in the mainstream media, this violent

00:12:58.740 insurrection, the fringe minority, and then you had the people that saw the bouncy castles and the pig

00:13:04.060 roast and saw this, you know, tiny Métis grandmother that just united a nation behind her. And it is

00:13:10.440 interesting that this is apparently this fear inducing, trauma inducing figure in Canada now.

00:13:16.180 You know, I wanted to ask you about the title of your book because it's called the inside story of

00:13:22.120 the three weeks that shook the world. I think it inspired people around the world. Do you think

00:13:28.160 the liberals fully understand how much they were harmed by their reaction to the convoy internationally

00:13:36.140 speaking? You know, we saw members of the European Parliament speak out against Justin Trudeau,

00:13:42.820 and he's used to being the darling of the international media. Do you think they get

00:13:48.100 how bad it looks on them?

00:13:51.300 I don't know, because they have always been unrelenting in their vilification of the unvaccinated and of the

00:13:59.580 protesters. There was zero humility whatsoever from the liberals before, during, or I would say

00:14:06.100 after. But it was international. And that's very deliberate, that idea of saying it shook the world.

00:14:12.180 And one of the points that I raised in the book is that I had never in a million years seen the term

00:14:18.180 Canada-style protest appear in media coverage, but it was. It was in the Associated Press, the New York

00:14:24.340 Times, the UK Independent, because Canada had exported this. The truckers had exported this idea

00:14:30.620 of using a convoy to protest. There was a big convoy in the US. There was one in Europe to Brussels,

00:14:37.600 where the EU capital is. And all of this happened. And I do think that, again, even if we didn't see

00:14:44.240 immediate policy changes that you can attribute to the convoy, it very much inspired millions of people,

00:14:51.180 not just in Canada, but around the world, most definitely.

00:14:55.060 Yeah, I think we're underselling it when you say we're not sure if we can attribute immediate policy changes.

00:15:01.420 I know once that convoy rolled into Ottawa City Limits, Scott Moe in Saskatchewan was like,

00:15:06.720 you know what, we're done with the vaccine passport. There were a lot of politicians.

00:15:11.460 Well, in Quebec, Quebec dropped the tax on the unvaccinated.

00:15:14.960 Yeah, a lot of politicians did not want to get convoyed themselves, I think.

00:15:19.700 Um, now, I also wanted to ask you about some of the things that have come out,

00:15:24.780 I guess, likely since you wrote the book. And that is just how much Marco Mendicino has been

00:15:31.700 caught lying about the circumstances around the invocation of the Emergencies Act. He has said

00:15:37.780 repeatedly that law enforcement asked him for this tool to, I guess, at the end of the day,

00:15:45.160 charge Métis grandmothers with mischief, as though that wasn't a tool under the law already.

00:15:50.000 Um, what do you think is going to come of that? Is he going to face any sort of career ramifications?

00:15:56.180 Is he going to have to resign?

00:15:58.840 I mean, whether he faces any consequences for it, I don't know. But I can tell you this is not a new

00:16:04.440 phenomenon. One of the most notable examples of Marco being Marco was when he got up and did a

00:16:10.200 press conference to justify the Emergencies Act and said that there had been this violent conspiracy

00:16:15.360 that had been uncovered of people in Ottawa connected to the convoy that were going to do

00:16:19.980 violent things. And to their credit, the reporters in that press conference asked him for details and

00:16:26.160 it took them like six, seven, eight tries. And eventually he walked back this idea of a violent

00:16:31.700 conspiracy to the idea that, well, he saw some mean tweets. And that was basically, and you can watch

00:16:37.360 that it was like five and a half minutes, you can watch the claim just get walked back further and

00:16:41.920 further and further before it's not even, you know, recognizable to what he initially said.

00:16:47.820 So he has a tendency to do this. And I don't know if it's that he's making stuff up, or he's just the

00:16:52.340 least prepared minister in the Trudeau cabinet. But either way, I don't have much confidence in his

00:16:57.980 ability to oversee Canada's public safety and national security. So I think we're seeing a trend here

00:17:03.820 where anything he says is just not something that can be trusted.

00:17:08.920 Well, and I don't want to tip my hand too much to what I've been working on lately,

00:17:12.520 but I have a lot of the police communications with Mendocino's office, where they were advising him

00:17:18.260 that things were completely peaceful. So when he was in the media saying that violent conspiracies

00:17:22.960 were being uncovered, that was him reading his Twitter account. He wasn't getting that information

00:17:27.300 from the police. But I do think it's interesting that the police didn't say anything at the time.

00:17:33.820 That I think might be the most annoying part of all of this to me is Mendocino was out there in

00:17:39.280 the media at the time saying the police asked for this. And the only time we're hearing the police

00:17:43.660 say, no, we didn't, is later on. Yeah, when they're under oath, right? When they're under oath at the

00:17:49.740 committee hearings, when Mendocino could have been proven to be a liar, and we could have saved a lot

00:17:54.560 of damage to civil liberties in this country, if the police had just spoken up sooner.

00:17:58.620 Yeah, it's unfortunate. I mean, my book very much focuses on the convoy organizer's side of the

00:18:05.820 story, because that was the side of the story that was not being told through the media coverage.

00:18:11.000 But I did try to get the Ottawa police chief to comment. I tried to get Peter Slowly, the

00:18:15.920 deposed Ottawa police chief to do an interview, and I didn't have any luck with it. Because I did feel

00:18:21.340 that their side of this would be very fascinating. Because I think that even if we don't like how police

00:18:26.500 ultimately took those powers at the end of this, I do think that police were oftentimes stuck in the

00:18:32.560 middle of what the liberal government were trying to make a political fight rather than a policing

00:18:38.520 fight. And I mean, Peter Slowly himself said this early on, he said, there's not a police solution

00:18:42.940 we need here. This is something you need of a political solution. And I think the liberals didn't

00:18:47.260 want that the liberals wanted the police to be the ones that had to go in and get their hands dirty.

00:18:51.340 Now, I want to ask you, is this going to impact civil liberties for Canadians going forward? Is

00:18:58.880 this a one of event? Did we normalize having the banks seize your bank accounts and making protests

00:19:05.820 illegal? Or is the pendulum going to swing back the other way going forward?

00:19:10.900 I fear yes. I think a lot will depend on the lawsuits that have been filed by the Canadian

00:19:16.440 Civil Liberties Association, by the Canadian Constitution Foundation, and the Alberta government

00:19:22.580 has joined those challenges as well. Because if there is just a significant and sweeping rebuke of

00:19:29.560 the government through the courts, then there's no way they can justify using as thin as evidence as they

00:19:36.060 did to justify this in the future. I also think, though, that once you've popped that cork, you can't put

00:19:42.900 it back in the bottle entirely. And I fear that, as we're seeing now, the fact that they could do this,

00:19:49.180 and one thing I would point out especially is without Parliament endorsing it. Because you

00:19:54.560 remember, they revoked the emergency before the Senate had time to authorize it. So technically,

00:19:59.260 there has been no endorsement of this by anyone other than the liberals. And that in and of itself,

00:20:05.080 I think, reveals a bit of an oversight in the legislation. I know Leslie Lewis, the Conservative

00:20:10.360 leadership candidate has said, perhaps we need to look at having a vote within 24 hours rather than

00:20:15.160 seven days. I think that's the sort of discussion we need to be having about this act.

00:20:19.780 Yeah, I mean, I guess that goes to my next question is, what is the solution to make sure that this never

00:20:24.720 happens again? Because the Emergencies Act was very clear that it's really only supposed to be invoked

00:20:31.860 for 9-11 scale events, Pearl Harbor scale events, and not bouncy castles from people with whom you

00:20:40.400 disagree politically. And even that was written into the legislation, but that didn't really seem

00:20:47.120 to matter to the liberals at the end of the day. So I guess, is it Leslie Lewis's solution where there

00:20:53.200 has to be a quicker examination of how this thing gets invoked, so that it's not a week's worth of

00:20:58.800 civil liberties carnage next time? Yeah, I think that's one piece of it. I mean,

00:21:04.540 but at the same time, there might also be a bit of a pyrrhic victory in that because the liberals had

00:21:09.440 a majority in the House of Commons and quite easily passed it through the House. We don't know what

00:21:13.920 would have happened in the Senate. But the ability for a majority government to rubber stamp it doesn't

00:21:18.880 solve the problems just because they're doing it more quickly. I do think that an expedited time

00:21:24.220 frame is one piece of it. I would also suggest that another thing that could be done is re-evaluating

00:21:30.100 this idea of a public order emergency. Because the Emergencies Act has a bunch of different criteria,

00:21:36.160 whereas before, under the War Measures Act, it was very clear you had to essentially be

00:21:40.460 in a state of war. And even with the FLQ crisis, it was controversial for Pierre Trudeau to invoke it.

00:21:48.460 So I think that we need to re-evaluate these different categories in the Emergencies Act and see if

00:21:53.160 maybe we need to go back to only having the extreme criterias with very strict

00:21:58.980 basically preconditions. And those are the only way that you could invoke it.

00:22:06.600 Now, Andrew, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show today. I always feel so much

00:22:10.280 smarter after I'm done talking to you. Is it because I'm so dumb, you look smart by comparison? 0.99

00:22:15.380 No, I'm just soaking it all in. It's like I'm drinking from a fire hose. 1.00

00:22:18.340 Now, I want to ask you, first of all, how can people get the book? And let's keep it at the top

00:22:25.180 of the bestseller list on Amazon for as long as possible. I know that irks the people on the other

00:22:31.760 side. So let's do that for you, but also for spite, because I'm motivated for spite. So how do people

00:22:36.580 find the book? Well, yeah, if you want to help with the Amazon rankings, you can go to Amazon and search

00:22:42.660 for the Freedom Convoy, the inside story of three weeks that shook the world. But also, I know not

00:22:47.980 everyone likes Amazon. You can also get it directly through my publisher at SutherlandHouseBooks.com.

00:22:53.720 And hopefully it will be in all of your local bookstores when it comes out on June 24th. So if

00:22:58.720 you want to give them a call and make sure they're carrying it, I know that would go a long way.

00:23:02.720 Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait to see your book out in the wild. I can't wait to see that. Now,

00:23:08.140 how else do people find the support or find and support the work that you do? I know you have a

00:23:12.000 sub stack. You're also on True North. So let us know. Yeah, I'm like the Travelocity gnome online

00:23:16.900 sometimes. I just pop up everywhere. But if people want to follow my show and the work that my fantastic

00:23:21.680 colleagues at True North do, you can head on over to tnc.news. And I am at Andrew Lawton on Twitter.

00:23:27.960 Great. Thanks, Andrew. And thanks so much for coming on the show today.

00:23:31.760 Hey, anytime.

00:23:38.140 For those of you who want to purchase or rather pre-order Andrew Lawton's new book,

00:23:44.360 I will include the Amazon link in the website words for the show today. Now, this is the portion

00:23:51.020 of the show where I welcome your viewer feedback. Unlike the mainstream media, we actually do want

00:23:56.580 to hear from you. We leave the comments open and I even give out my email address. So if you want to

00:24:01.140 send an email to me directly to read on the show, you can send it to me at Sheila at rebelnews.com.

00:24:08.820 Just put gun show letters in the subject line so that I can easily search through and find them.

00:24:14.560 And I choose them in no particular order. So today's letter is from Bruce Atchison.

00:24:23.220 And Bruce writes to me and says,

00:24:25.060 Hi, Sheila. Greetings from Radway where nothing happens. That's not true. Radway is a bustling

00:24:32.720 berg north of Edmonton. And you have a really great army surplus store right downtown. And I haven't

00:24:39.660 been there in a while, but my kids are really into airsoft lately. And so they could use some army

00:24:45.620 surplus clothes. Anyway, don't sell Radway short. It's a great place. Let's keep going.

00:24:50.740 Celine did a great job. That's Celine Gallus, whom I interviewed on the show last week when I was in

00:24:57.020 Calgary with her, teaching her the ropes of court reporting as we were covering the trials and

00:25:03.380 tribulations of Pastor Art Poloski, who was on trial in Calgary and continues to be on trial in

00:25:09.780 Calgary for the crime of throwing a Christmas event wherein he fed the homeless some steak and gave

00:25:17.560 them Christmas presents. Because at the time, at least according to the Crown Prosecutor,

00:25:24.340 gatherings were illegal. Now, a recent ruling has determined that public gatherings, including

00:25:32.100 protests, were not illegal at the time. So now the Crown is arguing that this open air soup kitchen

00:25:40.340 Christmas party where everybody was invited to and nobody was turned away,

00:25:45.800 that constituted a private Christian gathering. It's quite a stretch, a real leap. Don't hurt 0.99

00:25:53.700 yourself stretching that hard, Crown Prosecutor. Anyway, Celine was learning the ropes of how to 0.97

00:26:00.000 court report. And we did a pretty extensive interview about, you know, what it's like to be a rebel,

00:26:06.300 what it was like. Her first week here at Rebel News wherein we stuck her in a rental car and sent her

00:26:15.000 all the way to Ottawa from Calgary. And then when she came back, she didn't even get to go home. We

00:26:19.040 sent her straight to Coots. Anyway, we didn't break her. And she's no longer an intern. She's a valuable

00:26:25.860 member of our team who's learning all different aspects of the business. Bruce continues and says,

00:26:32.060 thanks for interviewing her. I admire her and the rest of the young rebels. Yeah, 0.55

00:26:36.100 the young rebels sure give me hope for the millennials and the Zoomers. They're not all 1.00

00:26:40.960 crazy, are they? Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll

00:26:45.740 see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And remember,

00:26:49.200 don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:27:02.060 Bye.

00:27:16.700 Bye.

00:27:17.340 Bye.

00:27:17.820 Bye.

00:27:19.380 Bye.

Rebel News Podcast - June 16, 2022

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Andrew Lawton's new book on the Freedom Convoy is already #1 on Amazon Canada

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