The birds were granted a stay of execution while lawyers seek leave to have the Supreme Court hear arguments. Today's episode is a live stream from earlier today with my friend Lise Merle and Viva Frye wherein we discussed what exactly was happening at Universal Ostrich Farms.
00:06:38.300My understanding is that they're petitioning for leave to the Supreme Court, and they're asking for a stay before the Supreme Court can determine whether or not they take the case up to the Supreme Court.
00:06:49.300And if it's not to be moot, if they kill the ostriches before the Supreme Court even decides on whether or not to take it up, the damage is done.
00:06:57.300And then it's going to be a question of compensation as opposed to preventing irreparable harm.
00:07:02.300So it's a very short, but my understanding is a very short stay pending determination as to whether or not leave to the Supreme Court will be granted.
00:07:10.300And that's in the interim in which everybody has to put the absolute most political pressure on everybody who can say something, can do something, and as of yet has not yet done anything.
00:07:21.300And I'm thinking of a few names in particular.
00:07:37.300My understanding is like a matter of days until they determine whether or not the Supreme Court takes up the case, which itself is, they take up like a fraction of the request that they get in any given year.
00:07:50.300I mean, that's, that's, it's a stay until they decide whether or not they take it up.
00:07:53.300And then if they decide to take it up, I presume they're going to have to logically grant an extended stay, because again, determining the issue as to whether or not the kill is scientifically, rationally justified, and whether or not the CFIA's order, which is now damn near a year old, makes sense.
00:08:08.300It makes no sense adjudicating that after the final kill has been carried out.
00:08:12.300So, it's a couple of days, I don't know the exact timeframe, and I'm going to try to get the attorney, Katie's attorney, Umar Sheik on at some point sooner than later, but very short couple of days, and it's not a time to rejoice and go home.
00:08:25.300It's a time to now put the pressure on everybody, exploit every venue.
00:08:29.300I might get into it, but like, you know, indigenous tribes now are making the claim that this is unceded.
00:08:36.300Work that angle, because it's a very logical one, hold them to their own standards.
00:08:39.300But it's not a time to celebrate, it's just maybe a time to put more pressure.
00:08:44.300Yeah, and it's, I guess I'll get into the crazy 24 hours that it has been at the farm.
00:08:50.300But at any given moment, news can happen here, and you might have to see me run away.
00:08:59.300But you are right that the Conservatives have been a little too quiet on this issue.
00:09:08.300Viva, I don't know how much you know about Western Canadian farming, but I know a fair bit as a farmer.
00:09:15.300And I'm old enough to remember when the Conservative Party of Canada under Stephen Harper and the, it was at the time, the Progressive Conservative Party here in Alberta, it's now something much better as the United Conservatives.
00:09:29.300They stood with four Western Canadian farmers who were jailed in an act of civil disobedience for selling their wheat, something that as Western Canadian farmers, we couldn't do without an export license.
00:09:41.300They, it was an act of civil disobedience, selling a bushel of grain to a 4-H club in Montana across the border.
00:09:49.300And again, if you lived in Quebec or Ontario, you could sell your wheat to whomever we wanted, but we had to sell it to a marketing board who knew better than us farmers.
00:10:47.300You could say at some point, maybe they didn't know how big of a story it was.
00:10:50.300But when literally every post from Pierre Paulievre yesterday, the day before, is getting ratioed in the comments sections with,
00:10:57.300why aren't you saying anything about the ostriches?
00:10:59.300You don't get to plead ignorance anymore.
00:11:01.300You know, some people say, well, it's a social media team.
00:11:04.300If he is that detached from the people he's supposed to represent, that's a problem.
00:11:08.300And the biggest problem is he took a lot of flack during the election for saying Pierre Paulievre is a, is a political fair weather politician.
00:11:17.300He goes with the tide, which you can use, you know, to your advantage in terms of like, he'll, he'll, he'll bend to the pressure of the people.
00:11:24.300He learned nothing from his crushing defeat in this election.
00:11:28.300That sitting on your hands, biting your tongue, playing the rules of the opponent's game does nothing but cost you the election to the point where he needs to be gifted a seat in the house.
00:11:37.300So he can return to being the so-called leader of the so-called opposition of the so-called conservative party.
00:11:41.300So he can sit on his thumbs and do nothing while this is going down and just pretend it's not existing.
00:11:46.300Tweeting about government tyranny under the gun ban confiscation thing.
00:11:50.300And then not tweeting about government tyranny, about a government coming in, killing your, it makes no sense.
00:11:54.300And it's, it's, my bottom line is it's, they need a new leader.
00:11:58.300Cause he's, he's, he's burnt the goodwill, any remaining goodwill that he had, but what do I know?
00:12:05.300Well, I think that the, what this situation is showing is the distinct break in the feedback loop on all levels of government.
00:12:13.300Okay. All levels of government are not hearing the people all, you know, all of the politicians who, who are ignoring all of their mentions, Viva, because you're right.
00:12:22.300They're getting, they're getting ratioed over this issue.
00:12:26.300And every minute that they stay silent shows us just what a disconnect there is between the people and the people that we elect to govern us.
00:12:35.300Okay. And this is, this is across the board.
00:12:37.300Where was our useless prime minister yesterday as this was going down?
00:12:41.300Well, he was entering, entertaining the uppity ups at the UN general council.
00:12:45.300We could have used Mark Carney on this file yesterday.
00:12:49.300And as a matter of fact, we could have used the liberal government of Canada on this file for the last eight months.
00:12:54.300Where have they been unresponsive to the farmers that they're supposed to be serving?
00:13:01.300The ag minister and the health minister should both, both be relentlessly hammered in the house of commons.
00:13:07.300And it is frustrating because Pierre Polyev is now in a largely conservative, a largely rural, deep blue conservative riding in Alberta.
00:13:17.300This, if you're tweeting about the gun issue, you've got to be tweeting about this because this is a huge issue for Western Canadian farmers like myself.
00:13:29.300And then, you know, it's just a, you know, it's a quirky little ostrich farm in the middle of nowheresville, but it's a hop, skip and a jump from that to my neighbor's turkey barn.
00:13:41.300And then to beef, you know, like Mark Carney, people are saying, Viva, you know, give as much flack to Mark Carney as you do to Pierre Polyev.
00:13:52.300I was like, no, because this is his plan. This is his, his whole strategy here.
00:13:58.300He is passport carrying globalist, president, prostitute, politician, prostitute that, you know, that Pierre Polyev should have been calling out and calling that during the election.
00:14:08.300So I don't, I don't expect the liberals to do anything because this is their plan.
00:14:12.300Right. They're doing what they want to do.
00:14:15.300And, and to, you know, there's people out there and I talked to a lot of people and some are saying, what's the big deal? It's just a bunch of birds.
00:14:21.300I was like, first of all, it could be a raccoon and a squirrel like we saw in New York. It could be a Fred and Peanut. This is about absolute government tyranny, the illogical application of unscientific rules, the misappropriation or, you know, disappropriation of property rights of the citizens, because some administrative body comes in, the CFIA, which has their tweets protected on Twitter, a government body.
00:14:46.300We got to kill your animals because they were infected. We don't want to do any more tests. And then they want to still kill the animals five months later, even though they're all health, all healthy.
00:14:53.300And they want to kill them a year later, even though they're all healthy. And they have the backing of the federal court and the court of appeal to say, yep, your decision at the time was rational.
00:15:01.300So let's not look at the evolution of science and facts. Let's just go kill your animals and shut your mouths, lowly plebs. You are subjects and not God given right free citizens. This is a problem of government.
00:15:12.300It's a problem of Canadian government. And the conservatives seem to be not just silent, but complicit in it. And it's a big, big deal.
00:15:19.300It is a big deal. And it also, there are historical ties that go along with livestock and pet killing initiatives by communist governments that advance the erosion of private property, that normalize this behavior.
00:15:35.600When the government comes in and takes your stuff, there's nothing you can do about it. It's the government's not yours, you see.
00:15:40.460And so this is a real warning for the people of Canada that something terrible is happening, unfolding right now in our neighbor's yard.
00:15:48.440Okay. And we need all of the eyes of the world on this because, because if it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.
00:15:55.480Well, and, and there, I think the solution here is political pressure. The ag minister and the health minister, they need to be relentlessly hammered on this issue.
00:16:05.980I might get stung by a wasp live on air, but they need to be relentlessly hammered on this issue because right now it's before the activist courts because the CFIA dragged it there.
00:16:16.320They need the minister to say, get this out of the courts, stop this cull order. Who is the CFIA but a rogue agency right now? Who's in charge of them?
00:16:27.320It's before the activist courts. We saw, we saw what the activist courts think about public health over the last five years.
00:16:34.280I have to tell you, I'm not holding out a lot of hope for the Supreme court to do the right thing here.
00:16:40.960I am grateful that the birds have a stay of execution. And as Viva says, put pressure.
00:16:49.380This is not the time to take the foot off the gas pedal, but to think that the courts are going to do the right thing for once. I am skeptical.
00:16:58.160It's just who's in charge of the CFIA. Well, it's, it's Paul McKinnon, the president who also had, this is not, it's not like a rogue agency. It's a, it's a Soviet administrative agency. I'm hyperbolic. It's a terrorist organization. It's not because it's coming from the government that it's not terrorist organizations that are coming in inflicting violence and force for the purposes of promoting their political agenda.
00:17:22.820It's the definition of a state terrorism. And the, the problem is the courts come in and ratify it because it's all one big club. And it's the idea that, Sheila, to your point also, but this skipping to pets, to other livestock, the ostriches are non-migratory birds. They're not for human.
00:17:42.600So why the Canadian food inspection agency even has jurisdiction is an issue, but set that aside. They're non-migratory. The argument is that birds come in contact with them. So the birds might reinfect them and then spread it somewhere else. Who knows? So we've got to kill the animals that don't move anywhere. Well, that's going to be true of dogs. It's going to be true of cats. It's going to be true of goats, everything that's on a farm. And that they can come in and say, sorry, we kill it now.
00:18:06.400Even though they're healthy, even though they may have been infected, but survived and might have stronger antibodies. We own your property because that's what communism is.
00:18:15.320Yeah. And, and that is true. We saw global news musing that the other day. Don't you know, your cat might be asymptomatic of the avian flu because they go outside and they munch on some birds and then they bring it in their, your house. And then we go back to this whole asymptomatic spreader theory that we heard during COVID.
00:18:33.280And for me, that just means they're not sick and you're speculating because you don't know anything about what's going on here.
00:18:40.980Or, or, or you tested with a PCR test that has a cycle rate of like bits of, of, of, whatever that, that are no longer even live. It is, um, I don't think it drives me nuts when people say they're just birds or, um, other people say, well, they were doing experiments.
00:18:56.200Uh, they were, they were doing scientific research on these birds in any event. So, uh, so dot, dot, dot, dot, so dot, dot, dot, dot does not mean the government comes.
00:19:03.620So nothing, nothing. If you don't like what they're doing, go contest what they're doing. If you think they're just birds and we eat ostriches anyhow, well, that's fine.
00:19:12.540But the rules of the game are you have an ostrich farm for, for food. And you know, there's one outside of Montreal. Everybody should be paying attention to this, but it's the absolute abusiveness, arbitrariness, and lack of scientific value and lack of any scientific backing of this decision.
00:19:27.880And right now, like in all Soviet, you know, regimes, they never arrested an innocent person because if they arrested someone by definition, they would be guilty. If the communists admitted they arrested an innocent person, they would admit fallibility. So they came down with this idiotic edict in December, 2024, and now they've got to carry it out. Otherwise people might realize, oh, they made a mistake and they almost got away with that mistake.
00:19:49.300Right. And it's also part of this ongoing war memory holing of the cons.
00:19:58.100Oh, she froze a little bit. Well, we'll continue on, Viva. Something you just said piqued my, piqued my attention because not only is this completely devoid of scientific backing, but would you be surprised to know if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is, at the last five years, developing?
00:20:24.800That's okay. I knew I would at some point.
00:20:28.120Do you want to repeat what you just said?
00:20:30.900Sure. I was just saying that this is really a part of this broader war on the concept of natural immunity that started during COVID.
00:20:37.840So these birds are naturally immune to the avian flu.
00:20:42.520They have the antibodies. Their antibodies are present in the eggs.
00:20:46.480And during COVID, remember, there was no such thing as natural immunity.
00:20:50.540If you got COVID and recovered, you still needed to get two doses of the first vaccines that you could get your hands on, mix and match, it didn't matter.
00:20:58.880And so these birds would be used in research done with natural immunity, those natural antibodies.
00:21:08.100And right now, big pharma is real excited about different biotechnologies in vaccines.
00:21:13.640And so these birds, even though they were going to remember these birds, even though they have natural immunity, she's going to say until she until she unfreezes.
00:21:28.020Because, you know, my underlying now, call it a conspiracy theory, and it might prove to be true, is that the only thing that can explain the complicity or silence of the conservative party is that they too are bought and paid for and owned by big pharma.
00:21:40.520There's no other, nothing else can explain this.
00:21:43.020And, you know, that there is a pharmaceutical interest in stamping out whatever natural immunity these birds have.
00:21:51.040And even if I'm wrong on that, and, you know, they're just totally incompetent and detached and living in their Ottawa ivory towers, even if I'm wrong on the theory, it doesn't change the underlying problem here.
00:22:00.720The problem is government abuse, the arbitrary application of unscientific measures to deny people of property.
00:22:08.460And I say, you know, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:22:13.860Sheila, you froze after, now I forgot to.
00:22:16.340Even though, even though they're naturally immune is what I think you were saying, Sheila.
00:22:21.880Yeah, even, so, as I repeatedly have tried to say, although the internet is not cooperating with me, these, they have to kill these birds because they are naturally immune.
00:22:33.800And we don't have that concept in our life anymore since COVID, right?
00:22:38.880We were all supposed to take a biotechnology vaccine instead of just developing natural immunities.
00:22:43.220And so the natural immunities that these birds have are being used in research.
00:22:48.120And that research will die with these birds.
00:22:50.620And the facts are 9 million birds have been culled in British Columbia because of the avian flu.
00:23:00.780These 400 ostriches may hold the key to stopping that.
00:23:05.580And so not only could they potentially save the lives of humans exposed to the avian flu, but also protect the entire poultry industry.
00:23:15.140And yet the CFIA is hell-bent on killing them because they need to stamp out this idea of natural immunity.
00:23:22.280I was even just trying to steel man the argument for which the CFIA claims they need to be killed.
00:23:27.840They are not infected right now as far as anybody.
00:23:31.120They refuse to do more tests and they refuse to allow the farm to do tests to see if they even have live.
00:23:37.540I mean, I guess the argument that as far as I can understand it is that they might have live strains on them that they're not susceptible to, that they might spread to migratory birds.
00:23:47.480But they literally, by court order, prevented the farm from doing any additional tests to see if any of the birds are even asymptomatically infected.
00:23:57.360And there's no innocent explanation for that.
00:24:01.280There's no innocent explanation for the refusal to do more tests to determine what they might have by way of live virus.
00:24:09.060And if they do, in fact, have antibodies and they did, in fact, live through a more severe strain, which was the latest retesting of the two tests they did in December 2024, that they were allowed to adduce as new evidence into this case while the farm was not allowed to put in new evidence.
00:24:25.480Even if they did suffer from the more lethal strain and they survived, that's even more of a reason not to kill them, to adhere to RFK Jr.'s request to keep these animals for scientific research.
00:24:36.000And an angle that I've been exploiting is like, to kill these birds, it's not just unscientific, it's not just abusive, it's not just inhumane.
00:24:42.580It's an overt act of disrespect to the Trump administration, which offered to...
00:25:49.540So they've spent five years, the last five years, not fine-tuning their policies, not becoming more accountable to the people that they serve,
00:25:57.500but instead spending millions of dollars figuring out how to make the CFIA the most accessible workplace for disabled people.
00:27:21.540And not just that, the Soviet show trial that they have to go through once they make the decision to bring in the bales of hay, then they decide to come out.
00:27:29.180Like, that was when the wind changed directions.
00:27:32.100But I want to highlight this, because, you know, I did tweet out yesterday that Trump should threaten terrorists.
00:27:37.600I want to highlight, like, I've been saying for a while that Canada, through its liberal government, has caused itself to be a national security threat to the United States of America.
00:27:46.440With the drug, the fentanyl, everything.
00:27:47.880If they go ahead and cull these birds, that could provide a solution to the rest of the world and to the United States as well, under this new Trump administration.
00:28:50.480All I know is that whatever they're doing here is the opposite of protecting the poultry industry.
00:28:56.440This is destroying the poultry industry by destroying the potential solution to the avian flu.
00:29:03.680Olivia, maybe I can't hear you, but I think it's probably time to hit an ad break.
00:29:11.680But before we know, I'll do it when we get back.
00:29:14.560Let's hit an ad break, and then we've got a message from the wellness company and somebody who actually spoke out in favor of the ostriches I saw in his X account today.
00:29:22.900So let's hit an ad break, and we'll come right back.
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00:34:12.220I was speaking with John Katsimatidis regarding the ostrich situation in B.C.
00:34:19.540He had a meeting yesterday with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz on this matter.
00:34:24.920He essentially wants the PM to intervene in the case.
00:34:28.040And he said that he's spoken to both of you on this issue as well.
00:34:31.680Will you be applying pressure to the PM on this?
00:34:34.280And do either of you have any issues or any concerns about the federal government's treatment of farmers, particularly in this case?
00:34:41.980Well, I have asked my agriculture minister to look into it to see if we had a similar situation in Alberta, what would we be able to do differently?
00:34:52.800And one of the things that I think is worth looking at is when avian flu went through that herd, it did kill 20 percent of them, but it didn't kill 80 percent of them.
00:35:02.160So maybe there is something to learn from whether there's an immunity or some kind of vaccine that could be developed as a result of having that flock survive.
00:35:11.980I think that maybe we have to think about different ways to do animal husbandry and animal safety.
00:35:21.780So I'm open minded to see if there's any persuasion on that.
00:35:26.620I gather that the U.S. government is interested in partnering with B.C. if they wanted to do that.
00:35:30.560I'd be supportive of that because you can see that this case has really taken on a lot of public sentiment behind it.
00:35:38.080And if we can find a better way than doing mass culls in any situation like this, I think it's probably worth it to try to find a better way to do it.
00:37:01.140It's the so-called progressive conservative who has said something before the leader of the opposition of the conservative party at the federal level.
00:37:18.460If anybody wanted to vie for the leadership of the conservative party, all they have to do now is grab a bullhorn, get out to Edgewood, and stand with the people and demand that they not go through this call.
00:38:15.940We need to see this same Pierre Polyev emerge onside these farmers in Edgewood, BC in this moment.
00:38:22.660Not whatever they're concentrating on in Ottawa or whatever they think is important today there.
00:38:29.240My strategy might not be the best to manipulate the behavior that we would want out of Pierre, but I sincerely think it's too late for Pierre.
00:38:36.100This is reputationally unsalvageable damage that he's done for no better reason.
00:38:41.760What I would love to imagine is that there are other politically savvy and politically ambitious people within the conservative party that were saying, I don't want to embarrass Pierre.
00:38:50.020I'll give him his window to do the right thing and say the right thing now that he hasn't done it.
00:38:53.840And now that everyone in the base is pissed.
00:38:58.260You had your chance to be the hero and you balked.
00:39:00.260Now, maybe if Owen Baber comes up and says, this is what we need to do.
00:39:04.640I'm so happy you mentioned it, Viva, because all of the conservative bro-friends, like our little cozy group of conservative bro-friends, are all screaming at the top of their lungs at Pierre Polyev to say something, to do something, to get involved in this moment.
00:39:17.160And this could be a moment where he could see some of that base just peel off to the side going, well, maybe he's not our guy after all.
00:39:25.500Like, that's a real danger for him right now.
00:39:28.040I don't know if you guys know who Pleb the reporter is.
00:39:33.380Inadvertently, or I would say just maybe accidentally, ratioed Pierre so hard yesterday on one of Pierre's posts where Pierre puts up a rant.
00:39:41.580I think it was about the gun confiscation, Ben.
00:41:08.120So Drea and I sleep in our clothes around here because we never know what's going to happen.
00:41:14.420Now, the warrant says that the cops in the CFIA aren't really allowed to do anything between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
00:41:21.720So we sort of wait the clock out, and then we go to sleep, and then we sort of get up at – well, I don't know about Drea, but I get up at 5.
00:41:31.000I get up at 5 and sort of do everything I need to do before it's go time, right, because you never know what's going to happen.
00:41:36.940So yesterday on the farm, everybody was really hopeful for a stay, and then that didn't come.
00:41:44.120And then all of a sudden, Katie, Sidney, and her mom are arrested inside the ostrich pen because they wouldn't leave the ostrich pen.
00:41:58.240And I understand, Sheila, that they were sort of lured away from you guys and into a private area where they were arrested?
00:42:06.800So as it sits right now, I'm literally – there's the fence, like the police tape, the ostriches are right there, and right there is the camp.
00:42:14.960And so nobody is allowed with the ostriches.
00:42:20.020Apparently, the CFIA and the RCMP have carrying control of the ostriches right now.
00:42:25.200Katie and her mom were inside the ostrich pen refusing to leave, and they arrested them inside the pen and took –
00:42:34.960and spirited them away to a place up the road where they're staging everything and basically processed them and let them go, I think, under Section 35 of the Health of Animals Act, and then released them.
00:42:49.500So now they're not allowed back in the ostrich pen, of course.
00:42:54.360We didn't know when they would be back, what was happening.
00:44:00.880So we were able to get a donated spot to land the helicopter.
00:44:06.260And we used the helicopter to track down the hay bales that were coming in.
00:44:12.460And we were able to watch the hay bales being deployed to obscure the view from the highway for what would be the cull down the – you know, we thought the cull might happen yesterday afternoon.
00:44:27.600But definitely today if a stay didn't come.
00:44:31.440And so we were able to watch that happen.
00:44:34.760And, you know, you could see there's fencing up the road.
00:44:37.780That's where Drea is right now where they were going to use hay bales on one side and then fencing on the other to sort of make a kill pen.
00:44:44.340So they would sort of bring them in and then kill them in there away from the road but also away from the other ostriches so they don't have anywhere to go.
00:44:55.540And as someone who hunts, we all know, like, pen hunting is highly, highly unethical.
00:46:19.660But it is my experience, as someone who knows a little bit about hay moisture, that those decomp fires don't generally start in the middle of a night when it's like 7 degrees and super damp.
00:46:36.200But am I going to – yesterday, there was a video of a guy carrying a can of gas being shrieked at by a woman on a property or the day before.
00:47:30.060And then all of a sudden we get to stay.
00:47:31.480So it's just been an emotional rollercoaster for everybody here.
00:47:35.880But what a failure of the public institutions that are supposed to be keeping a safe bubble around this place.
00:47:43.800Like just yesterday in the live stream we talked about the incendiary nature of hay bales.
00:47:48.960And like these are obviously two groups, both law enforcement and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, that have absolutely no idea what they're doing.
00:47:59.300Because anybody that knows anything knows that hay bales can start on fire.
00:48:05.440And this was a risk and they – I mean they increased the risk with their silly plan here.
00:48:15.080I mean what are these – it is a failure on every single level imaginable that there was a fire last night.
00:48:23.780And you know what, the worst parts of me are saying, you know, the conspiracy theorist thoughts of me are saying, well, you know, this could just be a diversion.
00:49:11.100But yeah, the idea that the police have care and control of this property, but they obviously didn't secure it because a fire broke out.
00:49:21.880And I thought, and actually I'm quite amazed, that they didn't get a court order to clear out the camp because, you know, to get everybody out of here because obviously they need to secure the place.
00:49:36.940And they were unable to with the volume of people that are here.
00:49:40.420And I think there's probably a hundred or so people that are sort of here all the time.
00:49:44.520I mean, you know, there are vehicles that come and go, but I thought, oh, darn, this fire is going to be their excuse to get rid of everybody.
00:49:53.900And I'm like, you know, history doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
00:49:56.320And then I immediately thought of Waco where, you know, oh, a fire occurred by the fire or they start going crazy because ostriches are very nervous.
00:50:05.020And then they have to shoot them because they start stampeding.
00:50:07.760And, you know, it wasn't, oh, it was beyond our control.
00:50:10.120Well, I will find out, I presume there's enough surveillance that they'll see how the fire started it.
00:50:16.840I am, you know, it's up in the air as to whether or not it was someone who thought they were doing something good by doing this or someone who thought they were assisting with the police, whether or not it was some sort of RCMP goon who sets the fire and the crisis that ensues.
00:50:59.120You can actually, from our footage in the air, you can actually see the bird enclosures with the barns and you can see where they're making the little fence there.
00:51:07.460And they had not been forced into there.
00:51:10.080So, the birds were, as far as we know, unharmed.
00:51:14.440But, I know that the farmers are very concerned about the welfare of these birds because they have not been allowed to feed them.
00:51:24.340And, you know, now they're, I mean, the whole valley was filled with smoke.
00:51:28.300Like, when we were driving up there, like, you had to slow down.
00:51:31.920It was like driving in thick fog because of just the sheer amount of smoke coming off these hay bales.
00:52:19.080You have these administrative bodies, which are supposed to be specialty courts, that basically, you know, create their own rules, interpret their own rules, apply them, and then carry out the executions.
00:52:28.660And the federal courts come in and say, well, we've got to defer to the authority of the CFIA.
00:52:34.800The organization should be disbanded, defunded.
00:52:37.820And if we had a real opposition in Canada, they would be clamoring for that right now.
00:52:41.520And asking why the Canadian Food Inspection Agency even has jurisdiction over an ostrich farm not been used for food for at least five years, from what I understand.
01:01:33.600I'll share another quick just story in the same vein.
01:01:35.640When I was at Grace Life Church, I think I was there for like eight Sundays.
01:01:39.500And I'm not Protestant, but I was there because they were holding services and they were doing it in complete disregard for the government's lockdown on churches.
01:01:55.420And there was one cop who kept coming and like he was had to go and just document that they were holding services.
01:02:02.720And he would, not from the congregants, don't get me wrong.
01:02:06.240The congregants were always very understanding and exhibited the most defining example of Christmas.
01:02:14.240Oh, it's freezing out of the most important part.
01:04:25.060I was paraphrasing a blonde old lady who is sweetly talking to the police, explaining to them that they don't have to do that job because I'm currently in that cop's position.
01:04:51.440And Viva, I know that you've got a lot of fans here at the Ostrich Farm.
01:04:56.200They really appreciate you getting the message out here about the horrors that loom over this farm to a broader audience and really breaking down the legal stuff.
01:05:08.140Because there are a lot of machinations in the legal system that lay people just don't understand and why would they want to.
01:05:16.640You've done a really great job of helping us navigate that.
01:05:21.700And I do have the luxury, the liberty, which also leads to the obligation of telling these politicians to go F themselves when they absolutely deserve it.
01:05:29.100And I appreciate people living in Canada might not feel comfortable doing it.
01:06:39.920Everybody at the team at Rebel News and around the world at Rebel News, I should tell you guys,
01:06:44.940our Australian team is babysitting the ostrich live stream in the middle of the night while the Canadian crew is trying to get some sleep.
01:06:54.440Special shout out to Drea and Efron and all of our web editors.
01:06:59.280Everybody who works behind the scenes, we're just the ones on the ground, but there's a lot of moving pieces to get the news out to you.
01:07:05.040We couldn't do any of this work without you.
01:07:07.320If you care about the ostriches and you want to send a message to your politicians or support Drea's incredible journalism, go to savetheostriches.com.
01:08:37.240But it would appear I've got a little bit of time to wait.
01:08:40.040But I do want to make this as normal a gun show as usual, even though I'm standing in front of a lake waiting on a ferry in the middle of British Columbia.
01:08:52.920And as you know, the last portion of the show is yours.
01:08:55.520So if you want to send me letters about the show, you can send it to Sheila at rebelnews.com.
01:09:02.460Put gun show letters in the subject line so I know why you're emailing me.
01:09:06.040And today's letters, I have it on my other phone.
01:09:14.080And she says that she's loving our Western Wednesdays.
01:09:19.180That's Western Wednesdays on the live stream.
01:09:21.620We call it the Buffalo Panel, where myself from northeastern Alberta and Lees from Regina bring in two Western-focused guests.
01:09:32.100And we spend the first half hour and sometimes the whole show talking about Western issues.
01:09:38.480And Olivia says, loving your Western Wednesdays and all the great work you guys do bringing us the truth about what is going on in the world.
01:09:48.200My husband is working for a farmer in Manitoba.
01:09:51.080And we are trying to figure out how we could get out of the city and onto a little farm of our own.
01:10:37.900You're a little bit close to Ontario, but you're also very Saskatchewan in your ways, just depending on which part of the province that you're in.
01:11:04.620Again, part of mine is I do my best to help out Drea in British Columbia.
01:11:08.320But I'm on my way home right now because there's a stay in place.
01:11:11.200Drea is still there because, you know, things might pop off there.
01:11:14.580I'm going to go home, regroup, check on my family, grab a bigger trailer, deal with our Starlink issue because I'm ready to come back in full force in a moment's notice.
01:11:28.560Well, everybody, that's the show for today.