Canada's Freedom of Religion Under Attack？ Sean Feucht Speaks Out ｜ Stand on Guard
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Sean Foyt joins me on the show to talk about freedom of religion in Canada and why we might be losing it. He also talks about why he thinks Canada is losing it and what we can do to fight back.
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Good morning. Welcome back to Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton, coming at
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you live from our nation's capital in Ottawa. And it's a real pleasure to do this broadcast
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today. You know, I actually prayed before this broadcast because I want this to reach
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the hearts and souls of not just evangelical Christians or conservative Catholics or church
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going people, but everybody out there who's concerned about freedom of religion in Canada
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and how we're losing it. I'll be back in mere moments with more.
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The Prime Minister lied and his minions continue to lie.
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We need it, but it's a change. But we also need to resolve to resist.
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on the station and post comments that smearing Sean Feud. They will be taken down. Sean Feud was my
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guest. He is my guest. He made an effort to come on this show when he's been in media demand all over
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the United States. And I'm one of the few Canadian interviews he's done. I think maybe one of two.
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And it was an honor to have Sean as an interview subject. I think you're going to enjoy that
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interview. He said a lot of really incredible things. I did it yesterday. So I'm putting it on
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this morning. And I tell you, it was a really moving interview. And you know, people were telling
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me, you know, you don't want to do this. No, not a lot of people. The usual suspects were telling me,
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you don't want to do this because of this reason and that reason. And I just ignored that. Because
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I tell you, I'm an evangelical Christian. But I'll tell you this, sometimes the worst cases of backbiting
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and gossip come from evangelical Christians who are jealous of people who are doing the work of the
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kingdom. That's all I'm going to say about that. I want to touch on this because Sean,
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Sean and I discussed this in the interview. And anybody who thinks, hey, Christianity is not in
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danger in this country. You can go anywhere and worship. Here's Terry Newman's column from last
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November. 592 places of worship burned in 12 years and liberals don't give a damn. 80% of those cases
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were arson. Yeah. And Justin Trudeau actually blamed the churches for the arson because we're
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they weren't into reconciliation enough. Absolutely shocking. Look at this.
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This is a response to one of Sean Foyt's posts on X. Go to church. Exercise. Defend and enjoy your
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freedom to worship God. Use it before you lose it. That's Sean's message to Canada. We're losing it.
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We might have lost it. Kevin Vaughn Hammondtree responded. Sorry. Hours burnt down along with
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dozens of others. Strangest thing. Church building in Canada would seem more extremely flammable.
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Weird, right? Weird. No, I got to say this. Weird. Oh, what?
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Weird. It's not. It's the or what? This is arson. Delivered destruction of Christian churches.
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You think you have freedom of religion? Ask Sean Foyt. People are actually suggesting this was some
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kind of stunt. This was the news. I covered it. He was denied access to public spaces in six Canadian
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cities. He had to seek churches. So that's the facts, people. And this is why I wanted Sean on the
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show, because he eloquently states the case about where Canada is going. But don't give up. Don't
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give up hope. We can combine our strengths. We can unify to fight back. And this is what Let Us Worship
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is all about. And you'll hear about that in the interview. It's about reversing the process that
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began during the COVID pandemic, where churches were conditioned to accept the authoritarian overreach
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of governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal level. Churches were conditioned to allow
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police to come in, arrest their pastors, and evict the people from the church. That's the legacy.
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of COVID. But the good news is, we are pushing back. I want you all to sit back and enjoy this
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interview with Sean Foyt. I think it's really, really worthwhile. And I'm very, very proud we did
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this yesterday. Enjoy. Welcome to Stand on Guard. It's my pleasure today to have pastor, evangelist,
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musician, performer, Sean Foyt on the show today. And of course, if you missed Sean's visit to Canada
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last month, he's coming back in August. And I want to make sure we publicize those dates again.
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And he's coming back August 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th in Western Canada. And as Sean, you're right here on
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your ex-post, praying that Western Canada will be a little more hospitable than the East Side.
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What do you think? Did you anticipate anything remotely resembling what happened to you in cities
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in Eastern and Central Canada, where you had this hostile, antagonistic reaction, this anti-Christian
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reaction, and attempts to absolutely cancel you by mayors and city councils? Could you anticipate
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any of that? Oh, no, of course not. I mean, I've been coming to Canada for 20 years, been leading
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worship and prayer and conferences and trainings and events all over. And, you know, this is something
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that was shocking to me, especially because even in the last three years, we've done big outdoor,
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you know, large outdoor lettuce worship gatherings, just like we've been doing in the US, we've been
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doing in Canada, too. So this was our third year of hosting those. And this time, we really felt led
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to go from coast to coast. And that was really, you know, as we prayed into it as a team, we planned to
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prepare, that was what we put together and just had no idea the insanity that would come in the days to
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come. So, yeah, I was pretty surprised. I think a lot of people were too. However, you know, I, it's,
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it's starting a national conversation that needs to be had around religious liberties and free speech.
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And, you know, we're going to let, you know, certain groups of individuals do whatever they want
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without permits, and we'll even condone them. But then we're going to allow Christians to be attacked.
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And I think that the whole world was able to see this hypocrisy just a few weeks ago.
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You described what happened to you and the atmosphere in Canada, this anti-Christian atmosphere,
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this complete dismissal of freedom of religion as demonic. Would you, would you still say that?
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Because I would agree with you. I'm an evangelical Christian myself. Obviously, I was very interested
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in this, in this story. I almost feel like I know you because I wrote so much about you, including a
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human event story that you, you really liked and you responded to, where I said, Canadians, I said,
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Sean Foyt hasn't given up on Canada and Canadians shouldn't either. But was this reaction truly demonic?
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Yeah. I mean, I think that, you know, what, what has to, you know, what, what, what comes into play when
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you see this coordinated, vehement anger and attack on peaceful Christians worshiping, you know,
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in six separate provinces, cities, municipalities coordinate together with the mainstream media
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to draw, to build this narrative of, you know, these events by a MAGA, you know, superstar,
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whatever that are hateful and, and, and all this kind of stuff. I mean, none of that's true. Like the lies
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and the slander and the, the campaign that has to be waged. I mean, you can only, uh, say that it is
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spiritual, you know, that there are spiritual forces at work. And I think that, you know, we were able to
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expose, I mean, even normal people, like not even Christians, not even evangelicals, not even church
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going folks for like, what is the big deal? Why are you attacking this Christian that wants to come
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and host outdoor worship services, you know, deeming them public safety hazard and canceling
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all the permits and then allowing essentially Antifa to infiltrate a church and throw smoke bombs.
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I mean, it's just, it's the point where you begin to realize, man, there are dark spiritual forces at
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play. And I think a lot of people's eyes are being open to that reality now.
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Interestingly enough, the concerning that smoke bomb rebel news, which covered your tour quite
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extensively, is that actually offered a thousand dollars reward for the capture of the arrest of
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the guy who threw the smoke bomb your way, because the police were standing there and did
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absolutely nothing on your defense. So incredible. But that's what we've come to expect in Canada,
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which really leads me to my next observation is that your campaign, Let Us Worship, and you've got
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the t-shirt on right now. I think this is fantastic, because I wrote, I don't know how many times I wrote
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it last week, that Canadian churches became conditioned to this kind of behavior from mayors,
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municipalities, and the local police during the COVID pandemic because of the lockdowns and because of
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the mandates. Police would simply walk into our churches, arrest the pastor, haul him away, and clear the
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church out. And by the way, the strip club is open and the bars are open. So why don't you go there? But it's
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dangerous to go to church. We saw this over and over and over again. And my good friend Arthur
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Pawlowski was jailed for ministering during the pandemic. Other pastors, Christian pastors, were
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jailed, arrested for simply ministering as Christian pastors. And I had an email from, I won't mention her
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name, but somebody saying, you know, we don't have any Christian persecution in this country. The churches
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aren't being persecuted. And all I could say was, where have you been? We have gone through incredible
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persecution. Churches, hundreds of churches have been burned down in the last five years, and 80% of
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them are arson. That's what we're going through in this country. But do you think that churches have
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almost accepted the idea that we don't have any constitutionally protected freedom of religion
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in Canada? And of course, they're trying the same thing. They tried the same thing under Biden
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in the United States. Forget the amendment saying that there's freedom of religion in this country.
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Did we become too far accepting of state control over churches during the pandemic? And do we need to
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Yeah, I mean, I think it all, I think, you know, there's a couple of things at play here. There's
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an enormous sympathy in the Canadian church and in the U.S. church. And, you know, that's kind of what led
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to and predicated this, you know, overreach of government, where, you know, all of a sudden,
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you know, we forget that, oh, wait, we don't allow government to tell us when and how to worship
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God. We've never, as Christians, we submit to a higher authority, right? And so do we fear God or do
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we fear the government? Well, we don't let the government tell us when and how to worship. Like,
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that's just not how it works. If you're a Bible-believing Christian, if you're a church
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that's infiltrated with wokeness or a doctrine of passivity, or maybe even in some cases,
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like we've seen in the U.S., you're in bed with the government pushing vaccines and pushing all
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kind of ideologies, then, yeah, you're going to cower, you know? And I think Jesus has some pretty,
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pretty spicy words for people like that. However, this is a real moment where we get to
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see what the church is truly made of. And we get to, we get to watch the remnant people
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wake up. You know, I find it fascinating that even in the midst of this, we had person after
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person come to our events on the East Coast, all the way, you know, from Halifax to Toronto
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that weren't church people. They weren't, a lot of them weren't believers. They just were
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wondering what was going on in their country. And they show up and, you know, they end up at the
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altar again, you know, repenting and receiving God into their life to change them forever. So
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I think that, you know, this will be used in a positive way. It's obviously like, you know,
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the saying, you know, all press is good press. They've hyped this up so much now that it's
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unavoidable. Every church has to, has to, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a red line in the sand.
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Free people that wants to believe in the charter of rights in Canada and the ability to fruity
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worship and, you know, you're going to double standard and let, you know, Muslims feel the
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streets and, and, and take over entire, I mean, even in front of churches, walk them and do the
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call to prayer and do whatever they want or naked bicyclists, you know, do a pride march parade.
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That's encouraged and prime ministers hugging them. All the while Christians are shut down
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for being bigots and being hated and being controversial. And we've seen this card play
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out before. And I'll tell you, it doesn't end well for the governments.
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You mentioned the gay pride parade that Prime Minister Mark Carney attended on Sunday. No,
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he didn't go to church. He went to a gay pride parade. I call Mark Carney a smorgasbord Catholic
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because he, much like Justin Trudeau, he picks and chooses the doctrines he wants to follow
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from the, from the Roman Catholic church. He's not too keen on pro-life stances as the Catholic
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church is. So he rejects that. The Catholic church isn't too keen on transgenderism or a lot of LGBTQ
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agenda issues. Mark Carney says, that's okay. I'll reject that too. But he goes to a gay pride parade.
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And of course, this picture is seen around the world. He's embracing this half nude male. And of course,
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half of the people in the gay pride parade are scantily dressed, sometimes outright not wearing
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any clothing. Children are at this parade. And this happens throughout Canada. And I know you have the
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same issues going on throughout the United States. Children are being groomed at these events. At the
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very least, children are seeing obscene things that in any other context would be not allowed.
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People would be arrested. They'd be charged for going around like this with kids
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in the vicinity. It's okay to do it at a gay pride parade. Did you find it ironic that Mark Carney said
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absolutely nothing while you were being canceled in Canadian cities? He said nothing about,
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hey, Canada, we have a charter of rights here and freedom of religion and freedom of thought are
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protected under our charter. He said nothing. As a matter of fact, the official or the conservative
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leader, he's not, he's no longer right now the official opposition leader. He's in a by-election.
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But Pierre Paulyev said nothing either. And I was a bit disappointed in that.
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But do you find it ironic that Mark Carney would say nothing about freedom of religion,
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nothing about you being canceled, nothing about the anti-Christian
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phenomenon? I don't know what else to call it or the anti-Christian
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disease in this country. But he would go to a gay pride parade and literally embrace that parade.
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Did you find that almost like a poetic discourse from Mark Carney as he illustrated what he really
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does care about? And it's obviously not Christians.
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Yeah, I mean, these stories like themselves, you know, I think that I'm not surprised either of those
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politicians stood up and said anything. I don't know that, you know, I think that if these are
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moments like this where you kind of can test the sincerity and the value of the political leaders,
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I think that Canada is lacking in some bold voices. Although I will say I have been really encouraged
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by some of the members of parliament from across the country that did rise up in some of the statements
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and pushing back. And they currently have a petition circling right now in Abbotsford to
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reinstate our permit that in my opinion was legally removed for later this month. So there is some
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people that are rising up, but we need a whole lot more and we need others to call out the blatant hypocrisy.
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You know, if the former prime minister, even when he was brought up the topic of the churches burning,
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if he sided with the arsonists, not sided with the churches that were being burned or the communities
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that were destroyed, but siding with the arsonists in statements that he made, to me this just like
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looks like more of the same. And nothing's going to change as we continue to raise our voices and mobilize
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and push back and shout from the rooftops and see people being awakened to what really is going on
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I actually, during the weekend this was all going on, I guess it was a week before last,
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I stood up in my local church and I said, if you're not aware of this going on,
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I've been reporting on it. You can read it here. You can watch my broadcast. You can see it in the
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mainstream media, but you'll see it in a very skewed fashion. And a lot of people came up to me
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afterwards and they said, you know, you can't look at this and think that the, the return of Christ is
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not imminent and that we, we aren't in the last days. It's, it's just so many things happening
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concurrently. And it's just, I grew up in an era where we all thought Christ was coming back next week.
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And it was, it was very, very common. And we went through a long period where people sort of forgot
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about prophecy and they, they forgot about all of that because I think a lot of people tried to
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predict dates and they tried to predict exactly when Christ was coming back.
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But I hear this in a lot from a lot of Christians who contact me through my broadcast, through my
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church. I hear a lot of people saying, I don't know how we can continue on this road because it's
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just so corrupt. It's, it's so anti-Christian. Do you think we, do you think we are entering a, a phase
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that could be called the last days? And are we, is the return of Christ close?
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I mean, I, I, I, I think all the signs are there, you know, from Matthew 24, you know,
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that kind of sets the context for what those days look like wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes and
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famines and tsunamis, natural disasters, uh, false prophets, people rising against each other. Um,
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I mean, it's all there and it's inescapable. It's unavoidable. I think for me, I really try to focus
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on the fact that, you know, the increase of darkness happens at the same time as the increase of light.
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So you see both of these things rising and really what's being removed is the middle ground. There's no
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gray area anymore. It's simply light and darkness rising together. And, you know, I, I like to focus
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on the light. It's Joel, the prophet Joel calls it the terrible day of the Lord. I like to focus on the
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great aspect of it. Cause I do think that there's a lot of great things. And I think that it takes
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something this bad, it takes something this horrific, this shocking to wake people up. And, you know,
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I don't know why I wasn't looking for controversy. I'm not looking for more battles. I'm not looking
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for more issues, but for whatever reason, it was a moment in time where it, you know, our six cities,
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first six cities that we plan to come to culminated in this firestorm that unveiled in a lot of people's
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minds, the true motive behind government officials in the media and the obvious anti-Christian bias and
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Christophobia that is present alive and well in Canada. So, you know, God will use things like this
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to expose. And I believe there's a lot of exposing going on right now. It's happening in the US and in
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Canada, around the world. And as believers, you know, we got to pay attention. You got to be like
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those that understand the times and the seasons in which we live. Like the sons of Issachar says in
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the Bible, we need to be like that. And so, you know, in the midst of all of the pushback and resistance
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and stuff, you know, we, we got to stay awake. We got to stay aware to what is happening in our world
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I was amazed how the mainstream media all spoke in unison, like as usual, they're reading the same
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talking points. You see this in the US with MSNBC and the New York Times, National Public Radio,
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they'll literally all be reading the same headline or writing the same headline. And in Canada,
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everywhere you went, every city, every story from CBC, CTV Global, and most of the major dailies,
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all referred to you as mega affiliated. And, you know, I looked through your, your website,
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and I, I, I obviously saw your, your ex posts, and I examined those very thoroughly. You had, you know,
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you, you, you pinned a video with Pete Hegseth, who I have a lot of time for. I think he's, I think he's
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an, a great Christian in charge of national defense in the US. But if I was really, I couldn't
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comprehend why you were being called mega affiliated, like you were out there every day
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during the presidential camp, campaigning for Donald Trump. Now, I'm sure you voted for Donald Trump.
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I would have had I been a US citizen. And I supported Donald Trump in the columns I wrote,
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and the media I produced during, during both of his, three of his presidential campaigns. However,
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having watched the videos, and I'm sorry, I missed your concert outside of Ottawa, I'm in Ottawa. And
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that was the one day I promised the family to do something. And we had, we had to go elsewhere that
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day. But if you're in town, again, I will be there. But it amazed me when I when I watched your concerts.
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So the guy doesn't talk about politics, he preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ. You're not up there
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saying vote Donald Trump, mega, mega, mega. And it wouldn't offend me if you did, because I have a pastor
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who loves to talk politics sometimes during a sermon, and he'll be as blunt and as forthright as he wants to be.
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And I would never take that right away from any Christian pastor. But I guess the point I'm trying to make is that
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your services look like any ordinary Pentecostal Sunday. And that's the that's the environment I grew up in.
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And if people are worshiping Jesus Christ, they're raising their hands, they are having a wonderful
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time in the spirit. And I'm not seeing an overt political message or even an underlying political
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message. I'm seeing you preach the gospel of Christ. So is this all nonsense to say you're mega affiliated and
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you're somehow divisive and you're controversial? Maybe the gospel is controversial, but people are
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suggesting it's your politics, not your faith. Well, I think that those people are very lazy.
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And those reporters are lazy in the news outlets are lazy. And, you know, they're banking on the fact
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that people won't actually research and look at our, you know, tons of videos and recaps and
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and meeting the stuff to produce and podcast. I mean, all the stuff that we do, like, you could not,
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you could not assume that or even in any way correlate or connect the fact that we come to
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Canada with a mega agenda. I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's like, it's lazy reporting.
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It's people that don't want to look into it. And we've noticed this, this happens with the media.
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I mean, hit piece articles are written about me all the time. And, you know, those that want to
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believe them, we'll believe them. They don't look into the details. But I mean, I even told the media,
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I said, listen, we're going to do this thing in Toronto. We had to move it because our permit was
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canceled. In a church, we're going to live stream the whole thing. Come and watch and see what all the
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fuss is about. See how political this is. See how controversial this is, right? Of course, a lot of them
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showed up. A lot of them shared it, broadcasted it, and it was just the gospel, you know? And I've
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just come to realize, you know, if God wants to use the controversy to pull in people that would never
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go to church normally or watch a live stream of worship, then I don't find that. But, you know,
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the reality that these guys are saying, I mean, it's all for clicks. It's all hype and hysteria.
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Know it's real. And people that really follow our movement and are a part of it and come to the
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things, they know that. They just laugh. So, in some ways, the media and these guys,
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they're speaking to their own echo chamber and trying to satisfy them with answers that they think
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Yes, the echo chamber. Sort of like blue sky on social media. Perfect example of an echo chamber.
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But I was amazed Abbotsford was pushing back because Abbotsford and I, from British Columbia,
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originally, my hometown is on Vancouver Island. I had family in Abbotsford for years.
00:29:36.000
I worked for a member of parliament from Abbotsford for a couple of years. Abbotsford is in the heart
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of Canada's Bible Belt. You can't get any more Christian than Abbotsford. It has more churches
00:29:47.920
per capita than any other Canadian city. And yet, the local government pushed back. Were you surprised?
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And yet, and you say you've got a petition going to reverse that?
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Yeah, you know, I think that Abbotsford, you know, it's been known as maybe the Bible Belt of BC
00:30:11.120
or something. I think that was probably a lot of years ago. So, I think this is kind of exposing,
00:30:16.560
hey, I don't, if you cancel outdoor, peaceful outdoor Christian worship service,
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but probably not the Bible Belt anymore. It probably shows that you've been infiltrated.
00:30:27.920
You've been hijacked. There's obviously mass migration issues in BC. I think that there's
00:30:34.960
been takeovers of a lot of these towns that were known to be either revival centers or Christian
00:30:41.200
centers. I don't know that that's the case anymore. So, in one way, I think a lot more shock,
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because everything in Abbotsford, you know, for me, it's British Columbia. I wasn't really shocked.
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Yeah, I think that's a good, that's a very valid observation. It's
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probably thinking of Abbotsford as it was 20 years ago. But I was amazed in Montreal,
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and I know they've got a very woke mayor of Montreal, Valerie Plante,
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who actually fined a church for hosting you. This, to me, sets a huge precedent, a very dangerous
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precedent in Canada, because I'm not aware of anything, any law, any statute, any regulation
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that says a church needs a permit to host a pastor, an evangelist, a performer of any kind.
00:31:35.360
That's their right, that's freedom of religion. And yet, this church was fined $1,500, sorry,
00:31:42.320
$2,800 for hosting you. And did you find this to be almost the injury upon injury while you were
00:31:54.000
in Montreal? Not only did they say you can't perform at a public place, in the public sphere,
00:31:59.840
but the church that you put, that you formed, a Spanish Catholic church too, God bless them,
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they were fined for hosting. Did you find that absolutely shocking?
00:32:11.040
Yeah, I mean, you know, the, I think that they were just frustrated that we're not going to stop.
00:32:18.480
And I told them this, I mean, we have a five-year history, let us worship, we don't, nothing shuts
00:32:24.240
us down. Not the weather, not Antifa, not mayors, not governors. Like when we say we're going to come
00:32:29.440
somewhere and worship, we're going to do it. And I think that they just could not bear to see the
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fact that we were not going to be controlled. And so they shut down our first venue. Then when we
00:32:40.480
came to the church, they sent the police there to try to intimidate us. I told the police straight up,
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listen, we're going to do this. You're going to have to drag me off into prison while all this media
00:32:50.480
is around, you know, which isn't your government towards my government, which you guys are trying
00:32:55.920
to work on a deal right now. I don't think that's the best plan. So, and, and then we ended up doing
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it. It's like, well, we'll just find them, you know, like we'll, we'll just stick it to them. And
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it's like, well, now you're in serious breach of Canadian law and you're, you know, lawyers are
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salivating. We're working on currents and litigation right now against this because they really
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overplayed their hand and that, you know, they tried to, they tried to show that it was, you know,
00:33:26.880
it was a concert and it was planned as a concert and in order to do a concert, you need a permit.
00:33:31.920
And it's just like, no, this is a church service. It's what we do everywhere we go. We do the common
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things that we have in church services. And so we resist and I was proud of those pastors and those
00:33:44.720
people that showed up and in the face of enormous opposition, we saw, we saw fearlessness. And I
00:33:54.240
think that that is a picture of what God is doing all across Canada right now. He's raising up that
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remnant bride, that remnant strong body that's not going to be pushed around.
00:34:05.680
Well, praise, praise God for that. And I think you're, you're probably, you're probably right,
00:34:13.280
because if nothing had happened to your tour, I think people would not have noticed how bad things
00:34:20.960
are in Canada. I don't think it would have been that evident, but because you were persecuted,
00:34:26.720
literally persecuted, harassed and canceled, Christians across the country noticed. And now they're saying,
00:34:34.240
what has Canada come to? And I think they're ready to join, let us worship, to join the spirit of that
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march and to fight back and to push back against this. And during the Biden administration, the justice
00:34:50.000
system in the United States was weaponized against Christians, pro-lifers thrown in jail for
00:34:56.640
ridiculously long sentences for peaceful protest, parents at school board meetings concerned about
00:35:04.240
Since policies like critical race theory were arrested, thrown out, are you optimistic that
00:35:14.320
that is at least being changed under President Donald Trump? He has come out against
00:35:21.280
there being more than two genders, there's male and female, there's a biological male and female.
00:35:27.040
Common sense to most of us wasn't to Joe Biden and his administration.
00:35:31.280
And he's also come out against DEI policies and critical race theory policies. Are you optimistic that
00:35:40.480
freedom of religion is looking a lot freer under President Trump than it did under former President Biden?
00:35:46.800
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I have to go here. So I'll answer this quickly. And then I got to jump to another
00:35:54.000
interview. But I, I think that, you know, the sobering reality of what we experienced in Canada is,
00:36:02.080
is potentially what it could have looked like if President Trump didn't win. And I think that this is
00:36:07.040
one of the reasons we fought so hard and prayed so much and believed so much that, you know,
00:36:14.240
it was looking really dark in the Biden administration, the attacks on, on, on churches, weaponizing the IRS,
00:36:21.280
weaponizing the DOJ to go after pro-life activists. I mean, I could go on and on and on. And so now we're so
00:36:29.600
grateful because we have a president that is standing up in religious liberties, the right to worship that does
00:36:35.200
fear God. I mean, I just did a worship record inside of the White House. I mean, it's incredible. So yeah,
00:36:41.920
we're really grateful. And I'm, I'm, I'm really gives me a lot of hope that if God can do it in my country,
00:36:48.800
that he can do it in Canada as well. So yeah, I'm praying that those days of deliverance would come soon to
00:36:56.560
the people, the frozen chosen in Canada. And, and that's what I want to stand for.
00:37:02.880
Question. People wanting to go to your concerts in Western Canada. Do they need to register online
00:37:08.000
or is it first come first seated? Oh, no. We would just love for them to come. Thank you
00:37:12.720
for spreading the word. We would love for them to show up. It's all going to kick off actually two
00:37:19.440
weeks from today on August 20th in Winnipeg. Now that venue has been canceled, but we're working
00:37:25.600
on, we have several options for where we're going to be. So we're going to be in Winnipeg,
00:37:30.160
August 20th. The 21st, we're going to be in, um, in Saskatoon, which is they're holding strong.
00:37:38.160
Praise God for Saskatchewan. The 22nd of August, we're going to be in Edmonton, uh, 23rd, we're going
00:37:44.800
to be in Kelowna and the 24th, we're going to be in Abbotsford. So all of those cities we are coming to,
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um, just some of the venues may change. So if you go to lettuceworship.us, you can find out more info,
00:37:55.600
or if you go to lettuceworship.ca, you can go there and you can also sign our petition. I think
00:38:00.320
we've almost got about 22,000 people that have signed it so far. So raise your voice, raise up a
00:38:06.640
sound and, and see God, uh, change things across the nation. Great. We will be promoting it, Sean. And
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thank you for coming back to Canada, despite the reception you got the last time. God bless you.
00:38:22.320
God bless your work and we're fighting together. And thank you so much for giving, showing Canada
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what it needs to do to get back to God and God bless your work. And we'll see you again,
00:38:35.440
Sean. Thank you so much for joining me today. It's been a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you so much.
00:38:40.640
Thank you for all your work. Thank you for reporting. I love it. Keep sending us the
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articles. We'll keep sharing them. God bless you. Okay. Will do. Bye for now.
00:38:50.720
Yes. Bye for now. And that interview was stepped on suppressed big time by YouTube and share this
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broadcast with your friends and family because YouTube won't, they don't want this interview to
00:39:05.600
be seen. They're proud of the way, apparently of the way the Canadian government behaved.
00:39:12.480
I'm not proud of it. I think it was absolutely appalling. And I will be promoting Sean's
00:39:19.200
appearances. He's starting at the gates of Western Canada in Winnipeg. He's going all the way to the
00:39:24.880
West Coast, just about Abbotsford. You know, that's not far from, from Vancouver. It's just literally
00:39:31.680
an hour away. I know that area very well. For all of you who did watch the day, I want to thank you
00:39:37.440
for watching and thank you for supporting this, this show. And is it frustrating to put an interview
00:39:44.080
like this? I think it's pretty high quality to put an interview like this on and have YouTube
00:39:49.520
relegate it to the basement to share it with nobody and to have an audience so small. Yeah,
00:39:55.760
it's very frustrating when, when other people are putting up broadcasts that, you know, I really don't
00:40:02.480
think are all about other people's interviews. So that is frustrating. I'll share that with you.
00:40:10.560
But I'll share this with you as well. I think what Sean is saying is very integral to the future of this
00:40:18.160
country. Maybe we don't have a long future, but as long as we're here, we have to keep fighting. And that's
00:40:25.440
the message of this station. We resolve to resist here. And I wrote a column for Human Events and the, I
00:40:32.400
didn't even pick the headline. I had a, I had a much more pessimistic headline, but the headline
00:40:37.680
chosen for that story was, Sean Puch hasn't given up on Canada. Canadians shouldn't either. And I sent
00:40:47.760
that column via X to Sean. He reposted that and said, that was the message I preached last night in
00:40:58.960
Toronto. So when I read that, I said, you know, we still need, even, even as the gates seem to be
00:41:07.280
closing, even as the curtain seems to be descending, as the curtain seems to be falling on our freedom
00:41:14.640
in this country, let's keep fighting back. Let's never miss an opportunity to say no. And let's never
00:41:22.560
miss an opportunity to say yes to our rights, to our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly,
00:41:30.160
and our freedom of religion. I don't care if you're watching this today and you don't care about
00:41:37.120
Christianity or evangelism. You think they're all corrupt. Maybe some of them are, but you do care
00:41:44.800
about your freedom of religion, your freedom of expression, your freedom to believe whatever you
00:41:49.280
damn well want to, without the government stepping in and saying, sorry, you're not allowed to look at
00:41:55.760
that book. You're not allowed to read that speech. You're not allowed to see that video because
00:42:01.440
we said so. That's not the Canada. And here's the t-shirt I'm wearing again today, and I wore that
00:42:08.000
during Sean's interview. I am a Canadian, a free Canadian. Remember that? It came from the Canadian
00:42:13.600
Bill of Rights in 1962, authored by then Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker.
00:42:21.680
And in many ways, the Bill of Rights is much more eloquent and much more relevant to freedom
00:42:27.520
than the Charter of Rights, which at times can be very vague because that was just, that was,
00:42:31.840
sorry, Pierre Trudeau's invention. And Pierre Trudeau could be very vague about what rights we actually
00:42:38.400
possessed in this country, just as his son, Justin Trudeau could be very uncertain about what fundamental
00:42:46.400
freedoms meant to Canadians. Well, this interview this morning that you saw was all about fundamental
00:42:53.360
freedoms. And that one fundamental freedom we talked about, of course, was not just freedom of
00:42:58.160
religion, but freedom of speech and your freedom to read, your freedom to watch, your freedom to believe
00:43:06.160
what you choose to. And that's the message I'm going to continue to get across on this station.
00:43:15.280
And I thank you for watching today. I'm just going to show you the story because
00:43:18.880
and I'm going to thank this person tomorrow on the show. But thank you for going out and buying some
00:43:30.080
of this merchandise. You're helping us out in a big way right now. And I'll be back in a moment.
00:44:50.280
And we've got some great shows coming up for you in the next couple of days.
00:44:56.340
We haven't nailed down the day or the time yet.
00:44:58.800
Well, it's probably going to be the usual 10 o'clock live show.
00:45:02.440
Just a question whether she's on Friday or Monday or Tuesday.
00:45:06.060
Naomi is just always running around the world, but she's a fantastic guest.
00:45:09.820
I know you've seen her on the show two or three times in the past, and I can't wait to talk to her again about what she's up to.
00:45:17.380
And my good friend, Neil Oliver, that Scottish philosopher, Scottish pundit, Scottish wise man, really.
00:45:31.700
He will be on the show in the next couple of days as well.
00:45:35.300
And we're going to be talking about the Online Safety Act in the United Kingdom and how it's continually getting worse.
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This has been David Creighton broadcasting to you live from Ottawa for Stand on Guard.