Collapse of the Crown Prosecution, Day 43 of the Freedom Convoy Ottawa Trial ｜ Stand on Guard
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Tamara Leach and Chris Barber's trial continues in the Freedom Convoy trial. Today, the final day of testimony is in the books and the defence is wrapping up its case against them, but will they be acquitted?
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welcome back to another edition of stand on guard i am your host david creighton and it's
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tuesday august 20th 2024 thank you for joining me when i come back the latest
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on the freedom convoy trial and yes it continues and i'll let you know what's happening
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or as the case may be today with your night i've been at the freedom convoy trial all day got there
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just before 10 expecting to go right into the courtroom but of course we had some logistical
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problems again nobody in the court could tell me what was going on i went to courtroom number five if
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you've been to the ottawa courthouse hopefully for the right reasons you go downstairs and courtroom number
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five is right next to the stairs as you exit the judge is sitting there alone couldn't find any of
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the defense or prosecution lawyers anywhere asked around nobody seemed to know what was going on
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finally found out well lawrence greenspawn the lead attorney or tamara leach was indisposed he had
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had some other things had to take care of immediately so we were delayed by about an hour turned out to be
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about an hour and a half actually the time we finally got in there but what a day the testimony was
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incredible because we're down this could be the penultimate day in other words the day before the last day
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of testimony and these summations right now from the defense are really wrapping up the case it's they're
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not just concluding statements the defense is providing all of their analysis all of their efforts are
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focused on why tamara leach and chris barber are not guilty of all of the things i mean and and you
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know it's ridiculous because the story is not up yet but i was there writing today for the post
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millennial please have a look at www.thepostmillennial.com it's one of the best media outlets in north
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america and i'm very proud to be doing canadian and american news for it as a little a little uh plug
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for the tp or tpm as a short form goes but it's it's quite interesting because remember what tamara
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and chris are up against here and remember this trial began on september 5th 2023 we're almost a
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year away from that like literally two weeks away from this being a year old and if they end the
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testimony the summations on friday it's it ain't over because we got to come back for a verdict in
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early 2025 i'm told now i was told today in confidence that the crown wants to wrap this up
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by friday no i'm not talking about verdicts by friday but to get the statements done by friday i'm
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told the crown wants it i find that a little hard to believe because the crown has of course
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kept this trial going for as long as it's gone and it's it's what we call lawfare this is lawfare
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or warfare against tamara leach and chris barber that's what this is all about now please continue
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to like this station now because i see i see youtube is suppressing the numbers of people
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actually seeing it i'm looking at the monitor now yep youtube is suppressing it tell your phone your
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family and friends about this broadcast because it's very important what happened today people ask me
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i mean why are you attending the freedom convoy trial anyway i mean does it matter what the outcome
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is you bet it matters what the outcome is because if chris and tamara lose this if they're found not
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guilty all canadians are going to be found sorry if they're found guilty all canadians are going to
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be found guilty of opposing mandates during that pandemic of wanting the freedom to choose what to
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put in their bodies about the freedom to choose what to do when faced with that decision and about the right
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right not to have to wear a mask the right not not to obey arbitrary arbitrary instructions and i'm not
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going to say anything more about this because you know what happens and you get too much into yes we
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all know the vaccine was safe and effective yeah have to say that but of course we all know what the
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reality is don't we and i want to tell you i want to read a few things from the yet to be published story
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that i that i put together today because it's quite interesting because what we we had today was the
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trio a lawyer named eric granger he was up for the entire day eric lawrence greenspawn is up on friday
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and he tells me he will finish all of his summation on friday it's really and it's up to whether or not
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but once again i don't know if that's going to happen on friday or not i will be there
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on friday i'm not going to miss this because once again this is a trial
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that is significant to me it's very important to me
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tamara and chris to me are canadian heroes i said this today
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as i spoke to so many people who were there at the courthouse today both inside and out a lot of
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them attending the trial some of them have been there from day one and i've got an interview with
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a guy coming on here later who has literally been there from day one he's and he goes every day there
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on trial this is what like day 42 now of this trial it's outrageous a mischief trial that goes on
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for 42 days it's the longest mischief trial in canadian history possibly world history i heard
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a number of people say that today i'm going to i'm going to confirm that for you by the next time i
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come on the air i find that fascinating but if you consider what these two are facing here
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they pleaded not guilty the charges of mischief intimidation obstruction
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and other even more minor counts like i say this is the sort of nonsense that occurs at a wedding
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reception and never gets the court this is all about a kangaroo court and i shouldn't say that
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because the judge is being quite fair so that's perhaps the not the best analogy it's a show trial
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it's a political show trial that the government is putting on and you know what even though trudeau
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is the one who invoked the emergencies act who do you think is really doing the persecuting here
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yes trudeau is standing behind it all trudeau is the one who crushed the freedom convoy trudeau is the
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one who felt the pushback and actually had to stop persecuting canadians with his covet 19 mandates
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but who is really persecuting tamara leach and chris barber it's the provincial government of ontario
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that faux conservative government of doug ford the same faux conservative government of doug ford that
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supported the emergencies act wholeheartedly doug ford was right on there on x on social media saying
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good for you justin go after those truckers yes doug ford is the one persecuting tamara leach and chris barber
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just as much as justin trudeau did during the invocation of the emergencies act
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during granger's summation judge heather perkins mcveigh actually acknowledged that there was no
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evidence leach ever blocked a street or a road so clearly the judge is quite open to evidence
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and granger said a number of interesting things here
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he said the prosecution has been unable to cite a single example of tamara leach actually breaking
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the law and he said even if he put everything in context as the prosecution or the crown keeps
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granger noted that the crown keeps calling about talking about context being taken into account
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but even when the context is taken into account granger said
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and these things are properly considered your honor is required to do so there still remains
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there's no case against ms leach no case that is what
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team lawyers said today now i found that very fascinating i'm going to show you a picture here
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this was taken this week outside the courthouse and of course this was the first time during the
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trial we were allowed to photograph the two of them together because prior to i think it was june
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they were not allowed to be together even at the trial they could sit on the same bench
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but they had to leave the courtroom separately and they could not fraternize outside of the courthouse
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so i could never get a picture of the two of them together i we had to use old pictures when they
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were together at the emergencies act inquiry or during the freedom convoy protest itself but i
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couldn't get a fresh photograph of the two of them together because they weren't allowed to be in the
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same vicinity now they are so we got a number of pictures of the day of the two of them together
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and of course tamara posted one of the other pictures that i used at the on the last post
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millennial story on her ex account because she really was touched by it and i thought that was
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nicer to do that another really interesting piece of news today the notorious hoodie that the
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prosecution was so concerned about they thought it was conspiratorial that two people were wearing it
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including tamara leach and somebody else was wearing the same hoodie and of course the judge
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quipped at the time well maybe there was a sale on she's got a real sense of humor very very strange
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though how she's constantly interjecting during the testimony i i find that very strange and i've
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heard that from other other folks as well but like i say she is trying to be fair and objective so at
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least we we can we could be flat about that anyway here it is freedom convoy 2022 10-7 oh what does that
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mean the defense or sorry the prosecution wonder what does 10-7 mean is that some sort of
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conspiratorial term you find in the the dark internet or is it is that referring to insurrection
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is that 10-7 that must be an insurrection against government right no it just means that the
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truckers use this when they say they're out of service that their uh radio service is gone
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or or or it means defunct not working unserviceable as we would say in military so that's all 10-7
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amounts to and of course the defense really was having a good laugh over this and i talked to you
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know tamara leach about this too and she thought that was just hilarious but right into my old friend
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ezra levant today and ezra and i go back a long way we both worked at sun news at one time and
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i remember when he worked on parliament hill i was there as well working for an mp he was working for
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preston manning in his office and ezra has of course done wonderful work over the years and he's he'll
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always be a good friend and yes in conservative media we all you know work together to some degree
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because we're we are looking out not just for the bottom line we're looking out for values that matter
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for canadians we're looking out for principles and ideals and we're looking for stories that the
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mainstream media ignores or completely ridicules i just want to read a couple of tweets ezra put out
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today excuse my glasses this is tamara leach's sweetness positive positivity and
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in good nature is precisely why she was prosecuted in the show trial she was so much more compelling
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than nasty trudeau they had to neutralize her as a public personality they had to throw
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so these that this mud at her that's what this 43 day trial is 43 days
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trudeau so badly wanted the trucker convoy to turn into his version of the u.s january 6
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of course january 6 is democrat mythology but it is conventional wisdom in the mainstream media
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meaning they trudeau wanted the freedom convoy to be a an insurrection he wanted people to think that
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they were trying to take over the government forcefully and violently you listen to the testimony
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the testimony that the prosecution introduces every last example you have either chris barber
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or tamara leach saying please demonstrate peacefully obey the police do not disturb local citizens and on
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no chance any real prosecutor would have prosecuted this no chance justice department bureaucrats would
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have approved the 43 plus day trial it's a minor mischief case with no evidence and low chance of
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conviction this trial is about one punish tamara to defame tamara and the same goes for chris barber
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the same goes for chris barber how do you think this guy's supposed to work
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tamara leach how is she supposed to work when she's constantly transiting back and forth from western
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canada she's in medicine hat he's in saskatchewan swift current i believe and they're constantly going
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back and forth now they're here all week because the trial resumed on monday continued tuesday and we
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have to come back on friday so that's a whole week out of their lives that's a whole week out of the
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lives of tamara leach and chris barber and that's what this is all about for the prosecution and for
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justin trudeau and doug ford this is to make their life miserable their lives miserable this is about
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ensuring they can't have adequate employment this is about ensuring they spend money they don't have
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thank god they're being funded by small c conservative justice organizations i was told
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today and i won't say who told me but the legal costs for chris and tamara are now approaching one
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million dollars one million dollars could you afford that even if you sold your home could you afford that
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probably not your home's probably not worth a million dollars could you afford a million dollar
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trial nobody could unless they're a multi-millionaire then even then it takes a huge bite out of your
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behind takes a huge bite out of your income but they're expected to just absorb this and have the
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interference and have the inconvenience in their lives no problem these two are just sort of renegade
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freedom fighters aren't they and the government doesn't really give a damn about what happens
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to them this is all about justin trudeau's ego it's always been about justin trudeau's ego
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and like i say how much has the prosecution spent millions of dollars tracking down idiotic leads that led
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nowhere they got nothing i was there not a single piece of evidence to suggest either of these people
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broke the law and somehow the best that the prosecution can do is to tar them by saying well
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there were some individuals who said they were part of the freedom convoy who did some bad things
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well there may have been but i'm sorry neither tamara or chris were responsible for the actions
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of everybody who was living or visiting ottawa in february 2022 they were not responsible for the
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actions of everybody who said oh i'm associated with that freedom convoy group no they ran a very
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tight ship if you watch the instructions they gave and this nonsense that the prosecution is putting out
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that they somehow were co-conspirators that they were meeting together every day to conspire against
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the government conspire against the city of ottawa we're trying deliberately to set up gridlock in
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the city which is all balderdash we have text messages we have the social media messages from
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chris barber who looked after the trucks because he's a trucker himself he was the one who said don't
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block traffic he was the one who wanted a slow roll every morning or at least once or twice a week
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and not to park the trucks downtown and block traffic it was the ottawa police service that
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said park the trucks here no you're not doing a slow roll just park the trucks here they were the
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ones who created the traffic jam they were the ones who created the gridlock the ottawa police and that
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idiot police chief both of them the deputy as well the bald-faced the bald-headed guy who looked like
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mussolini they were the ones creating the problem downtown they were the ones creating the gridlock they
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were the ones creating the so-called occupation so that's what's come out of this trial as well
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this is all bs what you're being fed for the mainstream media you know there's a cbc reporter
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who has been attending this trial and he's been doing very good objective reports because the
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prosecution has been a clown show from day one and the defense team has done a bang-up job of getting
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the information out there getting the truth out there they've done an excellent job starting with
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with lawrence greenspond eric granger and diane maggis who's done a wonderful job she was up
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last week doing some fabulous work and i'm glad that their legal work is being paid for by conservative
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organizations that care and that there's conservative media there whether it's me or with rebel news
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or whether it's other groups who are reporting this fairly inaccurately and yes i know you can yes i i
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am very honest about the fact i want these two to be vindicated i want them to be innocent because i
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think this is like the second world war you're on either on the side of righteousness and right or
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you're on the side of evil and this is clearly one of those moments this is a bifurcation in our
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society between good and good and bad good and evil right and wrong the freedom convoy was about
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our freedom and these two put their their behinds on the line for us they put their own personal
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freedom on the line so that canada could be freer no other country in the world put up the kind of
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protest effective protest that these two did as part of the freedom convoy not the united states
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there was very little productive protest in the united states not anywhere in europe certainly not
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the uk which is a wasteland today which is a police state today but these the freedom convoy was the
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difference the freedom convoy made a difference for freedom in canada for freedom around the world
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and i talked to my american journalist friends and they say you know we didn't expect canada
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to come through this way we didn't expect canadians to fight back against the government this forcefully
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because canada always is prostrate in front of its government not this time we showed them
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actually tamara and chris showed them and i was there for that entire freedom convoy protest
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in the freezing february weather having a hell of a good time covering it because it was a great time
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celebrating freedom and knowing we were doing the right thing and that's why i continue to go to
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this trial i want to show you a clip here here's some of the people who were there today and you can
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did you leave your mouse on the bench that's that's what i heard yes i'm going back to it
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so what did you think of it so far today um i was drawing pictures today yeah so it's good yeah no i
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i basically he's just going to refute what was heard by the crowd so i don't think that's too
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hard that's not an untenable position they're going to take the the crown had nothing so
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this is all just uh fill in the blanks basically do you mind giving your name my name is frank peters
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frank peters and you're you've been following the trial from the beginning that every one of tamara and
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uh christmas trials previous ones and this week as well last week and uh what's your gut feeling
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oh we're going to win what that means yeah what does that mean well i think that i think they've
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dug too deep a hole they're going to have to have some type of victory or they're going to face some
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repercussions whether it's in another court or a lawsuit but i think they're going to have to get
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them on something i don't want to say what i think because i don't want to jinx it but i hopefully
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she seems to see that this is all just a charade um and i could tell by when she nods her heads and
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when she looks at the crowd to see what we react to certain things because we do react to certain
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things that are said and i think she looks more to the crowd than even inward to see what the general
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population's feeling in that room you know so there's a lot of common sense at play here and
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i think she's gonna she's gonna prevail i know one thing she's gonna definitely have to dot all
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their i's and cross her t's because if she doesn't there'll be a um mistrial or something stupid so
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i think she's just waiting it out so she can do her uh final report and um i think it'll be like
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time served um try not to get too much trouble have a nice day okay i'm just going to wander
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over here and talk to some other folks so you mind saying a few words yeah hi my name's cliff and
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ontario loves to jail grandmothers linda gibbons is in jail right now in toronto for pro-life stands
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for doing nothing she's almost done 20 years of her life in jail and they want to put another
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grandmother in jail right now in ottawa here in ontario her name is tamara lich so that's ontario
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does not like grandmothers and they want to jail them yeah that's why i'm here today and i'm hearing
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support good for you i just want to get a look at your posters here so what's your what's your gut
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feeling about this trial here do you think what i i know for a fact that that's a politically
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motivated trial for sure and it's a persecution and it's so obvious that it it defines itself i know
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for a fact that uh here in ottawa the chief slowly said it was a political trial uh diane deans who was
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on the police board in city council offered slowly a package to leave which made an interference
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politically so by definition this is a political trial and there's no reason it should have gone
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off this long and it's gone off it's obviously a persecution it's a show trial they're making an
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example of people like tamara not to mess with the system or the system will mess with you
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well certainly 12 months is a long time for a mischief trial and it still hasn't ended and it's
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the longest mischief trial in in canada i believe and the thing about this trial and the location this
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is a hot highly volatile area there's so many things going on here that they don't have the manpower to
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deal with what's going on in this city the violence um the crime and everything but yet they're
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persecuting a grandmother for what is it conspiracy to commit mischief well they're grasping at straws
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and throwing spaghetti against the wall and hoping for a conviction this is so obviously a political
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persecution do you mind giving your last name cliff or is this one yeah my name is cliff saint paul
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cliff saint paul yeah thank you for your time thank you bye-bye and that was cliff saint paul who was
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also doing some other activist work there and i take my hat off for him coming these people have
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come to this trial sometimes every day and they're out there outside the courthouse telling people why
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they're there and it's for the same reason i go as a journalist i think this story needs to be told
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and we can't ignore it and we have to support people who supported us during the pandemic because as i
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said the other day in the story that has gone viral monkey pox is the next one monkey pox is the next
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pandemic even though it's supposedly only something that is transmitted through same-sex male same-sex
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activity but yet we're all going to get it and yeah there's i we need a new vaccine
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what do you say billions of dollars again the big pharma to produce another vaccine
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that we're all going to have to take not this time brother not this time i'm i took it the vaccine twice
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the last time i think we learned a lesson during the during the last pandemic anyway thank you for
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watching today i will be back tomorrow with more of the news you need to know and i will be attending
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the trial when it resumes on friday that could be and i'm told will be the last day of testimony and
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we expect a verdict sometime in the new year 2025 isn't that incredible would you have believed it
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when we first joined me a year ago on september 5th 2023 on the first day of this trial would you
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believe we'd be at day 43 almost 12 months later before this thing was finally concluded
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at least in terms of testimony and we'd still be waiting for a verdict it's true folks that's what
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your country canada that's what our country canada has come to but let's stick together let's fight
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together let's resolve to resist and share this station with your friends and family tell everybody
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about it and we'll be back again tomorrow and please join me again on friday when i've got more
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to say about this trial thank you and god bless you