Day 10, Freedom Trial： Prosecution Continues to Fall on its Face in the Tamara Lich & Chris Barber Trial ｜ Stand on Guard Take 5
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Summary
Day 10 of the Freedom Convoy trial, where more witnesses are called to the stand and more questions are asked of the prosecution. The defence continues to do their best to make their case, but the prosecution seems to have no idea what to do with their witnesses.
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I've been here from the beginning and never left.
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So, we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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Welcome back to another Take 5 with Stand On Guard.
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And we're back with day 10 of what I am calling the Freedom Trial, the Freedom Convoy Trial
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Originally this trial was scheduled for 16 days.
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We just started hearing from some of the non-police witnesses for the prosecution today.
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Mr. Kim Ayotte, who is the general manager of the emergency preparedness section of the
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He was actually asked to leave the courtroom twice by the judge so they could discuss the
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matter between the prosecution and the defense.
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The prosecution again seemed completely ill prepared and really their methods were questioned
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by the judge, who is Justice Heather Perkins McVeigh.
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And she asked the prosecution, what are you trying to achieve with this?
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And he seems to think he's just talking about his job description.
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And the defense attorney, Lawrence Greenspawn, picked up on this right away.
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And he said, why is Mr. Ayotte appearing at this trial?
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Why did he come to this courthouse without a single note on his person, in his possession?
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And the judge actually mentioned this and said, how are you going to remember if the information
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you're relating to us today was firsthand information that you actually garnered yourself or secondhand
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information, which you were told, which becomes hearsay in any trial?
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Well, and the Mr. Ayotte simply said, well, it's not something that's on the top of my head,
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And he actually said that he was under the assumption that he was there today merely to talk about
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Now, I'm wondering, I've said this in the past, the prosecution presents a gong show at times.
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They don't seem to know what they want to do with their witnesses.
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Clearly, if he was just there to talk about his job description, we are wasting time.
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And by the afternoon, of course, he started to get into a little more detail about things.
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And once again, the defense cautioned him and the court about using words like riot, because
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he said, that's all we're going to see on the news tonight is that word riot.
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And it's interesting how this went today, because once again, the prosecution seems to be playing
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the best defense possible for Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
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And I have been there for some of the most difficult portions where it's quite difficult.
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It is tedious at times to listen to some of the evidence that's being presented.
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This is all part of the voir dire process of Canadian law.
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For those of you who are not associated with it, I would read it up, read up on it when you have a chance.
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But it can be fundamentally boring if you're watching from the seats in the courtroom.
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As a reporter, it can be very difficult to watch.
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But it's getting a little more interesting today.
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Anyway, as I said, the prosecution continues to, in my view, screw up.
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Now, interesting aside as well, Mr. Greenspawn also brought up the issue about these Ottawa residents
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But there's eight witnesses who are residents of Ottawa who are going to claim they had their
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They're probably going to be talking about an occupation, a ridiculous terminology, a ridiculous
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piece of terminology when describing a peaceful protest in Ottawa.
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But Greenspawn said again today, why are we listening to eight people that are all saying
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He mentioned at least one of the witnesses only answered two of the questions posed to
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That they're making a lot of allegations that they really can't back up.
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You know, he mentioned the fact that people are talking about license plate numbers, but
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they're not even sure whether those license plate numbers correspond to truckers who are
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actually in the convoy, who are part of the protest.
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And it's going to require more days of testimony for the defense to respond to these witnesses
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who are merely saying, hey, we had our lives upended.
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Because apparently they didn't like honking, even though it's been, I think, clearly established
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that the honking did not persist throughout the night.
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And that both Tamara Leach and Chris Barber cautioned the truckers not to keep honking all
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night long because it would be a real problem for the Ottawa residents.
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So the very suggestion that they were up 24 hours, seven days a week honking their horns
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I think the defense is continuing to maintain its hegemony in these procedures.
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The prosecution is continuing to demonstrate it is not really equipped to present this case
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The judge said, again, today when their witness said he was just there to give a job description,
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And if he didn't understand that when he got to the courtroom today, that's a problem.
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But before I go there, before I get to the courtroom, if I get there at all tomorrow,
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the million-person march is tomorrow morning, 9 a.m., Ottawa time, Vancouver time, Halifax.
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This is a one-million-person march for children.
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It's for the children who are being exposed to gender ideology and this pronoun nonsense
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Teachers' unions, not necessarily all teachers, but teachers' unions are pushing this gender
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There is no such thing as mass gender dysphoria in our schools.
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It's a political problem that's been totally manufactured.
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But yet, the government, the provincial governments, with the exception of Saskatchewan and New
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The federal government continues to push it through Justin Trudeau.
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He is an advocate of everything LGBTQ+, including gender ideology.
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He is pushing this agenda as strongly as he can.
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And he tells everybody that if you oppose this agenda, if you don't think as a parent you
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have a right to know, if your child under 16 years of age decides they want to change
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their gender or change their pronouns, that you don't have a right to know.
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And you certainly don't have a right to demand your permission to grant that.
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And we're expecting a counter-protest tomorrow that has been spawned and, as they say to
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themselves, co-conspired by the Ontario public unions, as well as others, who all got together
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last week on a Zoom call to say that they're going to do everything in their power to disrupt
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They don't think parents have a right to raise their children.
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And they have the gall, they have the nerve to suggest parental rights have something to
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Fascism is a state where the children can tell on their parents and get them sent to jail
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The family is destroyed and only the state matters.
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And that's what these teachers unions are pushing.
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So I think we might have stopped this counter-protest because we've embarrassed these teachers unions
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and show them up for what they are, a bunch of LGBTQ activists who are taking money from
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They're taking a salary for not doing their job on behalf of the members, but doing political
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And organizing counter-protest to parental rights marches.
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We're going to talk about that tomorrow at the march.
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We're going to talk about the fact that these public service unions are actually not representing
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And I have received many messages on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, emails from
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parents who belong to these unions that were present at this Zoom call.
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I'm not some sort of far-right ultra-conservative because I think I have a right to raise my children
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And they're condemning that union leadership, which is not leadership.
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And they're condemning the fact that these people want to upset, disrupt, stop a peaceful protest
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Enough is enough from Justin Trudeau and his identity politics.
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Enough is enough from Justin Trudeau and the provincial premiers who back him with their gender
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ideology, we want equality under the law, not special identity politics for every subdivided group
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Other places, it's at your provincial legislature or your local mayor's office, your town hall.
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I look forward to hearing that we not only had a million people marching on Wednesday,
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but we exceeded that number by all expectations.
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And the weather in Ottawa is going to be sunny and warm.
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I'll be back again tomorrow to tell you how the march went, what happened, more about the freedom trial
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of Tamara Leach and Chris Barber, and all beyond that until we hope.
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These two protesters who cared so much about freedom that they put their freedom on the line for all Canadians
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to end COVID mandates, they are vindicated and they walk free.
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