Stand on Guard with David Krayden - September 14, 2023


Day 7, Freedom Trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich + Liberals Retreat Again! ｜ Stand on Guard Take 5


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

139.6019

Word Count

1,744

Sentence Count

135


Summary

Tamara Leach and Chris Barber's Freedom Convoy is on trial in the federal court in Ottawa, Canada. They are charged with obstructing justice and conspiracy to commit a crime. They claim they are innocent and that the charges are politically motivated.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We got no front door, good buddy, mercy sakes of life. Looks like we got us a convoy.
00:00:06.460 Canadian country singer Paul Brandt here. I've been listening with my wife and two kids,
00:00:11.280 and we want to say thank you for all you're doing in defense of civil liberties and freedom.
00:00:15.620 You're inspiring the world, and we're standing with you.
00:00:21.620 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:00:24.620 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:39.860 Hey, didn't you love that clip at the very beginning?
00:00:43.620 That picture of the truck going through, that has been really going viral all over social media today.
00:00:50.580 And I think it just depicts the collapse of the Liberal Party and the Trudeau government.
00:01:00.280 It's been day seven of the Freedom Trial.
00:01:04.500 I'm calling it the Freedom Trial, the Tamara Leach-Chris Barber trial here in Ottawa at the Ottawa Provincial Courthouse.
00:01:14.820 It has been getting not a lot of attention so far.
00:01:19.340 And the last few days have been kind of boring.
00:01:22.980 But that's because the prosecution is trying to bore people to death.
00:01:28.180 But you know, the funny thing is, everything, everything that they're showing,
00:01:34.900 all of the videos of news conferences and various social media appearances by Tamara Leach and Chris Barber,
00:01:46.380 all point towards the protests being peaceful.
00:01:51.240 I can't tell you how many times I've heard both of these people not only encourage,
00:01:58.340 but demand that the protesters be nonviolent,
00:02:04.380 that they accommodate the public,
00:02:07.340 that they not do things that are going to disturb or bother residents of Ottawa,
00:02:13.280 that they cooperate and obey the police.
00:02:17.140 Heard that timeless throughout the week.
00:02:20.860 It's quite clear.
00:02:22.780 The video has been absolutely fascinating.
00:02:26.980 And you know what?
00:02:27.660 As we're sitting there, listening to this,
00:02:33.000 as the trial continues, we're on day seven.
00:02:36.300 It just concluded.
00:02:37.760 I just came back from it.
00:02:40.320 What's happening in London, Ontario this week?
00:02:42.500 The Liberal Caucus is meeting.
00:02:45.960 Now, what we know that they've already talked about and they're raising concern about is housing,
00:02:54.880 affordable housing in Canada, which is virtually non-existent.
00:02:58.000 Trying to rent an apartment in any major Canadian city.
00:03:03.320 And I tell you, it's at least 150%, 200% higher than an average mortgage.
00:03:13.960 It is virtually impossible to rent a one-room apartment here in Ottawa and Vancouver, Calgary,
00:03:22.760 all Canadian major cities.
00:03:26.360 So, yes, they're talking about affordable housing.
00:03:28.500 They're also talking about the fact that Pierre Polyev,
00:03:31.020 the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada,
00:03:33.380 is certainly gaining in popularity.
00:03:38.140 And his party is eclipsing the Liberal Party and the NDP.
00:03:41.720 Polyev is rising in the polls and that's scaring a lot of Liberals.
00:03:49.140 So, are they confronting Dustin Trudeau about his leadership?
00:03:54.080 He was late for this caucus meeting, this retreat.
00:03:57.440 They're always retreating, aren't they?
00:03:59.300 First of all, the Cabinet retreated to Charlottetown PEI.
00:04:02.880 And that was really a completely ineffectual and ineffective get-together.
00:04:09.340 Now they're retreating to London, Ontario.
00:04:12.780 And what's happening?
00:04:14.940 Are they challenging Trudeau's leadership?
00:04:17.380 Maybe a bit.
00:04:19.120 But I want to know, are they asking questions about why are we embarrassing Canada
00:04:24.900 with this trial of two peaceful protesters?
00:04:29.040 Why are they putting so much time, effort, and money into a trial that initially started
00:04:35.120 as a 16-day affair, which is about 15 days too long,
00:04:39.080 and has already expanded beyond 20 days,
00:04:41.660 and I predict is going to go into mid to late November,
00:04:44.880 because of the minutia that has been introduced by the prosecution.
00:04:48.400 Everything, everything is being introduced.
00:04:53.580 And it's become not just about two people,
00:04:56.040 it's become the entire Freedom Convoy is on trial.
00:04:58.760 And I would argue your freedom of expression,
00:05:01.720 your freedom of protest, our freedom is on trial,
00:05:04.580 and that's why I call it the Freedom Trial.
00:05:07.700 Now, I went to the Freedom Convoy protest 2022 to find out what happened.
00:05:12.480 I was there during those frigid days into the night.
00:05:16.720 And I say it again, I never saw the streets cleaner in Ottawa.
00:05:23.600 These people looked after their messes.
00:05:28.720 If they created any, they cleaned them up.
00:05:31.280 They shoveled snow around monuments.
00:05:33.980 They didn't desecrate them, they shoveled snow around them.
00:05:36.780 And they behaved better than any other protesters I've ever seen in Ottawa.
00:05:43.980 They did not come to destroy.
00:05:46.260 They came to instruct and educate.
00:05:50.140 I talked to a woman today.
00:05:51.740 She's been sitting beside me in the courtroom.
00:05:54.840 And we share a military background.
00:05:58.300 I won't be more specific than that.
00:05:59.740 But she was telling me about what got her interested in this trial.
00:06:06.920 And it was because she went to see what was really happening in February, January, February 2022,
00:06:13.580 when the Freedom Convoy was in town.
00:06:15.700 She was watching the mainstream media like CBC.
00:06:18.380 She got one story there.
00:06:20.280 She was at that time watching independent media.
00:06:24.960 And she was getting a completely different story.
00:06:27.100 And she said, I'm going to go there myself and find out what's going on.
00:06:30.140 I'm going to go there and talk to people and see who's telling the truth, the mainstream media or independent media.
00:06:35.200 So she went downtown Ottawa and she started talking to people and saying, what are you doing here?
00:06:41.720 Why are you here?
00:06:43.780 What's this all about?
00:06:45.580 And is there any violence going on?
00:06:48.120 Are you bothering people?
00:06:49.580 Are you upsetting people?
00:06:50.660 Are you making messes?
00:06:51.600 Are you stealing food from the local good shepherds of hope?
00:07:01.020 And she found out that was not true.
00:07:02.900 She found out the independent media were telling the truth.
00:07:05.240 Now, I really want to thank her for telling me that story because it reminded me of so many people.
00:07:10.160 They decided to find out for themselves.
00:07:13.340 And that's exactly what she did.
00:07:15.460 She came to Ottawa to find out for herself.
00:07:18.800 And I did too.
00:07:20.120 I wanted to find out by talking to people and not staying in a bunker in February because it was too cold to go outside and just talking to a bunch of people who agreed on the same assumption that this was somehow an occupation of Ottawa by a bunch of dangerous fringe people.
00:07:41.840 I didn't buy that story.
00:07:43.260 So I went out and talked to people myself and I found out these were just ordinary Canadians, truckers, protesters who supported them, people who didn't agree with the mandatory vaccine and the other mandates that came along with COVID-19 and that Justin Trudeau was pushing down people's throats.
00:08:00.840 They didn't agree with that.
00:08:02.100 And that's why they came to Ottawa.
00:08:05.340 And that's why they protested.
00:08:08.140 So this has been an interesting week so far.
00:08:10.460 I'm back at the trial tomorrow.
00:08:12.480 There's supposed to be some more action, some more activity, some questioning, some cross-examination.
00:08:17.940 We might even see the first witnesses appear.
00:08:20.840 And believe me, this will be interesting to hear some of this testimony.
00:08:25.100 I'm looking forward to that.
00:08:27.180 I want to thank Desi Media, who's been there on many occasions to get some great footage.
00:08:33.360 We've used that.
00:08:34.040 We used that last Friday.
00:08:37.700 I've been trying to get pictures.
00:08:39.320 It's difficult to get pictures.
00:08:41.460 You can only take pictures when the people leave the courtroom, the courthouse.
00:08:48.360 They've got to be on the street and sometimes they don't linger.
00:08:52.180 So it's difficult to get pictures that are different.
00:08:55.760 We've got a couple we're going to use in this segment I got yesterday.
00:09:01.860 But I've been talking to everybody.
00:09:04.880 And I tell you, this trial is very interesting.
00:09:09.600 And I'm going to make another prediction.
00:09:11.360 I think the defense is going to win this.
00:09:15.720 I think they have a strategy that is winning.
00:09:19.060 They have a winning strategy.
00:09:20.400 They understand what they need to do to win.
00:09:23.520 I don't think the prosecution has a clue what it's doing, except to run a PR exercise.
00:09:32.020 And even that seems to be going terribly wrong for them.
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00:09:57.880 It's going to get worse, not better in this fall session.
00:10:02.660 That's why we have to work against Justin Trudeau.
00:10:05.200 We have to resolve to resist.
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00:10:17.660 Let's push those numbers up.
00:10:19.300 Let's keep going.
00:10:20.060 I've met so many of you at the trial this week who watch these broadcasts, who are following what I'm doing.
00:10:25.220 Thank you for coming up to me and shaking my hand and saying, thank you, David, for the work you're doing.
00:10:32.380 And thank you that you don't put any politician on a pedestal.
00:10:38.600 Thank you for remembering they're supposed to be working for us and not us for them.
00:10:43.680 I never forget that.
00:10:45.560 Thanks for watching today.
00:10:46.700 We'll be back tomorrow with another broadcast of Stand on Guard, and I'll give you an update on what's happening with this trial.
00:10:57.760 Exciting times for Canada.
00:10:59.940 And we could see victory, not just for Tamara and Chris, but for freedom, for freedom in Canada.
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