Stand on Guard with David Krayden - 🚨NOT Guilty Verdict! 🚨 Coutts Freedom Convoy Protesters ACQUITTED But Still Jailed ｜Stand on Guard

00:00:00.000 Welcome to another Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton.

00:00:07.280 When we come back, not guilty. Two of the Coutts Four found not guilty by an Alberta jury of conspiring, plotting to murder the RCMP.

00:00:21.340 And an added bonus today, a Fraser Institute report on how much you're being taxed when we come back.

00:00:30.820 So we are in a very precarious position in this country. We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.

00:00:51.340 Hey, like it. Smash the like button. We beat the censorship yesterday. We beat the suppression yesterday with that report on that outrageous request by former defense minister, current emergency preparedness minister, Harjit Sajjan, to use a bunch of military people as a backdrop for a Punjabi pop star.

00:01:17.500 This story was incredible. It just has gone through the roof because people can't believe the gall, the nerve.

00:01:25.260 I mean, whether or not these guys in uniform, in uniform, are supposed to be standing there for what, a couple of hours looking like idiots? 0.99

00:01:33.640 Were they supposed to be singing and dancing? I don't know. The request was denied, though. 1.00

00:01:38.360 I think I don't know if I made that clear enough in the report yesterday.

00:01:43.680 The request was denied by D&D, by the Canadian Armed Forces, because it was not deemed to be operationally necessary.

00:01:53.140 Well, no kidding. But that's never stopped the liberal government from abusing the Canadian military in the past.

00:02:01.100 Clearly, the military pushed back on this one because they know how shallow the liberal support is and how Sajjan is already in political hot water for a series of stupid political decisions, missteps. 0.98

00:02:18.420 So they figure they could say no. And the CDS general Wayne Ayer, I don't I'm not a fan of who he was the outgoing CDS at that time. 0.82

00:02:28.460 He's just he's gone now. But I think I guess he figured he could say no.

00:02:32.180 He could push back one more time in his career before going off into retirement.

00:02:37.060 And he apparently did that. So there was any confusion.

00:02:40.080 Yeah, the request was approved by Sajjan. He's he wanted it to happen.

00:02:47.680 Current Defense Minister Bill Blair lent his support.

00:02:51.440 The CF, the Canadian Armed Forces said no, can't do it. 1.00

00:02:57.880 So that that doesn't excuse how stupid the request was. 0.98

00:03:02.800 I just wanted to clarify that. Let's get on to today's news, because it's really quite big. 0.98

00:03:07.380 Two of the Coutts four, you know, those Coutts four who were part of that blockade.

00:03:13.660 And the Alberta border.

00:03:17.020 And these guys were arrested February 14th, 2022, day one.

00:03:23.560 Of the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

00:03:27.500 Ironically, of course, the situation at the border had been diffused, just as it had in Ontario.

00:03:34.700 So there was absolutely no rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act.

00:03:40.180 There was still a peaceful protest going on in Ottawa.

00:03:43.500 But the blockade of the border had stopped.

00:03:47.160 And on the very day the Emergencies Act was invoked by Justin Trudeau, the Coutts four were arrested.

00:03:54.260 And they've been in jail ever since.

00:03:55.940 Now, two of these guys accepted a plea bargain in April.

00:04:02.960 But the big news here this week is that the other two were found not guilty by this Lethbridge jury or jury in Lethbridge, Alberta jury.

00:04:14.040 This is Anthony Oleianic, not guilty, conspiracy to commit murder of a police officer.

00:04:22.180 He has been found guilty of possession of weapons for dangerous purposes and guilty of mischief over $5,000, guilty of possession of explosives for a dangerous purpose.

00:04:35.300 Now, I'm not going to get into that.

00:04:39.300 We know there were questions raised about why these people had these items in their possession.

00:04:47.460 There could have been perfectly innocent reasons for them.

00:04:50.120 They've been found guilty.

00:04:52.600 But they have not been found guilty on the more serious charge.

00:04:55.920 Christopher Carby, the other half of this pair, who were holding out, refused to go for a plea deal, and decided to let a jury decide their fate.

00:05:07.900 Not guilty, conspiracy to commit murder of a police officer.

00:05:11.960 Guilty, possession of weapons for dangerous purposes.

00:05:14.160 Guilty, mischief over $5,000.

00:05:16.140 And sentencing is expected for August 12th.

00:05:19.620 These guys are still in jail.

00:05:21.800 That's the point.

00:05:22.540 They've been in jail for what is, I couldn't believe the figure.

00:05:27.020 I had to add it up.

00:05:28.080 900 days.

00:05:28.960 Yeah.

00:05:29.740 Let's listen to this.

00:05:31.700 And, you know, there's the, there's the, there's the rap sheet right there.

00:05:40.200 And, you know, thanks so much for the work that Jason LeVing has done on this file.

00:05:47.560 He's been following it faithfully from day one.

00:05:49.920 I have not been following this story as closely as I've followed the trial of Tamara Leach and Christopher Barber, because that's right here in Ottawa.

00:05:59.080 I've been at the trial virtually every day when it's been on.

00:06:03.060 Axie is probably going to resume this month.

00:06:05.440 I'm glad I reminded myself of that.

00:06:07.500 And I've interviewed, of course, Tamara on several occasions to talk about this.

00:06:12.300 So I'm not as well acquainted with the Coutts Four.

00:06:15.160 But once again, this isn't, this is overreach by the federal government.

00:06:18.600 But this is once again, indicative of how the RCMP is in the pocket of Justin Trudeau.

00:06:25.640 But it's good news for these two.

00:06:27.200 There they are.

00:06:27.680 This is Chris and Anthony.

00:06:30.240 My God, though, still in jail.

00:06:32.800 And it doesn't look like they're going to get out on bail before August 12th.

00:06:39.100 That's like a week away, my friends.

00:06:42.880 Almost.

00:06:43.220 Well, that's a week away on Monday.

00:06:45.700 Yeah.

00:06:47.260 Here's a report filed by my friend from Rebel News.

00:06:52.260 Read their verdicts.

00:06:53.940 Justice David LeBrand, the judge overseeing the trial, asked the various parties, the two defense attorneys and the crown prosecutors, what's next?

00:07:01.760 Catherine Bayek, who is representing Chris Carver, said that the amount of time that her client had already spent in police custody in remand.

00:07:10.080 Remember, the two men have been held in custody.

00:07:12.940 They've been denied bail since they were arrested on February 14th, 2022.

00:07:18.080 That's like 900 days.

00:07:19.360 Bayek said that that time amounts to or exceeds whatever sentences he would receive for the two charges over which he was found guilty by the jury.

00:07:32.660 She requested that a bail hearing be set as soon as possible.

00:07:36.740 Now, lead prosecutor Stephen Johnston said in response that he is not yet prepared to concede bail.

00:07:43.980 Now, keep in mind that the basis of denial of bail to these two men was the severity of the charge over which they've now both been found not guilty.

00:07:55.940 Keep that in mind.

00:07:58.560 We'll get back to this in a second.

00:08:00.440 But the prosecution is still playing games here, still playing games with these people's lives.

00:08:06.120 They've been in jail since February 14th, 2022.

00:08:10.060 Yeah, that is about 900 days.

00:08:12.920 So, as Krejcik mentions here, that's longer than they would probably be sentenced to for the charges that they were found guilty on.

00:08:27.560 So, it's not a case that these are horribly dangerous people who can't be allowed out on bail.

00:08:32.720 They're still playing games with this, and it's nonsense.

00:08:34.980 Going forward, more positive things will come out of all of this, because eventually the truth will come out.

00:08:44.820 I can't even imagine what my son's going through right now.

00:08:49.480 In just 30 seconds, you'll know how the Canadian tax burden has changed over the past 60 years.

00:08:53.980 We'll get back to that in a second.

00:08:59.180 But that is so poignant.

00:09:01.780 That's Chris Carthbert's mother saying the truth will come out Sunday.

00:09:06.940 Well, I don't know if the whole truth got out.

00:09:09.640 But this could have gone a lot worse for these folks.

00:09:12.380 And not that I think in any way that should have happened, but the way the judicial system is working in Canada right now, we could have expected the worst.

00:09:23.220 And thank God there's still some honest juries out there and have found these guys not guilty on these severe charges.

00:09:29.640 This would have meant some pretty substantial jail time for them, I think.

00:09:33.800 So I hope Chris's mother is feeling a little better today.

00:09:40.240 And it is a lingering example of how the Liberal government overreached during the whole Freedom Convoy, which I was very much a part of reporting, from the Ottawa perspective anyway.

00:09:58.340 And this was absolute government overreach.

00:10:00.580 Let's go back to that video clip here.

00:10:04.560 And I've got a lot of slides to show you.

00:10:06.760 But this is an underreported story this week.

00:10:10.100 This is a Fraser Institute report that...

00:10:13.580 Two years.

00:10:15.120 In 1961, the average...

00:10:16.920 Back it up here.

00:10:17.800 I'm just going to back this up because this is really, really quite good.

00:10:21.960 This is a Fraser Institute report just released this week.

00:10:25.440 And it says how badly you are taxed.

00:10:28.540 In just 30 seconds, you'll know how the Canadian tax burden has changed over the past 62 years.

00:10:33.680 In 1961, the average Canadian family, including couples, couples with kids, and single Canadians, spent 34% of its income on taxes and 57% on housing, food, and clothing combined.

00:10:46.760 Fast forward 62 years.

00:10:48.380 The average family paid 43% of its income on taxes and 36% on the basic necessities of life in 2023.

00:10:58.540 Now, we're going to dive a little deeper into this.

00:11:03.520 But there's the slide illustrating this.

00:11:08.400 Now, this is absolutely shocking.

00:11:11.660 57% in 1961 of the average Canadian couple's income was going to necessities.

00:11:20.460 34% taxes.

00:11:22.560 Today, 36%.

00:11:25.220 That's almost just as marginally over a third of total income is going to necessities.

00:11:32.780 That's food and shelter.

00:11:36.020 Now, you ask, what's the brown area there in 2023 and the gray area in 1961?

00:11:43.060 That's discretionary spending.

00:11:46.660 That includes things like alcohol and tobacco, but it also includes things that are not so discretionary, like health care, like transportation, like education.

00:12:01.340 These are things that are not, you know, not exactly essential if you never want to go anywhere, of course, if you just want to sit in your house and have a subsistence living.

00:12:15.560 But the point is, people were spending less on that in 1961, and they're spending more on that in 2023.

00:12:23.480 But they're paying 43% of their total income on taxes, and they have virtually nothing left over to spend on extra things.

00:12:42.220 This is what is so fascinating about this.

00:12:45.740 Let's have a little, yeah.

00:12:52.060 Now, 43% of your total income on taxes, that is outrageous.

00:12:55.760 It's no wonder people are making decisions about what they can afford.

00:13:01.580 Not exactly overreported this week.

00:13:10.820 The Toronto Sun picked it up.

00:13:12.200 The Sun Chain picked the story up.

00:13:14.100 Thank God, because the Fraser Institute does marvelous work.

00:13:17.100 I've covered their work in the past.

00:13:19.080 They have done superlative research on Canadian health care and how much it really costs.

00:13:27.300 It's not free.

00:13:28.400 If anyone out there thinks your health care is free, you're not filing taxes every year because you can see how much of your provincial tax is sucked up in health care.

00:13:44.600 We are paying more in health care dividends to the government than it would cost to pay for private insurance.

00:13:55.100 The Fraser Institute has demonstrated this.

00:13:59.260 We're not saving any money.

00:14:01.440 And we're getting second, third rate health care in return because it's awful.

00:14:06.440 It's just awful.

00:14:07.860 I mean, look at this.

00:14:11.020 It's going up, up, up every year.

00:14:15.380 Increasingly going up.

00:14:16.500 There's a few dips there, but under Trudeau, massive, massive spending.

00:14:28.300 And you wonder why?

00:14:30.500 Where's your tax dollars going?

00:14:33.340 Trudeau government spends twice as much as it takes in, in revenue.

00:14:38.920 I wrote this story for the post-millennial back in March.

00:14:43.800 It's so awash in debt.

00:14:46.500 That it's actually spending twice as much as it receives in revenue.

00:14:49.540 That hasn't changed since the last budget.

00:14:51.480 The last budget didn't even pay for the spending programs.

00:14:55.560 It just increased the national debt.

00:14:58.500 Trudeau knows this. 1.00

00:15:00.500 He thinks that you're so stupid, you don't know it. 1.00

00:15:04.760 But let me read from this report for a minute because it's, 1.00

00:15:08.180 it is absolutely astounding what's been going on here.

00:15:14.340 Okay.

00:15:16.500 The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family

00:15:21.500 from 1961 to 2023, including all types of taxes.

00:15:25.780 That bill has increased by 2,700% since 1961.

00:15:31.580 Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single expenditure for the average Canadian

00:15:36.420 family.

00:15:37.100 Expenditures on shelter increased by 2,006%, food by 901%, 2,006%, sorry, food by 901%, and clothing by 478% between 1961 and 2023.

00:15:51.660 The increase in the tax bill has also greatly outpaced the increase in the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average price that consumers pay for food,

00:16:03.760 shelter, shelter, clothing, transportation, health, and personal care, education, and other items.

00:16:07.960 In 1923, the average Canadian family earned an income of $109,235.

00:16:21.800 $109,235, and paid total taxes equaling $46,988.

00:16:32.200 Sounding, it's getting very close to 50%, half of your income going right back to the government.

00:16:38.240 And if you're paying capital gains taxes, two-thirds are going straight back to the government.

00:16:46.820 In 1960, when the average family had an income of $5,000, paid a total tax bill of $1,675.

00:16:54.420 Now, you often hear people talk about how it was possible at one time in decades past to live a comfortable life on a single income.

00:17:10.280 Both parents didn't have to work just to pay the taxes and the bills, just to pay the mortgage or the rent,

00:17:19.500 just to keep the food in the refrigerator, and never mind the rest of the things that are sort of necessary but not absolutely essential.

00:17:31.040 Like owning a car, like putting gas in a car.

00:17:35.580 The government actually thinks that's not an essential thing anymore.

00:17:38.960 I mean, that's just, that's a luxury.

00:17:40.780 Because we're being pushed further and further down a globalist timeline, a globalist agenda,

00:17:46.880 where we're not going to own anything.

00:17:48.060 We're not going to own our house.

00:17:49.620 We're not going to own a car.

00:17:51.020 We're not going to have the means to travel anywhere.

00:17:55.600 Because it's all going to be banned under environmental regulations.

00:18:00.860 So that's where this is going.

00:18:03.420 But you do recall people saying it was possible at one time,

00:18:06.980 not that long ago in Canada's history,

00:18:10.920 that lived comfortably on a single income.

00:18:13.200 Yes, it was usually the male, the father in the family, the husband,

00:18:18.880 who was the chief breadwinner.

00:18:23.340 Until the mid-1970s, the two-income families were quite rare in Canada.

00:18:30.580 But it was possible.

00:18:32.040 And I'm not arguing whether or not the husband or the wife should be working or shouldn't be working. 0.95

00:18:35.960 I'm saying it was possible to survive on one income, whether that income came from the husband or the wife. 0.55

00:18:42.080 In terms of this argument, it's irrelevant.

00:18:45.000 It was possible to live comfortably and not worry about ending up in the poor house

00:18:51.320 or losing your house because you couldn't afford the mortgage

00:18:54.900 or being kicked out or being evicted because you couldn't pay the rent

00:18:58.400 or not being able to go to the grocery store because you couldn't afford the price of groceries.

00:19:03.460 That was possible in Canada not so long ago.

00:19:08.100 And that's why this Fraser Institute report is so...

00:19:11.220 I've read their verdicts.

00:19:12.700 Sorry.

00:19:13.760 It's so interesting.

00:19:16.040 Because this is factual.

00:19:21.380 This is how the tax rate has gone up.

00:19:23.360 And this is how the necessities were paying 21% less.

00:19:28.780 21% less on necessities in 2023 than we were in 1961.

00:19:36.920 No wonder people used to have better dinners, diets.

00:19:42.780 You could afford a T-bone steak at least once a week.

00:19:46.080 You could afford to eat meat.

00:19:48.020 You could afford to eat well.

00:19:49.420 Because the price of groceries wasn't going through the roof

00:19:52.760 and you had enough left after taxes to eat well.

00:19:57.160 This is the evidence.

00:19:59.080 This is the way it was.

00:20:01.080 This is the way it is in 2023.

00:20:04.140 And once again, the Fraser Institute has scored a big one with this report

00:20:08.840 because it so accurately illustrates what the government is doing to us.

00:20:15.900 And what is the government doing to us?

00:20:17.100 The Trudeau government continues to screw us.

00:20:21.040 Just like the Trudeau government went after these guys.

00:20:28.180 Just like the Trudeau government tried to foist this kind of a charge on these two.

00:20:35.760 Just like they continue to harass through lawfare Tamara Leach and Chris Barber. 1.00

00:20:43.800 Oh, yeah.

00:20:46.380 Oh, yes.

00:20:48.420 I'm going back to their trial this month, and I have to confirm it's on again.

00:20:54.740 But this thing started Labor Day last year for mischief.

00:21:00.400 A couple of counts of mischief.

00:21:01.960 They're still battling their way through the trial because the government is trying to destroy them.

00:21:08.720 The government hopes they just collapse economically, financially, exhausted.

00:21:15.220 That's what the strategy has been.

00:21:17.940 Even though the prosecution, or the crown, as we say here in Canada, has presented such a god-awful case against them.

00:21:29.580 Such a ridiculous, at times, case with absolutely no real evidence, blocking any real substantiation.

00:21:38.720 But they keep on moving forward with it.

00:21:43.120 It keeps on going, and this thing probably won't be resolved until September fully one year after it began.

00:21:52.140 And that's another example of the Trudeau government's overreach.

00:21:57.560 And why people who stand up against things like COVID mandates, people who stand up against government authoritarianism,

00:22:09.480 had better be prepared to pay some terrible price, some consequences.

00:22:16.300 Because this government is very vindictive.

00:22:19.480 And it's come after them.

00:22:21.580 And it wants to get them.

00:22:23.100 So hopefully, that trial is going to turn out in a way that complements the reality of the situation.

00:22:37.600 I'm looking forward to a not guilty verdict for both Tamara and Chris.

00:22:43.580 Because I followed them from day one of this thing.

00:22:46.860 And I know what this is all about.

00:22:48.580 This has been a political game.

00:22:51.100 This has been Stalinist.

00:22:55.240 This has been a show trial.

00:22:57.980 Just like this thing in Coutts was a show trial.

00:23:03.560 And I hope we see some of those text messages from the RCMP with the hearts suggesting they were really on side with these Coutts supporters.

00:23:16.320 So please tell us your whole game plan.

00:23:19.920 Because we just love you so much.

00:23:22.500 That's that sort of entrapment.

00:23:26.140 It makes everybody sick to their stomach about the state of policing in Canada, in the state of the justice system.

00:23:33.540 I want to see those text messages.

00:23:35.160 We're not seeing any of this stuff.

00:23:36.800 There has been such a heavy lid on this Coutts IV trial.

00:23:43.060 But hopefully now that it's resolved, we'll see some more of the information.

00:23:47.060 Anyway, thank you for watching today.

00:23:52.180 You are a fantastic audience.

00:23:54.340 I will be back again tomorrow on this long weekend.

00:23:59.960 And we have got so much more to discuss.

00:24:03.960 And stay free.

00:24:07.360 Don't take your freedom for granted.

00:24:09.200 Don't take democracy for granted.

00:24:10.940 Because we don't really have democracy in Canada anymore.

00:24:14.080 The government wants to get you.

00:24:15.460 It can't.

00:24:15.920 But when I see stories like this, and I see juries stand up to government pressure, I say, let's celebrate the small wins, the small victories.

00:24:30.600 And let's hope Chris and Tamara have a larger victory in the next coming few months.

00:24:40.220 That's all for today, folks.

00:24:41.540 Thank you so much for watching.

00:24:42.820 Let's have a look at your comments.

00:24:43.920 Let's see if there's anything.

00:24:51.480 Yeah.

00:24:52.060 Yeah.

00:24:52.500 No.

00:24:53.920 Dead on.

00:24:56.300 Yeah.

00:24:56.560 Yeah.

00:24:56.860 You're all reacting to the fact that these guys are still in jail.

00:24:59.840 No bail.

00:25:00.580 And the prosecution still doesn't want to let them out.

00:25:02.700 The Crown still doesn't want to let them out.

00:25:07.760 Yeah.

00:25:08.300 Yeah.

00:25:10.100 Sean Wilson.

00:25:11.780 RCMP should be disbanded.

00:25:13.920 I think so, too.

00:25:15.560 I think the RCMP has become as bad as the FBI in the States.

00:25:20.380 They are politicians.

00:25:22.440 They are in the pockets of the liberal government in this country and the democratic government in the States.

00:25:30.420 Thank you for your comments.

00:25:32.840 God bless you all.

00:25:34.000 We love you.

00:25:34.520 And we'll be back again tomorrow with more of the news you need to know.

00:25:38.820 We love you.

Stand on Guard with David Krayden - August 03, 2024

🚨NOT Guilty Verdict! 🚨 Coutts Freedom Convoy Protesters ACQUITTED But Still Jailed ｜Stand on Guard

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