Stay Free - Russel Brand - Here’s the News: So Trudeau’s Emergency Act Was Illegal!

On January 6th, 2019, a group of farmers and their supporters took to the streets of Canada to protest the government's attempt to shut down border protests by Justin Trudeau's government. They were told they were "far-right" and "racist" and that their actions were "anti-Canadian." In the wake of the protests, a federal court ruled that the government had violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects freedom of speech and the right to protest without fear of losing their bank accounts. But was it really a national emergency? Or was it an act of censorship? And what was the real reason for the government s attempt to block access to information about the farmers' protest? Or was there a sinister agenda behind it? And is there any hope that we can learn from the lessons learned from this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand's Stay Free with Russell Brand? Stay Free, wherever you get your news and information. Remember, there's a new episode every single day to elevate your consciousness and elevate our consciousness together. Stay free! - Russell Brand To find a list of our sponsors and show your support for our work, go to gimlet.fm/support-freezingwondering. We'll be delivering a detailed breakdown of current topics that the mainstream media should be covering, but if they are covering, they're amplifying establishment messages and not telling you the truth. If they're not covering them, they re amplifying the truth, you won't be missing out on them. You can't help but wonder what's coming in your day to day after day, right? - and you'll get a podcast delivering a podcast every day, 7 days 7 days a week, 7 a week. - stay free, 7-days, 7, 7/7/19/8/9/19 You'll get the kind of content that's difficult to bring you a podcast that's hard to get a better idea of what's good, right in the truth about what's going on everywhere else? . We're all that you need to know, right here? , right here, everywhere else you can be sure to get it? Stay free, right there, everywhere you can get it, right on your favourite podcast, wherever they're listening, right at it's free, no matter where you're listening to it? ...and they'll be helping you?

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00:00:54.000 Remember if you become a supporter of our work we make additional videos every week like one on the farming protest that's very like the Canadian trucker story as a matter of fact and you'll see how it all connected to January 6th and you'll see how liberalism is using the idea of the far right To introduce more authoritarianism apparently to protect people.

00:01:12.000 We also did an exclusive video on an 8% increase in child deaths.

00:01:15.000 We give you the kind of content that's difficult to bring you publicly, and it's so vital that you support our work if you can, because as you know, we are facing a tyrannical and authoritarian force that wants to censor and shut down.

00:01:27.000 In fact, when I'm reading about some of this stuff, I think about the demonetization on YouTube, and I think about the government getting involved in our work, and I think about how the legacy media have operated recently regarding me personally.

00:01:37.000 And it's very important that if you can, you support our work.

00:01:39.000 Because there's no doubt we are sliding towards authoritarianism under the guise of liberalism.

00:01:45.000 And the Emergency Act and the attempt to evoke it by Justin Trudeau was one of those moments that revealed that neoliberalism and its sort of mask of cultural progressiveness This is an interesting force in contemporary politics.

00:01:57.000 Remember, people had their bank accounts frozen.

00:01:59.000 People went to jail.

00:02:01.000 We were told that it was a national emergency.

00:02:04.000 Canada has never evoked this act in its history.

00:02:06.000 So it was an unprecedented act with unprecedented consequences.

00:02:10.000 All the while, we were told that the truckers were racist, that they were Nazis.

00:02:14.000 Remember, this kind of rhetoric is becoming extremely common.

00:02:17.000 January 6th was an insurrection.

00:02:18.000 The farmers' protests are somehow far-right and racist.

00:02:21.000 It's almost as if If you attempt to resist globalism, which amounts to the advance of the agenda of a global elite attempting to control the world's resources and the world's democracies, if you oppose that, you will be called far-right.

00:02:35.000 Fortunately, in Canada, a ruling has found that Trudeau's government acted illegally.

00:02:39.000 Let's have a look at this story and see what it means for all of us.

00:02:43.000 Ottawa's weeks-long gridlock warranted the government's attention, according to the federal court.

00:02:49.000 But using the Emergencies Act to deal with it was not justified.

00:02:53.000 Justice Richard Mosley ruled that the federal government violated two sections of the Charter, freezing bank accounts was an unreasonable search and seizure, and the nationwide order to stop protesting violated the right to free expression.

00:03:07.000 One key factor, Ontario and Alberta had already shut down border protests, demonstrating it could be done.

00:03:14.000 These are things that you might have felt at the time when you heard bank accounts being frozen.

00:03:18.000 Surely these protests are freedom of expression.

00:03:20.000 Thankfully, Canada has a form of constitution in which those values and ideas are enshrined.

00:03:25.000 The bigger question is, would people ever attempt to exert this level of control again?

00:03:30.000 And are the legacy media going to be made accountable for supporting the claim that these truckers were racist and far right and that their protests were not legitimate?

00:03:38.000 This ruling had a different conclusion than the head of the public commission found last year.

00:03:42.000 Unlike his findings, the federal court ruling is legally binding.

00:03:46.000 Remember, since this, Canada has passed a new online safety bill that gives them incredible control over the media.

00:03:51.000 And of course, they said this was to amplify Canadian voices and to support diversity, all valuable and important ideas.

00:03:57.000 But one can't help but wonder if all of these online safety bills, we have one in our country, you've got them coming to your country, they're discussing them for the whole EU, are ultimately about controlling information so that trucker movements can't ever ever happen again. So that events where people protest

00:04:10.000 against government activity, state corporatism, globalist corruption, can't ever be discussed

00:04:15.000 or organized. You have to ask yourself in your own heart, do you think that these

00:04:19.000 regulatory bodies, the state and the way that they are sponsored and their globalist affiliations

00:04:23.000 care about you and your freedom? Or do they have other goals?

00:04:26.000 Saying I have concluded that the decision to issue the proclamation that would be the

00:04:30.000 invoking of the Emergencies Act does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness, justification,

00:04:36.000 transparency and intelligibility. 0.99

00:04:38.000 That means it was stupid, unreasonable and not transparent, which is how it seemed at the time. 0.99

00:04:43.000 I mean, what are they going to do next? 1.00

00:04:44.000 Applaud a Nazi in Parliament? 0.85

00:04:48.000 And he talks as well about some of the financial penalties they brought in in terms of seizing and freezing bank accounts because that affected people beyond just the people they were trying to affect.

00:05:06.000 That itself was an overstep.

00:05:08.000 One theme, whether it's in the United States of America and the anti-MAGA rhetoric continually in the media, the condemnation of agricultural movements, or indeed the story we're discussing now, the trucker movement, what becomes clear is there is a disdain at the level of media for ordinary working people.

00:05:23.000 And there is an ongoing effort and appetite to leverage ideas that legitimize the condemnation of ordinary working people. 1.00

00:05:30.000 They're racist, they're disgusting, they're stupid, they shouldn't have rights. 0.99

00:05:34.000 That emergency act was literally, we don't care about their rights, we should be able to bypass their rights, when in fact what they were doing was protesting quite unreasonable government activity that looks more and more unreasonable the more we learn about vaccine efficacy, the more we learn about the efficacy of lockdown, the more we learn about the financial relationships between the state and pharmaceutical organisations, the more we learn about the laws and indemnity that was granted to these organisations. 1.00

00:05:55.000 The truckers, it seems, were right, the media were wrong, the government were wrong. Without the scrutiny of independent media,

00:06:03.000 these kind of stories would just sort of fizzle out. Without the ability to use

00:06:06.000 social media to organize, the truckers would not be able to mount that

00:06:10.000 protest. Without the independent media and social media, knowledge of the frozen

00:06:14.000 bank accounts would not have risen to the point where enough people were

00:06:17.000 disgusted and aware that even if they sort of like politicians like Justin Trudeau

00:06:20.000 and their cute socks and their lovely hair and their love of

00:06:23.000 dressing up, shall we call it, I deeply, deeply regret. It seems that there are

00:06:27.000 questions to be asked of governments that have the aesthetic of liberalism, kindness,

00:06:32.000 compassion, progressivism, but the actions of authoritarianism.

00:06:35.000 This is the defining story of our time.

00:06:37.000 What's interesting as well in part of his judgment is he talks about how if he had been at the table, you know, making the decisions, that he does recognize that hindsight is 20-20, and that in the moment he may have even been persuaded that this was necessary.

00:06:52.000 It seems like that judge is trying to offer as much mitigation as possible.

00:06:55.000 Anyone could make the mistake of freezing bank accounts and throwing pastors into jail and all of that.

00:07:00.000 I might have even done it myself.

00:07:01.000 But the fact is, when you actually look at what's written down in our charter, it was illegal.

00:07:06.000 Presumably, so as not to have masses of people over Canada right now going, wait a minute, we were protesting, we were within our rights to protest, and they froze our bank accounts through people in jail evoking an emergency act, and we're not getting sufficient recompense.

00:07:19.000 What now?

00:07:20.000 What should happen as a result of this?

00:07:21.000 Do the people get their bank accounts unfrozen?

00:07:23.000 Are they compensated in some way?

00:07:24.000 What about the people that have done jail time as a result of those measures?

00:07:26.000 And what about Trudeau himself?

00:07:28.000 Is he allowed to continue to govern, given he's a person who reaches for an emergency act with the enthusiasm he reaches for the shoe polish on party night?

00:07:34.000 But that in the light of day, when you actually get to hear all the evidence and see what the applicants, in this case, the Civil Liberties Association, but others as well, then you get to see, well, actually, maybe it wasn't.

00:07:48.000 It's not helpful that in this footage you continually see militarized police force, which is another one of the ongoing stories of our age.

00:07:53.000 The militarization of police forces, the introduction of anti-protest laws, the evocation of emergency acts, the introduction of surveillance and censorship laws across the world.

00:08:02.000 That image there...

00:08:03.000 That's Canada.

00:08:04.000 That's not the United States.

00:08:05.000 That's not Chechnya.

00:08:06.000 That's Canada with all of its sweet freedom and sweet, sweet syrup acting like a tyrannical state while all the while telling you, look at my hair.

00:08:14.000 I'm called Chrystia Freeland.

00:08:15.000 That's the finance minister who has literal Nazis in her family background and actual Nazis in the parliament being applauded and a willingness to freeze people's bank accounts and intervene in people's private and financial lives in unprecedented ways. 0.99

00:08:27.000 Because it's an emergency.

00:08:27.000 Why?

00:08:28.000 Don't you think that there seems to be an appetite within these type of governments to create a state of emergency in order to evoke these laws?

00:08:34.000 To say there's a terrorist threat in order to evoke these laws, not the other way around.

00:08:38.000 And so he does say there is a recognition of this benefit of hindsight and time to actually go through it, but in the moment you might be seized with the sense of urgency.

00:08:48.000 And a mad, giddy, gluttonous appetite for power.

00:08:51.000 All of us can get sort of priapic and giddy and styvoking emergency laws and freezing bank accounts.

00:08:56.000 Any one of us has felt the sweet, seductive aroma of power in our nostrils.

00:09:01.000 That's not how a government's supposed to behave.

00:09:02.000 Look at all the rational rhetoric.

00:09:03.000 Look at the way that Justin Trudeau was on the television.

00:09:05.000 We have to shame people that don't take vaccines. 0.99

00:09:07.000 These truckers are Nazis. 0.63

00:09:08.000 Turns out the person that was getting a little bit emotional and a little bit fascistic was Trudeau himself, no?

00:09:14.000 Bit late if you had your bank account frozen and if you were thrown in jail.

00:09:22.000 Seems like what they're asking for is the kind of compassion that we would give one another on an interpersonal level.

00:09:28.000 Like, oh, sorry, I shouldn't have said that, actually.

00:09:29.000 I made a mistake.

00:09:30.000 Oh, don't worry about it.

00:09:31.000 That's not afforded in today's culture.

00:09:33.000 Errors, errors of judgment, errors of speech.

00:09:35.000 Those things, the kind of progressivism that Justin Trudeau upfront advocates for while round the back introducing emergency laws, that's the kind of compassionate, oh sorry about that, we got a bit hot under the collar during those protests, we knew we were exaggerating the threat of Covid, we knew we were amplifying the efficacy of the vaccines, we panicked and called everyone Nazis.

00:09:52.000 Hey, it could happen to anyone.

00:09:53.000 Some people involved in the protests are calling this a win.

00:09:56.000 This resonates as pleasant news, but I would love to know what the outcome of this ruling is.

00:10:04.000 Will there be consequence for Trudeau, Freeland and Mendocino?

00:10:11.000 That's yet to play out.

00:10:13.000 It was officially wrong.

00:10:15.000 And we're sorry.

00:10:16.000 And let that be an end to it!

00:10:18.000 Thank you, good night, and God bless Canada.

00:10:20.000 That's the way these things play out, like 2008 financial crash.

00:10:23.000 That should not have happened.

00:10:25.000 We're very, very sorry indeed.

00:10:26.000 Are you going to do anything about it?

00:10:28.000 As I said, very sorry indeed.

00:10:29.000 And then there's the matter of the protesters who had their bank accounts frozen and whether this ruling could give weight to any potential legal action by them against the government, although that is still unclear.

00:10:41.000 Chrystia Freeland, now the sarcastically named finance minister who throws people's bank accounts. 0.94

00:10:45.000 So we are aware of the court decision.

00:10:50.000 We have discussed it with the Prime Minister, with cabinet colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts.

00:11:02.000 We respect very much Canada's independent judiciary.

00:11:09.000 However, We do not agree with this decision.

00:11:15.000 Hey, you should do a protest!

00:11:17.000 Oh no, I forgot!

00:11:18.000 It's illegal!

00:11:19.000 I would just like to take a moment to remind Canadians of how serious the situation was in our country when we took that decision.

00:11:33.000 The public safety of Canadians was under threat.

00:11:38.000 Safety, that's what we care about, remember?

00:11:40.000 We're here to protect you, to take care of you.

00:11:42.000 There's a lot of threats out there.

00:11:44.000 It's very scary out there.

00:11:45.000 No, what's scary is you.

00:11:47.000 Our national security, which includes our national economic security, was under threat.

00:11:54.000 The people whose economic security was most threatened was the people who had their bank accounts frozen.

00:11:57.000 I'll just get myself some food.

00:12:00.000 Hello?

00:12:00.000 I said food.

00:12:01.000 Hello?

00:12:02.000 Frozen.

00:12:03.000 It was a hard decision to take.

00:12:06.000 We took it very seriously after a lot of hard work.

00:12:12.000 Oh, well, that's okay then, doesn't mean you took it seriously.

00:12:14.000 Like when you try out those Nazis in Parliament. 0.88

00:12:16.000 Is this serious or do mistakes happen?

00:12:18.000 What is it?

00:12:19.000 What's the rules?

00:12:20.000 We were convinced At the time, I was convinced at the time, it was the right thing to do.

00:12:26.000 It was the necessary thing to do.

00:12:31.000 That's what fascism looks like and sounds like now.

00:12:34.000 It was necessary.

00:12:35.000 We had no choice.

00:12:36.000 Remember, it might not look like the handmaid's tale with the Christian theocracy.

00:12:41.000 It might not look like Benito Mussolini.

00:12:44.000 It might look like people with lovely haircuts, and pretty names coming along telling you that they were

00:12:49.000 scared and it's for your safety and we had to do what's right. And then you

00:12:53.000 investigate these people and their relationships and the way that the company

00:12:56.000 is financially undergirded and you start to recognize that their biggest

00:12:59.000 threat, their biggest fear, their biggest concern is your freedom. It's not

00:13:03.000 something that had ever been done in Canada before. It was certainly not something

00:13:09.000 that we undertook to do lightly.

00:13:11.000 It's weird all this, like, whether it was serious or whether you believed it or whether you undertook it lightly.

00:13:15.000 That's sort of weird framing, isn't it?

00:13:17.000 Yes, we did illegally use the Emergency Act, but we didn't do it lightly.

00:13:22.000 That ain't what we're discussing, mate.

00:13:23.000 We're discussing whether or not it was legal.

00:13:24.000 Yeah, but just to let you know, I actually pushed a pin into my hand while doing it.

00:13:28.000 None of that matters.

00:13:30.000 It was illegal.

00:13:31.000 The responsibility of a prime minister is to make the tough calls and keep people safe.

00:13:39.000 And this was a moment where the collective advice of cabinet, of the public service, and my own inclination was that this was a moment to do something that we needed to do to keep Canadians safe.

00:14:00.000 People that were doing the protests were Canadian.

00:14:03.000 They didn't come from somewhere else.

00:14:05.000 So let's not use patriotic, insular language about Canada now, because at the time, those Canadians were Nazis. 0.54

00:14:12.000 At the time, those Canadians had their bank accounts frozen.

00:14:14.000 At that time, those Canadians had their rights illegally violated.

00:14:19.000 So talking about the way it's so hard to be a prime minister.

00:14:21.000 What was your dad again?

00:14:22.000 He was a prime minister as well.

00:14:23.000 Oh God, how did you do it?

00:14:25.000 You can't use all of that, the burden of power stuff, when power has been plainly misused.

00:14:30.000 And knowing full well that this was an inevitable consequence of me signing, I agree.

00:14:37.000 It wasn't even my idea.

00:14:38.000 That's like a kid, isn't it?

00:14:39.000 It wasn't my idea.

00:14:40.000 It was their idea.

00:14:41.000 I just signed it.

00:14:42.000 I just prime ministered it.

00:14:44.000 I was very comfortable that we were at a moment where this was the right thing to do.

00:14:50.000 And... We did it.

00:14:56.000 Oh, well, thanks.

00:14:58.000 Good night.

00:14:59.000 We were able to solve the situation with it.

00:15:02.000 That there was no loss of life.

00:15:04.000 There was no, you know, serious violence.

00:15:07.000 There's no loss of life.

00:15:08.000 There's no serious violence.

00:15:09.000 Oh, right.

00:15:09.000 That's down to you, isn't it?

00:15:10.000 That's people who go, yeah, but imagine how the pandemic would have been if we hadn't done all those lockdowns and all those mandates or near mandates.

00:15:17.000 Do you see what I mean?

00:15:18.000 We're not able to envisage what happened if they hadn't done what they did, which has now been deemed to be illegal.

00:15:24.000 He's still kind of trying to offer it up as a sort of solution.

00:15:27.000 There's no compunction.

00:15:28.000 There haven't been A recurrence of these kinds of illegal occupations since then.

00:15:35.000 A lot of people protesting illegal occupations.

00:15:38.000 I'm not going to pretend that it's the only thing that could have done it.

00:15:43.000 But it did do it.

00:15:44.000 What the protesters were doing was illegal.

00:15:46.000 In evoking the Emergency Act, what Justin Trudeau did was illegal.

00:15:49.000 And he's still saying, it worked though, it worked.

00:15:52.000 That amounts to by any means necessary.

00:15:55.000 If you envisage for a moment, Justin Trudeau, not with his lovely hair and handsome face and delightful suit, but wearing like a series of medals and a military hat saying, we did what we had to do.

00:16:05.000 We got the neighborhoods back under control.

00:16:08.000 This is just a series of procedures that we have to endure now.

00:16:11.000 You'd go, well that is a junta! 0.58

00:16:13.000 That is a dictatorship!

00:16:14.000 That is corruption!

00:16:15.000 And you'd be right.

00:16:16.000 I am absolutely, absolutely serene and confident that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation.

00:16:25.000 Brilliant.

00:16:26.000 I've concluded that the decision to issue the proclamation of the Emergencies Act does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness, justification, transparency and intelligibility and was not justified, Mosley wrote.

00:16:37.000 Imagine for a moment that it was Donald Trump, or one of the enemies of the legacy media, that had behaved in this manner.

00:16:41.000 Can you imagine the deluge?

00:16:43.000 They would say that, wouldn't they?

00:16:44.000 On MSNBC and CNN.

00:16:45.000 This is exactly what dictatorships do.

00:16:47.000 They won't report on that in this way, because, generally speaking, I'll tell you what I think's behind it.

00:16:51.000 They don't like working people. 0.98

00:16:52.000 They don't like ordinary people.

00:16:54.000 So things that are against them, they just think, ugh.

00:16:56.000 Trudeau admitted that the protests were not violent, but still insisted that he's confident with his decision to use a law that has never been used before to stop the protests.

00:17:04.000 There was no loss of life.

00:17:05.000 There was no serious violence.

00:17:07.000 There hasn't been a recurrence of these kinds of illegal occupations since then.

00:17:10.000 I'm absolutely serene and confident that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation.

00:17:15.000 Trudeau told the commission that his investigation of the government's decision to use the Emergencies Act was justifiable.

00:17:20.000 Very much like, I imagine, a mentor of his, Tony Blair, when reflecting on the decision to evade Iraq.

00:17:25.000 I did the right thing, I'm serene, I've got no sleepless nights about it.

00:17:28.000 Well, that's just your personal conscience, and I recognise that that's important to any sovereign individual, but when you're talking about matters of invoking emergency acts and freezing bank accounts and jailing protesters, It's not enough.

00:17:40.000 Before the Emergencies Act was invoked, Trudeau said that those opposing Covid measures and restrictions were of a small fringe minority who had unacceptable views.

00:17:47.000 In a sense, the more that you look at this story, the more you see that it's layer after layer of authoritarianism masked as concern for public welfare.

00:17:55.000 We're doing this for your own good, seems to be the clarion call of this new form of authoritarianism.

00:18:00.000 And when it's found legally that what they did was unwarranted, and therefore in fact illegal, they say, yeah, but would have been much worse if we hadn't done it.

00:18:07.000 I mean, if that was coming from Pol Pot or someone that we recognize and accept was a military dictator, we'd go, oh God, that's the twisted, warped, More important than that, if you can, please, stay free.

00:18:45.000 No.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - February 03, 2024

Here’s the News: So Trudeau’s Emergency Act Was Illegal!

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