00:05:15.400Have you seen clear or been given or told clear evidence of a direct tie between the people who had the guns and the motives and plans to kill officers in Alberta
00:05:27.580and people who are in the demonstrations and blockades in Ottawa?
00:05:31.860The charges that have been laid in Coots will lay out exactly what it is that the police believe and hope to prove in a court of law.
00:05:44.940The point that is being made is that the rhetoric that supported the movement in Coots is very similar and strikingly similar to the kind of rhetoric that we're seeing not only in Ottawa but right across the country.
00:05:58.760I want to follow up on Marika Walsh's question.
00:06:01.480I think that we need to be certain that it sounds like you are making the connection between the rhetoric of suspects who are accused of attempted and conspiring to attempt murder in Coots, Alberta and the organizers here.
00:06:17.980So is that what your conclusion is or is that something that's backed up by evidence of an ongoing law enforcement investigation?
00:06:28.460I mean, I think the pattern that we're seeing here is in the rhetoric that is being used not only in Coots, not only in Ottawa, but right across the country.
00:06:38.120It's certainly, I think, the conclusion of many individuals and Canadians who are taking a look at social media and it's extremely concerning.
00:06:45.620Oh, it isn't just his opinion. Apparently, it's the opinion of many.
00:06:48.680Not only does he try to equate the truckers with violence, even though there is no evidence whatsoever and there's no police report or investigation looking into that, he also smears the truckers, no surprise, as being far right, trying once again to divide Canadians and to scare Canadians into believing that the people who are protesting in Ottawa, Parliament Hill, are literal Nazis.
00:07:09.800And sadly, some Canadians believe that.
00:07:11.720And speaking of Coots, where, yes, the police arrested and charged a group of men who were carrying weapons and they accuse them of a conspiracy, very serious, very scary stuff.
00:07:21.160This hasn't been proven yet in a court of law.
00:07:23.340And we don't know if those four individuals are tied to the protests that were happening on the border.
00:07:28.840Well, this is what the scene actually looked like at the end of the blockade in Coots.
00:07:32.440It came to an end, peacefully, calmly, and with the deepest respect shown between both the officers and the protesters.
00:07:40.340Regardless of what the Trudeau liberals are saying in Ottawa, this is what it actually looked like in Coots, Alberta.
00:08:07.640That is what Justin Trudeau and Mark Medellino want you to believe is a violent, far-right insurrection worthy of the use of wartime measures.
00:08:24.420Okay, well, we still have no justification for the use of this Emergencies Act.
00:08:30.600This is the Minister of Justice for the Attorney General of Canada, David Lamedi.
00:08:34.240So Lamedi was on CTV last night with Evan Salman, and he really let the cat out of the bag.
00:08:40.380Salman rightly asked Trudeau's Attorney General how he can justify using terrorism financing laws and weaponizing them against regular Canadians who donated to the truckers because they wanted their freedoms back.
00:08:52.180That is why Canadians donated to the truckers.
00:08:54.600How is it so that the Trudeau government can justify using terrorism laws against individuals who donated to this cause?
00:09:21.360Well, I think if you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who's donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, then you ought to be worried.
00:09:35.240If you support the former American president, then we will treat you like a terrorist.
00:09:49.060It's truly incredible stuff that should send a chill down the backs of all Canadians, especially those of us who are naive enough to believe that we lived in a free country.
00:09:58.600And to Lamedi's odd point, suggesting that some pro-Trump organizations donated hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to the truckers, well, that's simply not true.
00:10:06.100And the reason that we know it's not true is because there was a massive hack of the database of those who donated to the truckers over at Give, Send, Go.
00:10:14.560So if you recall, Give, Send, Go was the replacement campaign after GoFundMe, the much bigger tech company, decided to shut down the $10 million fundraising campaign because of political pressure from the Trudeau government.
00:10:30.980Of course, an Ontario judge seized that money and wouldn't let the truckers have it.
00:10:34.880So all of the individuals who donated, their money didn't actually go to the truckers.
00:10:39.000Well, regardless, somebody hacked the website and leaked 30 megabytes of donor information, including the names, email addresses, zip codes, and IP addresses, internet protocol addresses of those who donated.
00:10:51.900How did the media deal with this illegal breach of data and information gained through illegal hacking?
00:10:57.100Well, of course, they began weaponizing the information, doxing the individuals who donated to the truckers, and used it to try to harass those individuals and get them fired from their jobs.
00:11:55.220Quite the list of Give, Send, Go donors from Toronto, a Ford government staffer, and a bunch of U of T faculty and students jump out.
00:12:03.740And he retweeted an anonymous account that was truly doxing.
00:12:06.900This account, Toronto Watcher, was just going through and listing the name and the place of employment or the school of individuals who donated, including the amount of money that they put up.
00:12:29.540Ottawa City Councillor Mathau Fleury also jumped in in the doxing game and began looking for people who worked for the city of Ottawa, even using his own government city database to try to cross-reference and to try to dox his individual.
00:12:44.080What a despicable disgrace of a human being.
00:12:47.180Next, CTV anchorman Graham Richardson tweeted on Tuesday that he was contacting individuals in the illegal Give, Send, Go data leak.
00:12:55.080So here's a tweet that went viral with people criticizing him for doing this.
00:12:59.800Has spent the last two days calling local people who have donated to the trucker convoy, including a former MP, several business owners, healthcare professionals, and property development.
00:13:08.580Try to understand why they support this.
00:13:12.340Someone's data gets breached and leaked online, and you're wondering why they don't want to call back a malicious journalist who's using that leaked information to try to have a conversation about why they supported the trucker convoy.
00:13:23.320It's just absolutely appalling what these people are doing.
00:14:07.620The owner of Stella Luna says she regrets making her $250 donation to the truck convoy, saying she thought it was a peaceful grassroots movement.
00:15:34.000Unbelievable the glee that these journalists have in trying to ruin people's lives because they have political views that they disagree with.
00:15:40.140My colleague Andrew Lawton here at True North wrote this.
00:15:43.320Remember when Trudeau banned anyone sharing the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story because of its hacked materials policy?
00:15:50.340Odd that no one seems to mind journalists tweeting about donors to the Freedom Convoy, information they have because of hacked materials.
00:15:59.100But, of course, that's not how things work.
00:16:00.920How it works is if the illegally hacked material is bad for liberals or bad for Democrats, as it was in the case of the Hunter Biden story, then Twitter bans it and suspends the accounts of those sharing.
00:16:12.120And, on the contrary, if the illegally hacked material helps Justin Trudeau, if it helps the liberals or the Democrats in smearing the working class people who oppose the Trudeau government, well, then the doc's material, including the names and addresses of individual Canadians, that can just stay up on Twitter with a punity.
00:16:29.840Must be nice to have rules that work like that in your favor.
00:16:32.640Now, to get back to David Lamedi's odd claim that some pro-Trump groups were allegedly donating millions of dollars, well, that is simply not true.
00:16:40.240From this leaked information, we can look at the data.
00:16:42.540We learned that there were 92,844 donations made to this fund, and it truly was a grassroots fund.
00:16:49.580Of those nearly 93,000 donors, only 686 of the donations were over $1,000.
00:16:55.780So the overwhelming majority, 99% of the donations were small-dollar.
00:17:00.060There were no million-dollar donations.
00:17:01.320And it's interesting to look at the breakdown because there was a lot of early hand-wringing by people like Gerald Butts and other liberals claiming that this was almost an entirely foreign-funded insurrection.
00:17:11.900It turns out that most of the funds, the majority of the funds, came from Canadians.
00:17:16.880So while there were 52,000-odd donations that came from the U.S., which made up 56% of the total, and 36,000 from Canada, which made up only 30% of the total,
00:17:26.760when you look at the amount of dollars donated, $4.3 million from Canadians compared to $3.6 million from Americans.
00:17:36.540Meanwhile, while we're on the topic and speaking about foreign-funded campaigns, let's compare that $3.6 million the truckers were given by American donors.
00:17:45.820And let's be clear, did truckers ever receive that money?
00:17:48.780The money was stopped by an Ontario judge.
00:17:51.340It was stopped through political pressure from the Trudeau government when it was the initial campaign.
00:19:48.720That's the year that Justin Trudeau got elected as Prime Minister.
00:19:51.560So it says donations went from $172,000 in 2014 up to $731,000 in 2016, a four-fold increase.
00:20:00.980From 2008 to 2013, the foundation had no foreign donors, but it had brought in a growing amount of foreign money in 2014, 15, and 16.
00:20:09.720Foreign donations jumped from $53,000 in 2014 up to $535,000 in 2016, a ten-fold increase.
00:20:19.400While we already knew that Justin Trudeau and his allies were hypocrites, they're willing to smear their opponents in any way possible and at all costs, including targeting business owners, female entrepreneurs, and grandmothers for the crime of donating $20 to the truckers.
00:20:35.300While Trudeau sunk to an even newer low, an even lower low on Wednesday in the House of Commons, keeping with this ongoing lie that the truckers are Nazis,
00:20:43.360He accused a conservative MP, Melissa Lansman, Melissa Lansman, who happens to be Jewish, who happens to be the descendant of Holocaust survivors, whose grandparents happened to escape the Holocaust and choose to come to Canada, choose to live in Canada, and now their granddaughter is elected as a member of Parliament.
00:21:30.880Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas.
00:21:35.160They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag.
00:21:38.420I am a strong Jewish woman and a member of this House and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, and I have never made to, it's never been singled out, and I have never been made to feel less.
00:21:48.280Except for today, when the Prime Minister accused me of standing with swastikas.
00:22:05.540What an absolute disgrace of a man and a Prime Minister.
00:22:08.520So, at this point, we still have no idea why Justin Trudeau has issued the Emergencies Act.
00:22:13.360He has given no clear public justification for why this is necessary.
00:22:17.500And at the time of filming, which is, again, early in the afternoon on Thursday, February 17th, no trucks have yet been cleared from Parliament.
00:22:25.040And it doesn't look like those truckers are going anywhere.
00:22:27.220Let me just say, here is a scene from last night.
00:22:29.560This was shot by CTV journalist Evan Solomon.
00:22:32.320As you can see, these truckers are not fazed.
00:23:45.300There's a lot of us that are very committed to this.
00:23:48.240And a piece of paper isn't going to send us home.
00:23:51.460So it's not exactly surprising that the police are telling these individuals to leave.
00:23:55.680The notice writes, anyone blocking the streets or assisting others in blocking the streets are committing a criminal offense and may be arrested.
00:24:02.180This is mischief under the criminal code.
00:24:04.900What is a little surprising, however, is that there is a clip of police who can be seen handing out this notice to a journalist.
00:24:47.940The fact that that was handed to a journalist is wrong.
00:24:50.280So, look, we're going to keep an eye on all things Ottawa and continue our coverage throughout this political crackdown.
00:24:56.220Turner's own Andrew Lawton, journalist Andrew Lawton, is currently on the ground in Ottawa as we speak, and he will provide updates as they happen.
00:25:03.800Okay, so I want to end the show today on a bit of a positive note because I think the truckers are winning.
00:25:08.400They continue to accomplish incredible things, including changes to public opinion and the dropping of draconian public help orders, exactly what they wanted.
00:25:17.540And the more that Justin Trudeau overreacts, the more he loses, the more he is losing the admiration of the media and the international community.
00:25:37.540I want to show you two of my favorite tweets about the incidents, both from journalists, but these are both heterodoxy journalists, not your typical woke one.
00:25:45.320The first one is Jonathan Kaye describing a situation.
00:26:05.360Aggressively ignoring rolling blockades for two weeks and then invoking the Emergencies Act while calling my critics Nazis neatly sums up how I would run the federal government after 10 beers.
00:26:30.160So aside from Justin Trudeau's ongoing meltdown, we also saw Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced earlier this week that the vaccine passport would be scrapped starting on March 1st.
00:27:20.640A group of Canadian premiers and American governors have signed a joint letter to President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging them to drop the divisive and unnecessary cross-border vaccine mandate for truckers.
00:27:35.300He said, today I've signed a letter along with Scott Moe, Montana Governor Greg Giaforte, and 15 other governors urging the President and Prime Minister to drop the cross-border vaccine mandate for truckers.
00:27:45.940We are writing to immediately reinstate the vaccine and quarantine exemptions available to cross-border truck drivers.
00:27:51.720We are deeply concerned that terminating these exemptions has had demonstrably negative impacts on the North American supply chain, the cost of living, and access to essential products for people in both of our countries.
00:28:03.160So it is clear. The truckers are getting what they want.
00:28:06.360They're winning, they're peacefully making their point, and they're making their voices heard, loud, and clear.
00:28:11.880Their critics, meanwhile, have exposed themselves as being hypocritical, petty, and ultimately ineffective.
00:28:18.320The legacy media will never be viewed the same way by millions of Canadians.
00:28:22.640And Justin Trudeau, willing to use the full extent of his powers as Prime Minister, has accidentally revealed how weak he really is.
00:28:31.280The Freedom Convoy will go down in history as one of the most powerful and effective protests in the history of the Western world.
00:28:38.900I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.