The Candice Malcolm Show - February 18, 2022


Canadians will never view the legacy media the same again


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Candice Malan explains why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a National Emergencies Act that allows him to use wartime measures to quash an enemy, and the enemy is a group of working class Canadians who are peacefully protesting near Parliament Hill.

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00:00:00.000 The legacy media is now doxing and harassing individuals who supported the trucker convoy
00:00:05.060 and the Trudeau government admits it has no justification whatsoever to invoke the Emergencies Act.
00:00:10.480 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is the Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:16.840 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program.
00:00:19.840 So all eyes are on Ottawa right now.
00:00:21.880 We are watching and waiting for something to happen.
00:00:24.540 You know, the Prime Minister issued this Emergencies Act on Monday.
00:00:27.620 It has now been three days and yet they haven't done anything.
00:00:31.020 So I'm not sure how much of an emergency it really was if it took them three days to get around to actually trying to implement it.
00:00:37.360 Regardless, it's been three days, three days since the Prime Minister took that unprecedented step of declaring a national emergency.
00:00:44.640 Now, unlike the ongoing emergency that we've been living through since the COVID pandemic first began two years ago,
00:00:50.480 this new emergency allows the Prime Minister to use wartime measures to quash its enemy.
00:00:56.040 In this case, its enemy is a group of working-class Canadians who are peacefully protesting near Parliament Hill.
00:01:02.740 The Emergencies Act is supposed to be reserved for instances where the sovereignty of Canada is at risk,
00:01:07.940 not simply because the Prime Minister doesn't agree with a group of protesters peacefully assembled in Ottawa.
00:01:12.880 Let's be clear about something.
00:01:14.560 There are no current blockades going on in Canada.
00:01:17.140 No bridges, no border crossings are being blocked.
00:01:19.860 That all ended using the existing powers available to police.
00:01:23.480 And yet, the more we hear from the Trudeau government about why they invoked this Emergencies Act,
00:01:28.460 the more it becomes clear that they had no justification whatsoever in invoking it.
00:01:33.680 Instead, it's clear that this drastic and unprecedented power grab is all simply because Justin Trudeau does not like the protesters.
00:01:42.480 Trudeau marched his public safety minister, Mark Mendocino, out in front of reporters on Wednesday
00:01:47.440 to try to spin a tale of how the arrests of four men in southern Alberta who had weapons
00:01:52.720 and apparently a plot to ambush police officers, how that was somehow tied to the protesters in Ottawa.
00:01:59.340 Take a look at this.
00:02:00.340 And as we know, the RCMP made 13 arrests earlier this week at the Coutts border crossing
00:02:06.880 and seized a significant number of lethal firearms, a large supply of ammunition, body armor, high capacity magazines and a machete.
00:02:17.320 And yesterday, four men were charged by the RCMP with a conspiracy to murder officers.
00:02:24.780 As the Deputy Commissioner of the RCMP noted, and I quote,
00:02:30.060 Monday's weapons seizure and subsequent arrests speak to the serious criminal activities taking place
00:02:35.960 during the protest and illegal blockades.
00:02:39.380 The dangerous criminal activity occurring away from the TV cameras and social media posts was real and organized.
00:02:47.260 It could have been deadly for citizens, protesters and officers.
00:02:51.460 We need to be clear-eyed about the seriousness of these incidents.
00:02:56.920 Indeed, several of the individuals at Coutts have strong ties to a far-right extreme organization with leaders who are in Ottawa.
00:03:05.940 So you can hear in that clip, Mendocino clearly says several of the individuals in Coutts
00:03:10.280 have strong ties to a far-right extreme organization with leaders in Ottawa.
00:03:15.880 Those words have meaning.
00:03:17.200 There's an organization.
00:03:18.420 The people arrested in Coutts have strong ties to an organization in Ottawa.
00:03:23.980 So first, I want you to notice how he was reading prepared remarks in that last clip.
00:03:28.620 He wasn't just winging it.
00:03:29.860 He wasn't freelancing with his opinion.
00:03:31.840 He was reading a statement that he had prepared that was meant to justify why his government was taking this unprecedented step
00:03:38.500 and why it invoked the Emergencies Act.
00:03:40.600 He specifically said that the individuals had strong ties to an organization with leaders in Ottawa.
00:03:47.240 And keep in mind, this is the Minister of Public Safety.
00:03:50.760 He's suggesting that the people in Ottawa likewise may have weapons and they may have some sort of murderous plot.
00:03:56.440 That's the point that he's trying to get across.
00:03:58.520 Well, something truly remarkable happened in this press conference next.
00:04:02.020 When the minister is done reading his remarks, the media start asking him questions.
00:04:05.940 Real questions.
00:04:06.740 Not the sort of usual softball questions we see the legacy media toss up at their friends in the Trudeau government.
00:04:11.800 They didn't ask the minister to reiterate how bad the protesters were, how awful conservatives are.
00:04:17.480 They didn't give him a chance to just repeat his narrow talking points.
00:04:20.640 No, they asked real pointed questions to get to the bottom of the very serious accusation that he is making.
00:04:26.480 So here we'll see an exchange starting with a reporter from the Globe and Mail.
00:04:30.000 And she is asking him a very specific question.
00:04:33.460 She wants evidence linking the four guys who got arrested with guns in Coots, Alberta to anyone in Ottawa.
00:04:40.460 How does that murderous plot with those individuals have a tie to Ottawa?
00:04:45.280 That is what the minister just said.
00:04:46.820 Please provide evidence.
00:04:48.220 Then there's a follow-up that's even more pointed.
00:04:50.660 Is there a current ongoing law enforcement investigation or are you just speculating?
00:04:55.400 In other words, is this an opinion or is there a fact here?
00:04:58.880 Well, the minister looks like a deer in the headlights.
00:05:01.160 No, he doesn't have evidence, it turns out.
00:05:03.020 He was merely speculating based on things that he had seen online.
00:05:06.120 He didn't expect anybody to actually ask him tough questions.
00:05:09.340 Here is what that looked like.
00:05:10.660 Can you please clarify yes or no?
00:05:15.400 Have 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
00:05:27.580 and people who are in the demonstrations and blockades in Ottawa?
00:05:31.860 The 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.
00:05:44.940 The 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.
00:05:58.760 I want to follow up on Marika Walsh's question.
00:06:01.480 I 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.
00:06:17.980 So is that what your conclusion is or is that something that's backed up by evidence of an ongoing law enforcement investigation?
00:06:27.200 No, I think you have it right.
00:06:28.460 I 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.
00:06:35.680 So then it's your conclusion?
00:06:38.120 It's certainly, I think, the conclusion of many individuals and Canadians who are taking a look at social media and it's extremely concerning.
00:06:45.620 Oh, it isn't just his opinion. Apparently, it's the opinion of many.
00:06:48.680 Not 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.
00:07:09.800 And sadly, some Canadians believe that.
00:07:11.720 And 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.
00:07:21.160 This hasn't been proven yet in a court of law.
00:07:23.340 And we don't know if those four individuals are tied to the protests that were happening on the border.
00:07:28.840 Well, this is what the scene actually looked like at the end of the blockade in Coots.
00:07:32.440 It came to an end, peacefully, calmly, and with the deepest respect shown between both the officers and the protesters.
00:07:40.340 Regardless of what the Trudeau liberals are saying in Ottawa, this is what it actually looked like in Coots, Alberta.
00:07:45.220 C anderes, Alberta.
00:07:48.680 C
00:08:07.640 That is what Justin Trudeau and Mark Medellino want you to believe is a violent, far-right insurrection worthy of the use of wartime measures.
00:08:24.420 Okay, well, we still have no justification for the use of this Emergencies Act.
00:08:29.200 Let's go to another minister.
00:08:30.600 This is the Minister of Justice for the Attorney General of Canada, David Lamedi.
00:08:34.240 So Lamedi was on CTV last night with Evan Salman, and he really let the cat out of the bag.
00:08:40.380 Salman 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.
00:08:52.180 That is why Canadians donated to the truckers.
00:08:54.600 How is it so that the Trudeau government can justify using terrorism laws against individuals who donated to this cause?
00:09:01.840 Well, this is truly shocking.
00:09:03.400 This is what Canada's Attorney General had to say.
00:09:06.240 Look, you've just compared people who may have donated to this to the same people who are funding maybe a terrorist.
00:09:11.240 I just want to be clear here, sir.
00:09:12.400 This is really important.
00:09:13.360 A lot of folks say, look, I just don't like your vaccine mandates, and I donated to this.
00:09:16.900 Now it's illegal.
00:09:18.020 Should I be worried that the bank can freeze my account?
00:09:20.460 What's your answer to that?
00:09:21.360 Well, 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.
00:09:33.200 That's right.
00:09:33.800 It's really just about your politics.
00:09:35.240 If you support the former American president, then we will treat you like a terrorist.
00:09:49.060 It'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.
00:09:58.600 And 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.
00:10:06.100 And 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.
00:10:14.560 So 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.
00:10:27.020 So GoFundMe shut down their account.
00:10:28.900 Give, Send, Go was in replacement.
00:10:30.980 Of course, an Ontario judge seized that money and wouldn't let the truckers have it.
00:10:34.880 So all of the individuals who donated, their money didn't actually go to the truckers.
00:10:39.000 Well, 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.
00:10:50.280 So that information became public.
00:10:51.900 How did the media deal with this illegal breach of data and information gained through illegal hacking?
00:10:57.100 Well, 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.
00:11:08.160 Let the doxing begin.
00:11:09.680 This is a report from Cosmin Georgia over at True North.
00:11:13.020 He writes,
00:11:43.020 So here is Gerald Butz, former principal secretary and best friend to the prime minister.
00:11:53.800 And here he is.
00:11:54.860 He says,
00:11:55.220 Quite 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.
00:12:03.740 And he retweeted an anonymous account that was truly doxing.
00:12:06.900 This 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.
00:12:17.760 It's unbelievable.
00:12:18.380 It's unbelievable.
00:12:18.660 It's unbelievable that this account has not been suspended by Twitter, that it is still up.
00:12:22.760 But as of recording, Thursday afternoon, as of recording this show, this account is still up.
00:12:28.100 Well, it wasn't just Gerald Butz.
00:12:29.540 Ottawa 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.
00:12:44.080 What a despicable disgrace of a human being.
00:12:47.180 Next, CTV anchorman Graham Richardson tweeted on Tuesday that he was contacting individuals in the illegal Give, Send, Go data leak.
00:12:55.080 So here's a tweet that went viral with people criticizing him for doing this.
00:12:59.060 He says,
00:12:59.800 Has 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.
00:13:08.580 Try to understand why they support this.
00:13:10.600 Very few callbacks, you think?
00:13:12.340 Someone'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.
00:13:23.320 It's just absolutely appalling what these people are doing.
00:13:26.420 It wasn't just him.
00:13:27.500 Dean Blandell, who is a radio host in Toronto.
00:13:30.740 Here he goes.
00:13:31.480 So here's the Give, Send, Go donor list.
00:13:33.560 And he just publishes it all online as if it's just totally fair and reasonable to publish this information.
00:13:39.740 Ottawa Citizen editor Blair Crawford, likewise, penned an article doxing the owner of a local ice cream parlor.
00:13:46.440 After her name appeared on the donor list, the business owner was forced to close her store because she was receiving threats.
00:13:53.300 And this is a tweet that went out from one of the reporters over at the Ottawa Citizen.
00:13:57.220 This is just so cruel.
00:13:58.180 So the reporter's name is Allison Ma.
00:14:00.500 She's since put her account in private mode because surely she was just getting so much negative feedback for this malicious tweet.
00:14:07.100 But she wrote,
00:14:07.620 The owner of Stella Luna says she regrets making her $250 donation to the truck convoy, saying she thought it was a peaceful grassroots movement.
00:14:16.080 Just pause for a second.
00:14:17.280 It is a peaceful grassroots movement.
00:14:19.080 Regardless of what the media and Justin Trudeau and the government are trying to say, it is peaceful.
00:14:24.160 It's peaceful.
00:14:24.960 There's no arrest.
00:14:25.680 There's no violence in Ottawa.
00:14:26.700 The idea that it's not a peaceful grassroots movement is a smear and a lie in the media.
00:14:31.540 I'll continue with her tweet.
00:14:32.860 She writes, she made the donation on February 5th when police were calling the protest volatile and dangerous.
00:14:40.400 Subtext there, she deserves this. 0.95
00:14:42.220 She deserves this.
00:14:42.900 She thought she was donating to a peaceful movement.
00:14:44.840 But at the time, the police were saying that it was dangerous.
00:14:47.960 So Allison Ma apparently thinks that it is okay for her to be harassed and her business to be shut down. 1.00
00:14:53.660 Over a $250 donation.
00:14:55.820 Give me a break.
00:14:56.580 It gets worse.
00:14:57.160 Frank Magazine continued to just openly publish the name of people who donated, including their pictures.
00:15:03.200 This is truly, truly despicable doxing here.
00:15:06.300 Great journalism over there at Frank Magazine.
00:15:09.420 Just completely trying to, what, ruin the lives of people because they chose to donate a cause that they disagree with.
00:15:14.480 Really, really disgusting, despicable stuff.
00:15:17.500 And there's more.
00:15:18.140 There was a Ontario PC political staffer who was fired or asked to resign because it was revealed she donated $100 to the truckers.
00:15:27.040 $100.
00:15:27.760 You're going to lose your livelihood, lose your job over a $100 donation to truckers.
00:15:33.240 Unbelievable.
00:15:34.000 Unbelievable the glee that these journalists have in trying to ruin people's lives because they have political views that they disagree with.
00:15:40.140 My colleague Andrew Lawton here at True North wrote this.
00:15:43.320 Remember when Trudeau banned anyone sharing the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story because of its hacked materials policy?
00:15:50.340 Odd that no one seems to mind journalists tweeting about donors to the Freedom Convoy, information they have because of hacked materials.
00:15:57.760 Great question, Andrew Lawton.
00:15:59.100 But, of course, that's not how things work.
00:16:00.920 How 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.
00:16:12.120 And, 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.
00:16:29.840 Must be nice to have rules that work like that in your favor.
00:16:32.640 Now, 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.
00:16:40.240 From this leaked information, we can look at the data.
00:16:42.540 We learned that there were 92,844 donations made to this fund, and it truly was a grassroots fund.
00:16:49.580 Of those nearly 93,000 donors, only 686 of the donations were over $1,000.
00:16:55.780 So the overwhelming majority, 99% of the donations were small-dollar.
00:17:00.060 There were no million-dollar donations.
00:17:01.320 And 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.
00:17:11.060 Well, it's not true.
00:17:11.900 It turns out that most of the funds, the majority of the funds, came from Canadians.
00:17:16.880 So 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,
00:17:26.760 when you look at the amount of dollars donated, $4.3 million from Canadians compared to $3.6 million from Americans.
00:17:35.960 Okay.
00:17:36.540 Meanwhile, 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.
00:17:45.820 And let's be clear, did truckers ever receive that money?
00:17:48.780 The money was stopped by an Ontario judge.
00:17:51.340 It was stopped through political pressure from the Trudeau government when it was the initial campaign.
00:17:55.480 So no one got any money.
00:17:57.000 But the intent was there to give these truckers $3.6 million from Americans.
00:18:01.260 Well, let's compare that to the environmental movement in Canada and what they receive every single year from American and foreign donors,
00:18:08.560 thanks in large part to people like Gerald Butts.
00:18:10.940 So this was a report from the Alberta government.
00:18:13.000 The total foreign funding of Canadian-based environmental initiatives was $1.28 billion between 2003 and 2019.
00:18:22.400 $1.28 billion flowed into Canada from foreign sources in those years, from 2003 to 2019.
00:18:31.300 The commissioner states the figures are significantly understated.
00:18:34.000 This includes $925 million in foreign-funded reported by Canadian charities for environmental initiatives,
00:18:42.400 $352 million in foreign funding of Canadian-based environmental initiatives,
00:18:48.180 such as anti-pipeline campaigns that were made in the U.S.,
00:18:51.560 and $54.1 million in funding was provided through grants which were described as representing
00:18:57.760 anti-Alberta resource development activity.
00:19:00.780 So $1.28 billion.
00:19:03.100 So forgive me if I'm not outraged and worked up over the idea that Americans tried and ultimately were unsuccessful 0.56
00:19:09.960 to give these truckers a total of $3 million from over 50,000 people.
00:19:14.660 Okay.
00:19:15.120 Oh, and also, speaking of foreign donors, let's take a look at Justin Trudeau,
00:19:18.540 Prime Minister's own family foundation, the Pierre Trudeau Foundation.
00:19:22.420 So according to the Toronto Sun, in 2016, $1 million was donated by two Chinese businessmen.
00:19:29.180 There was the same Chinese businessmen who were paying for cash-for-access private dinners with Justin Trudeau.
00:19:35.200 The National Post had a nice little handy breakdown here.
00:19:38.460 You can look at the total donations and the foreign donations to the Trudeau Foundation.
00:19:43.240 Look at how that just spikes magically in 2015.
00:19:46.820 Hmm, what happened in 2015?
00:19:48.260 Oh, right.
00:19:48.720 That's the year that Justin Trudeau got elected as Prime Minister.
00:19:51.560 So it says donations went from $172,000 in 2014 up to $731,000 in 2016, a four-fold increase.
00:20:00.980 From 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.
00:20:09.720 Foreign donations jumped from $53,000 in 2014 up to $535,000 in 2016, a ten-fold increase.
00:20:19.400 While 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.
00:20:35.300 While 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,
00:20:43.360 He 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.
00:21:01.940 Incredible story in and of itself.
00:21:04.000 Justin Trudeau decided to accuse this woman of standing with the swastikas.
00:21:09.620 Here is that clip.
00:21:10.460 These people, very often misogynistic, racist, women haters, science deniers, the fringe.
00:21:17.760 Same Prime Minister, six years later, as he fans the flames of an unjustified national emergency.
00:21:24.620 So, Mr. Speaker, when did the Prime Minister lose his way?
00:21:28.420 When did it happen?
00:21:30.880 Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas.
00:21:35.160 They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag.
00:21:38.420 I 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.
00:21:48.280 Except for today, when the Prime Minister accused me of standing with swastikas.
00:21:52.260 I think he owes me an apology.
00:21:53.780 I'd like an apology, and I think he owes an apology to all members of this House.
00:21:57.160 Despicable, unbelievable.
00:21:59.740 Of course, Justin Trudeau didn't apologize.
00:22:01.480 Instead, he just left the House of Commons in the middle of a question period.
00:22:04.620 No big deal.
00:22:05.540 What an absolute disgrace of a man and a Prime Minister.
00:22:08.520 So, at this point, we still have no idea why Justin Trudeau has issued the Emergencies Act.
00:22:13.360 He has given no clear public justification for why this is necessary.
00:22:17.500 And at the time of filming, which is, again, early in the afternoon on Thursday, February 17th, no trucks have yet been cleared from Parliament.
00:22:25.040 And it doesn't look like those truckers are going anywhere.
00:22:27.220 Let me just say, here is a scene from last night.
00:22:29.560 This was shot by CTV journalist Evan Solomon.
00:22:32.320 As you can see, these truckers are not fazed.
00:22:34.800 These truckers are not scared.
00:22:36.040 And they're not leaving.
00:22:37.020 The party atmosphere continues.
00:22:39.060 There are people walking around, enjoying food, waving their flags, singing, dancing.
00:22:43.360 The usual scene that we have seen from Ottawa.
00:22:46.320 It doesn't look like they are scared or intimidated.
00:22:48.920 Meanwhile, the police are doing everything they can to try to intimidate these individuals to leave.
00:22:53.140 They were seen on Tuesday afternoon walking around distributing notices, telling everybody to leave the protest area.
00:23:00.180 Here is an interview with one of the truckers who received one of these notices.
00:23:03.980 About mid-morning, they came by and they delivered these flyers to all the vehicles on the street and two police liaison officers.
00:23:23.320 They wouldn't give me their names.
00:23:24.860 I got their badge numbers.
00:23:27.460 But they were just putting these postings out to try to intimidate people.
00:23:31.860 There was no tickets.
00:23:32.820 There was no charges.
00:23:35.700 It's just a propaganda on behalf of the government to try to intimidate people to vacate the area.
00:23:43.380 But nobody here is intimidated.
00:23:45.300 There's a lot of us that are very committed to this.
00:23:48.240 And a piece of paper isn't going to send us home.
00:23:51.460 So it's not exactly surprising that the police are telling these individuals to leave.
00:23:55.680 The notice writes, anyone blocking the streets or assisting others in blocking the streets are committing a criminal offense and may be arrested.
00:24:02.180 This is mischief under the criminal code.
00:24:04.900 What is a little surprising, however, is that there is a clip of police who can be seen handing out this notice to a journalist.
00:24:13.380 Yes, a journalist.
00:24:14.700 Here is what that looked like.
00:24:15.860 Well, there's a lot of murkiness around this law and what is going on right now.
00:24:30.380 But the Emergencies Act specifically exempts peaceful protesters.
00:24:35.020 So to anyone who's there peacefully, who is not breaking the law, they presumably can stay, as well as journalists.
00:24:41.040 Why would the Emergencies Act apply to journalists who are trying to report the story and convey it to Canadians?
00:24:46.980 That doesn't make sense.
00:24:47.940 The fact that that was handed to a journalist is wrong.
00:24:50.280 So, look, we're going to keep an eye on all things Ottawa and continue our coverage throughout this political crackdown.
00:24:56.220 Turner'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.
00:25:03.800 Okay, so I want to end the show today on a bit of a positive note because I think the truckers are winning.
00:25:08.400 They continue to accomplish incredible things, including changes to public opinion and the dropping of draconian public help orders, exactly what they wanted.
00:25:17.540 And the more that Justin Trudeau overreacts, the more he loses, the more he is losing the admiration of the media and the international community.
00:25:25.480 He's losing the narrative.
00:25:26.860 He's losing touch with everyday Canadians.
00:25:29.100 He's looking angry, out of touch, and petty.
00:25:31.880 Calling a Jewish MP a Nazi, that's a new low.
00:25:34.640 Not a good look for Justin Trudeau.
00:25:36.120 It did not come across well.
00:25:37.540 I 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.
00:25:45.320 The first one is Jonathan Kaye describing a situation.
00:25:48.120 He writes this.
00:25:49.360 Self-described leader of genocide state and serial blackface enthusiast shrieks a Jewish woman about swastikas. 0.78
00:25:55.920 If this happened outside of Parliament, you would think it was a crazy person who was off his meds.
00:26:00.100 That's absolutely right.
00:26:01.460 Next, we go to Tristan Hopper, who writes for the National Post.
00:26:04.120 He writes this on Twitter.
00:26:05.360 Aggressively 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.
00:26:15.440 Very, very funny.
00:26:16.740 And it's true. 0.56
00:26:18.340 If you take a step back and you think about what Justin Trudeau has done over the past few weeks, it will define his career.
00:26:24.180 It is not a good look.
00:26:25.040 It is not a good look.
00:26:25.880 He does not look calm and composed.
00:26:28.000 He looks unhinged and a little crazy.
00:26:30.160 So 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.
00:26:39.960 This is huge.
00:26:40.900 This is a big announcement and a big sign that the end is near, that things are going to get back to normal soon.
00:26:45.740 Next, despite Justin Trudeau's acting out, we have four premiers who are publicly opposing the use of the Emergencies Act.
00:26:52.820 So Jason Kenney in Alberta, Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan, Quebec Premier Francois Legault, which is big, which is key.
00:26:59.660 Francois Legault said, we do not wish to have a state of emergency in Quebec.
00:27:02.700 It's not necessary.
00:27:03.900 And it's time to bring together, not divide.
00:27:06.680 I think that's really devastating to Justin Trudeau.
00:27:08.780 And Manitoba Premier Heather Stephenson also opposed the plans.
00:27:12.940 You have four premiers loudly speaking out, saying that they do not agree that this is not a national emergency.
00:27:18.860 And finally, this is huge as well.
00:27:20.640 A 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.
00:27:33.820 So Jason Kenney tweeted this out.
00:27:35.300 He 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.
00:27:45.940 We are writing to immediately reinstate the vaccine and quarantine exemptions available to cross-border truck drivers.
00:27:51.720 We 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.
00:28:03.160 So it is clear. The truckers are getting what they want.
00:28:06.360 They're winning, they're peacefully making their point, and they're making their voices heard, loud, and clear.
00:28:11.880 Their critics, meanwhile, have exposed themselves as being hypocritical, petty, and ultimately ineffective.
00:28:18.320 The legacy media will never be viewed the same way by millions of Canadians.
00:28:22.640 And Justin Trudeau, willing to use the full extent of his powers as Prime Minister, has accidentally revealed how weak he really is.
00:28:31.280 The Freedom Convoy will go down in history as one of the most powerful and effective protests in the history of the Western world.
00:28:38.900 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.