The Candice Malcolm Show - February 23, 2022


Unreal use of propaganda in Canada


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

194.95898

Word Count

8,199

Sentence Count

571

Misogynist Sentences

27

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Trudeau government finally passes its Emergencies Act, giving itself unprecedented
00:00:03.780 power to crush political dissidents. This comes despite the fact that there are no blockades at
00:00:08.420 our borders, there are no borders being blocked, and the peaceful, unarmed protesters in Ottawa
00:00:12.760 were already moved out by a militarized police force. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The
00:00:17.140 Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you had a great weekend.
00:00:25.140 I hope you enjoyed the long weekend and family day with your families, despite all of the
00:00:29.800 craziness that is going on in our country, despite the fact that our prime minister is using a
00:00:34.200 militarized police force against unarmed and peaceful protests, the fact that they went around
00:00:38.880 democratic practices, that they are changing democratic norms in this country, that the
00:00:43.480 fact that the media are there cheering them on, and the liberals are pushing a propaganda campaign
00:00:49.200 that I've never seen anything like. I've been a critic of Canadian media for a very long time.
00:00:52.680 I've never seen anything like this, where the media and the Trudeau government are in complete
00:00:57.560 locks it up, pushing a set of facts that are not true, pushing propaganda that is so transparently
00:01:04.040 untrue to the facts on the ground. And we have been documenting and showing you the facts on the
00:01:08.200 ground. We have been showing you who the truckers are, what they're doing, why they are there,
00:01:12.760 the good nature of this protest. And you juxtapose that with the way that the Trudeau government
00:01:17.480 and the Trudeau media are covering this as if it is some kind of a terrorist threat, some kind of an
00:01:22.840 occupation and an insurrection. And they're really doubling down and ramping up that language,
00:01:27.080 making Canadians, Canadians who just get their news from the media, Canadians who get their news
00:01:31.080 from the CBC and trust what the CBC says and vote for Justin Trudeau, have such a distorted view of
00:01:36.360 what is going on. They now believe, thanks to the media, that there is a group of white nationalists
00:01:42.440 insurrectionists. That's all that the truckers were all along, a nasty group of evil white supremacist
00:01:47.400 Nazis who were trying to overthrow the Trudeau government. That's the narrative. That's what they want you to
00:01:51.400 believe. Forget about the facts. Forget about the situation on the ground. It is really unbelievable.
00:01:55.320 It is a scary situation. We're going to walk through the whole thing. I hope, however, despite that,
00:01:59.320 despite the craziness that's going on, and it is disheartening. I know that a lot of people are really
00:02:03.640 upset by the fact that Canadians are having their bank account seized, the fact that the media is painting
00:02:08.520 working class truckers and a peaceful uprising in such a ridiculously negative light. It's disheartening.
00:02:15.640 All of that said, I hope you had a nice relaxing weekend with your family. I hope you got some time,
00:02:19.880 some downtime offline off of Twitter to enjoy the things that matter in this life, like spending
00:02:25.960 time with your family and your kids. I know I got to enjoy that and I really, really appreciate it.
00:02:30.920 Okay, so Monday evening, the House of Commons voted in favor of giving itself the powers of the
00:02:36.120 Emergencies Act. You might be wondering, isn't the emergency over? Didn't they clear parliament
00:02:40.440 already? Aren't all the trucks gone? Yes, that is correct. They finally got around to voting for it.
00:02:45.160 Recall on Friday, they were supposed to be debating this thing to see whether or not they were
00:02:49.560 actually going to put it into action. Well, apparently they didn't even need the democratic
00:02:53.400 approval because Justin Trudeau just went ahead and militarized the police and sent them out there
00:02:57.480 to break up this protest without parliamentary approval, without the oversight of the House of
00:03:03.080 Commons. Again, undermining our democratic norms in this society. Well, on Friday, they said that they
00:03:08.440 couldn't debate the Emergencies Act because they had already unleashed the Emergencies Act. And the
00:03:11.800 Emergencies Act meant that there was a police operation in Ottawa, which meant that they were unable
00:03:15.800 to debate the Emergencies Act, if you can follow that logic. Monday, they finally got around to it.
00:03:19.960 So the vote ended up being 185 MPs voted in favor of it. So that was all of the Liberals,
00:03:25.640 all of the NDP, and one Green member. 151 MPs voted against it. That would have been all the
00:03:31.080 Conservatives, all the Bloc members, and the other Green Party MP. So there were a few Liberals who spoke
00:03:36.760 out against the bill. Nonetheless, they still gave the bill a pass. And the NDP is just a complete joke
00:03:42.200 of a party at this point. It is so far removed from the party of leaders like Tommy Douglas and
00:03:47.560 Jack Layton, who would have never approved the use of Emergencies Act power for any government under
00:03:52.120 any circumstances, aside from perhaps a real war, a real foreign invasion, perhaps. But even given the
00:03:58.920 NDP's anti-war sentiment, probably not even that. Jagmeet Singh is just an absolute shell of an
00:04:05.000 individual, a shill of a politician. And I think, I don't understand the purpose of the NDP at this
00:04:10.120 point because they might as well just join the Liberal Party. They're giving Liberals unprecedented
00:04:13.640 power. They're treating the Liberals as if it's a majority government. It isn't. This is the smallest
00:04:18.120 minority government in Canadian history. Justin Trudeau won with the smallest share of the popular
00:04:22.840 vote and the smallest share of vote in Canadian history. Not a strong, not a strong majority
00:04:28.760 government, a weak minority government. And yet here he is walking away with no power. He didn't even
00:04:32.920 bother to show up to the vote last night. What an absolute disgrace. So as you recall, Monday,
00:04:37.800 February 14th, a week and a day ago, Justin Trudeau originally invoked the Emergencies Act. At that
00:04:43.160 point, the Ambassador Bridge, which was the main focal point, saying that our provincial government
00:04:48.440 no longer had the capacity and this was now a threat somehow to our sovereignty because this
00:04:52.040 bridge was blocked. Well, the bridge had already been cleared on the day that Justin Trudeau invoked
00:04:56.520 the Emergency Act using existing powers, meaning that the justification of the Emergency Act was never
00:05:01.080 there. It was never justified in the first place. Regardless, here we are, eight days later,
00:05:05.640 invoking it. So Justin Trudeau's new powers include the following, enabling the RCMP to have
00:05:11.720 the jurisdiction to enforce municipal bylaws and provincial offenses, prohibiting taking part in
00:05:16.520 public assembly where it's considered a breach of peace and goes beyond lawful protest, regulating the
00:05:21.800 use of certain property, including goods used in blockades, designated secure and protected places
00:05:27.000 and infrastructure that are critical to the economy, such as border crossings and airports,
00:05:30.840 compelling those capable to rendering essential services. So this is a case of the tow truck
00:05:35.080 drivers who were forced against their will to tow vehicles, even if they did not want to.
00:05:39.320 Authorizing financial institutions to essentially stop the financing efforts,
00:05:42.440 including immediate freezing or suspending of affiliated accounts without a court order.
00:05:46.920 This is the absolute scariest one, and we've been seeing this used already. Here is Deputy Prime
00:05:51.480 Minister and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, explaining how the government will steal your money.
00:05:56.760 Here's that clip. So you're confirming that accounts have been frozen, both personal and corporate,
00:06:01.560 but you're not releasing the information. And the actual follow-up is, I'm just wondering whether
00:06:06.280 the bank accounts will be targeted of individuals who donated to the Give, Send, Go and the GoFundMe
00:06:12.120 campaigns. Are they considered designated people under the Emergencies Act, meaning that their credit
00:06:16.440 cards could be cut and financial services are targeting them as well? Okay. So the names of both
00:06:24.120 individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions and
00:06:37.000 accounts have been frozen and more accounts will be frozen. Crowdfunding platforms and payment service
00:06:46.760 providers have started the registration process with FinTrack. In terms of the specifics on whose accounts
00:06:57.320 are being frozen, you now have the regulations. The financial service providers have those regulations
00:07:07.560 as well. And they, working with law enforcement, will be making the operational decisions.
00:07:13.640 And finally, imposing fines of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to five years for anyone who
00:07:19.240 breaches the above orders. So there you have it. We live in a militarized country that doesn't have
00:07:23.800 the rule of law, that doesn't have the basics foundation of a liberal democracy, such as due process and the
00:07:29.320 presumption of innocence. So one of the organizers, Tamara Lynch, has been denied bail today, Tuesday morning,
00:07:35.800 saying that she may face a lengthy imprisonment. So things are not looking good for some of the
00:07:42.120 organizers there. And so there are now a number of reports of Canadians having their bank accounts
00:07:47.160 frozen. So Keith Wilson, who is one of the lawyers of the Freedom Convoy said this, I am representing
00:07:51.880 nine Canadians who have had their bank accounts frozen and insurance policies canceled. None of them
00:07:55.800 were charged with any offenses. Most had no trucks in Ottawa or elsewhere. The Trudeau government is
00:08:00.520 destroying these Canadians because they spoke out who is next. Scary stuff. Mark Strahl, who is
00:08:07.080 a conservative MP from Chilliwack Hope, he wrote this, Brianne is a single mom from Chilliwack
00:08:11.960 working a minimum wage job. She gave $50 to the convoy when it was 100% legal. She hasn't
00:08:17.240 participated in any other way. Her bank account has been frozen. This is who Justin Trudeau is actually
00:08:23.400 targeting with his emergencies order. Unbelievable stuff. This is terrifying. This is the kind of stuff that
00:08:28.840 keeps people up at night because you donated to a Give, Send, Go or a GoFundMe campaign. Keep in
00:08:34.760 mind there was 90,000 donors and that was just one of them. There's hundreds of thousands of people
00:08:39.480 in Canada, around the world, donated to the truckers because they wanted to support the
00:08:43.560 truckers because they supported the idea of a convoy going to Ottawa to say end the mandates. They
00:08:48.600 supported the idea of freedom. They wanted their lives to get back to normal. They believed in the
00:08:52.680 truckers. Go back to the early days. Remember when Canadians were lining this, the highways,
00:08:56.920 lining the overpasses to cheer on these truckers. It was a community movement while the Trudeau
00:09:02.280 government is now targeting people who supported that movement. It is absolutely unconscionable
00:09:07.880 and I hope that these people get their lives back. I hope that they fight Trudeau. I hope that they
00:09:12.440 sue them. I hope that the conservatives throw everything they can at stopping this. Dan Albus,
00:09:17.160 who is also a conservative MP from the central Okanagan in interior British Columbia there,
00:09:21.960 he writes this question to Jagmeet Singh, who is the terrible, awful leader of the NDP party.
00:09:27.080 Your own brother-in-law donated to the convoy. Is this overreach or something you will continue
00:09:32.040 to support in PM Trudeau's version of the Emergency Act? Likewise, Andy Lee, who is an independent
00:09:37.560 journalist, she got booted off of Twitter a couple weeks ago. Her husband is saying this,
00:09:41.560 the federal government has also locked out journalists, Andy Lee's bank account and credit
00:09:45.800 cards. This is crazy. Justin Trudeau is going after journalists. What is happening in Canada?
00:09:49.560 Great question. What is happening in Canada? Well, what is happening in Canada? It's a great
00:09:54.120 question. Well, over the weekend, what did we see? We saw a militarized police zone using undue force,
00:10:00.040 using over-the-top force and completely disproportionate force against a group of
00:10:05.000 unarmed and peaceful protests just by very virtue of them being in Ottawa meant that they were the
00:10:09.960 target of the police and the Trudeau government's efforts. And unsurprisingly, it devolved into a very
00:10:16.440 chaotic, very dangerous situation. So I'll show you some of the low lights from the weekend
00:10:21.960 of police brutality. And let me just make this point. If this was happening at any other circumstance
00:10:26.840 in recent history, if this was happening at any other point in the last two years against any other
00:10:31.000 group, if this was not a group of working class truckers, of people who said, we've had enough of
00:10:37.320 this government overreach, of this medical tyranny that we've been living under, if it was any other
00:10:41.960 group and you saw images like this of the police, the left would be on the complete other side.
00:10:46.360 There would be over-the-top calls for these cops to be fired, to be reprimanded, to defund the police.
00:10:51.400 Any, any small act of police using force, not even disproportionate force, just police using force
00:10:57.240 in their job over the past two years has been completely blown out of proportion as an instance
00:11:01.880 of police brutality and why we ought to defend the police. Okay. The same people who spent the last two
00:11:06.760 years yelling about that issue are now either completely silent or they're cheering on the
00:11:12.200 police brutality because they are cracking down on a group of conservative adjacent or conservative
00:11:17.720 aligned protesters, people who come from a working class background. It is so stark. It is so hypocritical.
00:11:22.920 It is unbelievable. Regardless, here are a couple instances of what it looked like. So first we have
00:11:28.360 a veteran who is manhandled by police officers, need several times in the kidney. Here's what that looked like.
00:11:34.440 Next, we have a protester who is hauled away by cops. Watch for the end of the clip because a police
00:12:03.480 officer takes his rifle, takes his gun and uses it to beat a protester with a stock of his gun. You
00:12:09.800 can see him do two solid blows there with a stock of his gun. This is police brutality. This is totally
00:12:15.080 unacceptable. Here is what that looked like.
00:12:19.400 Next, here is a police officer arresting protests and hitting him once he's already on the ground.
00:12:37.560 And so as the police were using increasingly violent tactics in order to crack down on these peaceful
00:12:56.120 protesters, they at some point decided to bring in horses to what? Do some kind of crowd control? I don't
00:13:01.640 even understand. This is right outside the Chateau Laurier Hotel, an upscale hotel right in the heart
00:13:06.120 of Parliament, right in the center of Ottawa. They bring out the police. And as you can see in the
00:13:10.760 kerfuffle, in the excitement of police going through a crowd, trampled two individuals, knocked them over,
00:13:16.760 stepped on one of the women, including an 80 year old First Nations woman. Here is what that looked
00:13:20.920 like. This is tough to watch, but here is what this looks like.
00:13:39.240 Just in case you want to see how bad it is, this is the aerial still. You can see the horses trampling
00:13:43.640 on two individuals who just failed to get out of the way. You can see from the footage there that it
00:13:47.560 wasn't like people knew that these horses were coming. They kind of came out of nowhere. They
00:13:51.000 whipped around the corner. People moved back. These two individuals clearly didn't see what was going
00:13:55.080 on. The woman who was knocked over, the 80 year old woman, was on a mobility scooter. And from the
00:13:59.480 aerial picture, you could see the scooter on the ground. So it's not like this is an agile woman who
00:14:03.720 would just easily get out of the way. She obviously had no idea this was coming. And I don't know what
00:14:08.680 was worse. The fact that this is the way that the police were behaving and acting, or the fact that there
00:14:13.080 was a lot of people cheering them on, cheering this kind of thing on, and that the media,
00:14:17.880 didn't really bat an eye, didn't really bat an eye over the use. If anything, they were out there
00:14:21.800 saying, oh, this isn't trampling. These people weren't trampling. And we had something new that
00:14:26.120 I've never seen before. The Ottawa police were tweeting in real time, pushing out their own
00:14:29.960 propaganda version of events. So they weren't really taking questions. They weren't really
00:14:33.880 responding to journalists. At one point, I was on the phones trying to confirm whether or not
00:14:38.680 anyone had been killed in the protest. No response, no replies. I left messages. I called multiple lines. I
00:14:44.680 emailed. I sent the messages on Twitter. No response whatsoever. The only response you get
00:14:49.000 from the Ottawa police is they're tweeting their own timeline of events in their own perspective,
00:14:54.840 twisting and spinning the facts to fit their narrative of what was going on.
00:14:59.080 So here's an example of that. Ottawa police wrote, we hear your concern for people on the ground.
00:15:04.360 After the horses dispersed a crowd, anyone who fell got up and walked away. We're unaware of any
00:15:09.560 injuries. A bicycle was thrown at a horse further down the line and caused the horse to trip. The
00:15:14.200 horse was uninjured. Okay. So a lot of people on Twitter were really upset about this because the
00:15:19.000 idea that everyone who was hurt got up and walked away, well, it just simply isn't true.
00:15:23.320 Here's a woman who was trampled. Her name is Candy. And she wrote this care to correct the no injury
00:15:29.400 statement, Ottawa police. I was nearly killed again, 80 year old first nations woman. Usually this would
00:15:35.080 be the kind of woman that the left would hold up as a victim of police brutality and they would be on
00:15:40.200 her side and they would be there demanding resignation of the officers of whoever ordered that of the
00:15:45.320 police chief of the local politicians. But instead, because of the backdrop of this freedom convoy,
00:15:50.760 nothing, nothing, no, no, you don't hear anything from the left in support of this woman. It is
00:15:56.760 absolutely wild. And this whole nonsense about a bicycle being thrown at a horse. Again, I tried
00:16:01.960 to verify that. I looked at a lot of footage over the weekend. A lot of people were saying that the
00:16:06.280 bicycle was actually just that mobility scooter. Because if you go back to that aerial photo,
00:16:09.880 you can see how the horse knocked over the woman with the air, with the mobility scooter,
00:16:13.720 and that is lying on the ground. And so people were like, is that what you're talking about?
00:16:17.160 Throwing a bicycle was actually just the mobility scooter. Well, someone did send me footage of a
00:16:21.240 man with a bicycle, but he had no, in no way, in no way did he throw this at the police. He used a
00:16:26.840 bicycle to pull himself back. And if anything, to stop the police from beating him, he kind of had
00:16:31.160 the bike in front of him and then you can see him leave. So this whole idea that he threw it at a
00:16:35.480 horse and the horse was causing the horse to trip is just completely, completely untrue.
00:16:41.320 Okay, there is more. So here is the police hauling away a protester
00:16:45.720 and kneeing him once he's on the ground. Here's what that looked like.
00:16:58.440 And so it wasn't just this kind of force and kneeing people and hitting people with guns
00:17:02.120 that we saw. We also saw the police start using pepper spray or some kind of a chemical irritant.
00:17:07.000 And you can see in this clip, the Ottawa police are just sort of wildly spraying this pepper spray.
00:17:11.240 It's not targeted at any individual. If there's an individual in a crowd who is being,
00:17:15.400 who is, who is ruckus and who is causing chaos, and you want to target that one individual,
00:17:19.960 presumably that is what the pepper spray is for. No, in this case, you're just sort of willy-nilly,
00:17:24.680 just spraying the crowd, getting anybody who's there, sort of punishing them for being there.
00:17:29.080 Here's what that looked like.
00:17:30.120 So caught up in all of this chaos was our own Andrew Lawton journalist. Andrew Lawton was on
00:17:36.920 the ground for True North throughout the entire weekend. He was doing live streams,
00:17:40.120 he was reporting, he was talking to people, he was trying to keep an eye on what was happening
00:17:44.040 in the same way as many journalists. There was lots and lots of journalists from lots of outlets
00:17:48.040 who were right there, sort of on the front lines, or a few steps back from the front lines,
00:17:52.040 filming this whole thing, taking pictures, relaying the information to Canadians and to people all
00:17:57.320 over the world because people all over the world were watching. So Andrew Lawton was in there,
00:18:01.240 he was doing that, and for the crime of committing journalism, Andrew Lawton was pepper sprayed in
00:18:07.000 the face by a cop. It seemed to be targeted, it seemed to be aimed directly at him. So here is what
00:18:12.280 Andrew looked like afterwards. Not a pleasant feeling to be sprayed in the face, pretty much point
00:18:17.560 blank, or at least at close range with pepper spray. He got it really bad. And because of that,
00:18:22.440 we here at True North, I decided to retain a lawyer. So I've hired a lawyer, we're now working with a lawyer
00:18:27.000 on behalf of True North and our journalist Andrew Lawton. We are suing the police for assault and for
00:18:31.400 targeting a working journalist. Andrew was just there doing his job, trying to cover this event,
00:18:35.240 trying to relay the information to Canadians. So we want to send a message to the police and to
00:18:39.640 Justin Trudeau and his emergency order. You don't get to beat up on journalists in this country. This
00:18:43.400 is Canada. You do not get to do that. And we will see you in court. Unfortunately, Andrew Lawton was not
00:18:48.520 the only journalist to be the victim of police brutality over the weekend. Alexa Lavoir over at The Rebel
00:18:53.800 was beat up by a police officer. This is unbelievable footage. She was pushed. She was hit multiple times
00:18:59.800 with a baton from a large male police officers on the line. She was sprayed with pepper spray. And
00:19:05.240 finally, she was shot in the leg at point blank from a few feet away with some kind of a rubber
00:19:10.360 bullet or a tear gas canister. This woman was brutalized and beat up by a cop, all caught on
00:19:16.600 camera. Here is what that looked like. And just to warn you, this is pretty gruesome. It is pretty hard
00:19:20.840 to watch. But I think it's important to show you what was happening to a working journalist in our
00:19:26.200 country over the weekend. Here's that clip.
00:19:30.200 What are you doing?
00:19:31.200 What are you doing?
00:19:32.200 Hold him!
00:19:33.200 Stop him!
00:19:34.200 Stop him!
00:19:35.200 Stop him!
00:19:36.200 Stop!
00:19:37.200 Keep him!
00:19:38.200 Stop it!
00:19:39.200 Stop him!
00:19:40.200 Stop him!
00:19:41.200 Stop him!
00:19:42.200 Stop him!
00:19:43.200 Watch this!
00:19:44.200 You just fight and throw this!
00:19:47.200 You just fight and throw this!
00:19:49.200 Fuck!
00:19:50.200 Oh!
00:19:51.200 Oh no!
00:19:52.200 Oh!
00:19:53.200 Oh!
00:19:54.200 Oh!
00:19:55.200 Oh!
00:19:56.200 There you go.
00:19:57.200 You all right?
00:19:58.200 Got trapped.
00:19:59.200 So with a journalist sprayed in the face with pepper spray,
00:20:04.200 another one brutalized and hit with a baton multiple times,
00:20:07.200 you would think the mainstream media, the legacy media,
00:20:10.200 there would be some kind of solidarity with journalists in this country,
00:20:13.200 that you would hear from legacy media saying,
00:20:15.200 hey, that kind of force against journalists is absolutely not acceptable in this country.
00:20:20.200 So did we hear that?
00:20:21.200 No.
00:20:22.200 No, we didn't hear that.
00:20:23.200 What did we hear instead?
00:20:24.200 Well, the journalists thought it was disgusting.
00:20:26.200 It wasn't disgusting that Andrew Lawton was sprayed with pepper spray.
00:20:29.200 It wasn't disgusting that Alexa LeVar was beaten with a baton.
00:20:32.200 What was disgusting?
00:20:33.200 Well, there was this clip that was circulating of a Quebec TV journalist
00:20:36.200 who got pushed on air by a protester.
00:20:38.200 Here is what that looked like.
00:20:40.200 ...
00:20:47.200 Incredibly stupid stuff, okay?
00:20:50.200 Whoever pushed a journalist on air is just completely stupid.
00:20:54.200 There is no reason to do this.
00:20:55.200 It is mean.
00:20:56.200 It is stupid.
00:20:57.200 It doesn't help anyone.
00:20:58.200 If anything, all it does is galvanizes people against you.
00:21:01.200 It proves legacy media's point correct, that the protesters are just a violent group of thugs,
00:21:06.200 and that they're here to harass, intimidate the media.
00:21:09.200 And the legacy media did exactly what you would expect,
00:21:11.200 and milk every last ounce of that clip.
00:21:14.200 That footage of one guy getting pushed,
00:21:17.200 that is the big story for the journalists out of the news.
00:21:20.200 Forget about all the police brutality that I just showed you.
00:21:22.200 Forget about a guy getting hit with the stock of a gun.
00:21:25.200 Forget about a woman getting trampled by a horse.
00:21:27.200 Forget about a young female journalist getting beat up with a police baton.
00:21:32.200 They didn't cover any of that.
00:21:33.200 They don't care about any of that.
00:21:34.200 What do they care about?
00:21:35.200 A push.
00:21:36.200 A guy getting shoved on air.
00:21:38.200 That is the main focus.
00:21:39.200 So here's Glenn McGregor saying,
00:21:41.200 Disgusting!
00:21:42.200 Every news crew has been harassed repeatedly trying to work.
00:21:46.200 This is the first actual on-camera assault of a journalist I've seen.
00:21:50.200 First on-camera assault.
00:21:52.200 What about the on-camera assault of Alexa Devar?
00:21:55.200 What about the on-camera assault of Alexa Devar?
00:21:57.200 Did he not see that?
00:21:59.200 Or he just doesn't count her as a human being and as a person
00:22:02.200 and as a journalist because he doesn't like the outlet that she works for.
00:22:06.200 Well, journalists, again, they milked this.
00:22:08.200 They jumped on it.
00:22:09.200 And again, this is a big story.
00:22:12.200 So there's a Canadian press story that ran in pretty much all of legacy media outlets.
00:22:16.200 Journalism experts say threats to press during protests, a wake-up call.
00:22:21.200 So experts and advocates say the treatment of journalists captured in many cases on video
00:22:25.200 during recent protests against public health measures should be a wake-up call.
00:22:29.200 What I've seen over the past two days has been absolutely sickening.
00:22:33.200 It's absolutely sickening.
00:22:35.200 Absolutely sickening, said Brent Jolie,
00:22:37.200 president of the Canadian Association of Journalists in an interview.
00:22:40.200 This is what happens when you have brains scrambled by misinformation.
00:22:45.200 Younger BIPOC female reporters, which just means black, indigenous or people of color.
00:22:49.200 So younger, non-white female reporters experience significantly more vitriol
00:22:54.200 than their white male journalist counterparts do, according to some expert at Carleton University.
00:23:00.200 It's an odd point to make because the journalist who has been probably one of the most present journalists
00:23:04.200 on the ground in Ottawa in talking to the protesters and trying to understand this protest.
00:23:09.200 There's not even a Canadian.
00:23:10.200 A woman from India originally has been living in Canada, Rupa Subramania.
00:23:13.200 I had her as a guest on my podcast a few weeks ago.
00:23:16.200 She's a freelance writer and a columnist over at the National Post.
00:23:19.200 She wrote this, huh?
00:23:21.200 Basically, I fit that description.
00:23:22.200 I am a young, non-white female.
00:23:24.200 The only unpleasant experience I had at the protest was from a masked Karen
00:23:28.200 who really accosted me invading my personal space.
00:23:30.200 So she completely dispels this whole idea that young women are getting harassed.
00:23:36.200 Female journalists can't do their job.
00:23:38.200 It's just not true.
00:23:39.200 But again, they use that one clip of the idiot, of the stupid idiot who pushed the journalist
00:23:43.200 on camera.
00:23:44.200 Whoever that guy is, if you know him, tell him to give his head a shake.
00:23:47.200 Tell him to not go anywhere near a freedom convoy protest ever again, because he is just
00:23:52.200 completely unhelpful, stupid, mean, and there's no excuse for that.
00:23:56.200 It is idiotic.
00:23:57.200 I completely condemn it.
00:23:59.200 I'm just waiting for the legacy media to go ahead and condemn the police for beating
00:24:03.200 up and brutalizing journalists who aren't part of legacy media.
00:24:07.200 Regardless, this whole narrative is what has come out of the protest.
00:24:10.200 So our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Jolie, jumped in on it.
00:24:13.200 She said, I am appalled to see Canadian journalists assaulted, harassed, intimidated,
00:24:17.200 and prevented from doing their jobs.
00:24:19.200 It's unacceptable.
00:24:20.200 Journalists are critical to our democracy and must be free and safe to do their work.
00:24:24.200 So again, this is all propaganda.
00:24:26.200 It's all aimed at the idea that the truckers are evil, that the truckers are nefarious,
00:24:30.200 that they are a threat to our democracy, and that the journalists are the real heroes, right?
00:24:34.200 You know what?
00:24:35.200 We're aware of a single case of a legacy media journalist who was actually prevented from doing their job.
00:24:39.200 Okay.
00:24:40.200 Were they heckled?
00:24:41.200 Were they jeered?
00:24:42.200 Was there some jeering?
00:24:43.200 Was there some booing while they were trying to do their reports?
00:24:45.200 Yes.
00:24:46.200 Mostly because the legacy media was spreading misinformation and lying about the truckers from day one.
00:24:50.200 Were they prevented from doing their jobs?
00:24:51.200 No, they were not.
00:24:52.200 Do you know who was prevented from doing their job?
00:24:54.200 At times, members of the independent press, members who aren't part of the government club,
00:24:58.200 who don't have government ID, who were not even allowed into the police, militarized,
00:25:03.200 occupied zone because they didn't have government ID.
00:25:06.200 So this whole idea that they were harassed, assaulted, intimidated.
00:25:09.200 Okay.
00:25:10.200 The ones that were assaulted were independent journalists.
00:25:12.200 The ones who were prevented from doing their job were independent journalists,
00:25:15.200 and it was the cops that were preventing them from doing it.
00:25:17.200 So again, just all totally spin.
00:25:19.200 I'll make this point again on the podcast.
00:25:20.200 I made it on Twitter.
00:25:21.200 I said this.
00:25:22.200 Has a single member of the legacy media tweeted a message of support or solidarity to journalists
00:25:26.200 like Andrew Lawton or Lux LeVar who were assaulted or brutalized and brutalized by police?
00:25:30.200 Anyone?
00:25:31.200 No.
00:25:32.200 Of course not.
00:25:33.200 They would rather pretend that we don't exist.
00:25:34.200 They would rather pretend that we were doing something wrong, that we deserved it somehow,
00:25:37.200 that we shouldn't have been there.
00:25:38.200 It's funny how people like Evan Solomon of CTV were there on the ground the entire time,
00:25:42.200 and he was applauded and heralded as a hero for being there and covering it.
00:25:46.200 At the same time, Andrew Lawton and Alex LeVar, the rebel journalists were there,
00:25:50.200 and people were like,
00:25:51.200 oh, what were you even doing in there?
00:25:52.200 The police told everyone to leave.
00:25:53.200 The police said no media.
00:25:54.200 You got what you deserved.
00:25:56.200 It's like, again, just insane with the double standards, insane with the propaganda.
00:25:59.200 Well, the propaganda continues.
00:26:01.200 Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail,
00:26:03.200 he said out loud what I'm sure a lot of elites are thinking, and this is a major problem.
00:26:06.200 He wrote this.
00:26:07.200 If you are a peaceful, law-buying Canadian citizen not involved in any movement
00:26:11.200 to try to overthrow the government of Canada,
00:26:13.200 you don't have to worry about having your bank accounts or credit cards frozen.
00:26:17.200 Fact.
00:26:18.200 Okay, just a quick question for Gary Mason and other elites like those over at the Globe and Mail.
00:26:23.200 The woman that Mark Stahl tweeted about,
00:26:25.200 the working class single mother who donated $50 to a legal convoy.
00:26:30.200 Is she not peaceful?
00:26:31.200 Is she not law-abiding?
00:26:32.200 Is she not law-abiding?
00:26:33.200 I mean, this idea that the government is only going after those who are trying to overthrow the government
00:26:39.200 is just absolutely wrong.
00:26:40.200 And the way that they're making a mockery of this working class program,
00:26:43.200 it's bad for the country.
00:26:44.200 It's bad for the country.
00:26:45.200 When a group of Black Lives Matter or a group of environmentalists
00:26:48.200 or a group of Indigenous activists show up on Parliament Hill,
00:26:52.200 when they destroy private property, when they rip down statues,
00:26:55.200 the elites applaud them and give them space.
00:26:57.200 When they block roads and block railways for weeks and weeks at a time,
00:27:00.200 the media cheer them on.
00:27:02.200 The elites, like Justin Trudeau, give them space to have their protests.
00:27:05.200 When it happens with a group of working class truckers, what happens?
00:27:09.200 Well, the elites, they clutch their pearls,
00:27:11.200 they accuse them of trying to overthrow the government,
00:27:13.200 and they justify them getting unbanked and unpersoned.
00:27:16.200 That is absolutely despicable.
00:27:17.200 It is not a good sign.
00:27:19.200 Well, Gary Mason is not alone.
00:27:20.200 Dustin Lang, who is a freelance reporter, journalist, activist over in Ottawa,
00:27:25.200 part of the Parliamentary Press Gallery,
00:27:27.200 he took a tweet from the Conservative leader, Candace Bergen,
00:27:31.200 who was condemning Trudeau for using the Emergencies Act.
00:27:34.200 And he writes this.
00:27:36.200 This is absolutely deranged.
00:27:37.200 A group of anti-vax conspiracy theorists organized an occupation of our capital,
00:27:42.200 encouraged by the Conservative Party.
00:27:44.200 After three weeks, the police are clearing out the city as slowly
00:27:47.200 and non-confrontationally as possible.
00:27:49.200 And this is a reaction.
00:27:50.200 It's interesting that Justin Lang gets taken seriously by anyone in this country.
00:27:55.200 He is basically a deranged activist who's constantly just screaming at people.
00:27:59.200 And for some reason, some people take him seriously.
00:28:01.200 I don't understand it.
00:28:02.200 Well, despite all of the propaganda, all of the spin from the legacy media,
00:28:06.200 trying to parrot liberal talking points and convince you of something that is just not true,
00:28:11.200 convince you of a story that is happening that is not based on reality or facts on the ground,
00:28:15.200 but again, based on what's best for the Liberal Party and justifying their own power grab.
00:28:19.200 So despite that, there were some real reporters out there.
00:28:22.200 There were some real journalists who were telling you the story of what was going on on the ground.
00:28:26.200 Interestingly, the New York Times was one of them.
00:28:28.200 I'm not personally a big fan of the New York Times.
00:28:30.200 It is a leftist news outlet that has the woke mind virus.
00:28:33.200 And I don't like their editorial position.
00:28:35.200 However, their reporting and their investigative stuff is still a gold standard and is absolutely solid.
00:28:40.200 So the New York Times wrote this.
00:28:42.200 Breaking news.
00:28:43.200 Police arrested demonstrators at gunpoint near the Parliament Building in Ottawa
00:28:46.200 in an effort to end a weeks-long protest.
00:28:48.200 Well, this really, really upset the Canadian media class.
00:28:51.200 It really upset the legacy media because they didn't like someone telling a different story
00:28:55.200 than what they had been telling, right?
00:28:56.200 They had been telling this idea, like Justin Ling, that this was a slow and non-confrontational police effort
00:29:02.200 and that it was in response to a truly dangerous threat.
00:29:05.200 That the people who were there were in occupation, insurrection,
00:29:08.200 that they were white terrorists, white supremacist terrorists, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:12.200 The New York Times stepped in a little bit more objective and said something different.
00:29:16.200 And the media got really, really mad.
00:29:18.200 The Canadian media.
00:29:19.200 So here is Carol Off, who is a host over at the CBC.
00:29:22.200 She writes this.
00:29:23.200 Hey, New York Times.
00:29:24.200 If you don't want to send reporters to the scene, then all you have to do is watch Canadian TV.
00:29:28.200 Try a bit harder next time.
00:29:30.200 This idea that don't send reporters.
00:29:33.200 Don't actually report from the ground.
00:29:34.200 Just turn on the CBC.
00:29:35.200 See what we're reporting and report that.
00:29:37.200 That's basically what she wants the New York Times to do.
00:29:39.200 Well, good for the New York Times bureau chief, Maria Abi Habib.
00:29:43.200 She writes back.
00:29:44.200 She says this is incorrect.
00:29:45.200 We have reporters on the ground.
00:29:47.200 We have a Canadian bureau staff with veteran Canadian reporters.
00:29:49.200 I've covered big protests such as the Arab Spring, et cetera.
00:29:53.200 But one reporter sees another sometimes doesn't because they're on the other side of the demo or they're out having a coffee break.
00:29:59.200 Well, it wasn't just Carol Off.
00:30:01.200 We had a whole bunch of sort of fancy blue checkmark people just getting really, really mad at the New York Times for giving a different perspective.
00:30:08.200 Stephanie Carvin, who is often quoted as an expert, she wrote.
00:30:11.200 She writes, is New York Times drunk?
00:30:14.200 Where are the guns?
00:30:15.200 Look, Ottawa police have not covered themselves in glory here.
00:30:18.200 But what they are doing is not at gunpoint.
00:30:20.200 Who is behind the wheel in New York Times Canada?
00:30:22.200 Gerald Butts likewise tweets this.
00:30:24.200 I'm not canceling my subscription at the New York Times, by the way, but this week's events will make me much more skeptical about their foreign coverage.
00:30:32.200 So what was it that they didn't like?
00:30:34.200 They didn't like the idea that the New York Times headline says that they were arresting demonstrators at gunpoint.
00:30:40.200 Some journalists took aim at the fact that this only happened one or two times and it shouldn't have characterized the entire weekend, which is a little ironic because remember the fact that there was one guy waving a Nazi flag.
00:30:50.200 And that is how the journalists decided to cover the whole convoy.
00:30:53.200 But now all of a sudden context matters and the fact that this was only happening in isolated instances meant that it shouldn't have been the way that they characterized the entire protest.
00:31:02.200 A little bit of irony and hypocrisy there.
00:31:05.200 Well, despite all of these complaining Canadian journalists, the New York Times was correct.
00:31:09.200 The New York Times bureau chief Maria Abi Habib was correct.
00:31:12.200 There were police arresting protesters at gunpoint.
00:31:15.200 Here's footage.
00:31:16.200 Here is what that looked like.
00:31:18.200 You're in there.
00:31:19.200 Come on out.
00:31:20.200 Come on out.
00:31:21.200 You're in the police.
00:31:22.200 You're under arrest.
00:31:24.200 Come on over here.
00:31:25.200 And it wasn't just the New York Times out there on a ledge.
00:31:31.200 Jesse Brown, who is an independent journalist, not exactly my cup of tea, but he also left the legacy media because he was so disgusted by the groupthink and the corrupt journalistic practices at places like the CBC.
00:31:42.200 He wrote this on his blog.
00:31:45.200 He said, new from me, yes, police did in fact arrest Ottawa protesters at gunpoint.
00:31:49.200 And every journalist who said they didn't was wrong.
00:31:52.200 So here is his tweet and his piece.
00:31:54.200 And again, that triggered a whole bunch of legacy media journalists.
00:31:57.200 But in this instance, Jesse Brown is 100% correct.
00:32:00.200 Jesse wasn't alone in hitting back at the legacy media and the smears and the lies that they were pushing out.
00:32:05.200 Andrew Scheer, former leader of the Conservative Party, did his own job of pushing back.
00:32:10.200 I love the side of Andrew Scheer.
00:32:12.200 I wish we had seen it more when he was leader of the party.
00:32:14.200 But here he is calling out the lies in the legacy media and trying at least a little bit to correct the record.
00:32:19.200 So Evan Solomon over at CTV wrote this.
00:32:22.200 Join us today on CTV as we dig into the police operation to end the occupation on Parliament Hill and debate the use of Emergencies Act.
00:32:32.200 Well, Andrew Scheer replied.
00:32:33.200 He said this.
00:32:34.200 Which part of Parliament Hill was occupied?
00:32:36.200 You make it sound like the Parliamentary precinct was occupied, when in reality, Wellington Street was blocked for vehicles.
00:32:42.200 No Parliament buildings were occupied.
00:32:44.200 Anyone could move around on the grounds.
00:32:46.200 Didn't media jump on the New York Times for something similar?
00:32:49.200 Well, Glenn McGregor of CTV jumped in and he wrote,
00:32:52.200 The Parliamentary precinct includes the PMO buildings, the Wellington buildings, the Sir John A. McDonnell buildings, the Confederation buildings, and many others that are not behind the gates around West, East and Centre blocks.
00:33:02.200 A former speaker would surely know this.
00:33:05.200 Scheer jumped right back in and said MPs and staff moved freely in and out of every one of those buildings for weeks.
00:33:11.200 So again, which one of those buildings were occupied?
00:33:14.200 This is absolutely correct, right?
00:33:15.200 So here's what happened.
00:33:16.200 Basically, the media decided that this protest, that the trucker convoy was going to be the January 6th moment.
00:33:21.200 It was going to be this far right insurrection where they breached capital and they tried to overthrow the democratic government.
00:33:28.200 That is what they were predicting from the time before the convoy even showed up in Ottawa.
00:33:32.200 They had experts saying that they were asking Justin Trudeau if he thought it was going to happen.
00:33:36.200 Of course, none of that happened.
00:33:37.200 The truckers were completely well behaved.
00:33:39.200 None of that kind of shenanigans happened.
00:33:41.200 Nothing even close to that happened.
00:33:43.200 There were no breaches.
00:33:44.200 There was no violence.
00:33:45.200 They didn't do anything like that.
00:33:47.200 However, the media just pretended that they did.
00:33:49.200 They just repeated this idea over and over again that this was an insurrection, that these buildings were occupied,
00:33:53.200 that the city was occupied, to make people in their minds believe that this was true,
00:33:57.200 that somehow this was January 6th, even though there was no event like January 6th.
00:34:00.200 Regardless, that's what they kept saying.
00:34:02.200 Good to see a conservative call them out.
00:34:05.200 Okay, so final footage that I want to show you from the weekend.
00:34:08.200 This is from Sunday.
00:34:09.200 This is a woman who is taking a video walking down the street.
00:34:12.200 We still live in a free society in Canada.
00:34:14.200 We are still allowed to walk down the street in Canada.
00:34:17.200 We are still allowed to peacefully protest.
00:34:19.200 The Emergency Act even says that you're still allowed to peacefully protest.
00:34:23.200 However, here's a woman getting harassed by a completely arrogant, out-of-line police officer who goes on to try to knock her phone out of her hand,
00:34:32.200 all for the crime, by the way, of being from Alberta.
00:34:35.200 That's what this is all about.
00:34:36.200 She's from Alberta.
00:34:37.200 As soon as she says that, they say, get out of here, get lost.
00:34:39.200 You can see just an absolute boorish, horrible behavior from our cops.
00:34:43.200 This makes me ashamed of these officers.
00:34:46.200 And this is absolutely shameful.
00:34:48.200 What a disgrace to be treating a Canadian citizen this way on the streets in Canada.
00:34:53.200 Here's what that looked like.
00:34:55.200 I just want to get a coffee, okay?
00:34:57.200 Can I get a coffee?
00:34:58.200 Why is the camera in my face right now?
00:35:00.200 Are you here partaking?
00:35:01.200 You walked up to me.
00:35:02.200 Right now you're in the red zone?
00:35:03.200 I'm scared.
00:35:04.200 I want to go for a coffee down there.
00:35:06.200 Okay.
00:35:07.200 Can I go for a coffee?
00:35:08.200 Where is your residence, ma'am?
00:35:09.200 Do you live in this?
00:35:11.200 You're not excluded from that.
00:35:13.200 Where do you live?
00:35:14.200 Alberta.
00:35:15.200 It's time for you to leave.
00:35:17.200 I can't even go down there for a coffee.
00:35:19.200 No, you're in the red zone right now.
00:35:20.200 If you don't leave right now, you will be arrested.
00:35:22.200 Do you understand me?
00:35:23.200 No.
00:35:24.200 I can't go for a coffee.
00:35:26.200 Grab yourself because if we see you, we'll be patrolling all day.
00:35:29.200 If we see you again, it'll be different.
00:35:31.200 Leave.
00:35:32.200 We are telling you, take your camera and get out of here.
00:35:36.200 Do you understand that?
00:35:38.200 I'm walking away.
00:35:39.200 Walk away.
00:35:40.200 Your phone doesn't need to be in our face when you're walking away.
00:35:43.200 I'm walking away.
00:35:44.200 Go.
00:35:45.200 Are you going to walk or are you going to get arrested?
00:35:50.200 I was walking away.
00:35:51.200 Go.
00:35:52.200 No.
00:35:53.200 Get out of here.
00:35:57.200 Oh my goodness.
00:35:58.200 Hope you can go to sleep at night.
00:36:00.200 Good night.
00:36:01.200 So after the police spent the entire weekend clearing out the peaceful protesters, clearing
00:36:05.200 out the demonstrators, CBC Ottawa tweeted out just like a sigh of relief.
00:36:10.200 Here's what they say.
00:36:11.200 For the first time in more than three weeks, quiet in downtown Ottawa.
00:36:14.200 Again, celebrating the censorship, celebrating the use of militarized police zone, celebrating
00:36:19.200 the brutal use of force against peaceful protesters.
00:36:23.200 And Ottawa is just peaceful and quiet as if nothing horrible had just taken place.
00:36:30.200 So begs the question, if all of the all of the protesters were cleared out, all the trucks
00:36:36.200 were towed, the police used force against a group of unarmed peaceful demonstrators and
00:36:41.200 protesters to clear up the city.
00:36:43.200 CBC Ottawa is celebrating the quiet.
00:36:45.200 So why did they go to the effort of passing the emergencies act on Monday night?
00:36:50.200 Why is it still in place?
00:36:51.200 It should have been revoked.
00:36:52.200 Even if they put it in place on Friday, it should be revoked now because the emergency
00:36:57.200 is over.
00:36:58.200 The trucks are gone.
00:36:59.200 Why is it still in place?
00:37:00.200 Well, we've got a couple of clues for you.
00:37:02.200 The interim chief of the Ottawa police force.
00:37:05.200 He was asked during a Q&A about why police were taking pictures and trying to gather intel
00:37:10.200 on protesters on the ground.
00:37:11.200 And he said this, if you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify
00:37:16.200 you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges.
00:37:20.200 Here is a clip of what that looked like.
00:37:22.200 There's some video cameras that the police are using and some news outlets are reporting
00:37:26.200 that you're gathering intelligence with those cameras.
00:37:29.200 Can you elaborate, like, if the protesters at this point, you know, retreat and go home,
00:37:36.200 are they going to be getting sort of repercussions down the road?
00:37:39.200 Are you going to be sort of actively pursuing the people that you've been sort of documenting
00:37:44.200 and filming who are still out there protesting?
00:37:46.200 What are your plans after this, after the protest is over?
00:37:50.200 Thank you.
00:37:51.200 It's a great question.
00:37:52.200 And the simple answer is yes.
00:37:53.200 If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up
00:37:58.200 with financial sanctions and criminal charges.
00:38:01.200 Absolutely.
00:38:02.200 This investigation will go on for months to come.
00:38:06.200 It has many, many different streams, both from a federal financial level,
00:38:12.200 from a provincial licensing level, from a criminal code level,
00:38:16.200 from a municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level.
00:38:21.200 It will be a complicated and time-consuming investigation that will go on for a period of time.
00:38:28.200 You have my commitment that that investigation will continue and we will hold people accountable for taking our streets over.
00:38:35.200 So even if you weren't arrested during the protests, you're not safe.
00:38:39.200 You're not in the clear.
00:38:40.200 The police are still targeting you and they could still freeze your bank accounts,
00:38:43.200 un-person you, un-bank you, and try to destroy your life.
00:38:46.200 Pretty scary stuff.
00:38:48.200 Kian Bexty wrote this on Twitter.
00:38:50.200 Question to the CBC.
00:38:52.200 The truckers could come back in two months, three months.
00:38:54.200 So does that mean we would have to keep it, meaning the Emergencies Act, for two or three months?
00:38:59.200 Trudeau's response.
00:39:00.200 Indeed.
00:39:01.200 This is something we are thinking about.
00:39:03.200 Of course, this is translated in French.
00:39:05.200 This idea that we're just going to live in some kind of a permanent emergency just in case,
00:39:09.200 just in case Trudeau can crack down again on the truckers.
00:39:12.200 Pretty terrifying stuff.
00:39:13.200 Again, we need to come together and stand up against Justin Trudeau
00:39:18.200 and his tyrannical use of force against civilians
00:39:21.200 and the legacy media's use of propaganda to prop up the Trudeau government.
00:39:25.200 It is so despicable on so many levels.
00:39:28.200 Unfortunately, Canadians are saying no to Justin Trudeau.
00:39:31.200 They are saying that they refuse to be intimidated.
00:39:33.200 They refuse to be silenced.
00:39:34.200 What did we see?
00:39:35.200 We saw massive protests in cities all over the country,
00:39:38.200 Toronto, Quebec City, Calgary, and Victoria, BC, over the weekend.
00:39:42.200 This is no longer a protest.
00:39:44.200 This is no longer a small isolated group.
00:39:46.200 This is not a small fringe minority, as Justin Trudeau said.
00:39:49.200 This is a movement.
00:39:50.200 This is a movement and is not going anywhere.
00:39:52.200 Here's what those weekend protests look like.
00:39:54.200 We arestyle.
00:39:55.200 We won't shift our subject until then.
00:39:56.200 We won't shift them...
00:39:57.200 ... in a Yotes Syndrome through ourfel思me,
00:39:58.200 so...
00:39:59.200 And we will kind of get fired and Roundabout...
00:40:01.200 Together with our national kita...
00:40:02.200 This is also a movement.
00:40:03.200 We will ask you ..
00:40:04.200 ... the people will affect us...
00:40:05.200 They are not going anywhere.
00:40:06.200 They says...,
00:40:07.200 They will be our People ?
00:40:08.200 They are also going anywhere.
00:40:09.200 They will be our people !
00:40:10.200 They believe the Lord would be our governments.
00:40:11.200 The government starts to hear the message, but we need to get completely out of the court of division.
00:40:38.200 And another bit of positive news here, a Canadian veteran has begun his own protest march.
00:41:01.580 He is marching all the way from Ottawa to Vancouver.
00:41:04.500 So this was over at True North reported by Harley Sims, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran.
00:41:09.860 James Top began his 4,395-kilometer march from Vancouver to Ottawa on Sunday morning,
00:41:15.660 departing from the Terry Fox Memorial in downtown Vancouver in solidarity with the truckers
00:41:19.980 and working Canadians to bring an end to overbearing government mandates.
00:41:23.980 So a crowd of about 100 people gathered outside BC Place to cheer Top on,
00:41:28.060 offer him gifts, and hear him speak a few words.
00:41:30.380 About 70 people came along with him on the march, and a small handful appear to be committed
00:41:35.440 to going the distance with him, or at least the first leg of the trip on his way to Ottawa.
00:41:39.940 You know that this will get news coverage throughout the entire country.
00:41:42.660 So look, Justin Trudeau can use disproportionate force.
00:41:44.780 He can crack down on Ottawa protesters.
00:41:47.100 But look, this movement is not going anywhere.
00:41:49.620 Canadians want their freedom, and they are not going home.
00:41:51.880 They're not going to rule over, and they're not going to let Justin Trudeau
00:41:54.500 turn our liberal free democracy into his own version of a dictatorship.
00:41:59.280 They're going to fight back against it.
00:42:01.340 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.