The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 05, 2023


Man Going To Trial For Heckling Trudeau

Topics
heckling Justin Trudeau
Hosted by
Wyatt Claypool
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Kent Manning George Chahal Leela A. Alain Heppner
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8 minutes

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189.77

Word count

1,632

Sentence count

90

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A Canadian man is awaiting trial for heckling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a pancake breakfast in 2022 in the city of Calgary, Alberta. He has been charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, and a judge has ruled that he should be tried as a criminal even though he did nothing wrong.

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00:00:00.000 In case you're wondering if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Canada could get any more crazy or
00:00:04.520 anti-free speech, it absolutely can. It's Justin Trudeau's Canada. He's still in charge. Everything
00:00:10.640 can always get worse. And now we have this pending case where a man is awaiting trial in December
00:00:16.900 because he heckled Justin Trudeau at a pancake breakfast back in 2022 in the city of Calgary.
00:00:23.140 I know the man being charged here. His name's Kent Manning. He's a very good friend.
00:00:26.800 And it's completely ridiculous to see prosecutors basically intimidating and trying to hurt people
00:00:33.320 financially because they had the gall to say something rude to Justin Trudeau after Justin
00:00:39.140 Trudeau and his entourage basically plowed right into him at the pancake breakfast. So what had
00:00:45.100 happened here, and maybe I'll just quickly play the global news clip just to give everyone a little
00:00:48.980 bit of context about how at least the media covered this event. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Sunday
00:00:55.960 morning Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast appearance did not go ahead without a bit of
00:01:01.020 drama. Protester showed up to the Genesis Centre blaming him for inflation among other issues.
00:01:08.060 One man in particular caused a disturbance and was asked to leave by police. But when he refused to
00:01:13.640 leave, police had to escort the man off the property and he was arrested for trespassing and resisting
00:01:19.560 arrest. And now that's true that the actual charging documents say that Kent had been a resisting arrest
00:01:27.040 and that he was trespassing. And that's specifically what the trial is about. Apparently, even though this
00:01:33.280 was literally a public event, anyone from anywhere, frankly, could have showed up to this park and grab
00:01:39.400 free pancakes, talk to politicians and whatnot. So he was literally just standing there talking to Leela A.
00:01:45.120 a supposed conservative attending a liberal pancake breakfast, like basically to talk to liberal
00:01:51.120 politicians and get donations for her leadership election in the UCP race. But Kent was just standing
00:01:57.300 there talking to Leela. And at one point, Justin Trudeau and his entourage show up. They walk right
00:02:03.040 through the middle of the pancake breakfast where Kent Manning is standing. He even told me he's
00:02:07.860 specifically standing there. Justin Trudeau is coming towards him and he doesn't feel like he should
00:02:11.320 have to run off to the side and get out of his way while Justin Trudeau basically gets to walk right
00:02:16.780 through and basically ignore everyone as he does it, doesn't have to get out of anyone's way or like
00:02:22.240 a normal person. And Kent basically was in the middle of this. It got basically pushed around by
00:02:27.460 his security. And at some point, he makes the comment about Justin Trudeau treating women and girls
00:02:32.780 badly. I think he makes a slight implication to the West Point Grey kind of rumors around Justin Trudeau.
00:02:38.920 I don't exactly love people bringing that stuff up because it can be a bit vulgar. It doesn't matter.
00:02:43.700 He doesn't actually specifically say anything vulgar. He doesn't scream at Justin Trudeau. He
00:02:48.780 doesn't push back against one of the cops. He just gets pushed. And then obviously after just
00:02:54.640 heckling him, and he also heckled George Chahal. George Chahal didn't cry about it. He made a point
00:02:59.140 about George Chahal being a poor rich pirate. And George Chahal said something snarky back. And that
00:03:03.920 interaction was over. George moved on. But because he said something to Justin Trudeau, the king
00:03:09.840 himself, then the police jump into action, arrest Kent because he refused to leave a public event in
00:03:16.140 which Kent Manning had not done anything wrong. And I don't even think that the prime minister's
00:03:21.460 own security guards or anything had basically requested he leave. The Calgary RCMP just jumped
00:03:27.560 into action in order to get rid of Kent saying that he can't get free pancakes at an event where
00:03:33.200 supposedly everyone's allowed to be there regardless of a political affiliation or being or disagreeing
00:03:38.740 with the prime minister. But this is, I think this is a case that actually really needs to be fought
00:03:45.060 because I've even encouraged Kent, I wouldn't just try and like, you know, like plead guilty or
00:03:51.100 something like that, apologize and not have to pay any fine or whatever. This is complete nonsense.
00:03:56.760 You should be able to be present around the prime minister and say something slightly snarky and 0.80
00:04:02.260 not assume a prosecutor is going to try and bleed you for thousands of dollars of your own money
00:04:06.600 just to be able to make the case that for your own free speech and ability to just stand there
00:04:12.380 that or like your freedom of association, you shouldn't be charged because the PMO just happens
00:04:17.560 to not like people who are a little bit mouthy. It's completely ridiculous. But as I showed on screen 0.99
00:04:24.420 a second here ago, I actually wrote a whole article about this. I'll be linking it in the description
00:04:29.700 of the video below. But here's even the, here's even the, the, the invitation. It was, it was for
00:04:35.960 anyone around the sort of Calgary Skyview area, or if you lived nearby in a different riding, you could
00:04:42.240 also show up. But this is George Chahal's Stampede Breakfast. I believe that they literally, yeah, like
00:04:47.220 join us for some pancakes, great time, please RSVP so we know you're coming. And Kent even RSVP'd.
00:04:52.580 It wasn't like he just showed up and they didn't, he wasn't like, they didn't, they weren't prepared
00:04:57.240 for the number of people showing up. So please, sir, you have to leave. You didn't even RSVP for
00:05:01.600 this event. No, he was. And he just, and they, for some reason, I guess, decided it was disgusting of
00:05:07.640 Kent to actually like, I don't know, say something after being pushed. If anything, you should probably
00:05:13.540 go after the PMO's security guards or the prime minister security guards who get really handsy with
00:05:19.460 people that they literally walked into, but whatever. But so yeah, he gets count, he gets
00:05:24.640 like two counts for trespassing and resisting arrest. This was originally going to be decided
00:05:31.460 that this whole trial was going to happen in the summer, I believe in January, but it's been pushed
00:05:36.680 back just because there's some conflicts with lawyers not being available for the specific times
00:05:41.120 the trial was going on for. And then it got pushed back to October. And now I believe it's happening
00:05:46.680 around the middle of December, like December 14th, 15th or so. And so what I had originally done is I
00:05:53.100 had started up a GoFundMe for Kent Manning to help pay for some of his legal costs. He didn't want to
00:05:59.020 use Give, Send, Go just because he didn't think enough people would know Give, Send, Go at the time,
00:06:02.860 which was true because the convoy had just happened. But at the same time, a lot of people didn't really
00:06:09.140 still trust Give, Send, Go as a platform. So we're using GoFundMe. So if you want to give any money to
00:06:14.540 Kent to try and help him with the cost of his legal team in order to fight back against this
00:06:18.600 ridiculous charge by Canadian prosecutors or crown prosecutors for the crime of heckling Justin
00:06:24.860 Trudeau, that would greatly help Kent. He's a very dedicated conservative volunteers on all
00:06:30.900 conservative campaigns and just very swell guy. If you ever talk to him, he's very forward with
00:06:36.660 everything he believes, very confident person, but he's a very, very nice man too. It's completely
00:06:42.420 ridiculous if you ever met Kent thinking that you would ever have to be like, you ever feel in
00:06:47.520 danger of him being at an event. But regardless, I'm going to leave it there. I'm not plugging any 0.67
00:06:54.100 of my other stuff because I want to keep it to just focusing on this situation with Mr. Manning.
00:06:59.400 So if you want to donate anything to him in the description below, I've linked the GoFundMe,
00:07:04.840 $5, $10, $50, it all helps. I've donated to it myself back in the day when I first started it.
00:07:10.980 I'm the one managing to give the GoFundMe, but the money is going to him so he can pay for the
00:07:15.960 lawyer. He is a really, really able lawyer. I believe it's Elaine Heppner. So if this goes to
00:07:21.700 trial, I think that the prosecutors will hopefully get laughed out of the courtroom and it will be a
00:07:25.840 great victory for people who actually value freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and think that
00:07:31.580 Justin Trudeau and his bodyguards are hypersensitive and need to get over themselves. It's quite
00:07:38.840 insane. This is one of those reasons why I find Americans make fun of Canada these days because
00:07:45.440 we have this odd sensitivity around just basic things about what people say and people getting
00:07:51.580 prosecuted for saying the wrong things, standing in the wrong place. Justin Trudeau frowned upon you,
00:07:57.480 so you're going to have three charges against you for doing absolutely nothing. Canada is becoming a
00:08:02.960 bit of a clown world. We absolutely need to get Justin Trudeau out of office. The one thing I will 0.98
00:08:09.460 plug about myself is I am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination. So if you
00:08:14.080 want to support me in that, if you buy a Conservative Party membership and you live in the riding, you can
00:08:18.320 vote for me in the nomination race, probably happening in the next few, like four or five months or so.
00:08:23.620 So if you buy a membership, you will be entitled to vote on that ranked ballot on who you like the best
00:08:28.660 to represent the area. And other than that, I'll let everyone go today and hopefully I'll have another
00:08:34.360 video or another stream coming soon.