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