00:03:30.000Hello everybody, welcome to November and welcome to Shadow at Night.
00:03:58.740November 1st. It is Friday night, November 1st, 2024. On the show tonight, Human Rights Lawyer.
00:04:05.720Lawyers for Truth, actually, is the organization she founded a few years back. Catherine Kowalchuk
00:04:10.420joins the show tonight. We're going to talk about these amendments, I'm sorry, that Premier Daniel
00:04:15.360Smith of Alberta wants to make to the Bill of Rights, originally enshrined into legislation
00:04:20.520in 1972 in Alberta. There's some trap doors in these amendments, these new ones. And Dave
00:04:28.620Freedom actually released a video today. We'll play for you right now regarding the dangers of
00:04:34.680what Danielle Smith is trying to do. And if you'll recall, when I was reading this and playing the
00:04:39.540video of Danielle the other night, I didn't know exactly what was wrong with this, but I smelled
00:04:43.800something was up. Remember? Check out this video. The province of Alberta is on the precipice of
00:04:49.500losing 52 years of established rights and freedoms, and most have no clue. As some of you may have
00:04:57.340heard there is a proposal to add reasonable limits to the Alberta Bill of Rights. On the surface
00:05:04.100it may sound innocent enough. The problem though is that reasonable is a very vague word. What
00:05:12.980seems reasonable to one person might be unreasonable to another. The proposed amendment itself is being
00:05:20.980referred to by many lawyers as a Trojan horse. In a few weeks time our UCP
00:05:27.280government will be introducing legislation to amend and strengthen the
00:05:30.800Alberta Bill of Rights a document that has stood as a safeguard for our civil
00:05:35.140liberties and freedoms for decades. For quick context the Alberta Bill of Rights
00:05:39.700was created in 1972 to protect core rights that we all rely on freedom of
00:05:45.580speech, assembly, the right to own property, etc. This document is meant to serve as a shield,
00:05:52.740ensuring the government cannot encroach on these rights and freedoms. A modified Alberta
00:05:57.900Bill of Rights could lead to limits on freedom of speech if a message is seen as unreasonable.
00:06:03.800It could also limit freedom of assembly if a peaceful protest is deemed too disruptive.
00:06:08.600Or what about public interest, national security, climate change, or the next thing they have planned for us?
00:06:16.920The truth is, once the language allows for reasonable limits, it gives the government broad discretion over when and how it applies those limits.
00:06:26.760The proposed changes are very well crafted. Quite genius, actually.
00:06:31.000On one hand, it appeals to a logical thinking Canadian with proposals like, quote, the right for an individual with capacity not to be compelled or coerced into receiving a vaccine.
00:06:44.500I mean, hey, who doesn't want that, right?
00:06:47.360However, the added fine print of reasonable limits makes the entire document worthless.
00:06:55.840As the saying goes, giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other.
00:07:01.000The Alberta Bill of Rights is a foundational document.
00:07:04.900It shouldn't be left vulnerable to subjective interpretations or shifting political interests.
00:07:10.020What makes it so special is that it shines in stark contrast to the Charter of Rights,
00:07:16.560which does include the words, reasonable limits by the way,
00:07:20.740a script repeated quite often during the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns.
00:15:23.040So, you know, to look at the fine print,
00:15:24.700Like maybe she, believe me when I tell you, and I'm sure you've experienced this in the past is in your capacity as a human rights lawyer, but a lot of these politicians don't even know what the hell is going on in their own government.
00:15:38.160They just sign stuff kind of like Colonel Blake from MASH.
00:15:45.400Just sign it when it comes to Constitution.
00:16:18.100And in addition, as I said, this was a topic that was front and center during COVID and a big part of the COVID litigation when it was going on because lawyers were drawing the attention to the public about the court's use of judicial notice, right?
00:16:39.760And we talked about that earlier today and how that opened the door to deem, you know, the government narrative that there was a pandemic, that masks were safe, that this vaccine was safe and effective.
00:16:54.140The concept of judicial notice is something that was very rarely used by the courts, and it's a concept where we can all agree to the truth of certain things without having to provide evidence to justify or to prove its veracity, right?
00:17:15.420So the example that I often use is a very easy one, like the sky is blue.
00:17:21.680And so when we can all agree and have that consensus, then sure, we don't have to produce
00:17:30.480But what the government did and what the courts did was the government, by and large, did
00:17:35.380not have to demonstrably justify any of their mandates.
00:17:40.160And the courts accepted the government evidence, oftentimes discounted the evidence, the contrary evidence, and sometimes, you know, did not, threw out like the expert testimony of many people who are challenging this.
00:18:00.360And so even though these issues were highly disputed, they still relied on that legal concept of judicial notice.
00:18:08.840And this is exactly what can happen in the next catastrophe, pandemic, whatever it is, climate change, emergency, whatever they're going to do. Right.
00:18:18.980Let me ask you this. I've asked a couple of other legal minds this. I'm going to ask you now.
00:18:24.460When judicial notice is declared in any court case, that's it. Right. You cannot argue it anymore.
00:18:31.280There's no appeal in that moment. There's no objection. You can't say to the judge, wait a minute, hold on. Why are you declaring judicial notice here? You haven't got all the facts in. Is there any way that you can stop a judge from doing that before they do it?
00:18:45.360well in some cases you would not necessarily know until a decision came out uh in some and you can
00:18:53.860appeal and oftentimes and people did try to appeal um there was a court actually in ontario that kind
00:19:00.360of saw through the bs and and did draw to the attention in the case that when something is
00:19:09.580disputed to the extent that the vaccines and lockdowns and mandate all the rest of it
00:19:15.180was disputed that it was it was inappropriate effectively to use judicial notice to justify
00:19:23.100the government's evidence because it was clearly debatable and and the science is not settled it's
00:19:30.360never settled it's a method of inquiry we all know that people who are critical thinkers and
00:19:35.700and understand what you know what is really happening right now in order to cause all of
00:19:42.280this division and to give government so much power and authority. These institutions, as per our
00:19:50.720earlier discussion today, and I want to get to some of this in a little while, have been captured
00:19:55.880obviously by the woke mind virus or the Marxist communist takeover of the West. But before we do
00:20:03.900that, the 1972 Bill of Rights here in Canley, this is the original document or a copy of the original
00:20:11.720document that gives us the right to freedom of religion. So I'm sure Arthur Pawlowski would
00:20:17.900have a point to argue their freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of
00:20:22.980the press. And there is no section one in this original document. Am I correct in saying that?
00:20:30.020That's correct. So if that is the case, why was this never argued in any Alberta court cases?
00:20:36.620I mean, and some people have said in the past during this whole nightmare that they're going to argue the Bill of Rights and not the Charter of Rights because the bill, the Canadian Bill of Rights actually, is supposed to be a sacrosanct document.
00:20:51.120Even though it's not in the Constitution, it's only in legislation, it's still supposed to be applicable.
00:20:57.640Because that doesn't have the parachute clause for the government.
00:21:02.040I don't know why it wasn't ever argued.
00:21:04.100I think probably some lawyers try to argue it. And then in some cases, the court would have just relied on, dismissed that argument and relied on the charter.
00:21:15.600Certainly when I was, became aware of what was happening and we co-founded Lawyers for Truth, we noticed this problem immediately.
00:21:27.060While the Bill of Rights says this, this actually the Bill of Rights is the go to document that where when laws are made in Alberta, you go to the Bill of Rights to ensure that the law does not violate the Bill of Rights before you would you would enact it right to make it and the government says they do that they claim they appear to do it, but they don't really actually care.
00:21:53.780And I think what we have now is that and what what we what we'll experience and what I believe will happen in the future is the courts actually aren't going to care.
00:22:07.820They're not going to care. And and they're going to do the exact same thing that they always do, what the government wants them to do.
00:22:13.640And and the government is going to assist them and they are going to do whatever they can to to bring it forward the agenda.
00:22:22.600I mean, we know that the chief justices and other people across the province within the courts met with the federal minister of justice before or around COVID being unleashed in Canada.
00:22:39.220And I think you ask yourself the question, well, why did that happen?
00:22:45.540And then why did they all of a sudden side almost entirely with the government with respect to these matters, right?
00:22:55.740And, you know, I think that there was a concerted effort to manage COVID.
00:23:01.720That's why everybody had the same plexiglass up and the same dots on the floor and the arrows in the grocery store.
00:23:09.160And all the provinces and other jurisdictions in the world had similar bylaw or legislation or mandates, rules around the pandemic.
00:23:23.180And that was all coordinated through the World Health Organization.
00:26:14.260Yeah, from what I understand, and I haven't looked at that case for a long time,0.96
00:26:19.380But from what I understand, they, they detest that Dina, I call her Dina Hee Haw.
00:26:32.360And I have for many years because, I mean, you have, respect is kind of earned.1.00
00:26:37.440You don't get, anyway, and besides which, like, whatever, she's just ridiculous.0.82
00:26:42.220And it was annoying listening to her for the many years that we had to.
00:26:46.540In any event, the cabinet was really making the decision, but under the Public Health Act, it gave all the authority to this one elected bureaucratic position, right?
00:27:01.500And so Danielle Smith has also changed that so that cabinet, not in this legislation, but in one of the first pieces of bills that she tabled.
00:27:11.600so she's changed that so now these decisions will be finally made by by the elected officials
00:27:19.340which I think is good because you know Alberta had an emergency preparedness plan that they
00:27:24.760completely threw out the window Colonel Redmond has spoken about this at length because he
00:27:33.200was significantly involved in putting that plan together and I know that he made
00:27:39.260a huge effort trying to get not only the province of Alberta,
00:27:44.960but other premiers across the country to wake up and say,
00:27:50.580well, why didn't, why aren't we following this?
00:27:52.980And why aren't all stakeholders involved in being considered in making the
00:27:59.240decision to lock down? Like you don't, you don't do that. Like you,
00:28:02.860there's, we have the economy, we have the students, students,
00:28:06.920children you know none of those people were consulted there was none of that the government
00:28:13.880just locked us down because of this what they said was this highly contagious deadly
00:28:20.200pandemic that was upon us but nobody asked the question in parliament or in any of the
00:28:26.600legislatures whether there was a pandemic like nobody insisted that the government do that I
00:28:33.620I mean, that was the first petition that I wrote and I created online in May of 2020 when I was like, this is enough.
00:28:42.240Like, why isn't, why aren't we having this conversation about whether or not, how do we know that there's a pandemic just because the World Health Organization says so?
00:28:57.100And I want to get back to that. But I also want to talk about Danielle Smith, because like I said, a lot of us look to Alberta as the last bastion of freedom in this country.
00:29:06.440And then when she was elected premier or at least leader of the UCP, and then when she was elected, elected as the premier about a year and a half ago, we thought, wow, you know, she's good.
00:29:16.240She's been vilified by not just the media, the left wing corporate media in Alberta, but the national left wing corporate media.
00:29:22.580And she came out and she did say some things like the unvaccinated were the most discriminated group I've ever seen in my lifetime, stuff like that.
00:29:31.520We thought, hey, this woman understands exactly what's going on.
00:29:35.700What are the thoughts in Alberta and your own thoughts specifically on her and her integrity?
00:29:42.860Well, let's just get something straight.1.00
00:29:48.540she doesn't hold the ideas or the values that I do and that a lot of conservatives in this0.93
00:29:55.400province have Danielle Smith is worried about Danielle Smith's job she's worried about keeping
00:30:04.200her position and she sold out Albertans with a lot of talk about getting tough and fighting for0.96
00:30:13.600freedoms but she's a socialist in conservative clothing right she's she's a socialist and her
00:30:21.720policies are socialist and the and her government i'm not going to say this about the ucp party
00:30:28.500necessarily because there's a bunch of people in there that aren't but there's a crisis right now
00:30:34.240happening amongst conservatives conservatives in this country in this province and all of
00:30:40.500Danielle Smith's policies are in line with the globalist 2050 2030 agenda. Her government is
00:30:48.760riddled with DEI. Her government is larger than any other government. She has not reduced taxes
00:30:55.740like she said she was going to do. She wants to double Alberta's population by 2050 through
00:31:01.940immigration she's just brought in um again parent right legislation around um around allowing um
00:31:14.30016 year old and and 17 year olds to receive chemical castration drugs so i just want to i
00:31:21.320just want people to understand people in alberta um she came out saying i'm going to protect parent
00:31:27.220rights. And so as, because I'm going to do this, I'm going to allow parents to opt in to gender
00:31:35.080conversations and instruction in schools, because we teach SOGI in our school, sexual identity,
00:31:42.820sexual orientation, gender identity in our schools. And so she's like, we're going to allow
00:31:47.080parents to opt their kid in. And, and I'm like, well, why not just get rid of SOGI in school?1.00
00:31:52.160You know, what she's done is she has normalized and adopted for the province of Alberta and its citizens the lie that a person can change their sex.0.99
00:32:08.380So we're living in this inverted land right now.0.82
00:32:12.640There is nothing good for anybody, including trans people who are going through gender dysphoria and and anybody who is does not want this in their in their lives.0.80
00:32:24.300She has normalized it and where she's codified into law, the chemical castration of 16 year old and 17 year olds in this province.0.92
00:32:34.040OK, and so this is how manipulative the media is and the government messaging is.
00:32:42.640Because we, by enacting this type of legislation, we've all normalized in this world that you can change your sex.
00:32:57.960We've accepted it as true no matter what the biology and the science says otherwise.
00:33:05.040I don't understand how people can't see the deception.0.63
00:33:10.980And once a government has made something a law, the likelihood of changing it to getting rid of it is very challenging and very slim because we see from history that the next government, because it's a uniparty, the next government is going to continue with that and either make it worse or just go along with it.
00:33:39.480We've seen it with Stephen Harper federally when he brought us into the climate, signed
00:33:44.260us onto the Paris Climate Accord, international health regulations, and the sustainable development
00:34:02.720And that's what's happened in history.
00:34:04.460And so there is nothing about the Smith government that's conservative, nothing.
00:34:09.480Let me ask you, the original Bill of Rights, which was again codified in the law in 1972, and there it is there, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of the press, why didn't this have an effect during the pandemic?
00:34:28.740And if it didn't, and the way it's written, obviously, originally, as I just showed everybody, what's the difference between this and the new amended documents if they're not going to follow the law anyway?
00:34:41.320Is this just a political stunt that Smith is trying to pull over?
00:50:41.980says regarding yeah well well certainly but when you look at the intention when you look at the
00:50:48.860charter of rights and freedoms i think it's section 27 says that this document is to be
00:50:53.580interpreted under the lens of multiculturalism not anything else i mean the preamble says one thing
00:50:59.620but the body of the document says something different and so oh can you hear me yep okay
00:51:06.640So basically what's happened is multiculturalism has been the plan, and that is the plan to destabilize a nation.
00:51:16.940And we're seeing that play out in Toronto, in most of our cities, because a lot of these people are, we don't share the same values any longer, and it's been watered down.0.97
00:51:27.340And instead of Canadian values being protected, which are based on Christian principles, how this country was founded, we're deferring to these people because they're minorities and they're a protected group.
00:51:38.940And so, therefore, it would be discrimination to not, you know, not give these people these special days and honor them.0.59
00:51:46.920Meanwhile, many immigrants came to Canada because of our stability, and we obtained that stability because of our Christian-based principles and values and the rule of law and the certainty that we had within the courts to uphold those values and principles, and we don't have that anymore.
00:52:08.260And now we've got free drugs being given out by the governments in British Columbia and everything's legal out there. And we've seen video of the streets of Vancouver and pretty much all of our major cities over the past year.0.93
00:52:23.200I can't even believe the deterioration that is happening out there. And this has to do with that, as you say, that globalist Marxist mindset of destabilizing a nation. How do we stop this?
00:52:37.600And we had this conversation, obviously, you and I this afternoon, but this means we have
00:52:44.380to stop a freight train, Catherine, and it's not just the ideology that has sunk into this
00:52:51.500country, but we have to find a way to wake these people up as they sleepwalk through
00:59:08.760check. Danielle Smith, Rachel Notley, support SOGI, check. Like there are these things
00:59:14.160there that are obvious they're facts we are being taken to the same destination it's just under a
00:59:24.620different marketing program and so we need to be right i'm sorry to interrupt you maybe a different
00:59:30.940speed and this is what we talked about this afternoon right like when i say well at this
00:59:36.120stage of the game because we haven't yet been able to you know win the hearts and minds of
00:59:41.280the majority or at least you know enough people in this country to be able to stand up and say
00:59:45.820hey wait a minute what the hell is going on we got to fight back we have to do the best we can
00:59:50.400with what we've got is the two wings of the same bird yeah yeah no no we have to get we have to get
00:59:56.220we have to get out of that mindset we have to remember let's look at our our recent history
01:00:03.080the reform party they changed the landscape they changed the conversation in canada the wild rose
01:00:12.660party was elected in the legislature until danielle smith crossed the floor right so
01:00:19.500and reform was doing well until they merged with the establishment conservative party right
01:00:25.800The Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan party in Saskatchewan, we have a history, everybody, that when we set our mind to it, we can bring about change and we can get people elected.
01:00:39.680People just have forgotten. And now we need to remember. And what does that mean?
01:00:44.620that means we we we start another party and we start something that represents our values and
01:00:53.280then we get people to vote for that for that party and we start to make a dent in that legislature
01:00:59.620we start we need to flip it so that there's actual opposition in that ledge even if it starts out
01:01:06.560with you know a handful of MLAs at the very beginning that's going to grow and they're not
01:01:12.960going to hide behind their political theater that the NDP and the UCP get into every day.
01:01:19.920No, I mean, I understand what you're saying. But again, you know, I mean, starting a political
01:01:23.820party is one thing, but we've seen the People's Party of Canada. It's been around for what is it
01:01:29.020five or six years now? Maxime Bernier has tried very hard to be that grassroots party and he
01:01:34.680hasn't won a seat yet. And, you know, it's because people make people make continue to make the same
01:01:39.760excuse oh well we don't want to split the vote we can't afford justin trudeau for another whatever
01:01:45.900you know they make excuses what i mean so when why don't we look there's got to be a way to be
01:01:52.180able to capture the imagination of canadians capture the hearts and minds of canadians
01:01:56.780and we haven't yet been able to figure out what that formula is and is it just that people are
01:02:02.460too obsessed with their lives or they're sleeping or they they just laugh at you they think you're
01:02:08.100conspiracy theorists. I mean, what is it we have to do to come up with a way to break through to
01:02:13.800these people? Because, you know, I mean, I'll tell you this, you know, in Saskatchewan, they just had
01:02:18.820this election and 60 percent of people showed up, 60 percent of eligible voters. And that's that's
01:02:25.020the median. That's what we get in most elections, federal, provincial, doesn't matter. And civic
01:02:30.360elections are even lower, 30, 35 percent. How do we motivate these people to understand that
01:02:36.540governments affect their lives. I mean, if the last five years don't prove that, what will?
01:02:43.440Pain. Pain is the touchstone for change, unfortunately, right? And, you know, in the
01:02:49.440meantime, you know, the people who see clearly what's happening, it's up to us to create the
01:02:56.640infrastructure for these people, because I've seen it over the last five years. Many people
01:03:03.760do do come to realize that they they can no longer they can no longer continue to support0.95
01:03:13.320and vote for the same crap that they continue to get over and over again and I know and it does0.69
01:03:19.160happen but it changes slow but the pain will I think um it will speed it up and and I'm really0.98
01:03:26.060interested to see how Danielle Smith fares at her AGM I mean I would be there today but I got banned
01:03:31.460from the party and so for running against them in the last election a sense that's what they've
01:03:38.980told me but I've also been told privately by a board member that I should take it personally so
01:03:45.720I whatever it is it is what it is right at the end of the day you I'm very curious to see how
01:03:55.480that plays out because if she continues in her role which is where I think it's going to land
01:04:01.040where there I I feel the shift already happening I feel the tide turning and I feel the discontent
01:04:10.860um it's going to burst and people the people who have been trying to hold Danielle Smith accountable
01:04:18.020um they they may just decide that that's a fool's errand and we need to shift gears
01:04:25.460and I'm already there I mean I've been there for a few years but um some people need to experience
01:04:32.180it and need to try and you know good for them I'm hoping that once they realize that the UCP
01:04:39.140can't be fixed because it's institutional and it goes right down to the core of what they are
01:04:43.860that they are lockstep in with this globalist agenda don't you find it odd that the bill of
01:04:51.780rights these sorts of amendments kind of come in at the same time as bill c-293 the pandemic
01:04:58.940preparedness act and don't you find it also odd that the government the lagrange our health
01:05:06.060minister puts out a you know does a video press release about oh we need to watch out this is
01:05:12.200like really dangerous legislation this is going to affect our our farmers and our our agriculture
01:05:18.540industry it's going to give too much authority to the feds to encroach into our jurisdiction
01:05:25.140well that's like it's already past the house and it's in the second reading at the senate okay
01:05:33.280aren't they a little late to the game here like shouldn't they have been shouldn't this have been
01:05:38.220on the radar and shouldn't they have been alerting albertans when it was first tabled in the house
01:05:44.420like what's going on here and and what exactly is going on with all of these 15 minute cities
01:05:53.100being rolled out all at the same time that's the other thing you know they're like well we don't
01:05:58.740The 15-city is a conspiracy theory, and then Edmonton's doing it.