Western Standard - January 06, 2023


Carpay one more casualty in Canada’s war on freedom

Topics
professional boards enforcing reverse discrimination
Mentioned
Jordan Peterson Timothy Stephens Nigel Hannaford James Coates Tamara Leach
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Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

136.35

Word count

1,105

Sentence count

85

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

sentences flagged


Summary

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John Carpe is the President of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, a group dedicated to defending free speech and standing up for powerless people who fall afoul of political correctness. He is also the president of the JCCF, which challenges governments across the country on issues such as curfews, surveillance, and anti-terrorism laws. And yet, a few weeks ago, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 First, let it be said that putting a tail on a judge is bound to spook the legal profession.
00:00:05.840 It might be legal. Upon trial, it might also turn out to be obstruction of justice.
00:00:11.880 It really depends on whether or not someone uses surveillance footage
00:00:15.360 to intimidate a judge into ruling a certain way.
00:00:19.420 In any case, it is guaranteed to attract the wrong kind of attention.
00:00:24.220 And that's John Carpe's problem today.
00:00:26.940 The thing is, however, there is something bigger going on here.
00:00:34.200 Whatever a Manitoba court finds in John Carpe's case,
00:00:37.920 he is but one of a number of people who governments are trying to shut down on any pretext
00:00:44.380 because they challenge governments on freedom issues.
00:00:49.160 More on that in a minute.
00:00:52.300 First, quickly, this is John's situation.
00:00:55.620 John Carpe is president of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:01:01.400 And in this country, no person or organization has done more in the last 10 years
00:01:08.020 to challenge the arbitrary and unconstitutional actions of governments
00:01:13.340 or to stand up for powerless people who fall afoul of woke political correctness.
00:01:19.600 Whether it's challenging the COVID narratives or protecting immigrant estheticians from a pervert,
00:01:27.460 the JCCF has been there.
00:01:30.060 John Carpe is a genuine free speech hero.
00:01:34.820 Not surprisingly, governments and bureaucrats don't like it.
00:01:38.940 They'd much rather tell you what to do, have you do it without argument,
00:01:42.940 and if things don't work out, tell you it's your fault anyway.
00:01:48.000 It couldn't be theirs.
00:01:49.420 As for you pointing out inconvenient facts,
00:01:52.540 asking questions or expressing a counter-narrative opinion,
00:01:55.760 they find that extremely threatening.
00:01:57.360 So, nearly 18 months ago,
00:02:01.020 the Justice Center was representing clients challenging Manitoba's lockdown restrictions.
00:02:06.980 In his belief that the judge hearing the case was flouting the very restrictions
00:02:12.180 upon which he would shortly be ruling,
00:02:15.420 John apparently, allegedly, had a private investigator keep an eye on him.
00:02:21.620 It was his honor masking up in public, that sort of thing.
00:02:27.040 As I said, not a good idea.
00:02:30.660 But backed by the full majesty of the law,
00:02:33.520 governments will monitor your phones,
00:02:36.160 freeze your bank account,
00:02:37.380 and check your face against their database.
00:02:39.420 And when you look at it like that,
00:02:41.640 you can imagine how Carpe might have been tempted to do something like that.
00:02:48.420 Anyway, when all this came out,
00:02:49.600 the Provincial Attorney General complained to the Manitoba Law Society.
00:02:53.300 The Law Society demanded an apology from Carpe,
00:02:55.980 which he offered immediately and contritely.
00:03:00.120 There is still a Law Society hearing waiting for him.
00:03:04.260 But until 30th of December, just a few days ago, that was it.
00:03:08.540 Then out of the blue, this warrant for his arrest arrives,
00:03:11.380 on this charge of obstructing justice.
00:03:13.920 23 unpleasant hours in a jail cell followed without bed or blanket,
00:03:20.300 and of, I guess, honorary elevation to the company of other free speech martyrs,
00:03:24.700 such as Tamara Lich and pastors Timothy Stevens and James Coates.
00:03:28.880 Was all that designed to be intimidating?
00:03:32.760 It looks that way to me.
00:03:34.680 What now?
00:03:36.100 Now, I'm no lawyer.
00:03:37.560 However, the Canadian Criminal Code talks about bribery and witness tampering,
00:03:42.300 but it doesn't talk about private detectives.
00:03:45.820 We'll see what they do.
00:03:47.720 Canadian courts are very good at reading what they want
00:03:50.340 into seemingly straightforward language.
00:03:52.300 Now, back to this bigger picture.
00:03:55.400 Jordan Peterson.
00:03:57.220 Jordan Peterson, probably the most effective voice for common sense
00:04:01.460 and rigorous argument in a generation.
00:04:03.980 He is now under attack.
00:04:05.860 And by whom?
00:04:07.160 Why?
00:04:07.900 His professional association.
00:04:10.920 In some Maoist struggle maneuver,
00:04:14.520 they want him to take sensitivity training.
00:04:16.980 And if he won't,
00:04:18.960 they threaten to cancel his license to practice psychology.
00:04:24.000 Doctors, experienced physicians,
00:04:26.900 who disagreed with public health officials,
00:04:29.660 were shut down by their professional associations
00:04:32.540 over the last two years.
00:04:34.420 There are lots of stories like that.
00:04:36.640 Nurses and other medical professionals, likewise. 0.98
00:04:40.180 If they drew attention to COVID stupidities, 1.00
00:04:43.320 they paid a price. 1.00
00:04:44.700 And, of course, as we know,
00:04:46.300 in universities across the continent,
00:04:48.700 boards enforce reverse discrimination in hiring
00:04:51.200 and get away with it.
00:04:53.740 And should John Carpe win his case in Manitoba,
00:04:57.380 he still has, guess what?
00:04:59.460 Another regulatory body.
00:05:01.360 The Manitoba Law Society waiting for him.
00:05:05.680 Alas, he did rather play into their hands, it appears.
00:05:10.960 But clearly, friends,
00:05:12.100 in Canada, the empire is striking back
00:05:14.720 against freedom fighters.
00:05:16.920 Now, I have no evidence
00:05:18.360 that there's a sinister mastermind directing all this.
00:05:22.460 But there doesn't need to be.
00:05:25.400 You don't end up on a regulatory board
00:05:28.420 if you don't think right.
00:05:31.180 There's an element of self-selection in this.
00:05:34.000 And so professional boards
00:05:35.480 that are not responsible to you
00:05:37.640 are going to war against people
00:05:40.080 who, in your interests,
00:05:42.400 in your interests,
00:05:43.960 challenge governments
00:05:45.080 in ways that your elected representatives
00:05:49.800 don't or won't.
00:05:53.460 When it's time to lower the boom on freedom,
00:05:56.780 these people don't need instruction.
00:05:59.080 They just need to feel like it.
00:06:01.140 And it's funny.
00:06:03.280 As 2023 rolls in,
00:06:06.800 suddenly,
00:06:07.920 they all do.
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