00:01:47.780But it's also important to remember that there's hundreds of trucks stationed outside of town that haven't been able to get in.
00:01:55.560So what happened was when we were pulling into town, the OPP had just started to put up barricades and roadblocks.
00:02:04.720And they were basically directing or stopping traffic from going down Wellington.
00:02:08.680And then they even started pulling graders and stuff across intersections downtown to stop trucks from continuing to plug up the downtown core.
00:02:18.420So a lot of those trucks that were in the convoy are outside of town.
00:02:21.880They've set up tents and shelters and food stations, and they've got clothing down there.
00:02:59.620And it's important to point out with that that I don't think I've ever seen any movement or especially a political one that's garnered that kind of support ever.
00:03:11.940So $10 million, a political party would be just beside themselves raising that much cash in that short of time.
00:03:35.740So, of course, the end goal is to force the government or convince the government to end the COVID mandates and restrictions
00:03:46.200and get us back to a place in Canada where we're not divided by the country's leadership
00:03:52.480and we can start getting back to accepting each other's choices.
00:03:58.480So that's the ultimate goal is to get rid of the mandates.
00:04:01.460Now, there are some who think that this is some sort of a blockade that's going to force the government to do something to concede to the demands of this group and just drop the mandates.
00:04:18.460The way I see this is this movement has basically, it's united Canada for sure, and it's ignited Canada.
00:04:25.960So now cities all over the province or all over the country are doing the same thing.
00:04:30.680people are taking it to the streets and what's happening is it's shifting it's shifting the
00:04:36.700winds of public opinion and it's showing the government in like a physical show that Canadians
00:04:44.020have had enough so what I'm hoping to achieve with this is that get people encouraged tell
00:04:50.360them they're not alone in their thoughts that this what the government's doing is wrong and
00:04:54.800have them stand up for themselves. Absolutely. And it seems that the sentiment is carrying across
00:05:03.840the country. I know you and I were sort of talking a little bit about what's happening in Alberta
00:05:08.000right now. There is a massive movement happening in Alberta right now beyond even what's been
00:05:15.580happening at the Coutts border since Saturday. Have you heard much about what's going on there?
00:05:19.860well i just get information kind of off social media and from friends of mine that are down
00:05:25.560there and what i've heard about the coots demonstration is that you know the the legacy
00:05:31.280media has done a a really good job at being legacy media and that they haven't really
00:05:38.220just one second there's some horns going again
00:05:41.520the horns might be going for bed can you still hear me i can still hear you it must get loud
00:05:54.800around there it certainly does yeah so what i was saying is that the the legacy media the
00:06:00.460mainstream media or the the media party some as some call it they they've tried to spin both of
00:06:06.280these demonstrations as something they're not so they keep calling the the cutes thing a blockade
00:06:11.360And I know there's a lot of conflicting information out there, but the information that I'm getting from friends of mine who are down there is that traffic is able to move.
00:06:22.340And I can't say 100% either way because I'm not there, but like everything I've seen, it's a very positive experience down there.
00:06:31.920And people are, it's encouraging that people are stepping up in both of these types of demonstrations.
00:06:39.180well and and to speak to that yes so in speaking with uh the organizers in coots at the at the
00:06:47.020coots blockade they are calling it a blockade and and they do want it to be made known that they are
00:06:53.500that their plans are to disrupt traffic in the area they do want to uh they feel like they they
00:07:00.060have needed to to make this stand and and to make it um you know uh something that people people
00:07:07.740government uh will feel you know like that it will be making a statement um because yeah i i think a
00:07:15.580lot of these people are feeling like they're not heard they're not being heard um and again you
00:07:20.060know i was just having a conversation with um one of the one of the fellas that's involved in another
00:07:26.380blockade that has been set up now this is a a blockade just north of um north of uh fort mcleod
00:07:35.260on Highway 2, right on the Old Man River Bridge.
00:07:39.740And they've set up there and they've kind of staggered the vehicles.
00:07:44.200So it sounds like, again, they are letting traffic through, but very, very slowly.
00:07:51.560And the sentiment is, this is not about being pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine.
00:08:00.960He mentioned that a lot of people who have been participating and that are in these groups that are sort of sharing information and mobilizing on these telegram groups and social media groups, a lot of the people are vaccinated, have chose to be vaccinated, but are pro-choice and believe that it should be the right to choose.
00:08:22.920And so this is really, you know, they want to drive home that this is really about freedom.
00:08:28.500This is really about the freedom of choice versus being anti-vaccine.
00:08:32.860So, you know, I just want to clear that up too.
00:08:35.860But I have heard from Stavely, Grassy Lake, Coaldale, sounds like they've got stuff happening
00:08:45.880I've just heard Brooks is coming on board with a blockade.
00:08:49.160Now, again, these are some of them are blockades.
00:08:51.560Some of them are considered what they call a slow roll or, you know, a slow roll convoy, which is, again, meant to disrupt traffic.
00:09:02.400And really, the goal is to make noise and, you know, to be heard.
00:09:09.260And which is happening in Ottawa as well with all of the trucks that have come out there and are still waiting outside the city.
00:09:15.020So give me another. Tell me, what have you guys been up to?
00:09:21.200what um you know what do you guys do through the day well i'm going to comment on what you said
00:09:26.400first here that's a that's a fair assessment so i i did say on our way out here and in the days
00:09:32.640prior to leaving uh for ottawa from mirror that yes this is going to inconvenience people uh the
00:09:38.480people in ottawa will be inconvenienced by their you know the traffic patterns being disrupted it's
00:09:43.280going to be noisy there's going to be a lot of people so yes it is absolutely an inconvenience
00:09:47.600And it's the same thing with all the demonstrations happening across the country right now.
00:09:52.440And so there are people who, they're legitimately upset that they're being inconvenienced in their daily lives.
00:09:59.960And I cannot stress enough that no matter which side of the fence you're on,
00:10:05.600it's important to understand that there are people who have been inconvenienced or even worse in the last two years by the actions of our government.
00:10:16.780And these inconveniences are far more impactful than just not being able to drive down a street.
00:10:22.520I mean, we're talking about people who have lost their businesses, who have lost loved ones,
00:10:27.180families that were unable to be with their grandparents in their final days because of this.
00:10:33.140So everybody has been inconvenienced in one way or another in the last two years.
00:10:38.280And at the end of the day, it's a result of poor government policy.
00:10:42.400So when you're going about your life and you're inconvenienced by one of these things,
00:10:47.280I would just encourage people to understand why this is happening and why we're dealing with this inconvenience now.
00:10:55.780It's not something that most of these people want to do, probably none of them.
00:11:00.100And you're right, a lot of the people that are participating in these demonstrations,
00:11:03.880they are fully vaccinated, even though I don't think that that's a proper term.
00:11:08.180and they're doing this because they see the inconvenience that's been happening to their
00:11:13.380friends and their neighbors over the last two years and they're saying it's enough so that's
00:11:17.040a you know I just I just can't stress that enough that it's not it's not that people are doing this
00:11:24.340out of spite or anger it's just that they realize it's time to take it to the streets because
00:11:29.480we are done with the inconvenience and the divide that we've experienced in this country over the
00:11:34.760two years yeah and speaking of the inconvenience i just interviewed uh josh van herk uh he was
00:11:41.880somebody that i just spoke with who is uh one of the people participating in the blockade just south
00:11:47.800or sorry just north of fort mcleod and uh he is a truck company owner so he owns a a trucking
00:11:57.160company and has for 17 years he said um because of the mandates he's lost three quarters of his
00:12:03.160drivers so his his business is struggling so again when we're talking about inconvenience
00:12:09.800um you know i think i think i think the tough thing is for for anyone who's chosen to be
00:12:16.120vaccinated i think you know there there may be and this is not for everyone because i do know
00:12:22.440that there are a lot of people participating in these in these protests in the blockades and the
00:12:26.760rallies the freedom fighters i know josh said he wanted to be called a freedom fighter not a
00:12:31.560protesters so uh josh i'll respect that um but but a lot of them have chosen to be vaccinated
00:12:38.120and so again this is not about pro pro pro or anti-vax but but i think that for some people
00:12:43.960who have chosen to be vaccinated it's almost like you know there there is no consequence anymore to
00:12:49.560them you know they they have done what they felt was right for themselves or their families um they
00:12:55.240have made the choice that they've made um it has not impacted their ability to work it has not
00:13:00.040impacted their ability to travel. It has not impacted a large portion of their life. Whereas
00:13:06.440for those who choose to look at it as a freedom of choice, they have lost businesses, lost jobs,
00:13:16.120like you said, have not been able to see loved ones, not been able to visit care facilities or
00:13:22.200hospitals because of their choice to not be vaccinated. So yeah, when we're talking about
00:13:28.520how this has affected people's lives, I can understand that these freedom fighters,
00:13:36.920these protesters, one of the blockade fellows that I spoke with over the weekend was saying,
00:13:42.760we know this is going to be an inconvenience for people. We completely understand that,
00:13:47.000but we have to take a stand now. It's kind of that slippery slope where when we start to lose
00:13:55.000our our rights to choose you know what's next what you know it's yeah folks so and so yeah
00:14:01.720that's right and the longer we wait the harder it becomes i i i said and i'll say it again if we had
00:14:07.720stood up last january when when the restaurants and gyms and and small businesses in alberta did
00:14:12.760and the world was watching we would very likely not be in this situation right now at least that's
00:14:17.400my opinion um so yeah there there comes a time when you have to rip the band-aid off because
00:14:25.480those that have chosen to follow all the restrictions all the rules on the mandates
00:14:29.080uh got their jobs they still can't participate in society we still can't fully not fully yeah i mean
00:14:37.400hockey we they can't go to hockey games they got arenas closed um downtown in ottawa here
00:14:42.840you wouldn't believe how many businesses are shuttered like there's a lot of businesses that
00:14:46.840went bankrupt because of these restrictions and those people they may never get a business their
00:14:51.400their business back again and some of those people they chose to follow the restrictions
00:14:55.640and mandates that the government set forth and yet they still suffered so that's where we're at right
00:15:00.280now it's it's basically how long do you keep on doing the same thing over and over and over again
00:15:05.640and experiencing all this collateral damage before you have to look at what's happened
00:15:11.720and and accept that there was a different path there is a different path and the quicker we get
00:15:16.360on that path the less damage we're going to inflict on canadians we've got some comments
00:15:23.480coming in here uh excellent job chris hold the line boys says keila another fella roy says uh
00:15:30.840thank you trucks and everyone participating uh frederick says it's time to kick out trudeau
00:15:37.160now so with this you know petition in ottawa uh on parliament hill um can you speak to the response
00:15:48.680that we have seen from trudeau from our prime minister which petition are we referring to
00:15:54.280well i i mean the the the petition for the mandates meaning the whole freedom convoy
00:15:59.480the you know petitioning for the mandates to be to be dropped uh so not not necessarily a
00:16:06.600circulating petition but i just mean what what the uh what the goal is of the of the freedom convoy
00:16:11.960can you speak to to um our prime minister's response so it's basically fallen on deaf ears
00:16:20.280and what's happened after that is um the the mainstream media the legacy media has failed to
00:16:28.040do their jobs with journalistic integrity and they're not telling both sides of the story and
00:16:32.920they're they're they're acting as in in my opinion they're acting as a propaganda arm to the federal
00:16:39.160government so when when we see stuff in the news about this in in the mainstream news um it doesn't
00:16:45.800reflect it doesn't reflect the the how monumental that this is uh the fact that it's unified
00:16:52.200canadians and and uh encourage people to actually have dialogue about this it's more about almost
00:16:59.800everything i've seen ends with and just get your vaccine so it's really fallen on deaf ears and the
00:17:05.800only media that that bothers to try and tell both sides of the story are the independent so
00:17:12.120i guess i'll say thank you to the western standard because you guys do a very good job of that
00:17:15.880and as a matter of fact i'm sure you already know that i have a a small relationship with
00:17:20.920with the Western Standard where they've offered my viewers a three-month free subscription by
00:17:25.740subscribing at Friends of the Whistle Stop. So that's amazing. And it's important because if
00:17:31.080the media had been doing their jobs and telling both sides of the story, we would be in a different
00:17:38.420spot right now. We really would. And the fact that our Prime Minister, instead of acknowledging the
00:17:45.900fact that Canadians are unified in their desire to get rid of these mandates, he's focusing on
00:17:50.840a single flag that i didn't see personally by the way um or a couple incidents of people
00:17:58.380possibly doing things that they didn't really understand that they had a bad public perception
00:18:03.780he focuses on those and he calls these the group of people here racists and xenophobes and um he
00:18:11.160says that they're what was it their opinions yeah misogynist and that their opinions aren't
00:18:17.240what did he say oh i try and scrub that stuff out of my mind they're not acceptable yeah
00:18:24.280a fringe minority and since when in canada has it ever been acceptable to tell a minority group
00:18:31.080no matter what the group is that their views and opinions are unacceptable that is the most
00:18:35.320un-canadian thing i've ever heard so i don't believe this is about petitioning the trudeau
00:18:41.160government to to drop the mandates i believe that this is about
00:18:47.240Continuing to build on this momentum and igniting and uniting more Canadians to stand up and say we've had enough, those that feel like maybe they'll be persecuted for their views, they need to get visible and they need to be heard.
00:19:01.940Because the only way this changes is if the government's perception of the public shifts.
00:19:11.840And as you've seen in the past, the Liberal government, it doesn't matter what the situation is or what the issue is, they will flip-flop.
00:19:20.760They'll go from the sky is blue one day to the sky is green the next day if they think that that's what the public wants to hear.
00:19:34.740So when I decided I was going to get behind this convoy and join them and drive a truck out here to Ottawa, that was the aha moment for me.
00:19:43.460For two years, Canadians have been waiting for something to get behind, for something to pave the way so that they can stand up and speak their minds and know that there are millions of people standing with them.
00:19:57.760So I don't believe that there's been so much information and so many groups trying to say, oh, we're going to, you know, we're going to get rid of the government.
00:20:07.080We're going to overthrow the government by everybody signing this piece of paper.
00:21:42.260So yeah, so Chris, you had mentioned that you're where you're parked, where you're staying
00:21:48.160your about a five-minute walk you said from Parliament Hill and and and things
00:21:54.700hopefully aren't minus 30 still there oh it's a beautiful day I think it's like
00:21:59.380zero or something oh it's plus four Wow now now we've got a lawyer I'm just
00:22:05.800gonna make sure do we do we have Chad we don't have Chad right now okay so well
00:22:10.880we we were going to touch base with the lawyer so I thought maybe I would
00:22:13.980coordinate it where you walk over to Parliament Hill are you are you interested
00:22:17.480going for a walk and just showing us the sights of what you're seeing yeah i probably should go
00:22:24.120for a walk because there's people have been bringing us donuts for days and uh it's it's
00:22:28.600important to go for walks so so having said that i know i've seen a lot of mainstream media reporting
00:22:35.480that people in ottawa are fed up the sentiment that you're getting and hearing and the response
00:22:42.920that you're seeing from people seems a bit different well okay so it would be completely
00:22:48.840disingenuous to say that everybody in ottawa is uh supportive of this um this it's you you can't
00:22:57.880by any measure say that this type of thing um would make everybody in a city happy it absolutely
00:23:05.480won't and as a matter of fact there's a starbucks where i'm parked and i went in there to grab a
00:23:09.320coffee and i said to the young lady behind the counter i said hey you know sorry about all the
00:23:12.860noise um you know what do you think of all this and she said well we we haven't been able to work
00:23:19.200in two days because of this and she was cranky she was visibly upset and i get it there's horns
00:23:24.320blaring there's trucks in the streets there's a lot of people it it really is people get upset
00:23:32.160with that i i totally understand and i didn't say anything at the time but i really wish i had
00:23:36.860mentioned like i'm sorry for that you haven't been able to work for a couple days but i haven't been
00:23:41.560able to operate my my restaurant for almost two years at least in the capacity that it needs to
00:23:46.140operate in order to stay in business and that's what this is all about there are people in this
00:23:50.120town that are angry uh the mayor is like he does not like us at all um the the police are very
00:23:57.580friendly um and yeah the reception for this isn't all positive for sure but
00:24:05.100i said this before people don't get involved in things generally unless it affects them
00:24:12.780personally and now this is affecting a lot more people than it did in the past and at the very
00:24:18.880least it's opened up the it's opened up dialogue like the the opportunity i had to speak with a
00:24:25.220young lady and it was a missed opportunity but i won't i won't make that mistake again
00:24:28.800it's it's opened up that dialogue so we can start saying hey i'm really sorry that you're
00:24:33.920being inconvenienced by what's happening here but this is why we're doing it and this is the
00:24:38.940inconveniences we've seen so please when you're getting frustrated and angry because you're
00:24:44.260hearing horns please remember that there are people out there who have literally lost loved
00:24:50.340ones lost careers lost the opportunity to play in the nhl like the list goes on and on and on
00:24:59.120So, yes, there are people in Ottawa who 100% are upset with this, and I get it, but we have to look at that as an opportunity to have conversations with people.
00:25:13.100Did you, by any chance, get a chance to see the Tucker Carlson rant that he did for about 17 minutes, not last night, but the night before?
00:30:18.100he raised a motion in the House, I think it was this morning, and the
00:30:22.700motion was, will the House condemn the use of blackface? And why not? It's a horrendously
00:30:30.760racist thing to do. We don't want to see people running around in blackface. It's a very poor1.00
00:30:35.240image of, you know, it doesn't scream acceptance and inclusiveness. And the entire liberal caucus
00:30:44.220voted no. They refused to condemn blackface. And now that really drives home my point.
00:30:51.880The Trudeau government, the Liberal government, does not push policy or bring in laws with anything to do with ethics or morality or doing what's right.
00:31:03.300They do what they think is going to make them win.0.58
00:31:07.200And they know if they pass that motion condemning blackface, it would cause them problems because their own leader has participated in those actions.0.71
00:31:15.420And it's the same with the COVID restrictions.
00:31:17.480They're not doing this because they believe it's an ethical or a moral or a right thing to do.
00:31:21.340they're doing it because they believe that it's what they need to do to win and i had a conversation
00:31:27.240with mr pearson and i and i told him the message that i'd like to get into the house is that our
00:31:31.480mps they better stop worrying about chasing the poles and chasing boats and they better start
00:31:37.220standing up and doing what's right regardless of whether or not it it people get upset with them
00:31:42.820because we remember that and we are going to remember that when everything to do with covid
00:31:48.000it's done we're going to look back and we're going to remember the men and women who stood up
00:31:51.660and did what's right because when when these court challenges get through when the supreme court is
00:31:56.620done with all this stuff it's the truth is going to come out that what's happened was unethical
00:32:01.980immoral and it caused more harm than good and it had nothing to do with benefiting the people of
00:32:07.220canada so now is the time for those mps and i'm not talking about just conservative or uh liberal
00:32:13.520or block or ndp i'm talking about all of them as individuals standing up for what's right
00:32:19.280and doing the right thing because we're going to remember it you know chris interesting talking
00:32:25.600about the symbolism some of the symbolism that has been used uh and and i think a lot a lot of
00:32:31.200people would agree that um you know using a nazi flag as some the symbol even just the symbol or
00:32:38.480the confederate flag is is in poor taste i don't deny that at all uh a lot of people and and the
00:32:45.120but the way it's been perceived you know i had a conversation with a group of people very recently
00:32:50.800and we were talking about this we were saying you know why would somebody come to something
00:32:54.640like this talking about freedom and bring a nazi flag and and you know i mean this is all
00:32:59.360hypothesis but i i would suspect i would think that what they are displaying by bringing a nazi
00:33:06.720flag which i don't agree with i'll go on the record right now i don't agree with with carrying
00:33:11.840that in in any way to to get a point across but i i feel like um our hypothesis was that perhaps that
00:33:21.040the display is showing what they feel our country is becoming the the path and and i get it again a
00:33:29.680lot of people have been very offended by that because i mean when you're comparing what
00:33:33.840Canadians are facing right now to what happened in Nazi Germany with the Jews. I mean, there's
00:33:39.760no comparison. And for the record, I agree with that as well. I would never want to compare the
00:33:46.160two. But I feel like the sentiment is people are saying we are becoming this fascist communist
00:33:53.520place and our rights are being eroded as was witnessed in those times. And so the display of
00:34:03.040a nazi flag is not it you know and again hypothesis but it was not necessarily um you know an attack
00:34:12.640on canada or or or supporting of nazi ideology or movement it was more so to to symbolize where
00:34:23.840they feel that our country is going so i understand that again i i don't feel that it's a great
00:34:30.320comparison and i also feel like it is um it is very disrespectful but that i think is the
00:34:36.800sentiment people really are feeling like we are sliding down a slippery slope as we were talking
00:34:44.000about earlier so uh so i just wanted to to mention that i i've had conversations around with this
00:34:51.280with many people and i've heard similar feelings from a lot of people well you know that that could
00:34:58.720be it it absolutely could be i and the other the other pretend it could also be somebody brought
00:35:06.800that in here to make this look like that i don't know and i didn't think yes it's entirely possible
00:35:13.960and it's it's plausible and it's probable but i don't know for sure um i wish i had seen that
00:35:20.240because if i had seen that i would have approached that person and had a conversation with them and
00:35:24.560asked them and i would have i would have given them my opinion that that was in poor taste and0.81
00:35:29.200and i would have probably more used words like you know what that's really stupid you shouldn't
00:35:34.560be doing that because no matter what you think of that what you're showing other people uh has0.52
00:35:40.400the potential to derail an otherwise genuine movement right exactly there you know this this
00:35:47.200is not what happened in in nazi germany to the to the jews and actually not just the jews other races
00:35:52.880uh as well was horrendous and this is not that but there are a lot of parallels and
00:36:02.880the parallels are more in the structure and the mechanisms that were you that were used to
00:36:07.860accomplish that those heinous acts and and the mechanisms were um a leader who rallied a country
00:36:15.720by using the media and and forcing not forcing but convincing the people of the country to fight
00:36:25.180amongst each other by segregating them uh telling them it was okay to bully their neighbors
00:36:31.100and basically basically swaying the public's opinion to pit them against another group a
00:36:39.700minority group. And no, this isn't like that, as in the government's not rounding up people
00:36:47.840in rail cars and sending them to their death. But the government is absolutely using the media
00:36:55.740to make people fight amongst each other. And I really believe that part of the reason for that
00:37:01.340is it's become quite apparent over the last few months that our healthcare system has been
00:37:06.820mismanaged like it's it's horrible the mismanagement that's happened and this is not just an alberta
00:37:12.800thing it is a countrywide thing um you look at the stats for the ontario uh health and from the
00:37:18.080ontario health authority and it shows that their hospitals have been overwhelmed at numerous times
00:37:23.980throughout the last 30 years it happens because the government has failed to keep those providing
00:37:29.620health services accountable and now we're in a position where uh those those organizations or
00:37:35.340government has to either acknowledge that they've failed to exercise exercise proper oversight
00:37:41.420on these organizations providing health care and that's what this problem is or they convince
00:37:48.940people that it's a minority group's fault and they let society bully those people and blame them for
00:37:56.780it and you can see that in some of premier kenny's uh words that he uses like a problem of the0.63
00:38:02.860the unvaccinated or you know you'll get your rights back if the unvaccinated just get vaccinated
00:38:08.180those things cause division and they cause people to fight and it takes the spotlight off the0.98
00:38:14.200government's failings and off the health services providers failings and if we if we can if we can
00:38:20.740see what they're doing and continue to focus on what the real problem is we will be in a way way
00:38:26.840better place because canadians are starting to wake up to the fact that uh the government is
00:38:32.600using the media uh the ones that are that are eating at the trough of the canadian media fund
00:38:38.200they're using them to promote their ideology and agenda and they've had enough and you see that in
00:38:43.400uh in independent media subscriptions like the western standard and rebel media and todayville
00:38:48.920and and and uh what's the epoch times like their their subscriptions are going through the roof
00:38:54.760because canadians are not stupid and they know what's being done to them they're paying attention
00:38:59.640to history and they're not going to let history repeat itself so well it's interesting you bring
00:39:07.560that up too when we're talking about how the spin or or how the media has been covering this there's
00:39:12.920been i mean i'm sure you've heard uh uh i believe it was yesterday jason kenney came forward with a
00:39:19.560statement a public statement saying that police officers or RCMP officers at the blockade had been
00:39:27.960assaulted and that there was there he didn't go into detail but there was some sort of a ramming
00:39:35.080incident that that led to an accident and and however what has what has become known to us
00:39:45.800and has been admitted by the RCMP is that there was no assault. There was no assault on any
00:39:51.880officers. Now the RCMP, to this point I haven't seen yet, the RCMP have not come out with a
00:39:59.800statement kind of refuting what the Premier has said, which to me is, it's sort of shocking,
00:40:07.800because I feel like in any other circumstance if the RCMP was identified as being involved
00:40:14.840in something that wasn't, wasn't factual, I feel like there would have been a statement released.
00:40:22.080However, nothing's been released. So that's got a lot of people frustrated. We've had, I have had
00:40:26.960so many people emailing me saying, what's the situation with this? Did this really happen?
00:40:31.080Were people assaulted? There was no assault on RCMP officers by anyone from the blockade,
00:40:38.700from anyone in coots uh and that you know and so uh i think kenny is is going to need to make a
00:40:47.260public retraction of that because look let's be honest the statement of like i have to say the
00:40:53.980statement of accusing um anyone of of attacking our authorities a police officer an rcmp officer
00:41:04.060uh whichever that is that is a a huge allegation and that needs to be retracted if it's become
00:41:12.780known that that is not what happened now who knows perhaps kenny was given some faulty information
00:41:18.380and and if that's the case that's fine but i think i think we need to be hearing
00:41:22.620from it and it needs to be as public of a retraction as it was an announcement claiming
00:41:28.540that there was uh you know that there was an assault against rcmp officers well you know that
00:41:34.700doesn't happen with premier kenny and if there's one thing i've learned about that man is that he
00:41:39.420lies he's lied to us numerous times and so has his uh you know the chief medical officer of health
00:41:46.780um those involved in his close circles they have lied to us on numerous occasions we've caught them
00:41:51.580in that the western standard has done a great job of uh keeping them accountable to the people and
00:41:57.340what i've seen after that happening is there is very it's very few times where he actually
00:42:03.900issues a retraction um he's said things about me not using my name but using people the groups that
00:42:11.900i'm in and he's accused us of doing things like being super spreaders now there is zero evidence
00:42:20.380to support that i've never had any issues in all of the things that we've done at the whistle stop
00:42:24.860cafe and we've had like believe it or not thousands and thousands and thousands of people
00:42:30.700through that little cafe in in in weekends um he's lied about numerous things the chief medical
00:42:37.340officer officer of health lied about a 14 year old boy dying of can of uh covet they lied about
00:42:43.820an infant dying of covet and these lies just keep piling up and piling up and piling up so when i
00:42:49.100hear jason kenney speak now um if he says he's going to do one thing i know he's going to do the
00:42:54.940other and if he's saying that there was an assault on rcmp i know that there wasn't an assault on rcmp
00:43:00.060because it's going to come out in a week or two that that didn't happen and another thing that's
00:43:04.780important to remember is that these demonstrations everybody has a cell phone and everything's being
00:43:09.180recorded from every angle for every minute of every day i walk down the street and i do a live
00:43:13.740stream and it's nothing but a sea of people doing live streams in front of me so if something like
00:43:19.180that did happen there will be evidence there would be evidence of it there'll be video evidence no
00:43:24.620question um but why why would he do that why would he say that these violent acts are happening and
00:43:32.940this is a it's a bad nature protest because he doesn't like it he doesn't like these protests
00:43:38.780and these demonstrations because it's making his government look terrible i've made his government
00:43:42.860look terrible and i'm just some guy that has a cafe but i ended up going to jail because i protested
00:43:49.180and i got sentenced i got big fines um i had a compelled speech thing they tried to say i
00:43:54.920couldn't leave alberta and um i'm on probation and the judge told me that i needed to follow
00:44:02.160the science so i was like okay i'm gonna start following the science so i've interviewed people
00:44:06.520like dr peter mccullough um i've interviewed uh dr roger odkinson i've interviewed uh the
00:44:12.260Honorable Brian Peckford. I've gone right to the horse's mouth to get the information that we need
00:44:18.440to make proper decisions. But our government hasn't done that. Our government is just pushing
00:44:23.780the same agenda they have over and over and over again and trying to force us to do things that
00:44:27.820have failed in the past over and over and over again without actually following the science.
00:44:32.820So the silver lining to this is that people like me have been put in a position where we have to
00:44:38.180go find that information for ourselves. And when we do, I think about what our premier has said
00:44:45.080and what our health authority has said, and it doesn't fit. So either they are terribly misinformed
00:44:52.080and whatever experts they're talking to shouldn't have their jobs or they're lying. And either way,
00:45:00.440it's a terrible, terrible thing to have rampant in your government, especially when they're trying
00:45:07.520to tell you that you have to do something to your body that other doctors are speaking out against
00:45:12.800in order to be a full member of society uh chris cheryl has a comment here chris uh i loved your
00:45:20.000idea from the other night about only honking and making noise from 7am to 7pm for ottawa area
00:45:25.280residents so maybe we can uh take a moment to just remind uh even some of the truckers in the convoys
00:45:32.160uh anyone in the blockades people in ottawa uh that are watching um yeah these these these poor
00:45:39.040area residents do need to live through through this as well so um you know your your suggestion
00:45:46.320was uh just to kind of keep the honking during the day correct yeah and that and that's my
00:45:50.960suggestion i do need to point out that i'm not an organizer um i don't have any authority over
00:45:56.080anybody here i'm not a leader or anything like that so these are just my suggestions because
00:46:01.600i'm trying to navigate this just like everybody else and i see a path that we need to take to
00:46:06.240achieve our goal and part of the path in my opinion is that we need to we need to keep as many friends
00:46:12.560as we can we don't want to make enemies out of people who may be sympathetic to our cause
00:46:17.920but become our enemies because because of honking i mean we're here people know we're here uh and
00:46:25.520and we we we're making noise and we're very visible so that's my suggestion and i'm certainly
00:46:31.840not gonna i'm not gonna tell people what to do but that's what i'm doing that's that's what i
00:46:38.240can do myself personally to try and reduce the impact on those around uh susan says full steam
00:46:45.120ahead chris thank you uh i have another comment here uh could someone put a human rights complaint
00:46:52.480against trudeau for hate speech i i wanted to mention this one from clive because i have seen
00:46:58.000numerous uh comments from from our viewers right now that are saying the same thing how is this
00:47:03.760not being considered hate speech how how is he not up on hate i mean this is these are public
00:47:09.200statements being said as you said to a minority so yeah and the premier kenny has done the same
00:47:15.680things like they're both guilty of the same thing and i don't mean guilty as in they we've gone
00:47:21.200through court and they've been pronounced guilty but public opinion public perception has them
00:47:25.680guilty of uh of some type of hate speech and you mentioned you said full steam ahead so my
00:47:32.560organization wsfullsteamahead.org um we like we really really want to do something that even even
00:47:42.240if tomorrow the mandates are lifted there's still the potential for it to happen again right it's
00:47:46.880it's not a one and done so we've decided that we want to build our membership and become a voice
00:47:53.680powerful enough that we can actually influence policy and and educate people as to why certain
00:47:59.520policies are are great and why others are dangerous to to Albertans or Canadians in addition we also
00:48:07.440originally wanted to help people who were getting fired because of the the mandate um to file a
00:48:13.680a claim against their employer and get them into court so that they could get some sort of remedy
00:48:19.120and we realized after we had floods of emails there are thousands upon thousands probably
00:48:25.200hundreds of thousands of people in canada who are affected by that mandate so we sat down as a board
00:48:33.120and we discussed this and we came to the conclusion that we're not going to actually do that what
00:48:37.440we're going to do is we are going to file a claim against the pmo and any of these other government
00:48:42.800officials who have are responsible for implementing these measures without proper justification without
00:48:48.960the science to back it up and we are going to open this claim up to every person in canada
00:48:53.840who has been affected by these mandates so basically what we're saying is yes there are
00:48:59.360100 human rights violations there's charter violations there's all sorts of things that
00:49:04.000have been pushed on canadians that are should have never happened and we want to open this
00:49:09.440up to not only the individuals who have been fired from their employers but also those employers have
00:49:15.120been forced to implement those mandates because at the end of the day i don't think any of these
00:49:22.000well i should i'm gonna i'm gonna change it very few of the employers or big companies that have
00:49:26.720implemented those mandates want to do that because the number one resource that we have in canada the
00:49:32.240most valuable resource we have is labor and when you do put a mandate like that in you shoot yourself
00:49:38.480on the foot and you're you're killing your you're you're taking away from your labor pool so if you
00:49:45.360if you take it let's take a federal carrier that had to implement a vax mandate because the trudeau
00:49:49.520government said you're federally regulated everybody has to be vaccinated now they're
00:49:53.840forced to fire some workers they're forced to tell their contractors they have to fire workers if
00:49:59.600they're not vaccinated all of those people have been victimized by a government that implemented
00:50:06.080mandates without justification and they will all be uh they'll all be plaintiffs in this
00:50:13.360so that's what we want to do and i'm glad you brought up that human rights things because
00:50:18.400that human rights thing because in the last well as long as i've been alive human rights
00:50:23.840issues have always been paramount in canada and it's because we canada is accepting inclusive
00:50:29.840and and we don't like that kind of segregation and division so yes absolutely 100 uh there are
00:50:36.960people like me and organizations like mine who are working on that stuff but it is not a quick fix
00:50:42.400i mean we're talking supreme court stuff right and when you look at supreme court matters it's
00:50:48.160it's years five years six years seven ten years it's a long time so in the meantime
00:50:54.880movements like this that unite canadians to stand up for their rights and tell the government that
00:50:59.200no we're not going to submit to these uh divisive and uninclusive policies this is what is important
00:51:07.600to help right now at this minute well i've got jade who's made a comment here if these mandates
00:51:14.080stay then they will mandate things like you should the euthanasia sterilization they will mandate
00:51:20.160every new vaccine it will never end so it's time to say no now uh chris i have a suggestion if
00:51:26.400you're willing. What are your thoughts on perhaps you walking down to the Parliament buildings and
00:51:35.280being able to give us a view of what's going on down there right now. And then I'm just going to
00:51:41.680do a quick check in while you're walking down there and we're going to find out, check in with
00:51:46.560our reporter James down in Cootes and see if there's anything happening there. And then you
00:51:52.880can just relink in with us once you get to uh the parliament buildings and uh we can we can have a
00:51:58.400live look at uh at what things are looking like in ottawa right now how's that yeah it'll be my
00:52:03.680pleasure i'm actually looking forward to going down there and seeing what's going on because
00:52:07.760there's there is literally people dancing in the streets for the last few days here it's amazing
00:52:12.880well we would like to see that so so yeah if you're if you're open to that um we can you can
00:52:17.680disconnect with us now once you get down there just click the link back and and we'll jump back
00:52:22.160in with you okay sure yeah that would be awesome thanks so much for speaking with us we've had a
00:52:28.240lot of people just uh sending their well wishes to you their prayers to you and uh and thanking
00:52:33.440you for what you're doing there chris and and what you've been doing throughout the entire pandemic
00:52:38.800uh standing up for choice and for freedom so a lot of thank yous here uh from from the viewers
00:52:45.760so thanks again we'll talk to you in a few okay thank you okay all right so it sounds like we have
00:52:53.360got james finkbeiner on uh on sort of standby right now uh and we're going to check in with
00:52:59.760james and just see uh how things are going now last i heard james uh sorry if you've been waiting
00:53:04.720for a bit uh is it still really cold down there is it warming up it is it is absolutely terrible
00:53:10.800the wind is picked up it is probably the coldest it's been uh the temperature is a little bit
00:53:16.640warmer but the wind is the wind is just awful right now so you it looks like you're um well
00:53:24.080you're at the blockade and is it is it what's going on right now i know that the lawyers are
00:53:30.320there they were going to speak with us but they've gone into a meeting um what's happening right now
00:53:36.480yeah so uh the lawyers are still keeping communication open between uh the the protesters
00:53:42.720and uh right behind me here is actually where the uh the main stoppage was this was where the
00:53:48.800original blockade happened um i'm gonna flip my camera around and show you guys around a little
00:53:54.080bit here uh sorry just bear with me so uh right here this is where the uh the the main blockade
00:54:03.840was originally uh taking place and as you can see most of the vehicles have peered out of here
00:54:09.440uh over the last couple of hours uh everybody's kind of hopped back into their units they started
00:54:14.560moving stuff out there's uh an open lane now in both directions um they're still kind of shifting
00:54:21.600vehicles around but there's a lot of moving parts uh this rcmp vehicle and uh this black truck here
00:54:27.920actually just had a bit of a fender bender i don't think they could see around one of the trucks so
00:54:33.520So, I mean, that's just one of the things, right?
00:54:36.320It's part of a situation when you have the highway block like that, you know, things are dangerous and accidents can happen.
00:54:42.040And I think that's part of what happened today is I think people started to realize that after five days and the amount of people here, the amount of equipment, the amount of driving, that, you know, things can't stay safe forever.
00:55:02.040and you know part of the community came in some of the locals and said to the
00:55:08.340truck drivers they said you know if we keep this up things are gonna get
00:55:12.780dangerous somebody's gonna get hurt we don't want anybody to get hurt what we
00:55:16.680want here is a peaceful protest we we want our government to listen to us and
00:55:21.300they're starting to listen to us so so that I'm clear I understand that they've
00:55:27.180opened up a lane but nobody has left is that right like they've just sort of
00:55:31.680cleared um the opportunity for people to get through more now one lane in each direction
00:55:38.160but nobody is planning to leave um until we see where things go with speaking with the mlas is
00:55:44.560that right yeah that's right so uh all of the trucks have pulled over to the to the shoulder
00:55:49.920they've left one lane open uh they'll pull over full further um they just want to see what the
00:55:55.200mlas come back with so uh they're in communication with uh with some of the mlas they're just waiting
00:56:01.280for an update uh what they've said is that if the mlas either don't come back to them or don't open
00:56:07.040a dialogue with them that they can shut this highway back down again within a matter of minutes
00:56:14.080and so uh the are the lawyers uh participating in the chat with the mlas are the did i understand
00:56:22.400that the mlas are actually coming down to coots border or what you know it was originally said
00:56:28.800that uh that some of the mlas were coming down um obviously they want to remain anonymous right now
00:56:35.360while they work things behind the scene there's actually some area town councillors here as well
00:56:41.440uh they've asked to remain anonymous just while they're helping facilitate discussions uh there's
00:56:46.720some of the original farmers for justice people here that are helping with negotiations between
00:56:51.440the truckers the mlas uh reaching out to their contacts from over the years uh you know you're
00:56:57.200in a fairly politically active area you've got a lot of a lot of politically active farmers
00:57:02.160and uh and and they're all they're all working the phones right now they're all coming up with
00:57:06.400a solution i think i think everybody here has kind of got uh one goal in mind they they want
00:57:12.800they want uh the the kenny government and and the trudeau government to listen to them
00:57:17.840to to take their concerns um and to heart and uh and and i think everybody's starting to realize
00:57:26.080that uh ultimatums just aren't going to work from either side and and i think we're going to see
00:57:31.440some more progress here today uh you know i and i'm sure you've heard we we put our story out on
00:57:37.840it just a little while ago there are numerous they're calling them sort of pop-up um slow roll
00:57:46.000convoys numerous pop-up blockades that are happening and just spreading across alberta
00:57:52.560right now I spoke with a couple of people one municipal councillor who did not want to share
00:57:58.400his name referencing you know how much flack the grant hunter has has received from from making
00:58:06.800his stand so so I won't mention his name but he he is part of quite a few of the Facebook groups
00:58:14.160the telegram groups some of these trucker groups and freedom convoy groups and apparently they
00:58:21.680have got uh all sorts of things popping up uh grassy lake has has uh uh looks like um i don't
00:58:29.200have all the details whether in that area it's more of a slow roll which means they're the vehicles
00:58:35.360are just taking up the lanes and they're moving slowly so traffic kind of gets stuck behind them
00:58:40.160or an official blockade so i don't know exactly what's happening at each location but i do know
00:58:45.760that near grassy lake highway number three they've got something rolling there highway number two at
00:58:52.640fort mcleod i spoke with josh van herk who was set up there with he said about 30 other vehicles from
00:59:02.240semis to farm equipment to trucks and vehicles and suvs and whatnot so they've kind of done a
00:59:08.640staggered situation right near the old man river bridge um just north of of fort mcleod
00:59:17.520and so they're doing a staggered situation on the highway so uh you know it slows down
00:59:22.480traffic considerably again they're standing in solidarity uh what josh said was they are going
00:59:29.120to sit there as long as it takes and they said they're trying to take the heat off of the fellow
00:59:34.560truckers at coots um one of the things josh was really frustrated with was some of the misinformation
00:59:40.240that's been spread uh including jason kenney announcing that rcmp officers had been assaulted
00:59:46.560um you know just uh some of the bad press that's been put out um that you know he says in an effort
00:59:54.080to try to turn people away from understanding the stand that these um that these protesters
01:00:01.760and these truckers are trying to make uh sounds like they are also uh setting up something in
01:00:07.360staveley uh there's something near red deer i heard brooks uh something's going on there
01:00:12.960uh they've got something on highway 3 near pincher creek uh sounds like uh i even heard uh over near
01:00:19.200coldale and noble forge there is stuff happening everywhere in alberta right now and i'm hearing
01:00:26.560from some of these groups that this is going to be the case for for quite some time uh josh says
01:00:34.640we're not going to quit he said some of us are fighting for our livelihoods we are not going to
01:00:39.120give up um until we see uh you know some some relief from these mandates yeah so that's what
01:00:47.520we're hearing too a lot of those groups are in communication with this group and uh they're
01:00:52.240saying that they're going to continue slow rolling down the highway keeping their rolling uh
01:00:56.800rolling convoys going uh to ensure that the mlas continue to meet to ensure that the dialogue stays
01:01:03.040open and it's the same thing these guys here they they lose their livelihood with this vaccine
01:01:08.960mandate they can't work they can't feed their family they have wives they have children they uh
01:01:14.560they're they're desperate and uh and they're showing today that that they're willing to make
01:01:20.000some concessions they're willing to say hey you know what we don't deal in absolutes like you guys
01:01:24.800do and uh and they're saying let's let's uh let's make some progress let's uh let's discuss what's
01:01:31.920happening let's discuss how we can make this change so that uh so that everybody can get back
01:01:36.880to work so that everybody can take care of themselves uh james one of the questions i had
01:01:42.800was and and i i have to assume by the fact that they are opening up some lanes right now
01:01:48.000are they getting the supplies they need now are they getting the food the gas the fuel
01:01:52.400everything that um that they needed uh for the blockade yeah earlier this morning the rcmp
01:01:58.480actually let the village of coots get a fuel truck in now that fuel truck that came in is for the
01:02:04.000village of coots uh that truck will not be going around filling up the trucks uh however it does
01:02:10.160sound like a shipment of propane did get in so uh some of the heaters now have fuel for them
01:02:16.880uh they're kind of negotiating how they can get diesel into some of these trucks
01:02:21.280uh they're they're gonna work on that uh we've heard that there is a couple of trucks coming
01:02:27.760down from the red deer area with food groceries and meals for these guys um so some some stuff
01:02:36.000is getting in now the rcmp still does have the area cordoned off uh they're still only letting
01:02:41.120locals in and uh they're basically saying uh if you're here as a protester and uh you're cold
01:02:48.080you're tired you're running low on fuel you're welcome to leave at any time um but you can't
01:02:53.080come back so uh that's why a lot of these guys they're still hunkered in uh they've made good
01:02:58.680on their word they've opened up the lanes uh vehicles are are able to get in and out of here
01:03:04.380uh in the uh the left-hand lane now no problem um but uh the rcmp still haven't opened up the area
01:03:12.060to traffic they so and again this is i mean there has never been um as far as i understand there
01:03:21.100has never been uh a cut off or or the stoppage of any emergency vehicles in and out of the area
01:03:28.620So safety was also a concern, as I understand it, from organizers at the blockade all along.
01:03:38.620Yeah, that's right, Mel. They had always planned to make sure emergency vehicles could get in.
01:03:43.620They let the mayor of Cootes know that they would be here.
01:03:47.620They let the mayor know that they would leave access for area residents, and they did.
01:03:51.620and they did and i mean i've been i've been able to work my way in and out of this area absolutely
01:03:56.820no problem uh for the last five days uh it takes a little bit of navigation it takes a little bit
01:04:02.260of time but you can get in and out and and i understand that in an emergency seconds matter
01:04:07.460and and you don't want to have an ambulance impeded and uh they they've all been more than
01:04:13.780willing to move absolutely everything out of the way to get everything in and out of here
01:04:17.380A lot of, again, a lot of thank yous. Even thank you to you, James, for braving the cold. I know,
01:04:26.020I don't know if you need to go sit somewhere warm, but have you had a chance to speak with
01:04:30.920many of the locals? I have, actually. I had coffee with a bunch of locals earlier this morning,
01:04:38.320and that's where a lot of the discussions about getting the lanes open. Some of the locals
01:04:44.120basically said hey guys you know what we really support what you're doing here we believe in what
01:04:49.340you're doing here but we need a lane open we need a lane open another in every direction you know
01:04:54.600our kids got to go to school we got to get in and out uh our residents are being um you know they
01:05:00.320they gotta show their ids they gotta say where they live they gotta say where they work to get
01:05:04.460in and out of their homes and uh they basically said you know we're we're reaching that point
01:05:10.960where you're going to overstay your welcome so let's uh let's show some good faith let's get
01:05:15.760some real discussions going and the locals help drive those conversations and uh and and you know
01:05:21.660the locals have been uh helping them get supplies in i know i showed earlier um a video of uh some
01:05:29.120some of the protesters actually using toboggans and wagons to cross over a field to get fuel and food
01:05:35.140here uh sorry uh james that last sentence to get i i didn't quite catch that the last sentence was
01:05:47.220to get fuel in there yeah to get fuel and food in here i'm just gonna hop back inside yeah i was
01:05:53.140gonna suggest it looks uh it's unbelievably though the wind here is just cold and you know that
01:05:59.380that's part of it that's part of uh what happened and what was going on is just the temperature and
01:06:04.340the wind is uh it's low it's cold it's uh it's the the wind chill is just crazy today the blowing
01:06:12.220snow is just it goes right through you and that was part of it the the locals and the protesters
01:06:18.380knew that someone was going to get hurt uh you know you're running low on fuel fuel uh somebody's
01:06:24.360going to freeze and nobody wants to see anybody hurt nobody wanted to see any violence nobody
01:06:30.180wanted to see aggression they just wanted to be heard that's right uh now i i spoke with uh one
01:06:38.820of the rcmp officers on site there this morning who again did confirm um there was there was the
01:06:47.060allegation that some rcmp officers or or law enforcement officers had been assaulted again
01:06:54.980just want to take that time to say that was that was actually not the case there was no assault
01:07:02.020on any law enforcement officer by anyone so we're you know we're waiting for we have received a
01:07:11.060statement from Jason Kenney but no real retraction also was hoping to see and sorry I haven't I
01:07:19.620I haven't had a chance to check the Twitter feed from RCMP but we were thinking that we would have seen the RCMP come forward and speak out against that.
01:07:31.780And you had even confirmed with me this morning, you spent a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of what assault happened and nobody could reference any assault.
01:07:45.820No, that's right. We have asked everyone, the protesters. Actually, after Jason Kenney's press conference, the protesters began asking amongst themselves who assaulted who, what had happened.
01:07:58.060uh if the protesters would have found who assaulted the police they would have turned
01:08:04.140that person over to the police themselves these are not violent people these are very respectful
01:08:09.680very prayerful people they are family men they uh they are just concerned about the future
01:08:15.500for themselves and the futures for their families that's right and i've and i've spoken
01:08:21.260with a number of people that are involved in the blockade at Coots, as well as a lot of people who
01:08:31.580are doing these sort of pop-up blockades that are happening in and around Alberta, small towns down
01:08:37.900south, even coming up as high I've heard as Red Deer. I think we're probably going to, have you
01:08:44.200been have they been talking about some of these um down at coots james yeah definitely uh it appears
01:08:51.800that they're that through social media all of these groups are i wouldn't say that they're
01:08:56.600coordinating with each other but they're talking to each other and they're supporting each other
01:09:01.320and people that couldn't make it down here to to this protest area have taken up protest areas
01:09:07.560across the province and uh they're all showing support and they they've all said you guys have
01:09:12.840opened up a lane good for you we're gonna keep rolling we're gonna make sure that the mlas uh
01:09:18.600meet we're gonna make sure that they have those discussions and we're gonna support you guys and
01:09:22.600what you guys are doing down there okay i uh just checking do we have we connected with chris again
01:09:29.960okay so james if you want to hold on or we can i can touch back with you or do you have anything
01:09:35.080else that you want to update us on right now or maybe we can connect with you in a bit uh when
01:09:40.360you can again get us in touch with uh or have a conversation with um chad williamson which is one
01:09:46.200of the lawyers that the group has brought down who sounds like he's in a meeting right now
01:09:51.000yeah so uh we we were lucky we got a quick window there with uh with with uh mr williamson uh
01:09:57.560unfortunately he had another meeting and then he had another interview and uh then just like
01:10:03.240most of us here he needed to get a bite to eat uh it's been a really really busy day everybody's
01:10:09.320been going non-stop so uh i'm hoping that i can catch up with him later on today and uh get a
01:10:15.800few words in with him um but for now i i am going to go warm up uh it looks like the trucks are uh
01:10:23.640mostly uh clear clearing that lane open now uh and and i'll follow up later with some more video
01:10:30.760after i see what else is going on here in a couple hours okay sounds good and we'll keep our again
01:10:35.960our eyes and ears on what's happening with these discussions with the mlas as soon as we as soon
01:10:42.200as we get word awesome thanks james okay go warm up all right so it sounds like we have chris again
01:10:50.600uh chris scott was joining us earlier in case you missed it um uh owner of whistle stop cafe
01:10:57.320and freedom fighter and sounds like he has so he is down in ottawa he was parked in a truck and
01:11:05.080chatted with us for a while chris it sounds like you are now um walking the parliament and showing
01:11:12.280us what's happening down there yeah that sounds loud can you even hear me there's a lot of people