In the wake of the Emergencies Act inquiry into why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the act on February 14th, 2022, a group of Freedom Convoy protesters gathered outside the Library and Archives of Canada to protest the government. They were the cleanest bunch of protesters I ve ever seen. They cleaned up after themselves. They took their signs home. They didn t leave them everywhere like left-wing protesters do. And they certainly didn t deserve to be smeared by Justin Trudeau as white supremacists.
00:10:05.300Because of the pandemic and because they did not want to take the vaccine.
00:10:09.460So, Eva will be back with me in an exclusive interview, perhaps next week, but certainly on February 20th, when this document is delivered.
00:10:25.200We want to know what this document says and whether Trudeau was justified invoking the Emergencies Act by using this kind of authoritarian measure against a peaceful protest.
00:10:39.460We say he was not justified in doing this, and I know a lot of our viewers and readership at the Western Standard are saying the same thing.
00:10:46.720This was not justified, and I want to thank again Eva Chepiuk for the interview and for alerting us to what's going on.
00:10:56.980There should not be a secret report coming out, and you know what she also told me?
00:11:01.220in the subsequent hearings from so-called experts
00:11:06.860after the politicians had all gone back.
00:11:09.620And by the way, the media was not at these secondary hearings
00:11:14.980that followed the last day of testimony from Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:11:40.600Because Eva told me they weren't invited.
00:11:45.060They were not invited to attend these so-called.
00:11:48.480She says that neither her nor her legal team were invited to attend the public order emergency commission sessions that occurred after Trudeau's testimony on November 25th.
00:11:58.480fifth we didn't really know about the process we thought we would be part of the panel discussion
00:12:05.280after six weeks but she says after those six weeks of so much evidence we weren't invited
00:12:11.680to be part of the panel i wonder why that is i wonder why that is
00:12:18.960so we're going to go now because my time is limited we're going to be talking about this
00:12:23.520again believe me but i want to talk quickly about two other matters that came up in my columns this
00:12:28.960week my wednesday column was about the war in ukraine and why i think it's time for the trudeau
00:12:37.760government to stop financing it and why i think we need peace in ukraine and not a war that goes on
00:12:45.040and on and on endlessly have you heard of the doomsday clock we used to hear about it all the
00:12:51.360time during the height of the cold war and certainly during the years of president ronald
00:12:57.840reagan a hero of mine who actually ended the cold war through military strength but the doomsday
00:13:05.920clock was always being mentioned because they thought liberals progressives thought reagan was
00:13:11.280going to bomb moscow or a start a war with the soviet union of course that never happened it was
00:13:17.440actually ronald reagan that initiated serious talks with mikhail gorbachev to end the cold war
00:13:24.800because he knew the united states had an upper hand economically and militarily and the soviet
00:13:29.440union could not keep up it was on the verge of implosion exactly what happened so why are we
00:13:36.720fighting a proxy war against russia and ukraine now i spent years as a public affairs officer in
00:13:43.760the military peddling the nato talking points about how nato is an organization of collective
00:13:50.400security that is containing communism in the soviet bloc and nato wasn't a very was a very
00:14:01.040effective organization during the cold war it did contain communism and in the years following the
00:14:06.880collapse of the soviet union the end of the cold war nato was quite effective in peacemaking
00:14:12.080operations and europe and i was part of one of these operations in bosnia 1996
00:14:19.440where we ended a civil war in the former yugoslavia
00:14:23.840nato was very good at that nato was not very good at span expanding endlessly and so every nation in
00:14:30.240europe is a member of nato except russia that looks like a situation that could
00:14:38.640absolutely be catastrophic do you want to go to war for albania for estonia for latvia for
00:14:48.800lithuania because these are all members of nato now and because of nato the nato rule that he that
00:14:55.040an attack on one member nation is attack is an attack on all that means canada as a member of
00:15:01.120nato will have to go defend lithuania if it's attacked by any other nation including russia
00:15:06.480this is getting insane everybody can't be a member of nato because the organization ceases to have
00:15:13.760a valid legitimate objective or function it suddenly becomes an organization that will fight
00:15:19.920a war just about everywhere and anywhere and this is not working out well with russia right now we
00:15:26.960are on the verge of a nuclear cataclysm we are marching towards armageddon because we have got
00:15:34.240too many idiots in the media proclaiming that this is a war of freedom that this is another war to
00:15:41.280make the world safe for democracy that's what we said about the first world war and look at a joke
00:15:46.320that turned out to be all it did was sow the seeds of the second world war and enable nazism and0.96
00:15:54.320adolf hitler but ukraine is not a model democratic state it is a corrupt state ruled by oligarchs0.77
00:16:04.240in the same manner that russia is they are taking the aid money in many cases and squandering it
00:16:12.240on personal projects so the aid money is not even going to the military objectives that we're
00:16:20.600sending it to and this is the problem there and there's no accountability for where this money is
00:16:27.160going and canada is sent has sent a billion dollars in direct aid it just sent two leopard
00:16:32.600tanks to ukraine and by the way don't expect to get them back because once you send tanks to a
00:16:40.520nation at war they usually get ground up in the process so don't expect them back we've sent1.00
00:16:46.280howitzers we've we've sent a missile guide a guided missile system that we don't even have ourselves
00:16:54.280460 million dollars we purchase we're purchasing it from the united states to send to ukraine and
00:17:00.120our own Canadian military doesn't have it so what is going on here it's clearly there was a violation
00:17:09.560of an agreement in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush the first Bush as the Soviet Union was
00:17:17.400collapsing his Secretary of State James Baker promised the Soviet Union that NATO would not
00:17:23.560expand. Now a year later when the Soviet Union did collapse and the Russian Federation emerged
00:17:31.760they dissolved the Warsaw Pact which was a competing military alliance to NATO. They
00:17:38.860dissolved it thinking that NATO was going to stop expanding and probably eventually be dissolved
00:17:46.240itself as russia became part of the european continent and part of a democratic family of
00:17:56.560nations that didn't work out very well did it but it could have if we have i've tried to keep russia
00:18:06.000democratic and stop trying to wage a proxy war against it and by encircling it with every other
00:18:14.320nation in europe belonging to nato and and this is a real problem we need to stop the war in ukraine
00:18:19.520it was a horrible violation of international law by russia but it's not worth a nuclear war
00:18:25.360i want to make that point very clear today now i want to finish on one of my favorite notes
00:18:32.160and this is the second column i wrote on this it's out today it's thursday's column