Western Standard - Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau reveals why he really crushed the Freedom Convoy

00:00:00.000 well welcome to another episode our fact in our second episode of ottawa exposed with david

00:00:16.320 creighton i'm david creighton senior parliamentary columnist for the western standard

00:00:20.880 and my beat is ottawa and the federal government and what justin trudeau is up to every week

00:00:26.880 So we're excited about this show.

00:00:28.980 We had a fantastic reaction last week to our first episode.

00:00:32.920 And I think we're going to do that again this week because we've got lots of news.

00:00:36.560 I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

00:00:38.260 This is the last you'll probably see of me until Christmas.

00:00:41.440 So I hope you have a happy and joyous Christmas with your family and friends.

00:00:46.540 And take some time to relax.

00:00:48.460 I don't know how much time I'm going to get to relax.

00:00:50.460 But take some time to relax and reflect on all that God has given you.

00:00:56.320 and all the blessings you have in your life this is this is the time of year for that one of the

00:01:01.440 blessings we don't have it's a prime minister named justin trudeau and so we're going to be

00:01:06.720 talking about him almost exclusively for the next 20 minutes or so and what he's been up to in the

00:01:12.640 last week i wrote a uh a column this week on what trudeau is really after in 2023 and it's a two-fold

00:01:22.320 mission and they're very both very dangerous and i titled this one in his quest for power trudeau

00:01:28.720 is seizing both our guns and our free press and of course in his end of the year interview with ctv

00:01:35.280 news justin trudeau offhandedly remarked that yes he is going after hunting rifles as part of this

00:01:43.280 firearms confiscation maybe not them all but he admitted to at least some of them and if he's

00:01:49.040 admitting to at least some of them just watch and wait until he admits to all of them because you

00:01:54.560 know he wants a registry at the very least for long guns and he wants basically to take away

00:02:03.120 all guns from Canadian citizens so they are defenseless and this is a particularly scary 1.00

00:02:10.560 proposition because the right to self-defense is as old as law itself and certainly goes back to

00:02:20.320 the Magna Carta, for goodness sakes, in terms of the Judeo-Christian values that are in our legal

00:02:26.920 system. We have a right to defend ourselves. And if Trudeau is taking away all of our guns in this

00:02:33.080 country, if we're going to be a gun-free country, then I wonder how we're going to have any right 1.00

00:02:37.600 to self-defense. Now, it's very true that we don't have a Second Amendment in Canada that guarantees

00:02:43.640 constitutionally our right to bear arms. But we've always had a tacit understanding that in this

00:02:50.780 country, going back to common law, we have a right to access a weapon if we need to. And we have a

00:02:59.900 right to defend ourselves and our lives and our families' lives. And Trudeau is taking that away.

00:03:05.540 Clearly, he wants to disarm this country so that it cannot defend itself in any form.

00:03:15.440 And this is part, as I said, of his twofold process of enfeebling Canadians. 0.88

00:03:21.160 And this is really what he wants to do, is enfeeble us, to take away our ability to defend ourselves.

00:03:27.020 And the other avenue that he's using to do this is to take away our free speech and our free press.

00:03:34.580 Now, Bill C-12 and Bill C-18, which are on the verge of being passed into law, they've passed the House of Commons.

00:03:45.360 These are going to substantially change the way we deal with the Internet.

00:03:49.980 And it's going to hurt the new media more than it is the old legacy mainstream media,

00:03:57.120 because it's going to force companies to negotiate with big tech like Facebook and Twitter.

00:04:06.060 And it's going to force these big tech companies to pay for space on media. 0.98

00:04:13.380 Now, this is going to be a lot easier for the legacy media to do,

00:04:16.940 a lot harder for new media to do.

00:04:18.720 It basically puts a huge judicial legal challenge in front of new media.

00:04:25.060 And it's, once again, it's the government getting in the way.

00:04:29.180 We have no need for this in Canada.

00:04:32.080 We do not need the government to start telling either Facebook and Twitter how to conduct business or media how to conduct business.

00:04:40.620 But Trudeau loves this because it enables him to silence the new media.

00:04:45.080 And it allows the old legacy media to make money off of social media.

00:04:51.620 This is exactly what is going on here.

00:04:55.060 And it's part of Trudeau's plan to silence any media that opposes him or even criticizes or questions what he's doing.

00:05:05.560 Now, the Western Standard does not take a cent in taxpayer money, not a cent in government money, not a cent from Justin Trudeau's government.

00:05:14.960 That's because we believe we need the power to tell the truth.

00:05:21.000 And when you're on the government payroll, the tendency is not to tell the whole truth.

00:05:27.620 The tendency is to voice government talking points because you want the check to keep coming in every month.

00:05:35.320 And thank God, new media like the Western Standard are saying, no, we are not going to do this.

00:05:40.620 So Trudeau is trying other means.

00:05:42.380 There's all kinds of ambiguity in these bills.

00:05:47.140 There's words like fairness.

00:05:49.500 We have to make the media fair.

00:05:51.220 Now, what does that mean, fairness?

00:05:52.640 Well, it's like words like hate speech and misinformation.

00:05:56.080 It means whatever the government decides it means.

00:05:58.640 So if the Western standard is not being fair enough to Justin Trudeau,

00:06:01.600 we'll make them be fair to Justin Trudeau,

00:06:03.800 and we'll make them, we'll force them to print talking points.

00:06:07.300 It's exactly what Justin Trudeau is up to here.

00:06:10.700 This is a man who does not believe in the long tradition of freedom of the press and free speech.

00:06:18.060 These are sacred tenets to any democracy.

00:06:21.680 A democracy is not just about going to the polls every four to five years and electing a government.

00:06:28.280 A democracy is about having opposition parties and about having a viable and free press that can criticize the government.

00:06:36.520 And these are things that Trudeau does not believe in, and he's running away from them very quickly.

00:06:41.980 And our own publisher here at the Western Standard, Derek Fildebrand, has pointed out that this is going to hit new media especially hard.

00:06:52.320 And this could be a moment of survival.

00:06:55.640 So we've got to fight these bills, and we've got to fight Justin Trudeau's agenda, which is to take away our guns, to take away our free press.

00:07:04.060 And that's what he's up to here.

00:07:05.980 And this is a fight of a lifetime, really.

00:07:08.940 And I think we have to be very adamant in our opposition to this and determined to roll it back if it does become law.

00:07:19.700 And that's why we have to change this government.

00:07:23.820 I also wanted to mention the fact that a report came out this week about Germany is opening up a liquid natural gas terminal.

00:07:35.980 so it can export or import natural gas across the ocean now you you might recall that

00:07:46.300 Justin Trudeau turned down an offer from Germany to buy Canadian liquid natural gas LNG

00:07:54.620 this was absolutely monumentally foolish and I wrote at the time that this decision was either

00:08:01.340 based on an incredibly bad assessment of the situation. I think I called him a potential 0.95

00:08:08.480 idiot to do this, or that it was based on ideological reasons. Now, why do you suppose 1.00

00:08:15.860 Justin Trudeau would say that there's no business case for exporting natural gas to Germany? Because

00:08:25.120 he doesn't believe in fossil fuels. He thinks we have to immediately transition to so-called

00:08:32.520 green energy. It doesn't matter in the process that we have to live in caves and we can't

00:08:38.240 heat our homes. We have to transition immediately to green energy, except Justin Trudeau doesn't

00:08:44.580 have to do that, of course, because he's chauffeured around in his SUV. He flies around

00:08:51.300 the world as a political jet setter and he has one of the largest carbon footprints of any canadian

00:08:58.660 hypocritically so as he's lecturing us all about the need to reduce our carbon footprint and the

00:09:04.580 evils of greenhouse gases and how he's fighting climate change and how he's doing so much to make

00:09:10.980 canada abide by these international regulations and of course he's not doing that himself personally

00:09:16.740 What is very disturbing about this is that Trudeau constantly goes on about the need for Europe

00:09:23.280 to do more to help the Ukrainians fight in this war against Russia. He's also sent hundreds of

00:09:32.160 millions of dollars of Canadian taxpayer funds to Ukraine to finance this war. Yet he's prepared

00:09:40.460 to let the germans freeze in the winter without any access to our natural gas this is the

00:09:48.080 incredible hypocrisy of this man it just never seems to end and i and i don't know if it's 0.98

00:09:56.400 because of his innate narcissism or his just is basically he's unaware of how hypocritical and 0.99

00:10:03.860 double face two-faced this looks and is to the average canadian who has to deal with high gas 0.92

00:10:12.260 prices and high heating prices this winter and yet trudeau was going on about the fact we can't sell

00:10:17.620 gas to germans this could have been one of the largest investments in canadian history this

00:10:24.180 could have been one of the most incredible deals we ever followed through on but trudeau said no

00:10:30.020 and why did he say no because of ideological reasons only he has straightjacketed this country

00:10:36.340 into a green energy deal policy and this is this is extended to farms we haven't even gotten into

00:10:43.220 the fact that he's basically banned fertilizer for farmers because of the presence of nitrogen

00:10:50.020 which is the latest cause celebra for the environmentalists and for people fighting

00:10:56.740 climate change this is the latest evil is to rid the country of nitrogen well in the process he

00:11:01.780 could rid the country of food as well but justin trudeau doesn't think past that his policy

00:11:07.860 analysis is so myopic so short-sighted so lacking in any real assessment that he makes these

00:11:15.540 decisions without thinking them through well i'd like to move on to the latest and this is an

00:11:22.820 interview trudeau just did yesterday with his old media friend from montreal and it's uh he's a

00:11:32.900 former radio host in montreal and he's apparently a long time friend of justin trudeau now most of

00:11:39.220 the media let's face it are good friends of justin trudeau all you have to do is show up to a news

00:11:45.620 conference on parliament hill and you'll see a lot of softball questions from the national media

00:11:52.420 and trudeau of course selects who's going to ask the question just like joe biden

00:11:58.100 in the united states has a very select few journalists who are allowed to ask questions

00:12:02.980 trudeau makes sure he doesn't get very many real questions they're all as as we say in the business

00:12:10.660 softball questions easy lobs easy things to catch and to return but in this interview he did it's

00:12:18.820 It is quite amazing.

00:12:21.440 I want to read you a few excerpts from it because it's absolutely astounding what he got away with here.

00:12:33.160 He was not just given softball questions.

00:12:36.420 He was spoon-fed throughout the interview.

00:12:39.260 But what's the most significant thing about this interview is that we finally have Justin Trudeau, perhaps absentmindedly,

00:12:47.140 perhaps not thinking through what he was doing, but Justin Trudeau admits that he invoked the

00:12:55.440 Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy because they disagreed with him. Now, this is

00:13:03.320 astounding. We just went through the Emergencies Inquiry Act, which in my opinion was a huge

00:13:09.340 embarrassment for this government, a huge embarrassment, because it revealed that the

00:13:16.000 Justice Minister wanted to bring in the Canadian Army along with some tanks to crush this peaceful

00:13:22.700 protest on the streets of Ottawa. But Trudeau, of course, throughout, maintained his talking points

00:13:31.020 that he did this. He invoked the Emergencies Act, this very authoritarian measure in the interest

00:13:38.380 the public safety he was saving canadians from these dastardly convoy truckers who had come to

00:13:46.140 ottawa to have some sort of insurrection he was certain of that they had come with violent intent

00:13:53.660 although all of his intelligence was saying there were no guns there there were no arms these people

00:13:59.580 had no intent to be violent there was no effort to have some kind of insurrection whatever that

00:14:06.220 really means they didn't even occupy any government property none they stayed on the streets

00:14:14.780 and were respectful of the citizens although you'll hear quite the opposite from Trudeau's

00:14:20.460 people but throughout the inquiry and throughout the day-long time that Trudeau was on the witness

00:14:27.980 stand he maintained that he did this because he was there to protect Canadians he was there

00:14:35.580 because he was their protector like they're like they're like the czar used to be he was there

00:14:42.060 because he wanted canadians to feel safe but of course you know when trudeau's not aware that

00:14:48.380 people are listening and this broadcast on youtube only received less than 3 000 views so far who

00:14:54.940 knows maybe as people understand what trudeau actually said in this broadcast the numbers are

00:15:02.060 going to increase but right now less than 3 000 people have actually watched his broadcast and

00:15:07.420 maybe trudeau felt hey nobody's going to see this thing i can safely say something that is contrary

00:15:13.880 to what i've said up till now and that's exactly what he said he crushed the freedom convoy because

00:15:20.080 they didn't agree with him and that this is particularly disturbing because you know he

00:15:26.960 really had no intent of protecting Canadians. He wanted to crush the scent. And he says at one

00:15:34.720 point, what worried me so much about the convoy, the issue is there are people out there who are

00:15:40.420 trying to spread the anti-vaccine message and push it beyond just, it's my choice not to do it.

00:15:49.620 It's more of a deliberate attempt to destabilize, to fundraise, to make money off of people's fears,

00:15:56.120 to shift the narrative to undermine their trust in institutions to just sow chaos in our democracy

00:16:04.540 and our society and are using very very powerful means to do that meaning social media and he goes

00:16:12.720 on in a way that actively and deliberately harms canadians now trudeau went on to say that this

00:16:19.920 was so onerous this was so bad this is something he just couldn't shake off well um this is no

00:16:28.160 justification for invoking the emergency staff because you don't like the message people are

00:16:33.280 are spreading because you think it's misinformation or perhaps even hate speech he smeared the freedom

00:16:41.280 convoy protesters there's a bunch of misogynistic gracious as white supremacists he had nothing but

00:16:50.320 hatred for them he refused to even meet with them and yet he had the audacity this to suggest that 0.90

00:16:56.880 they had violent intent and he admits on camera he admits that he went after them because he they

00:17:04.240 disagreed with his policies his covet 19 policies his vax policies they disagreed with him and

00:17:10.800 And that's why he crushed them.

00:17:12.780 That is a horrible admission from any prime minister.

00:17:18.180 Because we're supposed to be a democracy here and we should allow dissent, even if the prime minister doesn't agree with that dissent.

00:17:25.600 He's going to bring his foot down every time when he says, I don't like what they're saying.

00:17:30.240 I don't like what they're saying.

00:17:31.260 That's called free speech.

00:17:32.560 Justin Trudeau, that's called free speech.

00:17:34.380 Do you believe in free speech or not?

00:17:36.720 That's a question you should be asked every day by reporters.

00:17:39.740 because apparently you don't believe in free speech.

00:17:42.240 It's quite obvious from your words in that interview

00:17:44.600 that you don't believe in free speech.

00:17:47.460 Trudeau went on to talk about the things he most enjoys in this life,

00:17:51.780 and it's like listening to somebody in an alternate universe. 0.87

00:17:56.160 This man is so immature. 0.97

00:17:57.980 This man is so incredibly lightweight 0.98

00:18:01.100 in terms of his intellectual capacity.

00:18:05.180 His favorite author is Stephen King.

00:18:07.360 His favorite novel this year was Stephen King's fairy tale.

00:18:11.840 Now, that's not something necessarily horrible.

00:18:15.640 But for a prime minister to say that that's the only book he can recall reading this year,

00:18:21.760 along with he mentioned at least one other book in the interview,

00:18:24.960 but it was fairy tale that really magnetized his attention, really, really got him excited.

00:18:30.940 and he was he was quite determined that the person interviewing him had read the book

00:18:39.260 he also went on about his the movie he had seen this year Endor he said that was one of the

00:18:45.480 greatest things he ever said and and he criticized the once again the interviewer for not knowing

00:18:51.240 that movie and or not having seen it and Trudeau actually had the audacity as well to to go on

00:18:59.400 about uh a a a series called the boys which was it's it's i haven't seen it either he's and he

00:19:08.580 would upgrade me for that just as he said hey dude you're watching the wrong kind of television

00:19:14.180 when he when he he told the interviewer that this was something he should have seen what is that

00:19:19.600 show about well it's about uh vigilantes whoo vigilantes that's something trudeau's not supposed

00:19:25.720 to agree with. Vigilant, he's going after superheroes. So whether it's horror fiction,

00:19:33.980 sci-fi, or superheroes, Justin Trudeau seems to have the intellectual appetite of a 17-year-old.

00:19:44.120 And perhaps that's why he doesn't spend a lot of time looking at policy. He complained about

00:19:49.180 all of these briefing notes he has to deal with. He feels ground up by this because he has to

00:19:55.700 deal with all this reality goodness god he could if he could just escape to this alternate universe

00:20:01.820 and just watch sci-fi well you know there's hope for you mr mr prime minister there's hope

00:20:08.580 it's called the next election and we can retire you anytime you want and in fact i'd be very

00:20:14.720 surprised if you survive to run in that next election given the fact that your own caucus

00:20:22.320 is extremely upset with you at times

00:20:25.320 because you present them with policies

00:20:27.860 that are impossible to sell to constituents.

00:20:31.620 So that's where Trudeau is at the end of the year.

00:20:35.080 Speaking his mind without the talking points in front of him,

00:20:38.320 that's the best of Trudeau

00:20:39.560 because he says things he won't say when he's scripted.

00:20:44.340 And he is scripted at most events

00:20:47.100 because they're afraid he's going to go off message.

00:20:50.340 And he goes off message when he's talking to extremely friendly journalists, forgetting his own words can get him hung up.

00:20:59.040 And that's exactly what happened in this interview.

00:21:02.160 So I hope you read those columns.

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00:22:56.900 you all again a merry christmas and be back here next week when we continue to discuss what's going

00:23:04.220 on and believe me that it never stops the news never stops in ottawa even though it's a holiday

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00:23:21.100 in advance for doing that so for auto exposed i'm david creighton i'm saying goodbye for now but

00:23:27.420 please join me again next week for another installment of Ottawa Exposed. Thank you.

Western Standard - December 23, 2022

Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau reveals why he really crushed the Freedom Convoy

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