Western Standard - SNP9 Chris Barber Testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission

00:00:00.000 Good evening and welcome to the Sean Newman Show on the Western Standard. Tonight we're talking

00:00:15.260 Public Order Emergency Commission along with a little censorship. I'm joined tonight by a long

00:00:20.420 haul truck driver, business owner, and maybe more known as a TikTok star, Chris Barber. So first

00:00:27.020 off chris uh thanks for uh hopping on with me good to see you sean hope things are well

00:00:33.500 yeah things man things are good on this side i was saying to before we started it was it was

00:00:37.660 episode 236 on the podcast where you pulled over on the side of the highway and we had this i would

00:00:45.180 call about as harmless a chat as you're gonna have uh i didn't think there was anything too crazy in

00:00:49.900 it um you know considering some of the things that i'd had on and and you know doctors and things

00:00:56.140 that have been said and everything else and it was shortly after that my entire

00:00:59.680 YouTube channel got removed because of views good sir so that shows where we're

00:01:03.880 at in the world certainly back then and the world has progressed since then I

00:01:08.320 don't know how it's progressed that much though well definitely in the world of

00:01:12.220 social media and the in the bias towards you know certain people like yourself and

00:01:16.840 I out here I can tell you I've been censored a lot of social media mostly

00:01:20.800 for my own doing I want to say you know breaking community guidelines and being

00:01:24.460 kind of an ass on social media but i take full responsibility for that but you and our you know

00:01:30.080 our conversation was nothing to be banned over uh yeah i um it's funny uh the the world of 0.97

00:01:37.880 censorship is interesting because um uh just asking questions is dangerous these days i don't find

00:01:45.100 like i don't mean dangerous in the sense of harm from anyone you know i get the odd angry uh

00:01:49.820 listener but for the most part it's dangerous in the sense that you just get removed from

00:01:53.740 platforms the community guidelines and when you push on the guide well what what did i say i said

00:01:57.740 a word you know uh there was this word ivermectin back in the day that you really got people uppity

00:02:02.780 uh that was a bad one um and then of course uh what we were talking about at the time

00:02:07.660 was uh was the upcoming trucker convoy and that certainly um as everybody saw was censored pretty

00:02:14.640 hard and pulled from everywhere it was interesting watching tom or as i've been with him for the

00:02:19.940 week and as he was leaving the inquiry in ottawa this is where i am by the way i'm in ottawa right

00:02:24.720 now taking part in the inquiry for the emergencies act taking part in watching every day my testimony

00:02:29.960 was a few days ago november 1st yeah november 1st yeah i think things went well as tom was leaving

00:02:36.020 the the inquiry yesterday the media asked for a comment and he says i don't know if he's seen

00:02:40.580 it or not he put his hand up he said you guys haven't told the truth in three years i don't

00:02:44.000 to talk to you and he kept walking well i mean from your side from tom's side from a lot of

00:02:52.000 the people that are at least getting an opportunity to get up on stage be asked questions uh share

00:02:57.760 their part of the story and actually be televised like so that people can go watch it has that been

00:03:02.400 in um i don't know interesting is it is it like um enjoyable i don't know what the word to put

00:03:09.600 there Chris because I mean for so long you know you weren't really asked any questions you were

00:03:16.160 put in a box and shoved under the the bed so to speak and kind of left there to rot

00:03:20.480 and I think that's I was watching a bit of Pat King's testimony yesterday too and he kind of

00:03:25.620 you know he summed it up quite well he said a lot of our freedoms have been taken away from us

00:03:31.180 because Tamara and I were charged we still face we're facing six indictable offenses right now

00:03:37.320 Tamara's conditions are quite significant

00:03:40.340 mine are a little less

00:03:42.080 I can remain on social media

00:03:43.600 my conditions are that I'm not allowed to support a convoy

00:03:46.020 remaining in Ottawa or moving anywhere else

00:03:47.760 and the convoy is done

00:03:49.260 and it's not coming back

00:03:51.200 I've still got to be careful

00:03:53.480 and I've got to be really careful of what we say

00:03:55.320 so having the chance to speak the other day

00:03:57.720 was a chance to

00:03:58.580 it was nice to be heard

00:04:01.940 it was almost nice to be

00:04:03.480 to vindicate ourselves

00:04:06.200 from some of the injustice that's been set against us.

00:04:09.800 You know, sitting on this side, I've been saying,

00:04:12.960 I found it really enjoyable.

00:04:15.600 The days are long, don't get me wrong.

00:04:17.300 To sit and watch like 9, 10, 11 hours of testimony is a lot.

00:04:23.940 And saying that, when you get people up there

00:04:25.640 that have certainly even been on the podcast

00:04:27.100 or have been, you know, figures from out west,

00:04:29.420 like, you know, today as we speak, Tamara's going to be on today. 0.99

00:04:32.080 I think there's going to be a whole bunch of people

00:04:33.640 that are going to tune into that.

00:04:34.660 Because, I mean, you haven't heard boo from her in how long, right?

00:04:39.200 She's excited.

00:04:40.240 She's super. 0.98

00:04:40.900 I spent the night with her last night in the hotel or in the apartment with the lawyers.

00:04:44.860 We cannot be seen without lawyers.

00:04:46.820 So legal counsel is always present.

00:04:48.440 And we've taken this opportunity to do a lot of work together that we haven't been able to talk about things that happen.

00:04:55.500 She's super stoked.

00:04:56.740 She's ready to go.

00:04:57.660 That girl is like a spitfire, and she can't wait. 1.00

00:05:02.700 well how was the experience on stage because i'm curious you know i was gonna say like from my end

00:05:08.160 i kind of enjoy having 10 different lawyers try and grill you right because they each have what

00:05:13.540 they're trying to get out of you um was the experience the same sitting on stage or were

00:05:18.200 you like man by you know hour two you're like oh this is a bit much you know and keith told me this

00:05:24.040 beforehand he said you know you're you're three or four hours whatever you're on the stand for

00:05:28.600 was going to go by really fast and i found that was accurate i was nervous as can be i didn't sleep

00:05:33.960 awake the night before keith asked me in the morning as we were walking he says did you sleep

00:05:37.980 i said not awake keith i'm exhausted and he said good because that makes for a good a good testimony

00:05:43.640 you need to be tired you need to be nervous and i definitely was i kind of got into a routine

00:05:48.480 i felt comfortable talking everybody was there um the inquiry lawyers he was really he was good he

00:05:55.860 was looking for the truth he wasn't looking to bury anybody or or mislead anyone he was fair

00:06:01.100 awesome to deal with paul champ i mean paul he's got a i think he's he's got a 400 million dollar

00:06:07.260 lawsuit on myself and and a lot of other people right now so his questions were pretty fair i

00:06:13.080 thought he was he was decent um and the government lawyers i was expecting some hard questions from

00:06:19.660 some of them and whether they were hard or not i kind of i kind of went past them and didn't feel

00:06:24.460 like they were they were that hard to answer we we have the truth john like we have the absolute

00:06:29.860 truth so we have nothing to hide nothing to be scared of as far as i'm concerned yeah well that

00:06:36.080 that's the that's the one thing i was going to say when you're not trying to concoct a story

00:06:40.420 um i don't think you really have too much to worry about you know like uh um i speak awfully high you

00:06:47.300 you know my thoughts on you i speak awfully highly of you because i got to interact with you before

00:06:51.060 And then while I was there for my brief time, and you've always been a guy, I think, at least from what I've seen, who conducts himself in the right way.

00:06:59.420 Now, I was chuckling because you said, you know, you've violated some community guidelines.

00:07:04.600 And in your testimony, you even said, you know, if, and I'll butcher the words, Chris, but something along the lines of, you know, I've really learned some things since before and after the convoy.

00:07:15.540 Some certain things have really changed me.

00:07:17.460 um has that uh been ushered in on social media then as well absolutely um yeah in the testimony

00:07:25.100 the other day we played uh one of the videos i'd put out during the convoy and then i apologized

00:07:29.440 to justice for the language in it and so that was something else that i've improved since then too

00:07:34.220 you know i think uh i think seeing some of the the young kids that look up to me and the knowing

00:07:40.060 that some people look at me as a role model has really changed my my attitude when it comes to

00:07:45.800 social media uh i'm still you know somebody comes at me on social media i'm still going to give it

00:07:51.040 back to him i'll just do it a little bit different now without the language and uh in in the heart

00:07:56.620 i'm still a troll but it's it's a different kind of troll i don't usually go after people that

00:08:01.020 don't deserve it and i've never done that i go after the people that come after me or the people

00:08:04.800 that i i respect or like so yeah i think it's a good thing if if like i said the other day if

00:08:10.420 anybody's grown a lot you know nobody's grown as much as me um morally and it's just it's just a

00:08:18.300 different feeling well so many eyes on you right like i mean uh you think chris chris barber of

00:08:25.920 january whatever that date was you know episode 236 was i i joke in the start of it i'm like i

00:08:32.480 have no idea who you are i'm like i'm pretty sure nobody knows who you are right being a little bit

00:08:37.400 tongue-in-cheek because obviously you had a tick tock following back then but i mean over the

00:08:42.500 course of the next you know since that date of talking you know over the course of a month

00:08:47.900 you've kind of been on a rocket ship to uh you know infamous if nothing else right like your

00:08:53.660 name has become um uh on the same page as tamara and tamara is the one who who go you know they 0.69

00:09:01.520 issue across canada warrant come get her yank her back right like just some wild stuff has gone on 1.00

00:09:08.040 um how has being back in ottawa been you know uh you haven't been there uh since you left i assume

00:09:15.660 um to go back into that city um how has that been i can honestly say it's been it's been really good

00:09:25.740 I yet to have a bad experience here.

00:09:28.460 In saying that, right, the people in Ottawa, I can see there's some people that are not happy,

00:09:35.000 and I can understand that.

00:09:37.380 I've seen positive, and I see a lot of people positive in a day,

00:09:41.900 and that makes my day more positive.

00:09:44.820 It's good to be back.

00:09:46.080 It's good to see the city a little bit better,

00:09:48.520 and it's good to connect those people again and visit and get along.

00:09:52.100 and I'll probably be heading home sometime on Monday, I'm sure.

00:09:55.720 I've got to get back to work eventually.

00:09:57.960 I was going to ask, you come back from Ottawa,

00:10:01.240 you've got all these conditions put on you.

00:10:04.140 None of them said you couldn't be hard working, I don't think.

00:10:06.480 Have you been back to drive in the long haul?

00:10:09.840 Yeah, I never stopped.

00:10:11.440 I got home and it was immediately, I think I took a week off

00:10:14.600 just to kind of regain a little bit of composure

00:10:16.940 and get a grasp on where things were.

00:10:19.500 and i jumped back in red and we've been trucking ever since so this is the first winner

00:10:24.620 he's my baby yep i almost didn't know whether to introduce you chris is big red or chris

00:10:32.820 you know it's funny uh i don't know if i told you this story or not um but when when we caught up

00:10:38.480 to you guys uh geez i can't remember now i think it was after thunder bay i think it was the day

00:10:44.060 we left thunder bay anyways there was a stop at some you know one of the the stops and i was

00:10:49.580 saying to my sister at the time i was like man i gotta find chris barber and uh uh we're walking

00:10:56.380 around trying to find you anybody seeing chris barn who chris barb okay yeah who yeah okay and

00:11:00.860 finally somebody's like who did you say and i'm like uh i'm looking for chris barber and they're

00:11:05.020 like you mean big red and i'm like oh yeah yeah yeah and they're like oh yeah and as soon as i

00:11:09.580 said big red 10 hens turned around that i'd asked like oh yeah big red he's standing right over

00:11:13.580 there um you know your your truck became just as famous as you were at one point well that that's

00:11:19.220 my my truck right uh big red has been known around the prairies for a number of years for the amount

00:11:25.180 of stuff that i haul the big stuff that i haul um i've been quite prominent on social media for

00:11:30.280 for a few years and uh like i said i've known around saskatchewan for being that guy i guess

00:11:35.960 in alberta and and then things just kind of blew up from there but you know this the real story

00:11:41.320 behind big red would be for my kids my uh my jonathan is here and my two children when they

00:11:46.700 were just toddlers and little ones and i'd come home with the big red they would try and say here

00:11:51.660 comes the big red truck and then the way they said it of course was hilarious because i couldn't

00:11:56.120 pronounce it so it was big truck truck and anyway big red was just known as big red after that and

00:12:01.480 i've adopted that name because of it that's uh how long have you had that truck then for

00:12:06.900 I bought that truck brand new November 27th of 2003.

00:12:11.960 Big Red has about 3.2 million kilometers on it.

00:12:16.660 She's my baby.

00:12:18.160 It's sitting at home in the shop.

00:12:20.420 She's done for the winter now.

00:12:21.780 I'll pull it out in the spring and drive it. 0.98

00:12:24.880 How many engines has that sucker gone through? 0.77

00:12:28.000 Well, we did an in-frame on the engine at 1.7 million kilometers. 0.97

00:12:32.120 And then just the last number of months here, we did an engine transplant.

00:12:35.340 So we took the existing engine out.

00:12:37.120 It was pretty much wore right out.

00:12:39.520 It was going to be about an $80,000 bill to rebuild the engine.

00:12:43.700 And so what I did was I found a donor truck with an older,

00:12:46.840 we call it a six-end single turbo.

00:12:48.920 It's an older model, pre-emissioned yet, and we did a swap on it.

00:12:53.440 So now she's got a healthier motor in it and a little bit cheaper to rebuild. 0.99

00:13:01.720 Dad's a trucker.

00:13:02.540 right now i got a group of truckers listening going oh that is and then i got a bunch of people

00:13:07.800 going sean who cares i'm going at the end of the day i'm going why why i mean obviously sentimental

00:13:13.400 value but why not just why not just get a new big red why not just go find you know uh the next

00:13:19.400 latest edition of big red and carry on ah it's my baby i fell in love with that truck the the moment

00:13:27.160 and I've seen it, and I'm still friends with the salesman

00:13:30.480 that sold it to me 20 years ago.

00:13:32.060 He's retired now, and he sends me messages every now and then.

00:13:35.980 You know, that was the worst truck that he ever sold

00:13:37.680 or the worst deal he ever sold because it never came back.

00:13:40.420 I don't think I ever took the truck back for warranty or anything.

00:13:42.880 Like, it has been the best truck a guy could, you know, I love it.

00:13:47.500 And I've had other trucks.

00:13:49.040 I've bought trucks and run them and put drivers in them

00:13:51.520 and that sort of thing.

00:13:52.360 but Big Red's been my baby

00:13:54.460 and she's just

00:13:56.760 my girl. You've got that feeling

00:13:58.760 with her when you're in it.

00:14:00.620 And I have a thing kind of, and this is, my wife

00:14:02.720 won't like me saying this, but I've always had

00:14:04.660 a fascination with redheads, right? But I've never,

00:14:07.080 my wife is not a redhead, but 1.00

00:14:08.560 I always joke that, you know,

00:14:11.000 Big Red is the only redhead that my 1.00

00:14:12.700 wife will let me crawl into and take off 1.00

00:14:14.800 with every week and I won't get

00:14:16.740 in trouble for that.

00:14:22.360 i'm gonna pull you back to the commission now i've talked about trucks yeah man that's that's

00:14:27.800 that's pure gold i might just release that as a clip that that right there is perfect um what are

00:14:33.820 you hoping comes out of the commission chris you know you've you've got to test uh testify um you

00:14:39.420 know you've got to see tom uh marazo uh you know keith wilson was uh yesterday uh today's tamara

00:14:47.020 like do you got a couple more dates you you've penciled on like i'd really like to see these

00:14:51.520 people obviously tomorrow will be a big one um and then aside from people you want to see or

00:14:57.540 people you want to see get on the stand you know i mean you got the prime minister at one point's

00:15:01.300 going to be up there which should be i think should be interesting i don't know like i i think

00:15:05.380 that'll be good um what are you hoping comes out of it i'm honestly accountability and the truth

00:15:14.140 is my biggest the biggest thing that's for me um you said people that i'm looking forward to

00:15:20.560 Danny Bulford is tomorrow afternoon.

00:15:22.720 And Danny Bulford, as you know the history of Danny Bulford,

00:15:26.440 we're talking ex-RCMP sniper on the roof that used to do the job for the Ottawa,

00:15:31.420 you know, the City of Ottawa, the Parliamentary Committee of the People.

00:15:34.960 Danny's a powerful man, and he is a very well-spoken man.

00:15:39.480 I've got a lot of respect for him.

00:15:41.700 And he gets to close this thing out tomorrow.

00:15:43.360 So it should be a little different to listen today.

00:15:47.460 I know James Bowder's on today with Canada Unity.

00:15:49.760 and there's going to be some really harsh questions

00:15:51.880 about that MOU that was

00:15:53.880 produced, they're going to question

00:15:55.500 that's come up in all of our questions

00:15:58.000 so far

00:15:58.640 we've all given our honest opinion on it

00:16:01.500 and I know that's made a few people mad

00:16:03.060 you know me, I'll say what's on my mind

00:16:06.040 and I'll stand behind it

00:16:07.040 and everything I've said, I've said for a reason

00:16:09.420 so

00:16:09.860 I can't wait for the truth, honestly

00:16:13.100 and people keep saying Trudeau's coming

00:16:15.300 I've yet to see that

00:16:16.360 with the amount of stories that are coming out now

00:16:18.460 How is that guy going to sit on the stand and try and defend himself?

00:16:20.960 There was innocent people that were beaten and hurt.

00:16:23.180 It's not good.

00:16:26.080 What has maybe surprised you?

00:16:27.960 Have you watched, what were we on, day 15 right now, I want to say?

00:16:34.160 How much of it have you watched, and has anything surprised you?

00:16:39.020 Bridget did pretty good yesterday, I think, for her.

00:16:42.480 some of the stories in the front

00:16:45.920 like the law enforcement

00:16:47.800 and Steve Bell

00:16:48.780 there was some pretty far-fetched stories

00:16:52.160 in there from some of the stuff that I could

00:16:54.120 remember but

00:16:55.200 we'll see how it comes out in light

00:16:57.780 I mean you got one side portraying completely

00:16:59.900 different against the other side

00:17:01.080 and yesterday I think Paul

00:17:03.920 was pretty PO'd that the citizens

00:17:06.000 of Ottawa only got two days

00:17:07.880 on the stand compared to a week for law enforcement

00:17:10.060 a week for the

00:17:10.880 for the convoy people and then a week for the for the politicians so i i think this is about the

00:17:18.080 truth and the answers and i think that's gonna still come out so we're working on it man

00:17:24.960 how's the how was the atmosphere you know uh to the listener over here watching the screen

00:17:30.720 you get to kind of get a feel of the room it kind of feels like um i don't know maybe a stage and

00:17:35.520 and then the commissioner and, you know, and then just a grouping of chairs.

00:17:40.600 It looks half empty half the time.

00:17:42.680 Like, you can't get a feel for if it's, like, this somber place to go

00:17:48.360 or if it's, you know, like, were there protesters outside?

00:17:52.260 I have no idea.

00:17:52.880 Like, give a listener a little bit of an idea, Chris, of going to this building

00:17:57.940 and, you know, I don't know.

00:18:01.300 I'm trying to get a feel for what actually happens from the moment you step off the plane to get in this building.

00:18:09.200 Well, so we're just at the hotel just south of the building, so we literally walk down the street and in.

00:18:15.200 So as Tamara, Keith, Eva, and I, and Tom are walking down the street to the paparazzi,

00:18:21.700 you can see them clicking their cameras as they're coming, and there are microphones in front of your face trying to get your comment.

00:18:28.140 You go through security.

00:18:29.240 We, I've got a, I've got my own pass.

00:18:32.640 I can actually say that I've got like a deal here.

00:18:35.840 So we'll try and do that.

00:18:37.180 Look at that.

00:18:37.820 There's Barbara right there. 1.00

00:18:39.820 That gets me through security.

00:18:42.080 Everybody is awesome.

00:18:43.580 I got to tell you, security inside the building, they're amazing.

00:18:47.360 They're always happy to see you.

00:18:48.740 They're always talking to you, patting you on the back.

00:18:52.240 You kind of walk into the room and yeah, last week was pretty quiet.

00:18:55.120 There wasn't very many people in the seats.

00:18:57.000 this week I think it's been the last few days

00:18:59.600 it's been pretty full

00:19:00.440 people want to hear the story out front

00:19:03.340 there's one person out there

00:19:05.440 with a she's got a little 0.98

00:19:07.360 trailer pulling around with a

00:19:09.300 go home terrorist Hong Kong 0.89

00:19:11.560 sign or something like that and she's

00:19:13.700 I walked out the door yesterday

00:19:15.500 and she's flipping me the two 0.95

00:19:16.800 fingers and I just waved and smiled

00:19:19.620 back

00:19:20.060 it's a good thing and I think Justice Rulo

00:19:25.500 You know, I've heard a lot of people that have said, you know, like he's handpicked by Trudeau.

00:19:30.520 You know, I actually, I think this guy's an honest guy.

00:19:33.200 I believe he's a good judge.

00:19:35.600 And from what I've seen of him, his conduct up there, you know,

00:19:38.740 when I got off the stand and I went to walk away, I reached a hand out.

00:19:43.140 He took it happily and, you know, he's talkative and he's smiling.

00:19:47.920 You can tell he's got a good head on his shoulders.

00:19:51.080 yeah honestly um uh i think everybody pointed that out when he first got announced everyone's like

00:19:58.560 oh man this isn't gonna be good but i haven't watched i haven't watched i can't sit here and

00:20:04.120 say i've watched every hour of testimony but i've watched uh i'm gonna say more than the fair share

00:20:09.400 of canadians and um he's impressed me even with some of the questions he has at the end i don't

00:20:14.940 want to give the guy a complete uh you know you're the the man who's been on stage and and and you

00:20:19.880 know sat by him and watched him uh firsthand but honestly everything i've seen um from the live

00:20:27.320 streams he's he's handled the situations pretty good even the even the can we say bizarre at times

00:20:37.920 uh bridget's lawyer i forget her name but there was a couple of times there where i'm like oh man

00:20:44.060 this is off the rails like maybe they just need to take a break let them figure out what they want

00:20:48.260 to do and he just you know calm as you know just like water off a duck's back like and i was like

00:20:54.040 as the watch jane scarf she brought her dog into the courtroom the other day and she's not a lawyer 0.99

00:21:01.260 she's a paralegal apparently and her and her sidekick uh broke back to something like that

00:21:06.280 they've taken the task because you know keith schooled them yesterday is what keith did in my

00:21:11.620 opinion i'm not a lawyer and i'm not a paralegal but i can tell you what i kind of had a visit with

00:21:16.600 bridget afterwards and i said you know what you gotta be careful with that one because um if you

00:21:21.840 watch their social media feeds and the amount of trouble they cause and the amount of disruption

00:21:26.680 they've caused in the in the system they don't know what they're talking about and they're talking 0.97

00:21:31.640 shit about everybody and i mean everybody like they're going after keith now and they've gone 0.97

00:21:36.160 after myself in the past just stop like it was almost embarrassing and then there i heard i 0.90

00:21:44.620 wasn't there that day i actually went after my testimony went back and had a nap because i was

00:21:48.740 so damn tired i missed part of it but you know the dog started barking in the courtroom like what

00:21:53.760 kind of conduct is that i don't have an answer for you i once again i i was just i was just the 0.66

00:22:02.240 common viewer and watching it go i've watched you know has there been times where you're like oh man

00:22:09.900 this cop or or or politician or whatever like you're like oh my goodness this was on a different

00:22:16.300 level um for the listener who hasn't watched that that would be uh november 1st uh the same day

00:22:23.740 chris testified you can go back and watch it and um it's just and the crazy thing is there's a ton

00:22:30.220 of what bridget says that is so meaningful so important um but the questioning that she had

00:22:36.540 from her own paralegal lawyer whatever counsel um was was painful was was very painful and and

00:22:44.780 i think anytime that happens uh it does probably more harm than anything because up to that point

00:22:52.460 i think you could pick out uh um you know a couple citizens of ottawa that were painful

00:22:58.940 and you could pick out maybe in the odd police that was a little bit painful but not in the sense

00:23:04.780 of like uh unorganized and not asking questions that were relevant and and you know bogging it

00:23:10.140 down it was more of like wow this testimony is something else you know um you're gonna be back

00:23:16.860 home here uh very soon a few days you're gonna leave ottawa you're gonna head home uh what's

00:23:22.940 next for chris uh is there's in the back you know in the purview you mentioned being sued by paul

00:23:29.900 champ and not just yourself but others um you know you got uh work coming back up i'm sure

00:23:36.120 and it'll be a pedal to the metal um but what's next for chris uh in regards to all this is there

00:23:42.420 much are you paying attention to much do you got to be back out in ottawa at any point in time

00:23:47.400 what's next for chris well tamara and i will be charged we are charged together our court dates

00:23:53.380 are set for september 5th 2023 we're going to be uh we'll be tried together and it'll be about a

00:23:59.320 three-week trial from what they say so we've got trial prep for that coming up we're going to get

00:24:04.160 ready for that we've got a what do they call it now a charter rights violation that we petitioned

00:24:10.380 for for my cell phone evidence being released to the crowns and to the media and to the general

00:24:14.540 public the 4,200 pages it was dumped out to the public through you know my personal conversations

00:24:20.540 with you know a lot of people let's say a lot of people that shouldn't have been on there and it

00:24:26.600 was a privacy breach of course in my opinion so we've got that coming up in february march something

00:24:31.200 like that um i got i gotta get back to work i gotta help jonathan he's trucking at home

00:24:35.940 running the business i told him i'd help him on the icy roads for his first year

00:24:39.680 i've got a pilot truck that i can run i got paperwork i can do for the winter until i fire

00:24:44.240 right up in the spring uh most excitingly i'm gonna go to calgary for november 9th 19th sorry

00:24:50.700 19th of november jamie soleil and theo flurry um it was what a couple months ago you and i were in

00:24:56.240 calgary for the for the grand opening for canadians for truth for joseph for go um yeah i get to be on

00:25:02.440 that show on 19th for for jamie and theo's fire and ice episode so i'm excited it's going to be

00:25:07.500 kind of cool tickets are on sale now of um i think it's called event right war through canadians

00:25:12.640 for truth.com i believe yeah that um i was saying to beforehand uh anytime you get on stage i you

00:25:21.800 know if i can make it there i i uh not to sound like a fanboy folks but uh and just enjoy the

00:25:27.440 conversation because you've seen you know yourself and tamara and tom and i mean you can extend it to

00:25:34.480 bridget and and dan bulford i mean daniel uh i almost forgot that he's going to testify how sad

00:25:40.260 is that i'm supposed to be having him back on here after he's done as well because uh dan uh has been

00:25:45.580 on the podcast multiple times and once again i met him for the first time in ottawa and what a

00:25:49.740 beautiful family and and uh man he is um and he'll be very interesting because he has an

00:25:56.060 interesting perspective but anytime you guys get on the stage you're one of very few people that

00:26:00.960 have such an insight into one of the biggest events in canadian history uh i mean it's sure

00:26:07.460 to it's sure to be uh a fantastic listen i would think i mean you're gonna stick you're gonna stick

00:26:14.320 theo flurry and jamie slade i laugh because i was on stage with those two and i can't see that

00:26:20.480 not being entertaining if nothing else well it's kind of funny i was talking to theo yesterday i

00:26:25.960 did this patriot warrior show and just give him a hand with that and he said i said i can't wait

00:26:30.660 for it buddy it'll be nice once i get past the nervousness of being on the stage and knowing

00:26:34.680 that there's like 200 people watching in the audience and he said well jamie's gonna be the 0.59

00:26:39.400 that's easy on you i'm the asshole remember that and i hey listen i i used to be nervous at the 0.84

00:26:46.520 stage and now it kind of i'm saying this the other day it uh it feels almost like a little bit of a 0.99

00:26:51.240 second home you know this this weekend coming up i'm on the stage with quick dick mcdick and uh

00:26:56.120 222 minutes we got a little bit of uh smp presents um a comedy show if you will uh i think it'll be 0.94

00:27:03.320 followed by a live podcast right so that the the i'm gonna like quick dick in 222 minutes to do

00:27:09.160 their thing and then we get up and we we we uh we do a live podcast at the end which should be a ton

00:27:14.680 of fun but uh i remember being terrified of the stage and then i don't know something clicked in

00:27:20.040 my head maybe where i just uh i decided it was like it was the next rink you know like i played

00:27:25.320 hockey all my life it's just the next here's the ice sheet now i get to walk around it instead of

00:27:29.720 you know whatever to me just picture big you know picture that redhead you're running away 1.00

00:27:33.800 with every weekend and you'll be fine you know like uh you get in the comfy chair and you sit

00:27:38.780 back and away you go i think you'll be well you'll be a natural your your testimony was fantastic

00:27:42.940 yeah i was really i was really happy the way that turned out so i'm hoping it was uh i hope

00:27:47.840 we got the right light across i've seen somebody criticizing me the other day on tiktok and i went

00:27:51.740 dude i you know like you weren't there but uh everybody's got an opinion right there's a saying

00:27:57.760 about that i won't say it because there's some some bad words in this thing but well and the

00:28:04.840 other thing is uh chris you're not um it's not like you you haven't had your moments you even

00:28:11.820 meant you know we talked about it right early on uh about some things you've released on on

00:28:16.300 on uh social media you're kind of like yeah that was that was uh that wasn't inappropriate or you

00:28:24.220 just growing and one of the tough things about society right now is uh is allowing you know

00:28:30.380 indiscretions from the past right like yeah like that was like five years ago i hope i've grown

00:28:34.540 since then or you know etc etc it's just tough because uh uh most people can go back on anyone

00:28:40.860 at this point i'm sure if somebody wants to dig something up on the podcast there's almost 400 of

00:28:45.820 them now there will be something stupid i said i guarantee it and uh and if they want to pull that 0.83

00:28:50.780 out of context or just pull it out and say this is what he thinks instead of going to you and 0.94

00:28:55.500 finding out what you actually think it's easy to really take somebody and put them in a certain

00:29:03.740 light and and expose that to the world when instead of just going on out and finding out how

00:29:08.860 they actually think as of today um jeremy mckenzie is going to be an interesting guy on the stage

00:29:16.300 Because he is a guy that has a lot of things in his closet, so to speak,

00:29:21.760 because he's a man who does a three-hour show and likes to drink

00:29:25.260 and likes to say things that make us all a little uneasy at times.

00:29:31.860 I'll be the first to admit, I've been one of the worst out there,

00:29:34.300 probably just as you know, maybe even worse than Jeremy.

00:29:36.600 I don't know, but I can tell you, I told this to my son a couple weeks ago.

00:29:40.960 I said, you know what, bud, there's one thing I've learned as an adult now,

00:29:43.380 I guess maybe going through this experience is be careful what you post on

00:29:47.600 social media.

00:29:48.720 I mean, honestly, think before you post because, you know, in the past,

00:29:53.360 anybody that knows me, knows my personality, knows what I used to do,

00:29:58.420 what I do, it's a dark humor.

00:30:00.420 It's a side that you don't necessarily need to take part in anymore.

00:30:04.400 I realize that now, but I told Jonathan, I'm like, 1.00

00:30:07.200 he'll come back and bite you in the ass someday, 1.00

00:30:09.160 regardless of how innocent you think it is at the time. 1.00

00:30:12.280 And that's true.

00:30:13.380 100% true, and he's not very vocal on social media.

00:30:16.980 So that's a bonus.

00:30:17.900 Neither one of my children are.

00:30:19.000 They talk, and they do stuff on social media,

00:30:20.640 but they don't post controversial things like their dad did.

00:30:25.060 How has, you know, how has,

00:30:27.460 this is maybe one of the things I should have brought up,

00:30:29.600 is how has family life been?

00:30:30.960 I know your son went with you.

00:30:32.780 How has this affected the family?

00:30:36.580 I don't know if you're willing to talk about it, Chris,

00:30:38.200 but I assume this has been, for you,

00:30:40.500 it's been obviously a whirlwind.

00:30:42.080 How hard has it been?

00:30:43.040 or easy, whichever way it goes, for your family, for your wife, for your kids.

00:30:48.180 My family history, you know, I'm a divorced guy.

00:30:51.440 I remarried my beautiful wife, Raelle, with her.

00:30:54.300 She brought two children into the mix. 0.95

00:30:55.880 And then, of course, I brought my two children into the mix.

00:30:57.760 So we're a mixed family.

00:30:59.380 I've got a beautiful relationship with my ex-wife.

00:31:02.120 We co-parent our children.

00:31:04.020 Absolutely amazing.

00:31:05.120 I've always been something that's something I've always been proud of.

00:31:07.720 um my 17 year old daughter was uh was you know almost fell lonely she lives with her mother and

00:31:14.820 stuff current when i'm home on the weekends or home whenever she's usually out at the farm but

00:31:19.120 now she's 17 she's got a job you know she goes to youth a couple times a week and then and she's on

00:31:25.800 on sunday she's busy with church and the family there i don't see her as much as i used to i don't

00:31:31.380 think and it's just because she's becoming that teenager the busy teenager so a little bit i gotta

00:31:36.860 to put a little more effort into it now i gotta send her the messages i gotta i gotta spend she

00:31:41.020 was pretty upset knowing that i was coming to ottawa she was thinking you know last time it

00:31:44.900 wasn't such a good experience so i took her out and spent the night with her and had a good time

00:31:49.180 my son he's got his own truck now and he's trucking with me i couldn't be prouder of that kid

00:31:54.300 he uh he's really stepped up and he's he's really a smart intelligent kid

00:31:58.300 my wife would like to go back to the days of old when it was just her and i i know that

00:32:03.660 it's definitely hard to have that balance now because you're pulled in 15 different directions

00:32:09.580 and she's probably the one that takes the it hits the most i say um so i try and give her those 0.69

00:32:15.800 nights you know before i flew out here we went to regina we okay went out for supper at red

00:32:21.140 lobster in regina and on the way to the bathroom somebody recognized me so um and he was at the

00:32:27.640 table a couple times telling me and telling us how you know thanks you know and and this and that

00:32:32.460 and it's awesome to see that he bought a supper and my wife was like we can't get a minute you

00:32:37.400 know that right she says it with a smile on her face and there's a hint of sincerity there too

00:32:41.960 um I took her out for a movie and and uh popcorn and and filled into the hotel that night and I

00:32:48.200 give her those nights and at home during the summertime we spend a lot of time on our side

00:32:52.440 by side out ripping through the river hills having a gale time a lot of times where we go there's no

00:32:57.140 cell service so that makes her even happier so it's a balance i say and uh it's just trying to

00:33:02.620 find that balance to fit everybody's needs it's it's tricky i'll be the first to admit that

00:33:07.880 well from one canadian to another i certainly do appreciate uh you know you leading the way i i uh

00:33:16.760 there's very few things i try and throw too much of a bias behind because uh i try to you know

00:33:22.380 state i always say i got my biases i mean i'm not perfect but when it came to uh to to this cause to

00:33:30.060 what um the group of you did i think i said it best on the last podcast when it's like why had

00:33:36.920 none of us thought about this you know it's it this makes perfect sense my father uh grew up

00:33:42.540 trucking and he would always said and i'll say it again you know you want to shut down a country

00:33:46.140 piss off the truckers well i think that was done in spades and you saw what happens and uh i mean

00:33:52.560 from one canadian to another chris and i i hope one day uh maybe on the 19th of november i'll get

00:33:58.200 to calgary and i'll get to see you again but uh do appreciate you hopping on the show and do

00:34:02.240 appreciate what uh what you've stood for and i'll be watching um you know as the commission goes on

00:34:07.900 because we still got weeks to go uh i'll be continuing to keep up on that but you've brought

00:34:12.580 up a good point uh with your with your uh court cases and that coming in 2023 i think there'll

00:34:17.740 be a lot of canadians paying close to uh close attention to that uh because i think i would

00:34:23.860 love nothing more than to have you be able to speak freely again and uh not worry about uh

00:34:29.140 conditions and you know different things that can get you you know in a real pickle you know

00:34:34.540 yeah yeah i've been i've been extremely careful i've done everything in my power to you know to

00:34:40.380 to watch what happens i'm hoping i like i said it's something that i don't sleep well with the

00:34:46.540 night knowing that i had that over my head but um coming from my past i have uh you know as much of 0.75

00:34:51.960 an ass as i've been on social media i've never been arrested before i've never been in the back 0.87

00:34:55.240 of a police car i've never been in a jail cell before so a lot of things have happened in the 0.97

00:34:59.520 last year that have changed the dynamics of me quite a bit i'd have to say but it is what it is

00:35:05.500 and we're here for the long haul so all right on well chris i'll let you get back to uh your

00:35:10.080 morning and make sure that uh you uh or make sure you get back to uh uh you know the testimony

00:35:16.420 that's coming up here very shortly but i appreciate you giving me some time this morning

00:35:20.400 making this work when you're back out in saskatchewan make sure to shoot me a line

00:35:23.880 because i'd love to take you for a beverage if you're in if you and big redder are cruising

00:35:28.040 through the border city if i ever get there buddy i will definitely call you i just see you have a

00:35:32.140 text me here now saying hey where are you we're walking over to the courthouse so it's an infamous

00:35:37.060 walk we do each morning where we get to come down the street tamara and i am in heaven so

00:35:41.900 awesome thanks for having me on today sean was much appreciated it's good to see you

00:35:45.720 you bet good to see you as well thanks thanks chris take care man be safe guys

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Western Standard - November 04, 2022

SNP9 Chris Barber Testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission

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