Join me as I bring on Jay Hill, John Carpe, and Brett Wilson to talk about the recent protests in Canada, and the potential reward offered for finding the identity of a person with a Nazi flag. Recorded in Tucson, AZ!
00:11:59.600look at that how often do you see that at a protest with over 10 maybe 20 000 people
00:12:10.180picking up after themselves hell it was probably cleaner when they were done than before they began
00:12:15.520but did they get credit no you got the cbc showing a picture of trash bags making it out
00:12:20.460as if they made a mess these are the most respectful protesters we've seen in canadian history
00:12:25.500and the media is giving the complete opposite reflection of that and it's bs and they've got
00:12:30.460to be called out on and that's what i'm doing now we did have one thing that even bugged me some0.99
00:12:34.180idiots some losers did a dance on the tomb of the unknown soldier two of them parked down on the1.00
00:12:39.060steps coming up to it uh what wasn't reported though was it was only a handful of these goofballs1.00
00:12:44.820it wasn't at the main protest and that's part of why i want to talk to a member of parliament as
00:12:49.700well if people don't know their way around ottawa that stuff's all close together but that wasn't
00:12:52.940way they were protesting. This was off to the side because I got a feeling other demonstrators would
00:12:56.380have slapped these guys in a line pretty quickly if they'd been around. And it was disrespectful
00:13:00.840and it was wrong. But what the media is also not reporting is those demonstrators, the ones now,
00:13:06.160are guarding. They got volunteers guarding the memorial to make sure no other idiots do anything1.00
00:13:10.520as stupid as that. Not to mention those ones dancing on that memorial were all wrapped in,1.00
00:13:14.540of all things, Quebec flags. Boy, you know, usually the media, if they're on about flags,
00:13:19.940Well, why aren't they saying it's part of a Quebec nationalist movement?
00:13:23.100Well, we can't talk about Quebec that way, can we?
00:13:26.120Now, finally, a true Nazi flag was spotted within the pictures.
00:13:29.940Nobody has a picture within the protests, nor does anybody know who was actually waving it.
00:13:36.500It's been, of course, widely reported.
00:13:38.680I'm going to be talking more about that with Brett Wilson,
00:13:40.680because him and the Western Standard and True North Centre are offering a combined reward of $5,000 for the identity of this lone apparent Nazi.
00:13:49.440Look, nobody reasonable is supporting the extremists.
00:13:53.140That can be seen clearly when the gross filter of the mainstream media bias is removed from the coverage.
00:13:57.980These protests are making history and making change in a number of ways.
00:14:01.800The exposure of the mainstream media as being an irreparably sick institution, though,
00:14:05.300is not the least of those accomplishments, and I'm glad people are seeing that.
00:14:08.540So thank you guys. I can see a lot tuning in today,
00:14:10.660and we've had record numbers going on with the Western Standard0.97
00:14:13.300because we have been covering it without going into that kind of crap.0.95
00:14:16.600we've been giving you real news and uh alternative media is clearly the way to go we're seeing a sick
00:14:21.080and dying institution so let's bring a real news man in now to talk about the top stories that are
00:14:25.720going on in canada dave nailer hey dave how you doing i'm doing well cory i got to admit i watched
00:14:32.280some of that uh mainstream stuff on the weekend i just i got so angry i wanted to throw my remote
00:14:38.200through the tv was it was it was ridiculous absolutely ridiculous the the fear and loathing0.70
00:14:43.960that they were trying to create yeah i know and as you can see you know the vein in my head's
00:14:48.840pulsing as usual it does every morning but even more so after the weekend today so thank you all
00:14:53.080for bearing with me this is therapeutic for me yeah and uh the day started with a with a pretty
00:15:00.360emotional press conference from the prime minister in which he just he just ripped into the protesters
00:15:06.360left right and center basically called them uh racist fear mongers and says normal canadians
00:15:12.760will not, you know, will not be cowered.
00:15:15.280We will not cower in fear, you know, in the face of all this racism.0.99
00:17:48.540Nobody quite knew what was going to happen before the weekend.
00:17:51.000I think most of us realized and thought it was going to be a peaceful and sane affair,
00:17:54.380But I think it's prudent to make sure that the prime minister is somewhere away from the action for that.0.95
00:17:59.960Though he hid out for the entirety of the weekend to come out with the vitriol and crap that he spewed today, you know, is something else.0.92
00:18:07.240Again, I don't expect him to go walking among them.0.96
00:18:09.040But boy, talk about disrespectful to a large segment of the citizens.
00:18:12.860And it seems like we've now got some action going on down at the border with Coutts.
00:18:17.920We're getting reports of a large convoy of RCMP vehicles, including SWAT vehicles and command vehicles headed south towards the border from Lethbridge and apparently tow trucks with them.
00:18:32.540So what's happening down there, we'll be keeping tabs on.
00:18:37.540Our male resident is on that and we'll keep you up to date through the afternoon, Corey.
00:22:56.940And, you know, kudos to the organization.
00:23:00.800And in particular, I want to praise my colleague Tamara Leash.
00:23:05.480As you know, I've repeatedly said, as she has, that there's no direct link between Maverick Party and the convoy or the protest.
00:23:13.500But we certainly support their right to peaceful and respectful.
00:23:20.280protest on Parliament Hill and indeed across the land and we saw that this really struck a nerve
00:23:27.180with Canadians from all walks of life when people turned out by the thousands along the route of the
00:23:33.860convoy all the way from Vancouver to Ottawa and indeed even from eastern Canada to Ottawa to support
00:23:41.940the truckers and those participating in the convoy with food and refreshment and fuel and you name
00:23:48.420And, of course, the huge outpouring in support financially that the GoFundMe page has witnessed.
00:23:57.140So even though Maverick Party is, as they say, repeatedly say, not directly linked, certainly because we believe so strongly in freedom, we do applaud the efforts of this group in bringing this attention onto the not only the national but the international stage, Corey.
00:24:17.280It's unfortunate, of course, as these types of protests always seem to attract a few that want to use the efforts of the many to behave disrespectfully.
00:24:32.020And we saw that at the war memorial in Ottawa.
00:24:36.700We saw it, you know, the throwing of a beer can or pop can, whatever it was.
00:24:42.200And, of course, the disrespect shown to Terry Fox's statue.
00:24:48.300Obviously, I and I think every single Canadian, other than the few that did those types of things, would be uniform in condemning those types of actions, as have the organizers of the protests.
00:25:01.580So I just think overall, when you attract that many thousands of people, by and large, this has gone very well.
00:25:12.760And it's a real testament to the people involved.
00:25:19.000And I might even add to the police and the security forces on Parliament Hill and in Ottawa, kudos to them as well.
00:25:28.140I think everyone is doing the best they can
00:26:28.940And having lived and worked in Ottawa for 17 years, I can draw attention to the fact, obviously, that this is a very unique time, not only in the history of the nation and the world, but a unique time in the governing of Canada and, you know, downtown Ottawa.
00:26:47.240My understanding is that the vast majority of government workers still are not working in their offices.
00:26:55.160They are still working from home, as indeed are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people across North America working from home.
00:27:04.960So I don't know how disruptive this will be.
00:27:09.020Under normal circumstances, of course, this would be preventing people from getting to work.
00:27:13.640It would be causing a lot more disarray, if I can call it that, in government services.
00:27:20.000But in this particular instance, I mean, I don't have a clear handle on it because it's never happened before.
00:27:26.980Yeah, it was quite an irony, I guess, that the very restrictions and limitations that the people are protesting against with the pandemic are what are easing to a degree the impact.
00:27:37.020I mean, Ottawa's learned how to operate at least to some degree without people being there in person.
00:28:18.200And so, as I said, it's a bit ironic that the Prime Minister himself is prevented from
00:28:24.600meeting with the organizers of this protest and trying to settle their grievances, which
00:28:30.060is his responsibility to do, I might add, as the leader of the country, because, you
00:28:38.100While the rest of the world, certainly Europe, and indeed some of the provinces and premiers, are relaxing restrictions and mandates, he's intent upon imposing this new one at the international border, on the Canadian side, that is.
00:28:55.280Obviously, truckers have to adhere to whatever mandates the American government brings in.
00:29:02.880That's their right, and we'd never dispute that.
00:29:05.880But when it comes to the freedom of Canadians, that's a whole different matter.
00:29:11.780Well, that's it. I mean, responsible government should change policy when the circumstances change.
00:29:17.300And I mean, perhaps they could be forgiven if they felt that vaccines were going to stop the transmission.
00:29:22.400So in that case, it makes sense, perhaps, to have vaccine passports.
00:29:25.400I don't want to start into the whole discussion of it or not.
00:29:27.140But when we've gotten to the point where it's clear that it doesn't stop transmission,
00:29:30.680then there really is no basis for this anymore for a lot of those restrictions you should adjust
00:29:37.280the policies but they've dug in their heels and that there's where the problem comes and there's
00:29:41.340where the standoff is i mean if they had clear evidence saying look this stops transmission
00:29:45.320they would have a very strong case against the people protesting but they're not doing anything
00:29:50.760on the transmission front so these passports these restrictions are pointless yet instead what does
00:29:56.020It is, that's a good word for it, Corey, bizarre, that the government would take this approach and expect that Canadians, those vaccinated and unvaccinated, would support this position.
00:30:22.720He did a news conference this morning, albeit briefly, and apparently, I didn't see it live, but I've heard that he was accusatory towards those politicians, he didn't name who they might be, that would utilize fear in this particular situation.
00:30:42.480Well, I would allege, and I think a lot of Canadians would agree, that it's he himself, the Prime Minister of the country, for two years now, that has been using fear as a motivator to try and enforce the restrictions that he has deemed appropriate.
00:30:57.860And, you know, he's crossed a line many, many times over the last two years.
00:31:03.740And finally, I think this trucker convoy has been the flashpoint for Canadians to rise up and say enough, regardless whether you're like me, that have, you know, weighed the risks and become triple vaccinated myself,
00:31:20.180or whether you have chosen to be unvaccinated which is a very small minority of people not only
00:31:26.180involved in this protest but people in Canadian society so I don't think there's any dispute that
00:31:32.440vaccines work they're historical you know we can get into all sorts of discussion whether these
00:31:38.340particular vaccines how effective they are and whether they're going to work long term we all
00:31:44.020hope that they will. But that's a different issue than the restriction on citizens' rights.
00:31:52.580And that's what this is all about. Yeah, and that's the main issue is choice. That's what
00:31:57.240we've got to get to. We can all debate for a long time about the efficacy and wisdom of getting
00:32:01.420vaccines or not getting vaccines, and that's fine. I, again, feel that the vaccines do,
00:32:06.280you know, reduce your chances of having a bad outcome if you get infected, and I've chosen to
00:32:11.140But it has to be a choice. I can't say that enough times. And we're seeing the media and we're seeing Trudeau and we're seeing others trying to frame this protest as saying they're nothing but anti-vaccination people and not in the slightest. I mean, I'm supportive of this protest and I'm supportive of vaccines. I can walk and chew gum, even if our prime minister can't. And we can do both. It's about freedoms. And I'm getting tired of that narrative being hijacked like that. Why can't we have a rational debate on this?
00:32:37.480And the names he brought up, yes, he brought up O'Toole, he called him right out, and he brought up Maxime Bernier.
00:32:43.360So, I mean, this was supposed to be a statement on an issue, and he dove right in and politicized it.
00:32:47.760I mean, yeah, I had the mispleasure of sitting in the newsroom and having to listen to that voice of his, if anything, to change him out.
00:32:54.480I mean, I could live with four more years of liberals and just get a new leader.
00:32:56.640I can't listen to that guy any longer.
00:32:58.540But as you said, I mean, that's the best term.
00:33:02.760You know, again, I don't expect him to capitulate.
00:33:04.600I don't expect him to go kneeling among them as he did with Black Lives Matters, but at least
00:33:08.920respect them. And he hasn't, not even in the slightest. And that is not going to calm the
00:33:13.440situation whatsoever. No, quite the opposite, as you're saying, Corey. The other thing that we
00:33:19.820can't emphasize enough is that this particular truckers convoy and the protest that has resulted
00:33:27.580nationwide, and indeed internationally due to it, has been and is nonpartisan. It's not about
00:33:37.780attacking liberals. It's not about conservatives or NDP or People's Party or Maverick Party. This
00:33:46.020is nonpartisan. It's people from all political stripes, all financial means, and that's why
00:33:55.840we've seen this huge growth in the finances to support this effort. Last I saw, it's now over
00:34:02.800$9 million that have been donated to the GoFundMe for this effort. It's because people have had
00:34:11.620enough. And so it's nonpartisan. The only person that's really making this partisan is the Prime
00:34:17.280Minister himself. And he's the one that's fueling yet again the fears. I agree with you that I got
00:34:24.900triple vaccinated because I believe that's the lowest risk approach for myself and my family and
00:34:30.920those around me. But having said that, I've upheld the freedoms in Mavericks logo for a reason.
00:34:39.920We believe, we've always said this for two years now, that we believe in the freedom of Canadian
00:34:45.940citizenry. And this is a direct attack on those freedoms and it cannot be allowed to continue.
00:34:51.560Why is it that European countries and the UK and our provinces and our premiers, people like Scott Moe, are lifting restrictions and the Prime Minister is enforcing this latest one on the 10% of truckers that have chosen to be unvaccinated when clearly vaccination does not prevent the contraction of the virus or the spreading of the virus?
00:35:16.560Great. Well, thanks for coming in to check in with me today, Jay. We'll be watching with interest as things develop with these protests that are going to be going on for quite some time, obviously. So thank you again. I look forward to talking to you again soon.
00:35:30.280me too uh corin just before we sign off i want to echo the comments you made just prior to me
00:35:36.780coming on your show about what's happening at the border uh you know part of the reasons why
00:35:41.780the truckers launched this is concern for the supply chain for the free flow of goods and
00:35:48.300services across the border i would implore them they've made their point lift that blockade and
00:35:55.080allow goods to flow through the Coutts border entry point and resolve that without any further
00:36:05.760blockage or problems down there. Great. Thanks, Jay. Thank you. All right. And yeah, and as I talked
00:36:15.660with Dave, you know, and as Jay was saying, and then we'd been talking with James, who was down
00:36:19.220there. I mean, it was really, and it still is remarkable with what was set up on the Alberta
00:36:23.860America, you know, the border with the United States down there in Coutts. And they're all
00:36:27.760settled in. I heard rumors that they're going to be getting some degree of funding to help keep
00:36:31.820them there, perhaps from the main truckers fundraising, which is over $9 million at this
00:36:36.000point. But as I said, I just want to see reasonable minds. I said earlier, and I hate giving them any
00:36:41.920credit, but if you look at these kinds of protests, if you ever see a union do it, or, you know,
00:36:45.440progressives do it, if they're going to block a parking lot or a business, what they do is they'll
00:36:49.080hinder the traffic for a while and then move aside, though, and let some through. And then
00:36:53.240hindered. It's annoying and it puts pressure on, but it leaves a vent. And they know that because
00:36:58.180if they completely stop it up, they will give the ammunition to their opponents to move in and
00:37:04.460take them out of there. So these guys at the border in Alberta, you got to move aside,
00:37:09.380let some traffic through. It doesn't mean you give up the protest, doesn't mean you stop your
00:37:12.680demonstration. It's just that you got to give a little, you know, and it would be good for you
00:37:17.000guys. It will keep you there longer. I know the RCMP, I mean, who knows what they're going to be
00:37:21.660able to do when they get there. I mean, as Dave said, we got reports that tow truck drivers aren't
00:37:25.440even willing to intervene anyways. So even if they wanted to move these trucks, we're not sure how
00:37:29.880they could. And the other aspect is, yes, we want to show how important truckers are. But if we
00:37:36.400really push the supply lines too hard, again, in the supply chains, you're going to lose that public
00:37:42.660support that we really need. I mean, that's the thing is more and more of the public gets sick
00:37:45.860of this. They're going to push back and these demonstrations are showing that. So by all means,
00:37:53.640you know, do it, but keep it reasonably. Somebody saying there's no trucks at the border.
00:37:57.620Okay. So welcome to the disinformation of social media. It is there. We've been reporting on it
00:38:02.640quite regularly at westernstandardonline.com. As Nico has just put the link in the comments area,
00:38:09.920you can go there and that's the other thing. So we aren't, before Brett gets here,
00:38:12.980remind everybody we aren't tax funded we're not like the cbc we don't get some of that
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00:38:21.820it was we rely on subscribers we rely on sponsors and it allows us to be independent allows us not
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00:39:08.240You know, something else that was touched upon, and I think it's huge, is listening to the federal transport minister, yeah, talking about bringing in restrictions for interprovincial trucking.
00:39:21.460This is distressing, to say the least.
00:39:23.920Like, look how big this protest is already because they've ruined and really harmed the livelihood of a lot of international truckers, the ones who go back and forth on the border.
00:39:32.920but now they want to actually take those 10% of truckers who aren't vaccinated and ban them from
00:39:38.220crossing provincial borders. I mean, for one, I'm not sure how the heck you're going to enforce it.
00:39:42.380Are you going to set up border crossings between the borders? You know, as a supporter of Alberta
00:39:46.180independence, I might not see that as such a bad thing, but let's just start the work then on
00:39:49.140breaking this country up and putting those walls up. Because when you've got border crossings
00:39:52.100between provinces, you're not much of a confederation anymore. But I mean, you think
00:39:57.280these protests are big now. Put that many more truckers out of work. Mess with the supply chains
00:40:03.520that much more. It's just astounding with this government. Why would you think when you got this
00:40:09.180much difficulty already, this much pushback, that you're going to double down? You're going to make
00:40:14.940it worse? You're going to inspire thousands more truckers to join these protests? Because that's
00:40:20.500what you'll do. And what? What are you doing? How on earth doesn't that mandate protect Canadians
00:40:27.380at all? What point in stopping truckers going from BC to Alberta to Saskatchewan? It doesn't
00:40:34.020matter. It's a ridiculous policy, a damaging policy. And they're considering it. And it's0.99
00:40:40.240got me worried. I mean, how out of touch is this bloody government? Well, I guess, you know,0.94
00:41:15.900It was a full out. This was a full out swastika Nazi flag. I mean, it was repugnant. You know, 99.9% of the population is disgusted with that. Our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents, many of them fought in World War II against that garbage. You know, we, family members got killed by those Nazis. You know, it was one of the most repugnant modern movements in history. You know, between Hitler and Stalin, we saw sick things. So nobody really wanted to see those flags around there.0.83
00:41:45.640And again, this was shown in those pictures, though.
00:48:10.440If it's not going to stop the transmission, now you're just harassing people and it's making harder on small business owners to get people in and out of their establishment.
00:48:16.400Well, certainly across the businesses that I'm platformed with in terms of I own a gym in Kelowna, and we had some members threatened to sue me for enforcing the requirement that they wear a mask. And I said, well, here's my address. Never heard a word, never heard a word. But my manager in terms of running the restaurant, we're probably one of the largest gyms in the country, close to 3000 members. And all we've done is try to comply. That's all comply.
00:48:43.900and you know what the fact that we've got we today have more members in that gym in Kelowna
00:48:49.820than we did before COVID so compliance isn't offensive to those who want to be there there's
00:48:57.520certainly those who've raised some noisy moments not wanting to have to proof of vax not wanting
00:49:02.580to wear masks but again we've just simply tried to accommodate call it the vast majority and
00:49:08.680that's really all that I mean you go back to the to the convoys that we're talking about right now
00:49:12.780the compliance with I mean I get emotional when I watch people singing chanting carrying our flag
00:49:20.780ignore the two flags that were stupid but the bulk of the I mean so many people celebrating the fact0.92
00:49:27.040that we're Canadian and you know it's almost one of the most powerful pro-confederation moments0.98
00:49:32.120that I've seen when you think about you know the you know the premier of Quebec saying we don't do
00:49:37.180no pipelines well we bring oil down to Saint Lawrence but we don't do no pipelines come on
00:49:41.820There's something really wrong about that.
00:54:43.840We're not looking to hang and whip this person, though I suspect if they were exposed, they might not get a pleasant reception from the world at large.
00:54:50.900But, you know, let's remind everybody.
00:54:53.580I can't help but wonder if someone, again, the guy carrying the Confederate flag was wearing, it looks like swimming goggles with a face mask, not a COVID mask, but a full winter mask.
00:55:05.420and he was he was hiding for sure he was hiding he didn't want to know that's truly anonymous if
00:55:10.320you want to go down that path but i think we need to expose whoever was wearing or carrying the
00:55:16.260confederate flag and the nazi flag and that's in our mutual interest to say hey enough is enough
00:55:21.620is enough i mean that sort of stuff but i mean we had 100 000 200 000 500 000 people across canada
00:55:28.200who were participating in varying degrees to this convoy and the social media and the headlines
00:55:33.600out of legacy media were focused on two flags, Nazis.
00:55:36.720Yeah, and there's a great political cartoon.
00:56:54.860all right so that was brett wilson and you know it was refreshing to get him on as i said we've
00:57:01.000we've interacted online and on twitter many a time and we have some very uh certainly similar
00:57:06.020points of views on a number of issues and just getting you know showing that hey we can push
00:57:11.500back you know we and we're not putting up with having the legacy media control the narrative on
00:57:16.760this having them try to paint this movement as a neo-nazi as a hateful as a racist i mean all those
00:57:23.420words. And for those who can stomach it, you know, or maybe if you're constipated and you want to
00:57:27.940induce a movement, watch Trudeau's conference, listen to it. And yes, you might throw up, but
00:57:34.080all the same, it really lets you know the deficit in leadership we have in this country to have a
00:57:39.740prime minister at a time like this, with thousands of people gathered on the steps of Ottawa, with
00:57:45.180truckers on the border down there, to pour gas on the fire and call them all extremists, to call0.98
00:57:49.720them hateful, to imply that they have anything to do with these handful of losers out there,0.73
00:57:57.000you know, who did go on to the memorial monument, the tomb of the unknown soldier,0.97
00:58:03.040things like that. Irresponsible, dangerous, ugly. And people are starting to call them out.0.97
00:58:10.840You know, people are calling them out. I see some commenters, you know, some don't like Brett,
00:58:14.880and some don't like his stance. That's okay. Lots of people don't like me, I assure you.
00:58:18.680see my inbox some mornings. But I mean, we're speaking on, we got a lot of common ground on
00:58:23.380a lot of issues here, guys. And let's focus on those things. And what we can focus on right now,
00:58:28.560as I keep saying, and we want to keep focusing on is these amazing, peaceful, effective protests.
00:58:35.080We just don't see this. We've never seen this. And it's great to see. So let's keep the message
00:58:40.080on there. And let's keep bypassing the mainstream media. This happened despite the mainstream media.
00:58:45.280You know that? They tried to ignore this protest at first. What happened? It got bigger.
00:58:49.640Then they tried to wrongly claim that the fundraising was going to be misappropriated.
00:58:53.920That didn't work. Fundraising kept going. It's up over $9 million now. Now they are wrongly trying
00:58:58.880to claim that it's just a handful. Well, no, they're saying it's a lot of extremists and
00:59:03.540intolerant people, and that's not working either. So let's keep pushing back, keep supporting
00:59:09.560alternative media, and we can change this narrative back. We don't have to listen to
00:59:14.040garbage the CBC feeds us. So John's not quite in the lobby yet. So on the way to that, we'll get
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00:59:31.880way to buy Bitcoin. You know, I'm going to tie this into some of the news that's going on. Dave
00:59:36.540mentioned it. I believe it's the mayor of Ottawa is trying to find a way, and I don't think he can,
00:59:41.600But still, he's trying to find a way to seize the fundraising from the protest and take it to pay the bills and auto offer security and things like that.
00:59:48.580Look, you're the mayor of a city that's a national capital.
00:59:52.000Security is one of the bills you're going to have to pay and is more, you know, above and beyond.0.78
00:59:55.240Go after Black Lives Matter, get money out of them first, then come after this fundraising.0.81
00:59:59.040But it does show the vulnerability of having a fund in a bank or in areas like that.
01:00:04.560I mean, the government will try and take it.
01:08:10.480And so it's, it's, uh, heads I win for the government and tells you
01:08:15.300lose for the person that got their notice of penalty.
01:08:18.660Yeah, I mean, it's just absurd, I think, to most even casual listeners. I mean, I think part of what they use as a justification is that while driving isn't a right, so it's not a criminal sanction if we take it away, thus you don't need to go to court.
01:08:34.540I think they kind of used that when they reduced the or gave so many abilities for seizure of your vehicle in impaired cases and things such as that, right?
01:08:41.000well the other they started this uh they rushed it through on the ever popular pretext of cracking
01:08:48.740down on impaired driving and like you and like everybody else i think impaired driving is a very
01:08:56.040serious crime it's a very bad behavior and we should have severe penalties uh however uh there's
01:09:03.900problem here too that if you the moment you are accused of being impaired you are already uh
01:09:12.620losing your your car for three months and uh with with very little you can do to defend yourself
01:09:19.340it's not a contradiction to say that we should we should deal harshly with impaired driving and we
01:09:25.980still maintain a presumption of innocence that uh we can't we can't just give the police absolute
01:09:33.500power to make these judgment calls to just hand out fines left, right, and center, because then
01:09:40.240you get to a situation where if the police doesn't like your attitude or doesn't like your skin color,
01:09:45.700they can just issue you a ticket and the onus is on you to prove your innocence. That's not the
01:09:50.300kind of society I want to live in. No, I mean, the presumption of innocence is a basis for justice
01:10:21.140If you're charged with a crime, you have all the full,
01:10:23.700the right to a lawyer and the right to be presumed innocent.
01:10:26.840and this is only for traffic offenses. But here is the problem. They're going to expand this to
01:10:32.120every provincial offense. They started with impaired driving. Next, they're scrapping
01:10:37.240traffic courts. So all traffic offenses, you're guilty from the moment you get a ticket.
01:10:41.900And then after that, every provincial law on the books. The problem is you get a pretty nasty
01:10:48.100totalitarian state if the state can just casually hand out tickets to anybody and everybody all the
01:10:58.320time without needing to prove your guilt. That's the problem, especially today when there are so
01:11:04.940many laws on the books, right? You've got hundreds of thousands of regulations that you're supposed
01:11:12.160to be abiding by. So they plan to do this to all provincial offenses. Yeah, this incremental loss
01:11:20.760of rights. I mean, it's scary and it's troubling. And what gets me is, I mean, you'd think the alarm
01:11:25.900bells would have gone off immediately when this was even pitched. But I think they're feeling
01:11:30.260emboldened. You know, they've gotten away this last two years on so much infringement on our
01:11:34.560rights in general, they're realizing we're often prone to passively taking it. So you know what,
01:11:38.860let's see how far we can get with this. The people, the governments will keep on violating
01:11:45.420our rights to the extent that we allow them to. And, you know, I'm just really thrilled to see
01:11:50.940what's going on in Ottawa with the truckers convoy, people rising up, people protesting.
01:11:56.800I have no doubt that if the government already had some pushback on this Provincial
01:12:03.800Administrative Penalties Act, they were going to abolish traffic court and have a presumption
01:12:12.380of guilt on traffic offenses for February 1st. That was the plan. They were already getting
01:12:17.800pushback. And now they're saying, oh, well, we're going to wait for another two or three months.
01:12:23.680Well, now we've got another two or three months. And if the MLA is here from their own constituents
01:12:28.540that this is not acceptable, they will retreat and they will withdraw the legislation.
01:12:33.800Yeah, I mean, again, it's in our court and it's up to us and it has been heartening. I mean, never in my life have I seen at least conservative Canadians typically or individual freedom-loving Canadians get up on mass like this and demonstrate as we've seen in Ottawa or even down on the border.
01:12:51.780I'm hoping, you know, maybe that bold attitude that the government's gotten is going to be countered by a new empowered attitude of saying, hey, you know what? We don't have to take this crap. We can push back.0.99
01:13:03.800And, you know, there is a link between this and the lockdowns because people, you know, having been told that COVID would be like the Spanish flu of 1918 and would kill tens of millions of people around the globe and would kill, you know, hundreds of thousands of Canadians, all of which has proven to be demonstrably false.
01:13:23.080but we got into the state of fear we gave up our charter rights and freedoms and then in that
01:13:28.320context the government comes along and gets rid of the presumption of innocence so it is it is
01:13:34.940tied together with uh just the the whole climate of fear and the government taking advantage of
01:13:41.680of people to really uh really undermine our democratic uh our free and democratic society
01:13:51.660which is what really the what our soldiers have fought and died for in the wars is to preserve
01:13:56.780Canada as a free society. Yeah so are you guys challenging this then on a charter basis or how
01:14:03.900are you trying to push back like what do you have to wait till somebody's gotten one of these new
01:14:07.900tickets under the new order or can you preemptively start pushing back legally on this? We it would be
01:14:14.140possible to do a preemptive court action usually uh the the best court actions are where the state
01:14:21.260is unfairly bullying somebody picking on somebody and then you act for that person you generally
01:14:28.220have a better fact scenario i'm in touch with uh with other lawyers not just our justice center
01:14:34.620lawyers but with other lawyers across alberta who are very unhappy with this legislation and so we
01:14:42.140will be, if the government does not withdraw it, we will indeed be challenging it. And the likely
01:14:48.700way would be for somebody to get a ticket and be presumed guilty and have to go through this
01:14:55.820whole process. That would be our fact scenario to challenge the law.
01:14:59.340Great. And as I said before you came on, actually, and as I said, when you got here,
01:15:03.740you got a lot of irons in the fire. So while I got you, I'll touch on a couple.
01:15:06.780One of the commenters did bring up Brian Peckford and he's been working with you guys
01:15:11.660on a charter challenge right now though can you expand a bit on what's happening there
01:15:16.860well i just want to say it's amazing how the uh the government funded media which is not just
01:15:22.460the cdc but also the global mail the national post all of these so-called mainstream media
01:15:28.300there's not one that has doing any coverage on the fact that the only living signatory to the
01:15:35.500canadian charter of rights and freedoms signed in 1982 brian peckford at that time premier of
01:15:40.860newfoundland the only living signatory to the charter is suing the federal government over
01:15:45.820violating the charter and this in the year when we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the
01:15:51.820charter and you would think that somebody other than not only western standard and the rebel and
01:15:57.740true north is getting media coverage in the united states but yeah we're we're taking the federal
01:16:03.420government accord over this utterly unscientific discrimination against people that have not had
01:16:09.960the COVID shot. And Brian Peckford, former premier of Newfoundland, is our lead plaintiff on that.
01:16:16.720Yes. And I mean, it has gotten some good alternative coverage. I hope we could get
01:16:20.860him on here to chat at some point. I'd really like to. We'll see. And he actually, I believe,
01:16:24.900went on Jordan Peterson's show even with them. That's a huge reach and says a lot. And what I
01:16:31.000love about that though as you'd mentioned the mainstream media won't touch it they've got their
01:16:34.160agenda but boy we've got a whole new media rising not just us but all over the place they can't stop
01:16:39.440this from getting out anymore you know you've got uh all of these american uh when i googled uh you
01:16:45.720know brian peckford uh charter challenge you know some of the key words and there's a whole bunch of
01:16:52.300coverage uh not cbc national post global mill but you've got you know life site news western standard
01:16:58.160the Rebel True North and a whole bunch of American media outlets are recognizing that whatever your
01:17:04.000position might be, maybe you think the vaccine mandate is a wonderful thing. You still have to
01:17:08.880recognize it's a significant news story when somebody is taking this to court. And I think
01:17:16.800the mainstream media will continue to lose more and more credibility because they're lacking in
01:17:22.600integrity. Yeah, well, they shoot themselves in the feet. And it just can't be stated enough. I
01:17:28.600mean, this is a man who took part in making history. I mean, if anybody can speak to what
01:17:33.600the intent of the charter was when they drafted it, when they framed it, it's the last living
01:17:37.900member and signatory of it. And he's being overlooked. And that's just ridiculous.
01:17:44.460It's going to be an interesting court action. It's in the Federal Court of Canada.0.65
01:17:49.540It might be consolidated with other actions. I know that the People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier is going to court as well to challenge these regulations that prohibit him, prevent him from carrying out his job as a political party leader for being able to travel around the country.
01:18:11.000and the onus is going to be on the government to bring the science to court. It'll be interesting
01:18:16.340to see what the government has to say when we know for a fact that the COVID vaccines are not
01:18:22.720stopping Omicron. We know for a fact that vaccinated people are spreading the virus.
01:18:29.820We see our prime minister putting himself into isolation after being triple vaccinated. He's
01:18:36.260admitting that as a triple vaccinated person, he's still spreading the virus. So there's just0.99
01:18:41.360no scientific or medical basis for having any kind of discrimination against Canadians who choose
01:18:48.620not to get this particular COVID vaccine. Yeah, this house of cards on this thing has to fall
01:18:55.320apart eventually. I mean, the Trudeau example is great. And I don't even know if he realizes
01:18:58.540that he just undercut his whole basis. But I mean, our personal liberties and freedoms
01:19:03.220as Canadians. I don't think in generations have we seen so much threat to it and so much
01:19:08.000infringement upon it as we have right now. Certainly keeping you busy, and I really
01:19:12.340appreciate that. Are there other actions? I know you've always got a lot going on that you could
01:19:17.240give some updates on. I know you're speaking for so many different cases going on out there.
01:19:22.340Well, the big ones are the federal ones. We're also, the challenge is ongoing that we filed
01:19:29.180quite a few months ago against the quarantine hotels or the prison hotels so that action is
01:19:35.800moving forward. We are challenging vaccine passports in Ontario and gearing up to challenge
01:19:42.140them in other provinces. In Alberta we've had Alberta Health Services keep on backing down0.98
01:19:48.900on its threat to fire unvaccinated doctors and nurses and other health care workers0.55
01:19:54.640uh so we are suing alberta health services and uh that you know we think that's part of the reason
01:20:02.620they're a little bit less bold than what they would be because they also they're a government
01:20:06.060entity they need to show the science as to why their policies are scientific and they're going
01:20:14.660to have an awfully hard time uh coming up with the science in court when they don't have the
01:20:19.680media bully pulpit, and they actually have to produce some real evidence before a judge.
01:20:24.620Yeah, and they don't seem eager to get to court. I mean, a lot of challenges I see,
01:20:27.420they just keep kicking it down the road and kicking it down the road, but they can't hide
01:20:30.920forever, just as even Trudeau poked his head up out of the gopher hole today briefly to berate
01:20:35.060protesters and then went back into hiding. So they're most certainly interesting times. So
01:20:39.640you guys are with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. Let me make sure