Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 564 | Trudeau Crushes Freedom Convoy with Martial Law | Guest: Ezra Levant

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

Today we're talking about Canada's Freedom Convoy & Justin Trudeau's abuses of power with Canadian journalist Ezra Levant, who has been closely following the situation since the beginning. In response to the entirely peaceful protests, Trudeau has enacted for himself wartime powers that have literally never been used before in Canada's history. He wants to wield this power like a bludgeon with alleged plans to seize the finances of regular people who supported the trucker convoy. Ezra has all the details for us, as well has his perspective on what's going on in his country and how Justin Trudeau is probably one of the worst people imaginable to be in charge of a country. --- Today's Sponsors: Marley Spoon & Martha Stewart have options for all tastes, diets, & lifestyles — ordering is easy & the fully flexible subscription lets you skip, pause, or cancel at any time. Go to MarleySpoon.com & use promo code 'ALLIE' to save $120 off your first 5 boxes. Annie's Kit Clubs send your young scientists their Genius Box with three hands-on activities to explore an exciting STEM theme like geology chemistry, aerodynamics & more. Perfect for kids ages 7-12. Go to AnniesKitClubs.com/ALLIE & save 50% off your first box! Good Ranchers prices have stayed low & affordable, even with inflation out of control. Once you subscribe, your price never goes up. They sell 100% American meat & deliver it to your door for a great price. Go to GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE & use promo code 'ALLIE' to save $25 of their already low prices. --- Show Links: Amazon Wish List for the Prestonwood Pregnancy Center: https://amzn.to/3HRqAoP --- Previous Episodes Mentioned: Ep 563: 'I Took the Vaccine For Her': Samuel & Annie's Love Story https://apple.co/3gUqNvn Ep 538: Conversion Therapy & Canada's Assault on Christianity | Guest: Dr. Joseph Boot https://apple.co/3JsVaFE Ep 401: Joy in Jail & Peace Through Persecution | Guest: Pastor James Coates https://apple.co/3sPFt4S Ep 380: Pastor James Coates Imprisoned: Persecution or Ploy? | Guest: Erin Coates https://apple.co/3BpgQ2P --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

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Good ranchers.com slash alley. Okay, guys, do we have an episode for you today? So you have probably been following, especially if you listen to this podcast consistently, what's going on with Canada, the peaceful protest that is being led by Canadian truckers against vaccine mandates and all kinds of restrictions that have been in place for about two years in Canada that have really made it difficult for everyday Canadians to live without cowtowing to the government or even being confined in their homes in some cases. We talked about this yesterday.

if you haven't listened to that episode with Samuel say and his fiance Annie, their long-distance relationship that had to overcome all kinds of obstacles, not least of which was imposed by the Canadian government and even in some cases the American government. So definitely go listen to that. If you haven't already, Samuel also gives his take since he is from Canada on the truckers protest. Well, Justin Trudeau, who is the dictator. Oh, I'm so sorry. I meant prime minister of Canada has now imposed this wartime restriction on the protesters in order to crack down on dissent. So today we are talking to a conservative journalist, really just a truth-telling journalist from Rebel News, Ezra Levant. And he is in Canada.

He is part of just a handful of dissenting media there. He's going to tell us what's really going on. What does this mean by Justin Trudeau? These powers have never been invoked in Canada's history. This is a really scary time for democracy, for people who actually care about liberty, not just people who say that they do and then support pseudo-fascism, which is what we are seen in Canada and in other countries around the world. This is really significant, not just for Canadians, whom, of course, we love on this show.

We've got a lot of Canadian listeners, but also just for Americans in general. This is a great ally of the United States. This has also been a defender, maybe not as passionately, but in many ways a defender of Western civilization and liberal democracy. I don't mean that in the left wing sense, but the true sense of liberal democracy for its history. And now, unfortunately, it looks like Canada is falling. So we're going to talk about the implications of that, what the conclusion of this will be. it's really important that we pay attention to what's going on. And just to kind of buck up against the media narrative that you've seen in Canada,

that you are seen in the United States, that this is a deadly insurrection, that this is a bunch of violent actors that are committing these egregious crimes. We played a montage on yesterday's episode of the talking points that are just repeated ad nauseum by the media. I mean, really, it just seems like everyone, in leftist media gets the same mass email every morning signed by George Soros himself and Klaus Schwab that says, okay, these are the points that you have to bring up. You have to call this a deadly insurrection. You have to say that it's a racist. You have to say that it's a bunch of white supremacists. You have to say that it's violent. I mean, it's all just propaganda. They just

say the same things over and over again. It is so exhausting. And really the most exhausting part is that there are still people who don't see it. They don't see it. They don't see. who think that the left globally is really on the side of freedom and democracy and human rights when really it's the opposite. And I'm just doing, we're just doing our small part unrelatable to try to break through that ridiculous narrative. So we showed that montage yesterday. And now in contrast to what you were seeing, the left wing media say and even some quote, unbiased sources on social media here in the States about what's going on with this protest in Canada, I want to I want to play you some footage of what is actually going on there.

So does that look scary to you? I mean, you're looking, if you're listening to this and you weren't able to see, you're looking at women, children, families, singing, dancing. As Samuel Say said yesterday, there are people praying together, singing hymns together. The gospel is being shared. Now, I'm not saying that there are no violent actors whatsoever. I'm not saying that there aren't bad people. There aren't people that are exploiting this.

Of course, whenever you have any mass movement or mass demonstration, you're going to have rogue actors. Contrary or in contrast to what we have seen with left-wing demonstrations, not all, many left-wing demonstrations in the United States and Canada, where it's not just a few rogue actors, but you are actually seen complete demonstrations that are all violent, that are all about destruction and desecration in arson and assault. I mean, we're still seeing that, by the way, by so-called anti-fascists here in the United States. In Minneapolis, they are still inflicting violence and chaos upon that city right now.

You should follow Andy No on Twitter. You will see the footage of what's happening in cities still across the country. And that is endorsed at worst and at best ignored by the left and leftist media here in the United States. But God forbid a peaceful protest happened against actual tyranny in the United States or Canada. No, then that's so scary. That's something that really needs to be crushed by the power of the state. It's insane, guys. It's insane.

So we're going to break this all down with Ezra. Hopefully give you a really good understanding of what's actually going on. Please pray. Pray for the peaceful demonstrators. pray for wisdom and discernment. We're supposed to pray for our enemies that includes the enemies of liberty. And so I pray for Justin Trudeau to have a change of heart for him to wake up from his totalitarian stupor. And we should just be praying for the goodness and the power of God to protect those who are pushing back against tyranny. And that's not to conflate the,

demonstrations with Christianity. A lot of the people that are demonstrating that are pushing back against these restrictions are not Christian. So I'm not trying to conflate politics with Christianity. I'm just praying for those who are on the right side of human rights to be protected against the violence of the state and for freedom to prevail for all people, for all kinds of people. And for peace to prevail too. I don't want violence. I don't want chaos. I don't want anarchy, that's not good for anyone, no matter what your political affiliation or background is. And so that's one of my prayers. But most of all, of course, I pray above all for the gospel to go out, for God to be glorified in the midst of this, for us to move our trust and our faith from the state

and from the government onto God and his kingdom to realize that our victory and success and our hope doesn't primarily lie here on earth, but is actually in heaven and in eternity. And that's where we look to for our joy and for our trust. So yes, we care about the political scene here because we care about people and politics affects people. But ultimately our hope and our joy is not derived from what happens here. But actually, what we know is to come in Christ's victory. And so that's just a little bit of perspective.

as we're setting this up and to give you a little bit of peace as we go into this conversation, which might make your heartbeat a little bit faster because truly what's happening in Canada is kind of scary. And yet, we have a God that is bigger than everything that goes on here on Earth. So, hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Ezra, thank you so much for joining us. So obviously I want to talk to you about what's going on in Canada.

I've seen your recent interviews about this have really appreciated your up and close perspective. So the big news, according to the Wall Street Journal, is that Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers to address trucker protests. Can you tell us just what this means? Sure. As you know, for the last two and a half weeks, there's been a trucker's road. rebellion, about 100,000 truckers across the whole country and probably a million people cheering them on along the side of the roads and overpasses, completely peaceful. These truckers, a lot of them ended up in the capital city of Ottawa and some other places. And they were really the first people to resist the permanent lockdown that Canada has been in. We're one of the most

locked down countries in the free world. And there was a a total failure by other political checks and balances. No opposition party was against the lockdowns. No court rulings slowed down the lockdowns. The media was in support of the lockdown. So these truckers, I guess it was like sort of a general strike. And it really struck a chord with ordinary Canadians. But I want to emphasize that they were completely peaceful. Some of them engaged in peaceful civil disobedience. So they were honking their horns. Some of them blocked the bridge between Detroit and Windsor for a while, but all of that was resolved peacefully. For example, the horn honkers, a judge said, stop using your air horns in the city. That's disturbing residents,

so they stopped. And those blocking the bridge, police cleared them. So like I say, completely non-violence, and whatever issues there were, they were resolved by local police pretty calmly. Frankly, I've never heard of such a massive protest with literally no violence. But Trudeau has demonized the truckers. He called them racist and sexes, which is laughable since so many of them are minorities, by the way. He called them Nazis, even, which is crazy. Trudeau has fallen to 16% in the polls.

Wow. So he, I don't know if panicked is the right word, but, oh, by the way, and three of his own members of parliament came out to reject his approach. So yesterday, Trudeau did something deeply troubling, very shocking. He invoked the wartime powers of the Emergencies Act. That is a law that has never been used before. After 9-11, the law was not used. There was a terrorist attack on our parliament in 2014. The Emergencies Act was not used. Yesterday, Justin Trudeau invoked the

Emergencies Act, suspending civil liberties. For what? Because there's some truckers parked on the side of the road? There's no net. National Emergency. Trudeau effectively staged a kind of coup, even though he's in office, he staged the coup against Canadians, seizing powers, including the power to seize the bank accounts of his political opponents without any legal process. I'm terrified by what he plans to do with that. Yeah, and that's my question. So as you said, he plans to seize the bank accounts of his opposition. I saw that the like give send go and these kind of crowdfunding organizations, corporations, are apparently up for review.

There's a whole other host of things in this particular law that he is now allowed to do because he has invoked it. Can you tell us if you know a little bit more of those steps that he says that he's planning to take? Or is he just being kind of purposely vague and saying, okay, we're going to get this under control, using this law and we don't really know what that looks like? Well, he's given out some specifics. For example, very few tow truck companies are willing to tow the truckers away.

They just, like I say, it's like a general strike. And thankfully, the working class is leading it. I mean, some ideas are so dumb you need a PhD to believe them. The idea that this permanent lockdown is good for public health or good for anything. that, you know, no normal person believes that. And these truckers have more common sense than half the PhDs out there. So these tow truck drivers have a kind of solidarity with the truckers. So one of the specific things that the Trudeau government announced yesterday,

and Trudeau used the word compel and his justice minister used the word direct, they are going to commandeer tow trucks, like seize the tow trucks. All right. I think that's outrageous, but at least I understand it's a piece of metal, right? But then they're going to compel the tow truck drivers to tow the truck. So I understand how you can seize someone's vehicle. That's gross. That's, you know, violation of their property rights.

But how do you compel a tow truck driver to do something he doesn't want to do? Are you going to throw him in jail if he doesn't tow the truck of your political opponent? I mean, Trudeau used the word compel. How do you compel someone to tow someone they don't want, like, literally, are you going to do it at a gunpoint? I know that sounds insane, but this whole thing is crazy. The deputy prime minister and finance minister, her name is Christia Freelam. Very strange thing about her. She's been George Soros's biographer for years.

Wow. She currently sits on the board of governors of the World Economic Forum in Davos. I don't know how you can sit on the board of Davos and all. also be a cabinet minister for a country. Like, how is that even lawful? Right. Her name is Christia Freeland. She's the deputy prime minister and finance minister.

She said that banks will now be authorized and directed to seize the bank accounts of anyone who has financed the truckers. So you mentioned give send go and go fund me. Those are two companies. But there were probably 150,000. people who chipped in five bucks, ten bucks, a thousand bucks through those crowdfunding engines. So Christia Freeland has said, we are authorizing and directing the banks to seize those funds without a court process.

You cannot sue the bank. They're indemnifying the banks. And the government says they will provide their enemies list to the bank. They didn't use the word enemies list, of course. They just said, we will share our information. So Christia Freeland, Trudeau's right-hand woman, Soros, is, I mean, people talk about conspiracy theories about George Soros. There's no conspiracy theory.

She was his biographer. She is a governor of the World Economic Forum. She is going to provide an enemies list to the banks, and she's going to authorize and everything. So even if the banks say, no, no, no, we're not going to see this. those banking out. No, you must. Now, it's been less than one day since this form of martial law was imposed. I am unaware if they've actually done this yet. But they said they're going to do it. And with Trudeau, when he says he's going to do something authoritarian, it's best to believe him.

I don't know if you remember this. But when Trudeau first ran for public office, he was asked, what country of the world do you most admire? And he said, China. Now, there's a lot to admire about China, their history, their culture, their language, their art, their food. There's a lot of things to love about China, but he didn't say any of those things. He said he most admires China, quote, for its basic dictatorship, unquote. He said that. And he meant it, just like he meant his love for Fidel Castro, just like he has praised communist China, just like his father Pierre Trudeau, went to, took his kids to the Soviet Union, took him to Siberia and said to his kids,

this is the land of the future. So Justin Trudeau comes by his authoritarianism, honestly. His father, Pierre Trudeau, was a communist admirer as well. A lot of people think that Justin Trudeau is actually Fidel Castro's son. I'm not sure if I believe that theory. I've seen some things about that. And hey, they do kind of look alike. I mean, even if it's not biological son, He is, certainly Trudeau is a son of communism. That's right. And I think that father figure is probably more accurately, more accurate than father. Justin Trudeau admires strong men, banana republic style authoritarian police state rulers.

And yesterday, Justin Trudeau did that to Canada. I say again, the Emergencies Act is for true emergencies. In fact, there's four definitions of a threat to Canada. that you can choose from to invoke the Emergencies Act. One is a devastating act of foreign espionage. That's obviously not applicable. Violent revolution seeking to overthrow the democracy obviously doesn't apply. But that's what they say it is, right?

That's, I mean, that's what Chardot has been trying to say that it is, that this is a violent insurrection. And that's what the American media has been saying as well. Yeah, and that's a very powerful narrative, and they're trying to copycat the January 6th U.S. narrative, except for there's one problem with that. Like I say, 100,000 truckers, a million people cheering them along the side of the highway. So we all saw with our own eyes, or we all saw someone we know take a cell phone video of how peaceful and fun-loving and festival-like. And family-friendly. Truckers are, oh yeah. I mean, seriously, they got hockey games, they got dance parties. I've never seen so many Canadian flags in my life. The Ottawa police have not made a single arrest or charge for any violence whatsoever. In fact, they say that crime in downtown Ottawa has fallen. So there hasn't been a single act of violence. I don't even know how you can go two weeks with 100,000 people across the country and not have a single.

act of violence. I've never heard of that before. They have been arrests. I think the last I read on Friday it was like 23 arrests and of course the Ottawa police are doing all kinds of things. Can you talk a little bit more about that? What are they arresting people for? How is the Ottawa police trying to crack down on these peaceful protests?

Well, I mean, let me give you an example of an arrest. When I say so there's been no acts of violence. There have been some arrests. Some of them are minor and some of them I would say are tantamount to police brutality. Let me give you an example. there was a 78-year-old man, great-grandfather in Ottawa, driving his private vehicle, and he honked his horn in support of the truckers. Honk, honk.

The police pulled him over. I don't know if you saw the viral video. It was shocking. And they roughed up this 78-year-old man, and they charged him. So I'm not saying there haven't been any arrest. I'm sorry, if I did use that language. No, you didn't. I just wanted to clarify for everyone.

You said there's been no arrest for violence. So that's correct. That's right. There's been no violence. There's been some police misconduct. And there have been some non-criminal charges. So, for example, it is a fact that these truckers are breaking some parking rules. But those are not crimes, like a parking ticket.

There was someone on the Ambassador Bridge. That's the bridge between Windsor and Detroit. I think there was someone who. was arrested there and I'm not sure exactly what the charges, but it was nonviolent. So what we're talking about here is not a violent revolution, not an insurrection, not, not anything that is a clear and present danger. What we're talking about here is civil disobedience. Yeah.

And civil disobedience, I mean, Matt McGandy sort of taught us how that works. You you peacefully break the law and you accept the legal. consequences for that because you're hoping to prove the immorality of the law and you're actually sacrificing yourself to demonstrate that the system is flawed. That only works in liberal democracy. Gandhi would have been killed in a second by Hitler or Mao or Stalin. Gandhi only worked because it was the British Empire and they had a liberal conscience. I mean, Gandhi would have been killed in a second by Paul Pot or most dictators. These truckers are engaged 99% of them are just doing nothing wrong at all.

1% of them are engaged in civil disobedience. But if a court order comes, for example, the court order to stop the horn haunting in Ottawa, they're obeying the court order. The police came to clear that ambassador bridge. They cleared the bridge with no violence. So we're talking about civil disobedience in the best liberal tradition,

no violence by the truckers, nowhere near an emergency required for the Emergencies Act, but Trudeau did it to seize power. But the idea that he can direct banks to seize the assets of his political enemies, that is exactly what they do in Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and it's happening just north of your border. And they cleared the bridge that was purposely congested in an act of civil disobedience between Michigan and Canada. How did that happen?

How did they finally accomplish the clearing of that bridge? Do you know? Yeah. I mean, we had, you know, I'm one of the great things about our little companies. We've got all these citizen journalists

who go out there with their cell phones. And, you know, I'm really glad about it because there's such a dominant media narrative that these are terrorist, insurrectionist, January 6th, Trump. It's just crazy talk. So we just send severely normal people

out there with a cell phone and say, just live stream. Just film what you see. Follow the facts wherever they leave. And in the end, the police just came and said, look, you got to go. And or you will be arrested. And they literally all left. Like they, you know, they dallyed.

They dilly dallyed. They took their time. They made their point. But it was a completely nonviolent disengagement from the bridge. It's like a wildcat strike. It's like a general strike. And that causes. some annoyance and some inconvenience, but you know what? For two years, our country's being locked

down. Yeah. And, you know, like, let me tell you how bad it was. You might be shocked to hear this. The province of Quebec, eight and a half million people. So it's a fairly big place. They had a curfew from 10 p.m. till 5 a.m., whether you were vaccinated or not, whether you were sick or not, you could not leave your home. Like a curfew, that's what parents give to children. Be home by 10. Right. I mean, they were treating healthy people like they were sick. They were treating innocent people like they were guilty. They were treating adults like they were kids.

What kind of a place puts a curtain? There's no science behind it. I'm not even pretending there was science. So you've got this for two years. And finally, the only people with courage are, as George Orwell said in 1984, If there's any hope, it's with the trolls, the working class. And all the fancy people, all the establishment, all the official people were completely, they were loving the lockdowns because they were making money off it.

They didn't lose a day's pay. They were enjoying the celebrity of it. All the journalists were enjoying the crisis of the lockdown. The politicians were enjoying their power. The chambers of commerce were fine to enrich Amazon and Walmart and Costco. They didn't care about the mom and pop shops. down, churches were closed. Literally right now in my home province of Alberta, there's a Christian pastor named Arthur Pavlovsky who is languishing in solitary confinement today because

he opened his church for an hour and 10 minutes during a lockdown. He is in solitary confinement today. And no one did anything about this. Not the courts, not the media, not the opposition, no government. The truckers did. I'm grateful to the truckers for having the common sense and the courage that no other part of Canadians aside that. My question for you, and I don't know if anyone really knows the answer to this, but if you could speculate if you want to, when Justin Trudeau, when he said, oh, there's kind of, there's a threat here. I have to be sequestered in the United States. I'm scared of these nonviolent protesters that have come to the Capitol.

And then he has now come back out and he invoked these in an unprecedented way, these emergency powers. My question is, what do you think happened behind closed doors to where he's obviously not scared of the backlash when it comes to this? He doesn't feel like he is beholden to the voices of the people that are pushing back against these mandates and lockdowns. How do you think that he reached his decision? Do you think it has something to do with the connections to the World Economic Forum? Like, I'm picturing some of these world leaders who really, I know it sounds conspiratorial, but my audience knows a lot about the great reset. I mean, if the truckers were successful, then that would have been a huge upset for the plans of the World Economic Forum.

And I'm just wondering if Justin Trudeau was influenced by those people in power to do what he is doing now. Or do you think that's totally off base? Do you think he came to his decision another way? Well, let's not engage in speculation. Let's just look at what we can see with our eyes and hear with our ears. We know that Justin Trudeau goes to the World Economic Forum. He loves it. He meets George Soros when he goes there. This is not a theory. He tweets the photos of them. We know that his deputy prime minister is on the board of the World Economic Forum. We know that Klaus Schwab publicly boasts that Trudeau and, quote, half his cabinet are World Economic Forum acolytes. So these are all things that they say. Trudeau considers himself a globalist. He loves. He loves

He loves going down to the United Nations. He has boasted about being part of the Great Reset. He uses those exact words. He makes videos to that effect. He copycats other globalist leaders around the world with his build back better phraseology. He has completely signed on to every UN agenda. He's a radical on environmentalist issues as well. I really don't think there's any globalist scheme that Trudeau has not signed on to.

And so it's odd to call what he did a coup because he was already prime minister. So what does it even mean that he would have a coup? Well, by that I mean he would seize more powers for himself under false pretenses and destroy his opposition. And I think that these truckers were such a spontaneous, powerful force that were pretty much leaderless, that it was so organic and so inspiring to the whole. world that I think the world economic forum globalist sorrow set said we've got to stop this because it's spreading like I see that there's a convoy in Israel now I see there was one in Netherlands huge one in Australia right so I think for sure um the bad guys said we've got a nip that's in the butt a couple years ago there was a phenomenon coming out of France called the yellow vest the

Jolet Jean. Those were people who were frustrated by, you know, high taxes, carbon taxes, interference in their lives. And again, that was a working class rebellion. The yellow vests were a symbol that they were the working men. This is the Canadian version of the yellow vests. Everyone admires truckers because we know they're hardworking. We know they're honest. We rely on them. There's something, you know, about their independent spirit. I don't know. I think everyone has a certain affection for truckers, I think, or respect for them. And so the fact that there was no fancy super pack behind this, no slick ad campaigns, he was all real. That is terrifying to the globalists. And so I think Justin Trudeau, he is at a terrible month. He's at 16% in the latest polls.

Three of his own MPs have turned on him. And so he decided to double down and basically declare martial law. That's what the Emergencies Act does. And to use it to crush his enemies. And I think given that there's no violence in the country, what does he need the Emergencies Act for? There literally has been no violence. Whatever problems there were were solved peacefully. No, he wants it to get the 150,000 names of the people who support the Trust.

and get and terrify them, make an enemy's list. And he said he's going to seize bank accounts. If he said he would do it, why wouldn't he do it? Yeah. He did say he admires China's basic dictatorship. And I think we're about to see that. Right. And now he says, oh, you know, I'm fine with peaceful protest. I'm fine with dissent. And then he cites Black Lives Matter. He met with Black Lives Matter. So doesn't that mean that he is such a reasonable guy who was willing to extend his hand to the other side. Of course, he is in lockstep with organizations like Black Lives Matter because they also espouse a form of Marxism that he agrees with. My question for you, when there was a series of church burnings in Canada, talk about uncivil disobedience based really kind of on a false narrative, right, about mass graves.

And Trudeau said, you know, he kind of softly condemned it. He said, you know, this is wrong. We shouldn't be burning churches, but it's really understandable that these people are upset. Can you talk a little bit more about that, about the narrative that kind of inspired the church burnings? And Trudeau's response to that, in contrast to his response to the peaceful protest led by the truckers. That's a great point. I mean, more than 50 churches in Canada were torched or vandalized in some other way. Like it was almost a daily event, but just atrocious. If it were 50 synagogues or 50 mosques that were torched or vandalized, it would have been all the media party would have talked about.

You would have had politicians camping out in solidarity. I mean, it would have been a human rights crisis, but they were Christian Catholic churches in the main. And Trudeau hates the Catholic Church. He demonizes it all the time. He practically campaigns against it. And so when these arsons and vandalisms happened, he didn't dispatch a hate crimes unit of the police. He was silent about it and even said he understood it.

I mean, he really is atrocious. I think he's a kind of sociopath. He's a master manipulator. he projects his own sins on you. For example, he calls everyone he doesn't like a racist. But he dressed up in blackface so many times he says he lost cattle. He calls everyone a misogynist. He claims to be a male feminist.

But he admitted that he sexually assaulted Rose Knight, a reporter in Creston, B.C. When called on it, he said, well, she experienced it differently. he accuses these truckers of being Nazis, but he's the one who just suspended civil liberties. He accuses other people of hatred, but he says the burning of churches is understandable. He really is a manipulator,

and I think he's dangerous. He's lost a lot of his powers because people see through him when he called these truckers, Nazis. I think a lot of people said, oh, I didn't realize you were such a manipulator until now. I look at you in a completely different light. The mask slipped, and I know you're not Mr. Sunny Ways. In 2015, when he first ran for prime minister, his campaign, he called himself Sunny Ways. You know, have a cheerful heart. Come on, guys. We don't have to be sour and dour.

We realized that that, too, was a fraud. So he's a master manipulator. He was a, in deep trouble. So he, you know, the people wanted a new government, but the government wants new people. And I'm worried he's going to get away with it because, again, so many institutions in Canada are corrupted, the worst of which is the media. Trudeau owns the largest media company in Canada. It's called the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It has more news reporters than all other media combined. But that wasn't enough for him to own the state broadcaster. So he rents all the rest of the media. And by that I mean, he has this huge media bailout program, hundreds of millions of dollars. And all you have to do is sign up.

All you have to do is sign up and you'll get free money. And 99% of Canadian media has signed up for Trudeau as bailout. Wow. Well, if you're taking tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from Trudeau, you're not going to criticize Trudeau. And my little company, Rebel News, is one of maybe five Canadian media companies. Maybe there's 10. And we're tiny.

But every newspaper, every TV station has a regulatory gift from Trudeau. It literally 99% of the media in Canada are bought, rented by Trudeau, which is why we don't have a vigorous opposition. There is more scrutiny of Trudeau by foreign media than by Canadian media. I often have to read the daily mail in London, UK, to get criticism of Justin Trudeau that I will not find in Canadian media. It's shocking. The amazing thing, and this is what propagandists do and have always done, is that Justin Trudeau, just like the Democratic Party here in the United States, say that they're doing what they're doing for the sake of democracy. We have to trample upon your right, your religious liberty, your free speech,

your peaceful protest rights in order to preserve democracy. We have to look into your bank account to preserve democracy. We have to take away your guns to preserve democracy. We have to federalize here in the United States. We have to federalize elections to preserve democracy. So we have to undermine democracy in order to preserve democracy. That's exactly what you're is doing. And what's shocking to me is that even though, yes, so many people are against Trudeau and praise God for that. And of course, here in the United States, conservatives see things clearly in regards to that. But there are still so many people, people in the media who claim to be unbiased, who claim to be for freedom and democracy, who are in complete support of what Trudeau is doing

and actually think that it's wonderful, that he should be crushing dissent, and that that that is necessary to preserve democracy. I mean, talk about mass formation psychosis, the very people who say that they are anti-fascist against dictatorships and who think that January 6th was the biggest assault on democracy that exists. I mean, literally Joe Biden and Trudeau could come together and have tanks rolling down, you know, suburban America and Canada. And David French would still be writing articles about how evangelicals are the biggest threat to democracy in the world. I don't understand how people can't see what a danger this is right now at this point in history that's coming from the left globally. Well, and that's the thing.

I mean, this Trucker's Rebellion really is workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. Solidarity forever. You know, this really is the perfect moment for all those leftists. Wow, it's the workers who were taking back the country. But instead, the parties of the left, Trudeau needs, the Emergencies Act goes to Parliament within seven days and it goes to a vote. And Trudeau has a minority government, but an opposition party called the NDP, that's a socialist party, the so-called workers party. They've agreed to give Trudeau the votes. So Trudeau could not do this on his own. The labor part, Canada's Labor Party, it's called the NDP, said they're for it.

So the party of the working man is going to crush the working man. It's so bizarre to me, the parties of the left who always claim they were skeptical of big corporations, especially big pharma. The parties of the left who claimed they were for personal choice, my body, my choice. The parties of the left who claim they were for privacy, especially about personal health matters. The parties of the left who said, oh, I don't believe in carding. no ID. I don't, you know, I'm undocumented.

All of a sudden, those parties on the left are in favor of big pharma, big government, big tech censorship, ID to go into a restaurant. In Canada, you cannot get on an airplane domestically or foreign. If you're not vaccinated. The second largest country in the world, you can't get on a plane or a train unless you're vaccinated. And the parties on the left have been one of the great betrayals. And the unions, too, like foisting.

forced vaccinations into a collective agreement contrary to the wishes of the of the workers. Who sat a yon? It's it's so bizarre to me how the left has betrayed their own people. The Green Party, Canada's Green Party, which is sort of a lot of greens are sort of natural health and, you know, vitamins and I don't want an injection. Like they're very conscious. A lot of Greens have sort of a healthy style of living. And now they're the party of big pharma and take this untested injection. So a lot of people are politically homeless right now. I saw a poll that 57% of Canadian Greens support the truckers.

That's incredible because the Green Party itself has been a pro-lockdown disaster. Anyway, we'll see what happens in Canada. But I'm very worried. Trudeau has 30 days to do with Hugo Chavez. And by the way, he can extend that as long as he's. he wants. I think this is going to be like the two weeks to flatten the curve business. I think we're going to be in this for a lot longer than 30 days. Well, and that's my final question. How does this end or how does this unfold, I should say, in the next few days? So the truckers and the protesters

that are still in Ottawa right now, I mean, does it come to the police actually standing there, putting these people at gunpoint and saying, get out of here? I mean, what do you think this looks like? Well, like I say, there is no crime wave. There's no violence. Yeah, there's some traffic ticket type issues, but those aren't even crimes. It's a ticket. And if there is an issue, like a blocked bridge or really noisy horns, it's been solved. So the police are fine with things.

Trudeau is using that as a pretext to seize the bank account. So I don't think you're going to see a lot of change on the streets of Ottawa where there's still hundreds of truckers. I think the action isn't so much going to be on the streets. That's the pretext for what Trudeau wants to make an enemy's list and seize the bank accounts. I think, I mean, listen, we're in uncharted territory. Even after 9-11, we didn't have this emergency act invoked. So Trudeau is using wartime powers to settle his scores. And I don't know.

I just hope that if Canada starts to fall, that our American friends will speak up. I mean, if this were Vladimir Putin's Russia or if this were Venezuela or Cuba or North Korea, what would Americans be saying? I hope you guys speak up for us if we start to really go down that path. Well, you know, it's kind of seemed like you guys have been for a while and certainly parts of the states as well. We had James Coates and his wife, Aaron Coates, on. He was also a pastor that was jailed for opening up his church. We had a couple of-

35 days. Yes. And we had another pastor on from Canada a couple weeks ago to talk about Bill C4, which is a totalitarian crushing of free speech. We had a couple on yesterday. One of the guy is from Canada. And while they were dating long distance, And she, who was from Ohio, she was talking about how when she visited him, she had to, even though she had a negative test when she came into Canada, she still had to quarantine for 10 to 12 days, wasn't necessarily, wasn't actually technically allowed to leave her home.

And so in order to just go outside and spend time with her fiance, she had to leave her phone at home in order to not get the police to show up at her door. Again, that kind of thing is not supposed to happen in Western countries. That's not supposed to happen in countries that recognize human rights. That happens in a country that is led by someone who says that he admires China because of their basic dictatorship. So that's already happening in Canada. Absolutely, I think that Americans should speak up because our interests, I think, are freedom. Canadians and Americans are really intertwined. They really are.

And so I appreciate you, you being one of the lone voices in Kansas. Canada in the media, at least, who was pushing back against the state-sponsored narratives. So thank you so much. And thanks for taking the time to give us your perspective today. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Thank you. All right, guys, I know that you enjoyed that conversation.

God is sovereign. God is sovereign. Just remember that. Remember that. When all of this craziness and chaos is waging around us, Christians are called to be agents of clarity in the midst of that confused. and chaos and agents of peace and through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do that. So that is how I remain hopeful and at peace when it just seems like everything is crashing down.

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