The Highwire with Del Bigtree - TRUDEAU INDIGNANT IN CANADA

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

An update on Canada’s Freedom Convoy truck rally is seeing a clear division within Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s parliament as members are now openly voicing their displeasure with his incitements and attempts to divide his country. Meanwhile, several premiers have announced they are canceling vaccine mandates and passports altogether. How long can Trudeau hold out with his unpopular position?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

In Canada, it's almost two weeks now since the truckers have rolled into capital city, Ottawa, to peacefully protest. It has been 100% peaceful, no issues whatsoever. And this has been ongoing. And there's been so many stories coming out of here. I mean, my God, this could be a documentary or a book at this point. It's only been two weeks in. So we have reports now at the beginning of this week. The truckers have been there. They're getting low on fuel. We have the reports of the police seizing their gasoline. This is what that looked like. Take a look. So here the officers have come in or starting to steal the fuel that the volunteers locally have been bringing in. Here's their first attempt. Now our move.

taking fuel right away from people as they attempt to fuel their vehicles. Wow, so the people are bringing fuel so the truckers could stay there, probably keep their engines running, right, and stay warm, things like that. And I mean, and the police are stealing, stealing fuel. Right, right, and great work to everyone there on the ground, live streaming. This is the eyes and ears of the world, really, through your phone, so thank you so much. And so the headlines look like this. look like this. This is out of Ottawa. Ottawa mayor declared state of emergency as police

threatened arrests for bringing gas to freedom convoy. But as so many of these stories we're going to cover right now, it takes 24 hours or so for it to flip right on its head. So this is what it looks like at this point. People have now in mass begun bringing gas to the truckers and disobeying these police orders. Take a look. Play your next move, Trudeau. I love how they keep trying to incite this fear thing. Like, oh, they're violent. Like, we're all at risk when all they're doing like, no, they're just bringing gas to each other. Like they do realize they outnumber you, for sure. They're walking peacefully and doing whatever they want to do. And the power to the people, man,

it's such an exciting moment to be watching that. Yeah, completely peaceful. And so that's a little taste of what's happening outside on the streets of Canada but he hears a taste of what's been happening inside Parliament and what to do is having to be dealing with with. Prime Minister Tudorou is having to been dealing with take take a look okay comes to lockdowns and mandates we're seeing things change very quickly and rightly so Dr. Tamm has said that vaccine mandate should be re-evaluated and today the chair of the Quebec Liberal Caucus clearly and strongly stated it's time to end the

divisiveness and the politicization and end the mandates we conservatives could not agree more this cannot be a and dragged out process simply because of the Prime Minister's ego, pride, or denial. Canadians are too tired. Canadians need hope. So will the Prime Minister follow the science, follow the evidence, and the restrictions and the mandates? The right, Honourable Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker, everyone is sick and tired of lockdowns, of the measures we have to do, of the sacrifices we've had to make. But Canadians

have continued to step up over the past two years, been there for each other, been there to get vaccinated. And that's the unity we've seen across the country of people who've been there for their neighbors, who've been there for their frontline health workers. That's what Canadians are going to continue to do. That's how we get through and back to the things we love. We're going to continue to follow the science. We're going to continue to have Canadians' backs. We're going to continue to protect people's lives. leader of the opposition. Mr. Speaker, countries like Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Czech Republic, the UK, Spain, Denmark,

they're all removing restrictions and mandates, and they're all countries that have a lower vaccine rate than Canada. Here in Canada, though, we have a Prime Minister who refuses to lead and instead is being divisive. I have to agree with the MP for Louis Iber when he says, people don't know where public health ends and politics begins. Canadians want their lives back. So again, I ask the Prime Minister, will you follow, will he follow the evidence, will he follow the science,

and the mandates, and the restrictions quickly? Mr. Speaker, every step of the way, we have had Canadians' backs by following the science, by working closely with COVID. A lot of noise back there. Finally, Trudeau just gives up. It's clear he's outnumbered. even inside the halls of parliament.

And here's members of his own cabinet now. So let's go to these videos. This is Joe Liebaugh. He is a member of the parliament, and he came out just a couple days ago and had a press conference. This is what it looked like. I think it's time to stop dividing Canadians

to stop hitting one part of the population against another. I can't help but notice with regret that both the tone and the policies of my government changed drastically on the eve and during the last election campaign. From a positive and unifying approach, a decision was made to wedge, to divide, and to stigmatize. I fear that this politicization of the pandemic risks undermining the public's trust in our public health institutions. This is not a risk we ought to be taking lightly. Wow.

And then we have Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. We talked about him last week. He said he was going to end the vaccine passport. Well, he came out this week as well, and basically the same time as Joel Liebaum. And this is what this sounded like. Here's his press conference. Take a look.

It's time for us to come together as families, as friends, as communities, and as a province and as a nation. And it's time for us to reach out and support one another. Let's not judge our neighbor because they may be vaccinated or because they may not be vaccinated. Let's not judge our neighbor if they should choose to wear a mask or not to choose to wear a mask in the weeks ahead. Whenever someone is doing their own personal risk assessment, which we have asked them to do in this province for a period of time now, they're doing that assessment for themselves, possibly for their family, and they may come back

with a different decision than what you might arrive at. And that different conclusion, albeit it may be different from where you have landed should not be judged. It should be respected and it should be accepted. It's time for each of us as individuals now to make a conscious effort to treat everyone in our daily lives that we encounter equally. It's also time for the proof of vaccination mandate to end. So effective at midnight this Sunday February the 13th all provincial proof of vaccination requirements will end. Wow. You know I want to say this to people because there's a lot of people that watch the show and I see the comments and there's always this sort of Debbie Downer space like oh this is all a part of their plan.

They're just relaxing on so they can come at us again. Please screw your brain back in. Trust me. Nobody ever want to see their own government, the governments of the world turning on the issue of mandating vaccinations, of mandating lockdowns. Do you realize how hard it will be to ever get back to this place for those that this was their dream? I mean, this is amazing. They have messed up so bad.

This conversation now of forcing vaccinations is not going to end here. For all of us that have been in this conversation, the idea that the government tells you what is going into your body is totally insane. And believe me, this thing has blown wide open. I said it at the beginning of this pandemic. I said it as soon as they started trying to make the sausage in front of everybody, you know, by trying to make this vaccine. This is going to be the greatest mistake they have ever made. And we're going to make sure the world is watching it. Look what's happening, Jeffrey.

These are conversations that are going to go down in history. This is a turning point for the conversation of mandated vaccines and mandated lockdowns that will affect decades to come. We just have to make sure that we keep pushing. We've got to stay strong now. I mean, it's going to be so hard for them to get back to this place again. Huge, huge error and overstep by governments around the world. Right.

It's supercharged people's eyes and ears to watch out for this. It's supercharged media outlets to finally understand, you know, They've been asleep at the wheel on the vaccine topic for so long. They've been supercharged. They've been quick studies to report on this, and it's been beautiful to watch. And following Scott Moe there in Saskatchewan, we have Alberta also following suit. Here's the headline Alberta's vaccine passport program lifted as of midnight Tuesday. So there were some funds now.

Here's another side story or sub-story. There's so many going on here in Canada. So the truckers were able to raise almost $10 million from GoFundMe. But GoFundMe suspended that charity giving or the fundraiser, trucker convoy, GoFundMe, suspended. It was put under review after raising over $10 million. GoFundMe basically seize their funds and said, we'll let them go to a charity that we approve of if you want to get your funds back. And that's basically the only way you're going to get it. Well, days later, this is what the headlines look like.

GoFundMe, relents after backlash. Thank you to the people. We'll refund all donors to Canadian trucker fund. So at this point now, the Canadian truckers searched around, and there was a bunch of links going on out there about where they would go next. They went to give send go. Here's the link for that now. Here's a screenshot of it.

And it's approaching now almost nine. It says here at 7.5 million, but as of today, I looked at it, it's over $8 million on its way to $9 million. So they're really doing some great work over there. And if you want to give to that, that's the fundraiser there. But another side story here, we'll wrap up with this. Well, hold on before you go there, because I want to make this point as we're talking about this. Do you realize what GoFundMe just proved to the world?

What they just proved to the world is that money may never get to the source that it was being raised for. That they feel that that money is theirs to spend how they see fit. Any of you that ever use GoFundMe again deserve whatever happens to you. Go to give send go. Let's make sure that we starve any institution. that takes our money, steals our money, and then has headlines telling us, we're gonna spend it wherever we see fit.

That is the exact opposite of the type of security we should be expecting from a company like, GoFund me. So go fund me, go fund yourself. And that's kind of what the tow truck companies are saying to the Ottawa government. Check out this headline. Toot truck companies refuse to holloway

large trucks gridlocking Ottawa. So it says here, this is an incredible story, All tow truck companies on contract with the city have refused to haul away the big rigs that have gridlocked Ottawa's downtown for the second week in a row, the city manager says. So we're having tow truck civil disobedience. It seems like everywhere this government turns to try to kind of use some backroom thuggery. It's just blowing up in their face in a very beautiful and peaceful way, I might add. So Trudeau really looks like he's in the ropes here.

I'm really interested to see what's going to happen coming into this week. But, you know, this trucker convoy really just, it took the, it captured the consciousness of the moment and put it on the streets in Canada. And it's being repeated all over the, all over the world. But it also captured the hearts and minds of the world. Take a look at this. I just got overwhelmed. We opened up one of the bags to see what they had in them. And I got punched in the heart.

Whoever these people are, they had their kids. do up a bag with a cookie in it for the truckers and they attached a note with it put their artwork on there sorry I'm getting emotional again I'm gonna show you what it was and this is why we're doing what we're doing reach for the stars we believe in you and there's a picture of a truck inside of it they left a note the note says dear mr or mrs trucker it's really awesome that you're standing up for human rights. I'm only 11, so I don't know much about it, but I believe what's happening is wrong. And I know you can do it. Sincerely, Kate.

It's really beautiful. It's amazing. And it is. It's truly touching our hearts. To all those truckers out there, I know many of you are watching the high wire. Thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you for standing up. And it really, you know, people have always asked me, you know, as we go through this, Where is our Rosa Parks? And I have said from the beginning, you don't decide that. You don't know what that breaking point is or who's going to be standing in that. But I have to say right now, it does feel like these truckers up in Canada have really sparked something, a shift like nothing else has all around the world.

So thank you so much for those of you organizing it. May you remain safe. All of you, our prayers are with you. Just absolutely outstanding. and truly what it means to be a human being and a brother and a sister on this earth together.