The Charlie Kirk Show - Fascists, Fuel Seizures, and GoFundMe—Frontline Updates from Ottawa with Ezra Levant
Aired: 2022-02-08
Duration: 34:55


=== Students Fight Back Against Mandates (09:49) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody, the students are rising up against mask mandates.
[00:00:04]  Oh, so Ezra Levant, Frontlines of Canada, gives us a report of what's happening to her neighbors in the north and the truckers.
[00:00:11]  It's very important stuff.
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[00:02:10]  So there are still some states that have mask mandates right now, not every state, but Illinois is one of them.
[00:02:16]  And in the suburbs of Chicago, see, I got my good Chicago accent too, still.
[00:02:22]  Kids are starting to fight back, and it is really amazing.
[00:02:25]  Now, since many of their parents feel as if they need to wear cloth masks all day long, the students are fighting back themselves.
[00:02:32]  And honestly, God bless them.
[00:02:33]  We are 100% behind these students.
[00:02:36]  Let me say that again.
[00:02:37]  We are 100% behind these students.
[00:02:40]  Why the parents have put up with this nonsense for as long as they have?
[00:02:42]  I know there's a lot of parents that haven't, but the students don't care.
[00:02:46]  Now, a judge in Illinois has struck down the mask mandates.
[00:02:50]  High school students in a Chicago suburb, I know exactly where this is, right near St. Viter and other places.
[00:02:55]  They're just walking out.
[00:02:57]  Walking out of school, they are done.
[00:03:01]  St. Viter High School, as well.
[00:03:03]  St. Viter in Arlington Heights, Illinois, about six minutes from where I grew up.
[00:03:07]  I know a lot of kids that went to St. Viter.
[00:03:09]  Their parents are paying a ton of money in tuition to go to St. Viter.
[00:03:13]  St. Viter is a great school.
[00:03:15]  And St. Viter is actually, here's a little fun fact for you: Ted Nugent went to St. Viter.
[00:03:21]  There you go.
[00:03:21]  So they got that Ted Nugent energy there.
[00:03:25]  We're getting some tape of it, but it's starting to happen all across the country.
[00:03:28]  And if you have stories of students starting to rise up against mask mandates, you guys can email us anytime freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:03:36]  We also have Turning Point USA chapter leaders who are politely protesting the hypocritical masking of students for young, low-risk students when leaders of their state like Gavin Newsom and Mayor Eric Garcetti have been photographed recently not wearing masks while posing with celebrities at SoFi Stadium.
[00:03:56]  Our Turning Point USA students are beginning to fight back against this, and our high school chapters across the country at Turning Point USA are now pushing back against this.
[00:04:05]  At Laverne, Turning Point USA students, 80 students are segregated into a gym for not wearing masks.
[00:04:13]  And remember that girl in Naperville, Illinois that gave that incredible school board speech?
[00:04:19]  She reached out to us and said, I just want you to know that the lawsuit that stated it was illegal to force kids to wear masks in school just passed.
[00:04:26]  However, my district, along with a few others, have gone against the court ruling, right?
[00:04:31]  Schools think they're above the law and said that we'll need to wear masks.
[00:04:34]  So my friends and I have gone into school without a mask because it's legal, and they put us in a classroom and refused to let us go to class.
[00:04:40]  I just thought I'd let you know so you can go bring attention to it if you want.
[00:04:43]  I'm not trying to bash parents.
[00:04:46]  I'm not.
[00:04:47]  But really, where are the parents and grandparents?
[00:04:49]  Why are you guys putting up with this?
[00:04:51]  Like, why are you still sending your kids to these schools?
[00:04:54]  Why aren't you flooding the principal's office peacefully and say, we're not putting up with this anymore?
[00:04:59]  Like, we pay your salary.
[00:05:00]  Stop it.
[00:05:00]  It's not going to happen.
[00:05:01]  There is no school if there's no students.
[00:05:03]  Let me say that again.
[00:05:04]  There is no school if there's no students.
[00:05:06]  And I'm sure some parents really kind of get thrilled about their kids wearing cloth masks all day long.
[00:05:14]  It is so bad for childhood development.
[00:05:18]  Every single study shows almost zero epidemiological advantage and extraordinary psychological, social, spiritual, and emotional harm.
[00:05:31]  And so if you want to see the great contrast of the rulers versus the people, look no further than Stacey Abrams.
[00:05:42]  Stacey Abrams goes and visits an elementary school.
[00:05:46]  When she visited the elementary school recently, it's one of the most extraordinary pictures.
[00:05:51]  It's so bad, you think it's edited.
[00:05:54]  It really, I mean, I honestly thought this was an edited mockery of a picture.
[00:05:58]  It's so dystopian.
[00:05:59]  It's so extraordinary.
[00:06:02]  So it's Stacey Abrams sitting right in the middle, surrounded by about 25 elementary school kids, all wearing masks perfectly, while Stacey Abrams remains maskless.
[00:06:17]  And Stacey Abrams with this kind of weird, giddy smile, while all 25 children around her remain completely and totally maskless.
[00:06:29]  Now, her campaign has come out and said, it is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack.
[00:06:42]  And it is pitiful and predictable that our opponents continue to look for opportunities to distract from their failed records when it comes from protecting public health during the pandemic.
[00:06:52]  Stacey Abrams, here's some advice.
[00:06:54]  Stop running for governor.
[00:06:55]  Get some really good lawyers because I've seen some evidence in Dinesh D'Souza's movie that you're going to have some serious criminal explaining to do.
[00:07:05]  Why is it that the mules that were dropping off ballots in Georgia also kept on showing up to your headquarters that you were running?
[00:07:12]  Why is it that they would go to your office first and then go to 10, 20, 30, 40 drop boxes after that?
[00:07:18]  Why is that, Stacey Abrams?
[00:07:20]  Hope you have a good lawyer.
[00:07:22]  Because using cell phone technology, we know that they were going to your office.
[00:07:26]  We know that they were coming to you.
[00:07:28]  Were you the architect of this?
[00:07:30]  Were you Mark Elias' lieutenant on the ground in Georgia to make this all happen?
[00:07:35]  Stacey Abrams, I'd be a lot less worried about Black History Month reading lessons and more worried about whether or not you're going to have to spend some time for not just a felony, but creating a potential criminal conspiracy of ballot trafficking in a battleground state in not just one, but two elections 60 days apart.
[00:07:52]  But then Stacey Abrams actually came out that she told the kids to wear a mask so that when she was around, she felt safer when they were wearing masks.
[00:08:05]  So the children wear masks, but she does not.
[00:08:10]  When you see this picture, it is rage-inducing.
[00:08:14]  I honestly thought the picture wasn't real.
[00:08:17]  I thought it was a manufactured artificial picture.
[00:08:21]  Now, here's the thing.
[00:08:22]  Actually, let me play this.
[00:08:23]  Play cut 22, please.
[00:08:25]  Make a mistake.
[00:08:25]  If my kid was in the classroom, would I be outraged?
[00:08:28]  The answer is definitely not.
[00:08:30]  Stacey Abrams is not trying to harm children.
[00:08:33]  She was not flaunting our regulations purposefully.
[00:08:37]  She took a picture with their mask off, and everyone else had their mask on.
[00:08:40]  So there's not an issue there.
[00:08:42]  But politically, she probably wants the day back because now she's going to lose a week or two having to deal with this issue, which is for the most part a non-issue.
[00:08:51]  Yeah, most part it's a non-issue.
[00:08:52]  While she's maskless and she sits on the floor and the other kids have to remain completely and totally clothed, totally shameful.
[00:09:00]  But students in high school and middle school are starting to push back.
[00:09:05]  There is a legitimate movement that is bubbling up in the Chicago suburbs right now.
[00:09:12]  And if you can hear my voice, please participate in it.
[00:09:16]  There is no school without students.
[00:09:19]  School board members that have continued these mask mandates have failed the children.
[00:09:24]  Parents that have allowed these mask mandates to continue have failed the children.
[00:09:28]  Now, there's some phenomenal parents out there that have been fighting and fighting and fighting in Chicago and other places.
[00:09:34]  But there's way too many parents that have been passive, that have been compliant with this total garbage.
[00:09:43]  And we're starting to see the bubbling up and the reaction in response to that.

=== Support Patriot Mobile Instead (05:10) ===

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[00:09:58]  So James O'Keefe is a great example of this.
[00:10:00]  It's a smaller example than the one that we've used.
[00:10:02]  I shouldn't say smaller, but it's an individual example.
[00:10:04]  They kicked James O'Keefe off of almost every single social media site because he was willing to tell the truth.
[00:10:10]  And they also stormed his apartment using the Federal Bureau of Investigation to try to find a diary.
[00:10:17]  You see, the strategy of cancellation has now broadened outside of just using the law, but also using companies.
[00:10:25]  Now, activists that sit on their computer all day long and try to pressure these companies to do these things, they're usually very well funded by left-wing groups to try and destabilize or destroy any sort of means of survival for conservative or freedom-loving groups.
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[00:11:11]  Now, GoFundMe is a place where you can crowdfund and then have the money released once it hits its goal.
[00:11:18]  So there was a GoFundMe that was created to support the Canadian truckers.
[00:11:23]  The Canadian truckers raised over $10 million and they were supposed to release that money.
[00:11:32]  But GoFundMe decided not to do it.
[00:11:36]  GoFundMe decided to seize the money.
[00:11:39]  GoFundMe said they are not going to give the money to the Canadian truckers.
[00:11:43]  So GoFundMe did not even return the money to the donors.
[00:11:48]  Instead, they said they are going to give the money to organizations approved and verified by the Freedom Convoy organizers instead of refunding the donations.
[00:12:00]  The move sparked immediate outcry, including by Ron DeSantis, who said Saturday that the Florida's Attorney General will investigate GoFundMe.
[00:12:08]  You better believe it.
[00:12:08]  That's fraudulent behavior.
[00:12:10]  You can't just raise a bunch of money as a company and do something completely different with it.
[00:12:15]  Senator Ted Cruz said, today I sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking that the FTC open an investigation into GoFundMe into whether they've committed deceptive trade practices.
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[00:14:00]  A percentage of that is going to go fund vaccine mandates?
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[00:16:09]  With us right now for a first-hand report from our friends to the north from Canada, Ezra Levant from the wonderful Rebel News.
[00:16:15]  They do a great job.
[00:16:16]  Ezra, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:16:19]  Thanks very much for having me.
[00:16:20]  Appreciate it.
[00:16:21]  I've been a big fan of yours.
[00:16:22]  You do a wonderful job covering all the insanity that's happening in Canada.
[00:16:27]  What's the latest?
[00:16:28]  I'm being told that there are police being deployed to try to break up the truckers.
[00:16:31]  What's going on in the ground in Ottawa?
[00:16:34]  Well, starting just before midnight last night, hundreds of riot police, many with large weapons in their hands, started going around Ottawa seizing diesel fuel, little jerry cans of diesel fuel.
[00:16:49]  They made arrests and handed out hundreds of tickets too.
[00:16:52]  Now, diesel fuel is not illegal.
[00:16:55]  In fact, it is perfectly legal.
[00:16:57]  And in Ottawa, it's very cold.
[00:16:59]  So these truckers who are sleeping in their cabs of their trucks, they need the diesel fuel to run their trucks to stay warm, to stay alive, really.
[00:17:07]  So without a court order, without a search warrant, these police at gunpoint literally started collecting hundreds of jerry cans to freeze out or even starve out the protesters.
[00:17:21]  I say again, there has been no court order.
[00:17:24]  There is no lawsuit.
[00:17:25]  There is no sentence.
[00:17:27]  This is not an unlawful protest.
[00:17:31]  There may be the odd parking violation.
[00:17:33]  Fine.
[00:17:33]  So issue a ticket.
[00:17:35]  If there's some honking of horns, if there's a not noise bylaw, issue a ticket.
[00:17:40]  But to seize gasoline, diesel fuel, is just what is that other than theft?
[00:17:46]  I'm sorry.
[00:17:47]  If the police force takes something without color of right, that's theft.
[00:17:51]  But that's life under an authoritarian regime.
[00:17:55]  And I hate to say it because I love Canada, born and raised here, but we're becoming more and more like a banana republic under the hands of Justin Trudeau.
[00:18:03]  And you can see that when they seized the power for their lockdowns, it wasn't for public health.
[00:18:09]  It was just so they could run this country in an authoritarian manner.
[00:18:13]  It's very troubling.
[00:18:15]  Yeah, I mean, I love Canada too.
[00:18:16]  It's a great place, but it seems it's really slipping in many regards.
[00:18:20]  So walk us through kind of Canadian kind of constitutional structure because, I mean, do they have like emergency use rights?
[00:18:29]  They could do this.
[00:18:29]  I mean, I know in America, if they did that, there would be a very specific way that there could be a check and balance.
[00:18:35]  It just wouldn't be allowed.
[00:18:37]  In Canada, what's the process to try to rectify that?
[00:18:41]  Well, you mentioned checks and balances.
[00:18:44]  In the United States, you have a number of them.
[00:18:46]  Your Supreme Court has stopped some of the worst lockdown rules.
[00:18:50]  You have 50 different states which have different approaches.
[00:18:54]  You've got the Ron DeSantis approach on the Liberty end of the spectrum, and you have the New York approach on the other end, let's say.
[00:19:01]  But in Canada, we have 10 provinces that's our analog to your states.
[00:19:05]  Unfortunately, all 10 provinces are lockdown provinces.
[00:19:10]  And both at the federal government and the provincial level, every governing party and every opposition party is in favor of the lockdowns.
[00:19:19]  So there's no political debate.
[00:19:21]  Parliament hasn't sat much, and most of these rules have been issued by public health doctors who were not elected.
[00:19:28]  And they are suddenly issuing decrees.
[00:19:31]  The media party, as I call it, is another check and balance that has failed.
[00:19:36]  In Canada, more than 99% of the media are directly subsidized by Trudeau's bailouts.
[00:19:42]  We're one of the few media companies that's not.
[00:19:44]  Our courts have not issued a single substantive ruling against any forms of the lockdown.
[00:19:51]  Our academia has been silent or cheering on the lockdowns.
[00:19:55]  Colleges of physicians and surgeons have suspended doctors who've dared to speak out or issue medical exemptions.
[00:20:02]  Police forces are running political errands.
[00:20:05]  Like, can you ever imagine police going around grabbing jerry cans of diesel fuel, enforcing some public health order?
[00:20:13]  It's just absurd.
[00:20:14]  So, every single knot in the net, like you can, a net still works if one or two knots breaks.
[00:20:20]  It'll still catch fish.
[00:20:22]  But if every single knot in the net breaks at the same time, you have a total system failure.
[00:20:28]  Every single node in our Canadian establishment has failed simultaneously.
[00:20:35]  And that's why we're slipping into that Venezuela-style form of government that Justin Trudeau has explicitly praised.
[00:20:42]  I think you know that he's always been a fan of Castro, that he said communist China is the country he quote most admires because of its basic dictatorship.
[00:20:52]  He said those words.
[00:20:53]  I think that we almost need some outside help.
[00:20:56]  I'm not talking about an invasion, of course, but maybe I'm so grateful to be on your show.
[00:21:01]  We need our friends and allies around the world to shine a light of scrutiny.
[00:21:05]  Normally, Canada is a happy, boring place, and we sort of like it that way.
[00:21:10]  But we're not so happy these days, and we're not that boring.
[00:21:13]  There's a real battle on for freedom, and I'm grateful for you shining a light on it.
[00:21:18]  Yeah, I mean, look, this is something that Castro would do.
[00:21:21]  It seems like there's a lot, there's more than one way of similarities in this case with Trudeau and Castro.
[00:21:27]  We've danced around that topic for quite some time.
[00:21:30]  So, talk to me about kind of Canadians in general and their view of Trudeau.
[00:21:36]  I mean, is he still popular?
[00:21:37]  Is he still?
[00:21:39]  I mean, it doesn't seem that way, but he calls it a fringe minority.
[00:21:42]  Is that true?
[00:21:44]  Well, it's funny you say that.
[00:21:46]  We have a multi-party parliamentary system.
[00:21:49]  So, Trudeau won the last election with only 32% of the vote.
[00:21:53]  So, it's quite rich for him to say that anyone who criticizes him is a fringe majority when 68% of Canadians who voted didn't vote for him at all.
[00:22:04]  I should say that the latest polls show that the truckers, 32% of Canadians, say they see themselves in the truckers.
[00:22:13]  So, if the truckers were a political party, they would immediately be at the top of the polls in Canada.
[00:22:20]  So, that's a bit of a political earthquake.
[00:22:22]  These truckers, by the way, they weren't organized by any political party.
[00:22:26]  There's no super PAC.
[00:22:27]  They're really not even organized.
[00:22:29]  It's sort of an organic movement.
[00:22:31]  People said, I'll join, I'll join.
[00:22:34]  And over the course of time, probably 100,000 trucks joined.
[00:22:39]  Some came and went, some went to different parts of the country.
[00:22:42]  And along the roads, maybe a million Canadians went out to see them, to wave at them, to cheer them on.
[00:22:49]  So much so that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia passed a health order.
[00:22:53]  Again, no debate in a legislature, just issued an executive order that it is illegal to stand by the road to quote support the trucker convoy.
[00:23:07]  And the words support and trucker convoy are specifically named.
[00:23:10]  So you can go to the side of the road to oppose the trucker convoy.
[00:23:15]  You can go to the side of the road to oppose or support any other thing you want.
[00:23:22]  But the government of Nova Scotia specifically made it illegal to support this trucker convoy.
[00:23:28]  That's clearly unconstitutional.
[00:23:30]  It's clearly illegal.
[00:23:31]  But who's going to stop them?
[00:23:33]  I mean, it's a bit of a madness here.
[00:23:35]  Yeah, it is.
[00:23:36]  And this is a really important point.
[00:23:38]  And, you know, Canadians have a different culture than Americans, but I've always said the Constitutional Republic system is the gold standard.
[00:23:49]  And, you know, in Canada, you haven't really had these kind of tensions of speech.
[00:23:54]  Recently, Jordan Peterson tried to warn against a lot of this a couple of years ago, to his great credit.
[00:23:59]  But in America, the idea that they would restrain you from going to a protest, we're starting to see a little bit of that here and there, but courts just wouldn't allow that to happen.
[00:24:09]  And don't, again, please excuse my lack of understanding here, but from what I understand, Canada does not have the same sort of robust First Amendment protections like we do in America.
[00:24:18]  It's just there isn't a constitutional system that recognizes natural rights and separation of powers and an independent judiciary and consent to the governed.
[00:24:28]  These are all characteristics that make our constitution work and allow our civilization to succeed.
[00:24:34]  Talk about how, since you don't have that, it's just basically Trudeau's candidate.
[00:24:38]  He does whatever he wants.
[00:24:40]  We do have a constitution and we have what's called the Charter of Rights.
[00:24:44]  Ironically, it was enshrined by Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, who was prime minister in the 70s and early 80s.
[00:24:53]  He was a big fan of Castro, vacationed with him all the time.
[00:24:56]  He went to the Soviet Union, told his children Siberia is the future.
[00:25:00]  So Justin Trudeau comes from his love of authoritarians, honestly.
[00:25:04]  He inherited from his dad.
[00:25:06]  But the thing about our Charter of Rights, which is different from your American Bill of Rights, is your First Amendment is for free speech.
[00:25:13]  Your Second Amendment is the firearms.
[00:25:15]  I won't try and teach you about your laws, but what's our first section of our Constitution?
[00:25:21]  Is it free speech?
[00:25:22]  Is it the right to own firearms?
[00:25:24]  No.
[00:25:25]  Section one of our Charter of Rights is the asterisk.
[00:25:31]  It's the footnote.
[00:25:32]  It's the caveat.
[00:25:33]  It's the exception.
[00:25:34]  Section one says that every right that is about to be listed can be infringed.
[00:25:42]  Wow.
[00:25:43]  So section two is where we get into the good stuff.
[00:25:46]  Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of assembly.
[00:25:49]  That's all in our Constitution.
[00:25:51]  But it starts with point two.
[00:25:53]  Point one is a giant loophole that says if the government thinks it's a pressing and substantial reason to limit it that's rationally connected to some purpose, they can go ahead and violate your rights.
[00:26:08]  So before they even list your rights in section two, section one of our charter of rights says, well, maybe you can have them and maybe you can't.
[00:26:17]  It's almost like what follows after section one doesn't count.
[00:26:21]  It's almost like there's a pandemic clause in our constitution.
[00:26:27]  Whenever the government calls in an emergency, they can suspend our rights.
[00:26:30]  I don't want to oversimplify things, but I say again, in two years, not a single court case brought anywhere in Canada has had a substantive victory stopping the lockdowns.
[00:26:42]  And here's a quick example of how extreme the lockdowns are.
[00:26:45]  The province of Quebec, wonderful place, eight and a half million people, very large province.
[00:26:51]  They had curfews from 10 p.m. till 5 a.m., as if it was a province of children.
[00:26:57]  You could not go out after 10 p.m.
[00:26:59]  You'd be arrested.
[00:27:00]  Healthy people, vaccinated people even.
[00:27:03]  You couldn't go out after 10.
[00:27:05]  What free people accepts that?
[00:27:09]  That is completely lawful in Canada.
[00:27:12]  I didn't even think Cuba had those curfews.
[00:27:15]  They probably didn't.
[00:27:17]  I want to explore with you the Canadian temperament and the psychology of a Canadian that puts up with this.
[00:27:24]  Whether you think there's anything to that, because there is this kind of stereotype, a positive stereotype that Canadians are nice and overly magnanimous and peace-seeking.
[00:27:35]  And you've heard all of it, right?
[00:27:36]  The friendly Canadian, and whether or not that kind of plays into the naivete of tyranny that allows it all of a sudden for a smug teenager-looking Fidel Castro lookalike to govern from his lake house and keep the nice people at home because they don't quite have the muscle memory to fight against tyranny.
[00:27:56]  Whereas we, as Americans, kind of in our blood, we are good at it.
[00:28:00]  Not all of us, by the way, but there's plenty of us that don't put up with this nonsense.
[00:28:04]  And I just want to reiterate for our American listeners: this is the difference between having an American Constitution and a Canadian Constitution.
[00:28:11]  It's not an insult to Canada, it's just a big difference.
[00:28:15]  And God bless our founding fathers so long ago that saw these sort of moves that were going to happen and prevented against it.
[00:28:24]  Look, with all the different makes and models of cars, it can be very confusing.
[00:28:28]  I'm not a car guy.
[00:28:28]  I'm not.
[00:28:29]  And I get ripped off.
[00:28:30]  Okay.
[00:28:31]  If I go to a traditional storefront, it's a disaster.
[00:28:34]  It really is.
[00:28:35]  You know, these people that know a lot about cars, they're selling me all sorts of weird and wacky things.
[00:28:39]  They're like, you need a flagpole and you need a Wilson wire and you need a Hamilton bar and all this different sorts of stuff.
[00:28:47]  Never heard of it.
[00:28:48]  Okay, sure.
[00:28:48]  Here's the credit card.
[00:28:49]  Next thing you know, it's thousands of dollars later and I've been ripped off.
[00:28:53]  Well, look, you have computers, so you can access rockauto.com at home and in your pocket.
[00:28:57]  So you should repair and maintain your cars.
[00:28:59]  It's a way to save money and you can use them for other important things like mortgages and food.
[00:29:04]  So go to rockauto.com.
[00:29:05]  That's rockauto.com.
[00:29:07]  Their prices are reliably low at rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do.
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[00:29:32]  We're at Charlie Kirk and the How Did You Hear About Us?
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[00:29:44]  I want to explore with you.
[00:29:45]  Can you explain to me whether or not the Canadian temperament has anything to do with this?
[00:29:50]  Kind of the agreeable, nice, magnanimous people that all of a sudden can be quickly transitioned into subservient serfs under an authoritarian government.
[00:30:00]  It's true.
[00:30:01]  I mean, we've never had a civil war.
[00:30:03]  We've never had a revolution.
[00:30:05]  We've had a very lucky existence.
[00:30:08]  And being next to America, you guys do the hard work for us.
[00:30:11]  I mean, frankly, I think we probably would have been invaded during the Cold War were it not for NORAD.
[00:30:17]  So we're very lucky.
[00:30:18]  Remember, Canada was founded in part by what were called United Empire loyalists.
[00:30:23]  Those who are the losing side of the U.S. Revolution, they just came north.
[00:30:26]  So we were, by definition, sort of agreeable, more passive, less rambunctious.
[00:30:33]  And that suited us fine, I guess.
[00:30:35]  Trouble is, you need your government to have a light touch.
[00:30:39]  We haven't had a light touch over the last two years.

=== Truckers Unite Across Canada (03:46) ===

[00:30:41]  And too many Canadians have obediently worn masks, bent the knee, accepted curfews.
[00:30:48]  And we haven't had that same check and balance system.
[00:30:51]  Like I say, we don't have a Ron DeSantis up here.
[00:30:53]  We don't have any difference between our conservative and liberal parties here.
[00:30:58]  I think, though, that these truckers have shown that there is a deeper part of Canada that wants to be free, that remembers how we were before, perhaps.
[00:31:08]  And these truckers have been a physical manifestation of that.
[00:31:11]  And they're not for moving.
[00:31:13]  They're not wobbly.
[00:31:14]  They're very blue-collar.
[00:31:16]  They're plain spoken.
[00:31:18]  They're ethnically diverse.
[00:31:20]  And people, like I say, 32% of Canadians see themselves in the truckers.
[00:31:24]  It's the first resistance, the first opposition in two years.
[00:31:28]  It's really incredible.
[00:31:30]  There's so many points I want to explore with you in that regard.
[00:31:33]  And do you see a generational divide?
[00:31:35]  Do you see an urban rural divide?
[00:31:37]  Do you see that a lot of the kind of mandate Trudeau coalition is centered to Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver?
[00:31:45]  Is that sort of divide something you see?
[00:31:46]  And finally, talk about states' rights or province rights.
[00:31:50]  Are the provinces able to make their own decisions?
[00:31:54]  In Canada, provinces have jurisdiction over health care, but the government sort of buys the federal government sort of buys its way in.
[00:32:01]  So most of the lockdowns have happened at the hands of provincial leaders.
[00:32:05]  But like I say, they're all in lockstep.
[00:32:08]  In terms of who's with these trucker protests, I think truckers are individualist.
[00:32:12]  I think in the rural parts, people are more conservative.
[00:32:15]  But what's been so heartening is many truckers are new Canadians.
[00:32:18]  They happen to be Sikh or indigenous, also.
[00:32:21]  That's, I guess, the opposite of a new Canadian.
[00:32:23]  So they're visible minorities.
[00:32:25]  So when Trudeau denounces them as racist and sexist, it doesn't really stick because there's many Sikh truckers wearing their Sikh turbans.
[00:32:33]  And for Trudeau to call them white nationalists, as he has, it's just laughable.
[00:32:38]  Like it might work against a middle-aged white male conservative politician, but when a young Sikh trucker is called racist, he sort of laughs.
[00:32:46]  A lot of women are against vaccine mandates.
[00:32:48]  I mean, remember what these trucker protests is about.
[00:32:51]  Trudeau said you cannot be a trucker crossing the border without a vaccine.
[00:32:56]  Truckers are one of the most isolated jobs there is.
[00:33:00]  I mean, you're in your cab by yourself for days on end.
[00:33:03]  You probably sleep in your cab.
[00:33:05]  So to force them to get vax, the truckers who took care of the rest of us for two years, it wasn't about public health.
[00:33:11]  It was about submission and compliance and obedience.
[00:33:14]  And I think it was the final straw for people.
[00:33:17]  People realize that it's not really, people are tired of it in Canada.
[00:33:20]  We have been too obedient for too long.
[00:33:23]  Even passive, friendly, smiling Canadians have their limit.
[00:33:28]  And I think it's a political earthquake here, and we haven't yet seen all of the results that will flow from it.
[00:33:34]  Trudeau is trying his Castro-like crackdown.
[00:33:38]  Thank God no one's been shot yet.
[00:33:40]  Although there was someone who rammed a trucker protest if it were the other way around, if a trucker had rammed someone, that would be world news.
[00:33:49]  But it was a Trudeau supporting leftist who rammed four truckers.
[00:33:55]  And so that's being buried.
[00:33:56]  So it's been a very peaceful Canadian style protest, but there is the flame of freedom burning.
[00:34:02]  I hear the word freedom being chanted more in the last two weeks than in my entire life.
[00:34:06]  I see people of all racial and religious backgrounds chanting freedom.
[00:34:10]  It's actually been a moment of tremendous unity.
[00:34:12]  I've never been this optimistic about the Canadian spirit.
[00:34:15]  Now, whether or not that's enough to break the government domination is another question, but I think Canada has rediscovered the phrase to true north, strong and free.
[00:34:25]  That's wonderful and beautiful.
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=== A Moment of Tremendous Unity (00:27) ===

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