Ezra Levant compares Canada’s trucker protests to Venezuela’s authoritarian crackdowns, accusing Trudeau of using $600M media funding to suppress dissent while foreign outlets like Daily Mail and Fox News covered the convoy fairly. Protesters—farmers, tradesmen, and families—peacefully defied Nova Scotia’s unconstitutional Jan 28 gathering ban, with Alberta truckers even opening lanes for border traffic. Legal battles loom (donate at truckerlawyer.ca), as the convoy’s persistence ("until next year... forever") exposes media bias and forces political accountability, reshaping public opinion against lockdowns and framing it as a David vs. Goliath fight for free speech. [Automatically generated summary]
Today I show you all the little tyrants popping up in Canada who want to use a bit of a Hugo Chavez style in dealing with these truckers.
Boy, you don't have to scratch very deeply to find an authoritarian underneath any politician.
It's very depressing.
But there is some good news too, and I'll share with you.
Some of the good news is coming from Coots, Alberta.
That's ahead.
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All right, here's today's show.
Tonight, Canada's little tyrants are popping up everywhere.
What is this?
Venezuela?
It's February 2nd, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer I know?
There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
The only thing I have to say is the government will buy a publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
I like Evan Solomon.
I think he is the most fair journalist in the entire mainstream media in Canada, frankly.
An example of this is that he actually went down to Parliament Hill in the cold amongst the trucker protesters in a city with literally 250 journalists assigned to cover Parliament and with the protest right outside the door.
You'd think that they would all wander around just to see the spectacle just out of sheer curiosity.
But I'm guessing fewer than 10 did.
At least I can see no evidence that any more did.
Many journalists these days lack all curiosity and any initiative because those things can cause trouble.
You see, once upon a time, journalists loved causing trouble.
Or you can call it speaking truth to power.
You can call it comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
Have you ever heard of an endangered species, the investigative journalist?
That's someone who actually investigates things.
It often means getting up out of your desk and asking your own questions rather than just rewriting official press releases from the warmth of a cubicle.
There even used to be something called shoe leather reporting.
I know it sounds so old-timey, doesn't it?
That refers to someone walking around the streets wearing out their shoes from actually looking for the news where it is.
Alas, that's not many Canadian journalists now.
I say again, most of the accurate and fair coverage of the trucker convoy is from foreign media in the UK, Australia, and the United States.
In Canada, it's almost all just amplification of Trudeau's own talking points, which you can expect when 99% of journalists are on the payroll.
I mean, he joked about it a while back, but the reason why jokes are funny is because there's truth in them.
You sometimes hear about liberal bias in the media these days, how they're constantly letting off our government, letting our government off the hook for no good reason.
Frankly, I think that's insulting.
It's clear that they let us off the hook for a very good reason, because we paid them $600 million.
You don't get stellar headlines like these without greasing the wheels a bit.
They were laughing because it was true.
If it weren't true, it would be weird and unfunny.
No one would get it.
That was at a press gallery dinner, by the way.
So Trudeau was literally saying it right to their faces, letting them know that he knows, that they know, they're bought and sold, and they loved them.
And of course, the press gallery dinner there, it's only for official members, members of the press gallery.
They banned revolutions from the press gallery.
But they are right now reviewing an application from Xinhua, the Chinese state propaganda agency.
They'll fit right in.
So yeah, kudos to Evan Solomon for even venturing out amongst the unwashed masses, the proletariat.
That's more than the alleged conservative Aaron Ho Jul would do.
He won't get any more chances, though, will he?
Certainly more than Jagmeet Singh would do.
Jagmeet Singh was calling this largely Sikh rally.
I wouldn't say it was a majority Sikh, but there were a lot of Sikh truckers there.
He's calling them racist.
So hard to believe that the NDP actually used to be the party of the working man.
Now they think the working man is racist, even if they're Sikh.
We saw some really hateful and disturbing images coming out of the convoy in Ottawa this past weekend.
We saw the Nazi flag being flown, the Confederate flag being flown.
And instead of denouncing and making it clear that this type of hate has no place in Canada, the leader of the official opposition and his conservative MPs left the door open to this type of hate in Canada.
What is the Prime Minister going to do to tackle the rise of online hate so we can build a better future for our kids?
Right, Honorable Prime Minister.
I thank the leader of the NDP for bringing up this important issue.
Obviously, like him, we vigorously condemn the hatred, the intolerance that we've seen in the streets of Ottawa over the past past number of days.
We know all Canadians are frustrated.
All Canadians are tired of this pandemic.
But the vast majority of Canadians know that listening to science, getting vaccinated, continuing to be there for each other with respect and openness is the best and really only way through this pandemic.
That's what we'll stay focused on.
Anyways, I want to let you know that I think Evan Solomon is the best of the bunch.
So I was a little disappointed when I saw him tweet this from the streets.
He said, as you can see, it's a tweet showing video of some protesters being completely peaceful on the streets of Ottawa.
The video isn't what's interesting.
They're just pushing a fuel cart.
But look at what Evan Solomon says.
He says, so this is something police have to explain.
If the city is saying they don't want the protest to continue, and the mayor says so, how does this happen?
What?
Is the city owned by a mayor?
Is he like a feudal lord and we're all peasants who live there by his gracious gift?
Yeah, no, we have something called a Charter of Rights that permits freedom of assembly and freedom of expression and mobility rights.
Literally walking down the street in a city is not up to a mayor or a premier or a prime minister or a policeman or even a king.
But this is normal thinking now in Ottawa.
Look at this, the woke mayor of Ottawa saying he wants to get his mitts on the trucker convoy's money.
So, I mean, then let me ask you, because you're part of the briefings, you're in on the conversations, obviously, how do you see this coming to an end and do you have any sense of when?
Well, it's going to come to an end.
Obviously, this is not going to be allowed to go on forever in terms of when that will take place.
That, again, is an operational decision that will be made by the chief based on the intelligence that they've received.
We've got a lot of police presence, as you know, police forces from across Ontario and Quebec are here to bolster our police services.
And we've been very patient, quite frankly, with this group.
And the organizers have been completely irresponsible in terms of any leadership or ownership of some of the outrageous activity and behavior of their members.
And they should be the ones telling their members, go back home, get back to business, deal with your own local MPs, and allow these neighborhoods to reopen again.
How much is all of this costing the city of Ottawa?
Well, it's $800,000 a day for police costs alone, and then probably a couple hundred thousand dollars in overtime costs for public works, bylaw, paramedics, and so on.
So it's very expensive, and our taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this nonsense.
We've asked our city solicitor to see what could be done with the GoFundMe fund that they've raised over $8 million, whether that can be tapped into to pay for some of these extraordinary expenses caused by these truckers.
Is it also your intention to ask the federal government to assume all or part of these costs?
Yeah, we have a good relationship with the federal government, and I spoke with the prime minister yesterday, and he's assured us that the federal government is here with us in the long term.
They recognize this as a burden on our taxpayers, so we appreciate his positive perspective.
By the way, the city is not, in fact, shut down, at least not by the truckers.
The truckers are taking up the street right in front of Parliament Hill, it's true.
But I was there, and in fact, police have blocked off most of the downtown.
It's the police who are restricting traffic.
And the $800,000 a day in policing, okay, exactly, but why?
Why are you bringing in police forces from far-off cities and putting them up in hotels and paying them overtime, other than to give them, you know, add a little bit of drama to that police state aesthetic that Trudeau seems to like.
In the entire weekend of the initial protest, the time I was there, there was not a single charge laid, not a single arrest made.
So this over-policing isn't on the protesters, it's on the bullies.
The prime minister and the mayor, they wish there were a fight.
This just wasn't.
The scandal was that someone put a flag on Terry Fox and a cape, and that someone parked at the entrance of the war memorial for a few minutes until police told them to move, and they did.
These are portrayed by Trudeau and his media liars as desecrations of a war memorial and desecration of a statue they weren't.
That's how desperate they were.
That and an agent provocateur flying a Nazi flag at the Chateau Laurier, the most expensive hotel in the city, where no trucker would ever stay, but where plenty of liberals do.
That's it.
But in that Banana Republic style, the Lord Mayor of Ottawa not only wants to ban people from his streets, I mean, it's the capital city people, it's for the fancy people who haven't lost a minute's work or a dollar's pay during the pandemic.
They've got raises and they've got to work from home if they worked at all.
But boy, they collected their pay.
It's been a feast for lobbyists and contractors and insiders.
Why let some noisy working man into their holy city?
I love the word they're using.
Desecrate, as if Ottawa is holy and these grubby truckers have no place there.
Shoo.
Yeah, and taking their money.
That's just the final Hugo Chavez touch, nationalizing their bank account.
It's spreading, though, by the way.
I think I mentioned this the other day.
Nova Scotia isn't just daydreaming of nationalizing someone else's bank account and jailing truckers.
They've actually issued an order specifically targeting convoy supporters and banning them from standing at the side of the road.
Huh?
Yeah, let me read it to you.
I'm going to read two paragraphs.
The province today, January 28th, issued a directive under the Emergency Management Act prohibiting protesters from blockading Highway 104 near the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border.
Okay, I understand not blocking any road.
I get it.
Okay.
There are actually laws against that already.
But look at this.
The directive also applies to people who stop or gather alongside Highway 104, the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, or at the Cobaquid Pass toll Area in support of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, the Atlantic Hold the Line event, or others organized to interfere with traffic.
Allowing people to gather in those areas would put themselves and others at risk.
So you cannot peacefully gather at the side of a road.
You're not blocking the road.
You're cheering people on the road.
There's nothing illegal about that.
There's nothing blockading about that.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Freedom of speech, freedom of association, mobility, all the charter rights stuff.
It's atrocious, but look at the wording.
You can actually protest all you want about literally anything else in the world, just not in support of the 2022 Freedom Convoy.
Anything else is legal.
You could have two people standing on the same bridge or the same road.
One could be protesting, I don't know, in support of Trudeau, and the other protesting in support of the convoy.
Only the convoy supporter is a lawbreaker under this rule.
Or more to the point, you can have two people next to each other on the same overpass.
One is for the convoy, the other is opposed to the convoy, and only the supporter is illegal.
Read the wording.
This is absurd.
This is transparent.
This is illegal.
This is unconstitutional, but they're doing it.
And who's stopping them?
Do you doubt that we have within us the authoritarian impulse, the impulse to dominate and destroy our enemies?
Do you think there was something genetically different about the Germans 70 years ago?
All this talk of anti-bullying and tolerance, it's all fake.
It's all reverse psychology, a cover, a mask to hide the true nature of the state.
There's no one more vicious than an anti-bully.
Look at Trudeau, who in the name of tolerance is the most intolerant prime minister we've ever had.
He talks about racism.
He's the blackface guy.
Imagine using emergency health legislation to ban specific political views from protesting.
That's Canada now.
It's infected our governments.
It's infected our opposition parties and it's infected our media.
That's the real pandemic, the real virus.
Government power has never been this great, and our civil liberties have never been in such peril.
Infected Governments & Media00:07:25
Stay with us for more.
Well, it's about 4 p.m. Eastern time as I'm recording.
It's 2 p.m. Alberta time.
I tell you that, because a lot is changing between now and when the show actually airs tonight in a few hours.
A very fluid situation.
I'm talking about the blockade, the convoy in Coutz, Alberta, the village that is the customs and border checkpoint between Canada and the United States, Alberta and Montana, joining us now via Skype from the blockade.
It's Chad Williamson, the lawyer crowdfunded by Rebel News, to assist the truckers in negotiating with the police, de-escalating the situation and generally trying to have a happy outcome there.
Our friend Chad Williamson joins us now.
Chad, how are you doing down there?
Ezra, we're doing great.
And de-escalation is the word of the day today.
As many people know, the breaking news coming from down here is that in a tremendous and surprising show of good faith and compassion for their fellow Albertans and an understanding for the toll that this blockade has taken across the country and in reciprocation for what we feel to be some inklings of movement by the government in respect of the demands of the truckers,
the truckers are opening lanes.
One lane, that is, on going each way, Providing unimpeded access to and from the border and through the town of Coots.
All right, so let's just catch our people up because yesterday was very dramatic.
The Mounties presented, and on the other side, the truckers presented.
I really felt like I was watching a movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson.
And, you know, the odds were against the Mounties.
There were so many more truckers.
I mean, unless the Mounties were literally going to take out their firearms and start, God forbid, shooting.
They had no chance and they retreated.
And I was wondering what would come next.
Now, it sounds like an act of an olive branch from the truckers, but I saw from one of our journalists, Kian Simone, that, and please tell me what you know about this if you can, that Alberta's backbench conservative MLAs, the UCP party, United Conservative Party, that they have expressed solidarity.
And you tell me if I'm wrong on this, that they have indicated that if the truckers open up, they will vote to end the vaccine passport in Alberta.
Now, I'm just hearing this through Kian Simoni, our reporter.
Can you tell us anything without giving away confidences?
Unfortunately, I just don't have much information, Azure.
Obviously, in a high-tension situation such as this one, rumors circulate like snow in a blizzard.
And we've heard all manner of fairly surprising developments that may or may not have happened between some of the MLAs, the RCMP, and how they plan on conducting the enforcement.
Frankly, I just don't have the information, but I do understand that there is a growing support from some of the backbencher MLAs in Alberta.
And I mean, they've had support since day one, but it's my understanding that the support has grown and that assurances have been given that there will be progress in cabinet.
So it'll be interesting to see.
But I mean, a lot of this stuff is speculation.
And I'm obviously not at liberty to put names on the table or anything at this point.
Yeah.
Well, I hope that it's not a trick.
One of the reasons the lawyers asked us, sorry, the truckers asked us to crowdfund you to help them in this de-escalation negotiations is that they said to me that they felt that the RCMP was tricking them, was breaking their promises, and were not reliable or honest.
Now, I'm just saying what they said.
So bringing you in there to help make sure that things go fairly, I'm worried because I don't know who is behind the scenes on the RCMP.
It's a federal police force that has a contract with the province.
So I don't know if it's Jason Kenney or if it's the prime minister.
In some ways, this is a federal matter.
It's a border crossing.
That's a federal matter.
The RCMP are a federal police force.
The vaccine mandate in question for truckers is a federal thing.
So those three elements tell me this is a federal police operation, but they are working in Alberta under a contract to the province.
So I don't really know who the decider is.
But let me ask you this, Chad.
Earlier today, Aaron O'Toole, the conservative leader federally, was absolutely sacked by his caucus.
Like shockingly, it wasn't even close.
And I think that is 100% attributable to his choosing the wrong team on the federal convoy.
And you could see the cracks forming when he wouldn't say he stood with them, when he refused to meet them.
You saw more and more backbench conservative MPs saying, I don't care what Aaron O'Toole says.
I know what's right.
And it culminated today.
He was thrown out.
I wouldn't have guessed that a week ago.
And so if I'm hearing rumors that backbench Alberta MLAs are getting a little impatient with Jason Kenney being a mini Trudeau, and if they're saying, hey, truckers, you open up a lane, we'll vote to end this vaccine mandate.
I wouldn't have believed it a week ago, Chad, but maybe it's possible.
Maybe these truckers are going to actually save us.
Yeah, you know, things change.
And I mean, it's easy to take a hard line, but as I said yesterday, enforcement's difficult when you got 200 pieces of serious heavy equipment on the highway.
And moreover, when you have rolling blockades popping up spontaneously across the province, cutting off major supply lines so that hipsters don't get their avocado avocado toast in the morning, it really can have a profound impact on getting politicians to bend the ears to people who are vocal enough to try to elicit some change.
And I feel winds of change.
I can't believe that Aaron O'Toole was tossed so handily and so aggressively by such an overwhelming vote against them.
And I smell similar usurpions in potentially other legislatures and potentially in conservative movements right across the country.
I do think conservatives have picked the wrong sides.
And frankly, the truckers represent not just truckers, but there's farmers out here.
There's tradesmen.
These people are the backbone that really run the industrial and economic infrastructure of our province, of our country.
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And they're integral to civilization.
Yeah.
You know, I want to be careful of what I ask you because you have a duty as a lawyer to your clients there, and you have a duty of confidentiality.
And I certainly don't want to give anything away.
We are crowdfunding your fees, and I know you're down there with a colleague.
And if there are any charges against these men, we'll crowdfund those too.
If folks want to chip in, you can go to truckerlawyer.ca.
But Chad, I want to ask you, if you can tell me things without giving things away, what's it like with the men?
Who are they?
What kind of guys?
I can't imagine any of them have done anything close to this in their lives.
I can't imagine any of them, like they all look like they probably vote conservative, probably pro-police, pro-conservative.
This is an extraordinary action by them because they're in a crisis.
That's how it looks from here.
What does it look like from there in the bosom of the place?
Let me tell you a real quick story.
One of the fellow here, he owns a feedlot, and he told me a story unrelated to the blockade.
He was out in the feedlot and he saw a small, starving baby kitten meowing up at him from the mud.
And he promised himself that he and his wife would never have any more cats in the house.
And he was telling me that the cat is now a senior and is on his bed with them every night.
And it's the genuine compassion for humanity and for living things and for their fellow Albertans that really binds this community together.
The food that has been brought in, the salt of the earth nature of the people that have taken up this cause from all industries, agriculture, trucking, trades.
We've got business owners.
We've got ranchers and cattle folk.
These are true Albertans.
And there's children down here.
There's wives.
There's all sorts of unbelievable people, people from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds as well.
We've got folks whose families immigrated here 100 years ago, and there is Alberton as the Norwegian trucker that just got his permanent residency paper.
So these people are the essence of what makes Canada a great place to live and what makes Alberta one of the finest places on the planet.
I'm just so touched every time I get to hear one of their stories about how the economic wreckage of the pandemic policies have impacted their lives and cost them jobs and money and given them stress and grief beyond belief.
And frankly, they're still peaceful.
They're still compassionate.
They just want their voices heard.
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And that's something that's very touching to me and maybe alien to people who live in the cities and who don't have access to talk with these types of people and hear their stories.
They're all human beings and they do all have individual stories that are touching.
Just like that cat story.
I just, I couldn't believe it.
You know, he's a big burly trucker and I just get this picture of this guy with this little kitten just reaching out to another living thing.
And there's something magical about that.
And that really embodies the love and the passion of the people down here.
Let me ask you a couple of specific questions.
I know for a while there, the police had sealed off the whole village, or at least the blockade, and were stopping food, medicine, and fuel, the latter being necessary to keep the trucks running because these truckers are staying in their trucks.
There's not 500 hotel rooms in this tiny village.
So they were basically trying to starve them out, freeze them out, and in the case of medicine, I don't know, sick them out.
I don't think that's lawful, by the way.
That's collective punishment.
I think that's a really gross thing.
Has that police blockade, the police checkpoints, has that been lifted, at least for food, fuel, and medicine?
Well, technically at this point, no.
That's something that we're going to be addressing with the authorities in very short order.
But what I think is just kind of interesting is it's pandemonium down here.
They've set up blockades.
And of course, there are allegations of people ramming barricades and everything else.
It's my understanding that things were much tamer than that.
And it was essentially just four by fours going around a simple blockade that was set up on one direction of travel.
But moreover, throughout the night, there were people arriving from every which way.
So it's my understanding there's back roads and that the RCMP have really had a difficult time keeping much to their dismay.
I believe that they would like to continue to disrupt operations down here, but they've had limited success.
And I think because of some of the creativity and the just the forcefulness of some of these some of the protesters and their supporters.
And the support is tremendous to have labeled it these folks as a minority or a small fringe movement.
I mean, this is southern Alberta, and it seems like everybody's on board.
Yeah.
You know, it's different when you're in a big city.
Policing is very different.
Police know every square meter of things.
They know it better than anyone.
They have massive reinforcements they can call them.
They have special equipment they can bring in quickly.
There's not a big police contingent.
I doubt there's even a policeman stationed in Coots.
They're coming in.
So these folks don't know the lay of the land.
They don't have easy reinforcements or backup.
They don't have special equipment.
It sounds a little more like that 70s TV show, The Duke's a Hazard, where you've got sort of these cops trying to chase them Dukes Boys, except for instead of Hazard County in the South, it's the freezing prairies.
And the Dukes Boys in this case are local farmers or tradesmen who just say, oh, I know how to get something to those guys.
And these city cops don't know what they're doing.
That's just in my mind.
I mean, I'm not down there.
I'm imagining it.
It's a very different policing situation.
And when we saw that showdown yesterday, I mean, I'm sure some of these cops are thinking, what am I doing?
Why am I enforcing some health order?
I joined the police to go after murderers and kidnappers.
And here I am going after law-abiding conservative truckers because they're refusing to show their health papers.
This is a crisis.
I think it's a crisis of policing.
The community no longer consents to this policing, and so the policing is breaking down.
I mean, it's a huge problem.
And you see that even in urban environments where, you know, I mean, if there's an investigation underway and simply there are no witnesses that will come forward and, you know, a population that simply won't cooperate to assist law enforcement, it creates some real logistical issues.
Now, again, down here, you throw in some pretty aggressive and gnarly terrain, minus 25-degree centigrade weather with blowing, howling winds, snows, blowing snows, and a blockade that was extraordinarily robust and quite unique because of the various pieces of heavy equipment in peculiar shapes and sizes, agricultural gear, tractors, jaw deers,
and full 18 wheelers packed to the rims.
I mean, I'm sure that the resources to conduct enforcement would eventually have been made available.
And I think that that was kind of the end game, but it wasn't as easy as they may have thought.
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And frankly, we're seeing all across the country, we're seeing just out in Saskatchewan, we've got announcements of restrictions being lifted.
So while there's not an overt victory here, we're starting to see the tide turn.
And I am undoubtedly assured that that is because of the efforts of these protesters and people standing up for what they believe in.
These truckers have done more for our civil liberties than any opposition politician, than any judge, than any public health official, than any media type.
These truckers have done more for our freedom, more to save our country than any other force.
I credit them not only for the changes in Saskatchewan, but for the change in the Conservative Party of Canada that happened so quickly today.
It's like it got hit by a truck.
I credit, I see an opinion poll that shows that 15 points moving towards end the lockdowns in the last week.
There's no other phenomenon that this could be ascribed to besides the truckers.
Chad, is there anything you need from us?
I remember when I called you up a couple nights ago, it was nighttime already.
I said, hey, guess what?
You're going to Coots.
And you accepted the mission very graciously and quickly.
And you went down there.
So you're representing these folks and the goal is to de-escalate, keep people safe, help them legally.
You've got two other lawyers with you.
We're going to defend these folks if they get any tickets or charges.
If folks want to help, they can go to truckerlawyer.ca.
Other than covering your fees, which we're happy to do, is there anything that you need from us?
Anything, any advice you'd like to give us, not just us at Rebel News, but our viewers.
What should we be doing to help?
Well, one thing that I should quickly point out is that despite often wearing a suit and being in an office tower in downtown Calgary, I really am an Albertan and a cowboy at heart, even though I'm not riding on horses.
And it's an honor and a privilege to be able to fight for salt of the earth Albertans, especially when I'm called at the last minute to fly down.
And in terms of the financial support, that's going to assist us in the potential charges that still very much put these protesters at risk of prosecution.
And we're going to be there to assist them in any way we can, throwing together defenses and investigating any charges that get laid.
One thing that Rebel has done so well, and I suppose that the mainstream media has almost done to themselves, is show in a sense that the emperor really has no clothes.
And some of the bizarre narrative spins, the accusations of racism in the face of a tremendously diverse cultural group, of course, down in Ottawa, I mean, there's people of all shapes and sizes and from everywhere.
I think that just poking holes in the bizarre, the bizarre, bizarre world narrative that is being spun by some of the folks with sinister intentions in this country, that is crucial.
And as long as we no longer accept those narratives and see the truth for what it is, we'll be freer than we can possibly imagine.
We've only begun work in that respect.
Well said.
Well, thank you so much for going down there on short notice.
I really do think you're a great fit.
You know, you're a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.
You're a lawyer, but you have your feet on the ground.
And I think you came in in the nick of time.
Literally, had you been hours later, I think we would have missed a key moment there when the RCMP tried to make their move a couple days ago.
We're recording this.
It's now just after 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
So there may be some movement between now and when this video airs in a few hours tonight.
I hope there is, frankly.
I hope that the Alberta Rural Caucus keeps their promise and does to Jason Kenney.
I'm not saying fire the lad, but maybe impress upon him that the pandemic lockdown is over, whether or not he wants to drive the truck or be hit by it.
Chad, great to see you.
Keep in touch.
And folks, if you want to help Chad, go to truckerlawyer.ca.
Stay safe down there, my friend.
It's an honor and a privilege, Ezra, and thanks to all the wonderful supporters that we have across the country.
Right on, I'll pass on your things.
There you have it.
Chad Williamson.
He's our lawyer that we have crowdfunded to help these truckers.
Stay with us more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your viewer feedback.
Bill Snow says when Pier Polyev is elected, he should put up a monument to the truckers in front of parliament.
Yeah, we didn't have a chance to go deep on it today, but incredible and absolutely related to the convoy is the Conservative Party voted, and it wasn't even close, to get rid of Aaron O'Toole's leader.
I mean, he thought he could hang on.
He thought it would be close.
He thought he could, I don't know, cajole, threaten, beg, borrow.
Just boom.
It was overwhelming.
And again, I just don't think there's any other proximate cause besides the truckers.
He so mishandled it.
Instead of being Ron DeSantis, he was, I don't know, Andrew Cuomo.
Didn't work out for either of them, for either Cuomo or Rotoole, did it?
Melon Baller says, thank you for covering this.
You're one of the only media entities providing updates.
I will give credit to our friends at True North who were there covering the convoy in Ottawa, our alumnus Kiam Bexti, and there were a few other independent media, but most of the media was absolutely just doing stenography for the federal government.
It's just incredible to see it now.
I just saw that the mayor of, or the Ottawa Police Chief, I'll just read it on my phone, I literally saw it moments ago, is the Ottawa Police Chief says the city is considering requesting help for the Canadian Armed Forces to deal with the trucker protest, to deal with the protest.
They're not violent.
Violence is about to be done to them.
That's Hugo Chavez style.
That goes with what we were talking about today.
One more letter from Sarah.
The Truckers for Freedom 2022 are doing what the GOP should have done.
Yeah, what the GOP stands for, the Grand Old Party, that's a nickname for the Republicans.
It's what the Canzanian Conservatives should have done too.
And the Canadian media.
You know, I've done so many interviews in the last 36 hours with foreign media.
I did Megan Kelly's show today.
I did a range of online shows and foreign broadcasters.
We've had the Daily Mail in London, England asked to use our videos.
Our videos have been on Fox News, like so much interest in foreign countries.
But in Canada, the media is so obedient.
It's really weird.
Let me leave you with our video of the day.
Alexa Lavoie doing streeters in Ottawa.
She's doing a great job in French and English.
I'll let you go with that video.
I'll be back tomorrow with a very special feature-length interview, just a great show, if I may say so myself.
I think you'll enjoy it.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
Good night.
Keep fighting for freedom.
All together, we're supporting this country.
We're doing it for Canada.
That's it.
You think that is a bearland of racist like holiday?
The energy is great.
The vibe is wicked.
There's a lot of love here, and everybody's here for the same reason.
Here, Alexa Volvenius, we are the 29th of January in the street of Ottawa, just in front of the Parliament.
And as you can see, so much like truck just come from Toronto or everywhere around Ontario.
More convoys coming from all across Canada.
So if you like it, go to convoyreport.com.
You can chip in to help us with our travel expense.
And if you want, you can watch all our video.
So keep following us.
Well, look, all I heard was that a bunch of racists and misogynists already get together.
That's why I'm here.
Is there a different cause?
Because I'm here because I'm racist and misogynist.
So if there's something else going on, I don't really want to be a part of that.
Okay, sorry, Mike.
Just kidding, just kidding.
We just want to prove a point.
We're proving for all truckers.
The other truckers are still hauling.
We're here.
So how long do you plan to stay here?
Until it's done.
Say.
So do you have enough goods for a week, two weeks, three weeks?
We're here.
As long as we need to stay.
Do you have enough for?
Oh, yes.
We are ready.
Yeah.
Plenty of food, plenty of water, fuel, too.
Oh, that's great.
We are ready for a couple of weeks at least.
We'll stay here till next year.
Yeah?
If we have to.
Forever?
Yes.
That's big.
Yes.
So you're ready?
We're ready.
Yeah, a lot of people are ready for it.
Of course.
Yeah?
Yeah.
On Elope Nat Liberty, turning a son in Canada.
So, where are you from?
Hamilton, Ontario.
Amazing turnout.
Yeah, just super patriotic.
And I love seeing everybody all happy and united.
It's fantastic.
So, what's Canada about?
So, the media make sure you try to discredit yourself or how you feel about it, and what do you have to say about it, too?
Well, I'd like to say I'm shocked, but I'm not because that's how the media is with anything that doesn't go with their narrative, right?
So, yeah, no, I think it's BS.
It shouldn't be the way it is because in Canada, we're supposed to be a free country, so you're supposed to be able to express yourself and do what you got to do, you know what I mean?
So, and uh, just enter say that it's a fringe minority that's coming in Ottawa.
What do you have to say about it?
I think it's funny because uh, clearly, here today, it's not a fringe minority, and the amount of trucks that are coming tomorrow from out west and out east, it's yeah, we're not the minority like they've been saying for the last two years.
So, yeah, you think that if we change something, oh, 100% because we're not leaving until it does change something.
So, so how long are you prepared to stay for I have enough stuff in here to stay for a couple weeks if I have to?
So, wow, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm not going anywhere.
So, great, thank you very much.
Have a great night, you too.
We'll be right back.
So, during all the weekend, we are covering the Convoy, the freedom Convoy that's confirmed all across Canada.