Tariq Elnaga, a former Maverick Party candidate and Convoy to Ottawa participant, led 350–400 horseback riders through Alberta’s Coots blockade, traveling 4,000 km to Ottawa alongside figures like Mocha and Celine. The protest, framed as resistance against COVID-19 overreach—including medical privacy violations—was disciplined, inclusive, and self-sustaining, with protesters providing services like food stations for Ottawa’s homeless. Justin Trudeau’s government froze accounts, seized assets, and invoked the Emergencies Act retroactively, even targeting donors via leaked lists, sparking comparisons to authoritarian tactics. This crackdown unified Western Canada (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, parts of BC) against federal control, potentially igniting a lasting push for regional independence or autonomy beyond partisan politics. [Automatically generated summary]
Oh hey rebels, it's me, your favorite rebel, I'm guessing, Sheila Gunread, and you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my weekly Wednesday night show, The Gun Show.
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Now, tonight, my guest is Tariq Elnaga.
He might be somebody you know from Rebel News.
He was a Maverick Party candidate during the last federal election, and he was part of the second wave of convoyers to Ottawa.
And now he lives with the constant anxiety of his assets being seized because his actions, his protest actions were ostensibly criminalized retroactively in a temper tantrum by Justin Trudeau when he invoked the Emergencies Act.
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What's it like to have been on the convoy for freedom to Ottawa now that you're deemed an enemy of the state by your own government?
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Lockdowns Arrested, Convoy Hunted00:02:03
Approximately 10 days ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergency Act, which gives his government extraordinary powers of search, arrest, and seizure.
Bank accounts are being frozen, assets are being confiscated, and peaceful protesters against COVID lockdowns are being arrested and hunted for being part of an illegal protest, albeit completely peacefully.
Just listen.
If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges.
Absolutely.
This investigation will go on for months to come.
It has many, many different streams, both from a federal financial level, from a provincial licensing level, from a criminal code level, from a municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level.
It will be a complicated and time-consuming investigation that will go on for a period of time.
You have my commitment that that investigation will continue and we will hold people accountable for taking our streets over.
And for what?
Embarrassing Justin Trudeau internationally, vocalizing in your displeasure with a government that is controlling your life in the most unreasonable ways and has done so for two years for wanting to go back to your life of 2019 with two years of coronavirus data under our belts, for refusing to live in fear a moment longer, for refusing to participate in biomedical segregation.
The Emergency Act is reserved for the most catastrophic of situations, a Pearl Harbor or a 9-11, not a street party with bouncy castles and hockey scrimmages, which inconvenienced a bunch of fancy people and locals.
And the people who organize the convoy, well, they're being treated like terrorists or women who ran off to join ISIS.
They're detained without bail because, I don't know, they might honk their horns when they get out.
And what are these charges that we had to suspend civil liberties to issue?
Counseling someone to commit mischief.
The crime of telling someone to do annoying things in public.
That's it.
Tariq Joins the Convoy00:15:31
Now, good friend of the show, Tariq El Naga, felt so compelled by what he saw the truckers doing that he knew he had to be a part of it too, peacefully and self-funded.
And now he lives with the constant anxiety that his opposition to the government has been criminalized retroactively by Justin Trudeau's little temper tantrum.
Joining me tonight to talk about what he saw on the convoy is Tariq El Naga.
So joining me now from, I guess, this hotel in Sault Ste. Marie is my friend Tariq El Naga.
Tariq, before we get started, why don't you tell everybody a little bit about yourself?
Because I know a lot about you.
I'd like to know a little more.
That's one of the reasons I have you on the show tonight.
But you are a former Maverick Party candidate and an adopted Albertan.
We adopted you.
You adopted us and it's been a love affair ever since.
Absolutely.
The best family I've ever had.
So I was born and raised in Dubai and moved to Alberta just a shade under 10 years to go to Rodeo.
I become a Canadian citizen in 2016 and it was very apparent in the first five minutes of living in Alberta, how Alberta was treated by the rest of Canada.
And I couldn't wait to do something about it.
So that's why I ran for the Maverick Party.
I still rode.
I still have a pile of horses, which you still have to come and visit with.
But yes, that's what I do.
And I live just about an hour north of Calgary.
Very, very Albertan story.
It's the story of so many people who come to Alberta and just come for opportunity and come for the culture and then just fall in love with it and want to fight for it.
So I just really admire how that became so apparent to you so quickly.
Now, I want to talk to you a little bit about the convoy to Ottawa.
You were part of the second wave of convoyers, but even before that, you helped organize all those horses to Coots, Alberta.
Why?
Why did you do that?
Why did you feel like you needed to get involved?
So I wasn't leads by any means in terms of organization that helped.
And I followed in the footsteps of some amazing pioneers, like, let's call it Western pioneers that set this up.
But I had to get involved.
So I'll tell you really where it is.
So you and I and everybody else has been living this journey over the last two years.
And I told myself, what else can I do?
We've marched, we've talked.
I ran in a federal election.
What else can I do?
Because I just couldn't sit on my hands.
And I remember being on the side of the QA to seeing the first set of trucks called the first wave of trucks go through.
And just you're immediately filled with Western pride and filled with a lot of national price saying, man, this is amazing.
And a tiny bit of FOMO to saying, I should be on that, you know?
So I told myself, what can I do?
And then I found out about the, you know, a young lady that was actually organizing the ride out to the Coots blockade.
And I said, okay, how can I help?
And I got on and said, I told, started telling my friends, started telling a group of riders, I really think that this young lady probably thought 20, 30 of her friends are going to show up with some horses and they'll ride in, you know, by the blockade and call it a day.
She left at least 350, if not 400 riders showed up.
It was the most beautiful thing you will ever see.
And how quickly things fell into place because two things.
One, as the first convoy rolled into Ottawa, Justin Trudeau conveniently had to isolate.
And I said, no, you're not going to sit this one out because he's set out every previous scandal and just, you know, memories are short, people forget.
And I said, I can't let that happen.
So I'm going to go, whether it's five vehicles, 20 or 200, we're going to go and show the first set of vehicles that were ready.
So we were due to leave the Sunday right after the ride.
I got to Lethbridge on Friday nights.
Just amazing how things fell into place.
There's a lady out in Lethbridge that opened up her ranch and said, your horses can stay with me.
And I even asked her, I'm like, can I help with their board?
Or so on?
She says, this is my contribution to the freedom movement.
It's been enough.
This is what I can do.
And just the way the community got together.
And I'll tell you, when we parked and were saddling up, getting ready to ride, you couldn't see the end of horse trailers either way.
You really couldn't.
And I had posted a video of it.
And you look left and right.
And it was just endless.
Three people came down from Grand Prairie, from BC, from Saskatchewan to ride.
And it was the most Western thing you'll ever see.
That memory will stay with me forever, absolutely forever.
So I helped to get as many people as I could out that way, especially within my area.
But again, full credit goes to the young lady that put this together.
And then I went home, put the horses back and packed a bag.
And Sunday morning, we were off and Mocha was there and Celine and we were off making the 4,000 kilometer trek to Ottawa.
Now, what was that journey like?
I mean, you just dropped everything to head all the way to Ottawa.
Again, was this just like FOMO, a feeling like you had to do something?
Was it two years of just, I got to do something?
Nobody's listening.
Like, why did you decide to go?
It's a collection of everything.
So you've seen the way this built up.
And I told myself, if I sit and just make social media posts, that's not enough.
I'm fortunate enough in a position where I could put my life on hold.
And it's important enough to put my life on hold and support the first wave of truckers, especially those, the fact that it started from the West and then just kept piling on from the rest of the country.
And was I missing out?
Absolutely.
That was just my personal take.
But my longer term take was this is enough.
Like it's enough.
It's been two years with no end date to the mandates, to the restrictions, to the lockdowns.
And here we are living in a country where citizens can't fly within their own country or in or out, depending on their medical states.
So I told myself, no, I need to get a group together and go.
And heck, if it was just going to be myself, I was going to go still.
Now, what was heartwarming to see as well was there were families that showed up on that convoy with kids.
And they said, we want our kids to know that they were there because this is the biggest historical event in Canadian history and modern history.
I think if you look at the last 20 or 30 years, there's been no movement that's this big and this international ever in the last 30 years.
Perhaps in the past, there has been.
But I think perhaps maybe the Quebec referendum in the 90s was the biggest national event that we had that was pretty significant.
So, yeah, and the journey itself, to answer your question, you know, I've never driven across the country.
I've never been to Ottawa.
I didn't know what to expect, but I felt the weight of the people I was with, the responsibility, and also the need to show the first group of truckers and the first group of protesters that we're there for you.
You're not on your own.
And despite that anxiety, we made it across the country with mostly no incidents, just one or two mechanical issues here or there, but mostly no incidents.
And then we were joined by trucks from other parts of the country, like Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Lloyd, that just joined us that found out that we were going and we just picked up friends along the way and made sure that we rolled into Ottawa all at the same time, give or take.
And then, you know, it's a completely different experience what it was like rolling into Ottawa.
I will never forget that as well, that sight of rolling into downtown Ottawa and realizing the sheer size, organization, real estate footprint of this protest.
And you just look and you're like, oh my God, this is huge and impressive and clean and safe.
And the other reason why, Sheila, I wanted to go, sorry, super long answer.
No, it's great.
No, no, go.
But the other reason I wanted to go, as I just described kind of in my intro here, I wasn't born and raised in Canada.
And this is a movement around freedom.
And I've lived on the periphery of every modern war that you see, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Yemen, Somalia.
I've lived on the periphery of all of those.
And you see the slip of government overreach in Canada.
And I say, we can't get to that point.
We really can't.
And the other thing is, here I am, I'm an immigrant.
I'm not of white or Caucasian background.
And this is a movement for everybody.
And it was like the legacy media just jumped onto, oh, this is some white supremacist racist movement, blah, blah, blah.
And enough of that narrative, when it doesn't fit your narrative, the first reaction they have is always, it's racist.
Well, I not once for the time that I spent in Ottawa felt a shred of not being included or not being safe or not among my brothers.
And when the truckers found out I was from Alberta, the high fives, the pictures we took together, I did make it a point to walk around with my Alberta flag.
So yeah, it was, I wanted publicly, very publicly, to dispel that myth that this is not an inclusive pro.
And you walk around and there were families and people with their dogs and people from every age group and race and across the country there in one unified message and even from every political stripe, Sheila.
Like there were people there that I'm sure voted for everybody.
But they all had the unified message of choice and freedom.
And it was, it was beautiful to see.
You know, I think that's the real, I don't know, the epiphany that I've had the last, well, two years, but in particular, probably the last six months, that none of this falls down political lines anymore, like the old political lines.
It is people who want to be left alone and the people who won't leave you alone.
And that's what it's about these days.
And it's funny to see the criticisms.
You know, they try the old stuff, like that's racist, which is just how the elites tell the working class to shut up.
And, you know, then you hear, well, it's violent, but the only people being violent in this instance are the police because the state has a monopoly on the force on force.
You know, you hear that it is divisive, but the only people being divisive is the government by saying, you know, this group of people can't do this.
And there's inside people and there's outside people, people who literally have to eat outside.
But we're being told that the movement for freedom is the divisive thing.
And I found when you were tweeting your images, which was through a very particular Western lens that really appealed to me, you were, you really were with pictures, just dispelling all the lies of the mainstream media one by one by one.
I thought it was incredible.
Thank you.
And you know what?
I told myself I have to tell this story because I had 50 friends message me on my personal accounts every day or text saying, what's it like?
Is it like, because they see what it's like on the mainstream media.
And I started reading the mainstream media every morning and then walking the streets of Ottawa and it was like two different worlds.
It was like two completely different worlds.
And I'm no professional photographer.
I used my already outdated iPhone to, but I wanted to really show what it was like on the ground live and really show a perspective of the size of the organization, the cleanliness.
I mean, there wasn't a speck of dirt, a napkin, a coffee cup on the streets.
It was so incredibly clean.
I found this out.
There were 200 shovels that were bought and distributed among the drivers.
And whenever there was snow, they took care of it before the city ever showed up.
And there was garbage collection and there were supply stations and there were safety meetings.
And I made it a point to crash as many of those meetings as I could, as many of those, you know, because I really wanted to showcase through my camera phone what it was like on the ground and try to show the other side of the story and the real side of the story, which is why they were there.
I bet you if you asked any of those truckers, none of them wanted to park their rigs for three weeks in downtown Ottawa.
Absolutely not.
I mean, it's not what they wanted.
But you talk to them and you hear their stories about them, their families, the hardships they've seen over the last two years, and their true love and care for their country.
And if anything, and I know we'll get into this, but the protests, especially on the weekends, were packed with folks from across the river, essentially in Quebec, coming in because they've seen it pretty hard too.
You know, they've seen the curfews and they were a hair away from a vaccine.
And they were there too, saying, you know what?
This is a movement that's important for.
And I bet you that's the current government's voting base.
Like I would put money on it.
But yeah, it became, it didn't be, it was not a political movement.
And I got asked, are you there?
Like, you know, as a candidate, I was there as a Canadian citizen.
And I was there as a Westerner who cared about choice and cared about freedom and cared about stopping government overreach.
And that's why I was there.
Yeah, and it's funny because in your pictures, you really did capture what I think.
Like you confirmed my biases about leftist protests versus conservative protests.
Um, where you know, when useless people have long scale, like long-lasting protests, you get chaz, you get chopped, you get occupy Wall Street, and then come the rapes, and then come the drug abuse and the filth and stuff like that.
So, when useless people do it, it turns into some sort of a purge-style anarchy.
But when useful people with actual skills go and protest, you get a community.
A community forms without the government telling you to be kind to one another.
Oh, it was beautiful to see.
And I love the way you put in one of your tweets, the makers, right, of society.
And here were people that, you know, immediately formed a community around them.
Free Food Stations Everywhere00:03:57
And I even made it a point to go to, there were two or three locations that were out of downtown because these were truckers that couldn't make it in time.
So, as downtown started locking, and it's really funny.
I mean, if you actually walk the protest in downtown, it's almost like a geographic map of Canada because the Ontario and Quebec truckers got first there.
And then you see the Manitoba truckers parked next.
So, it's literally Manitoba Street, Saskatchewan Street, Alberta Street.
And a lot of the BC trucks couldn't get in because by then they started kind of locking it out.
So, it literally was a geographic map.
Story of our lives.
Beautiful.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Ontario and Quebec got to the Parliament Hill first.
Exactly.
Election night all over again.
But what was amazing was just, and quite frankly, there was heavy police presence, but the truckers made the police's job incredibly easy.
And if I may dare say, boring, in the sense that they waved at them, they thanked them for their service.
They gave them no excuse to spring into action.
They made sure that they kept things safe.
And I talked to quite a few truckers and they said, we have no beef with the Ottawa residents or, you know, the civic authorities.
We're here to talk to the federal government, which ironically, in three weeks, never talked back to them and never talked with them and said, let's engage in some sort of a conversation.
They never did.
And they continued with their rhetoric of being a fringe minority.
I'll tell you, the last Saturday night, I'd say there's probably 100, 150,000 people on the streets at minus 20 with no facilities, hardly any restaurants open.
Funny part is, I'm sure you've been seeing the reports of all the restaurants and stuff.
And I won't name them just because I think it'd be very unfair to those owners to single them out, which is pretty unfortunate.
But most of the restaurants open in downtown Ottawa were owned by folks from ethnic minorities that came from really oppressive governments.
And they knew what it was like.
And I remember talking to a few of them and they're like, you know what?
This is important.
We understand.
We know what this feels like.
And we see where the country's slipping into in terms of government overreach.
So I had a lot of respect for them.
They'll always have my business, but I just won't name them.
But that's the thing, Sheila, is you're absolutely right.
The makers made a community right away, looked out for each other.
If someone needed mechanical help, they got it.
If someone needed accommodations, they got it.
Showers, they got it.
Food, they got it.
Supplies, they got it.
I don't know if there's a story that came across your desk of the freedom puppies.
So there were puppies born on, I know the exact intersection where they were born in a Saskatchewan played a truck.
So these folks brought their dog and didn't expect to last out, like to stay that long and had a litter of puppies born in the cab of their truck.
And immediately someone delivered dog food and a crate and supplies for them.
And I think now that their name's Diesel International Convoy, like the old puppies, but really cute.
But at the same time, the community got together and there was never an incident of violence.
There was never an incident of feeling unsafe.
And I toured sometimes at 2 a.m. and I never felt unsafe.
One, I think Ottawa is the safest city in North America because there's such a heavy police presence.
And the truckers looked out for each other and looked out for the community.
Yeah.
The homeless were fed.
Like I think, you know, like the folks of Ottawa, they were looked after.
There was free food stations everywhere.
Opportunity for Independence00:12:04
Sorry, long answer again, but.
No, it's great.
You're the best kind of guest because even though this is my job, you're doing it.
So it's fine by me.
I wanted to ask you, though, because we were sort of talking off camera before we started recording.
You now are experiencing that same anxiety that thousands of Canadians all across the country are experiencing, where because of the Emergency Measures Act and the extraordinary and draconian measures that the liberals have put into that as part of the regulations they've added to it, you are concerned that your bank account could be frozen at any minute.
What's it like living as an enemy of the state for your political opinions?
My bank account getting frozen.
I'm waiting for the knock at my door, whether home or hotel room, saying, here's, and yeah, I check every couple of hours, you know, am I frozen?
Am I not?
And I look at it and I say, I drove to Ottawa in my own vehicle legally, and I had every right to be on a public sidewalk in the nation's capital that the way I look at it, we all collectively pay for.
We all collectively pay for the nation's capital services.
And every Canadian citizen has a right to be there.
Not once did anybody get into an area that they shouldn't have been in or cause any damage or cause any vandalism or any of that sort of stuff.
So we all legally should have been.
And for this level of government overreach, what I think this is, is one, it's government overreach.
It's draconian.
It's next level dystopian.
And it's also a really disappointing scare tactic by the current government to say, you know, those have done it, they've done it.
There's what, 92,000 people that donated on that hack list, I think.
Yep.
Those that have, and we're seeing now legacy media publicly dox people for donating.
It is absolutely, and it's now state-sponsored doxing.
It's unbelievable.
I can't believe that I live in the Free West in the G7 nation, where I have to check my bank account to see if it's frozen or not.
I really can't as a citizen of Canada.
I absolutely cannot believe it.
But I think it's also a scare tactic of future movements to say, don't or else we will.
And I think the overreach that we've seen, and I'm sure down the line, many years from now, between constitutional lawyers and the courts and so on, there will be a lot of case studies that are written about this.
But in today's world, what that does is it tells anybody that's thinking of peacefully engaging in the democratic process in a way that truly expresses their voice, it crushes that voice.
And that's a pretty dangerous, dangerous move to make.
So it's disappointing.
It's worrying.
I was there.
You've seen my Twitter feed.
I'm not going to hide it.
I was there.
And I was really proud of being there.
I think, you know, like it is truly a historic moment.
I'll look at the upside is if it wasn't for this movement, both at a provincial level and a federal level, but more so at a provincial level, I don't think the six jurisdictions in Canada that have now moved, including Alberta, Manitoba, and SASC, like I think of the prairies, I don't think they would have moved without this, without this movement.
I don't think they would have started opening up restrictions.
Was it what the truckers wanted?
Because all the truckers wanted was 2019 life.
Yeah.
And nobody, nobody in that was against the needle per se.
They said, that's a conversation between you and your doctor.
We're not going to talk about the science of it or so on.
That is a private conversation between you and your doctor.
But it shouldn't be a conversation between you and your server at the restaurant, your airline, your employer, and watching your kids play hockey or any of that sort of stuff.
And that's what they were talking about.
So again, I look at it and I say, it's scary.
It's unfortunate.
Will I think for us in the West, will I think it will stop us?
I don't think so.
The West is fierce and the West was built on guts.
And if anything, the day Doug Ford declared his state of emergency, I think that was the most packed night.
So the provincial state of emergency.
That was the most packed night in Ottawa.
It was, I think every time they did it, people just kept showing up.
Sorry, I've been talking so much.
So you cut me off.
No, no, I think it's great.
I just, it's hard to believe that in a free Western society, that people are not only punished for donating to a political cause, but today it's Monday as we're recording this because you're traveling tomorrow and I have to pre-record.
And today, the Ottawa police said they will retroactively hunt people down.
And there's a whole other layer of crazy in all of this.
The RCMP issued a statement and they said they did not provide the list of donors to the banks, which means the government must have, which means the government was relying on hacked data and took that hacked data, illegally obtained data, and gave it to the bank.
No due process for anybody and started suspending people's bank accounts.
Grandmothers can't send their grandkids 20 bucks anymore for their birthday because Christy Freeland took a hacked list and the bank said, sure, yep, no problem.
This is not how it's supposed to happen in a free Western society.
This is the kind of stuff that happens in Russia, Venezuela.
This is Hugo Chavez stuff.
The destruction of trust in the institutions of a free and modern society, like law enforcement, like the banking system and the financial system, and truly privacy and government acts.
But is it like I question sadly, Sheila, is it a surprise when the first sliver of this was a complete destruction of your medical privacy?
Yeah.
Or your medical privacy became normalized to know at your last Christmas party, whether you're family members or their spouses or so on.
And so, if we went down that slope, where does it stop?
Yeah.
You know, so it's sad.
It's really sad.
That's a great point.
Now, I don't want to keep you too long because it's nine o'clock where you are, and you've been probably traveling all day.
You have been traveling all day.
So, I want to ask you one last question.
And it is a question I think you're an expert on.
What does Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act mean for Western sovereignty or Western separation sentiments?
What does it mean?
Is it going to drive the country further apart?
I think so, but I'll let you.
I want to know your opinion.
Thank you for that question, Sheila.
And I think rather than drive the country apart, it's going to bring the West together.
And I look at this as the unifying movement for the West, regardless of your political strike, because the West is fiercely independent.
We love our freedom and we love our independence.
And I think what we've done or what we've seen with Western independence movements is they flare up right after Justin Trudeau gets elected again, and then they go quiet.
I think this is the first time that, at least that I could remember, that in a non-election event, Western independence has now flared up.
And people realize that, and one of the most difficult things of telling a Westerner is that your vote doesn't determine government, your vote doesn't count.
Sadly.
And that's how you, sorry to interrupt, but that's how you get blockades.
That's how you get blockades because you feel helpless.
There's nothing else that you can do.
Albertans blockaded the federal government, but also their own premier, who they felt wasn't doing enough to advocate on behalf of them.
So that's how you get blockades is when you are completely voiceless and you don't know what else to do.
Absolutely.
And us in the West, you know, a true kind of cowboy, if you will, trait is patience.
And our fuse is pretty long, but it's run out.
And when that fuse runs out, it's done.
And the folks on the prairie look out for each other.
I remember the first three or four months of restrictions, everybody looked out for each other and they felt like they were doing the right thing.
But as data showed up, a year in, they still stuck with it.
24 months in, they're going to start asking questions of when does this ever end?
So I think the Western independence movement is going to explode for likely the first time in a non-election cycle or non-election events.
And I think the West is going to take a pretty critical look at itself and the prairie specifically, potentially interior and northern BC as well, and say, do we really want to be attached to a 22-acre plot in Ottawa?
This was the first time it became apparent to me.
A 22-acre plot in Ottawa makes those decisions for us.
And we have no say in how those decisions are made.
So I think there's an opportunity.
And I think rather than divide the country, I think it's going to bring the West together.
I think it's going to unify the West's voice.
You know me, Sheila, I'm the eternal optimist and I want to be positive about this.
So I really think that there's an opportunity where Western independence really starts to grow here over the next little while.
Yeah, I think if anything, people are going to realize that conceding our decision-making powers to someone, someone and some people who are just so far away from us, maybe that became apparent to you as you made that enormous drive across the country where you're like, how the heck are these people in charge of us?
So different and so far away.
And I mean just, it's just the way the works, Sheila is, the GTA determines um, who forms government.
Typically yeah, it's one city, not even one province.
One city typically, will I mean, the GTA has more seats than Alberta and Saskatchewan put together.
Uh, and it's done by the time Manitoba starts to vote not, not Alberta.
Um so let's, let's take charge of our own affairs, and i'm you know me, I mean, i'm publicly a big supporter of the Western Independence movement um, and at the very bare minimum, western autonomy is let us make uh, our own decisions, because I know that some people feel strongly about being citizens of Canada and I think the movement, the Freedom Movements, unified and brought a lot of national pride i've never seen on a candidate.
Um yeah so so so, I think.
But at least have autonomy on our own decisions is the bare minimum.
Jarek, I would love to have you back on the show again very, very soon.
Um, here's to you maintaining access to your own bank account and the earnings of your own business.
It's outrageous that I even have to wish you the best of luck accessing your own money this trip.
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So we'll see, but it's all good.
No, thank you, Sheila.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for taking the time.
We'll talk to you very, very soon you, betcha.
Thanks, Sheila.
Bye.
Imagine living with the constant threat and fear that something that when you did it, it was perfectly legal could now be the reason you're held in jail indefinitely.
Well, you've just imagined just introduced Canada for at least the next 30 days of the Emergency Act.
We should really be on some sort of human rights watch list somewhere.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.