David Menzies, banned from Halton District School Board properties in November 2022, accuses trustees and Director Curtis Ennis of protecting a teacher, Kerry Luke Lemieux, who wears drag-inspired attire with minors while silencing his own petition of nearly 20,000 signatures. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucky’s masked testimony during the Emergencies Act inquiry raised doubts about her independence, especially regarding gun data suppression after the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting, where Trudeau, Mendocino ("Marco Pinocchio"), and Algebra ("Al Jabra") allegedly pressured her. Meanwhile, Wilfrid Laurier University student Camille Bashushi resists mandatory indoor masking starting September 8th, facing penalties while calling for broader defiance against authoritarian policies like Western University’s vaccination mandates. The episode reveals systemic failures where legal threats and questionable leadership prioritize ideological compliance over transparency or student safety. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, the Halton District School Board has officially bent the knee to Busty Lemieux.
Meanwhile, they've banned me from going to any of their properties.
Wow.
It's Wednesday, November 16th, 2022.
I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Question, why is it that those educrats who are entrusted with educating our children also happen to be the most stupid and cowardly people on the planet?
Case in point, the woke joke, tall forehead types who comprise the Halton District School Board, they have proven for months now that political correctness trumps decency and common sense when it comes to that now world-infamous teacher plying his trade at Oakville Trafalgar High School.
Yes, I speak of Mr. Kerry Luke Lemieux, aka Ms. Kayla Lemieux, aka Busty Lemieux.
He's the dude who is pretending to transition into a woman.
He is doing so by donning the haberdashery and props of a drag queen.
This cat would even stand out in the gay village on Halloween night, folks.
And so it is that Lemieux routinely festoons his chest with a pair of fake Zed cup breasts that are barely contained by the sheer see-through tops, which allow fake oversized nipples to protrude.
He does not resemble a biological woman at all, but rather a caricature of a woman.
And yet, since school started back in September, his over-sexualized presentation in front of minors has been tolerated because telling this person to, you know, tone it down, cover up, might be an act of transphobia.
Busty Lemieux Saga Continues00:08:30
You know, I think these days transphobia is almost as bad as Islamophobia.
Actually, maybe even worse.
In any event, we have an update on the Busty Lemieux saga.
And because we're dealing with woke reprobates at the Halton District School Board, it is, of course, all bad news.
You see, last week, the HDSB said that after much investigation, it looks like there is absolutely nothing it can do to prevent Lemieux from dressing up like a drag queen.
Here's what HDSB Superintendent of Human Resources, Sari Taha, said, quote, it is clear from the above analysis that the implementation of a formal staff dress code or grooming standards would likely expose the board to considerable liability.
Even if a dress code is implemented for non-discriminatory reasons, it would likely be found to be discriminatory where it adversely affects an employee or group of employees on the basis of their code-protected grounds.
The Ontario Labor Relations Act imposes a statutory freeze during the period when there is no governing collective agreement, which prohibits employers from altering working conditions during negotiations.
In consideration of this and the board's obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code, the HDSB has advised its board of trustees that even if a dress code is implemented for non-discriminatory reasons and in good faith, it would likely be found to be discriminatory.
End quote.
Wow, how do you like that heaping helping of inexplicable word soup, folks?
But it makes no sense if the HDSB is saying that its hands are tied when it comes to a teacher dressing inappropriately due to human rights, then what about the human rights of the children attending Halton district schools?
Well, apparently, they have no human rights when it comes to costume protocol.
Indeed, should a biological girl don a spaghetti strap top, she faces suspension.
But when a man dons fake breasts, the size of which make Pamela Anderson look like the chairwoman of the itty-bitty titty committee, hey, that's diversity, that's inclusion, and to say otherwise is a possible lawsuit in the making?
And if the threat of litigation looms, then hey, bring it on, Busty Lemieux.
Why doesn't the HDSB implement a dress code for staff and see if Lemieux would have the balls to file a lawsuit?
But no, the HDSB cowards excel at bending the knee.
Shameful.
And by the way, just who are they bending the knee to when it comes to Busty Lemieux?
As stated previously, nobody believes this is a genuine male-to-female transition.
As I've reported in the past, Lemieux's motivation comes down to one of two things: A, that he is pranking the board in that he is anti-woke and he is now taking the piss out of the HDSB to see how far the Halton board would go to accommodate him.
Or B, he is a sexual pervert.
And there is much speculation on social media that Lemieux could be suffering from autogenophilia.
According to the National Library of Medicine, autogenophilia is defined as, quote, a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female.
It is the paraphilia that is theorized to underlie transvestism and some forms of male-to-female transsexualism.
Autogenophilia encompasses sexual arousal with cross-dressing and cross-gender expression, end quote.
And I say this because I was recently forwarded a photo of Lemieux that allegedly dates back some three years ago here.
Check it out.
Now, the person who sent this my way did not want to come on camera, but here's the skinny.
This photo of Lemieux was captured at a Burlington theater that was hosting a private dance recital for little girls.
Only the girls and their parents or guardians were in attendance.
Allegedly, during the halftime intermission, Lemieux snuck into the theater and perched himself ringside to watch the girls dance.
Alas, Lemieux was hardly inconspicuous, and some concerned parents eventually asked him to leave.
And so this skunk to the garden party did indeed leave.
Now, folks, do you find this anecdote as creepy as I do?
That a biological male dresses up as an unflattering caricature of a woman and then takes in a private dance recital involving little girls?
Is this part and parcel of autogenophilia?
Was Lemieux getting sexually aroused by the dancing?
This is so gross.
This is so disturbing.
This is so despicable.
And yet, in this day and age of if it's trans, it's good, and if it's good, it's trans, the HDSB is only concerned about his human rights.
Yes, the human rights of someone who might be a sexual pervert.
Those human rights are protected, but not the human rights of innocent children.
Of course, there's always another side to the story.
And yes, we have reached out to Lemieux.
We even visited his Burlington condo.
It's a ground-level unit.
The blinds are often completely open.
And get a load of this.
When Lemieux is off duty and just chilling in front of the old boob tube, he takes off his breasts and his wig and his short shorts.
Again, more evidence that his transition from male to female is not genuine because why is he only going through life as a female on a part-time basis?
I mean, where is the commitment to those 36-pound bowling balls 24-7?
In any event, he was in no mood to talk.
Rather, he called the police, and the Halton Regional Police Service is happy to provide taxpayer-funded security for Lemieux because this shows how inclusive the police are.
No, seriously, the Halton police even have an LGBTQ, et cetera, themed police cruiser.
Stop in the name of rainbows.
Oh, and by the way, I'd like to reach out to the Halton District School Board for an update.
But if I do so, I apparently face criminal prosecution.
No, seriously.
In a letter addressed to me dated October 21, 2022, the Director of Education, Curtis Ennis, he, him, states the following: quote: On the following dates, September 19, September 21, October 12, and October 19, you accessed the property of the Halton District School Board.
Your conduct was in violation of our code of conduct.
This letter will serve as notice that you are hereby and henceforth prohibited from entering upon any premises owned or operated by the Halton District School Board, end quote.
Now, before I go on, it would seem to me that the HDSB is totally downed with radical transgenderism, except when it makes an appearance at the HDSB's headquarters.
You see, back on October 12th, yours truly paid a visit to the regular school board meeting in a costume that precisely mimicked the one worn by Mr. Lemieux.
Adults Protecting Children00:02:31
I've been attempting to drop off a petition signed by almost 20,000 of you demanding that the HDSB trustees and Curtis Ennis, he, him, resign.
Check it out.
Who is going to take this petition?
And who is going to answer this lady's questions?
Dr. Shuttleworth?
I don't know.
I think they're obviously transphobic.
They can't handle a birthing person like me asking them questions.
I'm getting so nervous my uterus is about to fall out.
Let me tell you.
We have 20, 20.
16,000.
Is there any time?
That's what you do in response?
To asking about the children?
Children!
Innocent children.
I'm gone.
Children.
We as adults are supposed to protect the children.
Oh, shame.
Shame.
Why is he stopping in other classes?
Why is he not restricted to only the shoproom while we deal with this situation?
Why is he stepping in grade 10 math and grade 10 sites with 15-year-olds?
They're 15.
They're 15.
Cowards.
The school has ignored the children.
Look at you running away.
Running away.
Why don't you answer?
You're the adults the children depend on?
Really?
This is a sad world we live in when the children don't even have adults to depend on them to protect them.
Every one of you deserves to charge silently, so we're going to take the kids out of the school.
Look at them.
Walking out.
Come on.
Every each one of you who's a trusted man.
Please.
And you stand up.
Stand up, please.
You're cowards.
All of us, we're going to walk out.
Think about your grandchildren.
Think about where this is headed if you don't.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, like multiple three-blind mice.
See how they run.
See how they run.
Indeed, isn't it incredible, folks?
The HDSB Educrats believe that a display of drag queen-inspired transgenderism is a jolly good example of diversity with regard to the LGBTQ ABC plus XYZ file when it comes to the kids attending Lemieux's shop class.
Trespassing on Transphobia00:05:33
But when a busty Lemieux facsimile shows up at their headquarters, whoa, that's a little too much tit for tat, if you know what I mean.
That's downright triggering, even, and so it is.
These allegedly trans-friendly trustees scurry off to their safe spaces, curl up in the fetal position, and wait for the police to remove that big, bad, transgendered bogeyman from their stomping grounds.
I don't know about you, but I think the HDSB is a bit transphobic when it comes to memory menzoid.
But let's go back to that letter Curtis Innes, he him sent me.
Quote: The Trespass to Property Act provides that trespass is an offense which is punishable with a conviction of a fine that is not more than $10,000.
Furthermore, the court has the power to award damages suffered by the Halton District School Board caused during the commission of an offense.
In addition, under the Safe Schools Act 2000 and the Access to School Premises Regulation, your presence on any school property or premises is not permitted.
Please be advised that any future attendance on any school property or premises owned or operated by the board is a provincial offense and may result in a fine to you of up to $10,000.
Accordingly, if you attend on any school property or board premises, the police may be notified and a prosecution may be commenced under the Safe Schools Act 2000.
End quote.
Safe Schools Act, you say.
Forget about the Ministry of Education, folks.
Where's the Ministry of Labor?
I mean, Lemieux breaks every shop rule in the book, from wearing long-sleeved blouses to hair that is not tied up in a bun or covered by a hairnet to the wearing of jewelry.
I guess asking him to obey the rules is also transphobic for some reason.
But getting back to that outrageous trespass notice, talk about shooting the messenger.
In the eyes of the HDSB and Curtis Ennis He him, it is as though I am what?
A convicted pedophile, a crazed gunman?
Yet my crime was simply asking insensitive questions.
But alas, a thought crime is both intolerable and unforgivable when it comes to the Halton District School Board woke warriors.
By the way, in case you think we are no longer pursuing this file, nothing could be further from the truth.
Indeed, we recently filed a freedom of information request.
We want to see all the correspondence on file regarding Lemieux.
The Halton District School Board is a public school board, after all, and the public has the right to know.
But guess what?
The Halton District School Board wants $3,935 to fork over this information.
That's outrageous.
All of this data is surely on some electronic database that is easily accessible, and yet these egregious Educrats want almost 4,000 bucks to share this information?
Give me a break already.
Still, we know the unspoken strategy at play here in terms of why the HDSB is doing this.
These scholars think we will be overcome by sticker shock and take a pass.
Clearly, the HDSB thinks we'll bend the knee, but here's the thing, folks, we're not them.
We're not scaredy cats.
No, we're honey badgers.
That's because the great thing about crowdfunding is that there is indeed strength in numbers.
And on that note, please visit protectthestudents.ca, that's protectthestudents.ca, and contribute whatever you can so that we can indeed raise that four grand and find out what it is that the HDSB is hiding.
Bottom line, our bill for information indicates how petty and downright vindictive the HDSB is.
And in the meantime, this taxpayer-funded school board will have me arrested if I dare pay them a visit because they don't like prickly questions.
In summary, the people who comprise the Halton District School Board are borderline brainless, horrible hypocrites, and viciously vindictive.
There's your tax dollars hard at work, folks.
Tell me, what's wrong with this picture?
Tell me, are you okay with the fact that such incompetent and entitled idiots are entrusted with educating your children?
Rcmp Commissioner's Testimony00:05:50
Well, Canada's top Mountie took the stand yesterday at the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucky testified that going back to last February, federal politicians and bureaucrats were becoming increasingly frustrated that the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa seemed to only be getting bigger and bigger.
As well, some were losing confidence in the Ottawa Police Service.
Also on Monday, the commission released a CSIS document indicating the intelligence agency didn't view the Freedom Convoy protests as posing a national security threat.
And that is a very big deal indeed, given that dealing with a national security threat is a key threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act in the first place.
And joining me now is a rebel news reporter who's been keeping a close eye on this inquiry, and that would be Celine Gallis.
Hey, welcome to the Ezra Levant Show, Celine.
Hey, thanks for having me, David.
Oh, it is a pleasure.
So, Celine, first things first, what did Lucky say yesterday that was the most intriguing to you?
Well, you know, I think the most important part about that is that she didn't say a heck of a lot that was intriguing.
Really, she actually dismissed a lot of the questions that were asked to her on account of her either not being able to recall properly or having no memory of these conversations taking place.
I mean, like, I'm talking meetings where Trudeau either was or wasn't a part of them.
The liberal cabinet ministers like Al Jabra, Mendocino, et cetera.
And she couldn't recall.
So, you know, the most important thing that she said to me yesterday was actually held in the question period at the very end, the scrum, where a mainstream media reporter actually asked her what she thought about how she conducted herself through the entire testimony.
And she literally stood there, looked everyone in the eye, and she said that she thought that she did great and that there was no risk of her being replaced as commissioner and that she was good to go.
So that blatant ignorance was the most important thing that she said to me.
And it was actually after her testimony.
You know, that's amazing, Celine.
I mean, not being able to recall properly, not being able to remember.
And this was such an important event involving the RCMP, getting worldwide attention.
And yet there's Commissioner Lucky basically doing Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes.
I know nothing.
I saw nothing.
I mean, are you buying that?
Or is she, I'm sorry, for lack of a better term, Celine, is she lying through her teeth?
Yeah, absolutely.
I really do think that.
As you have probably already seen, and so is the audience.
She had her entire testimony done with a mask on.
And, you know, I know people are free to choose what they want because of medical privacy.
Where was that a couple of months ago, right?
But with that said, I really think that it just stood for the fact that she either had muzzled herself or perhaps somebody else had, because what she said literally gave no new grounds.
It broke no new grounds towards any other thing that we've, we haven't learned anything, in essence.
We have not learned a single thing from her that we didn't already know.
Just maybe a little bit more about her incompetence and sadly how the RCMP has a leader like her.
And it's definitely contributing to the fact that people are losing faith in the RCMP.
And all fingers point to her in regards to that.
Yeah, it almost seems, Celine, twas ever thus, because in the last 15, 20 years, how many commissioners have we had at the RCMP?
They go through a heavy rotation.
There's always some kind of issue of scandal or incompetence.
And yet with Brenda Lucky, it just seems to be more of the same.
Do you have any thoughts on why it is so difficult in this nation in the last couple of decades to put somebody in a position of strength and competence as the head honcho at the RCMP?
You know, I'm not sure how many commissioners we've had in the past that go beyond Trudeau's Canada, but I can speak for the ones that have been in power, so to speak, since he's become prime minister.
And it's because of him.
I don't think that it's possible for us to have any sort of leader under his leadership that is actually able to do their job correctly, that it actually stands, facilitates proper leadership by leading by example.
When we have a prime minister that calls a bunch of Canadian patriots misogynists, racists, homophobics, et cetera, anything under the sun, you name it.
So when you have somebody like that that's casting such a deep shadow on literally a movement that was nothing but love, light, and stood for the truth, stood for Canadians, and not just Canadians, actually, by the way.
Anybody that felt that they had been prosecuted over the course of the last two years by these draconian COVID mandates and restrictions is exactly what the Canadian flag stands for.
So we can't have people in leadership until we drain the swamp and Trudeau is gone.
You know, you're so right, Celine.
And also that narrative that these were misogynists, these were Islamophobes, homophobes.
I mean, you name it.
And yet the statistics show that crime went down in Ottawa while the Freedom Convoy was there.
And then news this week that broke, I think it was Blacklocks that broke the story about David Cassidy, the Unifor local 444 rep from Windsor.
Plan Delivered: Windsor Notes00:05:14
There were police notes submitted to the inquiry which indicated he was going to round up.
I mean, it sounds preposterous, but a thousand auto workers in Windsor to go down to the Ambassador Bridge blockade, bust heads, and then, quote, throw them in the Detroit River, which I can tell you is not a Caribbean cruise in the month of February.
I mean, and there's been virtually no mainstream media coverage of this actual call to violence and even something beyond violence when you're throwing people in the Detroit River in February.
Gee, Celine, I wonder, would that be because most of the mainstream media is unionized by Unifor?
Oh, you know, that's a great question, isn't it?
I mean, yeah, that's the question of the hour, in fact, David.
But yeah, no, there was none of that.
I mean, you've been following the commission as well as I have, right?
Right from the beginning.
There has been no proof or no evidence of any of that.
I actually remember it was Deputy Minister or Deputy Chief Police, Dana Early from Windsor Police Service that actually provided that information in her testimony.
Those were all accounts that I heard while being in the commission that truckers wanted to use their heavy machinery to knock other people or police.
It wasn't given in explicit context into the river.
And it's crazy.
None of these things happened.
It was also only during her testimony that apparently there was like three alleged bombings or threat of bombings.
I mean, I don't know.
It's all honestly a clown show.
And I'm so surprised that it's gone on this long that Rulo hasn't just stood up and just said, like, this is all a farce.
You know, there's literally been no evidence all these four weeks that actually suggests that there's proof that the Emergencies Act needed to be invoked.
He hasn't yet, but like, you know, I hope he does.
No, I really do.
Yeah, I think when the prime minister testifies, and the one I'm waiting for the most, Celine, is Marco Pinocchio.
I mean, Mendochino.
But, you know, I'm going to look at our Twitter feed and throw to a couple of clips.
And one of our tweets yesterday, huge, an RCMP-endorsed policing plan that would not need the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy was never communicated to the Liberal cabinet prior to them invoking the Emergencies Act, the Commission hears.
Why don't we just throw to that clip right now?
But I want you to concentrate on that scenario then.
Cabinet is on the verge of invoking the Emergencies Act.
You are their window on law enforcement.
You told us this earlier.
Your update to Cabinet as it is deciding whether to invoke the Emergencies Act is that the police now have a plan.
They've pulled it together.
And that you, as the Commissioner of the RCMP, consider that plan to be workable without the authorities of the Emergencies Act.
And that doesn't get delivered.
Your messages don't get delivered to Cabinet when they then deliberate on the invocation of the Act.
Do you appreciate the significance of that scenario?
Yes and no, because we had spoken about the fact that we had an integrated planning cell, that we were bringing together a plan, an enforcement plan to go forward.
So there was talk about a plan and that a plan was in progress.
I reported on that, I believe, in my previous IRG.
So it wasn't a brand new concept.
But yes, in fact, the fact that we now had a plan, I'm not sure if it was signed off either as of that point, because we were having difficulty getting it signed off.
We didn't realize it needed to be signed off.
Well, you know, Celine, anytime anyone begins an answer with yes and no, which are diametrically opposed, I sure raise one spocky and eyebrow to the max.
What did you make of that answer?
Well, you know, just before that as well, they went through the fact that this plan had already been approved by OPS, WPS, and other officials within the RCMP.
So you have clearance from all the police to use this plan to be able to negotiate with protesters, right?
So we already concluded in previous testimonies as well that that was what they wanted and in multiple ways was a shutdown.
Another example is at the Couds blockade, ex-Transport Minister of Alberta, Rajan Sani, she was withheld from the provincial government in Alberta from actually going forward and being able to conduct those, well, just to hear them out, right?
This was one consecutive voice across Canada and the government wanted literally nothing to do with it.
And that's pretty crazy considering at the time it was the biggest thing happening in the entire world.
Shutdown Demands Exploited00:14:33
But I think that it was purposeful for her to withhold that information.
And maybe that's going out on a limb, but I don't think that that's accidental.
I mean, she's pretty incompetent at her job, and that's very clear.
But at the same time, you can't have something like that approved by how many people and have it go over the head of how many ministers, even the prime minister of Canada.
There's no way.
And I'm glad, Celine, that you mentioned Coots, because correct me wrong, that was where there were RCMP officers that actually went and sabotaged, vandalized heavy equipment for absolutely no good reason, causing perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage.
I don't know who ends up paying for that, but I mean, how in the world is that effective policing going to, you know, construction equipment and yanking all the wires out of it so it can't work anymore?
That's baffling to me.
Yeah, I know, absolutely.
And another thing that was also addressed during the two testimonies from Coots was by convoy lawyer Brendan Miller, when he addressed the rumors that there were two RCMP officers, females at that, who were told, and this is alleged, of course, they would never do this.
Why would the RCMP ever do this?
But they snuck in guns in a hockey bag.
Those are the rumors.
And it was, again, two females right in a large crowd of males to just go in there, plant the guns.
I mean, it sounds legit to me, you know, but again, these are just rumors that he addressed.
And of course, they had no knowledge of this whatsoever.
So that just kind of paints for you a picture of the extent that they were potentially willing to go to.
And I mean, if we look at the horse trampling and, you know, the baton beating and the brutal arrests and those drives outside the city where they just chucked people out of their paddy wagons and left, I mean, of course they wouldn't go to those lengths, right?
No, really.
I mean, the guns in the hockey bag thing, it sounds like a rejected script from the 60s TV series, Mission Impossible almost.
But I promised a second clip, and this is about Celine, Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller, pressing Commissioner Lucky about previous pressure she faced to allegedly assist with a federal government narrative on gun control following the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
I think this is very interesting indeed.
Let's check out this clip.
Previously, the political executive has asked you to do certain things and investigations, such as release information that could undermine an investigation.
You remember that?
You'll have to be more specific of what you're referring to.
You agree that happened when you were asked by federal ministers to release the form of firearms the RCMP in Nova Scotia knew were used in the mass shooting while the investigation was ongoing?
Remember?
But what are you referring to specifically?
I'm referring to the issue with respect to releasing the forms of firearms for the purpose of furthering the legislation.
There was no pressure to do that.
Right.
And but the minister asked you to do it.
No, the minister asked me if in fact the information about the firearms would be part of a media release.
Right.
And when he didn't ask me to put that in there.
Right.
And when it wasn't, there's the transcript in the recording with respect to that that you had said to some of your colleagues, why couldn't this have been done?
The minister asked for a small ask.
Why wasn't it done?
That's not the context in which that was taken.
Oh, it's so frustrating.
It's like you're going to the zoo and you're saying to her, I see an animal with a tail and a trunk and tusks.
I think it's an elephant.
And she goes, what do you mean, an elephant?
Celine, I find this really intriguing because, I mean, in fairness, I guess there's no concrete proof that Bill Blair or Marco Mendochino or even Prime Minister Trudeau compelled Commissioner Lucky to get that gun information from that active investigation pertaining to the 2020 horrible massacre in Nova Scotia.
So here's the question.
Do you think she was acting on a demand, an ask from one of these individuals or someone else?
Or was Brenda Lucky, for whatever reason, freelancing?
She just decided she was going and she would try to help her boss in Ottawa, that being PM Trudeau, with getting the gun info.
What do you think?
You know, I think that there's two potentials to that, two hypotheticals, I'll say.
So, I mean, one, to impress her masters, yes, it would have been a freelance job where she just decided, you know, this is great.
This advances their political agenda.
Anything gun related, Justin Trudeau just jumps on it.
He's so afraid of Canadians with guns.
It's rather pathetic.
Or the second case is that she was just directly instructed.
I don't think that from what we've seen at the commission, that would be anything outside of what like the overall vibe, the feeling that she gives off with her incompetence of not even being able to recall how many examples of very general information.
I mean, the one, I don't know if we have a clip of it, but I'll just mention that she was asked about an event that took place.
It was during the night.
This was in Ottawa, or it was a meeting, excuse me.
And she says that she went to bed at, she didn't know, she went to bed at 10 p.m.
It's like, if you're trying to portray this convoy as being the most dangerous thing with their crazy bouncy castles, the hot tub parties, the children laughing and smiling in the streets while people laugh and are cheery and merry for the first time in two years as some sort of insurrectionist movement, but like you felt okay enough to just go to bed at like 10 p.m., like just to check in early.
That's it's insane.
David, I'm serious.
If you're there in person, like it's crazy.
No, I know.
And I go back to the early days of the convoy and you had Ottawa residents talking about, oh, that horn honking, oh, those diesel fumes.
I was there for most of the convoy, Celine.
And when my head hit the pillow, it was lights out and we were right in downtown Ottawa.
I don't know why these Ottawa folk are such snowflakes, but I do want to point this out.
Why not have our beloved colleague, Alexa Lavois, take the stand?
She was shot by a cylinder.
And if it had not hit her in the thigh, if it had hit her in the head, we might be talking about Alexa in the past tense.
And this is an incident at the time acting chief Bell said he had no knowledge of.
I went to the press conference with Alexa an hour before that.
She was literally being interviewed by Russian TV about this.
It was around the world.
So again, when it comes to law enforcement and when it comes to a member of the non-mainstream media getting hurt, it seems to be, again, it's the Sergeant Schultz routine.
You know, so is there a political agenda here?
Or do you think that the likes of a Steve Bell and perhaps a Brenda Lucky didn't even know about this or they were, again, lying through their teeth?
Well, I think due to the fact that former chief of police in Ottawa, Peter Slowly, has his own counsel, that says a lot.
That particular detail to me, without even the first day commencing and listening to the testimonies that followed with it, I knew that something very interesting was happening and the dynamics as we foresaw them to be will be very different from how they actually are.
I think that from the previous testimonies given from his colleagues, as well as a lot of the city officials from inside Ottawa, I think that he was not just obviously very pressured to step down, but his position was taken from him.
And when interim chief Steve Bell stepped in, there is actually documentation of Brenda Lucky stepping in and giving her two cents.
When, because RCMP don't have jurisdiction, and she made sure to say that how many times to try and throw that hot potato of responsibility, so to speak, onto someone else's lap, she kind of gave herself away also in saying that.
Because if you don't have jurisdiction in Ottawa, why are you getting involved in the politics here with policing, especially in regards to who the chief would be going forward?
And I stand to be corrected, but I'm pretty sure that Steve Bell is still actually the chief of Ottawa Police currently since, what, nine, 10 months ago?
Well, Celine, it has been fascinating stuff.
One last question before we wrap things up.
The one I really want to see testify even more than the Prime Minister is indeed Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino.
And it's because I think the greatest lie ever uttered was Mendocino saying that it was law enforcement agencies that pressured the government to invoke the Emergencies Act.
He has never said which law enforcement agency, which law enforcement personnel.
I don't, no law enforcement agency has come forward and said, oh yeah, yeah, it was us.
It was us.
So when Mendicino is under oath, I can't wait for that question to be asked.
What are you looking forward to in the days ahead in terms of others who might be taking the stand?
Definitely Transportation Minister Omar Algebra, because it seems like, like Mendochino, he had such a hand, such a reach into this, and it's going to be exploited.
I mean, unless they pull a Brenda Lucky, I mean, they can't all just like fiend losing information.
Like they need psych analysis after that, if that's the case.
Like they can't potentially retain their positions if they just claim they don't remember things like that on a day-to-day basis.
Like that's absolutely insane.
But first of all, besides Omar and Mendochino, Justin Trudeau, what is he going to say?
What is going to come out of it?
I'm really very curious, David.
I mean, I'm even more curious.
Will there be media scrums?
You know, is he going to demand in one of his emotional outbursts that everybody leave the room?
I'm not going to say anything until everyone's out.
You know, don't televise this.
I'm not sure because with CESIS, we haven't found out yet, but it might even be the case that no one will be allowed in the room when certain members from CSIS come forward and drop their truth bomb that they've been hiding.
I have no idea what it could be.
None of the convoy lawyers, they don't understand either why that would be necessary.
And then again, Brillo decides if any of that gets out.
And next week will be crazy.
So I hope that they show up.
I hope that they give their testimonies.
Will they be honest?
Do oaths mean anything?
I think this will put Canada to the test because so far it's been an embarrassment to hear the things that the city officials representing all of Canada have said.
Oh, 100%.
Well, Celine, your coverage has been absolutely superb.
I look forward to more of it in the days ahead.
And thank you so much for joining me on the Ezra Levent Show tonight.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much for having me.
You got it.
And that was Celine Galas in Ottawa.
Keep it here, folks.
More of the Ezra Levent Show to come right after this.
Well, folks, lots of response regarding Ezra's monologue regarding the chief medical health officer here in Ontario recommending but not mandating that people mask up yet again.
Moridge 01 writes, that makes sense.
Let's bring back policies that caused this mess in the first place.
There's something seriously deranged with these people's thinking process.
Oh, you are so right, sir.
And also, once again, no sooner was that announced and echoed by Premier Doug Ford did we get to see the one rule for thee, one rule for thee play out.
And by that, folks, I mean Doug Ford and most of the MPPs in the legislature on Monday were, well, guess what?
Maskless, unbelievable, the level of hypocrisy.
And what's next?
the businesses, unless you're Costco, Walmart, or the LCBO, have to shut down too.
Uh-uh, not going to happen.
Local guide writes, anyone can be a school trustee.
When I lived in Toronto, there was a gay man with no kids on the local school board.
Well, you know what?
I don't think I'd have a problem with a gay man with no kids on a school board.
I would trust, I would judge that trustee by his merit, not by his sexual orientation and whether or not he had children.
And I'll tell you, right now, the Toronto District School Board is maybe the worst school board in Canada after the Halton District School Board.
And believe me, sexual orientation and kids aside, that's saying something, folks.
Cheryl writes, the same issue has been battled in Ontario for years.
A farmer up by Owens Sound wanted to use and sell his unpasteurized milk, but the government has taken him through the courts.
I think this letter, folks, is in regard to Jeremy Lafredo's wonderful reports on that Amish farmer who is being harassed by the federal authorities in the U.S. for reasons that don't make sense.
And I am aware of that unpasteurized milk story.
Hey, for me, I say if you want to drink unpasteurized milk and you want to take on that risk, that is incumbent upon you to do so.
We don't need the nanny state telling us what to eat, what to drink, and increasingly what to think.
Well, there you go, folks.
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Now, today I'll be sharing with you my conversation with a fourth year student at Wilfrid Laurier University regarding the institution's decision to make masking mandatory.
Camille Bashushi has been raising his concerns over the mandate on social media, which has drawn quite a bit of attention towards him.
Not surprisingly considering how many people that are in his situation simply don't speak up and voice their true opinion.
According to their website, as of September 8th, Laurier will require masks for any indoor activity that is part of academic course delivery.
Anyone not following the mask requirements may be required to leave the class and may face penalties.
I had the opportunity to catch up with Camille on campus and get his opinion on the matter.
Check it out.
My name is Camille Bashushi.
I'm a fourth year philosophy major here at Wilfrid Laurier University.
I'm from Toronto originally.
Grew up there, was born there.
Came here to pursue my degree, hopefully go to law school one day and see if I can help some people out.
The reaction I guess from the student body itself, I was kind of surprised with the overall lack of willingness to fight these kind of mandates.
I thought that more people would be on board or at least on the same page as me in the sense that we need to move on with this.
We need to start living our lives again without any of these masks or ostracization of students that refuse to get vaccinated.
I would say overall, the students were, there's half that are with me on this, but not willing necessarily to take the mask off or throw an alternate form of face covering on.
But you see in classes where they don't even, or the teachers don't even enforce it, that students are going to wear it regardless of what their teachers are telling them to do.
At the end of the day, the school can't direct these kind of mandates without the teachers kind of doing their bidding for them.
So in classes where the teachers aren't mandating it, you see kind of a 75-25 split.
So teachers, so students aren't necessarily wearing it right away.
On the first day of class, I mean, everyone's wearing it and I just walked in without one.
And I guess that kind of created a little domino effect in those classes.
But in the classes where students are, I guess, forced to wear the mask, you see full compliance, I would say.
No one's throwing a bucket on their head or anything.
I'm sick and tired of these masks.
We know that the science doesn't necessarily support them anymore.
Someone had to do something.
I mean, going around wearing these masks, taking them off as if nothing happened at the end of the day is crazy to me.
It doesn't make any sense.
And I was sick and tired of it.
So rather than taking the mask off and trying to protest that way, I thought, okay, might as well not risk getting kicked out of school.
And I decided that maybe wearing a Ziploc bag or a bucket, I have something else planned for today.
But I thought that that would be a good way to protest it, raise a little bit of awareness.
I mean, obviously, I couldn't anticipate the amount of support I got.
And I think everyone that saw the post shared it, helped, I guess, shine a light on what the school is doing.
And it's not just Laurier.
I mean, you see what's happening at Western, I would say it's even worse with the vax mandate.
But I guess I just wanted to raise awareness, hopefully get these mandates dropped.
If enough people stand up and say enough's enough, I think we can get a good positive outcome out of this.
So I've had a few teachers actually contact me and I've had some good conversations with teachers that do support what I'm doing and are happy or I guess proud that I'm standing up for the rights of the students and the faculty.
I've actually had some students come up to me saying they've seen the tweet or seen or heard from their buddies that I was putting a bucket on my head to try and protest these mandates.
So I guess I haven't had any negative attention or I guess nobody's really harassed me about not wearing a mask.
But yeah, I've gotten some positive feedback from people I've never met before, which is obviously encouraging.
I wanted to find out how much the mandate is being enforced by faculty at the university and if he's concerned about any potential consequences for speaking out publicly.
I would say most are turning a blind eye, at least in the classes I'm taking, for the teachers are relaxed.
They didn't try and put up a fight when I walked in and refused to wear the mask.
The reason I'm wearing the buckets or I guess the different forms of mask every class is because I have one teacher that basically threatened to have us physically removed from the class if we weren't covering our faces.
And yeah, obviously that's, for me, it's too much.
I don't think that's okay.
I mean, we're in Canada here.
This isn't an authoritarian country.
So as far as I know, and we need to stand up for our rights and our choices.
As far as the guidelines and the regulations are concerned, I've been following everything to the letter.
Maybe more than the administration would like me to, but I don't think that this is grounds for expulsion, suspension, or any form of consequence, really.
Unless the students stand up and say something, I think the mask mandates here to stay at Laurie.
I mean, they have no reason to.
I don't know how long they're going to be able to do this.
I mean, I think day by day we have more and more people seeing through all the BS that are feeding us.
And I think eventually we're going to hopefully no longer have masks or vaccine requirements.
Let us live.
Let us make our choices.
I don't think anyone's here to abide by your rules.
We aren't hurting anyone.
We aren't causing any harm.
Let us live our lives.
Let us make our choice, our own choices.
I mean, we see the efficacy of these things, and there's a lack of enough's enough.
I mean, this isn't this whole power game, these authoritarian, draconian measures.
It's too much.
It's too much.
I mean, when you force these authoritarian measures on people, I mean, there's always a revolt.
And my message, I guess, is enough, enough.
Well, guys, I'm not expecting much, but I thought, why not give Laurier a call?
I'm calling the media contact for Laurier, so let's see what happens.
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Well, that's it.
I'll send them an email also.
Not expecting much.
Don't know if they'll get back to me.
If there's any updates on this story, guys, I'll make sure to let you guys know.
If you disagree with mandatory masking, you can visit our website at no moremasks.ca, sign the petition, and have your voice heard.