Chrystia Freeland’s Day 30 testimony under Canada’s Emergencies Act inquiry strayed from the blockade focus, defending frozen bank accounts (280 affected) and evading questions about incentives, "banana republic" remarks, and police trampling an Ottawa woman. Critics like Eva Chipiak slammed redactions and lack of accountability, while Yankee mocked Freeland’s emotional dodges and Omar Alghabra’s irrelevant COVID mandate claims. With minimal media coverage and four possible outcomes—whitewash or admission of overuse—the episode reveals deep distrust in government transparency, questioning whether Canada’s democracy lives up to its ideals amid legal battles and unanswered questions. [Automatically generated summary]
We're here at our HQ in Ottawa covering the Emergency Inquiry Act.
I have to the right of me my co-host.
This is Alexa Lavois.
How are you doing today, Alexa?
I'm pretty good.
It was a pretty interesting day.
And I would say we have a lot to talk about today.
Absolutely.
And to my left, we have guests tonight.
This is Freedom Corp lawyer.
This is Eva Chipiak.
Eva, how are you doing tonight?
Very well.
Thanks so much.
Very good.
So today we saw a couple of very, very interesting things.
It was Christia Freeland.
Obviously, you're going to wonder what did Freeland say?
What went on?
In terms of the policies, we saw some of that come out with her deputy ministers.
That was very interesting.
What were some of the main takeaways, do you think, today from the beginning of Freeland's testimony?
So with Deputy Minister Freeland, not surprisingly, we heard about the freezing of the bank accounts and economic impact, but the extent to which she talked about electric vehicles and the border crossings and even the war in Ukraine, I thought I was at the wrong hearing for a while.
So I think a lot of people felt that way.
And I'm excited to talk about the credibility of the commission today because that's certainly something that was very surprising that that's not should never be on parties that are a bit adverse to the party to say that, but that's on Commission Council to rein it in and for the commissioner to rein it in.
I honestly am not certain and I think the rest of Canada is not certain what Deputy Minister Freeland was talking about today when she came to talk about the justification of invoking the Emergencies Act.
At least 90% of what she talked about had nothing to do with why we're here today.
Waste of time and waste of money for Canadians, in my opinion.
You're absolutely right.
It was really difficult.
Also, I'd like to note if you're keeping up with my live tweeting today, I did tweet at one point just to give a little bit of a breakdown of the commission.
I like to give people a little folks of like how the overall feeling is, the vibe, what's going on in the room.
People were literally under their breath insulting her.
And it was loud and it was blatant.
Like I wouldn't be surprised if some at some point that she was able to hear these things too.
But regardless of that and her inability to actually complete her sentences, let's go and throw to clip number one.
So this is a little bit of a breakdown about how the freezing initially took place in regards to people's bank accounts that were affected for actually being a part of this lawful protest.
So let's throw to clip one.
Yeah, that'll be number one.
A bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order.
In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in good faith.
Federal government institutions will have a new broad authority to share relevant information with banks and other financial service providers to ensure that we can all work together to put a stop to the funding of these illegal blockades.
This is about following the money.
This is about stopping the financing of these illegal blockades.
We are today serving notice.
If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen.
The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended.
Send your semi-trailers home.
The Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work, not to be illegally making us all poorer.
So I think that's a really good reminder.
Yeah, I just wanted to read one quote.
They will be protected from civil liability for actions taken in good faith.
What was your take on that?
Again, hearing this for the second time and then being able to compare this to what we heard in the commission today is really important to note.
But I would say that she looked like less sad than when she was talking about the electric battery car.
She almost cry when she was talking about it.
But she was also aware that probably small amount of account bank account will be probably frozen.
And so it's a concern that she had.
But why doing this measure if you knew that some really, I would say, under middle wage like family will have their bank account frozen.
And the family for some was not even involved with the protest in Nawab.
They were back home and without access to money.
So I think this was a pretty bad, bad action.
Would you say that the civil liberties of those affected by this insane announcement were actually kept?
Well, so one thing that she had gone on nauseum about today was about how the economy of Canada was affected.
And we know that that was not what was found earlier in the Commission.
The financial department analysis showed that there was a limited impact on any blockades on the borders.
Because if we look at the facts, the facts are that it wasn't even five days at Windsor.
It was about 10 trucks.
I don't recall.
It was minuscule.
And why are we going on and talking about this?
Like all of a sudden, five trucks affected the entire economy of Canada.
If we're that at risk, then we certainly have a problem that we should be addressing.
The problem of the economy is not anything the government of Canada should be pointing fingers at anybody else except for themselves.
For two years, they locked down companies.
They enforced vaccine mandates on border travel.
And what was shown today, too, is that on two different documents, one being freelance owned notes and also from the Canadian Truckers Association, they confirmed that the number of truckers was not unvaccinated truckers was not 10% like the federal government was parading around during the convoy.
It was 40% were unvaccinated.
And that, you know, who also gave that evidence?
So three people confirmed this.
That would be Chris Barber, trucker himself, who said that he's been in the business for a long time.
He can see the impact that vaccine mandate was having.
And this government will not look in the mirror at itself and will point the finger at innocent Canadians.
And it is getting nauseous and it's getting frustrating.
It is, isn't it?
I mean, and then to hear, so she had the opposite opinion today when she said that that's not something that they wanted to do and she didn't intend for it to happen.
But then they take 10 steps backwards afterwards, and then they try and throw to how it wasn't a protest and it was an illegal occupation.
She actually corrected herself today on the record.
She started by saying something regarding the protest, the convoy.
She called it a protest.
She stopped, she threw her hands up and she made like an insane noise.
And she was like, Sorry, the illegal occupation.
Yeah, so a couple of things too, I want to say before I forget, and that's touching on, but before we go there, the other thing was that, um, uh, okay, no, we're going there because I forgot my other point.
But when she was talking about so hard even to talk about, so just give me one second.
I got you.
Yeah.
When she's walking through the protest and she gives and she goes, I'm going to give an example when she was threatened because she's a woman.
That's right.
That's right.
And there was a woman trucker that looked at her and said something inappropriate or mean and gave her some kind of gesture.
I don't know.
We didn't know what it was.
The middle finger, maybe.
If this is what we're invoking the Emergencies Act over, what on earth is happening in Canada?
Like if she actually provided an example of threatening behavior, then fine.
But for her to say, yeah, somebody is frustrated with you, Christia, and so am I right now.
And people can express themselves, or I'm sorry, do you want to take away people's liberty and right to express themselves?
And especially to elected officials.
Like that was so hard to watch.
And then she congratulated herself for having RCMP protective services and how great they were to be around.
Yeah, you get protective services and Canadians are paying for it.
So don't tell me, don't go on to this inquiry and cry about it because you have protection.
People don't like you.
Like deal with it.
I don't know what to say.
It's insane.
I will say, hopefully, for her, she was not my situation at the end because she will have claimed, I don't know, like, I don't know what she will have done.
Can you imagine, though, actually, can you imagine if any of the politicians or even any of the police officers on the ground were treated like not just the journalists sitting beside me, but I won't give an exact number because I don't want to be inaccurate.
But of the very, very, very many instances that we've seen them use brutal force.
Can you imagine if Christia Freeland thinks that invoking the Emergencies Act was a dignified move to make because someone flipped her the bird and said that they didn't like her?
Now think about a problem.
Yeah, just thinking about it.
Now it's like, oh, somebody said something mean, go beat them up.
Like that's what we're seeing here.
I just wanted to add to Adan Honor, ask Christia Fernandez.
You would agree that the rejection of truck drivers crossing the border when they are already supply chain issue could have an effect.
And she answered something and she answered afterwards.
I don't agree with the assertion that the vaccine mandate themselves caused problems for our supply chain.
I found that so outrageous, just because we just heard that 40% of the truck driver was not vaccinated.
So how this will not affect the supply chain?
No, it's because they're perfect.
The federal government and everything they do is perfect, but anything Canadians do is wrong because it's apparently the Canadians that are doing everything wrong, but the federal government is untouchable.
Like it's so ridiculous to have to listen to this.
100%.
You know, I want to throw to clip five.
I want to hear her saying that she would have preferred not to have done this, referring to freezing people's bank accounts.
But again, we listened to her deputy ministers testify.
They had no problem doing these things.
In fact, they were aware of the potential ramifications of freezing people's bank accounts when it came to the effects that it could have on their families, on people's children.
It's not just, and she mentioned this as well.
It's not just freezing one bank account.
It's in fact the people that share those bank accounts and they knew that they could be joint accounts.
It didn't matter.
But we can actually like put the trip for electric cars.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, and she was crying too.
I remember that.
I was like, ah, I remember her crying today.
Well, I think it was that or that like people, the bank CEOs were calling her.
Oh, poor, poor Freeland.
Oh, Freeland.
Oh, poor.
Yeah, for background, just before we throw to clip five, she started actually tearing up and crying after taking about, it was like within 10 seconds of her talking about electric car batteries.
And she literally just was like tearing up, crying.
And then just as suddenly as it happened, she was totally normal.
I'm confused.
Anyway, let's go.
Clip five.
Let's play that.
We needed to be balanced against an awareness of the number of people who would be protected by this action.
So those were the things that I chiefly had in mind.
And, you know, I think at the end of the day, it was something like 280 accounts frozen.
One of the reports I remember when we were at like 240 or 241 accounts frozen.
My numbers won't be exact, but I know you guys have all the numbers too.
It was something like 57 people when we were at around 240.
So I don't have the exact figure of how many actual people when we were at 280, but I think we have an idea of the ballpark.
And so in my mind, I say, okay, that I regret that that happened to those people.
I really do.
I would have preferred, it was a serious thing.
I would have preferred not to have had to do this.
But in my mind, I weigh that against what I really believe is the tens, hundreds of thousands of Canadian jobs and families that we protected.
So what did you make of that?
I mean, you're shaking your head.
I'm shaking my head.
What's your take?
She has so many different ways of protecting Canadians.
And freezing bank accounts is not how I see any government protecting Canadians.
It's punishment.
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It's not protection.
You can't work, word salad your way around that one, Freeland.
Alexander.
Yeah.
I would say also she said that Fox News did attack them on the bank account.
I don't know if you can like throw the clip 10.
I think it's pretty interesting.
And I'm wondering what Fox News will say about this.
Oh, God, let's go.
Yeah.
This is, I mean, I think it's really interesting to assume that you're not going to be criticized from, well, your neighbors, right?
The U.S.
They don't use in Canada, huh?
Because all the media are just telling the same narrative, not die dependo.
Let's roll that.
It was Fox.
Yeah, specifically what, how the Terry Fox statue was implicated in this, but I do remember reading about it and I remember it specifically because my children were aware of it and were upset.
Right.
And so I went online and I just looked at how many times someone's done that to that statue, and it seems to be hundreds.
So I'm just going to put this one to you.
If someone puts an LGBTQ flag on the Terry Fox statute and flowers in the statute, is that a desecration?
I am not going to go into it, I really don't think it's my job or helpful for Canadians for me to go into a discussion of what is okay and not okay.
But you've said it was designation.
When you've called it a desecration in public, that was what you're referring to based on what was put on the statute.
So is it fair to say that it's only a desecration to you if you don't agree with the message again?
You've made a couple of leaps beyond anything that I've said.
So that wasn't, yeah, that wasn't specifically.
Yeah, it was really worth noting the fact that there's such a double standard.
I was here, and so was Alexa in Ottawa when there was the alleged desecration of the Terry Fox statue because somebody decided to put a Canadian flag around Terry Fox, which I believe Terry Fox would have not minded at all.
Would he?
I did a report on that actually.
Yeah.
Yeah.
On the Terry Fox statue.
Yeah.
And then the background on that is that during some particular other protests or parades, like when Pride rolls around 100 times a year now, people throw those Pride flags over top of him.
They do other things as well, but that's not considered desecrating the statue.
So there's a huge double standard here.
Apparently, using Canadian flags is now a symbol of terrorism, according to these deputy ministers and ministers in the Liberal cabinet.
So that was a mouthful.
But before Eva goes, oh, I just want to comment too on what you did want to throw to it or like what was going on in the States, because that is an important point.
And Brendan did put that to her in cross-examination, because what he did say is that Canada on the world stage is going down in accountability and transparency day year by year.
And that is the reason that people are getting hesitant to invest in Canada.
It's not again because a few trucks were around the bridge and holding things up a little bit.
They didn't even fully blockade it as we figured out.
And if they can't control their country and citizens, and I should even refrain that they shouldn't be controlling their citizens.
They are not being accountable and transparent.
And so Canadians are getting frustrated, as is the rest of the world.
So they're not interested in investing.
It's not because of what a few people in Canada did, but the eyes of the world have been open to what is going on in Canada.
And this can lead us into the transparency as well.
If you'd like to talk about other transparency, oh my God, we have a lot to talk about transparency today, especially with the Redact document that we saw.
Yeah.
So, yeah, there is a crazy.
Olivia, this is the Dropbox link.
So I wanted Eva to talk about this because she's a lawyer.
So she's going to break this down.
We are listening.
It was Miller time.
And this is actually part of the second testimony that we saw.
This was a panel of three.
These three individuals work directly with Justin Trudeau.
This is Katie Telford, Crow, and someone else.
Yeah, the people, just some people that work for PM Trudeau.
But in any case, it was very important, the things that happen.
If that's ready, Olivia, we can throw to that.
If not, then Eva, you can talk about it.
Yes.
All right, let's roll that clip then.
Before I begin, I have an issue that I need to address.
As you know, and I've made applications several times, the disclosure in the record is entirely deficient.
We've been trying to deal with these redactions.
There's still redactions for parliamentary privilege, which the government has not removed.
There's no legal basis for, as you've already ruled, to redact any document on the basis of parliamentary privilege.
There's also the issue, as I've re-raised by email as well, the issue with the notes of this witness.
The process that was used in dealing with that needs to be reassessed.
These are important witnesses.
I need rulings, and so does everyone here.
The rulings on the redactions are so important.
And for example, Ms. Jody Thomas testified and said that she supported the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
But there's a note that we got after we fought for the one redaction we got that said Jody Thomas did not.
And it was put up on the screen.
It was notes taken.
It had one Section 39 redaction on it.
So if that's a cabinet document, we can assume Cabinet knew about it.
And it states that Section 2, no violence, and they were trying to come up with a way how to make this work anyway.
That would have been very helpful to have when she was on the stand under oath.
This is happening constantly.
There is thousands of documents that DOJ is talking about.
If you can, I'm not looking for a speech.
Oh, no, I was just the document went down.
I'm not done.
I apologize.
So thank you.
So, and I understand that there was a consideration of a public welfare emergency, right?
That's very different than a public order emergency.
You know that.
There doesn't have to be a Section 2 security threat, right?
And are you talking about, I'm not sure when you're talking about it or?
We're talking about from COVID because you said it was under consideration then.
They did look at the Emergencies Act at that time, and there was a public call for that at the time.
And it was determined because the Prime Minister was very reluctant, as he was during the occupation this past February to invoke it.
And so there's been conversations on various occasions about the Emergencies Act over time.
So when that note's taken on February 4th, 2022, are you saying that you're talking about it in relation to COVID?
I genuinely don't know what this note is, as I've already said to you a few times.
Okay.
So if I can scroll up or down, or up, please, or down?
We'll go down.
Down's fine.
Okay.
So that says flag to KT February 10th.
And it's written in there that this is irrelevant.
What does that mean?
Why is it irrelevant?
Do you know?
So I don't know specifically, but I could surmise that flag to Katie means it's probably a bit of a to-do list of things she wanted to flag to me that were obviously deemed irrelevant to what we are talking about today.
Okay, and could we scroll down again?
And this one where it says staff blockade, right?
And then it has section 39 invoked.
Do you know what that means?
I don't know why they invoked it there.
Right.
And so I take it when you were having this phone call, there was no one else present on the phone other than you and Ms. Jackson, was there?
I don't believe that this is a phone call any longer.
Well, if we scroll back up, this is the second page.
It's the way it's flagged to Katie at the top.
Flag, Katie.
Okay.
And so on February 10th, do you remember if Ms. Jackson was in a meeting with cabinet?
She is not normally in meetings with cabinet.
So how could Section 39 is a cabinet confidence?
So how can you so it this is the problem?
Those are my questions.
I like how you just leave.
But yeah, we would love to know like a little bit more information about why it's important that this was redacted and it should not be.
Well, it's yeah, it certainly we let's just start talking about accountability and transparency because that's where we ended off.
And in my opinion, that is the reason that Canadians are getting frustrated with Canada.
Investors outside of Canada are getting frustrated with Canada because of the lack of transparency and accountability by Canada, by the government of Canada.
And we're seeing it so clearly in this inquiry.
So what we, these are some of the documents that the government of Canada has submitted.
And as you heard last week, or it was earlier this week when, you know, that's infamously when Brendan was asked to leave, is he was making asking that these motions that we've been demanded that they be made written and he was waiting for a ruling on the redaction.
Because when it's made written, nobody knows about it in Canada.
Yeah.
This is on live television.
You've got lawyers for everybody on call.
There's six government lawyers at times that can address these things on the spot.
That's what lawyers do.
To request that parties do motions in writing is absurd to begin with, in my opinion.
Yeah.
Because we don't have the time for that.
We're in these hearings all day, every day.
So when are you expected to write a motion and then you wait for a ruling?
Oral motions make the most sense in this kind of setting.
So that's what he was trying to do that day with Alex Cohen.
He said he's in the room.
I'd like to bring him as a witness.
And at that time, Commissioner Rullo makes a decision.
What happens, though, is that when you make a decision, any decision Commissioner Rulo makes is judicially reviewable.
So we could take it to the court and then ask the court to decide whether or not that decision was proper.
Interesting.
When we don't have a decision, you can't go to court and ask for an opinion.
So it's, you know, we seem to be running the clock here.
And the government of Canada has been excellent not to provide very clear and transparent disclosure of documents.
So you saw one of the notes there, half of it blanked out.
This is from an assistant to Katie Telford.
This isn't even Katie Telford's notes herself.
And as Katie Telford said, she's not normally, probably never in a cabinet meeting.
So why on earth is there a redaction?
That says Section 39.
That's cabinet confidence.
She has, there's no basis for that.
And with respect to irrelevance, it's a decision of the opposite.
There's a negative inference for that one.
There's also solicitor client privilege on so many of the documents.
And when LeMedi was up yesterday, he asked whether you gave instructions or talked to your client about waiving the solicitor-client privilege.
And he said on the stand, it's very weird for a lawyer to be on the stand.
Yes, we know LeMedi.
Keith Wilson was on the stand, but we have nothing to hide.
So our clients were comfortable waiving solicitor-client privilege to hear what the advice was from the lawyers.
But this is especially concerning for Canadians when now they're changing the legal definition of national security threat and they're hiding behind solicitor-client privilege.
It's appalling.
And Canada, the federal government needs to be called out on this.
This is zero transparency.
And the frustration that we have is the commission is allowing it to happen.
They should be making rulings.
Canada puts in tons of documents and counsel has raised, you know, why are these documents going in?
Well, we got them, so we're putting them in.
That's not how it works.
They have $19 billion.
They have 20 lawyers.
You can make decisions.
That's why you're here.
You didn't come here just to accept, just to sit around and watch, I think.
You came here to structure a process and ensure that the mandate of the commission is fulfilled.
And right now, it's questionable whether or not that's being fulfilled.
Can we say that it's a bit, I would say, unlawful to do that?
Well, you know, I don't know what the consequences are.
It's certainly not fulfilling the mandate of the commission.
So why are we going through this?
Again, this is a lot of money for Canadians and those participating.
And one thing I could like, just if you just think about it for a second, this is why the federal government justified the Emergencies Act.
Who was on the stand the longest?
Former chief slowly on a municipal level.
He wasn't even at the chief at the time that it was enacted, or he was, he resigned or whatever that day.
Why on earth was he on the stand for two days?
And Commissioner Lucky was on for, I don't know, what was it, six hours, five hours?
This is really good.
I just want to say thank you for breaking that down.
And I'm sure that the viewers find it very, very helpful as well.
But it goes as to exactly what you were saying.
It's their job to put structure into this process.
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And I have not gotten a sense as of late that there has been much structure at all, especially when you mentioned that they're supposed to be able to give rulings so that that can be looked over again, right?
Looked over again.
But if you can't, like you said, if you can't actually make a decision, if you can't do that, you can't go anywhere from that.
No decisions can be made based off of rulings that haven't been, haven't been decided on.
And like I said, it's just absurd to have to do it in writing when all the lawyers are there and the decision maker is there.
And we're on a tight timeline.
Like we've heard this over and over.
Oh, yeah.
And like, why don't we talk about Amber Hurd trial for a moment and Johnny Depp?
Because that was on national news.
And what they did, though, and it was very smart the way they managed it, because they did evidence every day, which the public was allowed to see.
And then Friday or Saturday or whatever, they had no cameras in the courtroom and they did procedural matters.
So why aren't we doing that?
We're all here or on Zoom.
That was something that the commission could have set forward so that when procedural issues come up, you're not getting shut down like Brendan was on Tuesday.
He's trying to make a motion, but what was more important, the schedule, not the truth, not getting all of the information out, not accountability, not transparency, but the schedule.
I have the impression that they had to do it because it's written, like to hold like a public order emergency commission.
And I just have the impression that they just want to get rid of it and say that we were right to invoke the emergency.
It's done.
We prove it.
And we did this process and that was part of Freeland Today.
Well, we live in such a great, we live in such a place.
Like the way it was such a slow-paced talk as well, but she was commending the process of the commission.
Like you can't commend it when now we're seeing the holes in it, that the disclosure was came late, inadequate, purposely done.
And the government is known to do this, but this was a government decision.
And if we need, if we're going to hold our government to account, and if they're going to, if they believe they made the right decision, then they should be able to prove that to Canada.
And they have not come to the table with good faith, in my view.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I have just a question for you.
Do you think that if they finally prove that it was an excess of use to invoke the Emergencies Act, I think not only Justin Trudeau should resign, but Christia Friedan too?
I think this hasn't covered a lot of problems in our government, not just federally, but municipally and provincially and with the policing.
And one thing that frustrated me throughout this whole process is the thing we probably heard the most about is that they didn't have enough resources.
And I don't think you could keep demanding more resources if you're ineffective or incompetent.
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And I think that's what we've been seeing.
So you could keep taking millions and millions of dollars from Canadians, but if you are not effective and you're not competent, you're going to get nowhere.
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
That was Eva Chipiuk.
We have to throw to an ad break soon, but I want to thank you so much for coming on and for explaining that.
That was not only helpful to so many other people, but honestly, very helpful to me as well.
So thank you again.
And I know that we'll see you soon and I will see you tomorrow.
So let's search for that ad break and we will be right back.
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Now, Yankee, you watch the commission the entire day.
Is that fair to say?
That would be too much, but I did watch 90% of it.
I watched a lot of it.
And not just today, but I've been watching it pretty much throughout.
I've skipped a few hours here or there.
But while I'm working, I'm watching it.
And today I decided since Sheila isn't town.
I'll come on and talk about it a bit.
Yeah, tell me what was your biggest takeaway then?
100%.
My biggest takeaway was the Fox News thing where they're like bashing dogs.
Yeah.
And I know we mentioned earlier that we're going to show it.
So I believe it's clip 10.
Let's show it and then we'll talk about it.
100%.
Not the terror, Fox statue.
And the Fox News reference there is especially significant because many Canadian banks have significant operations in the United States.
And so having Fox News attack you isn't a problem only because Canadians might be watching.
But if you have a big U.S. operation, it's a problem because your American customers will be watching.
And I do think that was a problem that was legitimate to raise.
And I was concerned about it.
And the Fox News reference.
Well, that was fun.
Yeah.
Break it down, Yankee.
Break it down.
So I'll break it down first by saying I do live in Florida, as you know, I'm a dual citizen.
And I actually had a TD Canadian account and a US account.
It was cross-border banking.
Everything was nice and easy.
It's amazing.
But when the convoy happened, I actually started to cancel my TD account.
I know in the US and open a local bank, I was like, I don't trust TD because I read the EA back then and it said any companies doing business in Canada need to follow.
Now, I didn't think it will happen, but I was like, you know, I'm not taking any chances.
And that's what they were talking about.
And it's like, I didn't see it on Fox.
I saw it when Christia Freeland announced the EA and I read it.
That's when I saw that's the issue, not Fox News announcing what the Canadian government said they're going to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But she said it today because I think is it at an honor?
He asked which other institution, financial institution that order bring in like who need to follow.
And she said, but the order was to all financial institutions in Canada.
So it's kind of shocking.
Yeah, so it was for everyone.
But then she said, we're glad it didn't need to be used.
She said, we gave them incentives to leave.
That's like, no, no, no, that is not what incentives means.
Just like she misquoted what banana republic means.
She's like accusing the shortcut.
Clip two.
Let's play clip two.
It's the clip three for the banana republic.
Is it three?
I think it was two.
It's so crazy.
I have to intrigue.
If you were watching my live tweeting today, I would just quote her.
Like she said something along the lines of today.
It was like a, yeah, Ottawa was like a Tinder keg waiting to explode or go out or spark.
I was like, the array of words.
Oh, no, when she said to lawyer as well, she was like, I'm pretty sure that lawyers think that what I'm saying is very esoteric.
So yes, I heard that.
But the funniest part was when she gave that weird laugh when the, when was it, the Saskatchewan lawyer came on and he's like, I hope that you'll answer my questions as nicely as you answer the other guy.
And she laughed so weirdly.
I know.
I was like, my God, this is like a laugh of a witch.
Oh, yeah.
It was like a crow.
All right, let's search that clip three.
Banana Republic.
That quote relayed to me really made me realize I had a duty of stewardship.
I have a duty.
I had at that moment a very profound duty to Canadians to stand up for them.
And I'm surprised that I'm getting emotional, but I really felt it.
And I felt like, you know, the Canadian economy, it could seem like this amorphous thing, investment, it can seem amorphous, EV incentives, amorphous.
But when I heard that, I realized I'm the finance minister.
I'm the deputy prime minister.
I have to protect Canadians.
I have to protect their well-being.
It's being really, really damaged.
So yeah, that was a meaningful conversation for me.
And that was a very memorable quote and for sure a spur to action.
You know, if you didn't have any background information on who this individual was at all, you know, you might think listening to that, like this person really takes their job seriously.
She just got very emotional.
Like, no, lady, we'd like for you to take your job more personally.
We'd like for you to not just sit there and tell me that you're the finance minister, but actually do what's in your job description to do.
And it starts with being transparent and being honest.
It's, I could go on.
But when she started to get emotional, just like she did when she was talking about electric car batteries, that was like seriously disturbing.
Yankee, what do you think about this?
I don't know.
Like, I'm pretty sure banana republics refer to the government again and not to truckers.
So I'm not sure.
Like, if someone mentioned that they don't want to invest in Canada because it's a banana republic, look in the mirror.
100%.
That's a good reflection.
It might be you.
I don't think it was the truckers.
You know, and there's also, you know, clip seven, I believe, where they basically said, oh, Biden made us do it.
Yeah.
That's an Alan Honor clip of Alan Honor speaking.
Do we want to show it, Studio?
Yeah, let's do that.
Yeah, we can do that.
Absolutely.
We heard that the CEOs of two major banks contacted you, Canadian banks, I believe.
And we also heard that President Biden, who's probably the world's most powerful person or near that, had a telephone call with the Prime Minister.
Yes, both of those things are true.
And that telephone call, it happened on a Friday.
And by the Monday, the Emergencies Act was invoked.
That's true.
Okay, and so I put it to you, Minister, that the federal government had to show the USA that they were in control.
And that explains why the Emergencies Act was invoked, despite the fact that, for example, the Ambassador Bridge was cleared and open to traffic.
No, I wouldn't agree with that characterization.
Okay, well, I would put it to you that the pressure the government was under explains why the Emergencies Act was invoked, despite the fact that a deal had been struck with the protesters in Ottawa to reduce the footprint of the protest in that city.
Again, I would disagree with that.
Well, let's see if you would agree with this.
I put it to you that there was no meaningful consultation with the provinces, not even advance notice of what the first minister's meeting was about.
And that's because the government didn't have time for it.
They just had to make a decision about the Emergencies Act because of the tremendous pressure that they were under.
Again, I disagree with a great deal of that characterization.
One last question for you then, Ms. Freeland.
I put it to you that given the overwhelming situation that the government was facing explains why they were willing to use extraordinary powers against their own people, despite the fact that no police agency or intelligence agency told them that there were threats to the security of Canada.
Again, I disagree with many of the premises in that question, and I would be happy to elaborate, but it seems that we're out of time.
It would be happy to elaborate.
Can you ask me a question?
Can you ask me a question, Celine?
Ask me a question.
Okay.
Yankee.
What was your takeaway from that?
What premises did you find?
I disagree with the premise of that question.
Seriously, like, it's so obvious.
Like, we're getting down to the bone.
And by the way, I think that that was a really strong cross by Alan Honor.
I think that was one of his best to date, in my opinion, 100%.
He did good.
Don't forget that she offered to provide a link to reflect her child during her testimony today.
She was like, you know, I cannot answer the question, but I can provide you a link that really explains what I think.
Yeah, did you catch that?
She was like, she was the premise of this, because lady, it's the premise, they're premises.
That's not the right context.
But the premise of what she was trying to say is that because she couldn't actually get her words out, that she would like to be able to drop you like a neural link, like some Elon Musk sounding stuff.
And everyone was like, did she really just say that?
Did she just insinuate that?
She also said that she remembered the Terry Fox because she spoke to with her kids.
And it's like on Twitter, you go on Twitter and these people like, I just spoke to my two-year-old.
And it's usually memes because the left used to say, my kid came home crying about, I don't know, abortion or some other things that kids don't know about.
Like her kids really were concerned about Terry Fox.
They don't even know who the guy is, most likely.
You know.
Yeah, no, who knows?
Stuff like that is interesting to think about, right?
I want to recall that she actually mentioned too that she saw the entrance measure as a virtual tow truck.
Yeah.
So actually suspending people's licenses to this lady was akin to producing somewhat of a virtual tow truck.
Just the way that she spoke today was bewildering.
It was an incentive.
That's right.
It was an incentive.
There are more clips.
I don't know if we could pull them up.
It's where the three stooges led by Katie Tulford.
They asked about U.S. politicians.
There's not a clip, but studio, I sent it to you earlier.
It's a second clip with a question, the first one with a question mark.
Can you bring it up?
It's about them asking about the former president, not naming President Trump, obviously, and other politicians that disagreed with, well, agree with the truckers, disagree with the Trudeau government.
And then there's another clip of Alan Honor again asking about American politicians sending letters to the government and the government and them saying, oh, we don't know.
We're not sure if we ever sent to the prime minister.
Perfect.
Let's take a look.
This is an email from Deputy Jacques Adam to Deputy Minister Jacques Adam to Deputy Minister David Morrison.
I'm not sure if they're both from Global Affairs Canada, but the email sets out U.S. political reactions to Canadian measures.
It's dated February the 16th.
And if we can just look at item number two here, we see that there are different comments.
One of the comments here is Canadian truckers being fired and now targeted as terrorists by your government.
And it is attributed to a U.S. House of Representatives, a member.
And there are other remarks from other politicians which are somewhat uncomplimentary towards our country.
Do you know if this document was ever brought to the prime minister's attention?
I don't believe this document would.
This looks like an internal document at the Department of Trade.
But Prime Minister, we were all well aware that these views were being expressed by a certain segment in US politics.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Certain segment, more like 50% or 75% of the U.S. hundred percent.
I mean, it was enough people, 100%, that as you guys will recall, there was a convoy that was inspired by the original one here in Ottawa that happened in the U.S.
We had embedded Rebel Zone Jeremy Lafredo as well.
You can check out all of his reports.
What is the URL, Yankee?
It is convoyreports.com.
It's the same URL.
It's there.
You could scroll down.
You'll find that.
I thought it'd be different because it's like the states.
You know, we got to keep it separate, apparently.
Yeah, no, you know, it's the same convoy reports.
We also have the Australian convoy over there.
Yeah, exactly.
And the Farmer Rebellion in Farmer Rebellion.
There you go.
Yeah.
Farmer Rebellion.
Yeah, but we have, again, we've gone through this during the testimonies.
I know that you guys have been keeping up.
You've seen this for yourselves, but we have been able to see through all of these different testimonies that the government believes that now the Canadian flag stands, maybe that's a broad term, specifically the liberal deputy minister cabinets, ministers and the cabinet ministers believe that the Canadian flag has now tainted, it's impure, it stands for a symbol of misogyny.
Exactly.
And of course it did because it served as a reminder to the rest of the world as well.
That's why people fly the Canadian flag when they have their own convoys, again, inspired by the first one that happened here in Ottawa.
You know, I think it's no, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
I mean, in Hong Kong, when they were protesting for freedom, they were flying American flags.
And usually places where the fight where they're protesting for freedom, they'll have their own country flag for sure, but they'll also have American flags to symbolize freedom.
Now they're symbolizing freedom with Canadian flags.
That's something that Canadians should be proud of.
Instead, she's blaming the truckers into turning Canada into a banana republic.
And it's like.
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You're so twisted.
And one of my good moments, like the good moment today, it's when it's Brendan Miller say, do Tamar Lych is a terrorist?
And so Christia Frenan already reply, but I'm not the one who designate, who tells who is a terrorist or not.
And Brendan Miller afterwards break her into piece.
Can we show the clip because it's just the perfect moment because she says, oh, but it's not me who decide.
I have nothing to do with that.
I'm not a professional for doing that.
And this it is.
Is Tamara Leach a terrorist?
Boom, outright.
In terms of designating who is a terrorist and who isn't, that is not my job as Minister of Finance or Deputy Prime Minister.
We have authorities whose job is to do that.
Right.
And so it's not your authority to designate Tamara Leech, Chris Barber, Tom Morazo, or Danny Boldford terrorists.
That's somebody else has to do that.
Yes, we have.
We have intelligence services.
We have enforcement agencies whose job is to determine who is a terrorist.
Okay.
And there you say that you need to designate the group as terrorists.
So, but it's not your job, but you wanted to designate them as terrorists, right?
So that handwritten note in my notebook, I can assure you that was not a meeting with the director of CSIS.
That's with whom I didn't have a meeting.
It says it's okay.
It's with David Vignon from CSIS.
It doesn't say that.
It says it's with a gentleman called Dave.
Which Dave?
That meeting, that is not an account of a meeting with Dave Vigno because I didn't.
Which Dave is in those notes?
Which Dave is in those notes?
What's Dave's last name?
I need to see my whole notebook that you're referring to, but I can tell you for certain.
It's only Dave.
I can tell you for certain that I did not have a meeting during this time with the CSIS director.
Okay.
So I can exclude that 100%.
Rumors are it's Dave Shrigley, our web editor.
No, just skip.
Goodness.
But yeah, it's not.
It can be him.
It's not him.
It's some other guy.
We don't know who, but it's some other guy.
Yeah, but I'm sorry, but for something as important as we need to call or to name them as terrorists, I'm sorry.
I will recall who is that Dave.
I think it's also.
It's just, it's really crazy.
I just want to add, you know, Miller time every single day.
I think people are just sitting on the edges of their chairs waiting for this because it's the first time.
And he goes first now, by the way, obviously.
He didn't before, but now he does.
I think it's just like, it's like soul reviving for all the council.
So they're probably just like, please go next.
Please go first because we can't.
But I love how he walks her into it.
He starts by, you know, asking, do you think that these people are terrorists?
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Do you?
Oh, well, no, it's not my job to delegate those sort of terms, but you got someone for it.
And allegedly that is the, yeah.
What Dave, what else?
What other Dave could it be beside David Vignal, the director of CSAS?
Please.
Well, at least she didn't go with the route.
Oh, it was a joke.
We didn't mean to actually bring tanks.
It was a joke.
She could have gone the joke line about bringing tanks.
One will do.
You know, we just need one to scare people.
Maybe a few shells.
Didn't put that part, but maybe we'll bring a tank, show them we mean business, and they'll run away.
Maybe that's another incentive.
And this is the problem with hand with that, like hand writing paper notes.
Yeah.
You know, you can write whatever you want.
It's just like all over the place.
And some people like, have you seen how hard it is to read what it is on the paper?
Like, it's chicken scratch, yeah.
It's worse than chicken scratch.
This is why people do that because afterwards, like, it's really difficult to read.
So, for the people, if you bring these paper on court, everybody would be like, What is on the paper?
Can you imagine being that confident that you just write things like that down and you just think, like, my hands are clean?
No one's ever going to look at this.
No one will ever ask me about what I have written on this note in front of me.
But, you know, another thing you need to remember is: like, I've been in meetings that have, you know, written notes of bullet points.
Not every point that gets made enters into the enters into these bullet point things.
It's only the most important quote-unquote things.
So, it's like, what did they skip?
What didn't they even put into these notes?
What did they say?
Like, don't even mention it.
Don't even write it down.
That's what I don't know.
Well, no, yeah, the speculation around that is actually scary because if I mean, again, it's like when we see you posted this on your Twitter, you screen recorded an entire segue of documents.
I don't know if you can show that, but I think it's sent there.
It's a link to Alexa's Twitter.
And it's exactly that.
This watch as we scroll.
There are entire like totally redacted.
What is on there?
I understand cabinet confidentiality.
Like, I get it.
But in this case, as we just saw from Miller's Cross that Eva Chipiak broke down, I'm not so certain that all of that is exactly necessary.
So I'm hoping that Rulo actually makes a ruling so that this can be taken and we can actually have a final, like, what is going to come out at the end of this?
Because I was looking right now.
Yeah, I'm going to ask you that for our last question before we end this live stream, this live stream.
Yankee, what do you think the outcome is going to be from all of this?
From what we've seen, tomorrow's the last day.
Trudeau is testifying.
What's going to happen?
So, so what I see three outcomes, right?
One, Rulo comes out and says Trudeau is wrong.
No question about it.
I doubt that will happen.
Two, I see an option which I think will happen.
Rulo will say, you know, the rules weren't that clear.
That's why I think he was allowed to do it.
Although we should fix it for the future.
Here's like a row of recommendations that you should fix and move on in life.
That's what I think will happen.
Third could be Rulo saying, I think it was justified, but I can't tell you.
Well, there's actually four.
I think it was justified in here the few reasons.
And the fourth could be here's why it's justified, but I can't tell you why because all of the redact, it's in the redacted part where it's actually justified.
So screw you.
Nobody knows.
So these are the four options.
What I think will happen is a few recommendations and saying Trudeau wasn't 100% wrong, but he was a bit wrong, and just whitewash it.
That's what I think will happen.
I may be wrong, though.
What do you get?
But in the same time, in one of the messages, I don't know if it's like received by Marco L. Mendicino or is the one that was sending it, but they actually say before the Emergencies Act that the police have all the power and tool to dismantle the blockade.
So why they have not the same tool for Ottawa when the blockade was even worse than in Ottawa where peaceful family was just hanging out all together?
I don't know.
I've been to a few protests in my life in Montreal.
Alexa knows that.
They never needed an emergency act to bash you over the head or scare guys.
They did it anyway.
Those were crazy.
I personally don't think emergency act was needed or necessary.
But if you ask me how I think he's going to rule, that's what I think.
Do I think it was necessary?
Absolutely not.
But if you ask me what I think will happen, knowing government, seeing how the system goes, that's what I think will happen.
Yeah.
And I think that Rulo's kind of already, he's already hinted to that.
You know, today he made a comment because when Brendan Miller was mentioning the fact that these things had been on, let's say, unlawfully redacted, that things are not going according to how the submission is, this commission is supposed to actually be conducted.
Rillo said in his ending comment that, you know, in his experience in the last 20 years that he's been affiliated with being a lawyer or being in courts, et cetera, that usually it's not easy.
Like the court court proceedings in general, it's not easy working with the government.
It's not easy.
It was inferred that way.
Yeah, I think it's one of two options.
Well, look at Doug Ford.
The judge said you should go, but I can't force you because cabinet confidentiality.
And that's what happened.
He couldn't do anything.
The judge said you should go, but I can't make you go.
And I think the same is with these government documents.
It's like you should unredact them, but I can't really force you.
Yeah, it's like at this point, no, because it was the federal government's job in the first place to be able to collect every facet of the truth, right?
When you have it within the scope of the federal lens, I'm in a lawsuit with the Montreal police right now.
I don't want to go into much detail, but we do have a documentary coming.
And in that, we got to disclose a lot of things.
They want to know things that they know.
They have, like, they want correspondence that I had with the Montreal police.
And I have to provide them.
Although they have them because I emailed them.
They're like, no, no, no, we want them from you.
We want to see if your records match our records.
They want to find anything they can, right?
So, but here with the government, you know, they're just like, oh, we can't show you.
Bye.
Yeah.
No, it's crazy.
By the way, what do you think that all this will end up like?
What will come out of all this commission?
Yeah, you know, it's so scary when people ask me this because I don't want to like project my own thoughts and feelings.
And, you know, some people come up to me even in the commission room and they're like, you know, we got this.
Or they're like, oh, this is really damning.
Like, there's no way that, you know, Trudeau is going to, you know, he's just going to get a slap on the wrist.
And I think both points are valid.
Yankee, you have four options.
I'm just going to narrow mine down to two and say that my first option that I think is going to happen, I actually think that he's going to say that it was unnecessary.
I think I didn't have that opinion before the start of this week, but seeing the cabinet ministers testify has been extremely damning.
And I don't know how anyone, regardless of your political standpoint or how you thought about the convoy, I don't think anyone could turn on that commission, watch it and not be absolutely blown away by the conduct or lack thereof in which the ministers have been portraying themselves.
The things that they're saying or not saying their behavior is ridiculous.
And it points to a very big issue that we have in Canada.
So just simply on their bad acting, I mean, they're not getting enough personal drama lessons from Prime Minister Trudeau over there.
That's for sure.
That was your first one, but your second one.
Yes.
Number two.
Number two, it's a sham and it's a setup and he's going to be like, don't do that again.
That was kind of bad, but I understand why you needed it.
But no more.
You know, go for your time out.
I want to say who the stupid person so far was, but you go ahead now.
From the truth of the question.
Yeah, but I would just bring my only concern at this moment is the lack of media coverage.
More you have coverage of the commission, more that put pressure, and more you show evidence.
Now, what we see is like a really big lack.
And so people are forgetting that you have a commission that is happening right now.
And it seems that nobody care because nobody care because they are not going to internet and watch it online.
They are waiting that the media bring that to their television.
That is not what is happening.
And I see it, especially in Quebec, the mainstream media, they almost like they will bring it like in the corner, like really fast.
And I have the impression that I don't know if it's a tactic that nobody really gets interested into the commission, but I think this will do the fact that no pressure from the media.
So at the end of the day, you know, media is the first power in a democracy because it can bring to change every decision.
Yeah.
And now I have just the impression that just because of that, maybe we will not see what we are expecting from the commission.
And just to play off of your point, Yankee, if I would, Olivia, if we could play one last clip, I just want to show you.
Me too, brother.
Me too.
Alberta's calling.
But I want to show a clip of the questions that I asked to Christia Freeland that did not get answered, because of this is the.
This is exactly.
I'm building off of exactly what you just said.
Media coverage yes, and we need that, but we also need politicians that will answer questions from their constituents.
Yeah, that's what we need and they're not doing it.
Let's roll that clip if it's ready.
Miss Freeland, in hindsight, was it worth invoking the emergencies act to trample on the rights and freedoms of fellow Canadians?
Was it worth invoking the emergencies act ma'am, to trample on the rights and freedoms of Canadians?
Do you have a comment on that, ma'am?
And then you hear, you can hear William at the end.
He's like, why did you call them terrorists?
So yeah, I mean, you know.
I also asked her if she would resign, if she would commit to resigning in invocation the emergencies act.
Yeah, you know it's um, but my question yeah, my question was related to if she she was aware that a woman had been trampled by a horse during the dismantlement in Ottawa.
It just the person candid was there today, I know.
I know, and in the commission, the one that she'd been trumped by a horse seeing Christia Freeland trying to defend the action that was put in place during these two days.
So she see that Christia Ferencia actually agree that it's good that she was trampled by a horse.
Yeah, you see, i'll tell you what actually happened, because I um I, I was watching Ottawa Police's twitter account.
What actually happened was a person took a bike and threw it to on a horse I, I saw it on their twitter account I believe it's still on there, but i'm obviously joking but that It happened when it happened.
You guys were in the well, Celine wasn't, you were probably in coots or somewhere.
Alexa was busy filming.
I was busy monitoring social media.
I was home.
And what they said at the time was that a protester threw a bike at a police horse and then the video being trampled by cops.
That's what actually happened.
And I don't know if you ever corrected that record.
Probably not.
But and you know, it's like it's bad if it happens to anybody.
It's inexcusable.
But it was an older woman holding a walker for support.
Like she had something to actually help her physically stand.
And that was the person that was trampled in addition to another one.
Take a look for yourself.
I mean, it's really shocking to see.
I've seen the clip so many times.
And there's honestly, there's it's almost like I just want to be numb to it.
I want to disconnect from the fact that that took place in my in my country.
I was in the city.
Yeah, you're in the city.
You know what?
What is more shocking is like the SIU did drop the investigation because they say that the injury was not enough like serious.
Yeah.
Try doing it the other way around and tell me how not serious it was.
Of course it's serious.
It's assault.
100%.
So all you can end this kind of investigation.
Okay.
Maybe the injury was not, she's not been killed.
She doesn't like lost one of her members of her body.
Yeah.
But the PS, like the trauma after, and she told me that she was really in pain when I saw her.
And she had like the harm.
I don't know how you say it.
She was in a sling.
Yeah.
She would have been in a sling in a cast probably if her arm was up like that.
Seriously injured, but the way they did it, if the horse's foot would have hit somewhere else, could have been a different outcome.
Just because she wasn't seriously injured doesn't mean that what they did was wrong.
They pulled a move that could have killed her.
100% exactly.
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The other guy that was never identified.
Oh, yeah, that's pretty weird.
Like, that's kind of scary, though, at the same time.
Like, I'm not, I'm not assuming, obviously, that he died or it was actually that severe.
No, no, maybe someone who didn't want it to be public and they just disappeared.
And fair enough.
That's what happened.
Yeah.
It's one of two things.
I believe it was someone that didn't want to be identified, either because he didn't want to lose his job or be known that he was there, or he was an undercover cop and he just brushed.
Can you imagine?
Honestly, just Carla, though.
Just Carla.
They're like, go in there, infiltrate that crowd.
And he's like, are those the horses?
Sorry, that's like, you know, but seriously.
I believe it was someone that did not want to be identified.
And the government didn't want to like say, oh, it's this guy because the government didn't want to even acknowledge that this whole thing happened.
So it just went away from both ends, I believe.
Most likely was just a private citizen, but who knows?
But I believe he just went away.
Yeah, probably.
It's what I think too.
The stupidest person in the, I don't know if in the cabinet, but the stupidest person tell us how you really feel is Omar Al Gabra.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I wasn't.
That is not the brains behind this master plan.
That is very apparent.
This man just, I saw a lawyer for the JCCF, his face when Omar was just going on and on and literally just quoting irrelevant things, spewing irrelevant facts and being very blase, as if he was like, I'm the man right now.
Listen to my little press conference.
This is great.
The lawyer was eating it up.
It was crazy.
I know.
Well, I also think he made the stupidest comment from anyone.
You know, Freeland got himself out from answering questions and others did as well.
You know, you go around, you don't answer.
They're used to it.
But he messed up and he said, it was yesterday.
I clipped that one video.
I've clipped a handful of videos.
The rest was Maurizio clipping all of the videos that you have seen.
Almost all of them.
There's from a few, everyone, but it's Maurizio Ben.
Yeah.
And he's been busy.
So I did that one.
It was the one where he said basically that all the mandates caused all the economic issues.
He didn't say it was COVID.
He said the COVID mandates caused all the issues that happened.
And I think that that is the truth, but him admitting it makes him the stupidest person.
Of course.
And you know, and we, wow, shocker, right?
Yeah.
Shocker.
It's like, it's like when they talk about the like specifically, yes, like his department, Transport, Minister of Transportation, when they talk about the real human impacts that those five, six trucks had parked beside the border, and then they negate to actually bring up the real human impacts from the last two years.
It's exactly that.
And he admits it because they know it too.
They know it.
So, so it's like they keep talking about blockades that were there for two, three days, but Windsor was a week, right?
And they keep blaming Windsor.
You know, it was millions of dollars.
That's why we had to clean up Ottawa because Windsor.
But Windsor was already cleaned up by the time they involved the emergency.
Yeah.
So nothing adds up, right?
Yeah.
And it's just like this circle that keeps going.
And it's like you guys logged down.
And that goes to former Ottawa mayor as well.
You guys logged the city down, logged the province down, logged the country down.
And you think it's like, oh, it's just okay.
Like people can't protest.
They're like terrorists if they protest.
You actually logged the place down.
And it's just ridiculous that they think that, oh, the protest that didn't really lock anything down, just was uncomfortable for a lot of people, was the worst thing that ever happened.
But it brings us also the fact that the convoy was stopping the economy downtown because all the shop was closed and people were not capable to go and work.
But in fact, that most of the place that stayed open at the best time of their life.
Oh, yes, 100%.
And they even, I know a couple of them came out and publicly declared that, you know, from living through the two years and those actual economic impacts from COVID, that keeping themselves open during the time of the convoy gave them monetary funds that they had not seen in one month, that they had not seen in a year.
Someone say, I make what I was doing in a year in one month.
No, three weeks.
Yeah.
Not even.
Algera also said yesterday he didn't think he'll ever see curfews and lockdowns in Canada.
And it did happen.
So that's why it was normal for him to do other lockdowns because he saw other people doing lockdowns.
I'm sorry.
Maybe I'll never run.
Quebec, Quebec curfew, curfew.
You cannot remember it.
I'm so glad.
Yeah, like I, there's curfews elsewhere.
Do you remember to people that receive an Amber alert on the 31st of January to tell us that we were not allowed to get out of our home after 10 p.m. or we'll have like a big fine of $1,550?
Well, and I mentioned briefly earlier about it.
If you're not aware of what the curfew was, we are doing a documentary.
Mocha is working on it.
And we are suing by we, I mean the Rebel News.
And a bunch of us are in the lawsuit about what they, when we were covering the curfew, they kept on harassing us and assaulting us among other things.
And she can't be kicked off because I just received another one.
You just received another one.
I have a ticket book here.
Let me grab it.
It's a binder.
I do.
We cannot stop.
Oh, yeah.
It's a binder, right?
It's most impressive.
It is.
It's most impressive.
There's 16 tickets, I believe, in total.
I received about $15,000.
We're fighting more.
More is coming.
We're fighting them all, but we're also suing.
And the documentary will be out soon.
And if you want to see these reports, go to, I believe it's lockdownreports.com where you could see all the reports.
And the documentary will be out soon, rebelnews.com, somewhere over there.
You'll be able to see it.
It's going to be amazing.
Well, hard to watch for myself even, because I got to relove the BS of that.
And thinking Canada is officially a free country.
She talks about Banana Republics.
Make her watch that documentary and then she gets more.
Yeah.
Well, you want to see Banana Republic?
We're going to show you it.
We have a lot of footage for us.
We're going to show you.
Exactly.
There you go.
Before I leave, we got to talk about this shirt.
Yeah.
Oh, you can have it for Christmas.
You can buy two and get one for free.
Yeah.
Yeah.
With the code Christmas.
And go to, yeah, go to rebelnewsstore.com and you can get a two-for-one deal.
There you go.
For Christmas.
You can have it for Christmas, folks.
This hat is a, it's called a trucker hat, I believe.
It's, if I take it off, you can't see it.
Oh, that's mad.
I didn't see that one.
This is actually, it's only in the store for one week.
It's been in the store for only one week.
The trucker hat that says Rebel, it's a bit of a different hat.
There's also this one.
Come on.
Oh, yeah.
I like that one as well.
This one is more of a softer hat.
You could add like the trucker hat is a bit harder or the softer hat, whichever fits your head better.
But I really like the shirt that you're wearing because I have it and I love walking with it because a lot of people react and it's just like, oh, it's enough.
Or some people are not sure.
It's a big shocker, but it's definitely a crowd favorite.
I was wearing it at Clearwater Beach a few months ago.
And this one guy came over to me.
He's like, Fizzbum.
He's like, yeah, that shirt.
So like, people.
And I go, I go out and I live in Florida, right?
And I go to places and people look at it.
They're like, they know.
Some people don't, but others, they're like, true to Castro.
They know.
And this is in Florida.
So, you know, especially in Canada, people will know what this is.
100%.
100%.
Well, you guys, it's late.
It's been a very long day.
We heard some incredible, incredible and very, very riveting testimonies today.
But before we go, I'm told that we have a chat.
If we want to put that up on the screen and then we can take a look, it is from Hedgehog V2.
It's for $10.
Thank you very much.
It says support news that I trust.
Thank you for your support.
That's amazing.
We appreciate you and your support.
And yeah, we have, I mean, literally, tomorrow's the last day.
Can you believe it?
At least for the testimonies, I'm just going to meet my best friend, Justin Trudeau.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure.
I met Trudeau once in my life in 2015, two days before, maybe three days before the election.
And I was young and almost dumb, but I did not vote for him.
But he did put his hand around me, and that was super creepy.
I did not like as long as you were almost dumb.
I was not.
You know what I'm saying?
You're almost done.
But I love talking to him in French because I know he understands me.
Today, with Christia Frinan, I was actually afraid that Ukrainian.
No, but yeah, but I'm not sure she will really understand me.
So it's why I use English, but I was a little bit regretting afterwards because I'm more fast on my question in French.
But tomorrow, with Justin Trudeau, it would have my friendship.
We got to rest up.
We got to rest up.
We'll be live tweeting.
Yeah, exactly.
Before we can go and you can watch Alex's live tweeting, what's your Twitter handle?
It's the voice Alexa.
And mine is Celine, S-E-L-E-N-E, not like Dion, C-X-L-I-V.
So Celine C-X-L-I-V.
Why Canada's Democracy Isn't Transparent00:01:12
It is very complicated.
I will not be live tweeting, but I am on Twitter.
But go and, and since I'm social media manager at Rebel, go and subscribe to all our social media accounts.
Just go find them, sign up so you could see, never miss an update.
Yes.
Well, there you have it, folks.
Thank you so, so much for tuning in.
Thank you for your support.
And as David Menzies likes to say, stay safe.
I have to say that I disagree with the premise of the question.
I think Canada is a very transparent democracy.
And in fact, the commission that we're part of right now is a part of Canadian transparency.
Right.
That's why it's important.
And on that point, if I told you that there is a whole bunch of unlawfully redacted documents that we've been fighting over and waiting for an order just to get them today, and we haven't had them for this whole proceeding, do you think that's transparent?
Again, and with apologies, I can't agree with the premise of the question.