Sheila Gunn-Reid and Kian Simoni challenge Justice Paul Rouleau’s ruling that Canada’s 2022 Emergencies Act invocation against the Freedom Convoy was justified, despite its peaceful nature—highlighting police violence, bank account freezes, and a "show trial" where minor disruptions like honking were framed as national security threats. Steve Kenilakos, Ottawa’s neutral city manager, stood out amid partisan misrepresentations, while Simoni’s documentary Trudeau on Trial exposes the government’s overreach, including recommendations to weaken protest protections. The convoy’s suppression—financially crippling protesters like Tamara Leach and Tom Marazzo—undermined a historic movement uniting Canadians against vaccine mandates, setting a precedent for future crackdowns on dissent, from Drag Queen Story Hour to net-zero policies threatening grid stability and economic freedom. [Automatically generated summary]
Justin Trudeau is skating on the single largest civil liberties violation of Canadians in, I think, our lifetimes.
Is anybody surprised?
I'm definitely not.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
In a completely unsurprising turn of events,
Friday morning, Justice Paul Rouleau ruled that the invocation of the Emergencies Act was completely justified in dealing with the completely peaceful freedom convoy to Ottawa last February.
so February 2022.
For those of you who don't know, and I don't know how you couldn't, the Freedom Convoy was a movement spawned by a cross-border vaccine mandate for truckers, but it was joined by thousands of Canadians who saw this as the catalyst for change.
They came by the thousands from all across the country to the nation's public square, Ottawa, to protest for an end to COVID restrictions.
There were also satellite protests at border locations across the country, Coots, Alberta, Windsor, Ontario, Emerson, Manitoba, and in British Columbia.
Now, the protests, all of the protests were peaceful, unless you counted the violence against the demonstrators.
They had eggs thrown at them.
They were beaten by police.
They were pepper sprayed.
They were unlawfully detained, kidnapped, really, snatched and grabbed and dropped off out of town by police.
And they had their bank accounts frozen by the prime minister, who invoked martial law, suspending their civil liberties to dissipate what I think was the most effective opposition that Justin Trudeau had ever faced since taking office in 2015.
He embarrassed them.
And the use of that law, the Emergencies Act, martial law, was officially examined by the Public Order Emergency Commission, what we call the Trucker Commission here at Rebel News.
And it was a fact-finding mission, a transparency mission where they would lay bare the decision-making process and decide, did the bouncy castles, the boisterous street parties, the street cleanups, the feeding the homeless,
and the sometimes errant hornhonking in the nation's capital, did the inconvenience of having a weeks-long protest in the nation's capital amount to a national security issue akin to a Pearl Harbor or a 9-11 level attack?
And as it turns out, embarrassing Justin Trudeau is, according to Justice Paul Roulo, as bad as 9-11.
That's the decision he made.
It's outlandish.
It's wrong, but that's the decision he made.
There was a point at which I knew the fix was in.
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I'll explain that later on in the interview with my guest tonight.
My guest tonight is actually someone who sat there for six weeks and documented the Public Order Emergency Commission.
And from that documentation came his new documentary.
It's called Trudeau on Trial.
And my guest tonight is my chief documentarian here at Rebel News and my good friend, Kian Simoni.
Take a listen to the interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.
We're talking about why he made the new documentary and why he thinks that Justice Paul Rulo ruled the way he did.
Check it out.
Joining me now is our chief documentary filmmaker based in Calgary, but unfortunately from Toronto, Kian Simone.
Kian, thanks for joining me.
I want to have you on to, well, whenever you do something new, I want to have you on.
But I want to talk to you specifically about your new documentary, Trudeau on Trial, which has had two sold-out showings, one in Edmonton, one in Calgary.
This documents really the Public Order Emergency Commission.
And you spent six weeks in Ottawa away from your family doing this.
I guess, first of all, why did you think it was so important for you to be there?
Because you didn't necessarily have to be there there.
You could have watched it from afar.
But why was it so important to be within walking distance of that commission room?
You know, my heart was broken when I didn't get the call to go to Ottawa.
And there's something in my heart, I knew I was the right guy to do something with this.
I was really sad one night and I knew I needed to do something.
And that was the same night that I got the call from Ezra saying, hey, I think there's something going on in Cootes.
And I'll always remember what Ezra said is that if a tree falls in the forest, is anybody there to hear it?
If truckers go block the border in Coutts, Alberta without Kian Simone and Cindy Fazard, would anybody even know what happened?
And I knew from there that, you know, just being somebody who can bear the weight of the pressure of that, I knew that I needed to follow the story to the very end.
And the commission was that it was the closure that Canadians needed, that reporters needed to the end of the story.
So I wasn't going to sit home watching the commission online when I knew that someone needed to be there that could bear the weight of, like you said, being away from my family for six weeks.
And at least I wasn't sleeping in a car this time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, it's, as I say it, I mean, when you think about what Tamara Leach continues to go through and some of the other people who are involved in the convoy who still are in extreme legal jeopardy still, it's not too much to ask for us to go there to make sure that the fulsome story is told, because I think there is no other side of the story here.
There's the mainstream media's version of this and the truth.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
You kind of made me feel bad there for tuning in my own car and now I'm remembering Tamara spent 48 days in jail.
Yeah.
And, you know, as I said in our documentary screening, we're filming this on Tuesday morning and we had a documentary screening in Sherwood Park, Alberta on Monday night.
And I spent not as definitely not as much time as you in Ottawa, but I did watch from afar and I was there for a little bit.
And when I was there, I noticed that the journalists never left the media room.
They stayed in their cloistered little hovel of a media room where all they did was talk to each other about the things that were happening in the commission room.
But they never actually went and sat in the commission room.
And the commission room was where the news was happening.
It was where the witnesses were, where you could see the anguish on the face of the witnesses.
Some of it was palpable.
You know, when you had people who were talking about being snatched and grabbed and basically kidnapped by the police and taken out of town, you could hear their pain.
You could almost reach out and touch the reasons why these people came to Ottawa.
And yet the media never crossed the hall.
But you guys were there.
Guys were sitting in that place the whole time.
You know, Sheila, I've heard you say that a few times now at the shows and whenever we do interviews about this or when we talk on our own.
I actually spend most of my time in that room with the media.
I just want to put that out there because that's where I had to work.
I couldn't work in the commission room.
But I did hop over when the more notable characters in the story were there.
But you're right.
And they chose to be in that media room.
And every morning they would walk in and it would be CBC first and CTV the next day.
They'd bring in tin bits for each other and they'd walk around the room and give each other tin bits.
And only once did Global News ask me if I wanted a tin bit.
And I will remember that.
But that's what it was.
They're all friends and they all just, they leave all the independent reporters out of it.
Like Western Standard never got a tin bit either.
And I just kind of use that as an analogy of what this, you know, people share stories and people share like ideas and bounce stuff off each other.
And that's all that they were doing in there.
And that's just from like a strict reporter angle of it, not necessarily the feelings kind.
Because when Tamara Leach was testifying, none of them got up and went in to go see what they were, what she was having, what she had to say.
But when the man collapsed on the podium, I've never seen Glenn McGregor run so fast.
And I'm like, dude, this isn't like news.
I was like, this is like a crisis, you know?
This is ambulance chasing.
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Yeah, I was like, let's make sure this guy is okay before we run in and block the door so that people can't get in and out, which is what all they were doing.
And that just kind of shows the mentality of what they were there for is that they weren't there to hear people's stories.
And they were there to get their own closure, which I'm sure we'll get into that they got.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's get into that.
So as I said, we're recording this on Tuesday.
On Friday morning, we heard that Justin Trudeau, according to Justice Paul Roulette, was completely justified in invoking a wartime law, as lawyer Brendan Miller puts it, martial law in this country to deal with bounty castles, hot tubs, street parties, feeding the homeless, and some errant honking now and then.
And I think you're right when you say that that's exactly what the mainstream media wanted, but I don't think it is the right conclusion.
And they're not really even talking about the point that Justice Rulo said it was justified because of all the miscommunication and the government incompetence of being able to deal with the situation.
Like if you kind of, if I, when I take a step out of it and I think like, okay, you have the most incompetent government Canada's ever had and they have no idea what's going on.
They're obviously scared, not about national security, but just about their image.
And they have no idea what to do.
The cops are trying to work with the protesters, but the Ottawa police won't.
And there's a whole miscommunication there.
And it's like, okay, what the hell can we do?
We can invoke the Emergencies Act and kind of just put a stop to this right now.
And that's essentially what happened, taking a step back at getting out of the politics of it.
And that's what Rulo said, you know what?
What else were you going to do?
And it was weird that Justice Rulo never really looked at the fact that, you know, maybe he should have, maybe they should have talked to the protesters.
Maybe there was a little bit of resolution that could have happened there.
So they're both in the same mindset of, okay, what can we do right now to end this?
Because it's obviously going on too long.
And that's just the kind of what I got out of it is that they were looking at it from that point of view rather than the actual way of how they could have fixed something.
Yeah, it seems as though that the peaceful protesters in Ottawa, who did their best to try to do everything right, were forced to pay for the consequences of the government's incompetence.
And it seems to me as though Justice Rulo ignored the fact that the blockades at Windsor had already been resolved.
The blockades in Alberta had already been resolved.
And there was a deal actively struck. between the protesters and the city of Ottawa to move trucks.
And it was already happening in good faith.
And what stopped the movement of the trucks out of the downtown core was the invocation of the Emergencies Act because it caused the redeployment of police resources.
So, you know, when they say, you know, we had to deal with this because we didn't have resources.
No, you just needed time.
Time would have resolved all of this.
Yeah.
And that's, I put that in the documentary of how that was really just like the catalyst of the insane things that were about to come.
It was the catalyst of miscommunication.
It was where OPP was talking about how the Ottawa police, it was Chief Slowly and interim Chief Bell, I forgot his position at the time while they made the announcement of how they were basically talking about how they were going to crack down on the protesters.
And the OPP was testifying at the Emergency Sack saying, like, I don't know what the hell they were talking about.
One, why would we do that?
Two, we couldn't do that.
And three, we didn't want to do that.
And it was just that plan breaking apart because of the federal government and the Ottawa police, not the Ontario Provincial Police, really was the catalyst of what came down to what we saw, the events of the horses.
We all know what happened.
Yeah, you know, to their credit, the OPP were very level-headed.
I forget the one member of the OPP, but he said he had real concerns that the Ottawa police wanted his people to participate in things that he was not sure were legal.
And he didn't want any involvement in it.
He didn't want to hurt the protesters.
He wanted a resolution.
And he thought maybe there was a police resolution or maybe there was a negotiated resolution.
But he was not going to allow OPP members to participate in things that he thought would violate the civil liberties of Canadians, like the aforementioned snatch and grabs.
You know, it's a pretty hot take.
And I might get some dirt for this, but I really don't think the OPP did anything wrong.
From the very beginning.
I thought they were calm and cool.
Their intelligence apparatus was very on the point.
It said exactly, it was a profit of what was to come.
They said on January 14th that this protest is going to come there and it's going to stay there.
And nobody read that report.
On January 28th, they said, okay, you know, these are really cool people.
We had a few, not cool people.
These are really level-headed people.
We had a few mishaps on the highways here, there.
But really, it was bystanders standing on the highway when they shouldn't be.
Like, that's not a national security threat.
Their intelligence apparatus throughout the entire thing with their Hendon reports, which was basically just a report that was given to all police agencies around collecting all the information from online.
And it's a very important report, I think, too.
Brendan Miller brought it up in the documentary as well about how, you know, when people say crazy things online, like you do have to kind of take that into effect and kind of put it together and assess the threat, which is the police's job.
And I think that they did that perfectly.
And from what we know of the Hendon reports, they never blew it out of the water.
They never put anything in there that was like obviously a lie and kind of made it seem like, or obviously somebody extreme, some grandma online.
They never made that, like blew that up to be what the protest represented.
So I really do hand it to the OPP.
And like you said, during the commission, they were really cool, level-headed.
None of them attested to or testified to a threat.
And they were there basically to just call out the federal government in their own ways without making it political.
Oh, likewise, calling out the Ottawa police for the absolute chaos taking place on the ground.
Now, let's get into the documentary.
Tell us the Kohl's notes version of what the documentary is about.
It's about the Public Order Commission, but you've broken it down into some pretty digestible chunks by chapter.
Yeah, to first off answer the question, my job as a filmmaker is to ask a question.
And every good documentary is about asking a question.
There's something called the complex of a documentary.
There's a science to it.
And just a quick rant, if you go watch the documentary, Finding Neverland about Michael Jackson molesting children, you will believe that Michael Jackson molested children.
But if you go watch the other documentary about how Michael Jackson didn't molest children, you will be sick at the first documentary and you will now believe that he did not molest children.
Whether whichever is true, I didn't, I don't care.
It's about what the documentary is basically presenting and how good it's presenting it.
So as a filmmaker, when I was there, when I would hear the lawyers, Keith Wilson, Eva Chipiuk and Brendan Miller, talk about what their plan was, it was they had a checklist of things that they wanted to basically check off of each witness.
And the first one and the most prominent one was did the Emergencies Act meet the threshold of CESIS II, CESIS Act, Section 2 of the CESIS Act.
Messed that one up.
And that basically is to say that there is a threat to national security.
Therefore, there is an emergency.
Therefore, we need every tool in the toolbox to deal with it.
And the documentary basically goes through each aspect of the convoy to assess if there is a national security threat within that.
But on top of that, it also breaks down the Emergencies Act and how it was used in every aspect of when it was invoked.
So let's go to the first week of the commission, which was when we heard from Ottawa politicians, like local politicians, the bureaucrats, like the city manager, chief of staff, and Ottawa residents, where we heard the famous reports of, I don't even remember what they call it, phantom honking and phantom smells.
Microaggressions.
Microaggressions.
So what they did is they went there and they talked about their feelings and they talked about how, you know, I would be very mad if a protest came into my neighborhood and did that for three weeks.
Like rightly so.
You have every right to be pissed off.
But that's not what the hearing is about.
I don't know why they were there to talk about how they still hear horns while they're trying to sleep because that's not national security threat.
That does not equate the truckers to terrorists.
And so the first chapter is basically breaking down the fact that this is kind of where we got the taste of it being kind of a show trial.
Nobody actually believed it was a show trial at that point.
I don't want to speak for everybody, but I think the vibe there was kind of like, okay, we as the collective, we as this kind of right way of thinking, We know that we won now because there's nobody here in the presence of who lives in Ottawa can actually say that there were terrorists there.
And then moving into the second week is when we heard from the intelligence aspiratus at Parat, I'm not going to with all the police forces and as well the commissioners of every police force, where I guess the goal of Freedom Corp, which is the conglomerate of the lawyers for the truckers, were there to basically ask every single person in law enforcement, was there a threat to one national security?
And was there even a threat of violence?
And that like a threat of violence, it's, I mean, obviously, you know, violence is terrible, but it's not a huge deal.
Like it's not a huge thing as on scale towards what national security threat is.
Yeah, we have laws to deal with violence against others, like assault, uttering threats.
That's out there, battery.
You don't need extra tools to deal with those.
And there weren't a lot of charges related to those things issued during the course of the convoy to begin with.
Yeah, you know, the worst you're going to get is two protesters at night who just had a few bud lights and, you know, punched one punches the other one in the face.
Like, that's not a national security threat.
I don't even think that happened.
No.
And so the documentary follows that kind of style throughout the weeks.
And, you know, my favorite week would be week five when we kind of learned about the bank account seizing.
And we heard from Brenda Lucky.
I kind of teased in Christia Freeland because she kind of fits into that week.
But we also heard from Global Affairs, who I didn't even know existed until the commission, where we heard that they tried to justify the Emergencies Act because our flag was being misrepresented and because it was being flown all around the world as an act of rebellion or it was, they put it as it was an act of lawlessness.
If the Canadian flag was kind of equated to lawlessness.
And I remember, I just want to tell a quick story about that.
I remember the first screening, I was sitting beside Uncle Hack from the Danger Cats and we were watching that scene of the when Cindy, don't remember her last name, Global Affairs, said that the Canadian flag now means an act of rebellion against vaccine mandates.
And he screamed out.
He's like, you goddamn right, it does.
And everybody cheered.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it was something else to see our flags flown in Holland as the farmers revolted there.
It was for the first time, instead of us being looked at as just nice lapdogs, we were the sign of resistance in the name of human rights out there.
And, you know, you often see American flags at protests, right?
The Cubans flew it when they were revolting against their government.
You, you know, we saw it in Hong Kong.
We saw the American flags as they fought as the CCP were taking the island back.
And it was for me a point of pride to see our flag flown at other human rights demonstrations.
And it's funny that the federal government saw it as offensive because I guess they were the human rights violators in this case.
But the idea that because there's a brand damage related to the flag, that that would constitute a national emergency?
No.
They heard the brand.
They heard the flag.
After the Emergencies Act, I didn't even want to look at the flag.
I was heartbroken about my own country.
I remember before I went to Coots, I was driving around in Calgary and there was people flying Canadian flags.
Like outside of a protest, it was like a Tuesday afternoon.
People are going grocery shopping and they got their hockey stick with the Canadian flag.
Like it brings tears to your eyes when I would have never talked to that person before.
And then now that when they get out of their car and I'm walking into co-op with them, I'd say, hey, how's it going, man?
Like it brought people together.
And after the Emergencies Act, it just kind of did something different.
They heard it for us.
They hurt the reputation within domestically of what the flag means.
So Kean, what happens next?
What does this mean?
Are we divided?
Are we able to put this all behind us?
Or are they like me?
I knew the fix was in when Rulo wouldn't make rulings on documents that were being, to use my words and not the lawyers, illegally redacted and given to the lawyers as the witness related to the documents was testifying.
So there was no time for them to prepare.
When Rulo refused to rule on that sort of stuff until it was too late, I knew the fix was in.
So I guess what happens next?
Do we just continue on with our corrupt government?
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I guess we have to.
But I guess what does this mean for the people?
Hypothetically, what I want to happen next, and I'll start off on a good, hopeful basis here.
I'm not mad that Justice Rulo said it was justified.
And I'm not going to be the black pill here and be like, well, I knew it was going to happen.
I'm not surprised.
I'm just, I'm not mad at it because I just know how the Laurentian elites think.
And like I said before, it was all because of mismanagement, miscommunication, and incompetence.
We know they mismanage.
We know they don't communicate.
We know they're incompetent.
And if that's your justification for invoking the Emergencies Act, fine.
Like I fine.
Like, I'll just put my foot down, whatever.
But you can make it right still by unredacting the legal opinion that Justice LeMeti gave to Justin Trudeau.
You can make it right by unredacting some of their notes of what they were talking about.
So at least there is still transparency after so that we know why they had to do it.
Now we know that is because they're incompetent.
Like let's see the notes about how incompetent that they were.
Let's see that.
And I think that that would heal some people who were heartbroken about this.
This ruling that even if it went unjustified, it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
I think that we could really heal if we just get some of those documents that were unlawfully redacted.
Yeah, especially when this was presented to us, the Public Order Emergency Commission was presented to us as a fact-finding effort in transparency.
And at the very least, give us all the documents.
That's as transparent as I think we're ever going to get.
And let people decide for themselves.
I mean, I think a lot of people have already decided for themselves.
Either they think honking is terrorism or they watch the commission and they live in reality and know that it wasn't.
But let you cannot look at those documents and come to an ignorant or ill-informed decision.
It's one thing to, you know, hear the tone and intonation of the witnesses.
Maybe they meant to say it that way.
Maybe they should have said it that way.
But when you read the notes, it's something completely different.
100%.
And to kind of finish off on the point there of what I want to happen and what I think could actually fix some of the situation here and give more people more closure as to what happened.
The recommendations that Justice Rouleau gave was to, as you've said before, make it easier to invoke.
And I think that's like one of the scariest things that I've ever heard.
Because not only if, let's say he didn't do that, it's still setting a precedent for what we can invoke a form of martial law over.
And now that there's easier to invoke, so let's say we're removing Section 2 of the CCS Act as a threshold, which I guess didn't matter anyway.
But now they don't have to go through the whole three IPG meetings and say, okay, how do we get around this?
What's our plan when we need to lie about this?
They can just do it.
Like they can just push the big red button that says nuclear on it and just invoke it whenever they want.
And I'm not going to say that they're going to do that over small protests.
Christine Anderson said that I give them too much credit when I say this.
I don't think that they'll do it again for a very long time because I don't think that they would have that kind of bonfire of what that would do.
But I do think that there are small repercussions that come out of the precedent that is set.
And that trickles into Calgary on itself.
And I brought this up at the screening of how it is now illegal to protest against Drag Queen Story Hour.
That's wrong.
That's just plain wrong.
It's against everything that I know, every right that I thought I had.
And so I think that just the mentality of how to deal with quote unquote right-wing protests, or you can just call them protests for civil liberties that have nothing to do with systemic racism.
So anything other than that, that's how they can deal with it now.
And Justin Trudeau set that precedent.
So Emergencies Act or No Emergencies Act, it's the small things that trickle down from that, if that makes sense.
Yeah, for sure.
And for me, even if none of those recommendations are adopted, and I think they're going to be adopted whole cloth, including to monitor social media for appropriate use.
The government's going to tell me I can't make jokes on the internet.
Okay.
Good luck.
Take me straight to jail.
But even if none of those are adopted, I think what happened last February has put a chill across Canadians because they see what happened to Tamara Leach.
They see what happened to Tom Marazzo.
They see what happened to so many people who had their bank accounts frozen.
They couldn't make payroll.
They couldn't pay their mortgage.
They couldn't buy their groceries.
And for what?
Because they stood up peacefully to their government.
A lot of people, there are a lot of people who are willing to say, I wouldn't change a thing.
Tamara Leach said that last night.
I wouldn't change a thing.
But there are a lot of people who are just, and who could blame them?
Say the price is just too high.
And that is what invoking the Emergencies Act, I think it wasn't just to stop that protest.
It was to stop any protests going forward.
And I think, by and large, it could work.
True North recently put out a documentary about this.
And I think they asked a question that I never heard anybody ask before to the truckers.
And that was, what was it like on the drive home?
Yeah.
It's a fantastic question.
And it was heartbreaking.
Like, just imagine that.
Like, it's sure one thing that's a loss that they didn't drop the mandates right away.
I don't think anybody believed that they would in the way that they wanted, right?
I know they won in some ways, and especially in Alberta, they definitely won Saskatchewan too.
But I think that they could have went home with a smile on their face, even if nothing, no mandate, not a single thing dropped because they united a country.
Got everybody together.
They they, put everything aside and there was millions of people around the country who, vaccinated or not, stood up right like they.
They even if it's in their living room or whatever, but because of what happened.
That is where that sense of loss comes from, that sense of it's like grief.
It's like grief like I grieve over it, like it's like a you lost something.
Yeah, I don't even know how to put it.
I'm not a very emotional person, but I think I.
Yeah yeah, it is.
It's sad, and I wish the truckers on that drive home had taken to heart Ezra's words when he said on when he was there, speaking to the truckers, that you won just by being here, because they united a country and they were the single largest human rights demonstration, I think, in the nation's history, but at least in my lifetime, and they spawned a movement around the world of peaceful resistance.
Those trucks and those flags went everywhere around the world, across other continents and, um again, that's why I think the crackdown had to be that hard on them from the federal government, because they were the most effective opposition that Justin Trudeau had ever seen.
I agree, I asked that question way before.
Uh uh sorry, I was just thinking of this hit this.
I asked that question um to keep Eva and Brendan.
I already put Eva's answer in the documentary.
I asked if they thought it was an inevitable for that crackdown to come, because there were some um people in Ottawol Service who said that it was inevitable, that there was no other way to kind of clear it.
Um, which is funny because Ottawa police is the one who kind of got in the way of the plan that they were going to have to clear it um.
But Eva put it in just a really good way that uh, there were so many other instances across the country, like even at Windsor the, the border blockade, which kind of seemed to be like the big, most pressing thing, um being the most uh used border in all of the country between here and United States.
Um, the province and the police, like they went there and they talked to the protesters and the big big, big majority of them left and the crackdown that we saw there was for the few people who didn't leave and that's unfortunate.
That um, that crackdown was pretty uh brutal and and gross.
But um they, they had a, they had a meeting and they had a deal and they the the, the effect of, of the crackdown was was minimalized so low.
Um, because of that, because they actually spoke to each other.
Um, and that's where they failed in in Ottawa is that, even though the OP tried um, Ottawa police didn't want anything to do with it.
And then, when the Quebec police the worst police in the country came and they, they didn't want to hear any of it and they were ready to go, they were ready to start stomping on people with their horse.
Yeah, you know, the first week of the Trucker Commission.
Uh, really reminded me that there are.
You know, I give bureaucrats a hard time.
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I really do.
I think you're overpaid and underworked.
But Steve Kenilakos, a city manager.
Yeah.
With the city of Ottawa.
I think the only person in the city of Ottawa who did a damn good job.
He dealt fairly with the truckers.
He dealt fairly with the lawyers.
He did his best to liaise with the police who were seriously in up.
He was dealing with a mayor that just really hated those truckers.
And he was the most fair, level-headed, seemingly non-partisan guy.
Exactly the kind of guy you want to work in the public sector.
He's rare.
He's a unicorn in the public sector.
I think the left-leaning politicians in Ottawa liked it.
Yeah, of course.
I think they love victimhood.
Stephen Canalakos, Steve Kay, because that's what everybody calls him.
I can't do his last name properly.
I think that guy just wanted to go home to his family.
And he's like, yeah, here's what's happening.
This, this, this, and this, and this.
Here's who I have to talk to.
I'm clocking out of five.
Everybody has got it all sorted out.
I did my job.
And then when he testified, he, you know, he, he was, even when it made sometimes, if it made the truckers or the lawyers kind of look like bad, but just like not as presented, like he had no issue doing that, but he also had no issue calling out the mayor and the police.
Like he just, like I said, he just wanted to testify there too and go home.
Yep.
Straight shooter, that guy.
He was right over your shoulder, by the way.
He was right over your shoulder as we were talking about.
Yeah, it was weird.
Kean, I know you're busy.
You're working today.
I'm working today.
Tell us where people can find your documentary, Trudeau on Trial.
There's a couple of different ways.
So let us know.
So first off, if you go to Trudeauontrial.com, this will be out tomorrow, Wednesday.
So the full documentary will actually already be out for free tomorrow night at 6 p.m. our time.
So yeah, trudoontrial.com.
By the time you're watching this, head to that website and you can watch it chapters.
And that way, I made it that way just so people can digest all the information in a timely way.
And then if you want to watch it in full, you can go to our Rebel News Plus, which is also in Trudeauontrial.com.
You can sign up there.
I believe it takes you to the next website.
And I just suggest signing up there anyway.
I think you already have if you're watching this.
But if there's a if this comes out for free, that's the best place to do it.
I highly suggest watching it in full because it's just such a great experience.
Just the way that it flows.
I'm tooting my own horn here, but I think people will really enjoy watching it in full.
Yeah.
Trudeauontrial.com.
You're missing the in-person showing on March 8th.
Oh my gosh.
Dead.
And we're showing it in person in Edmonton on March 8th at Church in the Vine, my favorite church.
I don't know if I'm allowed to say that, but saying it anyway, Church and the Vine.
And it's going to be great.
It's $12 tickets.
It's the family-friendly version.
I'm going to go through the documentary and cut out all the F-bombs so people can bring their kids if they so wish.
And you get a pop and maybe a snack.
A snack.
Yeah, pop and a snack of some kind.
I'm not making popcorn for three hours, though.
It'll be some kind of other snack.
But refreshment and a snack are included in your ticket.
And yeah, we love Church in the Vine.
They stood up to the Alberta government during the times of COVID and got an $80,000 fine for their troubles.
But they believe in free speech and free expression and free assembly.
And they're always so generous with their facility with us when we show our documentary.
So I look forward to seeing everybody there.
If you go to Trudeauontrial.com, you can get your tickets, but don't hesitate because they go fast.
Everybody always waits and says hymns and haws about buying tickets and then they're sold out, which is what happened last night.
I'm very excited.
Yeah, me too.
I think also at our documentary, are we going to have the lawyers there?
Yes, Keith and Eva are going to be there, Keith Wilson and Eva Chipyak.
I'm maybe dropped a little surprise.
I think Brendan Miller is back in Alberta for then.
And I'm going to send him an invite to come too.
Great.
So we'll have a QA with the lawyers afterwards and the filmmaker.
And I'll sort of be moderating it.
I'll do my best to shut up and not monopolize the microphone.
Kian, thanks so much for making this documentary, taking the time away from your family and your dog, and sitting in the horrible hellscape of Ottawa for that long, listening to bureaucrats and politicians lie about good people.
It's emotionally taxing.
I was only there for a couple of days and I was like, my soul has left my body.
I'm somewhere else right now.
So thank you so much for doing that.
And thanks so much for taking the time today.
Thank you for having me on.
And I'm glad I was able to be there to document this historic event.
And just a quick side note: it was the schwarma that made Ottawa so bearable.
They have the schwarma.
I don't know.
I'll take submissions on that.
Kian, thanks so much.
Let's get back to work.
Thank you.
Well, friends, we've come to the letters portion of the show today.
And I invite your viewer feedback for better or for worse.
Sometimes it's why I give out my email address.
It's Sheila at RebelNews.com.
That's the best way to get a hold of me.
Put gun show letters in the subject line so I can find it or leave a comment on whatever platform you're watching us on.
I prefer Rumble because they're less censorship-y than YouTube, but I do go poking around on YouTube from time to time too, because there's like 1.6 million sets of eyeballs watching us over on YouTube.
And I don't want to abandon you, even though YouTube's terrible.
I don't think you people are.
Anyway, today's letter is not actually on a gun show or even a video that I did.
It's on an article that I wrote.
I write quite a few articles throughout the course of the week here at Rebel News because I just don't have time to do a video on everything.
Justin Trudeau's Green Agenda00:02:46
And it was on how Justin Trudeau has recently expanded the role of the Associate Deputy Minister at Natural Resources Canada to include a role of making sure we never actually use our natural resources ever again in a sustainable way.
He's expanded the ADM position to be also the special advisor on decarbonization.
And this is part of Justin Trudeau's quest for net zero and the just transition, which is anything but just, anything but fair.
It's just unemployment.
It's just inflation.
It's just debt.
It's just poverty.
And it will just please Justin Trudeau's overlords at the World Economic Forum and at the United Nations.
But it will leave us, well, largely destitute while the rest of the world continues to develop their fossil fuel industries.
The world needs more Canada and probably less Justin Trudeau.
Anyways, my letter is from Roger on that article.
And he writes, Sheila, thanks for your article.
Since I was in the industrial combustion systems business and helped the head of Alberta Environment negotiate the emissions standards for Canada, this makes me sick.
Looking at the picture of this woman, so the ADM, I can tell if I asked her where electricity came from, she would say the plug in the wall.
She wouldn't understand how water gets to her house or process on waste leaving her house.
What's the difference between organic maple syrup and regular maple syrup?
That would be fun to hear her explanation.
You know, so many of these people making these decisions have no idea how any of this stuff works.
Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science does great work on this where she points out that a lot of the people meddling in our energy systems and our electrical systems to make them more efficient and more green have no idea how the electrical system works, how electricity marketing works, and the nuts and bolts of electricity, how for every green energy project, you actually need fossil fuel backup or you're going to have blackouts like Texas did when they got hit with an ice storm.
Anyways, let's keep going.
How is drywall manufactured?
Shingles, fiberglass insulation, canola crushing, food manufacturing doesn't just appear on the grocery shelf.
Why do all of her clothes have synthetics in them?
Why does the potash industry use ultra-low nitrous oxide burners and not for nitrous oxide emissions, but for particulate emissions?
What are all the uses of magnesium oxide for pollution control?
It's a tragedy of what ignorant teachers promote in public schools.
Out of Control Governments00:01:06
Keep up the great work.
Governments are completely out of control.
Roger from just south of Calgary.
Roger, you're right.
You're right.
Now, I don't know what this new special advisor on decarbonization knows or doesn't know, but I do know that the decision makers in all of these things to get us off coal here in Alberta or to ban plastics or to push for net zero in car sales by 2035.
These people have no idea the strain they are about to put on an electricity grid that is not prepared to have millions and millions of cars plugged in.
We are going to be washing our clothes on a rock by the river because there is not going to be enough electricity to run our washers and dryers when we need clean clothes.
That's where we're going to end up here.
Anyway, on that dire note, thanks for tuning in, everybody.
Thanks to everybody who works behind the scenes to put the show together, including my producer, the long-suffering Jesse.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week.