David Menzies and Alexa Lavoie expose RCMP Commissioner Mike Duhem’s push for a "hurt feelings law" to shield politicians from criticism while violent crime, $1.70/liter gas, and $2T LNG revenue losses go unaddressed. Duhem’s focus on vague "nasty remarks" mirrors Bill C-63’s anonymous complaint system, offering $20K payouts for alleged hate. Menzies highlights two-tiered policing—aggressive crackdowns on journalists like Lavoie (shot by RCMP during the Freedom Convoy) but leniency toward pro-Hamas protesters chanting anti-Semitic slogans ("From the river to the sea") and flying drones illegally near McGill’s encampment. Courts, including Quebec Premier François Legault’s failed injunctions, refuse to act, leaving activists emboldened while dissenters face assaults. Their distrust in police grows as enforcement prioritizes political protection over actual threats. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, Justin Trudeau's RCMP commissioner wants a new law on the books prohibiting nasty messaging to politicians.
It's Wednesday, May 15th, 2024.
I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Well, folks, this just in regarding the one law for me, one law for thee file.
A heaping helping of hypocrisy that really took off during this scandemic.
Mike Duhem, Justin Trudeau's handpicked RCMP commissioner, says he wants the government to look at drafting a new law that would make it easier for police to pursue charges against people who offend elected officials?
That's right.
Commissioner Duhem wants a brand new whiz-bang hurt feelings law.
Oh, and not for all of us who make up the great unwashed masses, mind you.
No, no, the hurt feelings law is solely for those in the political class.
You know, these beautiful people and their precious feelings, well, they're special, you see, and must be protected at all costs.
On the flip side, it is your commentary that must be sanitized for their protection or else.
My God in heaven, with all the crime that is surging across our great dominion these days, and I mean real bona fide violent crime from carjackings to homicide, Commissioner Duhem is more concerned about members of the political elite suffering from hurt feelings, really?
No wonder this Mountie is a Trudeau appointee.
And isn't this a chicken and egg quandary?
Duhem says he wants the government to look at drafting new laws.
Could it be that it is the Trudeau liberals who cooked up this idea and they are employing Duhem as their bought and paid for stooge, you know, to make it seem as though there is a separation of state and law enforcement?
Whatever the case, here's the skinny.
The RCMP alleged that they're seeing an increase in the utterance of nasty remarks and social media postings directed at our privileged politicians.
Good golly, I wonder why so many Canadians are in such a sour mood these days.
Could it be gas at $1.70 a liter or that a basket full of groceries can cost well north of $100?
Or how about those ominous interest rates, meaning foreclosure is now a clear and present danger for many homeowners?
Or what about those people literally dying as they wait for life-saving surgery?
Or how about Trudeau turning down countries such as Germany, Japan, Greece, and several others that are begging to purchase our liquefied natural gas, only to have Trudeau refuse them, saying, well, you know, there's no business case.
Yeah, why would we want the Canadian Treasury being enriched to the tune of, oh, I don't know, some $2 trillion?
The budget will bounce itself after all.
Oh, and by the way, if you really don't like the way the Trudeau Liberals are destroying our nation and you're on the verge of losing your livelihood and maybe your house, hey, no problem.
The Liberals have made it easy peasy to check out anytime thanks to medical assistance and dying, aka MAID.
Oh, but this maid doesn't clean up your room.
Rather, she gives you the long needle.
And the really great thing about MAID, as opposed to say, oh, I don't know, getting hip replacement surgery, is that there's no wait time.
So if you're not happy with the liberals and you're feeling, you know, down in the dumps, feel free to exit stage left as in permanently.
In the meantime, let's get down to the real issues of substance for this government.
It's not trite stuff like the economy or the healthcare crisis or illegal aliens or surging crime.
No, the really, really big issue is politicians having their feelings hurt by nasty words.
So thank goodness we have the mounties to serve and protect, and for that matter, to reinvent themselves as the thought police.
Don't you find it perversely ironic that Trudeau hates guns?
Well, guns owned by law-abiding hunters and sport shooters, that is.
Not so much illegal handguns owned by gangbangers who routinely get out of jail on bail, thanks to our catch and release justice system.
And he certainly does not hate guns when it comes to the federal law enforcement division.
Oh no, their guns come in quite handy when it comes to intimidating the populace, especially when people take to the streets to protest the erosion of their freedoms.
But back to Commissioner Duhem.
He frets that the problem with people making cruel comments to politicians is that such behavior does not meet the criminal code threshold for laying a charge of uttering threats.
Well, of course the threshold isn't meant.
Harsh language is not the same as uttering a death threat.
Oh, damn that freedom of speech thing, EA.
But here's where it gets a wee bit scary.
RCMP Commissioner Dewright, or I mean Duhem, rhetorically asks, quote, are there other tools that we can use?
Is there anything else that we could add to the criminal code that can address the situation, end quote?
Translation, Trudeau and his minions just can't wait for the thought crime legislation, aka Bill C-63 to be enacted into law.
That's all about hurt feelings too, so much so that an anonymous person can file a complaint against you if they believe you stated something hateful even several years ago.
The complaint can receive an award of $20,000 with the government receiving a $50,000 service fee.
Oh, take that, Ticketmaster.
Oh, and by the way, if the government thinks you might say something hurtful in the future, they can place you in indefinite house arrest.
If this bill is enacted into law and it survives the inevitable Supreme Court challenge, free speech will be vaporized in Canada.
We will have a nation that resembles a witch's brew of 1984 minority report and the Star Chamber.
But for censorious thugs like Duhem, the tyranny of Bill C-63 is clearly not enough.
There must be other new rules regarding free speech, new laws that are required to remedy a problem that does not exist.
Oh, and when Duhem uses the term other tools, what is he referring to exactly?
Would one of those other tools be that big bazooka in the government toolbox known as the Emergencies Act?
You know, I bet Duhaim would love to have the Emergencies Act permanently in place.
That would make things go so much easier for the Mounties, wouldn't it?
You know, without having to deal with all that due process stuff gumming up the works.
So citizen, beware, if you dare raise that F. Trudeau flag in the not too distant future, you might just get fined or criminally charged or put in solitary or have your bank account frozen.
Oh, I bet that non-dynamic duo of Trudeau and Duhem would love that kind of power.
Here's the thing.
I'm pretty much a free speech absolutist, but there is, of course, a line in the proverbial sand.
And that line is this.
If you advocate for the harm or death of an individual or a recognizable group of individuals, that is criminal.
And on this front, hey, Mr. Duhem, visit any major Canadian city on any given weekend and check out the calls for the genocide of the Jewish people by the pro-Hamas hooligans.
Indeed, from Intifara and from the river to the sea to go back to Europe, members of this new age Hitler youth movement are blatantly breaking hate speech laws.
And yet nothing is being done.
Heck, Duhem, in March, they were even displaying signs outside a Liberal Party of Canada fundraiser condemning your boss as genocide Justin.
I guess these thugs are equal opportunity haters.
Yeah, they hate the Jew who just owns the local deli or runs a bookstore.
And they even hate the prime minister himself who clearly sides with Team Hamas, but maybe not enough, I suppose.
And your response to all this hatred, Commissioner Duhem?
Happy to see you here.
Folks, can the hypocrisy of our ruling class be any more blatant?
Can the two-tier policing be any more self-evident?
But genocide, schmemicide, Duhem is seemingly obsessed about politicians having their feelings hurt by harsh language.
And don't get me wrong, if a constituent utters an actual death threat, that does cross the line.
And there are already provisions in the criminal code to address such discourse in the here and now.
But if a snowflake politician is triggered by salty language, sorry, that politician is in the wrong business.
In politics, you need Godzilla thick skin.
T'was ever thus.
Yet we seem to have a new crop of woke weakling wimps in office.
And Commissioner Duhaim wants to charge to their rescue.
You know, I wonder who's really pulling the strings of this puppet in a red tunic.
Could it be our deputy PM, Fraudline Freeland herself?
We know how this former journalist reacts to independent media types if they dare ask an impolite question.
And yes, I speak from experience.
In case Commissioner Duhem missed it, check out what happened to me outside the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts back in January.
By the way, this venue was hosting a fourth anniversary vigil for the victims of Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752, in which 176 died, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents.
It was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
And this was an event Rebel News was invited to cover.
Oh, but never mind, because Fraudline Freeland only has time for her state-sponsored train seals in the lamestream media.
Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group?
Why is your government supporting Islam on this?
What are you doing?
You're under arrest for assault.
Why are you supposed to be?
You're under arrest for assault.
Who are you?
Under arrest?
Please about it.
Police, you're under arrest.
How am I under arrest?
You bumped into me.
You pushed into me.
I was just scrubbing with you.
I've got my credentials here and you just bumped into me.
So, police, you're under arrest.
The question arises: was Officer Uncle Fester operating on his own volition that day, or did Freeland and her assistant order this savage skinhead to get Hansy?
Well, we don't know yet, but we will know in the future, methinks.
We've served the RCMP with a $1 million lawsuit for repeatedly violating our charter rights.
Yes, repeatedly.
Remember what transpired again to me in December of 2021 when I was standing on a public sidewalk hoping to scrum Trudeau about his most recent hypocrisy.
Namely, he was telling Canadians back then not to celebrate Christmas, that not to get together with family members and friends.
That was a little too dangerous with that COVID-19 being a thing.
So we need to isolate for the greater good, yada, yada, yada.
And yet, here was Trudeau that night staging a $1,700 a plate fundraiser at the Brickworks restaurant in which donors were packed in like sardines.
But I never got to ask Trudeau a question because, well, because Trudeau's Praetorian Guard protected the PM that night.
Oh, not from any physical harm from me, mind you, but from hearing maybe an impolite question.
Here, check it out.
What are you doing?
Get off me.
Get off me.
I can.
Hey, this is assault.
I'm on a side.
What are you doing?
I'm on a sidewalk.
What is this?
You cannot touch me.
Not rush me or not.
Are you kidding?
Are you kidding?
I told you.
What is this?
You can't.
Am I under arrest?
Am I under arrest?
Can it possibly get any worse than that?
Actually, and unfortunately, it can get worse.
And it did get worse because just a few months after my December assault, my colleague, Alexa Lavois, was shot.
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shot by a Mountie as law enforcement brutally shut down the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
Despicable.
There are other examples of Mounties acting badly, but I think you get the drift, which is to say the RCMP has already lost the plot.
And commissioners like Duhim and the incompetent diversity hire that he replaced, Brenda Lucky, they have completely vandalized the once stellar image of the RCMP.
Indeed, we have come a long, long way from the days of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald crooning to one another in the Great White North.
When I'm calling...
Yeah, I get it.
In retrospect, those movies are now cheesier than a bucket full of Bulgarian feta, but at least Nelson Eddy wasn't shooting Jeanette McDonald in the thigh with a tear gas canister.
Indeed, in terms of the RCMP being realistically depicted in pop culture, I think this example is more apropos.
I'm the Mountie, and I enforce the law.
You can try to run, but you can never hide.
The Mountie always gets this mad.
You know, the RCMP brass back in the 80s were furious over Jacques Rojo's portrayal of a Mountie, so much so that Rougeau was actually prevented from using his Mountie gimmick whenever he wrestled in Canada.
Yeah, the RCMP bigwigs hated the idea of a Mountie using fear and intimidation tactics and using a weapon.
In Rougeot's case, he had a fondness for a cattle prod and cheating and carrying out dirty tricks.
In other words, the RCMP had great difficulty with that concept known as truth in advertising.
And yeah, I'm looking at you again, Constable Uncle Fester.
Poor Mr. Rojo, the Mountie character was his best shtick ever.
Maybe he should have portrayed the Mountie character as a babyface as opposed to a heel waltzing to the squared circle, crooning Indian love song to Miss Elizabeth.
Yeah, the RCMP would have approved of that, no doubt.
Little wonder that in 1995, the Mountie signed a deal with Disney to produce RCMP-themed trinkets and trash.
Staff Sergeant Ken McLean, an RCMP public affairs spokesman at the time, stated the following: quote, we would like to see good quality Canadian merchandise with a proper reflection of our uniform and our image, end quote.
Folks, do you find it a little goofy that the RCMP required an American company best known for Mickey Mouse to distribute good quality Canadian merchandise, which was actually made in China?
Hands Behind Back00:07:35
But never mind.
And in case you think bad policing is the sole bailiwick of the Mounties, well, that's not true.
Certain members of the Toronto Police Service are acting very badly these days.
Here is a video of me being arrested in March on King Street in downtown Toronto.
My charge?
Well, obstruct police.
Oh, there was obstruction going on that evening.
All right, but it was the police obstructing me.
What is going on now?
We just want you to watch the role.
Excuse me.
We're trying to put him behind the street.
Hey, hey, that's my guy.
That's my guy!
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
Stay back, guys.
Stay back.
Stay back.
Stop pushing forward.
Here we go.
Hey, hey stop.
That's my wallet.
You're under arrest with fucking police.
Here we go.
What is this?
I've asked you for identification numerous times.
You failed to identify yourself.
That's just fucking police.
So there you have it, folks.
If you thought that the pre-crimes unit was from the sci-fi movie Minority Report, think again.
The Toronto police obviously has its own pre-crimes unit.
You see, they thought that perhaps, maybe, presumably, I was going to ask the pro-Hamas hooligans a question that might further enrage them.
And it's easier for the cops to shut down a lone journalist rather than to crawl an entire mob.
This is what's known now as keeping the peace these days.
Alas, the very next month, my cameraman Efren Monsanto and I attended the six-month anniversary vigil of the October 7th massacre in Israel.
It was staged at Nathan Phillips Square, quite literally Toronto's town square.
There were more than 2,000 people there that day to hear conservative leader Pierre Polyev deliver his remarks.
Naturally, even on this somber occasion, the pro-Hamas thug showed up to stage a counter-demonstration.
These emboldened reprobates even assaulted Ephraim and I right in front of the police.
So naturally, an arrest was made, which is to say the police arrested me for trespassing.
Yes, check it out You have your hands.
Watch your hands.
Watch your hands.
No! No! No!
Double joins on me.
Don't put your hands on me.
They can chant genocide in the streets.
And I can't cover that.
Obey your oath, officer.
Obey your oath.
Listen to me.
If I'm on the other arrest, get your hands off.
Okay, then I'll put your phone down.
Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back.
You're under arrest for refusing to leave, okay?
Good point.
Efren, are you catching this?
Once again, you can have people chance genocide in the streets of America.
You're under arrest for refusing to leave primacist.
Okay, Mr. Morris.
It's a public spectrum.
You know, my first day in court regarding this most recent example of police brutality is tomorrow.
Stay tuned for further updates.
And meanwhile, if you would like to help me out with my legal fees, please go to standwithdavid.com and kindly make a donation.
Thanks so much.
Oh, and incidentally, while Freeland back in January told the media that politicians do not advise law enforcement, do you really believe that?
Because a few months ago, Prime Minister Trudeau had a private meeting with Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkew.
But why?
The chief doesn't answer to the PM.
So what was being discussed here?
Maybe, you know, go a little easy on the pro-Hamas types, given that there is an election looming in the months ahead, and this is a potential demograph for the liberals to court.
And maybe there's more of them than there are Jews, after all, which would explain why Toronto police constables reimagine themselves as Uber Eats drivers to deliver these thugs coffee and tin bits.
And maybe Trudeau, with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, suggested to Chief DemQ that if there are any, you know, independent media types asking insensitive questions, well, hey, Chief, could you throw the book at them?
I mean, how else can you possibly explain my most recent arrests simply for practicing journalism in public spaces?
Bottom line, RCMP Commissioner Duhem, can you kindly get back to eradicating real crime and stop fretting about getting laws on the books to protect politicians from hurt feelings, sticks and stones and all that, right?
And in the meantime, how about giving that unhinged officer, Greg Dumoschel, aka Uncle Fester, how about giving him the boot for committing real criminal acts, such as physical assault and false arrest?
The Mounties always get their man, don't they?
Or do you consider Officer Dumoschel to be the poster boy for how a proper Mountie should act?
You know, a goon with a gun who will go to whatever lengths to protect important political types like Christia Freeland from unauthorized questions.
It's surreal, isn't it, folks?
I mean, going back to 2015, I thought Justin Trudeau's Canada was supposed to be all about sunny ways, sunny ways, my friends.
Remember that?
But when it comes to Prime Minister Trudeau and his RCMP commissioner Duhem, our Dominion is more and more resembling a lyric plucked from the song Home on the Range.
France's Colonial Legacy00:03:35
You know, where seldom is heard a discouraging word.
And if you all have a problem with that, well, folks, your local police department has a jail cell ready and waiting for you.
Quebec, of course, is a distinct society.
It is French.
They speak French.
It's a French culture.
They are the descendants of French settlers in North America.
It's a very special place.
And one of the decisions made, I guess, a generation ago by the province is they wanted to bring in French-speaking immigration so as not to dilute the French fact.
Well, who speaks French around the world?
There are some French parts of Africa.
There's Haiti and some other Caribbean French-speaking places.
That's why there's a large Haitian population in Quebec.
But really, numerically, it seems that they bet heavily on the Maghreb region, the north of Africa, that was colonized and actually rebelled against France's empire.
I'm talking about places like Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria.
Those people who were colonized and were actually part of a civil war against the French.
I bumped into some folks like that when I visited the port of Marseille, France last year.
Here's my conversation with someone from Algeria who said France colonized Algeria and now Algerians are returning the favor.
Remember this conversation?
Don votre and Algerie or Français afforded Jazaire.
But monsieur, if you suis Français numerous vous racist, we parsist thee.
Jacques à lived the living, there to problem surround.
We live in the terror part, and we laid a bond.
We live in limits.
I found a contradiction in one of the gentlemen because he said we're not treated with respect as Frenchmen, but we don't put France first.
Do you see the distinction there?
Do you see the contradiction there?
Well, frankly, everything that's happening here is related to the state.
Everything is the fault of the police.
It's the fault of the state.
Because here in France, there's too much racism.
The racism is in the first degree here in France.
That's all I have to say.
That's all.
Why millions of Muslims immigrate to France if France is racist?
Well, they have colonized us for 132 years.
And now it's our turn to come here.
How can I explain it?
I can't find the words.
And we colonize 100 colonies, and we will colonize it.
You can't.
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Well, I think that's happening in Quebec too.
So many of the people brought into the province because they speak French, well, they have other characteristics and attributes too.
The French language is one part of who they are, but many of them have a sense of Arab identity.
And unfortunately, many of them seem to have an anti-Semitic identity as well, since Canada does not screen new immigrants for anti-Semitism or any other form of cultural fit.
And so this week, when there was a pro-Israel rally in support of Israel's National Day, Israel's independence, there was a massive anti-Israel rally at the same time, right across the street.
And in the middle was our reporter, Alexa Lavoie.
She joins us now via Skype.
Alexa, great to see you again.
Great to see you too.
You know, there's been a lot of battles in Montreal.
And in fact, some of the craziest things so far have happened, the attempt to shoot a school or a synagogue.
Actually, it wasn't an attempt.
They did shoot a school or synagogue.
There was a Molotov cocktail thrown there.
So there have been kinds of violence in Montreal we haven't seen elsewhere.
We've also seen massive street rallies larger than anywhere else in the country where jihadists have basically had open-air rallies calling for support of Hamas.
It really is the most hardcore pro-Hamas city in Canada, don't you think?
I think so.
But I think also we need to don't forget that Montreal is also a place where we have the most people from the radical left.
I'm talking about Antifa, Black Bloc.
We have also like anarchists, a lot of people emerging from the radical left wing in terms of politics.
And those people have merged with the radical Islamo go like leftists, I would say.
I think you're, I'm so glad you said that.
And it's true.
Antifa is the most organized there.
I would say they're the most violent there.
Antifa from Montreal, in fact, are often shipped by bus to Ottawa to form the backbone of left-wing protests.
So I think what you're saying is, yes, there are Arab and Muslim activists who support Hamas, but they are in an alliance with Antifa, with communists, with hard leftists.
So you're saying it's a coalition?
It is, clearly, because most of the students that we see in those encampments are not the one that will usually be pro-Palestine or anything else like that.
You know, most of them didn't raise their voice when multiple Arabs was killed across the Arabic country around the world.
It's just that now they want to grow their agenda and they found the perfect, perfect story for them.
And what we see so far is like their movement, they were right because their movement is growing and growing as a fast speed.
So tell me the demographics at the protest.
I've been to protests in different cities and you have too.
I remember you went to London, England.
And if I saw correctly, and I was there once too, I would say about 80 to 90% of the protesters in London, England are new immigrants from Muslim places, including Pakistan, for example.
When I was at Columbia, I would say it's the opposite.
80 or 90% of the protesters were white liberal rich kids who found this the cause du jour.
What's the demographic mix when you were there this week at the dueling protest?
Who was on the pro-Hamas side?
Were they foreigners?
Were they woke activists?
Were they Antifa?
Like, who were they?
What did they look like?
So there were not that many because most of them are protecting probably the encampment right now because there is some threat against them to being removed.
So there were not that many.
But what I can say is like the main people in charge chanting slogan are Arabic, are emerging from Arabic country.
I don't know if they are Canadian citizen or the odious here temporary.
Only government know about it.
But the person in charge of the leading are most of the time people who are Arabic themselves.
They are Muslim.
And the other one who are following are mostly white, white students, white people from Quebec.
And some of them are also immigrant.
It's like a mix.
I would say half enough.
Sometimes it's really hard because something that is different in Montreal, almost everybody wear masks and wear like a cafe around their face.
So it's really difficult to know who they are.
Right.
I really think we've set our society back years by normalizing the wearing of masks.
I mean, other than if you're a welder or if it's minus 30 and you have to go outside on a snowmobile, I think the idea of wearing a mask is anti-social and it serves obviously to keep secret the identity of people who are doing illegal things.
That's why bank robbers wear masks.
They're not protecting themselves from the cold.
I think we've done a terrible thing by normalizing masks again.
Tell me about some of your particular interactions.
What bothered me, amongst other things, was that Montreal's police obviously found it easier to manhandle you and boss you around and move you around as a journalist than to do so for these Hamas supporters.
Tell us a bit of that and we'll play a video clip of the police pushing around and even hitting you.
So I caught the crowds chanting one of the most anti-Semitic slogan that they were calling like, or you say you're native, but you're all from Europe.
Drone Back Story00:12:26
So go back to Europe.
And they were chanting slogan like that to the Israeli crowd in front of them.
So I caught them chanting that and they were not that happy.
So afterwards, they came after me and saying, oh, that rebel news are terrorists and that we are spreading disinformation.
And afterwards, they came outside of the perimeter that the police have put in place.
And they were coming towards me, blocking my camera.
And not only the police like to say, okay, you need to go back to your perimeter, guys, but they pushed me away.
Me that I have supposedly free press in Canada, who I'm doing my job as questioning people why they are here and just basic question.
They say to me that I am provocating attention there that I need to go to the corner of the street where it's impossible for me to do my job properly.
And you know what?
Nothing have happened.
I was just interviewing the leader of the Naturai Carta that asked me, request me to say some word on camera so I didn't go in his face or ask him for an interview.
He actually bring one of his guys to say, I want to say my point of view.
I say, okay, I'm here to show all side of the story.
And afterwards, it became really aggressive and violent on their side.
So I had no choice.
I needed to go a little bit further.
And I was just recording an update and not only the police got handy with me, but one of them hit my back.
And I was really mad because I was like, how dare you to hit a journalist in the back?
And to hit a woman.
I mean, not that, I mean, it's just there's something gross about it.
There's something gratuitous.
There's something bullying about it.
Here, let's play that clip.
A lot of things in this clip make me mad.
a look and go back to Europe they claim that they're indigenous but they all came from Europe leave Palestine alone leave Palestine alone leave Palestine alone and go back to Europe When both of them are Canadian citizens.
And you know what?
I filmed them saying that I want to expose them.
And they saw that.
They started to chant against rebel news.
And they were passing through the fence to come toward us to block our camera.
Hey, Rebel News, we know you're a liar too.
Hey, move away, Rebel News.
Get out of here, Rebel News.
Stop recording.
Stop recording, you liar.
Stop recording, you liar.
Back up.
Back up.
Say this, we don't deal with fake news over here.
We don't deal with fake news.
Hey, these harassing us.
They're harassing us.
Say it on you.
Shame on you.
Shame Say not you.
Shame on you.
And you know what the police did?
No.
They not only asked them to go back inside of the square, like the parameter, but they push us away.
They ask us to go all the way down to the corner of the street where I cannot do my job as a journalist.
So you see, now they are blocking us instead of doing something and asking them to not come toward us, to harass us, and to threatening us.
So this is just hilarious.
Anyway, this is ridiculous.
So you see, like, I have no problem on the side of the Israelis.
So I can show you the other side of the street.
It's pretty peaceful.
They are celebrating their Independence Day today.
But we have this counter-protester that are chanting anti-Semitic slogan.
But can you jump on me, please?
Can you just?
I have the freedom to do whatever I want.
This is public space.
I was doing my job.
You have no.
Hey, you just showed up.
I thanked you.
You freaking hit me in my back when you passed.
Coward.
Wow.
He hit me on my back passing by.
You see how the Montreal police is acting with us?
This is ridiculous.
You know, I wish we had a camera shot from behind to show that abuse because without that, it makes it hard to sue the police.
As you know, we've sued the police in Montreal before for violating our civil rights for raiding our Airbnb a few years ago without a search warrant.
There was another really weird clip that I saw yesterday.
You have a little drone, which a lot of our reporters have.
They're wonderful for getting overhead shots and there are some rules about using them.
But for drones that are under a certain weight, they're considered toys by the government.
They're so light, they really couldn't hurt a flea.
So they are very unrestricted in their use.
You wanted to use a drone, and the police threatened you immediately.
But a little bit later on, a Hamas drone was literally feet in front of you.
Like just, it was within arm's reach.
Tell us about that.
And then we'll play the video clip.
So I'm always going with the law.
So I'm always asking before flying my drone to, and I'm always asking the police officer, do you mind if I fly my drone up and down?
I just want to take some shots.
Sometimes they say yes, sometimes they say no, but apparently that day they were no fly zone.
So I say, okay, they say, like, if you fly it, you will have a thousand dollars fine.
So I say, okay, I'm not going to do it.
I was just doing an update filming on pretty far away from both of the protests.
So it's why I was really surprised.
But a drone came straight into my face, filming me.
So I grabbed the drone and I was like, this person will need to go and came to me to request the drone back.
And so I have that drone.
The man came to me.
Of course, it was from the crowd of the anti-Israel supporters because when I filmed him, he was saying to me, Free Palestine.
And so it was not happy because I pressured the police.
Because at the moment, the police refused to fill a complaint against him.
They say they have no proof that the drone was flying.
I was like, I have my camera.
I can show you all the proof.
And they say, okay, are you ready to go in court and testify against this man?
I was like, since when, if it was me flying my drone in a minute, I will have had my information taken away from me and probably a complaint to Transport Canada because they are the one in charge to find the people who fly the drone illegally.
So after pressuring harder and harder, the police, they finally took his information, but our information because we have the proof of it.
And that man particularly was not happy.
And I think it's why he gave me the finger in the video.
Here, let's play that video.
It's just astonishing the two-tiered policing, which is, I tell you, it really decreases, in my mind, public support for the police.
I've said it a hundred times.
In the last five years, my support for police has gone from complete and utter support, chauvinistic support for the police to absolute skepticism.
And it's because of things like this.
Here, take a look.
the police, and what the hell is that?
So this drone just came to our face to film us in front of our face.
This is kind of like ridiculous because not long time ago, the police did refuse us to fly our drone.
And this drone out of nowhere, and it's not the police drone, came to us.
So I grabbed it in my hand.
But I pretty sure that this drone is the is there.
So we'll see if they will come to search that drone.
Now, I have it in my hand.
And he just give me a finger right there.
So the police would find you and charge you if you dare fly the drone, but a drone is flown mere feet away from you and the cops don't give a care.
I think it really is eroding public trust as policing.
Let me ask you, is the Hamas encampment still on McGill campus?
Because I understand they went to court to get an injunction and I think the police were asked to move the illegal encampment.
Is that right?
Is the encampment still there?
So it's really complex because François Legault, that is the Premier of Quebec, request the police officer to do their job and to remove the encampment in partnership with Miguel.
The first injunction that was filled by two students was refused by the court.
Afterwards, Miguel filled another injunction on Friday.
That injunction was again refused today.
So refused by whom?
Refused by the police?
By who?
The court.
Okay, so is there an injunction in effect right now?
No.
So all the injunctions that have been filled so far failed.
And so right now we know that the mayor of Montreal doesn't want the police to crack down.
She doesn't want an interaction between protesters and the police.
She said that she doesn't want to look like or to get closer of what we saw in America.
And she said that this is not us.
We know that the police were against also the injunction.
Apparently, it's what I saw on the internet.
So there is multiple angles in this story.
I don't think those encampments will go be removed soon.
And especially because we have a third encampment now that has been set up in Cherbourg.
So now in the province of Quebec, we have three encampments in different universities.
Well, that's incredible.
And it's quite something for the mayor to say: enforcing the law and removing illegal trespassers is not who we are.
But I guess having pro-Hamas, illegal shanty towns that chant anti-Semitic things and violate the law of mischief, trespass, vandalism, that is who Montreal is.
And you know what?
She can count.
She can count the number of people in that city who are Hamas supporters.
And I think that, like Justin Trudeau, she's good enough at math to know which way the demographics are.
Well, listen, I'm so glad you're there.
Please stay safe.
Please go with security where possible.
And realize that your enemies are not just Antifa and Hamas, but frankly, the Montreal police are against you too.