Ezra Levant highlights JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech condemning Europe’s free speech erosion—Romania’s election interference, Sweden’s Koran-burning crackdowns, and UK’s "safe access zone" laws—tying U.S. support to democratic integrity. Meanwhile, Tom Morazzo of the Ontario Party recounts Canada’s 2022 Freedom Convoy, a leaderless protest against COVID restrictions, where Rebel News outpaced CBC with 400M views, exposing state media bias. Morazzo faces a $300M lawsuit over frozen bank accounts, part of Trudeau’s unconstitutional crackdown, while USAID-funded groups like NewsGuard (backed by a $750K U.S. Air Force grant) target dissenting platforms. The convoy’s global resonance underscores how grassroots resistance challenges authoritarian overreach, even when mainstream narratives fail. [Automatically generated summary]
He was at the Munich Security Conference, which is a big military, political, NGO gathering.
Oh, boy, he let him have it.
I'm going to take you through the speech clip by clip because it's a momentous matter.
Then later, we'll talk to Tom Morazzo.
Today is the third anniversary of Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act.
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Tonight, U.S. Vice President JD Vance goes into the heart of Europe and speaks truth to power.
Oh, and they didn't like it.
It's February 14th, and this is the Answer Levance Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Every year around this time is the Munich Security Conference.
It's a huge meeting.
It's sort of like NATO Plus.
A little bit like the World Economic Forum.
You don't have to be a general or a politician to go there, but there are lots of generals and arms dealers and the like.
But it does have a bit of a European WEF feeling to it, too.
And it's a Soros favorite.
Both George Soros and his son Alex Soros love to hang out there, which gives me the creeps.
In fact, two years ago, George Soros spoke there.
Well, it's on again this year, and there's a new sheriff in town.
Donald Trump did not attend, but JD Vance, his vice president attended and gave a keynote speech.
Now, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth, the new Department of the Secretary of Defense, they sort of telegraphed in advance what they were going to say.
JD Vance, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, and here's Pete Hegseth talking a little bit about Ukraine and the peace deal Trump was after.
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine.
But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.
The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.
Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops.
So Europe, I think, knew that there was a change afoot, and JD Vance came and spoke to them right in the heart of their conference.
And I'd like to share about half his speech with you.
I won't play it all, even though it was all very good.
First of all, JD Vance said that the enemy, and remember, he's talking to soldiers here, he said the enemy was within.
And he talked about Romania and how its democratic vote was sort of blocked by righteous people and Germany's attempt to block a right-of-center party called the AFD, Alternative for Deutschland.
Take a look.
We gather at this conference, of course, to discuss security.
And normally, we mean threats to our external security.
I see many great military leaders gathered here today.
But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it's important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor.
And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election.
He warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany, too.
He talked about digital censorship and democratic values, and he wove in Ukraine there.
He didn't quite say it, but I think he's concerned about the fact that Ukraine has suspended some civil liberties, including independent newspapers, independent political parties, and even some churches.
Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears.
For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values.
Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy.
But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we're holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard.
And I say ourselves because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team.
We must do more than talk about democratic values.
We must live them.
You know, a lot of Europeans love free speech.
I think everyone loves free speech for themselves.
But half of Europe's politicians want to get Elon Musk because the free speech he uses and allows others to use criticizes the European Union.
Here, take a listen.
I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content.
Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the internet, a day of action.
Then JD Vance got very specific.
He talked about particular cases.
He talked about the case of the Swede who was murdered recently for burning the Koran.
Now, it's not a good idea to burn the Koran, but it is lawful in a free country.
And then his friend got arrested for complaining about it.
Take a listen.
I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder.
And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
And then Vance talked about the United Kingdom.
Remember, just the other day, we interviewed a woman who was arrested, I think, several times now, for quietly praying in her own mind.
Well, JD Vance didn't talk about her case, but another one about quiet prayer.
JD Vance didn't talk about Tommy Robinson, but I felt like he was coming close to the subject.
Here, take a look.
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs.
A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own.
Oh, he had a big list.
He next talked about Scotland and how they were arresting people for private prayer also.
This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.
Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime.
In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
JD Vance did say America has its share of the blame.
He confessed to Joe Biden-era censorship, for example, over COVID disinformation.
I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation.
Misinformation, like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from a laboratory in China, our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth.
Vance talked about Romania again, and I get it.
Imagine a country voting to have a conservative populist party and the poo-bahs just say, yeah, no, we're not going to recognize that election because it went the wrong way.
And under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.
Now, we're at the point, of course, that the situation has gotten so bad that this December, Romania straight up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors.
And then I think the most terrifying part of the conversation was when JD Vance talked about mass immigration to Europe.
And of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.
Today, almost one in five people living in this country moved here from abroad.
That is, of course, an all-time high.
It's a similar number, by the way, in the United States, also an all-time high.
The number of immigrants who entered the EU from non-EU countries doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone.
And of course, it's gotten much higher since.
By the way, right before the Munich Security Conference started, an Islamic terrorist rammed his car into people on the streets.
JD Vance talked about it.
I don't think he said the word Islamic, although the terrorist did apparently holler Ala Akbar.
An asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid-20s, already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community.
How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?
No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
But you know what they did vote for?
In England, they voted for Brexit, and agree or disagree, they voted for it.
And more and more all over Europe, they're voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration.
There's a light-hearted moment.
JD Vance was making a joke.
I don't know if the joke didn't translate well or if everyone there was so sour because of what Vance had been saying.
He talked about Greta Tunberg and Elon Musk and how having points of view, even if you find them irritating, that's not interference.
It's just free speech.
Take a look.
I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns, or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections, or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing.
In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy.
And speaking up and expressing opinions isn't election interference, even when people express views outside your own country and even when those people are very influential.
And trust me, I say this with all humor.
If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.
But what German democracy, what no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.
Anyways, it was quite a speech.
I've shown you probably about a third of it.
And oh, the reaction was immediate and exactly what you would expect.
That loser who had, I think he used to be the president of the European Union or something here, some big poo-ball, he was sacked because a few months ago, he threatened Elon Musk.
He said, you're going to interview Donald Trump on Twitter.
You have to do this and this.
Speech Attack Reactions00:04:43
And then if you're going to interview AFD, like he, like this European bureaucrat was barking orders at Elon Musk about how he was allowed to talk to Donald Trump or the AFD, only if he followed certain rules.
It was a lot of chutzpah, and it actually cost that Eurocrat his job, but not his Twitter account.
So here's how this bureaucrat, I think his name was Thierry Breton.
So he hates Twitter, but he can't get enough of Twitter.
He said, Welcome to Europe, VP JD Vance.
With all due respect, in Europe, freedom of speech is a core value of our democracy.
It is non-negotiable, never was and never will be.
Proof, even fake news are allowed, sadly, sometimes echoed by top U.S. officials.
He goes on and on and on.
It is absurd to say that free speech is non-negotiable in Europe.
Free speech is constantly under attack in Europe.
People are terrified by it.
Even in the United Kingdom, there are thousands of arrests every year for Facebook posts.
Anyways, if you think that was something, the German defense minister is some left-wing kook.
And his response to JD Vance saying that free speech is under attack is to say, that is not acceptable.
Take a look.
This is why I cannot just ignore what we heard before.
I cannot not comment on the speech we heard by the U.S. Vice President.
We fight for your right to be against us.
That is the motto, one of the mottos of the Bundeswehr, and it stands for our democracy.
This democracy that was just called into question by the U.S. vice president, not just the German democracy, but Europe as a whole.
He spoke of the annulment of democracy.
And if I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with the condition that prevails in some authoritarian regimes.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not acceptable.
I think you're sort of proving the point by saying it's unacceptable to say certain things.
You have just sort of proved that free speech is under attack.
And remember, the German chancellor himself said that the American point of view on Ukraine is a national emergency.
You know what?
I think that Donald Trump was sending a message to Europe.
And I think most people got it, not these two and Laubmaus and a few others.
But let me give you a few facts.
Did you know that there are still 50,000 U.S. troops in Germany?
Still 40 U.S. bases in Germany.
They never left in 1945.
They never left Korea in 1953.
They never left Japan.
There are hundreds of bases around the world, but the German presence of the U.S. military is, I think it's the largest in the world, actually.
It's a huge boost to the German economy, of course, having 50,000 people and all their material and equipment.
But more to the point, it subsidizes their security while they beak off at America.
And here is America, the one that pays the bill, saying, we'd like you to respect democracy a little more.
We'd like you to respect free speech a little more.
After all, we are the ones guaranteeing it.
And the freak out by the left is quite something to see.
I think Europe, I mean, I love it, of course, historically, culturally, linguistically.
I think it's changing.
Italy is losing its Italiness.
Ireland is losing its Irishness.
France is losing its Frenchness.
This is all true.
But it's also losing its energy.
It's economically stagnating.
It's deindustrializing itself in the name of Greta Thunberg's green theories.
I think that JD Vance came to Europe to say, we're done with that, or at least anything that touches us.
If you expect our support financially or militarily, you better stop crushing democracy or free speech.
And you better not lay a hand on American companies, including social media companies.
I think it was the opposite message that Joe Biden has given for the last four years.
I think you could call it America first.
It'll be interesting to see if Europe embraces Europe first.
Stay with us, Moore Ahead.
Justin Trudeau's Panic Moment00:11:03
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So much has happened in the United States and Canada in the last six months politically that thinking back to the pandemic and the lockdowns and the trucker convoy almost feels like a different age, a different era.
And indeed, I think it was.
It's my view that the invocation of the Emergencies Act marks the beginning of the downfall of Justin Trudeau in two ways.
First of all, I think it revealed his tyrannical side.
And second of all, those same events caused the defenestration of Aaron O'Toole as the Conservative Party leader, replacing with a much more vigorous Pierre Polyev.
If you can believe it, it was three years ago today that Justin Trudeau panicked.
Panicked not for security reasons, but for political reasons.
Panicked because the world was watching how ordinary truckers, grassroots people of all backgrounds, genuinely authentic and organic, caused the government of Canada to blink.
It was an amazing and terrifying time, a terrible decision that was later found to be illegal and unconstitutional by the Federal Court of Canada.
But as you'll recall, living through it, it was unknown how deep Canada would go down the road to a police state.
And indeed, it was for several days a police state, seizing hundreds of people's bank accounts, arresting people willy-nilly.
It was a return to the bad old days.
At least Pierre Trudeau, when he invoked the War Measures Act, he could point to a bona fide terrorist group, the FLQ, which was blowing up mailboxes with bombs, kidnapping people, and in fact, murdered one.
Justin Trudeau, he was just embarrassed on Twitter.
Joining us now to talk about that fateful time, the Trucker Convoy, the Emergencies Act, and the resilience of the Canadian people who helped throw off the government that it is in its final days.
I'm joined now by Tom Morazzo, whose latest project is the president of the Ontario Party.
Tom, how are you doing?
Nice to see you again.
We talked more back in the day during the lockdowns, during the convoy.
It's nice to see you again.
Yeah, thanks for having me on the show, especially on the third anniversary of the EA.
Yeah, it's amazing how time flies.
That matter is still working its way through the courts.
Of course, the federal government lost the constitutional challenge and they're appealing that.
And as you know, there are some people, including Tamara Leach, who you know well, who are still working through the courts being prosecuted for pandemic lockdowns three plus years later.
Are you under any prosecution or any legal or political intervention based on what happened three years ago?
Yeah, I was never charged criminally.
There was no warrants or anything like that.
But I am one of the 40 or so that are named on, I don't know what it's at by now, $300 million lawsuit that was filed with the attorney in Ottawa, Paul Champ, Zexee Lee, and the happy goat something coffee company.
So that's the only legal action against me.
I have filed in court.
I am suing the federal government for freezing my bank account without any form of due process, whatever, whatsoever.
And I'm represented by Brandon Miller, Eva Chipiuk, and Keith Wilson on that lawsuit.
But in terms of my own personal charges, I've never had a warrant for my arrest.
I was never charged.
I was never convicted of anything.
And it's a mystery to anybody why I even ended up on Tamara Leach's no contact list.
But, you know, that's the liberal control over the court system right now in Ottawa.
Well, we learned through the Public Order Inquiry Commission, sort of the, it was a largely stage-managed affair with a hand-picked judge with a handwritten mandate from Trudeau.
But I think we did learn a lot from it nonetheless, including how disorganized the police were.
It was a comedy of errors.
I mean, it really felt like a Benny Hill sketch or Keystone cops.
And that was part of it.
It was so capricious, so whimsical.
And you had sort of blowhard police chiefs who were just sort of making it up as they went along.
I'm frankly surprised they didn't make a move on Rebel News because although we didn't give money to truckers directly, we were journalists on the ground supporting the truckers and we crowdfunded lawyers for the truckers.
I was really worried that with one phone call, someone from Christia Freeland's office would shut down our bank account, which would have put us out of business immediately.
Our staff can't work without pay.
Tell me what your memories were.
Were you on the ground in Ottawa when the Emergencies Act came in?
Yeah, I was actually for the first time I had a chance to meet Brian Peckford and I was sitting with Brian having a coffee.
Tamara was there.
I think Chris Barber was there.
Brian's wife, I think Eva Chipiuk was in the room.
We were having a coffee about the sort of best way to get the negotiation going with the city to try to get more trucks onto Wellington out of the downtown core, which is what we had been working towards the entire time.
And that's when Keith Wilson walked into the room and said that Justin Trudeau had invoked the Emergencies Act.
And so, you know, that was pretty surreal to be in there in the room with the last living member of the government that signed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as they're actually being stripped away from both of you together.
Wow.
That's incredible.
Now, were you shocked by this?
Did you understand what it meant when Keith Wilson said the Emergencies Act?
Because I'll be candid, I didn't even really know the word.
I knew the War Measures Act because I knew historically Pierre Trudeau had used it.
I honestly, and I think most Canadians didn't know about it because it had never been used before.
So I think a lot of people were quickly Googling it.
Did you know it might have been coming down?
Was there a buzz that this might be coming or were you caught completely by surprise?
Yeah, so there was sort of this buzz about it potentially happening to us, but I viewed it as a little bit of, and I know this sounds terrible, but of little consequence, and I'll explain why.
The city of Ottawa had already declared a state of emergency for the city.
Yet they had all the police powers at their disposal to deal with the protest if it had actually broken the law.
Then the provincial government under Doug Ford, he had also declared a state of emergency for the province of Ontario.
And again, had full weight, you know, force and effect of the criminal code system in Canada to deal with a protest had it been deemed illegal.
But we knew on two occasions, Justice McLean, I think on the sixth, sorry, the 7th and the 16th, had ruled twice that we had a legal right to be there to do that protest.
We weren't breaking the law.
All we had to do was not honk horns.
We stopped honking the horns on the 7th.
So we weren't even in breach of a court order to stop the horns.
So it's important for people to understand that not a single Canadian right across the country was arrested under extraordinary powers of the Emergencies Act.
It was symbolic, but it gave the perception to those sitting at home that, you know, this is an unruly bunch, that the police are going to be justified to go in there and beat, you know, citizens, seniors, veterans with impunity because Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
So I view the Emergencies Act really as a big smokescreen for the things that he already had the power to do.
He just wanted to make it look like it was more serious and required the Emergencies Act, when in fact it didn't.
Right.
And even the smaller boycott in Coots, Alberta, where truckers and farmers blocked the road, if I recall, that was resolved before the Emergencies Act was brought in.
So what you're saying is, and I'm glad for this clarification, maybe I knew this, but I guess I forgot, is that the Emergencies Act did not actually cause arrests?
Is that what you're saying?
It's what gave the green light for the money seizures, but anyone who was arrested was just arrested by a regular cop under a regular criminal code infraction.
I mean, I remain furious to this day that Tamara Leach was charged with inciting mischief, but that's a regular law that's been in the criminal code and I think common law for centuries.
So that they didn't need the Emergencies Act to pick her up.
So it was really a shock and awe muscle flexing move, wasn't it?
Basically, yeah.
I mean, everybody is, you know, they became masters after a couple of years of raising the public's anxiety level through the media.
You know, you'd know more than like I was there on the day that Candace Sorrell was run over by the horse.
Right.
You know, and I was, I remember talking to Lincoln Jay and I remember talking to Alexa Lavoie moments before she was run over by the horse.
And, you know, so, you know, your worry, I think, was very justified given that you guys were the only real recognizable media.
There was a lot of independent media, like individuals, but Rebel News was probably the most well-recognized broadcaster that was there during the actual confrontation with the police.
Accounts Frozen: A Legal Battle00:05:27
And as you know, Alexa got shot in the the leg by a projectile.
What are you doing?
Use the spider!
Take care.
Bring her out, bring her out.
and so you're right to be concerned about having your bank accounts frozen as an organization And I'm almost surprised because they did it to Druthers.
Right.
They seized Ruther's bank account.
I did not know that.
$300,000.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
I don't know if you know this, but I was so worried about it.
And I thought two things would happen if our bank account was frozen.
First of all, some vendors, like certain things that operate on a monthly payment from a credit card, that would go down and that might put us out of operation, like our web hosting.
And then the second thing that I worried about was our staff, because I don't, I think there's a huge, huge number of people who could not skip a paycheck.
They just can't.
No one's in that position.
So we prepaid and we paid down all of our accounts payable.
So we basically paid every vendor.
And I think in some cases, we may have prepaid a month.
And we did so for our entire staff.
We gave everyone a month's pay in advance.
We said, this is not a bonus.
You know, this isn't extra.
This is in case we're shut down.
That was how worried I was because we were trucker adjacent.
Like you say, we were amongst them.
I'm glad you remember Lincoln Jay and Alexa Lavoisi.
I think they worked 23 days straight without taking a break because they knew they were in the middle of history.
And same in Coots.
We had guys embedded in the saloon so I don't know.
I think it was whimsical.
And that goes to the hodgepodge disorganized nature of it.
I think, I mean, I'm glad they didn't come for us, but I really thought they would.
So here we are three years later, and you have filed the action against the government.
And that's based on the ruling that the Emergencies Act was illegal.
That's basically the starter pistol for that, isn't it?
It really was.
And, you know, the ruling, I believe, came out a year ago in January, the Mosley decision.
And that's thanks to Eddie Cornell and Vince Percy's, who filed a judicial review.
We got the ruling from Mosley.
Last week, it was actually the appeal had come up and they were arguing that the appeal.
The federal government has since then said even if they lose the appeal, they're going to go to the Supreme Court.
Well, good luck with that, given the fact that Richard Wagner, the Chief Justice, is going to have to recuse himself from any case whatsoever related to the Freedom Convoy.
Because, as you know, he's a judge and he spoke publicly and said a lot of disparaging things about the Freedom Convoy as the convoy was going on.
So I don't know how you can think that going to the Supreme Court of Canada is going to help you when you're down a major member, which is the Chief Justice.
Because I think a first-year law student, I hope, would have enough sense to say, you need to disqualify yourself.
You've actually publicly biased yourself.
So I hope you're right.
But I mean, we've seen a lot of crazy things in courts in the last few years.
So that's chugging along.
And I mean, I know things move slowly.
How many people are in your position?
Would you estimate?
How many, I think there were several hundred people that had their bank accounts frozen.
Are all of them suing?
Are most of them suing?
Do you know the others who are?
Yeah, I know of a handful of other clients that belong to Keith, Brendan, and Eva.
We are all being treated as individual clients by that legal team.
And then there's another group altogether, which is Bathsheba and Ektor that are representing the group with Vince Gerseys and Eddie Cornell.
But as far as the other, I think there's at least, I could be wrong on this number, but at least 270 people had their accounts frozen for the most minor things.
I mean, everything from $50 donation prior to the convoy.
And here's the thing that nobody really talks about.
You're a lawyer, so you're familiar with the fruit of the poisonous tree.
A lot of people were punished when their accounts with GoFundMe or Give Send Go were doxxed.
Were hacked.
A Historic Moment Unveiled00:08:32
So that was an illegal act.
And if you look at the police officer in Windsor, Ontario, he anonymously donated $50 to the convoy.
And then he was doxxed.
And by the way, he was at home on CAV mandates.
We've talked to his lawyer a couple of times.
Absolutely outrageous what's going on in that case.
Well, let me ask you this.
I mean, I travel internationally sometimes.
We've sent reporters to farmer rebellions in the Netherlands and even just last week in the United Kingdom.
And I've been to other protests as well.
And all over the world, people talk about the Canadian truckers.
I think it was, I think most of the time the world sort of forgets about Canada.
But this was the whole world was riveted, I think, partly because it looked so authentic and organic.
It was sort of a leaderless movement, which is what made it powerful and hard to stop.
And it was so visually dramatic.
And I think people thought, boy, those Canadians must be upset because they never get upset.
Like, it was just so many wonderful things.
And I'd say in Australia, in the United States, in Israel, in the Netherlands, in the UK, I mean, that's almost a half a dozen countries right there.
I have heard people praise the Canadian truckers.
And I think that's it was one of the greatest civil rights movements in Canadian history is how I'd call it.
I was at a book signing with Trish Wood and Ray McGinnis a week and a half ago.
And in the audience was a woman from the UK.
She's back and forth between Canada and the UK quite often.
And she said from the UK, she was just glued to her TV, watching everything that she could about the convoy.
And so we knew during the convoy itself that we were actually sort of, for lack of a better term, setting the standard on what you could do to push back against your government.
I mean, trucks make wonderful obstacles when you're in a great place to sleep in minus 35.
Right.
Right.
Provided the police don't steal your fuel.
Right.
Well, it was an incredible time.
And, you know, we felt that it was a historic moment at Rebel News.
And I'm glad you still remember the work done by two of our citizen journalists.
You know, in that month of February 2022, and I've told our viewers this before, we had 400 million views and impressions of Rebel News, 400 million.
By contrast, the CBC state broadcaster, according to their own information, gets on average 360 million views and impressions in a month.
So for that one month, now, obviously, we're not at that level now, but it was the crisis.
And in the crisis, people did not trust the state broadcaster.
They trusted a handful of citizen journalists just pointing their cell phones and talking to ordinary people.
There were some mainstream media journalists, Rupa Subramania was one of them.
But you really, there were so few.
And I think if Trudeau had his way, he would have had the January 6th insurrection narrative.
He was so clearly trying to build that case, but he couldn't do it because the truckers didn't even really go anywhere.
Parliament was closed for renovations.
As you point out, this was not an illegal gathering.
There was some traffic infraction, sure.
But everyone was so Canadian.
And that's what makes it wonderful.
Last word to you, Tom.
You look back, would you do anything differently?
Or was it, as I look back at it, a historic moment where people rose to the occasion?
I think the only thing that I would do again, and I wrote extensively about this book in my book, and a lot of people have been talking about it.
What's your book called again?
The People's Emergency Act.
The People's Emergency Act.
Okay, sorry, go ahead.
And so a lot of people looked at it like it was too harsh of a criticism, but in reality, it wasn't meant to be.
It was just meant to be sort of a performance review, let's say.
The one thing that I would have done differently, and it's probably the only thing I can really put my finger on it, is I would have written down on a piece of paper like what Keith Wilson drafted the final copy of the roadmap to freedom.
Okay.
And it outlined all the conditions that we would like to see happen and what would make us go home and by certain dates.
So basically, I don't want to use the word list of demands because that sounds ugly, but what we're about and have that in writing before we showed up and give it to the media, give it to the police, give it to all the people and say, look, this is why we're here.
This is our Declaration of Independence, as you will.
So this is what we're talking about.
This is what we want to see happen.
If these things happen, we'll be more than happy to go home.
And I think that would have defended us against all the, not entirely, but against all the smearing of the government-sponsored propaganda and the lies being told by the liberals, which they still tell the same lies over and over today.
Well, some good faith people would have been moved by such a document, but the bad guys would have lied about you no matter what.
And as you absolutely stood lying.
Well, I think it was an enormous victory.
I think it was the greatest peaceful uprising in Canadian history, which was the appropriate remedy for the worst civil liberties bonfire in Canadian history.
And Tom Marazzo, it's great to reminisce a little bit.
And I've learned a few things and you've refreshed my memory on a few things.
And I wish you good luck in your lawsuit against the government.
I hope you're justly compensated.
Thank you.
All right.
There he is, Tom Morazzo, who was there on the ground three years ago in Ottawa.
And today he's the president of the Ontario Party.
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John says, we need these young guys in Canada to audit Trudeau and liberal corrupt government.
You're talking about the people that Trump calls the young geniuses.
Those are the Doge, Department of Government Efficiency kids, some as young as 19 who are sniffing out the fraud and corruption.
Yeah, we do need that in Canada.
Some of that is actually public access, open source information.
You can go online and do the research yourself.
Alexa Lavoie of our company has started doing that.
You can follow her.
I forget what website we have, but we set up one.
Danielle3228 says, was USAID covering all those organizations in Canada also?
The answer is yes.
Now, I don't have a full list of organizations in Canada, but it is insane how U.S. spending, including on censorship, affected free countries like Canada and the United States, not just targeting, let's say, Islamic or Soviet countries.
I'll give you an example that's personal.
A company called NewsGuard got a three-quarter of a million dollar check from the U.S. Air Force, and they audited Rebel News for disinformation and tried to smear us.
So we were one of the victims of this wasteful and abusive spending by the U.S. government.
AP says, I do not understand why Sam Cooper is not on the national news discussing these points.
It seems nuts that he is the only one continually sounding the alarm.
Our friend Andy Lee sounds the alarm also.
And from time to time, you got to give credit to Steve Chase and Bob Fife of the Globe and Mail.
But you're right.
I think that the CBC especially is about as pro-Chinese Communist Party as it gets.
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